For all of us trying to stay upbeat in these times, a little video from a cat's POV...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwRAxWlY1IM
Hope it will bring a little light, and a lot of chuckles, to all of your hearts. ❤️
OMG that made me laugh for more than one reason! I too bought a small treadmill and a standing desk. I used it for a few months until I gave it away. It would shake a bit and I just couldn't concentrate on my job while it did that and just jiggled when I tried to type. So I'm a little guilty of this too! LOL But I did also always wonder what a cat is thinking... so funny! ?
Hi Community, I am going to take a vacation for two weeks with Circle of Light. We've been going now for nearly a year. March 4 was our first date. It has been wonderful. But I need two weeks without a zoom event on my calendar. We have done good work, and also helped ourselves.
I will reconvene our meditations the day after Valentine's Day - February 15.
I am also going to suspend the Friday meditations until further notice, but keep the Monday and Wednesdays. I love our Friday group. It is special (as you Friday people know), and hard to give up, but I need to simplify my zoom commitments for a while.
Love to you all.
Here is a wonderful presentation of the physiological and emotion impacts of doing breath work by one of our Circle of Light participants, Deepti Agarwal. I always refer to her as just "Deepti," but now she's doing talkings about breath work, and said it was okay to post one of them. Dr. Agarwal is a practicing anesthesiologist who also teaches people about the overall health benefits of breath work. In the attached presentation, she discusses a few breathing techniques, one of which we have done in the Circle of Light - box breathing.
For anyone with health issues, emotional or physiological and anyone who suffers from anxiety or difficulty falling asleep, this is worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwP4_hkZpMo&feature=youtu.be
When we return to our Circle of Light, I'd like to help people try some of these breathing techniques for better health.
Box breathing: 1. Breathe in to the count of four, 2. Hold to the count of four, 3. breathe out to the count of four, 4. hold to the count of four. Repeat. It resets your breathing, calms you down and has a host of other beneficial effects to your body. To learn more, watch the video.
@jeanne-mayell. Since you taught us box breathing, I have used it when I’m anxious at night. It only takes five minutes of box breathing to relax. Very helpful!
@bluebelle. I'm so glad it helps you. I've been using box breathing at night too, to relax, and also because I learned from Deepti's presentation that it boosts our immune system, and integrates every organ system in the body, including the heart.
It also connects the heart and mind via the vagus nerve. If ever there was a healing salve, it just might be breathing techniques like box breathing. We used to do Pranayama breathing exercises at Kripalu Yoga Center for long stretches of time. I have never felt so calm as when I was doing that. It's a part of yoga.
@jeanne-mayell. That sounds wonderful. Before life threw me a curve ball this month, I was doing a daily yoga practice series focused on breath. We didn’t do box breathing, but long, slow breaths with long pauses after the inhale and exhale. It was very similar to box breathing and left you feeling completely relaxed.
Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Here's an unusual video of sexy love in nature: https://vimeo.com/512221775
Also tomorrow, Monday February 15th at 4 PT/7ET I will resume our Circle of Light. It will be our last Monday Circle until further notice.
But Wednesday Circles of Light will continue indefinitely! ?
Click on the Events in the menu to find the correct links for each of these events.
The Following Monday February 22nd, I will hold the Read the Future Night also 4 pm PT/7 pm ET. Hope to see you!
Circle of Light tonight (use Monday night link) at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET. If you have people we should send healing to, let me know when you arrive or you can post it here. Austin, Houston in deep freeze and loss of power, severe situation. And our own Unk-P is in a house without power and temperatures in the teens.
First, just a note I can't seem to type on my phone during Zoom, so I don't contribute at the time, and my desktop doesn't have a camera. The following is what I saw/felt at Monday night's meditation. I put my healing requests in the wrong forum, but just typed in I am sure they received healing& I see above they have.
I have experienced the vortex of Light that these meditations have created each time I have been able to attend. The vortex is not so much a literal linked placement as are some energy vortexes I have experienced, instead this vortex was derived from the blending and merging of the farflung energies that Jeanne's site and meditations have pulled together. She is the fulcrum, but even then, the vortex is not limited to her person or her home, it is comprised of all the energies that have participated across the globe and those in Spirit. I have always seen the Ascended Masters and Archangels during these meditations but this past Monday was extra-extraordinary.
When Jeanne began the loving kindness expansion in self and through others, Spirit began to be visible. I really think they are there all the time, it is our sight that is sometimes blocked. Anyway, as Jeanne spoke the Circle and our holding hands into being I could see the Ascended Masters in a ring around our circle each one vibrating with the Color Ray and music note they command. Behind them were the Archangels wingtip to wingtip. Behind the Archangels were their hosts of angels and every time Jeanne mentioned a name or a situation or a place one of the angels in the host of angels would –this is hard to describe- kind of expand in Light & go to that person or place. It was marvelous. Any of us who have experienced the meditation (or the vibration of the site/forum) can touch into this vibration as needed, you just have to ask and they are there for you. They called it a Convocation of Light and this particular Convocation exists because of Jeanne, and the meditations. So thank you Jeanne!
Wow! That is amazing to read Tesseract. Thank you for sharing what you saw with us in this forum. What an incredible experience to watch unfold during meditation.
Wow! Truly amazing to hear about your experience! This really touched me in my soul. I wasn’t able to make it last night, but just read your post and was so moved to speak my intentions and call on the Convocation of Light. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you, yet again, to @jeannne-mayell for creating this wonderful community for us!
@tesseract. I can feel so much energy as we work together. I can tell when we are sending healing to each person how that person pulls the healing right through us. I went through the list of participants who form a circle around the globe and each time I called a name I could feel so much flowing through me.
I also love that Lovendures told me later that just as I started getting us to send loving kindness to all the animals, her dog pushed open the door where she was and came bounding into the room and jumped on her bed. So I guess the animals feel it too. :-)
@jeanne-mayell that stirred something in my heart. Can we do more for animals? They have suffered so due to humanity. I watched John Oliver's segment about future pandemics. His story about humans having taken about 3/4 of the planet for themselves, leaving only 1/4 of it for all other species resonates. The encroaching on natural habitats makes species go extinct and leaves the animals that spread disease.
However, I am also thinking about the fires in California and Australia (for example) that seem to return every bloody year. How many animals have perished already? We take their fur in a most cruel way, use them for tests, breed them inhumanly for meat and use/throw them away like things.
We are usually only focused on mankind from politics to things like the pandemic, but all our brothers and sisters in fur are going through a extinction wave and hell the world hasn't seen since that comet hit the Yucatan.
@moonbeam The plight of animals due to lost habitat has nagged at me practically my entire life. I had a major epiphany one day many years ago when I told a friend I would like to live in the woods because I loved nature. He emphatically said that was wrong, that breaking up the wilderness with houses was detrimental to wildlife, that it was best if people concentrated themselves in cities and left extensive tracts of unbroken landscape to the animals who may require a large range to survive. I'd never thought of it that way. That's one of the main reasons I live in a city historic district-- though I sometimes feel guilty for living on a double lot that could legally accomodate another house! (I justify it to myself by reasoning that the extra square footage-- which is largely "wild"-- allows a small haven for possums, raccoons, and other critters.)
My friend was right: In Spain and parts of Eastern Europe, population growth has leveled off and a lot of people are moving to cities and abandoning farms and villages. This has allowed animals such as wolves, bears, beavers, and many bird species to rebound in population and range. Good news!! (There are a couple of new PBS programs out on that topic.)
@ana, it does happen in Eastern Europe, yes! Chernobyl is also a great example and of course animals roaming freely when Covid kept all humans inside. We really need to do something about animal welfare, fast. Not just because bleeding hearts like me, but also because of human health. We're all connected. If everything else (animals/insects, but plants-life too) suffers because of one species, we're doing something very wrong.