HOWL: In the comments, please complete this sentence: One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is:_________.
In Love,
Chris
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One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is: Honoring nature (walking outside, walking barefoot and through painting and PHOTOGRAPHY), healing myself and others. <3 <3 <3
Sounds divine, Ayla!
Nourish myself with moment-to-moment Natural Sensory Awareness with Nature in and around me….being still in these experiences to Feel the flow of wholesome creativity in this shared relationship of Love & Wisdom!
My Commitment is to amplify these Natural Sensory Experiences of Resilience with Creativity in Ceremony within my Celtic Seasonal Quartz Stone Circle….experiencing the Full Moon Light glowing through these Stones Last night…..Pure Love & Feminine Wisdom.
Lesson From Female Hummingbird (Dan Shelton, Aug. 1998)
In stillness we can touch peace!
In openness we can befriend!
Book Suggestion: “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”
David Abram
Blessings, Peace, Love & Light to each of You.
Thank you, Forever, for the Wisdom of Who You Are and the profound
Depth and Meaning that you share!
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Always Your Friend, Dan Shelton
One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is to build altars during the pagan calendar year…as well as trusting my intuition. I am daily doing tarot and saying prayers at my altar. I am saying a daily mantra to keep me grounded during this time. It is part of the “Lovingkindness” meditation from Buddhism…with a little tweak: “I am well. I am healthy. I am filled with lovingkindness. You are well. ou are healthy. You are filled with lovingkindness. We are well. We are healthy. We are filled with lovingkindness.” Thank you for this offering today. It is beautiful. As are all of your offerings!
The one thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is to practice daily gratitude. I practice gratitude everyday but feeling especially grateful for personal growth at this time. It is my personal growth that is helping me to cope during while we are in this liminal space. Some days are more difficult than others. And on those days, I look deeper into my soul for grounding, and I find myself expressing even more gratitude for that which I am surrounded by. My life is a gift – all of it.
One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience: lots of contemplation (especially what is important and how to live simply and conscientiously).
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One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is:_________.
Writing down my stories.
Painting a lot.
Learning how to sleep.
Chris, I really loved this. I felt your heart.
One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is unblocking my inner child. Doing an online thing with Lacy Phillips who is amazing. It’s a mix of energetics and hypnotherapy. Happy to say that my inner little one feels more secure and loved than ever before.
One Thing I´m doing to cultivate resilience is: the Wild Woman Circle Leader Project and becoming more and more who I really AM, assuming the Wild Woman in me, embodying her with full love and acceptance. I’m nurturing new creative seeds.
Blessings, dear Chris. And thank for your inspiration <3
Dear Chris,
#1.) You are a dear, dear, dear light to my heart. Thank you for all that you lay at our feet and for the ways in which you show up SO present to what is around us all. I feel you so deeply with this video and as I sat at my picnic table last night under our shared world’s moonlight, I just sensed you on your magical mountain and sending your heartlight out like a beacon. My feet touched the cool grass and I heard the breezes rustle and tapped right into that connective earth tissue.
#2.) I was inspired by you, a couple of years ago, to get the book, A Year With Rumi, to explore more about this mystical poet. So, I pick a poem, often each day, but not necessarily on the “proper” date and write it on a little white board I have in my kitchen. I might leave it up for a day or a week, depending on how it is speaking to me. I see it all the time, because I am in my kitchen (making magic!) all the time. I want to share this with you and all who are reading here, because it feels to me like Rumi wants to speak about liminal space within the message of this poem. It, I think, connects very well to the message you shared this Scorpio Flower Moon and the feelings of disorientation we humans are experiencing at this moment in time. You are right, we are in un-chartered waters. It is called Fog.
Fog
As fog rising off the sea
covers the sea,
so it is noble work to build
coherent philosophical discourses
but they block the sun of truth.
See God’s qualities as an ocean
and this world as foam
on the purity of that ocean.
Here is the mystery.
This intricate, astonishing world
is proof of God’s existence,
even as it covers the beauty.
One flake from the wall of a goldmine
does not give much idea
what it is like
when the sun shines in
and turns the air
and the workers golden.
I especially love the part where he writes: Here is the mystery…. I could totally nerd out on interpreting this poem alllll day. I will spare all of you fabulous WWP followers, though. 🙂
#3.)(Finally) One thing I am doing to cultivate resilience is: planting SO many morning glory seeds for my arbor, my portal to the green earth of my back yard. I can’t describe how happy I feel looking at their little green selves growing toward the light, shedding their seed pods and stretching their heart-shaped leaves. It is such a simple and profound joy to nurture the growth of these favorite flowers of mine. My sweet green leafed babies. I am also journaling a lot more. Lighting candles, listening to SO much music and really *feeling* what the artist is singing. Just dropping right in. I do this mostly while I am sewing, which has also been offering me the resilience I need right now. I just lose all sense of time while I am jamming to my playlists and sewing, sewing, sewing. Creating! I am sewing masks to donate in my community and it fires me, and fuels me, and gives me a feeling of pride that I can do my one small thing and help in my one small way.
Thank you so much for seeing me. For seeing all of us, Chris. We love you right back.
Howl,
~Mb