Genius of Community

The first response I am receiving from Woodinville Happiness Initiative outreach is from Andrew at Health Moves who has offered office space for showing the 9-minute KCTS/9 film on Measuring Happiness. I met Andrew at a Chamber networking breakfast.

Health Moves is a comprehensive naturopathic and acupuncture medical clinic located in Woodinville, WA. Naturopathic & Holistic medicine (Naturopathy or Natural medicine) is an alternative medicine that emphasizes the body's innate ability to heal and maintain itself. Naturopathy includes many different modalities and is a holistic approach to patient care.

This Happiness Initiative process evolves according to response from this community.

I aired my feelings (both negative and positive) at Heritage Garden meeting.  The result is an expansion of community as more parts come together.  It's amazing to watch...sort of like offering my emotions as a sacrifice to be burned in fire.  So, no relationships broken rather they are strengthened through cooperation.

Tomorrow is TW meeting that includes a Grange proposal for restructuring as we move into our 3rd year.  I am hoping relationships can be strengthened but I have no idea how that will play out.  I am only one part of the whole.

It looks like making emotional waves does have a positive effect in that it brings what is underground to the surface to look at and process.  And it does look as if it has positive outcomes.  I do believe that we are stronger together.  And I do believe in "the creative genius of community."

Bhutan as World Leader

Bhutan's organic pledge

The tiny country of Bhutan recently pledged to become the first country in the world to convert to a 100-percent organic agricultural system. Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley said his government is developing a national organic policy because the country's farmers increasingly are convinced that "by working in harmony with nature, they can help sustain the flow of nature's bounties." Bhutan drew international attention a few years ago for saying "Gross National Happiness" should trump Gross Domestic Product when measuring a nation's progress. (NPR)

OM Embrace

OM – embracing stillness OM – transcendent mountaintop OM – vibration from which action flows OM – touching Alien face; different skin OM - called to mountain North

Forward in Resilience

He is a space “commander” and his name is Michael.

Someone from the Grange called to discuss my concerns/issues.  I said everything I had not said to this person.  We ended the conversation acknowledging the value of our friendship.  In the middle of the night, actually morning, I awoke to a full proposal to the Grange that ends with these words:  This proposal represents a new partnership between Transition Woodinville and the Sammamish Valley Grange built on clear communication and mutual respect.  We are stronger and more resilient together than we are apart.

And I thought I was walking away…getting a divorce!  This is how “resilience” looks. Now the proposal is in the hands of Transition core members.

Friends introduced me to Dr. Who on TV.  This episode was about the Oodens and breaking the circle that imprisoned their universal telepathic brain.  It showed how this race provided a song for the universe.  Dr Who reminds me of Rob Hopkins!  

Dowsing

Early AM letting my mind wander as if scanning the force field.  Suddenly I am up looking out from behind a face in a space craft.  It’s almost as if I am that face.  Is it third eye oneness?  I held steady watching, listening as vibrational contact was sustained.  I then had sensations of something being sent downward on a wire and lifted back up as well as dragon fly eyes.  All very lucid as in a dream and yet I was wide awake. Veils are thinning.  This Space Being came in again after noon today.  I am being drawn to two locations: Mt Baker and Mt Rainier.  I will visit them before November.

Reiki and singing bowls yesterday.  Reiki Woman lives in magic.  She puts a white rose on my heart chakra.  A small cherub like face appears at the left side of my face.  I acknowledge it and it stays with me the entire time.  My mental mind chattered the entire session showing me that I have been much too busy.  I mentioned Dragon and Turtle before the session and at the end she mentioned that she did not find Dragon along any chakra lines.  And then she exclaimed, “You are Dragon!”  She told me that purple and black were dominant during the session.  She invited me to her Reiki group.

I know him in North vibration, I know him in South vibration.  This weekend in close proximity new “ground” opened up.  In a moment of communication exchange my solar plexus charged/expanded.  It is the space below heart chakra and above root chakra. I had not felt this before and name it and claim it here as it represents a new portal and that horizon line E/W. 

I met a woman at a Transition event who is very spiritually oriented.  We visited for a couple hours today.  She is very soothing and comforting.  Feels like new “allies” are coming into my force field.  I’ve invited her to join me in a Happiness Initiative meeting tomorrow with Laura.

When emotions, thoughts, words get suppressed/buried in unconscious they rise up sooner or later.  For years I’ve buried these things in relationships.  Now they are rising up.  Today the home care nurse was in a huff and asking me why I don’t call her to communicate.  I told her that I don’t enjoy communicating with her because she is unpleasant.  As she raises her voice to me I ask her to change her tone.  She did.  This is my lesson!  To be in the moment enough to honor my feelings through my throat chakra and voice!  My feelings are dowsers scanning the waters of relationship.

Volcanic Effect

I am seeing that once I release my emotion I am much more clear and logical.  Now I am asking questions and asking for information in a very pointed way.  I don't have to be ashamed if my volcanic eruptions are messy...I am willing to let them spew!  This awareness is part of a new cycle.  I write it down to remember because I am so much in the flow that I forget.

A Thinning

Through stroke, heart surgery, kidney stone procedure my client continues to raise chickens and engineer/build things.  And he is smiling more.

I am seeing that the veils are thinning between vibrational levels or force fields.  This includes unconscious, sub-conscious and unconscious fields both personal and collective.  The chaos and tension is healthy because it reflects that which is out of balance--out of alignment.  We must focus on that which is coming into alignment and we must continue to work at every level to create this healthy balance/harmony.  Yes, there are conscious choices, conscious changes to align One Field.

Erupting Volcano

I am acting like an erupting volcano and feeling okay about spewing lava from deep within my core. I'm tired of negative people and this quality of energy bubbling behind the scenes and underground. I'm learning how to be mad as I am learning how to love!

I am asking questions to get to the bottom of another issue with the Grange. I vented to friends who are safe and then blasted out another email to three men who want the Grange garden to be something other than what I have created as Manager. After all the love I have put into that space to begin to give it more order and the community that is now coming together they want something different? Everyone seems to have an opinion and no one appreciates what is. It's odd how people are not accepting of what has evolved and what is evolving. I am more than willing to step aside and let someone else do what they want. 

It's interesting at a time I am considering launching a Woodinville Happiness Initiative that all this debris is hitting the fan.

A Grange member wants to attend the TW Business Meeting commenting about the need for clear communication and expectation. Here we go.....

A home care nurse was pushy and rude with me again today.  I pushed back and it felt good. I wonder how long this eruption is going to last.

I Am Existence

Om or  aum (help·info) (written universally as ॐ; in Devanagari as ओं oṃ [õː], औं auṃ [ə̃ũ], or ओम् om [õːm]) is a mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin, sacred and important in various Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The syllable is also referred to as omkara (ओंकार oṃkāra) or aumkara (औंकार auṃkāra), literally "om syllable", and in Sanskrit it is sometimes referred to as प्रणव (praṇava), literally "that which is sounded out loudly".

Om is also written ओ३म् (ō̄m [õːːm]), where ३ is प्लुत (pluta, "three times as long"), indicating a length of three morae (that is, the time it takes to say three syllables)—an overlong nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel—though there are other enunciations adhered to in received traditions. It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or prior to any prayer or mantra. It is used at the end of the invocation to the god being sacrificed to (anuvakya) as an invitation to and for that God to partake of the sacrifice.. The Māndukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable. The syllable consists of three phonemes, a (Vaishvanara),^[1] u (Hiranyagarbha), and m (Ishvara), which symbolize the beginning, duration, and dissolution of the universe and the associated gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, respectively.^[2] The name omkara is taken as a name of God in the Hindu revivalist Arya Samaj and can be translated as "I Am Existence

Om / Aum

The force field spoke yesterday at our International Day of Peace concert.  There was a new vibration quiet and still.  There was no static...anywhere.  At one point I stood outside the grand barn venue and looked to the sky feeling and acknowledging the shift.  A horizon felt extended through Earth and Sky. A breakthrough in OM vibration from which thought and action flow.  Is it the point at center of X?  A cross over point as Chi connects? As energy and dark mass become One?  This is the language of the past but now this OM vibration comes in as a line…a horizon line.  Not sure what this means.  I watch. I listen.

Such a paradox…yesterday was the happiest day of my life as my Beloved and I spent time together in friendship…for the first time!  And as I say “happiest” I think of my children and how those moments were also the happiest.  Happy must be about giving birth to Life on Earth!  Happiness is about Creation!  Another aspect about happy yesterday is the culmination of so very many years of working with -/+ energies to learn the expression of Love, Truth and Life and in turn to learn from Love, Truth and Life.

The paradox is that it was such a quiet and still day emotionally.  It was an OM experience…a new line of horizontal Beingness of Heaven and Earth in peaceful harmony.  

The shift happened creating N/S alignment.  Turtle is happy and Turtle Island smiles.

And for the record....He and I were in the garden under apple trees. I handed him an apple and he took a bite.  There was no serpent present that I know of...there was a huge hornet nest hanging from one of the trees.  There were no fig leaves and no shame.  We were in a Garden of Life, of Creation!  A new cycle begins and with it new intensity and responsibility to be laser like.

This doesn’t mean everything is in perfect harmony in my personal experience or in this realm. Yesterday in its stillness I left the key in the car ignition on the entire event!  What was that about?  It almost brought up shame and off-centeredness.  But as Dana sings in his song “Sometimes” about coal trains “there is no backing down now.”  I and we stand upright in Love, Truth and Life! 

Another drama came up today.  I hear criticism about the Heritage Garden.  Why am I not hearing compliments after all the work I and now we are doing?  I aired my frustration to a friend and I was surprised at all the emotion that came up from within.  I love this garden and my love has gone into it.  Does no one see it or appreciate it?  Old politics...old paradigm...involving people who are insecure, jealous, ego-centered because their ideas are not being carried out.  I knew that I had to be laser-like again and was ready to send an email.  Instead I saw one of the people involved and asked direct questions.  Now I don't have to send an email.  One of my gardners has suggested that I be more assertive...and I think that is what is being called for.  In my desire to create community I tip toe around.  I'm not doing that anymore...there is not time!

Wikipedia:

Om or  aum (help·info) (written universally as ॐ; in Devanagari as ओं oṃ [õː], औं auṃ [ə̃ũ], or ओम् om [õːm]) is a mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin, sacred and important in various Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The syllable is also referred to as omkara (ओंकार oṃkāra) or aumkara (औंकार auṃkāra), literally "om syllable", and in Sanskrit it is sometimes referred to as प्रणव (praṇava), literally "that which is sounded out loudly".
Om is also written ओ३म् (ō̄m [õːːm]), where ३ is प्लुत (pluta, "three times as long"), indicating a length of three morae (that is, the time it takes to say three syllables)—an overlong nasalized close-mid back rounded vowel—though there are other enunciations adhered to in received traditions. It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or prior to any prayer or mantra. It is used at the end of the invocation to the god being sacrificed to (anuvakya) as an invitation to and for that God to partake of the sacrifice.. The Māndukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable. The syllable consists of three phonemes, a (Vaishvanara),^[1] u (Hiranyagarbha), and m (Ishvara), which symbolize the beginning, duration, and dissolution of the universe and the associated gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, respectively.^[2] The name omkara is taken as a name of God in the Hindu revivalist Arya Samaj and can be translated as "I Am Existence

Force Field Speaks

Friday was International Day of Peace.  That previous Monday my client started yelling at me (again) so I left immediately.  In spite of his phone pleas and apologies I did not respond or return until the next day.  He has been respectful since.  

Thursday night at a Transition class at the Grange one woman who is an Executive of the Grange was making vague comments that TW is not a project of the Grange.  She has what I think are control issues and I have had other clashes with her.  As she and I were washing dishes I wanted to get to the bottom of this.  I pressed her and was laser-like pointed. I expressed my feelings (not professional but honest—a professional would have asked for time outside this public class but my emotions were leading and I was ticked!) saying that she was being negative, not supportive and that I was very disappointed.  She left immediately in a huff. I called the Grange Master the next day and he told me that TW is not a project of the Grange because the members are not Grange members.  I asked when he had planned to inform me of that and he said, “Well, it just came up now.”  The truth is it had been up with people who had discussed this behind my back.  I emailed the following to several executive members of the Grange:

“It is unfortunate that I had to learn from ______’s comments that TW is not a project of the Grange.  I am wondering why no one had enough respect for me to have discussed this with me.  This way of doing “business” does not build community.” 

The force field between the Grange and Transition had spoken.  It was dark and muddy and I pressed into that mud with laser like emotion that was not dainty or contained.  I let her have it!  I feel better and change is the consequence.  I asked a couple of people at the class if they noticed the tension.  To my surprise they had not.  What felt like a huge storm to me seemed to somehow be contained.

What is a force field?  It is negative space in between physical mass.  It holds dark debris and static and it holds clear color and sound.  A conscious being works to break up the debris and clear the field.  Others muck it up and keep it that way in ignorance.

On TV Music Choice this moment is the song We Are Glass:  We may shine, we may shatter, may be picking up the pieces here on after. We are fragile, we are human, we are shaped by the light we let through us.  By Thompson Square 

I saw John Edward on Dr. Phil recently doing his mediumship.  Is this not an aspect of communcating through negative space?  The night of this TV show I had a dream that my ex-husband had left me a voice message.  I called him back and he answered.  I listened closely to his voice to hear what he wanted.  He seemed distant and cool.  Though our relationship was muddy and dysfunctional we did laugh a lot!  This laughter continues to ripple through negative space because I choose to focus on that. 

International Day of Peace

Symptoms of Inner Peace

Peace is sustainable when it is expressed inside out. It's researched in the Science of Happiness for the left-brain folks.

SYMPTOMS OF INNER PEACE by Saskia Davis
Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many already have been exposed; and it is possible that people, everywhere, could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what, up to now, has been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.

Signs & Symptoms of Inner Peace

A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment
A loss of interest in judging other people
A loss of interest in judging self
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others
A loss of interest in conflict
A loss of ability to worry
Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation
Contented feelings of connectedness with others & nature
Frequent attacks of smiling
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen
An increased susceptibility to love extended by others and the uncontrollable urge to extend it
WARNING If you have some or all of the above symptoms, be advised that your condition of inner peace may be too far advanced to be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk. © 1984

Galactic Family

A friend sent this to me.

Red Dragon

Tuesday a.m.:  Telepathic contact and I put my arms around him affectionately in that expansive and potent space of chi.  I see turtle in the distance to the “right” but my words want to say “left”.  Am I dyslexic or are West and East one and the same?  Turtle is at a sharp \ angle.  What does that signify?  Turtle is shifting her way to N/S line of force.

Thursday a.m.:  Telepathic contact always reveals the strong force field between my Earth Body and my Beloved Star.  We are like magnets pulled together yet pulled apart. Through the years of connection we have evolved at every level and have increasingly learned to manage this force field.  Now we are more comfortable with physical exchange and touch in this reality.  In the other reality of telepathy touch ripples with power shaking my core and the experience is almost as real as physical touch…almost.

I think the difference is that telepathy holds primarily negative space that includes the physical.  Whereas our current consciousness is primarily physical that may or may not include negative space.  Shall we call this “inner” space or “unconscious” space?  As I see it the unconscious is becoming conscious and the conscious is becoming unconscious.  Like snake eating its tail…or dragon!  We connect with other dimensional beings through inner unconscious substance that is Feminine and what comes through is the word “Love”.  Many forces are working to abort Love.  Many forces are also working to express Love.

Yesterday I opened The Complete System of Self-Healing, Internal Exercises by Dr. Stephen T. Chang and Tao Publishing.  I was intentional about opening it to exactly what I needed to hear this day.  This was my lesson:

Mouth Exercises
In addition to the other areas of the face, we need to stimulate as well the mouth, teeth, and gums to keep them healthy and strong.  We continually use our mouths for talking, eating and kissing.  So in order to keep this area strong and prevent tooth decay and gum problems like gingivitis, the Mouth Exercise should be practiced.

The Tongue and Saliva Exercise
The tongue is recognized as the opening to the heart.  Feelings of hate, love, sympathy, and anger reside in the heart and are stimulated by the tongue.  When the tongue is used in kissing, passion rises from the heart.

Saliva or “Heavenly Water” is sacred to the Taoists and is treated with respect for the power it holds as a natural healing water.  It helps to kill germs in the mouth and may be used as a form of medicine.  It may also be used to treat infections.  If you cut yourself and there are no other healing aids available, put the cut in your mouth or spread some of your saliva over it.  The saliva will help clean it out and destroy germs that might otherwise lead to infection.  Interestingly, it is now known that saliva triggers the production of a particular hormone within the structure of the teeth which helps to prevent tooth decay.  Further, saliva is a very important aid in digestion and along with the teeth forms the first step in breaking down foodstuffs before they reach the stomach.  So saliva that is evenly distributed between food particles will increase the digestive system’s capacity to absorb nutrients. (You can benefit from this property by chewing your food until it is in liquid form.) Because saliva is so valuable to human existence that glands that produce it must be protected.

To keep the hearth healthy and insure the continuing strength of the salivary glands into old age, Taoists devised the Tongue and Saliva Exercise.  The literal English translation of this exercise is:  “The Red Dragon dances over the ocean to make the wind, rain and clouds.” (The Red Dragon is the tongue and the ocean is the saliva.) This one sentence captures the exercise’s ability to wash out and clean the mouth and teeth and stimulate the heart.

This exercise may be done after meals, upon waking to remove bad breath and at other appropriate times.

1.     Roll your tongue around the inside of your mouth and across your gums and teeth. Use your tongue as you would a toothbrush.
2.    As you roll your tongue around your mouth, saliva will be secreted by the salivary glands. Do now swallow it, but allow it to collect until you have a mouthful of saliva.
3.    Swish the saliva around as if you were using a mouthwash.  Wash the entire inside of your mouth including the gums and in between the teeth.
4.    Divide the saliva into three equal parts and swallow each part separately and slowly until your mouth is clear.  As you swallow it, feel it descend to your stomach.  You many begin to feel the energy which the “Heavenly Water” brings to your stomach.

Transition & Happiness

As I listened to Jon Hall and “economic indicators” on the Happiness webinar I kept thinking about Transition and its “resilience indicators.”  The following is something I shared at a City Council meeting and something I have posted at the Sammamish Valley Grange.  Many may not be ready for this vision of a resilient community and future but many of us are. 

The Transition movement creates towns that are resilient which refers to the ability of a system, from individual people to whole economies, to hold together and maintain their ability to function in the face of change and shocks from the outside.

As stated in The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins resilience indicators are: 

·         Cutting carbon

·         Percentage of food consumed locally that was produced within a given radius

·         Ratio of car parking space to productive land use

·         Degree of engagement in practical Transition work by local community

·         Amount of traffic on local roads

·         Number of businesses owned by local people

·         Proportion of the community employed locally

·         Percentage of local building materials used in new housing developments

·         Amount of 16-year-olds able to grow 10 different varieties of vegetables to a given degree of basic competency

·         Percentage of medicines prescribed locally that have been produced within a given radius

·         The percentage of local trade carried out in local currency

I asked Laura if Rob could be a speaker on one of the Happiness webinars.  She is receptive so I am introducing them.  Once again I appreciate Laura’s inclusiveness.

Chi As Teacher

A few days ago I spilled grains of rice all over my kitchen.  What was my body’s response?  Total stillness as I cleaned it up.  I watched this mental, emotional and physical drama unfold in astonishment.  Then a couple days later I sprayed water all over myself at my client’s kitchen sink.  What was my body’s response?  Total stillness once again—I simply was not moved.  I give credit to chi and its stabilizing effect on my nerves.  And then at other times I hear negative words play out in my head or out of my mouth.  I am wondering how these circuits are different.  How can one experience be calm and clear while others instill muddy waters?  How do my nerves play out these responsive roles?  And is it possible to be clear and calm all the time?  Is that a positive state or is it a neutral state?  A positive state is happiness…a negative state sadness.  How does the whole circle of expression play out a harmonic balance?

Experienced a couple of days of dark turmoil due to negative self-talk much of it shame based stemming from childhood and now projecting it onto my grand children.  Shame prevents me from being happy and light hearted.  During this time I watched how my thoughts were negative and yet my body happy.  One experience stands out:  An older woman walked across the street.  I look at her and mean thoughts came through.  As I drove past her I looked at her and smiled.  Is this what they call “two-faced”?  It makes no sense to me how my mind can be wired one way and my body another.  And I wonder where the negative thoughts are coming from as I never saw the woman before.  It isn’t logical and therefore I see it as unconscious.  Maybe I am channeling the collective unconscious when I am in a dark and thus vulnerable place.  Maybe I am open to dark forces ready and waiting for prey.  And maybe this is the drama playing out worldwide which makes the expression of happiness and peace critical.

For the first time I watched Once Upon a Time on TV and noticed that none of the fairy tales include an outside “avatar” character creating havoc in this world.  I will have to watch the show again to see if this is true.  And if it is true would that mean that our consciousness has expanded to include a larger universe since the time those early fairy tales were written? .....Reading this again hours later as I post it here I wonder about the unconscious and who/what is pulling the strings? My Earth Body is intelligent and will survive those who want to see Her destroyed. She survives because Her Nature is Love.

Had a conversation with a woman who is known as a “wise woman” connected with Nature.  I could not agree with many of her comments as they were not true to my experience.  So, I shared some of my personal experience and she didn’t hear me and even wanted to correct me.  It’s very sad when people have blinders on and deeply rooted in opinion.  She reminded me of religious people who are stuck in their dogma and try to convert others.  I guess if I have another conversation with her I could simply sit and smile.  But I have better things to do with my time than to babysit someone.  Yes, I said that and I own it!  That doesn’t mean that she has to agree or approve of me…it simply means that she be respectful enough and humble enough to listen and be inclusive.  I have little patience with arrogance and then I have to look at myself to see if/when I am arrogant.  The circle always comes back around to self/Self.  A lot of alignment going on….or lack of!

Yesterday was a Saturday all to myself.  I was going to be alone and then discovered that felt lonely.  So I called a friend and we walked and talked and then one of my gardeners called and was BBQ-ing at the garden so I joined them.  As I looked up into the night sky holding the big dipper and as I listened to that ground with four children making lots of noise I felt very…content.  Once again I notice a major shift in my life:  I am thriving by being with people!