Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Day 22 - Heart Meditation - You and your heart (To the Sea 2010)

Good evening,

Today is a new day, I danced, and was feeling alive. Life is so wonderful when I dance. While dancing this Jack Johnson'song "You and Your Heart", I was so happy feeling my heart pumping a little faster than a month ago, and I realized that I was able to breath in and out without grasping for the air. My legs, arms and whole body felt so alive. I felt I was able to release, feeling lighter, and happier.
It is nice to realize that our veins and blood go where our heart goes. We need to hear our heart and be at peace with it to be open to this joy. 
Today meditation is on listening to our heart.  Sometimes we deny our heart a voice. We suppress our feelings, specially the negative ones, because we need to fit in, to hide behind our masks and behave well. Of course that our heart will feel when we get hurt or hurt other people, but also our blood pump will show us how to heal from pain. Sometimes we are in pieces, divided in so many thoughts, or simply so weak to be able to react. But listening to our heart, we can start putting our thoughts together, heal our sorrows and remember how strong we can be.
All possibilities are there.



Just listen to it, stop five minutes to meditate on your heart beat and feel close to it. I found this meditation from Yoga meditation on heart chackra  
It is a simple technique to release sadness and fear and to bring compassion and love into your life.

Sit in a comfortable position, either cross-legged on the floor or in a chair. Sit up tall with the spine straight, the shoulders relaxed and the chest open. Inhale the palms together and lightly press the knuckles of the thumbs into the sternum at the level of your heart (you should feel a little notch where the knuckles magically fit). Breathe slowly, smoothly and deeply into the belly and into the chest. Soften your gaze or lightly close the eyes. Let go of any thoughts or distractions and let the mind focus on feeling the breath move in and out of your body. Once the mind feels quiet and still, bring your focus to the light pressure of the thumbs pressing against your chest and feeling the beating of the heart. Keep this focus for one to five minutes.

Next, gently release the hands and rub the palms together, making them very warm and energized. Place the right palm in the center of your chest and the left hand on top of the right. Close the eyes and feel the center of your chest warm and radiant, full of energy. See this energy as an emerald green light, radiating out from the center of your heart into the rest of your body. Feel this energy flowing out into the arms and hands, and flowing back into the heart. Stay with this visualization for one to five minutes.

After you feel completely soaked with heart chakra energy, gently release the palms and turn them outwards with the elbows bent, the shoulders relaxed and the chest open. Feel or visualize the green light love energy flowing out of your palms and into the world. You can direct it towards specific loved ones in your life or to all sentient beings.

To end your meditation, inhale the arms up towards the sky, connecting with the heavens, then exhale and lower the palms lightly to the floor, connecting with the earth. Take a moment or two before moving on with the rest of your day.  

Hope this meditation will open a new channel of awareness between you and your heart, you can feel close to your heart again.
NamastĂȘ


"You and Your Heart"


I’ll watch you when you say
What you are
And when you blame Everyone, you broken king
I’ll watch you change the frame
I’ll watch you
when you take your aim
At the sum of everything
You and your heart
Shouldn’t feel so far apart
You can’t choose what you take
Why you gotta break and
Make it feel so hard
You lay there in the street
Like broken glass
Reflecting pieces of the sun
You’re not the flame
You cut the people passing by
Because you know what you don’t like
It’s just so easy
It’s just so easy
You and your heart
Shouldn’t feel so far apart
You can’t choose
What you take
Why you gotta break and
Make it feel so hard
You and your heart
Shouldn’t feel so far apart
You can’t choose
What you take
Why you gotta break and
Make it feel so hard
You draw so many lines in the sand
Lost the fingernails on your hands
How you gonna scratch any backs
Better hope the tide
Will take our lines away
Take all our lines and….
Hope the tide will take our lines a…
Hope the tide will take our lines away
Take all our lines away

Friday, April 20, 2012

Day 21 - Food for Love - Banana Pankakes

Dear friend,

One month has passed by, there was a silence in this blog and one month of dancing the no dance, meditating on not meditating.
A month of
blood test
chi test
mind and more energy
more blood
food first - love


sleep
sesame
lime
iron
me

wake up
slowly
eat well
slowly
love well
slowly
recovery
healthy and wealthy
be well again

meditation today is on right intake..., on pausing, recovering, for giant steps... and crossing the water ahead... taking one day at a time.
what do we need to keep ourselves not falling weak and unhealthy under extreme conditions?


What do Monks and
Monkeys have in common?
meditation and some Banana Pancakes?
Namaste and thanks for your support.
I promisse I will come back stronger and love with courage and no fear.

"Banana Pancakes"
You hardly even notice 

When I try to show you this 

Song it’s meant to keep you 

From doing what you’re supposed to 

Like waking up too early 

Maybe we could sleep in 

I’ll make you banana pancakes 


Pretend like it’s the weekend now 

And we could pretend it all the time 

Can’t you see that it’s just raining 

There ain’t no need to go outside 


But just maybe, hala ka ukulele 

Mama made a baby 

I really don’t mind the practice 

Because you’re my little lady 

Lady, lady love me 

Because I love to lay here lazy 

We could close the curtains 


Pretend like there’s no world outside 

And we could pretend it all the time 

Can’t you see that it’s just raining 

There ain’t no need to go outside 


Ain’t no need, ain’t no need   

Can’t you see, can’t you see 

Rain all day and I don’t mind 

  

Telephone singing, ringing, it’s too early 

Don’t pick it up 

We don’t need to 

We got everything we need right here 

And everything we need is enough 

It’s just so easy 

When the whole world fits inside of your arms 

Do we really need to pay attention to the alarm 

Wake up slow, wake up slow 


But baby, you hardly even notice 

When I try to show you this 

Song it’s meant to keep you 

From doing what you’re supposed to 

Like waking up too early 

Maybe we could sleep in 

I’ll make you banana pancakes 


Pretend like it’s the weekend now 

And we could pretend it all the time 

Can’t you see that it’s just raining 

There ain’t no need to go outside 


Ain’t no need, ain’t no need 

Rain all day and I really really really don’t mind 

Can’t you see, can’t you see 

We’ve got to wake up slow