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Fully occupy the space of your body

Fully occupy the space of your body

Reclaim your birthright of being fully human with the practice of full embodiment

In this sympathetic (fight, flight or freeze) dominant culture, recruit back your parasympathetic nervous system to be awake, present and calm

Do this by:

Observing posture and breath

Learn, practice yoga – yogainternational.com   jivamuktiyoga.com   www.3ho.org gurusingh.com

Learn, practice meditation – dhamma.org

Chant, sing, drum, play!

Connect with Mother Earth ~ barefoot on the grass, embrace a tree, observe, appreciate and listen to her and all earthlings

Move your body – Walk, run, skip, swim, dance!

Cold water can give you a jump start. Perhaps finish your showers with cold water. http://wimhofmethod.com

Eat whole plant foods and when you choose a treat, enjoy it with your whole body!

One step, step by step, feel into your wholeness

To all the peaceful warriors out there

To all those with dominant feelings of fear

To all those with overwhelming depression, you are paying attention! You are awake in an unjust world! We see you! We need you!

Before we can rise we need to descend into the darkness, drop down into soul work, create ritual.

May we all show up daily, be present, feel our bodies, connect, reclaim our birthright of being fully human. Return to love, serving one another, all earthlings & our shared home, planet Earth.

What to Remember When Waking

In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.

What you can plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough
for the vitality hidden in your sleep.

To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
To remember the other world in this world
is to live in your true inheritance.

You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident amidst other accidents
you were invited from another and greater night
than the one from which you have just emerged.

Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window
toward the mountain presence of everything that can be
what urgency calls you to your one love?
What shape waits in the seed of you
to grow and spread its branches
against a future sky?

Is it waiting in the fertile sea?
In the trees beyond the house?
In the life you can imagine for yourself?
In the open and lovely white page on the writing desk?

David Whyte

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountain and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

~ Mary Oliver

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