 When beauty opens her arms Stop in your tracks pull over run back and dart through traffic perch on the edge of the drainage ditch braced against the drag of passing trucks and fall into her embrace ~ Beauty is everywhere. Often in our lives it seems we are on the move from here to wherever we are going, so focussed on the road or on our thoughts that we miss the world unfolding around us. It might not be a spectacular scene where the mountain is both beautifully lit and the sky clear enough to see it. It could be a dandelion growing by the path, a colourful splash of graffiti, live music or bird song heard through your kitchen window, the sound of rain on an awning as you walk down a city street. My invitation is simply to pause, to notice. Like taking time to focus on breathing, it draws you into the moment, heightens your awareness for beauty and delight. We all have had an experience of being appreciated and know how good that makes us feel. Although it may seem like there is no one receiving the recognition, the energy of it filters out. It also filters in. Try it and see if it isn't so. Then send me a note sharing your experience. I love hearing from you. ~
Twice each week I hold On-line Healing Circles centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations. Join me Monday mornings at 9 a.m. and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. pacific. Learn more at the Good Vibrations: the Energy of Resilience facebook page, check out the Healing link on this site or drop me a note by e-mail. I always love to hear from you.
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 We are trained to look past the window. Portals through which to see out. And in. Most often we overlook the glass. What might we find if we take a moment to observe the thing we think of only as means, if considered at all? What might it teach us about the world? ~
Centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations, Kimiko holds On-line Healing Circles Monday mornings at 9 a.m. and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. pacific. Please join us. Learn more at the Good Vibrations: the Energy of Resilience facebook page, check out the Healing link on this site or drop her a note by e-mail.  With a sheath of snow, the world looks so beautiful. As it does in the glory of greenery. But this in-between time as the quilt of white becomes worn and threadbare and the frozen, sodden grass wears through the clean, fresh cover, this is not so lovely. It’s another of those in-between times, a transition. And I feel like I should pay more attention. I’m inclined to try to ignore it, sit here by the fire. Not because it’s so cold out. It’s just. . . a bit unpleasant. Muddy, patchy ground. Slush. Not so frigid as the deep winter, but somehow more chilling, more grey. I’m happy to hunker in and ignore it. Yet today, as I sit here hiding away, I sense that there’s something profound going on that I’m missing. Each movement of the seasons is important. Metaphorically as in nature. We tend to highlight the highlights ~ the pristine beauty of fresh snow, glorious colours of cherry blossoms and rhododendron, sunshine and abundant gardens, and the glory of trees just before the orange and yellow leaves fall. That and critical events like fire and flood. Those same kinds of moments are what we also focus on about our lives. Yet so much of life is movement through transitions. The in-between are their own season. The melt time, the browned and rotting petals, burnt grass and starkness. And it’s not even that there is no beauty at these times, more that we have to shift our gaze to see it. We learn to see what is, not what is no longer. There can be green grass and snow. We just have to figure out how to walk in it. This space of thresholds is sacred, delineating places, acting as portals between moments and dimensions. But in nature, in life, unlike in houses, they’re more than brief passageways. More like a hallway than door jam, although even a door jam is significant. So I am looking at this like a passageway. At basic, passageways get us from one place to the next. Ideally they are honoured in their own right and invite us to observe their unique beauty, their invitation to consider their place in time. They guide us between two moments and to reflect on the significance that may hold. What will be revealed as the snow melts? What thrives in mud? Who am I as I walk toward that door? ~
Centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations, Kimiko holds On-line Healing Circles Monday mornings at 9 a.m. and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. pacific. Please join us. Learn more at the Good Vibrations: the Energy of Resilience facebook page, check out the Healing link on this site or drop her a note by e-mail. While Winter Solstice turns us back toward the light, we're asked to wait a little longer through cold and dark.  Listen ~ 10 minutes Tuesday night we come to a turning. It is Solstice, when the longest night Shifts and we start to see the days grow longer again. This is a movement towards Spring. But not yet. It is officially when we move from Autumn to Winter. It seems almost strange that it is in the Winter that we grow towards the light because it will remain dark and cold. In many places colder than it has been up until now .... .... Winter is the time that we understand when many hibernate -- many animals many plants. This is the time of quieting .... They spent the summer and the autumn storing extra, preparing, harvesting, gathering the abundance. And then at the same time releasing that which was no longer of the moment, in order to just hold fast through this dark and cold time .... Even though we don't see it things are happening under the ground that only happen in Winter Even though we don't see it things are happening under the ground that only happen in Winter .... We know this because as we move towards the end of this season we will start to see green shoots, and buds. And although it will appear as if they're there all of a sudden, in fact already many plants are preparing for that time of opening. I noticed that some of the plants already have almost like a bud on them, closed tight and waiting .... This is such an amazing time of year I'm so grateful I live in a place where the seasons are so well defined. It is rich in Energetic shifting. But rich also in the story of Creation the movements of life. It helps me understand my own self, in the ways that my body matches this rhythm. In our modern society we have found ways to subvert it to some degree. We don't have to follow the rhythm of darkness in the same way, with electricity. The isolation that happens in Winter if you are in a place where snow makes travel difficult, now our technologies allow us to connect .... There are places I know that rely on the Winter as a point of connection. And many of those communities are challenged by the shifting of the temperature of the Earth because Winter doesn't happen in the same way for them anymore .... .... .... The focus is to the Ancient. The ground is where we find ancient, ancient wisdom held in the Stone, the very substance of the Earth. I know I’ve been talking about this quite a lot over the last few weeks. And I think it's because I can feel this draw to step even more boldly in, to focus more on this work I am called to do. And I feel that. As if a rootedness is drawing ever deeper, and so the focus is under the ground. The focus, in some ways, is to the Ancient. The ground is where we find ancient, ancient wisdom held in the Stone, the very substance of the Earth. And so now is the moment, where our focus, my focus, can be more to that place without the distraction of what is going on above ground. So even as the light begins to turn, we do not immediately shift away from the darkness, from the Earthiness. We have more time. More time to sit and listen to this deep Wisdom. And Solstice reminds us to simply be in this moment. ~
Centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations, Kimiko holds On-line Healing Circles Monday mornings at 9 a.m. and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. pacific. Please join us. Learn more at the Good Vibrations: the Energy of Resilience facebook page, check out the Healing link on this site or drop her a note by e-mail.  Listen ~ 7 minutes The call of a Seagull drew my attention this morning. I live near the ocean so Seagulls are hardly an unusual occurrence. Something that I hardly noticed from moment to moment. So I was curious, what about the call of this Seagull this morning caught my attention? I wonder if it's because I have been in a time of quiet, of internal reflection and the Seagull and the distant sound of the train going by seem more notable within that drawing me back out of myself and into the world. This is not a bad thing. In fact a good reminder that I am in and of the world and not to forget that, not to leave it behind in my internal reflecting .... It's more than being simply drawn into the world though. Seagulls and trains are out in the world in a way that I am not right now. Flying, going from place to place. And in some way this draws my imagination. I felt the Seagull’s call in my belly as much as I heard it. The Seagull was calling me .... deep inside. And I wonder what that’s about. Today the skies are blue and the sun is shining. It’s been so grey here, so much rain. And yet I haven’t been outside further than the front porch where I stood in my bare feet greeting the day. Outside, as I quieted myself I could hear other birds, like the gentle chirping of songbirds even though it's December and Winter is almost upon us. I note that the Hummingbirds are still visiting the hummingbird feeder and so I've kept it filled. People are out on the street walking .... The world continues to be .... And perhaps the Seagull was simply speaking to my desire to not simply be in and with myself .... But to be part of the bigger, to be part of the Whole .... To remember that all this work of wintering of quieting, is important. Ultimately it is something that we do as part of the rhythm, the natural rhythm, that all of us live in to. All of us being the Plants, the Creatures, those Beings that are beyond us. Earth herself lives through these rhythms. And just to remind me that it's all part and parcel, it's all of a whole .... .... And that I can take my stillness with me as I step out into the world .... ~
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