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Wondering

Each time I sit to write my blog I go through a few moments of wondering what I’m going to write about and have some self judgment about what the content will be for the day. I think it’s like stage-fright. I’ve heard that most actors/actresses say they have had stage-fright through most of their career. So with that in mind, I won’t be concerned any more about my hesitation. I think it’s normal!

I was born in 1950 so didn’t live through the agonizing years of WWII. However, I’ve done so much reading and studying of that time period. Mostly I’ve been interested in books written by survivors of the war, those in the concentration camps, those fighting the war, those who’s lives were interrupted dramatically for so many years. It was such a terrible time in the world’s history and yet we came through and moved on.

What has been coming to my thoughts is what is was like for the people in so many countries during the war where there was food rationing to the point where people barely had enough to eat, where jobs were scarce, where so many people had to and learned how to live communally in tiny spaces. Many perished in different ways, and many many more lived through and survived the circumstances that the world was put in during those years.

I think about the similarities we are now facing, similar yet quite different. We are, I guess one could say, at war with this disease spanning the globe. We are having to give up freedoms we have been so used to. We don’t have food rationing, but we certainly aren’t running to the grocery stores every day or so or going out to eat or driving through our favorite coffee shop each morning. Some of us are blessed to have the where-with-all be okay financially, nutritionally, and with a roof over our heads for the time being, and many many others are already struggling.

Kris and I are finding ways to help, in some small way, to ease the burdens. We are donating to our local food bank, we are offering Breakthrough Breathwork Meditation via technology for our clients who have already practiced Breathwork with us and their donations will also be sent to the food bank. I want to do more, but given my age, it’s not appropriate for me to go out. I’m meditating more often to help bring more awareness and peace and love within myself so that I may bring more light and healing to the planet.

And, I’m making sure, weather permitting, that I venture out each day and walk 2 miles in my neighborhood for my well-being. I hope you are also finding ways to become active or stay active. Get outside and smell the fresh air! Be in the sun or even out in the cold, enjoy the breeze on your face. Find gratitude for the smallest and biggest things in your life. I hope you are able to let your heart feel love – for yourself, your family, your friends, and for all people of the world-especially now.

What Came to Me Today

“I know this. When this ends – AND IT WILL – every game will sell out, every restaurant will have a 2-hour wait, every kid will be glad to be in school, everyone will love their job, the stock market will skyrocket, every other house will get TP’d, and we’ll all embrace and shake hands. That’s gonna be a pretty good day. Hang in there, World.”

I read this quote this morning that made some inspirational sense. Hopefully this will happen, but I’d like to add some more to this, however, as I have a strong feeling and actually pray that we all may come through this challenge having learned much more about our true nature, our desire to be connected to ourselves and each other from love and not separation. That we, the people of the world, can find something within us that brings the world together in love and peace and the senseless suffering of people can stop.

My prayer has many facets. First is that I hope the world can come to realize gratitude. One of my favorite quotes is “Gratitude is the open door to abundance”. And I know that might not be easy for some as life circumstances seem rather dismal for many right now. But there is always something to be grateful for and even the tiniest thing that you find can open the door to abundance of peace, love and calm.

I hope that we all find a very deep and lasting knowing that wee are all one, the same heart, the same longings, the same desire for love. Maybe this challenge we all face right now can pour more light and love, compassion and friendship into the world. I have such a hope that maybe this pandemic, where the entire world is experiencing the same difficulty, can end with more peace. Peace within each person, peace in relationships, peace in families, peace in cities, peace in countries.

I hope that everyone can take the time right now to slow down internally. It’s an uncertain time. I hope that each of you can take time each day to sit quietly and go within and reach a space of calm. That you trust how it is you are pulled to meditate-whether it’s through breathwork, through putting on music that moves you and letting go to the music, through quiet meditation. I meditate in different ways, but now that I am not distracted by much of the outside environment while I am social distancing, I have rekindled my practices and am finding time to meditate twice a day. Sometimes it’s for 10 minutes, sometimes for an hour. I can say it is helping me stay calmer and accept what’s happening. It really is helping me when I through times of anxiety and fear of the unknown along with the deep feelings that arise in my heart that make me cry as I have concern for everyone.

I send you all love.

Understanding Blame

I’d like to visit the action of blame. After many years of my own personal journey to know myself, I’ve just recently seen the depth of where and how I have blamed something or someone outside of myself in order to take away my pain, anger, resentment, upset, frustration.

Somehow the lights just went on, showing me how the behavior of blame never is the solution to the problem.

Here’s a quote from Wayne Dyer that I think nails it!

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him/her, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him/her, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.” 

How Breathwork Can Help

Through conscious connecting the breath, the focus of attention is guided into the body. As the breath unfolds we meet all the “folds” that are in our way. You could say that the “folds” are the blockages in the body-mind.   

Focusing on our breathing helps us not to identify with what we are feeling and/or thinking, so that we don’t have to drown in our feelings. We become able to breathe continuously whatever we think or feel and thus centre ourselves in “the here and now”.

We begin to notice that we are not our feelings and that there is something in us that’s “bigger” than all of our drama. We are enabled to observe what’s happening from an aware ego position and to feel enough safety, in which we can integrate our past hurts and pains. We stop feeling like victims.   

There is a deep sense of peace the moment we can let go of our judgements. Deep inside us we know -in a nearly indescribable way- that we made a connection with our own true being. This is the process we call ecstasy when consciousness frees itself from limiting thoughts, judgements and convictions and we are no longer identified with them. We are able to “stand by” and perceive. Our bodies don’t lie. We can feel the truth. The blocked energy starts to flow freely again physically and mentally. New possibilities of choice occur. This process may happen very quietly or with a great sense of euphoria.

When energy is prevented from flowing, consciousness disappears. Where energy flows, consciousness steps in.

Tilke Platteel-Deur, Breathwork Practitioner

Peace is Fundamental

Peace if Fundamental

You can have love without peace

You can have clarity without peace

You can have compassion without peace

You can have wisdom without peace

But, instrinsic to peace is love, clarity, compassion and wisdom.

These qualities of our true Nature can arise naturally from peace itself. 

And then they are pure, untainted.

Peace is fundamental to all of them. 

Written by Kris