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Norma
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Sound Healings --------Sacred Songs and Chants
I love what the yogini (female yogi) Gurmukh says "If you don't start somewhere, then you won't be anywhere. So just start from where you are…" I know there are times where I look at a project or have an idea and then realize that it has so many tentacles and so many possible derivatives and options that my mind just goes into overload. In my western U.S. society I have been taught to 'push through it'. My spiritual training however tells me to pause and meditate. This can take the form of a walk, some hammock time, singing or chanting or sitting in silent meditation. However I choose to process my experience of overload, I eventually find the place to start. "What is mine to do now?" and similar questions, usually held outside of words, coalesce as an energetic state around my body. Contemplating the question helps me to clarify the starting point that is possible for me right now. What more the project or idea might become depends on so many other factors, including decisions that other people make. I am only responsible for my slice of the pie. I dedicate this sound healing to the initial moment of inspiration, which must then be followed by gathering the courage to start moving forward from wherever we are. I share this song in a related spoken meditation HEALING FROM WITHIN POLARITY as a means of assisting you in entering into that quiet inner space where only you know what is truly yours to do. Here is an excerpt from that meditation: In
our lives, we have many ways of recognizing and
honoring polarity. In our daily lives, we have that
function of doing and the function of being. In the
American culture, we're pretty good at allotting
time for the doing function…but not so good at
finding time for the being function. And when we do
not nourish ourselves correctly, adequately or
sufficiently, such as in meditation and quiet time,
honoring the being part of us, then our doing
frequently becomes erratic and manic, ungrounded,
and we make choices that cannot be substantiated by
all that is around us. Sleep deprivation is a
classic example of our lack of being
time. When
we neglect our being time, we find that we have a
sensation that the world doesn't support us. In
fact, we may feel that the world is against us, and
that's merely because we are making decisions based
on a limited vision. Our vision expands
tremendously when we allow our being time to
expand. Spending time in Nature is a good place to
start when exploring what sort of 'being' is
beneficial. As we allow our bodies to plug in and
connect to our own essence within the Earth, we are
connecting into our own soul that lies within the
Earth. In
the Western world's concept of our polarized
reality, we have decided that our soul exists some
place, usually floating outside of ourselves,
perhaps residing in some nebulous upper dimension
we call heaven. And yet, when our vision truly
encompasses all of polarity, we realize that our
soul also exists within the physicality of the
Earth. It exists as an energy form within the
energetic matrix of the Earth. Perhaps, even better
said, it exists within the energetic matrix of
Gaia, the soul that has clothed herself as the
Earth. And
just notice now, upon reading this, how your
pelvis, your low body, your legs, and your feet
have deeper access to the energies of who you are.
When your mind turns and embraces this thought, it
allows the bottom of your feet chakras to receive a
greater percentage of the nourishment and
connection to that being of who you are, your soul,
there, deep within the Earth, connected in with
that energetic matrix of the soul we know as Gaia.
Available here or as an iTunes podcast under 'Norma Gentile' NORMA'S
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