Chakras

This site I came across describes what I feel about a diet of raw food. That it is a type of holistic healing. A way to nourish our energy centers. When I first tried this way of eating, even after the first 30 days of trying this, I felt a balance deep within, like everything was so intuned so nourishing these energy centers makes sense to me when they feel out-of-tune. I know the foods she mentions are not all raw, but there is a lot of fruit, greens, vegetables, nuts and seeds. These are the foods that I feel should be eaten raw, to get the most nourishment from them.

In this first link she writes about dietary guidelines,

http://healing.about.com/od/spiritualdiets/a/chakrafoods.htm

In this second link, she writes about the associations of the seven major chakras, physical location, area of body governed, physical dysfunctions, with links to exercises that stimulate and foods that fuel.

http://healing.about.com/cs/chakras/a/learnchakras.htm

and..

I have just realized that this is from an East to West:) like the comet Lulin was travelling, the eastern way of healing, trying to discover the root of the problem, if a body feels unbalanced.

another site I came across, I am drawn to reading about Chakras now:)

http://www.breathing.com/articles/chakras.htm

and a quote I came across too,

“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.” PLATO

A flower

made from bananas, mangoes, strawberries and oranges.:)

water, tablespoons of Northern Harmony maple syrup and the whirl of a blender.

and an earth flower, showing itself April 16, 2009

Today’s sky

A little quote

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

- Toni Morrison

I picked up a novel the other day, Two Rivers, and this quote was on a page all its own. I thought it very beautiful. It made me think of this green comet Lulin, which is, according to NASA, releasing 800 gallons of water a second.

I wonder if the April showers will come early and if we are in for a lot of wet weather, and if we are then are the planets this comet touched by in for this as well.

I wonder of the significance of this

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/04feb_greencomet.htm

in that it is green, travelling backwards and has two tails and that it is visible to all of us.

The green I looked up,

A frequently-asked question: Why do some comet atmospheres glow green?

Answer: The coma contains cyanogen (CN), a poisonous gas, and diatomic carbon (C2). Both of these substances glow green when illuminated by sunlight. This is called “resonant fluorescence.”

and the two tails too,

One tail is the ion tail. It’s made of electrically charged atoms and molecules (ions) blown away from the coma by the solar wind. This tail points straight away from the sun. Gusts of solar wind can cause the ion tail to swing back and forth, to develop curlicues and temporary knots. Amateur astronomers have seen this happen in recent weeks.

The other tail is the dust tail. Comet dust is weightier than gas. It resists solar wind pressure and lingers behind the comet, tracing its orbit. Solar wind gusts have little effect on the dust tail.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/05jan_machholz.htm

New Moon to New Moon

I have been wanting to get out of my system refined sugars and starches. This past year I have found I have ever so slowly began eating more and more of these items again, mars bars:), breads, pastas, chips! a little more of cooked foods and drinking coffee again in the mornings:) so I thought to pick the New Moon day in February to start. I did try in January to do so, but my will was not quite there, and I tried again on February 1, but still my will was not there, so I begin again on this new moon and continue until the next new moon to see how I feel. I am going to try this as a type of all or nothing, at least through this time, so I am going back to what I did three years ago, which was a diet of all raw food.

When I eat this way I feel very intuned to what my body/cells need and what it can do without, so in a way it is a type of cleanse as well. A spring cleaning:)

What I am going to do too is record this here under this post. I can see by recording, when I have cravings for certain things what vitimans I might be missing.

So I begin, this weekend I am going to a little store that sells pesdicide-free greens, vegetables, fruits, nuts and dates and a staple food (flax crackers) that I know for me helps with bread withdrawals in the beginning. On Monday and Tuesday, because these are the days I have off of work this week, I am going to stop coffee. I do this on days off because I know of the headache, which usually lasts two days I get from stopping coffee.

February 22:

I decided to begin this tomorrow:) if I am going to give up coffee then I might as well give up the other things, like the mars bars! which has caffine as well. I managed to get to the little store and stocked up on fruits, like apples, kiwi’s, bananas, pinapples, grapes, frozen strawberries and vegetables, carrots, tomatoes, mixed letteces, brocolli, kale, spinach, cucumbers, celery, avocodoes, sunflower seeds, raw almonds, raw cashews and dates. And Apple Cider Vinegar as a dressing, or lemon and oil.

I will eat fruit in the mornings, most likely until early afternoon, then will switch to vegetables, salads, green smoothies. The dates and nuts, even avocadoes I plan to eat later in the night. I do this because of food combining, and because dates, nuts, avocodos are the fats and can make you a touch tired. I plan to drink a lot of water as well, my morning drink will become warm water with lemon or ginger peel, instead of coffee.

February 24

My menu yesterday:) 10 dates, 1/2 pineapple, two handfuls raw cashews, banana, a very large salad made of sweet greens, sunflower seeds, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, avocadoes, bean sprouts, water with ginger slices and glasses of just water. And a piece of dulse (very salty!) baby carrotts with a little french onion dip.

I find I am joiting down what I eat when I eat it on a piece of sketch paper and will continue to do so, and will add this here towards the middle of March. My coffee withdrawal headache only lasted one day too! I found myself sleeping (little naps) quite a bit, which helped with this.

Two movies

I look forward to seeing this spring, and I like how one is produced by DreamWorks, and the other by Imagine Entertainment

Turning Thoughts Around

Sometimes when I log into wordpress, I see a search one did and follow where it led them too. Today it was to the post of Bryon Katie “Loving What Is’ and I found myself again watching some of the videos at her site. The ones that I watched of Empathy and Cancer made me cry, the one of rejection made me laugh :).

I remember how much doing her little excersie helped me in worries I had before, just by simply asking the four questions she mentions and I wanted to bring it up to here again. These four little questions I feel can aid so much in realizations of self, in a way that is a type of meditation, of the going into the innerself.

http://www.thework.com/thework

Astronomy’s picture of the day

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

They are romantic I think :)

Heart to hearts, hearts to heart

I had been thinking about Valentines Day, and of something that I wished to post to this blog. My thoughts went to my children, to give them a little gift. I thought a nice gift would be their astrological chart, a detailed one, but my thoughts turned to wishing to share in words a little of my feelings. I still wish to give them their charts, but maybe not quite yet:)

For a bit now, I have been writing of my feelings in a little document, and even posted it here once, but when I re-read it I felt something not right, it felt like I was analazing or defending maybe their upbringing, and the feeling I wished to share was not in this, and so I took it off, and have been reflecting of this on and off since. I am glad though I did write out these things, in going back over them I was able to see what it was I wanted to share.

The only word I can think of at the moment to explain what I felt is a type of intuition, A deep knowing that I carried a baby minutes after the particular night I spent with their father. The feeling that night felt like a connection or shift so deep inside and I just knew in my heart of hearts a baby was conceived.

I did not really think more of this, but what I did feel was this very strong connection to them (by them I mean I ended up having two) and I remember thinking right after they were born, ‘alright, I wish them returned into me now’.:)

There were times during their childhood that I felt I was a brand new mother, in more ways than one, that I had something to learn from them, and that they were new souls, in this same way, and that they had something to learn from me. I cared for them by feeling, and I never really questioned this way in that I did not find myself questioning and looking up things on the proper way of bringing them up, I think I only questioned what type of foods they were supposed to eat and when.

There were times though through their childhood, when I felt there were things, little soulful things that I was supposed to teach them. The strong feeling I had was that they came to me for a reason, or I to them for a reason, and my head would spin sometimes when wondering what was I supposed to show them.

I began to fear, as they got older, and grew more and more independent of me, that I had not yet given to them what it was I felt I was supposed to. I was starting to fear, that I gave them only my fears. My Judgements.

It has only been the last few years that I have felt this fear lessen. Moreso this last year, when they began college and moved away from home. Maybe it was in seeing how they do on their own, where my fear was lessened, not with how they do with money, or homework or any of these things, but the questions that arise in them now, the ones that they come to me with now, the ones I see when I listen with my heart to them. What I see this way, is what is within their own hearts.

I realized one day, when I was thinking, did I give them my fears? that yes, I probably did, but what I realized as well was that even though I did, I did not do so consciously, the fears that might have come to them through me, were ones I felt in my heart at the time.

But I am more conscious now, of the fears that are my own, and my ability to respond to my sons has now changed. I can listen to them
with my heart, when I take away my feelings, while I listen to theirs. What is more conscious now is the need to listen to their hearts and respond to them from my own.

And this is the attachment I feel I have let go of. This urgency, this fear that I was meant to teach them something but had not. It really is not just one thing, but all things they feel through me and me through them.

The only thing changed now is that the way I am with them is more concious now, I can see different things in how I react and when this is so, my response ability to them changes as well.

I place this picture here as well. It was one my mother really loved, I saw only my closed eyes in it, but when she told me how much she loved it, I saw the love in it too. I realized when I came across it again how much the sketch of October reminds me of it.

09/04/09

and something I have just felt, that our sub-conscious only lays within our heart of hearts.:)

and I think of this song that was at the end of the other:)

and is what I wish as well, that I live within my heart of hearts.

Realizations

From all the posts about, that I have been reading and some not even commenting on :), and from the video in the linked site as well, I have come to more fully realizing Universal Energy.

http://newworldastrology.blogspot.com/

I think to myself, is this what I have been seeking?, in wanting to read more of transformation of energy? (I feel what I was meant to learn from reading this article is simply what I now feel energy is, and because of a connection I made between another article I had read, and what drew me to that one) but I questioned as well, was I seeking validation of my thoughts connected to this realization that the energy of the universe affects me in ways I might not even realize at the time? Maybe yes:)

With reading of all of these things, and in what I have experienced so far about letting go of attachments with my sons, (that it is not so bad:))I am going to try this on this, I am going to just feel, and trust these feelings, but! if I get feelings that confuse or feel scattered, I still might seek validation in these:), but instead of analyzing things to a point where I might over-analyze I will just simply see how the planets might be dancing in the times that I wish to know of.

and now I think to myself “What a wonderful World”:

The robins are back

a month earlier than last year! or maybe they were there last time but not noticed by me, and still looking like they are about to give birth.

Sounds

When I am reading, the sound that comes across to me is actually the sound of my own voice. I find it changes with the characters, say I am reading a novel, while I am imagining the character, I also imagine what their voice would sound like and the pitches of my voice change when the character comes along in the book. When I do actually hear a voice, a voice maybe reading an article written, I am surprised sometimes how my perspective changes about the article, it is like their tones did not match the tones I had when I was reading it, or even when reading, I cannot seem to catch the tone, so maybe not intuned, but when I hear a voice that is similar to the ones in my head, when/after reading something, it does not seem to change the perspective, but seems to only reinforce it, so these are the ones I feel that I am more intuned with.

Since sound feels full of energy, in my reading, if a non-fiction article is voiced, I must imagine how I think the voice of the original author would sound, or just simply read it with my own voices, and if I come across something I cannot understand fully, or gives a touch of a headache in re-reading it,even though I really wish to understand it maybe it is because I cannot give voices to it as yet, so leave it and find something that I feel I can. I trust that whatever I do not understand now will come back to me if it was meant to.

Then I wonder, what if I could not see or could not hear, what is there was no sound or sight, I am glad there would still be energy to feel. It would seem like a more purer form of energy, not filtered in a way.

Transformation of Energy

I was thinking last week, what did I wish to read more of, I thought about astrology again and remembered what SueAnn mentioned about esoteric astrology so began little searches on the internet to see where I would be led. I came across this first,

and bookmarked it for future reading,

then I remembered Gnostic so searched for Gnostic Esoteric Astrology and came across this,

I liked what was said about this sign so bookmarked this site as well:) to read more of.

When I was about to leave this site, I noticed another little course linked, this Transformation of Energy,

after reading a little of this I was especially drawn to this part:

“In astrology, you find that some trees are related to a certain zodiacal sign. Another tree is related to the moon, another is related to Mars, another to Saturn, etc. There are trees, plants that are related to the Megalocosmos, to the solar system to the galaxy. They are like antennas capturing, transforming the energy. Their intelligence, or better said, their head, is in the ground because their intelligence is in harmony with the intelligence of the Earth.”

I am going to wait a bit though, before I really start reading of these things, I find when I begin reading, whether it is these articles, or even novels, all other stuff around me gets ignored or put off and I want to finish up some things first, like pulling up the rest of the carpeting, help in the renovations of a little bathroom, re-arrange furniture, do a through cleaning of rooms, transform I guess, a little energy around me first:)