Movement

Stretch it.
Breeeeaaathe in to it.
Notice where it wasn't... or maybe still isn't, moving.
Don't punish yourself for the tension.
Cherish it.
Protect it.
Protect you.
.Embrace.
Open it. Just breathe in to it.
Let it move.
Let things move.

It won't hurt you.
You chose the experience.
Experience the beauty.
Breathe it in. Let it go. Celebrate it.

A tale of two Runes

first answer... Isa. ice. stillness.
second... Naudhiz. constraint. patience.

Isa.

This rune carries the symbolic representation of the icicle. The Northern tribes understood well the dangers that ice and cold brought, and also the beauty.

You have reached a period of non-action or stagnation. There is little you can do to move things and even if you could it is unlikely it would be to your ultimate benefit.

Now is a time for meditation and contemplation. Get in touch with your spiritual side, you can still grow while your world lies dormant.

Naudhiz.

Need and want are not the same thing - this rune encourages us to remember that fact. Only when we are fighting for our very survival are we likely to understand the things we truly need.

Patience is a virtue. This is not a time to force things - settle back, live in harmony and go with the flow. Delays do not mean failure.

Isa. The Rune Poem - Verse XI
Though ice is cold and slippery
it glistens pure like glass,
it is like gemstones,
is not a field of frost a fair sight to behold?

Naudhiz. The Rune Poem - Verse X
Hardship falls heavy on the heart
yet it can be a blessing
if its lessons are learnt.

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first question... what is the most important thing going on right now? The biggest most prominent, most important challenge?

second... what do I do about it?

Making the change

I don't go to yoga enough. I spend too much money. I don't cook.
Go to yoga. Watch your money. Learn.

It really is that easy.

Just stop the tape that's been playing on repeat, "I don't. I can't. I won't."

I can.
I will.
I am.
I am.
I am.

Admit it

You will never find the tofu in the new grocery store if you don't admit you don't know where it is because you've never shopped there before and you don't know your way around grocery stores in general and just ask someone.

You'll never learn about that process at work unless you admit you don't understand it and ask for clarification.

You'll never overcome a fear until you admit you still have it and face it and get rid of it.

You'll never get to where you're going unless you first admit that you are not already there.

Hello, Perspective?

I'm sitting in my San Francisco apartment watching Family Guy on my Apple laptop... thinking about the fact that I need to walk down and go to the grocery store. And then walk back up the hill(s) with groceries.

My good friend (ex-roommate) Seth came online so I took the opportunity to avoid the grocery store even longer by chatting with him.

Seth has been living in the Congo for the last 6 months overseeing the mental health unit in a post-war country. ... .I've asked Seth to provide a few sentences here... Needless to say, he no longer lives in the civilization that we've all come to believe we're entitled to.

I told him, "I'm avoiding going to the grocery store." Seth, "Why?"

I began to answer, "Because I have to walk, because I live on a hill, because it's cold outside, and because I hate the grocery store."

And Seth wrote, "I would relish the opportunity."

So I ended up writing, "Because I have to walk, because I live... OH hello sweet perspective! Shut my mouth Seth! Thank you for that."

How easy we forget.

I am grateful.

Hatha

He told us to think of one word that we would breathe our energy in with.

I used my brain at first and of course thought, "well... of course I chose the word Gratitude. That's my word."
But that word didn't work... wasn't the right word... wasn't doing the trick... wasn't it.

So I let the question go, I unclenched the part of my brain that was trying to answer. I felt around... and it appeared. Whole. My word was Whole. Complete.

There were actually three words. The first two... I. Am.

I would breathe in and feel it swirling around, filling me up, making me such.

He said you breathe it in, and then you you offer it to the room. To your neighbor.

That a man... living in a cave, breathing deeply a true, pure kind of loving energy, can effect society more than a person living within the community who's just thinking of doing it. (ok - we all giggled... but there's a point there, you see it?).

But he said no matter what, the person you effect most is yourself.

I. Am. Whole.
And I offer that to You.

.Namaste.