with sun's soft sheen, sheets of clouds,
painted scene -
As birds trill softly their morning song
Let us remember times not long gone
of fear and pain and terror then,
soft morning dawns, welcoming again
a day of new beginnings....
Built into our very human nature is the need, once in every twenty-four hours, to go down into darkness and sleep so that we awake and arise again, fresh and renewed. We are creatures of cycles and renewal.
Today, Earth Day, is a day to honor our home, our planet; that space real estate, piece of celestial matter that defines us, literally forms us out of her substance, providing every molecule in our physical bodies and every molecule necessary for its sustenance and existence here.
In the small amount of Shamanic work and spiritual truth I have begun to learn and work with, I am told that Mother Earth, while she cannot take all our physical pollution and garbage and toxic waste, waits and wants to receive and thereby relieve and heal all our emotional garbage and pollution and toxicity.
And so this Earth Day, in honor of Gaia, I propose we release our personal garbage, our emotional pain, our hatreds, fears, anxieties, our negative energies and thoughts, to Mother Earth, who waits patiently for her children to give them to her.
How to do this? One quick and fairly easy way is to stand with your feet on the ground, or sit with your seat grounded and back fairly straight between earth and sky. Breathe in, imagining an opening in the top of your head at your crown chakra and pull in energy. Then flush it through your system, cleansing each energy center, the neural ganglia that physically make up your other chakra centers, by imagining clear light pushing through and out each center as you exhale and then finally pushing all the negative energy right down through your feet or seat and into the ground. Discharging and clearing your negative energies by giving them to Mother Earth today will be the biggest and best healing and present you can give her – and yourself. Once we learn to stop carrying garbage around in ourselves, we may even find a way to clear our physical garbage and release and restore Gaia herself by taking our rightful place in the beautiful order of the chaos of life!
Not sure of where your energy centers are? Check them out here:
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/third%20eye%20chakra
Have a wonderful day of peace, honoring Mother, honoring your spiritual self, and that marvelous, intricate miraculous physical being comprised of all the wonders of the earth that you are walking around in today, your body. Namaste.
