Beyond

35 years chanting meditation practice!
Prayers & chants from the Christian & Buddhist traditions, inspired by the poetry of Rumi, & the musical healing work from Deepak Chopra_ music from Tina Turner, Dechen Shak-Dagsay & Regula Curti _in their collaborative CD: Beyond. Learn all about the Beyond Foundation.

How to Deal with Relationship(s)

We Are Poetry Itself_ Each and Every One of Us ♡

Connecting and repeatedly reconnecting with John Bradshaw's work throughout my life! How liberating and soul quenching! I am so grateful and so blessed to freely receive the work of one inspired human being free from the dogma, & (well-intended) grooming that ultimately promotes only intolerance and making otherness an object of negativity, of judgment in people not accepted for one conceptual reasoning or another_ however prosaic!
John Bradshaw's work stands tall and above the shoulders of all confusion, with a constant light on the path along with those whose presence in this world, says in effect, if you want to live follow (not just me), but the unfettered & pure truth that is not of this world while you are in this world, yet that is always within your very own heart.

*Can you separate this pure-toned truth from blinding passion rooted in the slippery nature of the (sometimes well-intended) ego identification?

The Mankind Project- South Africa

I am still very wary of this project, having met two men in the past two years who are involved in it yet, who are perhaps early in their own life-healing walk. Then watching only a filmed glimpse into this work in another corner of the world, I am impressed to recognize what the experience must be like for the women sitting in (witness in)this group...
I know that I am not perfect in doing the parallel forms of deep healing work I've needed, to gain ground on the sanity and well-being my whole life has required of me since early childhood, when I began making plans to escape the (still) dreadfully dysfunctional, family-of-origin history.
Twenty years later, I am able to skillfully name the impact that a parent with mental illness can have on a family. Particularly when this truth remains in denial in the parent, and all other family members willing to remain in support of "the story," staying the way it always has been.
To this day, even as I have raised a beautiful child solo, and seen them launched quite well into the world, my own capacity to allow close relationships into my life, not only with other 'healthy' adults, but also in relationships of valuing myself in the world, where earning my own living is concerned_ is still developing, even as I too am a gifted visual artist & intuitive body intelligence healer.

Therefore, I offer the resource of the Mankind Project here on my own blog about healing through body intelligence_ as it may serve healthy (emphasis) healing tools in those lives who are ready to benefit most constructively from it.

Namasté

The Great Turning; a synopsis

'The Great Turning: the work of an entire species shifting its entire historic human mindset of who and what we are in relation to the entire planet; recognizing deeply that we are a species that is A LIVING PART OF a LIVING PLANET.' (paraphrased) _ Joanna Macy

Gratitude

Modest Needs, can you helps?

Have you ever heard of Modest Needs?

Even though the link I have provided takes you straight to my particular grant request, you can go to the homepage to check out the whole Modest Needs story from the "Start Here" section on the menu bar, or really, from the top of any page_ including mine.

My own grant request is modest, as I transition back into new employment, after a recession lay-off 10 months ago. Your donation, of any size to my request, will be ever so appreciated! Just click on the link below and thank-you, very much!!

Application 159557: New Job - Rent Help - Modest Needs®

*Be sure to pass this information on to those you know who may need the kind of help available through a Modest Needs grant!!

Character is Destiny

Eckhart brings to life 'Meditations' the 2,000-year-old writings of 'philosopher-king' Marcus Aurelius, sharing the perennial wisdom of this unique Roman emperor. Eckhart calls this book powerful and timeless and says he has loved it for many years.

All-new teachings also include Kim Eng on accepting the form of this moment and Eckhart addressing the following questions:

* How do I maintain a sense of presence when I'm in the company of another person?
* What is the role of being in service to others in one's spiritual development       and in the overall evolutionary impulse of the universe?
* Can a person take psychiatric medication and still awaken?
* What would being present with anger actually look like?
* Are we the mountain or the valley?


Enjoy the pointers to spiritual truth that Eckhart shares with you. As Eckhart says, 'We are looking through the book at ourselves.'

'Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of
your destiny. For what could more aptly fit your needs?'
- Marcus Aurelius


'If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due
to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have
the power to revoke at any moment.'
- Marcus Aurelius

Language for the New Paradigm

Language for the New Paradigm from DreamingBear Baraka Kanaan on Vimeo.

Pass this on, it's quicksilver!

Ask For Help!

Francisco Bujan

I post this video as a gem of information that can be used to reinforce your own intuition. It seems to me that the whole "coaching" trend is again just another cluttered path of busy activity for others to make money off your life... relationships are never dull, are they?! Try listening to this! Vicki Hannah Lein, Outrageous Visions Consider that the tools every facilitator has to offer are usually there as a basic schema for orienting the development of your own personal discipline-value.
In fact, they are there to remind that you already have these tools inside you!
Just know that we are all human and one may have to filter the facilitator's behavior in the process of teaching their message, while you are learning about the tools they ARE offering. We are all human in this process of living; just be aware and don't judge. Take what is of value in that moment with that facilitator, and adapt them for your needs in your life at that moment, then leave the rest. No person outside of you is the one, before you can recognize yourself first, as the true one! Whoever that one you may perceive them to be: the teacher, the employer, the lover, the parent, the child, etc. You are already home within your own heart/soul-self. Allow the tools you are attracted to in others, to help you lead your own conscious awareness where it belongs_ still, within the isness of THIS moment. And THIS moment. And the THIS moment. Moment, to moment, to moment. Always present, curious, interested, aware. Conscious attention in present moment awareness. Be patient with yourself, it takes time to grow/cultivate this balance within. You are (as we each are) worth the time it takes.

Women & Power "Our Time To Lead"

My goal this fall is to attend this conference! Meanwhile, I am opening my own doors on a vision; my business as an artist/healer. The time has come. This is empowering work that starts in an intersection in body-centered psychology, nutritional healing and in my visual work.
Contact me, starting here.
I am looking for investors and adding additional clients.

May I Be Frank?

I just discovered another impressive indie film today! It's wonderful to watch the trailer(s) on so many levels, so go ahead and do that now! Then, come back and let me tell you about my own physiological transformation experiences once mirroring the impact of parental mental illness on my own childhood!

About twenty-three years ago, I was a new client in the talk therapy game. At that time, I was embarking on the culmination of a journey that my whole life had been leading up to, since I was a very little girl. "Something" had always been wrong where I grew up in my mother's house. By the time I was age twelve, I had realized that if I wanted to survive, I was going to have to move as physically far away from my mother as I could get myself. I recognized at that point it wasn't an internal escape I expected, and time has certainly continued to show that internally is where the work must originate. What I was seeking in geographic distance was the opportunity to feel physically safe, to do the "work" that I intuitively knew I was going to have to do, in order to uncover the "something" that was always wrong in my mother's house.
Throughout life right up to the time I began talk therapy, I was not entirely certain that I was not the something that was wrong.

Suffice it to say that in the first years of my talk therapy experiences, there developed an increasing physically painful response to only talking about past history and patterns within emotional/psychological family structures. This unyielding physical pain up and down my spine resulting in continued extreme and frequent headaches, pushed me to find deep relief again. This time I found yoga and over a two-year period, worked with what I call a gifted physical guide. I transformed many things about the way subconscious responses had gradually built up life-holding patterns in the body; transformed how a digressed functioning had taken up residence. With a lot of hard work and an open willingness, I transformed the deep muscular holding that had for years impacted my skeletal alignment to the point that I held one hip forward and one rocked back and out to the point of chronic and frequent migraine headaches each month. I transformed near-sightedness and the need to wear prescription glasses to read. Transformed hearing issues that really interfered with the mind's ability to stay focused on what was being said at any one time, and instead kept the nervous system in a constant agitation. There was greater diet change, chanting, breathing exercises and meditation. There was also deep frequent tissue massage, and healing touch practices known as Breema, which I experienced as vehicular for constructing self-valuing on a cellular level, though this practice did not sustain itself in my life with right teacher/guides, as long as I needed. As for diet growing up, I was extremely under-weight until I confronted that at age thirteen with a marked common sense over a very focused and motivated thirty-day period. Without downplaying healing possibility within the human body whatsoever, all this is to say that physical transformations like Frank's are not really a miracle in the spiritual sense. However, in coming to consciously recognize what our bodies do and are capable of, on a regular basis and then cognizantly working with that, the first encounters with healing longtime, life-responses that do deposit themselves in our own physical frame and recognizing those results within our own selves on all levels_ deconstructing how they occur is mind-blowing! A set of transforming morhphological experiences of intimate proportions!

I want to say that in my own physiological experience, the tinnitus, near-sightedness and alignment all balanced out. Showing up throughout the entire frame of the body from the way my teeth closed, to how the hips, shoulders and knees all began to re-settle. Re-settle in ways natural to the earliest experiences in the body of a small child, when life was still a new experience over all! I could hear with no ringing at all, I wore no reading glasses anymore as there was no need for them, and I slept deeply and restfully again throughout the night.

Paradoxically, "May I be Frank" comes out at time when my life does again find me in need of transformation of these same proportions. Though, not for the same reasons to be sure. While it's true I did sustain the benefits I gained, and have lived now for over a decade and a half, simultaneously life has run away with my emotional ability to keep up, in the major transformation I seem to be experiencing at midlife. Yet, just like the opening lines in Frank's movie when he says, "I thought_ this is it! This is how to live life!" Unlike, Frank's mistaken association that drugs were the way, I do know the difference of deep healthy transformation in my own body. Yet simultaneously, I recognize that the last twenty-two, twenty-three years away from society, (remember needing safe space?!) away from community_ is the reason I find myself in this inner space of unbalance as I write this post.
During those years, some things about my own individual needs could not get addressed adequately. I pushed so much forward simultaneously for my daughter's benefit, during those full-time, solo parenting years. Now out from under earned exhaustion, I am looking for a courage that is reflective of renewed physiological energy deep inside the body again. Courage to get back in the saddle of life. To take a new set of paths out into the world of work and adult relationships, from inside a renewed body and frame of mind. If you can help, please let me know. As an artist and one who wishes to participate as a healer, I do need to hear from you. This is the remarkable aspect about the body; it is does begin again!

Now after reading my cameo life transformation in the body; in case you need to hear this let me recommend that you watch "May I Be Frank." Watch it for inspiration about a life full of possibility for you! This is the field of our birthright during this lifetime, each and every one. Share this film with everyone you love.

A Woman's Worth

What a privilege to write about the struggle to become the best I can be.
When I consider my own female biological family history, contrasted on the canvas of the world of women's lives even today in the 21st C, it is a privilege to realize. A privilege to struggle to define a conscious life experience of (hopefully) becoming the best I can be!

I am making a small sound today, writing a post of this tender recognition that is weaving its way through my life this week. May it be of some help for your own valuable self-recognition, on your own path.







Namsté

Solutions

You must check THIS out!

This plain-spoken logo points to an AMAZING concept & network! Don't hesitate, if you are "looking" for answers on how to make the New Earth take shape, check out this link!! Check it out and discover this idea for yourself_ don't wait because transformational reality is NOW!!

Willem Janssen's Art: BIRTH

"Birth is a sign of inner transformation, a shift in consciousness that manifest externally as rebirth or renewal, the arising of a New Earth.

The sign is about the effortless balancing of inner and outer, the removal of resistance and the ending of struggle.

These are all aspects of the constant outpouring vibration of Birth."

This one's for me!

Owning Pink! A community of support for getting your mojo back!!

This One's for You, Mom

THIS Saturday, January 23rd., is Yoga Day USA

10 Top Reasons to take Yoga


The reasons for practicing yoga as presented in this video, run the risk of elitism by tone inside the western (outside of India) yoga community. Yet, the contents in the video do however, present very valuable information for everyone. In particular, for those who have never taken a yoga class. Starting with a reputable teacher, trained in the traditional roots of this experience is VERY important, and the only place to begin. Otherwise one does miss what I believe is ultimately the intended context present, in the commitment: Yoga, is a way of life.

From the development of one's daily experiences, beginning with exposure to this discipline through a good teacher, one learns what is meant and yet cannot ever be fully explained in words. Why? Because yoga facilitates the journey into the vast internal mystery of which we all are.

Try a good class at your level of flexibility. Expose yourself to meditation and pranayama experiences, and keep coming back to the mat.

Remember, the only true guru is the internal one always, always, always.

Namasté

Namasté

The Sanskrit word Namasté means ‘I bow to the Divine in you.’

Namasté is the divine spark in one person recognizing the divine spark in another. The life in me sees and honors the life in you. This is an especially deep expression of respect. Namasté recognizes the duality that has ever existed in this world and suggests an effort on our part to bring these two forces together; ultimately leading to a non-dual state of Oneness. In other words, it recognizes the equality of all, and pays honor to the sacredness of all (without exception). The whole action of Namasté unfolds itself at three levels: mental, physical, verbal.
I honor the place in you where Spirit lives; the Spirit in me meets the Spirit in you, I greet that place where you and I, WE ARE ONE. I honor the place in you, which is of LOVE; I receive the free spirit in you. I salute the place in you, which is of Truth; may the life within you be strong. I receive the place in you, which is of Light. I recognize the place in you, which is of Peace; within each of us is a place where peace dwells. I recognize that we are all equal. I acknowledge that everyone is valuable in they’re own way, and capable of expanding my horizons. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, then we are one. We are able to recognize the goodness in others; We can perceive the unique thread that connects us all with the universe and all its Beings. With the Universe, and all her Beings as well as to the source of that interconnection. Accepting Oneness, we are accordingly receptive to knowledge that comes to us in the form of examples, advice, and direct teaching. One may awaken to wisdom that opens our eyes to new worlds of possibilities; when we assume everyone we meet is special and Unique in their essence. We must always show to all people, the same generous level of kindness, care, compassion, and understanding without any thoughts of self-interest or ulterior motives above paying respect(s) wholeheartedly. The way we live our daily lives has an enormous impact on those around us. Instead of clinging to what separates us, practicing Namasté enables us to feel less alone in the world. We begin to understand that we must treat all people for who they are_ family. WE ARE ONE WITH THE COSMOS WHETHER WE REALIZE IT OR NOT.

Practicing ONENESS, we gain consciousness of the more subtle aspects of our being; the ultimate outcome being complete identification with the light body.

May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all beings be free from suffering and the cause of suffering.
May all look into the mirror of self-reflection seeing all others looking back. May all beings realize oneness; living in oneness as one family, one heart of the bright light of compassion. Namasté

Charlottemarie