Rooted Wellness

01/23/2025

God,
Open my heart to your love.

God,
Work in and through our unique and unified relationship to express your love for all through this art and prayer.

I pray to empty more of myself and embody the essence of you within my head and heart to be worthy of this tradition.

01/14/2025

Centering Aum Contemplation

When a human being first learns to let go of their thinking as the authority in making decisions and learns how to surrender to life in every moment, they have just gifted themselves; self assurance.
Self trust. And Faith.
There is no technique that can show a human being how to comprehend this gift. The gift only appears through experiences and encounters with life. In the pure sense, the state of self-assurance is actually your own greater nature emerging. It is the lightness of life. Self assurance is directly equivalent to your ability to escape being a victim of your mind. In the older traditions entire philosophies are based around this belief from medicine to martial arts. This awareness emanates from the center of our being. It opens up with total surrender to the present moment. Self assurance is based upon surrender rather than assertion, fluidity instead of force. It is a simple confidence which can be built through trust, faith, patience, and surrender, none of which are techniques. An inner relaxation. The Sacred Presence is represented as the breath of God. The Presence is the underlining nature of being. The Presence, which is said to be The Divine manifestation through the human instrument. The Internal present moment. The tasting of purity in each present moment. The Presence is actually flowered and becomes a subtle atmosphere around the person, an aura that radiates out into all of creation. One of the greatest effects of being in the presence is the deepening of your breath. Here, the presence links all human beings as one through the breath. Therefore, people immersed in the atmosphere of presence begin to breathe as one entity. In complete relaxation. The mind has been cut at the root. Only silence can even approach this truth.
The Sacred Octave has a mystical nature and a transcendent note that begins, ends and links together, all vibrations through the universe in which we live.

Paraphrasing
Richard Rudd

#20

01/11/2025

We are here.
We are here and we should be and do something nurturing that we respect.

Toni Morrison

What’s your movement???

Love.

Instant gratification.

Do the teachings of Jesus move you?

Buddha?

Architecture?

Archetypes?

Plants?

Fear?

Evolution?

Psychology?

Poetry?

Fault finding?

Oppression?

Philosophy?

Mythology?

Science?

What a menagerie we create with our moves!

How boring 🥱 life would be if we all followed the same movements!

01/08/2025

Read out loud.
Poetic and fluid.

I am Gabriel; my name means “God is strong,
El is Great!”
I come like the wind when the strength of God is needed. Enoch’s book lists me as one of the seven Archangels:
It is I who visited the prophet Daniel, decoding his visions. Though sent from God on high, I guard the gate of the soul; I arise from the soul’s depth to flood the mind and heart. I am the messianic messenger of the good news, the glad tidings, which are best read upside down since so often they are framed by bad news. I am Gabriel, the guardian angel of earthbound messengers, sent to announce bad news to some, mad news to many, and always good news to the poor and outcast. I am Gabriel, heaven’s winged mystic muse, who carries two sacks overflowing with genius gifts, two sacks full of ripe, creative, new seeds, dripping with Eden‘s juices of wild imagination. Slung over my shoulder I also carry for all the sober and
ever-elastic goatskin full of a new wine to make earth’s children drunk on impossible dreams. I am Gabriel, heaven’s compass for explorers who are driven from home on expeditions to the edge, whose only maps are star paths boldly traced across the ebony slates of midnight skies by the scarlet flaming finger of the Spirit Wind. When these explorers stray, lose their way or long to retrace their steps homeward, I whisper in their ears like thunder claps and dance in their dreams the way they are to go, until they once again find their path, the Way. I, Gabriel, was once sent by God to a tiny hillside Galilean village of poor uneducated peasants. I was given a message for the village craftsman, part-time stonemason, carpenter, and doer of odd jobs named Jesus. “ Be gentle,” I was told.
“Unfold to him, his message like a banquet tablecloth filled with delicious crumbs. Be gentle! This is a delicate process. Unfolding into fullness is not easy and takes time. Let the ripeness of his message come as slowly as does the dawn.“

Edward Hays

01/08/2025

Golden ☀️

12/21/2024

I really wanted to write up my own explanation and experiences related to these statements made by Fr. Richard Rohr in his 2024 daily meditations for Advent book because my own encounters, current and future endeavors encompass these awe inspiring moments.
I look forward to sharing more with you all.

“In the years ahead I see Christianity moving from mere belief systems to an invitation to “practices” whereby we then realize things on a new level. Jesuits call them “exercises”, Methodist call them “methods”, Gandhi called them “experiments with truth”. Let me sum it up this way: we do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into a new way of thinking.
Without action and lifestyle decisions, without concrete practices, words are dangerous and largely illusionary.”

Daily Advent Reflection:

What actions can you take to more fully realize the power of The Spirit?

12/21/2024

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