tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42174470927745025782024-02-20T15:10:11.721-08:00Woman Thinketh Life is filled with adventure, health, food, fitness, sensuality, silliness, fun, philosophy, love, culture and imagination. In 1904 James Allen wrote a little book called "As a Man Thinketh". He thought and he wrote. I think and I write. - blog by Leilainia PenixLeilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-2459227251463140192014-08-21T00:11:00.000-07:002014-08-21T00:11:17.583-07:00 Words flow in s p i r a l r s s s s s s <div style="font-family: Athelas; font-size: 12px;">
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Sunken shoulders indicate defeat.</div>
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I am sitting inside myself, </div>
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Wondering how to break <b>through</b> and </div>
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Crack into a <b>new.</b></div>
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Fear and sorrow leash me, throwing me off course, </div>
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Yet the course is unknown, </div>
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hidden in the treasure map of the <b>soul</b> </div>
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surrounded by <b>gold.</b></div>
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I reach inside to grasp it and it crumples in my finger tips s s s s s s .</div>
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"Be in the now,” the wind whispers.</div>
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"Presence in now,” the trees rustle.</div>
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I close my eyes to listen to my heart, </div>
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which slowly opens to the light <b>inside</b> and I <b>find</b> ... </div>
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A new sense of angst. </div>
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Angst salted with laziness and tired bones. </div>
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"I'm so tired of the struggle," bones crack and pop. "Open up already and SPEAK."</div>
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as they chase each other like a c h i l d s s s s imagination, </div>
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free flowing,</div>
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never defeating,</div>
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just being</div>
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Directly shaping the presence of the new now, </div>
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The angst <b>seeps</b> into a hole of shallow sorrow, </div>
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Calmness <b>leaps</b> to enrich the likelihood of <b>aliveness</b></div>
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And I feel more present in the life i have <b>harness</b>ed.</div>
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Each day I become more of a REAL person.</div>
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Each day I see how perspectives can HEAL and conjure <b>realities.</b></div>
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The <b>possibilities</b> are fractal-ly <b>endless</b> as long as i am not <b>mindless</b>. </div>
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Each day love is an <b>option</b>... so i proceed with <b>caution</b>. </div>
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Each day I have a choice to be <b>present </b>and not hold onto <b>resent</b>ment. </div>
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The expansive self relaxes into ecstatic awareness of love. </div>
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While the day-to-day self drags through multiple perspectives. </div>
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The kaleidoscope is focusing in on one vision of reality and I surrender always to L o v e </div>
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free flowing,</div>
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ever changing,</div>
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just being,</div>
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in love. </div>
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Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-38350519641391845362014-05-27T09:48:00.002-07:002014-05-27T09:52:36.624-07:00Nine Steps to Finding Your Bliss<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #c0504d;"><i>“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.</i></span><span style="color: #c0504d;"><i>”</i>-</span><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephcamp134756.html"><i><span style="color: #c0504d; text-decoration: none;">Joseph Campbell</span></i></a></div>
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<b>Nine Steps to Finding Your Bliss: </b><i>by Leilainia</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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1.<b> Breathe:</b> The breath is the only thing we have control of in this life. It has the capacity to eliminate deep rooted memories that can get in the way of clarity. When you learn to become one with your breathing, it strengthens and cleanses the nervous system thus increasing a person’s source of life energy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2<b>. Be an inspiration to yourself and others.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“Be true to thyself. Love Thyself”</i> -<i> Hanuman</i><br />
Mantra: <i>“I Am That I Am” </i>repeat for infinity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3.<b>Love Life Deeply.</b> Accept all that is within you and around you.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“True Love is to love fully, as you know how, for eternity.” </i>– <i>Lakshmi</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. <b>Home starts within you.</b> Be a reflection of the community you wish to build.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. <b> </b><b>Liberate yourself from the illusions of life:</b> BE HERE NOW.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Watch your thoughts.<br />
Recognize and accept the past.<br />
Allow the future to dream realities of success.<br />
And then stop… feel what it is to be here NOW. Right Now, not Then, but right NOW. <o:p></o:p></div>
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6. <b>Quieting the Mind:</b> Meditation is the Greatest Teacher.<br />
Create a constant habit of physical exercise and mediation.<br />
This creates a harmonious balance between the body and mind.<br />
Go inward and create an inner-getic alignment with the self.<br />
To truly quiet the mind one must take the time to cease the constant chatter of the mind with a simple meditative mantra.<br />
So, quiet the mind, take a breath and repeat “Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity ….” </div>
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<i> “The demons that were always in my space seem to have gone somewhere else or are now working for me.”</i> –<i>Zor<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>7. </i><b>Accept Change.</b> Everything is constantly changing. Embrace experiences without clinging to them.<br />
<i>“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”</i> -<i> Lao Tzu</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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8. <b>Nature Calling:</b><span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><b> </b></span>Emerge yourself into nature consistently.<br />
Get outside of the box and get into nature.<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 1pt;"><i>“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match <u>your nature</u> with Nature.”- </i></span><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/josephcamp134756.html"><i><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Joseph Campbell</span></i></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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9. <b>Bliss</b>: Melt into the arms of existence with love and gratitude.<br />
<i>“No Want. No Fear. Love to the Heart of it for Eternal Bliss.”</i> -<i>Krishna</i><br />
Use this mantra to fill your heart with so much love and gratitude, so that it may flow into infinity and explode into the universe. </div>
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<span style="color: #c0504d;">Allow life to blossom into a love light lotus - Leilainia</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Join us May 31 for our Nine Levels of Bliss Album Release party!</span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;">Info at : http://danyavaad.com/event/album-release-party/</span></div>
Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-21022201675396463472014-05-21T22:45:00.002-07:002014-05-21T22:45:17.760-07:00Shakti Fest 2014.<br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Spiritual home swirling in love and acceptance.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I see clearly the love that's in me.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I forgive myself for all the pain I've caused myself and others.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Clearly is truth of the Now, which is forever changing in the new now.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">As long as I am home within myself everything is set free.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Listen to yourself and guide from the dance of joy. And always make it beautiful.</span></i></span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Highlights of Shakti Fest 2014: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">*Coed bathroom = yummy, silly, awkwardly intimate , and perfect.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">*Camilla and Lorin Roche =F</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">inding the radiant authentic self in a moment of textured truth.<br /><br />*Michael Brian Baker = Simplicity of the WE collectively creating a moment of the NOW that rises the genius within the tribe.<br /><br />*Tammy Firefly = Spirit of abundant self reliance always including friends on her magical light joyed journey<br /><br />*’Waking Life’ moments with Alexandrea talking philosophy, love, psyche and matters of the heart.<br /><br />*Silly kurtan moments with Adam, Kiyoshi, Gary and puppets<br /><br />*Heart opening songs with the Healing Heart teepee<br /><br />*Mermaid magic with Siobhan Shier and Erin after hours in the hot tub.<br /><br />*Igniting my fire within and wildly sharing it with the audience with on stage with Amritakripa<br /><br />*Innovating the goddess Shakti within and smiling <i class="_4-k1 img sp_Wzp5DgPrqri sx_7743eb" style="background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yE/r/kzl9NnzOJro.png); background-position: -204px -928px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 312px 993px; display: inline-block; height: 16px; vertical-align: -3px; width: 16px;"></i><br /><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I had such an amazing weekend at Shakti fest 2014. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Thank you </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=702765249" href="https://www.facebook.com/tammy.firefly.98" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">Tammy FireFly</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> for inviting me to perform with you!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is what I wrote immediately after I got out of the tank: </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Galactic journey of the spirits into the light where we are all free.</span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Individually free and whole.</span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And in this we play and create and love and dance and sing and inspire.<br />All in-love. In-love with the universe within ourselves and around us. In-love we hold hands to share the connection of universal awareness. </span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where rivers run clean, oceans surge free, earth settles deep, fires spawn growth, and air is easy to breathe.<br />No one owns anyone and we are all free, in-love with the galactic spiritual WE. </span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Satnam. Satya. Namaste. Amen within me! Paso Al Sol to be free. </span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Into the light we lead!</span></span>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-79893593443674512462014-04-08T16:10:00.001-07:002014-04-08T16:10:08.588-07:00A witches brew: rid me of unnecessary strife<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A witches brew I stirred up for those going through heart break. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Read two times silently and one time out loud over water( or tears) and a burning candle (or the fire within) .</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">*</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There's no elixir for a love like this </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There's no tonic for the serpents kiss</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sucking my soul out with your straw</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Creaked heart by boredoms law</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Dramatic cravings stream in fear</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The serpents coil means the end is near</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />The witches brew boils and spins<br />Into the cauldron we drip angels skins<br />Wings tattered and tore<br />Eyes peering in scorn<br />hidden in the swallows of heathens cloaks<br />covered in ashes and soot and tasty yokes<br /><br />Ravens eyes dim no more<br />Pierce through my soul to the core<br />Shatter the hardened cage of life<br />And rid me of unnecessary strife!</span><br />
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color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Excuse me while I rip my life up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Cut it into pieces until it's all gone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I don't even care about the heart I built within it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Like a child rebelling against myself</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Fuck the rules of life</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I have my own rules and they drip with ecstasy in my heart! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Excuse me while I rip my life up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Tear it apart like a paper doll</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Eyes wide open </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Legs spiraled open</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Kundalini ignite</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Glory found in unknown</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Dreams of yours forgotten</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Greatness prevails on my heart as I don't give into societies plagiarism</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Adventure calls as I don't give into societies acceptness of depression</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I punished u when i saw your spirit fall</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Vowing never to give into life's defeat</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And now at the point of falling</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">My dark angel flaps her wings</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">To catch me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">House of fire</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">My appetite burns </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Oceans tsunami</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">My soul cleansed as my family washes away</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Wind blows your crap in my face </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And I eat it, bury it in the ground </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">to be reborn into a new!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Excuse me while I rip my life up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Tear it apart like a paper doll</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Eyes wide open </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Legs spiraled open </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Kundalini ignite</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;">Ether awakened within ME. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #37404e;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;">Spiraling through my solar plexus and dan ten.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;">Wrapping gently around my kundalini and sprouting lilac blossoms of freedom. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;">For the first time I can breath!</span><br />
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Cry for the widowed Soul Of Love</div>
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She silently weeps at the gates of hell</div>
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awaiting her lover who has long gone to heaven.</div>
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Blindly she feels her way through the dirt and mud</div>
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Feeling the eye balls of the dead, </div>
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mistaking them for peebles on the road.</div>
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Her journey is dark and filled with turmoil</div>
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as she crawls into the abyss of soul searching</div>
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Only to find her soul was long ago sold to the angel of broken dreams. </div>
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Sensual lust washes over her </div>
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as the blood of heaven drips through the cracks…</div>
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and she drinks it up.</div>
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Baths herself in hell</div>
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laughing all the way. </div>
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Broken wings tattered and dirty </div>
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grease graces her shoulder as she grasps for the gates. </div>
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Her breathe is hot as she grunts: “You want Peace?…</div>
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Travel past my lips and into my belly to find those who sought peace.”</div>
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Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-48367163265281201992014-02-16T13:35:00.000-08:002014-02-16T13:36:11.258-08:00 Someone else's shoes.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The morning poem. (Should be read as a song. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">similar to: </span>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2F_hGwD26g<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> )</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Nothing in this life's for free</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Except for eternity. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Just turn the key</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And u will be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Happy</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Love u gotta let it in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And let it flow out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And without a doubt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You will be happy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And u will find your already wealthy </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Once u open up to the world of you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Once u walk in only your shoes </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then u will find a piece of life that is so sweet, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">sweeter than the best vegan cake</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I . .. I walked alone in someone else's shoes for so long I lost my place</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I ... I walked alone in someone else's smile until I broke and cracked into </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">pieces</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And my hole is now filled with light of sunshine </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I woke this morning to the rays of heaven</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I woke this morning until I fell into oblivion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Am I wrong to fall into u? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Am i wrong to fall into heaven? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Heaven only knows the hell that lies beneath the walls of sorrow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Heaven only knows the fire that burned so deep into the well of emotion</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Nothing in this life's for free</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Except for eternity. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Just turn the key</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And u will be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Happy</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Love u gotta let it in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And let it flow out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And without a doubt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You will be happy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And u will find your already wealthy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">inside</span>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-7565666867296852502014-02-08T21:24:00.004-08:002014-02-08T21:25:14.975-08:00The Boring Blog About Being Bored <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to Wikipedia: </span><br />
<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boredom</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To <b>Bore</b> is to<span style="color: #323333;"> pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument or to force (an opening), as through a crowd, by persistent forward thrusting.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymIEtkbkpedU0Ritbz2daRneeepCVavt5FwE24J6aHLqxyV-ECWHuRJ8uQCyBF-Hkxu7zvrN45bhTp6yltP4-OCZgzuyZTD1zpss8YAENvZcJSKddW3o6Hqh1E8D03u0LnYGMThJKr5Xz/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-02-08+at+9.15.06+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgymIEtkbkpedU0Ritbz2daRneeepCVavt5FwE24J6aHLqxyV-ECWHuRJ8uQCyBF-Hkxu7zvrN45bhTp6yltP4-OCZgzuyZTD1zpss8YAENvZcJSKddW3o6Hqh1E8D03u0LnYGMThJKr5Xz/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-02-08+at+9.15.06+PM.png" height="320" width="246" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In any case, I’m bored. Not in the forcing an opening way, just plain old bored. And what happens when I’m bored? I watch the colors shift inside tiny droplets of rain as they fall gentle on the window pane and slide down the glass. One after another sometimes barely missing each other, sometimes colliding, sometimes gentling merging into one bigger prism of their temporary life. The reality fuzzes away and the soft and subtle texture of a single rain drop gracefully dances on the glass surface. It takes the world around it and capsulates it in one little droplet of time until it reaches it’s grounding point and releases the light into the ever changing surface of it’s new home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">… </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I’m bored I sit in coffee shops and watch new lovers awkwardly flirt over tea and foamy coffees. Their eyes bashfully look away from each other. Their hands accidentally touch. Her eye lashes flutter. His voice cracks a bit as he tries to stay calm. The energy of pink blushes up from their skin. Illusions of future realities dance in their imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> … </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I watch old lovers share space together so comfortably, growing closer every second in silence allowing their heart love to sink deeper into their soul. They relish in the comfort of home within love. Just sitting side by side knowing everything will be <span style="text-decoration: underline;">just fine</span>. I watch the old lovers as they silently sit looking at rain drops on the window pane coloring their world with prisms of love and entertainment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">… </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I’m bored I act out. I rustle things up and bore holes in my reality. I cry and scream, kick and paint and fuck. I tear away any chance of reality and fall into psychosis just to feel this thing called humanity! <i>To be in this capable body with nothing to do! To be in this complex mind with nothing to solve! To be bored with reality is sinful ,so I must sin and I sin good!</i> I bore those holes into all I know is real until every moment of this fucking boredom is gone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">… </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I’m bored I dance. I make up lyrical songs in my head more beautiful than any song my ears have ever heard and my body dances in the most fluid way I’ve ever experienced. It just moves without any mental energy at all. Arms fly into perfect lines and legs kick higher than I’ve ever been capable. I summersault on my bed. I leap on the couch and pirouette off the arm cushion. I roll on the floor and spring up onto my toes. My hair flies and my body twirls effortless into ecstasy. Rainbows lift from my extensions and rain evaporates from my spirit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I asked: How do I gather more love? Another spirit answered: “By being more love.” They also say things like: “The key to life is gratitude.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">… Those bored moments actually went on for a while and bore a hole in all I knew that was reality so much so that I felt insanity kicking in. But that was just another moment in my boring life that flew away with fleeting time….</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">… </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">My father always said “Only boring people get bored”. I see know what he meant. Bored people are BORE-ING! They do </span>pierce an opening within them selves. Each boring moment creates an opening for a new outlook on life. It can give you a moment to breathe before the next opportunity arrises to grow. It allows the colors to rest for a moment within a raindrop. It allows the lovers to fall deeper in love. It allows the psychosis to untangle it self. It allows the dance to be awoken. It allows the spirits to share their message. </span></div>
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Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-88395846239143976732012-11-21T15:40:00.000-08:002012-11-21T17:25:08.182-08:00PEACE NOW<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: black;">PEACE NOW: Shabbat Service at
Temple Mt Sinai in El Paso, TX. 11/16/12</span></b></span></span><br />
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</style><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Shabbat </i>is
the<span style="color: black;"> </span>Jewish day of rest<span style="color: black;">. “Shabbat is the most important Jewish holiday,” said Hal Marcus,
“and it happens 52 times a year [every Friday night]. It teaches you to chill
out and reflect.” </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="color: black;">s the Shabbat Service began, I
could tell the temple had shifted since I remembered it as a child. It was no
longer the bland service I remember. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Rabbis Larry Bach and Sandra Bellush have
filled the service with guitar, singing and passion. The prayers and stories they
highlighted accentuated peace and oneness. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">In tradition, as every Rabbi does in every Shabbat Service, he
invited all the children up to the </span><i>bimah</i> (<span style="font-size: x-small;">the elevated platform facing the congregation<span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">in a Jewish
synagogue</span>) <span style="color: black;">toward the
end of the service, for the <i>Kiddish</i> </span><span style="color: black;">(</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">a blessing recited
over wine or grape juice to sanctify the <i>Shabbat</i>.</span>)
<span style="color: black;">At that moment peace was restored in my heart. Two Jewish
children ran up to the </span><i>bimah</i> <span style="color: black;">along with two Muslim children. And they all drank the grape juice together. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Just think about that for a moment: On the same exact day that </span>the
holy city Jerusalem was targeted for the first time ever by rockets fired by
Gaza militants, on the other side of the world Muslims and Jews teach their
children about oneness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>ince I can remember
my father, <a href="http://halmarcus.com/" target="_blank">Hal Marcus</a>, has incorporated interfaith
philosophies into his and his children’s lives. My mother, being raised
Christian, always decorated an artistic Christmas tree which was usually a branch
or a household plant decorated with silver tinsel. My father was raised Jewish
and he celebrated the eight nights of Chanukah, as well as all the Jewish
holidays, but it went further than that. My parents set up a Buddhist prayer
area in our attic and frequently our house would ring with chanting “<i>Nam-myoho-renge-kyo</i>” (<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Nichiren Buddhism Lotus Sutra. This mantra that
is chanted to attain perfect and complete awakening</span>). On occasion, the
whole family would join </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Native American Ceremonies. My father even woke us
three children up one morning to go to Church. “But we are Jewish,” I
said. He agreed but still insisted we
attend the church for the experience.
All three of his children were raised Jewish and had our <i>Bar/Bat Mitzvah</i><i> </i>and
our <i>Confirmation</i> <i>(</i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jewish coming of age
rituals</span>), I was married by a Humanistic
Rabbi, and we all hold our Judaism close to our hearts, as does my father. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What this interfaith experience has given me is a world-view
of love and community. It has created a world that is full of religious and
spiritual beings working for ultimately the same thing: Oneness. As my father says: “<span style="color: black;">Religions are like fingers on my hands that lead to
my heart. Religions are like rivers that lead to one big ocean and that ocean
is God. “</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>t
was no surprise to me that he organized “<span style="color: black;">Peace Now” </span>the <span style="color: black;">Interfaith Shabbat Service
& Meal at the <a href="http://www.templemountsinai.com/" target="_blank">Temple Mt. Sinai </a></span><span style="color: black;"> on November 16, 2012. For first time in the congregation’s history
ten religions came together to share Shabbat. Muslims, Christians, Mormons,
Buddhists, Unitarians, Baha'i, Native American Indians, Hindus, Agnostics, Jews
and the non-affiliated came together under one roof to share sacred religious
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-large;">I</span>n the past years it has been humbling and inspiring to watch my
father build his spirituality and community in Temple Mt. Sinai. He has been on
the board of directors for 4 years and recently became one of the vice
presidents. He has had the privilege of
being a strong voice for social justice and interfaith dialogue. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This year the congregation has been a major monetary donor for helping to feed the
hungry on a continuing basis. The congregation is one of 20 who are part of <a href="http://www.borderinterfaith.org/" target="_blank">Border Interfaith</a>, a broad-based community organization that
develops leadership through education and interfaith relationships for
effective democratic practices and meaningful community service. They support<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://las-americas.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Las Americas</span></b></a>,
a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the legal needs of low income
immigrants, including refugees and battered women.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: black;">“We Reform Jews like to
challenge the status quo,” said my father.</span>
<span style="color: black;">He explains that
this is part of his job as a Jew. </span><b><i>Tikkun
olam</i></b> (<b>תיקון</b><b> </b><b>עולם</b>) is a Hebrew phrase from the Torah that
means repairing, healing and restoring the world. Jews believe that humanity should follow <b><i>Tikkun
olam</i></b> not only because it is required by Biblical
law, but because it helps avoid </span><span style="font-size: small;">
social disharmony. “It’s what we are suppose to be
doing,” said my father. “Love your enemy, clothe the naked, take care of your
neighbor, and feed the hungry…. The more you do this, the better community you
have.” My father’s eyes then grew with passion. “In El Paso we share the food,
we break the bread and all that stuff.”</span></span>
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my step mother Patricia Medici . They planned on 30 people attending. As my
father gave his speech from the <i>bimah</i> and looked out in the full room of over
130 people, you could see the tears well up in his eyes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">If we change, if we share and cooperate, there is no reason
<br />for hunger, poverty or violence. We know there are enough
<br />resources/enough food/ enough energy/land and water for <br />everyone. We need
to evolve together once and for all to fulfill<br /> the prophecy of peace. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;">I believe that first and foremost that we are all human
beings <br />and we are all brothers and sisters.</span></span></span></div>
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are. <br />I think God cares about how we treat each other, how we respect <br />the
planet, and how we live our lives.</span></span></span></div>
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to <br />continue this dream and invite other tribes into your temples, <br />churches and
sacred spaces to break bread and discuss our<br /> similarities and differences.”</span></span></span></div>
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break bread together and have dinner. Rabbi Bach explained that with all the
different religious food restrictions the easiest way to feed everyone was
through a vegan dinner. The </span>caterer,<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://oneinspiredchef.com/" target="_blank">One Inspired Chef</a> <span style="color: black;">, served quiche, Spanish rice, spinach salad, tomato soup and even
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only takes 3% of the world population to change a mind set.<span style="font-size: small;">" </span> He’s reminded of
a saying. “One day man will not learn war anymore…. Well, why don’t we make
that day now?! It’s really easy. It’s fun and it’s enlightening and it’s kind
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Your diet gives preparation and reverence to the experience you call in. When you pay attention to your diet you set the attention to the journey you are about to embark on. It brings the mind and body energetically together and readies your spirit for an abundant journey. </div>
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I choose to integrate ritual and ceremony into my daily practice of life and create a personal ritual of living. I choose to experience a journey of life filled with compassion, art, music, dance, movement, love, divinity, culture, strength, freedom, sacredness, happiness, surrender, abundance, motivation and light. </div>
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Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-19260994118823581952012-06-25T18:45:00.000-07:002012-06-25T18:46:32.852-07:00What is a prophet?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">What makes a prophet is a dedication to compassion, honesty, warrior knowledge of survival and instinct, and humbleness. This came to me in a colorful dream. </span>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-36838858308405837512012-05-30T18:09:00.002-07:002012-05-30T18:17:17.229-07:00Lightning In A Bottle 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last weekend at <a href="http://lightninginabottle.org/experience/schedule-by-stage/" target="_blank">Lightning In A Bottle</a> we shared the main stage with Govinda, LUCENT DOSSIER, Bassnectar, Random Rab, Tipper, The Glitch Mob, and so many other mind expanding artists. It was one of those moments that reminds me why I love to do what I do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thank you </span><a href="http://lightninginabottle.org/experience/schedule-by-stage/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lightning In A Bottle</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for giving artists a space to create, for giving communities a place to grow, and for allowing lost souls to find a home in paint pallets.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Watch the storms of emotion affect your being. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another visitor of wisdom will join you eventually, maybe this time as a peacock. "Thank you Peacock for joining me today." And continue on your heart journey of knowledge. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yet another friend will come into your space, maybe this time as a lion. You may be timid by it's grace, strength and mighty presence, but sit with it and know it is there to simply share space with you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Each day cleaning the mush in the mind and body with colors and geometry. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Each day simply being grateful for the opportunity to breathe. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But first we must overcome greed, war and anger within ourselves. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">First we must breathe the pure breath of heart love and face the wall of deception built by aggressiveness. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When that weather of emotion clears, you will find that peaceful dove waiting to perch on your shoulder. </span></div>
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For me, plant powered living has created a holistic awareness to my being. It has connected my mind, body and spirit in a pleasant, simple way.</div>
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<strong>On a physical level:</strong> My digestive system doesn't have to work so hard to process food & my nervous system has relaxed.</div>
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<strong><strong>On a </strong>mental level: </strong>My mind is flowing with more positive thoughts & freedom.</div>
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<strong>On a spiritual level:</strong> I asked the universe for a heart felt life guided by compassion and the next moment I was plant powered and seeing the karma associated with the food industry.</div>
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It has been an easy transition for me since I am surrounded by the amazing support of the people of <a data-mce-href="http://www.plantpoweredliving.com/meet-us/" href="http://www.plantpoweredliving.com/meet-us/" title="Meet Us">Plant Powered Living</a>, my husband and my neighborhood in San Diego (within 10 minutes from me there are 7 vegan friendly restaurants, and two vegan ice cream shops). I understand that the choice to go plant powered is not as simple for all. Some do not get support from family and friends and in some areas there are no plant powered friendly restaurants in site.</div>
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Awesome news! Things in this world are slowly shifting into compassionate awareness of all beings and I see real health, fitness and consciousness growing in society and its every day moments.</div>
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Love, Light & Aliveness with tons of Gratitude,<br />
Leilainia</div>
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Life is filled with adventure, health, food, sensuality, silliness, fun, philosophy, love, culture and imagination.<br />
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<b>Share in the abundance and activate your health and spirit.</b><br />
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As we are breaking out of our robot shells we begin to feel the human experience. We are loosening the bricks in the architecture of our minds and beginning to feel the celestial beings living in this human body. As we experience our deep selves, and begin to really FEEL this human experience,we allow the garden of our hearts to flourish and take over the machine. In doing so we give permission to nature to take over the walls and buildings we have created internally and we begin to regain balance.</div>
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We are here because we chose to be here. We are here because we choose to be here. Liven up your life. Loosen up your life and feel! Doing so will require you to analyze your values, morals and day-to-day responses. In turn this will cause you to step out of your routine and breathe. It is frightening and there maybe some ugly hellish realities to face, but in the end there is always beauty and love. In the end all of nature will open up its arms and embrace the child and his/her dreams.</div>
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Are you ready to start living the life you deserve? Are you ready to embrace all that life has to offer? It all starts NOW, within you. It all starts with a deep breath of appreciation for all you are and all you have experienced.</div>
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<strong>Step one</strong>: Breathe.</div>
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<strong>Step two</strong>: Say to yourself "I love you"</div>
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<strong>Step three</strong>: Repeat that for eternity in your mind and allow it to erase fear doubt and self loathing</div>
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<strong>Step four</strong>: Say to yourself "I forgive you"</div>
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<strong>Step five</strong>: Repeat that for eternity sending it throughout your body and allow it to bring back blocked memories within your body.</div>
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<strong>Step six</strong>: Stay here for a while forgiving your self for being human and begin to feel.</div>
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<strong>Step seven</strong>: Say to your self "I am sorry"</div>
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<strong>Step eight</strong>: Find the child within and apologize for any harm you have done. Call the child back into your being and vow to protect her/him from here on out.</div>
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<strong>Step nine</strong>: Repeat all the steps together, intertwining them all; feeling where they take you.</div>
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<strong>Step ten</strong>: It's okay and natural to feel. It is okay to be afraid. It is okay to face the perceived ugliness within. I forgive you. I love you. I accept your apology with an open heart. We are one. I feel you! And I will be here with beauty on the other end armored in love.</div>
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Watch this video by my sister, <a data-mce-href="http://www.ArtByAdelaide.com" href="http://www.ArtByAdelaide.com/" target="_blank">Adelaide</a>, and film maker <a href="http://www.akirachanarts.com/">Akira Chan</a>. You will enjoy this!<br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">When I dance, all emotion flows through me and the crystalline body dissolves into water crystals of love. The music helps carry the gunk from my bones and flows it into the ether where all is neutral, leaving me an open source for healing. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">When I dance, I caress the meridians of the audience and smooth out blocked passages of light. With mudras and form, I spring tendons of negativity out of their aura leaving room for joy. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">When I dance I unleash the goddess of me. When I dance I release the authentic me. When I dance I simply am me..... So what's the difference between the dancing me and the everyday me? Where did the separateness settle in and when did I put "me" in a staged box of performing? </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">On stage I found a perfect way to be present inside the moment. But it isn't just me, it's the musicians as well, we are all present in that performance moment together and we create it together. In that moment of performance all chakras are spinning, kundalini is rising and our bodies are in tune with it self and each other. By choosing to be in that moment together, we have chosen to be tethered to time by the drum, to be fueled by the strings and be attached to the earth only by our physical form. </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">On stage I found the perfect way to bring the audience on the journey with us by creating emotional awareness of movements that hypnotize the viewer in empathy. From stage I feel their excitement, their jealousy, their love, their sexuality, their insecurity. When I dance I am able to guide that emotion into the ether of neutral acceptance of humanity. .... So why just on stage? </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">Because on stage we have all set up a sacred space for performance. We have all ( the musicians, the audience, and myself) set permitters for creation. We have set the allotted time, the allotted energy, the allotted attention span. We have all committed to be in that moment together with the parameters of the reality we are in. Unknowingly we have created a sacred space for connection. (Whether we choose to keep that space sacred is a different story.)</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">In every day life could we create that same space for authenticity or are their too many walls of resentment for the self within? Is it possible for humanity, as a whole, to look deep enough within to find acceptance for the Human within. The Human is ugly, shy, silly, beautiful, messy, greedy, jealous, lazy, smelly, hungry, childish, lovely, sacred, sweet, sensual, sexual, flirty, crazy, mean, kind, gentle, hurtful, wounded, broken. The human is covered in societal norms and filled with tar. The mind runs in mazes trying to make sense of it all, building walls and rivers just to ease the broken heart. That broken heart: broken by it's own self. Broken by the neglect of self. Broken by the violence of fear. That broken heart cries at night for the simple love of universal oneness. The broken heart craves addiction so that no truth can seep in and unravel the </span>distant self hidden deep within. </div>
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In everyday life I could love you. YOU. I could love YOU. I could fall deeply in love with anyone of you and forever be in bliss. And you could love me. We could all be deeply in love with all, even with our hatred. In everyday life I would always be connected .... if you were connected....... You go first...... no wait me.... no wait.... damn I'll see you on stage. and in that moment we will feel the power of chi{life force energy}.<br />
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REVISED ENDING 2/7/12: On second thought : I will go first. I LOVE YOU in all your humanity. I love it when you are sad, depressed, angry, emotional, happy, full of life, crazy, silly, down, up, picky, strong, divine, weak, simple, sultry, wild, mundane, silent, authentic. I LOVE YOU always because I know we are all doing our best in every moment to find that solace of life that makes us feel alive. I love you because I love me and I know we are all one. Not only do I love you, but I hear you in every tear, in every laugh , in each breath. I hear your soul awaken and it sparks chi within my core and I feel alive a bit more.<br />
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I open my eyes and see that life is not only for performing. Life is for being present in the moment for being raw and wild: Wild as a flower is wild. Wild as a stream is wild. Wild in love with the moment: Growing. Expanding. Nourishing. And just plain being in the element of the moment. Life is about being still and fluid in the moment.<br />
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So yes I will go first. I have stepped off stage and into the real of Human. I will still see you on stage and yes that will be grand. And I will see you on the street and that shall be just as grand....if you open your eyes with mine and take the time to notice. I'll see you when you see we are all one in the breathe of stillness. And in that moment we will feel the power of chi{life force energy}.<br />
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"This is a wonderful time to be alive and aware," writes Carlos Aceves in <strong><a href="http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html">Nine Seasons: Beyond 2012 : </a></strong><em><a href="http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html">A Manual of Ancient Aztec and Mayan Wisdom</a></em><strong><a href="http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html">.</a> </strong>"Our ancestors throughout the world spoke of this age over 5,000 years ago. This is a moment of celebration primarily because we are aware of the infinite possibilities." Aceves is a teacher and author. His Nahuatl name is Yolohuitzcalotl, which means <em>crow with a hummingbird for a heart</em>. He believes each day is a moment for celebration because we "have an opportunity to change the vibration of human existence and redirect our connection to Mother Earth and the Great Spirit." He teaches that "being grateful is the beginning of celebration."<br />
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The book is an amazing manual for this human existence. I was blown away at how simple yet meaningful and to the point this ancient wisdom is. It hit to the core of the human form discussing the energetic process within the womb, our journey to death and everything in between. It starts out full of numerology, which was a bit overwhelming, but as Aceves continues to explain the knowledge carried down from the ancient ones the numerology made more sense and the wisdom within the numbers was made clear.<br />
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There is a full chapter dedicated to the Seven Warrior Foods. At the top of the Seven Warrior Foods pyramid are Maiz (corn), Ayotli (squash), and Etl (beans). Then there is Metl (maguey or agave), Nopal (cactus), Chilli (chile), and Huactli (amaranth).
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"Over five thousand years ago, the people of central Mexico decided the birth date of corn," Aceves writes. "They made a covenant with a thistle-like plant called <em>teocentli </em>so that she would transform in a way that would feed the people and that they would always plant her seeds. In this way both species would survive." The ancients had a special heart-felt relationship with all the plants in their lives. "Our ancients asked permission from a plant when cutting any part of it." They even called the Nopal ( cactus) plant "Tree of Life".<br />
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In honor of the ancient ones, on 11-11-11 my husband, Gabriel Penix and I catered a ceremony in Escondido, California, for 47 people. The ceremony was led under the stars around a fire pit by a shaman (Dr. John) and was adorned with fire dancers (<a href="http://theshimmysisters.com/">The Shimmy Sisters</a> and Riff). The next part of the evening was held in a yurt where a casual explanation of the importance of 2012 by Dr. Duncan Earl and <a href="http://halmarcus.com/">Artist Hal Marcus</a> was given. On cue as we entered the yurt, the clouds began to roll over the mountains and rain began to purify the land. Everyone settled into the cushions, carpets and comforters and allowed the knowledge to settle in as I danced the transformation into 2012. I danced the <em>removing of the mask</em> that needs to happen in order for us to step into this new paradigm where we are able to see the clear path of light. Through dance I tuned the meridians of the community with mudras and movements and left the room lifted with a beautiful healing aroma. And when the morning sun peaked through the curtains it woke the bodies and we all gave thanks to the land with a walk in the orchards where we picked fruits, avocados, and nuts and created a plant powered breakfast potluck.<br />
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The emergence into 2012 has been filled with blessings of knowledge coming from listening to the inner light within and stepping outside into nature. As Aceves says "In nature [Mesoamericans] found lessons that taught them a healthy path for living. The basic duties and functions of humankind, such as breathing, drinking, eating, sleeping,or love making are integral to our relationship with Mother Creation."<br />
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<a href="http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html">Learn more about the Seven Warrior Foods in <strong>Nine Seasons: Beyond 2012 : </strong><em>A Manual of Ancient Aztec and Mayan Wisdom</em><strong> </strong>"</a>
<a href="http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html">Buy the Book</a> It is a great guide to interpreting our journey as humankind. <a href="http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html"> http://www.halmarcus.com/artbook.html </a><br />
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"Long ago people practiced the Tao. They maintained balance of the body and mind. It is not surprising that they were able to live over one hundred years." ~ The Neijin Suwen<br />
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<span style="color: green;"><em><br /></em></span>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-68432548249843212212011-12-12T15:22:00.001-08:002011-12-12T15:23:06.624-08:00Dia de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead<br />
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"Become friends with death," I heard a shaman say once, "it's the shaman's way. Like a best friend, death is always there sitting right next to you." I use to have a seductive romance with death. This dark gothic love for the once known now forgotten was romantically cupeled with deep fear. Now, my relationship with death seems friendly and respectful. "I see you," i told the spirit when i say it sitting patently in the corner of my mind. "I recognize you as death. Come forward and stop lurking my my shadow." A few days later death did come to the forefront with flashing images of skeletons. " I see you," I told the spirit. " I recognize you as death. Stop trying to instill fear around who you are. Come forward and be friendly." </div>
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In befriending death my fear of life has lifted and I feel as if death helps me see reality a bit clearer. With fear of death and fear of life lightened my mind can accurately access situations in a clear elegant way, which adds wisdom to my steps, were before emotion may had been. </div>
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In building this relationship with death I recognize that each one of my beloved friends and family could be taken at each moment and that I could be taken from them at each second. I realize that all things are living and all things can die. I realize that death is only a death of ego, form and personality, but not of energy as a whole. I realize death is only rebirth into something new and what remains is your energy imprint you left on this plane of existence. </div>
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It was so appropriate that in gaining this new insight and friendship, that I was placed in Cabo San Lucas on Nov 1. A friend Paulina had hired me to perform as a mermaid in a private event at the Hilton San Juan on Nov 2. So Nov 1 i was traveling with her through her day. It lead us to her children's motesory school at 7pm for a Dia De Los Muertos gathering. Children ran around the mock grave yard as parents stood around the tombstones talking. Paulina explained that each child had made their own tomb stone. "Here in Mexico we kind of make fun of death," she said. "So each child made a tomb stone and wrote their own obituary." Candles were lit at each tomb stone, some where created more like alters than tomb stones and a few people were dressed in traditional Dia De Los Muertos outfits with skull faced painted. </div>
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<i>On this day, Nov 1, the spirit of children had a chance to return to the place they once walked upon the earth. Now, centuries later, the graveyard was empty of humans, which left a beautiful area for all the spirits to play with each other again, remembering what it was like to once be in human form and frolic with the senses. </i></div>
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We left and went to the center of town to see a performance. Traditional Aztec dancers performed their warrior dance. Ballerinas choreographed a beautiful seduction with death. Poetry was written, fire was spun, and they story of Mexico's future, present and past was shared through art. </div>
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<i>Humans gather to be part of the community and watch gladly as artists pour their passion into the moment. The artists dance with the idea that the spirits are watching and that maybe Frida Kahlo will make a appearance at her alter and see how much she was loved. Artists dance to express their need for change knowing that we only have a few breaths on this land and we must make those breaths meaningful. Drums Drum, Music plays, fire spins, dancers leap all in hope that in that moment we all become free of fear and step into a reality filled with life. </i></div>
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The day was over and we head home. Death in the form of Karma came to me in my dream. It showed me that in all the possible actions I make, each once creates an imprint in my mind and soul and that imprint guides my next action/reaction. </div>
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I awake hoping I have many more breathes to take with those I love and with nature. "Death i see you. Take this journey of life together with me and at the end we will both be ready to embark on the new journey. But first lets live this adventure of love in this existence fully!" </div>
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So today is Nov 2 . Dia De Los Muertos the day to call upon the adult spirits. I take this day to call upon all those I love, dead and alive, and celebrate YOUR spirit. Your time here on earth is beautifully shared within me. I see your spirit swirl around my existence daily. Thank you for helping me on the journey of existence and for creating in me love!</div>
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</div>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-56890545963481269372011-08-24T11:32:00.000-07:002011-08-24T11:34:07.529-07:00Dragon of Light<div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">Surrounded by my closest fiends and family, I stood in a canyon looking up at the high edge of stone and sand. The night was black with a hit of looming purples and grays. We were all frozen in terror by the sounds of the dominating dragon stomping our way. He was all that a dominate, aggressive dragon should be and the entire human civilization lived enslaved by the fear he protruded. As each step came closer our way our energy shrank and spirit hid. I could see the side of his face and body as he got closer to the edge. The sky rumbled. All his slaves looked up into the night sky which began to fill with the aurora borealis. In all his majesty and ego The dragon growled with wild anger. A huge comet shot down from the cosmos straight for the dragon, hit him in the solar plexus and continued on it's way , taking him with it , into the cosmos. In shock and relief all human beings went from frozen terror, to frozen disbelief, to frozen joy. Just then a light was heading toward us from the cosmos. A yellow, white, orange dragon made of light gently stepped onto earth. As he walked past us all to his dragon lair he said "You are all now Free." All human jumped for joy and yelled in celebration. </div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I turned to my family and friends, "Lets go meet him" , at which, we began a long adventure filled with travels, cultures, and the elements. When we finally found the dragon's lair we found DJ's playing, people dancing, musicians creating and an amazing rave in this huge cavern. We passed through the edge of the cavern, up the mazes and finally came upon a beautiful buddhist temple where the dragon lay resting. Absent of words, I snuggled up to him and shared his light with my light. </div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">As I woke from this dream into reality, I caught myself in that space between awake and dreaming, I recalled this dream and mediated on it deeply. Then a hand appeared to me, offering me a ball of light. I took the ball of light and instinctively began to put it into my husbands heart center. Then I stopped. "Wait is this for me?" I energetically felt the answer: "Listen to your instincts." I continued to place the ball of light into my husbands heart center. To the right and behind me was a cloaked character waiting patently. </div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">It seems in reptiles come to my in vivid dreams during transformative times in my life. They are Wise, Powerful, symbolize the beginning of a new spiritual insight. </div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I felt this vision of a dark, ego driven reality being blasted away by the cosmos and replaced with a compassionate, spiritual light being in power is very powerful imagery to visualize as we move into the next stage of civilization and humanity. As we come upon Oct 28, 2011 and into 2012, visualize our reality void of unconscious ego and filled with light beings of freedom. </div><div style="color: #020304; font: 12.0px Tahoma; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
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</div>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-76443756008471141552011-07-29T12:14:00.000-07:002011-07-29T17:14:34.825-07:00The mermaid within is asking for healing.<div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">I write to you today from the mermaid within that is asking for healing. </span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">I hope you can join us in a ocean mediation, </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">which guides us into the ocean. We will</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"> gift the ocean, and all it's living beings, our love imprint. This is a gift to us, to all of our children so that they may share space with dolphins and fish, and to the water itself, to remind it that we have not forgotten it's importances in this realm of earth. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">“Over the centuries, humankind has constantly robbed from the earth, and left it ever more polluted – the history of which is recorded by water. Now, water is beginning to speak to us. Through water crystals, it is telling us what we need to know.” </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Dr. Masaru </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Emoto</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">The Hidden Messages in Water </span></i></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">(Page 152)</span></i></span><br />
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</div><div>Who: Those interested in being present with the healing power within the human form and open to sharing that with nature.</div><div>What: Ocean Meditation </div><div>When: Ever time you find your self at the beach and/or in water. </div><div>Why: Because the human being is a powerful conductor of healing love.<br />
How: Ground your feet into the sand (imagine you are a stone earthed deep into the sand). Take deep breaths from the depth of your belly. Begin to think positive thoughts that heal all that is around you. Rub your hands together and place within them your intention for the ocean. With your intention and imagination spiral that energy into the ocean so that every water crystal will form into healing love crystals and so that every being that comes across that energy field may be forever wrapped in that healing love energy. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px;">I had a intense talk with the ocean as Saturday night disappeared and Sundays slowly settled in. (7/2-3/11) The conversation was one of simple truth and despair. It has left me feeling very disillusioned by humanity. And I must clarify this now: Humanity has been misinformed. We have always thought that the oceans, rivers, and streams were filters. They are not the worlds filter. We humans are! and instead of filtering love, healing, gratitude, and light, we as a society have been filtering darkness, junk, gloom, disease, grease, oil, smelly shit, forever lasting disposable plastics…We take in all of life and filter out sludge. We have polluted our life force with greed, gluttony and ignorance. Our oceans can not take it any more.This great pollution scale has tipped and we forgot to do our part. We forgot that the flowing energy through our astral bodies, physical bodies, minds, blood and water ( all which flows through our human being) filters so much more than any other thing in this universe. Our bodies are the mega filters. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px;">Water is our life force and without it we'd be nonexistent. Water is the main source that makes us US , that makes plants, that makes kitties and birds and dolphins, it's all based on water. I might even dare say that our soul is made of water and without it our soul, yes even our soul, will dehydrate. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">E</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">verything eventually ends up in the ocean. And the ocean is now covered in hopeless despair. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Can we change it? Can we do anything? Is it toto late? Maybe. Maybe not... In a moment of anxiety Dr. Masaru </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Emoto</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">, author of </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">The Hidden Messages in Water</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">, gives me a bit of hope:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">"The human body is comprised mostly of water. And it’s common knowledge that much of the water in the world today – including the tap water many people drink on a daily basis – is polluted, tainted, and toxic. Everything in the universe – from the stars to the shoes on your feet – generates its own unique vibratory frequency. Because vibrations create sound, they can be measured by water, a “master listener” (pg. 43). Using this theoretical structure, Dr. Emoto exposed different kinds of water (e.g., tap, filtered, spring) to different sounds, words, and images, and then photographed the crystals that resulted when each water sample was frozen. The results are quite amazing: Purified or spring water presented with beautiful music and kind words created the most delicate, lovely, and shapely crystals; harsh music, words, and images resulted in deformed, distorted or otherwise imperfect crystals. Distilling this information into practical use, Dr. Emoto’s message indicates that</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"> purifying the water within us – from which we are made – is the way to achieve health and happiness. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Dr. Emoto’s work strongly suggests that </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">encouraging a life of positive emotions – especially love and gratitude – is what is necessary to not only transform the water within us, but the world outside."</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">He goes on to prove "that tap and polluted water produced malformed, misshapen crystals regardless of the words, pictures or music directed at it." This I think we can prove to be wrong. </span><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">We know our power of love as a group. </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">We know our love imprint has been cast and has been acknowledged by the divine universal law. It is powerful together. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333233; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">“If we fill our lives with love and gratitude for all, this consciousness will become a wonderful power that will spread throughout the world. And </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">this </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">is what water crystals are trying to tell us.” - </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Dr. Masaru </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">Emoto</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">, </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">The Hidden Messages in Water </span></i></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">(Page 146)</span></i></span></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-webkit-line-break: after-white-space; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="color: #333233; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Times; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
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</span></u></span>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-52777955603738797782011-06-24T11:47:00.000-07:002011-06-25T12:29:02.319-07:00Red Bear Girl<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">Modern fear is a delusion. When was the last time you were really scared? Think about it? Wikipedia describes fear as: <b>Fear</b> from the Greek meaning "morbid fear", a distressing negative sensation induced by a perceived threat. A perceived threat… But it seems as if these days our perceived threats are all over the place. In the airport, at home, in the office, driving. The media pumps us with terrorist threats, the economy creates stress-inducing fears, and the movies paint pictures of horrid murderous threats. (Thanks to “Pshyco” there is the threat of someone breaking into my bathroom while I'm in the shower. Thanks to “Jaws” there’s the threat of man-eating sharks in the ocean.) Think about it for a moment, when was they last time you where really fearful for your life? Not a delusional fear that was preempted by the media or a modern myth, but a real in your face fear? How many of us have actually been in a hostile situation caused by a terrorist, a shark, or a bathroom murderer?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> I bring this up because on June 11, I found real fear for the first time. It was an awe inspiring, beautiful, respectful fear that has forever changed every atom in my being. Upon hiking on our land in Ruidoso, New Mexico, I met a mother bear. I turned a corner and there she was about 7 feet in front of me. She turned her head to look at me and we locked eyes. My core tightened immediately and my center of gravity grounded. I was highly alert. Thoughts raced: <i>Pick up a stick. Get big. Don’t run. Stand your ground. She’s so beautiful. Wow. Can I get closer? What does she feel like? Why would she harm me? She doesn’t want to harm me. She is a vegetarian mostly… Is her baby is near? </i><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">I had seen the baby bear earlier. At dusk I stepped out of the cabin and the baby nearly walked straight up to me. My friend pulled at my arm and yelled, “Get in the house! Get in the house!” But I was intrigued and not at all frightened. She we so cute and sweet. My friend tugged at me again. Her fear crept into my arm and we ran into the cabin. I was left feeling rude, as if I had cut my conversation with the baby abruptly short because of a mental dilemma of my own. I decided if I were to ever be in this situation again, I would fully feel the moment without distraction and act authentic to the present moment. I would not have True Reality be diluted by delusion of what could be or what was once.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So there I was 7 feet from the momma bear. Our eyes locked. I quieted my mind and listened. As she gave me a calm look over, her eyes said, “Really? Are you really going to follow me?” My strong shoulders caved in a bit and my body responded “no, no.” I slowly began to walk backwards back to where I came from. She did not move. When she was out of sight, I did pick up a big branch and slowly, and deliberate with each step, walked back to the cabin. My family at the cabin stared at me from the porch as I neared. They said my steps where like a Jedi, my face held terror, excitement, joy and awe. My father gave me the name Red Bear Girl. I felt so accomplished within my self. In the face of danger, I actually was able to calm, assess, listen, face the present, and respond in a respectable way. This feeling has stayed strong within ever since. I will forever be protected by the lessons of the bear and her baby.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">What was <span style="color: black;">intimidating</span> about the moment wasn’t that I felt I would be eaten, or harmed, but it was the powerful wild nature of wilderness, the unknowing of what could be, the energy exchange of consciously creating a moment fully together with another wild being. The Bear said “Really are we going to explore this moment further?” and I responded. “No thank you. This is quite enough for me.” And we were both on our way. I truly felt a respect for the wild endless possibilities. <o:p></o:p><br />
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</a></div>So, when was the last time you were really scared? tell me about it.</div>Leilainia ( Lay-Lane-Ya)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17869871792382197993noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217447092774502578.post-41495457426664880832010-12-21T15:21:00.000-08:002010-12-21T15:21:03.915-08:00Dreams help guide me to peace<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I had this sad hurtful dream last night about my sister.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I was standing up for myself by playing the game of seduction. It was keeping me safe from harm. At this my sister sneered at me and said "I would have handled that different." Instead of me asking how different, I got pissed and hurt and separated from her. What followed was a life time of pain and sorrow. I even lost an organ, it just fell out of my body and left me in deep pain. This represented a deep vital part of me was missing. All this happened because I couldn't see the situation from a different perspective. I was so stuck in 'knowing' that i was hurt 'by you' that i forgot to see that it was just a silly difference in perspective. In this dream, I created drama in my life for no reason. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">What does all this mean outside of the dream world?</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> This is what i took from it:</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">In order to be stress/ drama free and live a full life of peace and happiness i must:</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">- Conitunlly ask questions </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">- Don't assume. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">- Don't hold grudges. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">- Check in and make sure my thoughts are surveying me and guiding me to the positive good or me. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">- I must shift perspectives once in a while just to make your sure ego isn't running the show</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">-My body truly does reflect my internal self. So keep mind and spirit free of stress, worry and drama and body will healthfully thank me for it. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This holiday Season I ask of you, the reader, to think of these simple things as you reconnect with family. Don't loose yourself and another loved one over simple perspective differences. See the world through the eyes of nature and realize we all change like the wind. Allow that change to blow through, and hope the refreshing rain, beautiful rainbows, crisp clean snow and delightful sun will follow. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><br />
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