Centering to Sing My Eternity

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acceptance, allowing, Balance, becoming, beleif, Believing, beyond now, bliss, centering, change, choice, choosing, contemplate, Courageous Vulnerability, eternity, meditative, opening the heart, quiet, this moment, what was, what will be

It is a day of centering. A day of seizing a most appropriate placement of oneself at the heart of time and space. With 182 days ahead of us and 182 days behind, we sit in between what was and what will be.

In this moment it would be wise to reflect on our actions of the past so we might look ahead with a little more clarity for a lot more compassion. This is the time to let go of our mistakes and missed opportunity welcoming all possibility and transformation.

What we decide today will be the energy of thought that will manifest into our reality. What we focus on today will script the story for what is to come in the next 182 days. Will we choose justice and equality? Will we choose love and compassion? Will we choose change and transformation? Better yet, what will I choose?

I choose to be a warrior of my choices choosing to march towards the betterment of humanity. I am deciding today to be a stone dropped into the chaotic waters of our culture in order to allow for the ripples of my actions to clear the immediate energy and injustices around me. This choice will not only effect the coming 182, but for my next 365 and beyond.

I have many choices to make today. There is great power and opportunity on this day. I will pause on many occasions today to make decisions on what will be my future and the future of those I love around me. I will release myself from my past shedding the weight of what was while opening my heart to what will be. Centering my spirit to free the open spaces ahead in order to live better than I did yesterday. Quiet in this moment, I prepare to sing my eternity.

One Word Week

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acceptance, allowing, becoming, Believing, change, compassion, Conscious Living, empathy, equality, graciousness, harmony, justice, love, peace, respect, seeing others, sharing, supporting

In the wake of all of this goodness, I have been so amazed by the noise that surrounds it all. Saying this isn’t commenting on the perceived positive or negative noise that always surrounds the shifting of times, but rather the amount of outpouring and claiming through celebration. Again, this is not a comment on the pride or needed exhale, but rather watching in wonderment of it all.

And yet, I am realizing for myself that I am absorbing our changing world in a very different way. For me it has been one of great internal reflection. I have observed the amazing things that have been occurring and have been digesting them into my being simply because I often can’t believe that they have actually occurred. If I can swallow them into my body and consume the joy within perhaps I can better believe that they are happening as they have become a physical part of me somehow.

In light of all of this, I have decided to use only one word this week to describe the feelings or thoughts that have been occurring as I process all that has transpired. I am calling it “One Word Week” simply distilling what I need to by choosing only one word rather than a rant or exchange. In doing so I hope to quiet those around me to enter into the simplicity of joined thought while contemplating more quietly through a focused and directed emotion. I realize I always connect better with those around me and those I love when I share what is in the moment without anything extra; stripping away unnecessary noise so that the connection is better tasted due to its simplicity of flavor.

So as I move forward this week I will express in a very succinct way and look forward to the ways in which those around me respond to the dialing back and humbling of the emotions. In addition, I am also very aware that the way we respond to change will help us better to change the other necessary and long over due shifts that need to happen immediately in our country. If we celebrate to loudly or wildly, the noise drowns out  and detracts us from addressing the pressing needs of our brothers and sisters who are also fighting battles of equality and justice. We are all not free until we are all free. We are all not legal until we all are legal. We are all not equal until we all are equal. It is a quieting respect that we offer even in times of great celebration. Our graciousness in the way we celebrate will help to let others know that we will fight along side them as well.

My One Word Week began yesterday with the word love. Simple and profound. Yet universal and necessary and needed for all. Join me in this directed expression and see what happens to your feed or to your exchanges. See what happens when we create a bridge through simple words and thoughts so as to bring people together even if they do not think or feel the same. If we create a platform to welcome others to the table for discussion while seeing them through a simple idea, perhaps we can begin to bring in more love as the walls will have come down. I wonder if we can disarm the fear and anger by simplifying the exchange?

Seeing in all Directions/Walking Along the Center Line

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Balance, becoming, beleif, Believing, body, body knowledge, change, choice, compassion, Conscious Living, dreams, EBAS, Energy, humanity

We live our lives moving forward. in motion in one direction seeing only what is in front of us and desiring what is so far beyond ourselves. Would it not be more dimensional if we started living in all directions forcing us to anchor ourselves and our energies by the center line of our beings?  Our spines and the very core of our being, and ways of being, would be engaged in a sense of ascending and descending reaching in order to stabilize this new sense of seeing and being.

In doing so, we might find a surge of energy and creativity focusing and reconnecting damaged pathways that have occurred by living a life focused on a future. We might find a sense of internal opening and awakening as we find the balance of our internal and external selves as we allow and acknowledge ourselves as the center of our humanity and the inspiration of our dreams. The radiant body becomes the very thing that grounds our existence. Simply by seeing in all directions, we find our electric selves charged by a new sense of existing and enter a life long journey of walking along the center line.

Making of Matter; Everything Does

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art, Balance, becoming, beleif, bliss, body knowledge, change, EBAS, elemental, sacred

Heaven and Earth

Spirit or Matter

Man exists between

His arm span equal to height

The moon resting on his head

33 years for a perfect solar journey

12 moons to celebrate

Numbers in space

Numbers in time

Tone existing between 4th and 5th

Intervals as shape

Two patterns near perfect

Two triangles

Four squares

Everything made of light, matter and sound

Windows allow the light to see into the dark

Balance kept by line and curve

Evolving By Way of Now

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allowing, Balance, becoming, Believing, change, choice, development, Now, this moment

Our histories and actions create the universe that is this moment.

In our biosphere lives a subsystem seamlessly existing with our physical and emotional energies negotiating  balance.

We navigate the present as we simultaneously seek the evolution into the future; acceptance at odds with the desire of what’s to come.

Is it not understandable why so many have difficulty quieting the mind and the heart?

Is it possible to accept this moment and relinquish the fears of tomorrow in order to fulfill our forward mystery?

Perhaps learning to understand our immediacy while allowing ourselves to be, we will find much greater happiness now rather than searching for it tomorrow.

The Silent Thought of Romance

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allowing, becoming, change, Conscious Living, forgiveness, gratitude, letting go, letting go of noise, love, love between m, We

Wrapped in the other

My fingers rest

I must set once again the music of romantics

I find silence better than my thoughts

I know best my beauty

Pinch my heart for memory

My head quiet, resting between stones

I feel so

A time together

I tell

I say

I am

We are

We once

Us, as if we do not forget

Sensing Light

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allowing, becoming, change, Conscious Living

Examination of the mysterious

Exploring the fading light

Strong illumination

Imagination beyond any sight

Memory, the perusal of the epitaph

Instances of beings affecting tears

Boldly collected without any feeling of humanity

That of a Hermit

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becoming, beleif, body knowledge, change, Conscious Living, contemplation, Courageous Vulnerability, development, letting go, spirit, spirituality

There are times when one is at the center of a moment she feels as far away from established reality as the moon is from our oceans. In these solitary times there is a quiet. Yet the silence is deafening rather than comforting and embracing. There is a distortion of which tides have shifted and the shores don’t feel the same as they once had. The way in which the water touches land; no longer familiar and somehow turbulent and unkind.

The depth of these waters somehow darker as the substance within creates a murky somewhat hazy distortion which disrupts the clarity of foresight and understanding. Existing in this arena is vastly different than the light shows of previous crystalline cerulean seas. No longer warmed by the radiance of light, there is a coolness that falls within the center of ones bones which drowns the very marrow of rejuvenation.

In these moments there is a recession into comprehension that is necessary for the revitalization of ones sense of being and ultimate understanding of the primal essence of being. This solitude is that of a hermit within a cave of serenity far from the world pondering the existence of a way of being and other ways of knowing.

To return one must relinquish oneself and ones physicality to the knowingness of nothing. In this moment, one begins to return. And on that journey back through those nano seconds, one has been changed by the tumultuous rumbling of the cresting waves of yet another spiritual journey.

Thoughts in the Morning

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allowing, artist, Balance, Ballet, becoming, beleif, Believing, bliss, body knowledge, change, choreography, Conscious Living, contemporary dance, courage, Courageous Vulnerability, EBAS, Energy, faith, Grateful

In my meditations this morning I was reminded of an image I share when I am teaching dance. I was also reminded that this thought process is very present in all of my work. That made me take a moment and enjoy how wonderful my work is and how grateful I am for being able to do the work I do. I thought I might share this with you and see if in fact it touches you today.

This entry is from Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of Tao. I am pulling out a part of the writing to direct my thoughts more clearly.

“Between the joints there are spaces, and the blade has no thickness. It slips right through; there is more than enough room for it. And when I come to a difficult part, I slow down, I focus my attention, I barely move, the knife finds its way until suddenly the flesh falls apart on its own. I stand there and let the joy of the work fill me. Then I wipe the blade clean and put it away.”

This reminds me a lot of how I share my thoughts about dance. I speak a lot about the space between gravity. The image is to remind people that we are not defying gravity, but moving through it with the rising energy of the earth that moves freely through our bodies. When we are training and learning new skills, it is imperative to take a moment to slow down and truly learn the movement by focusing on the sensation and feeling of each molecule of our being. When we do this we can feel the transformation of physicality as the unknown becomes felt and the difficulty falls away. It is as if we peel away the layer of confusion by quieting the mind and letting the mind of the body figure out the work. And when all is said and felt, we honor the work by thanking ourselves for taking the time and allowing the space to express our courage and vulnerability of the journey of not knowing to knowing.

Let Me

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allowing, becoming, beleif, Believing, body knowledge, change, Conscious Living, courage, development

Let me be fascinated by what I choose. Allow me the freedom to believe as I see right for my own spirit. Grant me the ability to make choices for myself and for my body so as to keep the kind of balance necessary for my spiritual and physical well being. Give me that respect and space that every individual human being deserves. Share with me that same respect and we will see one another as equal.

In seeing me as equal we will gain a new perspective. We will be offered the chance of acceptance which leads to compassion and understanding. Not that we have to understand and fold that knowledge into our own lives, but to understand that the freedom to be for all of our kind is the key to great peace of mind and heart. Allowing one another to be fully who we are only breathes greater potential for us all.

I want to see you for all of you. I want to believe that we all are allowed an opportunity to become all that the potential of our lives possesses. I want you to continue the path of your own heart and walk it with the kind of integrity and joy your life is capable of. I want you to find the freedom of your spirit so as to evolve into the most beautiful and joy filled being you are capable of. I want happiness for you no matter what that means.

It is possible for us all to do the same. It is simply a choice; a choice to heal ourselves and one another.