When we pay attention to breath as the focus of our meditation we noticed a gentle rising and falling. When charted in relation to time, awareness of the breath creates a beautiful sine wave, a powerful waveform. The collapse of the wave function in quantum physics refers to how our observation causes the potential of…
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The Wisdom of the Body
Accessing the wisdom of the body is the underlying premise of movement therapy and the practice of Authentic Movement. I have been engaged in Authentic Movement for over twenty years and I continue to be guided by this practice. Beginning with the intention to deeply listen and attend to the ongoing stream of bodily felt information that is continually flowing through…
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Ireland & Cultivating Friendliness
Contemplating our recent two weeks in Ireland, the most unexpected teaching received was the Irish people's warmth and friendliness. At first, we thought it was just the hotel staff, but soon found the gracious, patient Irish people to be imbued with both the passionate fire and loving warmth of friendliness. While on the lookout for a dark chocolate delectable, the shopkeeper, hearing…
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Notes on Neuro Mysticism: Chanting Om Nama Shivaya
The chant Om Namah Shivaya is a love song, to ourselves. A love song we sing to our own deepest inner nature. In this song we recognize that we are the source, like a hologram, a piece of god that also represents the whole. In the Siddha yoga lineage (from which this chant comes) it is…
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Notes on Neuro Mysticism: Heart Meditation
by Raphael Rod Birney MD (image Robby Donaghey) In the heart meditation as we orient to the heart, to it’s electromagnetic energy field, we connect with the matrix of high self, with our inner guidance. This may be experienced as an energy field, an image of a wise being, an inner voice, a sense of being…
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Uniting the one to the One (parts e- )
"Uniting the one to the One" Notes by Moineddin Jablonski on SoulWork. E) As you read this section contemplate how you are in touch with your female self, your capacities for mystery, relationship, being. How our world rejects the feminine and this lack of balance between masculine and feminine energies is behind so much of our personal and collective suffering. As these changes…
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