  I've been reading Ross Gay's Book of Delights .... And have also heard him talk about a moment that spurred him to spend one year noting Delights that he encountered every day and writing a little essay, in longhand, about those moments. One of his takeaways from this year of noticing Delights was that when you attune yourself, you will find that there is Delight, maybe not everywhere but in everyday there is something that can Delight us. Even some of the more challenging things in our days can carry moments that Delight us, drawing us back .... To remembering that even in hardship Delights continue to happen in the world. Sometimes it's a matter of noticing and sometimes is the matter of changing perspective, of looking at something from a slightly different angle. Sometimes .... it's simply having our eyes open when the Delight flashes by .... .... I have been savouring The Book of Delights .... And learning to savour the moments of delight that I encounter in my own days .... ~
Centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations, Kimiko holds Virtual 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.
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 Before there was this Creation there was nothing. Well not exactly nothing, there was a Great Wind, the essence of Source. And out of that Wind .... God called into existence Light and Water and Land. God took dirt, dust from the Earth, added Water and started to form like a clay, shaping a being that could walk on the Earth. And using that breath, that Great Wind, God, Source, blew life Into the adam, the human created out of Earth and Water .... When we connect to the Earth, when we ground to the Earth we ground to the stuff of ourselves. When we drink the Water when we connect to the Water, we are connecting to the stuff of ourselves. And each breath, each breath is a breath of the Divine, is a breath of Source .... A breath of ourselves .... So each time we connect, each time we breathe, we are reconnecting to the Source of our selves .... Replenishing, renewing .... .... Inhaling that Breath of Life, Grounding to our very Mother ....The stuff of whom we are made comes from the Earth .... The Waters that flow, flow through us .... .... When we heal the Earth we heal ourselves. When we heal Water we heal ourselves. And when we heal ourselves we heal the Earth and we heal the Water .... .... Source breathed us into being. And so we breathe. And we breathe .... until we stop breathing and return to Source .... .... Inhaling I breathe in God. Exhaling God breathes in me .... .... ~
Centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations, Kimiko holds Virtual Healing Circles Monday mornings at 9 a.m. and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. pst. 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.   Coming up on one year of the global pandemic has made me, like many people, reflective of what's happened in the past year, at the significance, what it's meant to me. I very often, only half facetiously, commented that when we went into lockdown I was sent into exile as well as isolation. But I have to say that my reflection has for the most part started in gratitude, recognizing that although it has been a challenging year for me as well everyone, there's been a lot of blessing within the fact of having to live through the challenge. As well as just Blessing. Number one is considering that exile yes, I'm not in my own home and I've become a full time caregiver. And for sure that's been hard. But I also think about what would it have been like to have been in that peak early days of pandemic cooped up — yes cooped up because we were trying to not even go out of the house really — in a high rise apartment with my beloved although extrovert child. I was fortunate, blessed, privileged really, to have a different alternative, even though we had no idea at the time that it would be a year and we would still be in it and still be, Well that we would ever get to a point of talking about one year ago when we're still in the midst of. Coming to south Surrey brought me to a place of beauty. Now with Peace Arch Park there it can be pretty busy down here, not necessarily calm. When I first arrived it was absolutely peaceful. The parks were open. It's beautiful walking down here whether you go in the parks or not. And I could walk on the beach. Just the neighborhood here has many beautiful walks. It brought to my attention the microcosm of seasons in a way that I never paid attention to because of the aforementioned high rise apartment. Being in a more rural area and walking in places where there is wilder growth. And just a different way of paying attention. I noticed the different seasons of blossoms. I noticed the coming and the going of the dandelions and then the coming of the buttercups in the park. Wild roses making way to blackberries. One rogue cherry tree on the beach and apples, inexplicably, growing up on the shoreline back behind the tide line. The neighbours planted a garden here. I was the one who tended it. I spent hours puttering around in that garden. I pulled weeds, and researched what to do when the zucchini got leafy milk mold, or whatever they called that, and figured out a way to treat it, to support the zucchini. Later I even figured out a way to fertilize the zucchini so that the beautiful blossoms turned into fruit .... .... Much like the Israelites when they were sent into exile, and then later the People of the Temple being sent into exile, I was given an opportunity within the hardship of that to discover God in new places, in new ways .... I was thrown into myself. Hours of my own company, walking with the camera. Sitting in silent meditation with myself and, not simply The Divine but the Divine Realm .... .... And discovering .... A way of holding my gift in the world that I had hardly dreamed of. And what a blessing that has been. And in some ways I was thrown into myself. Hours of my own company, for sure, walking with the camera. Sitting in silent meditation with myself and, not simply The Divine, but the Divine Realm .... .... And discovering .... A way of holding my gift in the world that I had hardly dreamed of. And what a blessing that has been. Hardship again as I broke my foot, for sure, and learning the lesson, again, one of those lessons I learn over and over, of community, of reaching out, of saying yes when people say “can I help you?” Even if that is simply to say “I'm gonna come down and bring you a coffee. And we can sit in this physically distant way but together and visit. Would you like that?” Yes. Thank you. Thank you. So I start off this reflection with many blessings. A .... well not even a renewed relationship with my father-in-law because really I never had one before. And although it's not what it might have been 30 years or 20 years or even 10 years ago, it is a relationship. It has given me an opportunity to heal wounds in the family and I believe that all healed wounds reverberate back through the family line and forward through the family line and out in to the world. And that may just be the biggest blessing .... ~
Centred on evocative and deeply healing guided meditations, Kimiko holds Virtual Healing Circles Monday mornings at 9 a.m. and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. pst. 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.  Today I found myself holding myself in a kind of judgment, the kind that I would encourage any of you to let go of, to not hold for yourself. I found myself thinking “This is not the body that I would want to be in, this soft, thickening body. This isn't my body.” And thinking “these wrinkles around my mouth, where did they come from? I don't want them.” Hm. And then, having sat with that, knowing that no benefit really comes of that, and really, this judging is the opposite of healing .... I Imagined Each of your voices Echoing back to me the kind of words that I would have said to you had I heard you make these judgments about yourself. That .... “You are Lovely in the body that you inhabit. It is lovely. It is your vessel of being. And your beauty shines through it” .... I heard each of your voices saying, “Thank you For being who you are, For holding space in this world In the way that only you can.” It was like the Divine One was speaking to me through your voices. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.  Sometimes our eyes and hearts are drawn towards bright colourful moments. These might be moments of beauty ~ sunsets, an eruption of roses growing wildly by the side of the road. Sometimes it is quiet subtle moments, though, that speak to our soul, a gentle holding of space for us to simply be with no expectation of anything at all. To be drawn into a moment of awe is wonderous. And to be drawn into a moment of simply is-ness, of simply being .... Well it too is wonderous but in a different way, a gentle way .... And sometimes it's harder to notice those moments. But when they emerge when I become aware of them ....Huh, I really, I can do nothing other than breathe .... -
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