Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, January 16, 2012

How you can Discover Inner Peace By Staring At Flowers

By Heather Anderson


This state of no stress and inner peace within either your body and thoughts permits for a deeper connection with the land.

To deepen your connection even further with the land around me I'll spend a bit of time performing the tree meditation. To complete the tree meditation I will close my eyes and put my focus and consciousness on the soles of my feet. For example, if I am standing on sand next to the seaside I will feel what the sand is like next to the pores and skin around the soles of my feet. I will really feel the subtle textures and the way the tiny grains of sand are touching against my body. Or when the sand is wet how the wetness in the sand feels next to the skin at the bottom of my feet.

Or perhaps if I am standing on dry sticks and leaves, I will really feel what it's like to have some of the sharp twigs push next to and dig in to the skin on the soles of my feet. Feeling the subtle nuances of the textures against the soles of my feet. How my forefeet feels in contrast to where my heel touches the earth. Compared to the arches of my feet. Sensing the contact of my feet against the earth.

Once you are aware of this contact and have spent a couple of moments sensing and connecting with your sensations against the soles of one's feet, you can then picture what it is like to shoot roots down along your feet. Much like how a tree experiences the earth. Picture what it's like to send roots down past the topsoil, through the underlying clay layers, around the rocks inside the earth beneath your feet until you reach the bed rock beneath where you're standing.

Really feel how it is to be linked to the earth below. Roots sent deeply into the earth. Really feel the solidness of this. The groundedness of being rooted within the earth. Much as you imagine a tree feels.

Whenever you have explored this feeling of being grounded by sending roots down through the soil layers, next locate your focus onto the body. You will probably discover there's a slight sway happening with your body. A lot similar to the way a tree will sway gently within the wind. Just be with this mild swaying and permit your body to sway and gently rock the way in which it moves. Being with the groundedness within the root connection with the earth, and becoming the swaying link up in the sky. Being to the earth below and connecting with the sky above. The solid rootedness and also the swaying sky connection.

When in this state of inner peace you'll discover there's a middle point. A location in your experience that is at the middle of being grounded to the earth beneath and connected to the sky above. For most individuals this really is around their heart center. Symbolically this level represents walking around the earthly surface. Walking with your heart alongside the earth whilst being grounded to the earth beneath and connected with the spirit of the sky overhead. Being in this middle place while connected both overhead and beneath is a good spot to be on your heart walk.




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