#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
5.01.2019
Meditations and Practices
an invitation for rest and reflection with
CLIMATE
On the 5th Day of 7 Days of Rest and Reflection we honour Climate. Sacred Ritual Holder Daiara Tukano offers a blessing for the Climate from the Brazilian Rainforest.
Guided meditation: Resting and Reflecting with Climate
Offered by Shelley Ostroff
DAY FIVE: GUIDED MEDITATION - CLIMATE
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Reflection offerings and practices for the day - Shelley Ostroff
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Intentional invitation: There are many ways to connect with Climate. Sense into the way in which you would like to deepen your relationship with Climate today. How can you best create the conditions for this to manifest?
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Breathing Climate: Sense into your breath and how you with each breath, you are breathing in the local and global climate, and with each outbreath, breathing out your internal climate. Experience that sense of the boundaryless of Climate – the space of no separation between the climate within and the climate without - the Climate that you inhale and exhale through every breath.
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Sensing Climate: Imagine the climate as the loving coming together of the elements – the loving of the Earth, Water, Fire and Air in dynamic relationship with each other, creating the precise conditions for you to replenish yourself and flourish – creating the perfect conditions for all Life to flourish. How are these elements coming together within you right now? Sense into each separately and then sense into the relationship among them. What do you notice? What elements are in need of greater balance? What elements are in need of more attention from you? What elements need a more precise flow of communication between them?
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Reflecting Climate:What are you noticing about the climate within you? What is the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual climate that you area cultivating within you right now and what is the relationship between these aspects within yourself as they meet each other and work together within you? How does this internal climate that you cultivate within you impact the climate of your close environment? How does that impact ripple far into the distant reaches of the planetary ecosystem? What is the message to climate that you are conveying in your lifestyle and ways of engaging with it? How does climate feel to experience your contribution to it?
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Climate and Culture: The climate can be seen as the general culture that is more than the sum of all the parts. It is the dynamic sum of the relationship among the parts. Sense into the relationship of climate and culture. How do the thought patterns, emotions, physical structures and spiritual worldviews of your culture impact each other and how do they manifest in the cultural climate in which you live? How is the environmental climate a reflection of your culture? In what ways does your culture impact the global cultural climate – and the environmental climate of the biosphere?
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Embodying Climate: Imagine yourself as Climate. Become the different seasons in your body. What does it feel like to be summer, autumn, winter, spring? What does it feel like to be a desert climate, a temperate climate, a tropical climate. What is the unique movement and expression of these different climates and seasons as you embody them? What is their unique dance? Allow yourself to embody and dance the seasons and the climate zones, noticing how your body feels as you move through the different seasons and zones with the winds and the rotation of the Earth.
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Climate and consciousness: Sense into the code of consciousness that regulates the dance of the elements within you. What is that code of relationship that enables the whole to work together with such precision to enable the pure conditions for your body and soul to flourish and regenerate? Sense into this master intelligence that regulates temperature and moisture of the entire planetary body - sense into its ancientness and its evolutionary path. Sense into what it must need in order to process such vast dynamic and evolving information simultaneously. What conditions does the climate need in order to be able to function as nature intended. What does it need from you? What does it need from Humanity?
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Messages from Climate: Imagine yourself in the presence of the climate code and that it has a message to offer you for your own personal benefit.. What is the climate showing you? What can you learn from the climate by becoming more like the Climate? What is the message the climate wants you to offer to humanity?
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Messages for Climate: Sensing deeper and deeper into your ever-present relationship with Climate, what is the message that you would like to offer this incredible code of Life? What would you like to tell Climate if it could speak your language?
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Art from the Heart of Climate: Sense into the way in which this dialogue with Climate wants to express itself through the Heartist in you in any art form you wish. Offer your own Heartful offering to the Heart of Climate.
TreeSisters: Guided Meditation
1-7 January 2019
Daily Quote and Meditation
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Offered by
Clare Dubois
'May we rest in awareness and gratitude for the forests that are our primary partners in the moderation and stabilzation of the climate. May we recognize the vital role that trees play in the hyrdological cycle of our world as balancers and creators. May we honour how they guard against extremes of flood and drought, in healing our soils and sequestering carbon. May we rest in gratitude for the breathtaking gift of our trees and make a choice to restore the forests of our world as a crucial way of providing for our children. May we restore our forests consciously, deliberately, carefully and respectfully."​
Meditation Climate ~ Blossoming Tree (40 mins)
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Jason Leung
Meditation with the animals:
1-7 January
Daily Meditation
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Offered by
AnimalTalk Africa​
Animal communicator: Wynter Worsthorne is based in Cape Town and has been practicing as a Professional Animal Communicator since 2002. She is the author of "Where is Biggles?" and teaches introduction and advanced workshops internationally. Wynter is a trustee of Baboon Matters Trust and works closely with the Global White Lion Protection Trust.
These exquisite meditations with the animals by 7 different animal communicators, were first offered during 7 Days of Rest, 2018 and are generously made available for participants this year as well.
Reiki Meditation
1-7 January 2019
Daily Meditation
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Offered by
Linda Linker Rosenthal
7 Days of Joy - Daily Practice
1-7 January
Daily Practice
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Offered by
Halina Goldstein
Joy Keepers Network
Start 2019 With 7 Days Of Joy! Get a simple yet powerful joy practice that only takes a minute and do it each morning for the first 7 days of 2019.
In the Womb of the Mother
1-7 January
Daily Practices
Offered by
Yulia Jai Ma
In times when our Earth and Our Spirits are in such a need of healing, She rises ... Great Mother stretches her arms toward her children, asking from us to ReMember Her, to see Her for what She is, to Adore her for who She really is, to finally realise that through this kind of radical and all embracing love we will birth through Her in us a new kind of Human consciousness, the Christ consciousness, sacred Divine child of the world. We will spend those 7 days in deepening in silence and presence of the Mother, as an archetype of
Mother Mary, silence and presence of the Mother, as an archetype of mother Mary, liberated from the religious limitation of Patriarchy. Helping Her to birth Earth keepers and Love workers in us, to assist Her in restoring and healing of our world.
Practices will include meditation, prayers, chants and sacred ceremonies. As well as audio recordings, where I will dive into the mysteries of Her Wisdom .
All will be published on the event FB page every day at the same time.
This online immersion is open and free for anyone, who wishes to offer Her/Himself to the Great Mystery of love.
For more info and the program see PDF.
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Music
Light Warriors - Music Live Stream
1-7 January 2019
Daily Live Stream
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Offered by
Light Warriors
Erik Rabaska
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Daily improvised musical and vibrational offering from the Light Warriors inspired by the elements.
Mystic Voice
1-7 January 2019
Daily Sacred Chant
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Offered by
Mystic Voice
The soothing and meditative chanting of Lixin (pronounced Li-shin) stems from a deep spiritual connection to the ancient texts that inspire her music, such as the Tao Te
Ching, the Buddhist Sutras, the Sanskrit Vedas or Rumi, the Persian poet and mystic.
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Lixin’s healing voice and unique interpretation of those sacred words of wisdom infuse them with meaning and power, felt strongly by listeners from across the globe, even without understanding a single word.
Lixin has offered a specific chant for each of the 7 days.
Online Events
Message from the Wolves
1-7 January
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Daily Sharing
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Offered by
Kim Kapes
Day 5 of 7 Days Of Rest event
What an honor it is to be a part of this global event! I am grateful for those of you joining us! I share a part of our day with you and as we all honor our Climate today, let us be grateful for the changes that we experience. Most people have a hard time with change but our climate is the perfect teacher. As the seasons change and sometimes become more challenging it is our cue to work with what we are given. We have the ability to make the needed differences for all and to keep our Mother Earth in mind to how we make those differences. Finding ways to benefit ALL not just the few will be the way to harmonizing our lives and those around us.
Good of the Whole - Rest in Loving Connection
1-7 January 2019
Daily offerings
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Offered by
Good of the Whole
Hosted by Shelley Darling & Resonance Stewards
Day 5: Climate Rest in Loving Connection
Honoring the Foundations of Life.
Contemplative Life & Brahma Kumaris Worldwide
1-7 January
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Daily Live on Zoom
Offered by
Contemplative Life
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Brahma Kumaris worldwide
Music "Micro-Climate" Meditation - Carmen Warrington
Facebook Live with Deva Premal & Miten
Gayatri Mantra Global Meditation - Day 5
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om bhur bhuvah svaha tat savitur varenyam
bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo yonah prachodayat
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Meditating upon the adorable, enchanting and radiant source of all things, we awaken to the divine light of pure consciousness.
Loving Waters - Daily Live Zoom
1-7 January 2019
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Offered by
Loving Waters
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DAY 5 Climate: Water for the Future
Hosting Water Steward: Shanti Heart Hollinger
"I pledge to share my love of Water with my family and community; to continue educating myself and others in ways to ensure the purity and vitality of Water for future generations."
Re-discovering Connection & Belonging
5th January 2019
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Video Conference
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Offered by
David Hazen
A video conference for people who are interested in knowing more about an ongoing series of small process groups that stimulate self-examination of unconscious blocks to our natural ability to connect and belong with others. David Hazen is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting, a video conference limited to 100 people who are interested in knowing more about an ongoing series of small process groups that stimulate self-examination of unconscious blocks to our natural ability to connect and belong with others.
COST: your device, your connection, that's all!
Topic: Re-discovering Connection and Belonging
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Devotional Joy with Deva Premal & Miten
As part of the Global 7 Days Of Rest And Reflection Sommer Joy Ramer, Co-Founder of Compassion Games & Synergized Impact Network Exchange has invites you to join Deva Premal and Miten in singing devotional JOY Gayatri Mantra January 1st through January 7th at 1:00PM PST - 1:30PM PST in rest. The intention of this event is to pulse a meaningful 30 minutes of rest and devotional joy as a powerful way to begin 2019 together.
How can you join?
1. Sommer Joy Ramer will be sharing the Deva Premal FB Live daily on CGI FB Page & FB Group, Personal Stream, and SINE FB Page. You can also RSVP for Deva & Premal Mittens FB Event and watch for the livestream from there too. https://m.facebook.com/events/353195958574148/
2. Join by listening and also sharing the stream on your pages too.
3. Reflection can be sharing your reflections in comments of the live stream in a video, image, and or written reflections. You can also amplify your reflections on the Global Compassion Report Map from where ever you are as Team 7 Days Of Rest at reports.compassiongames.org
The Future is Indigenous: Indigenous Environmentalism 101
1-7 January 2019
Daily Posts
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Offered by
Shaylon Blair Stolk
A series of mini-essays on indigenous environmentalism, along with resources for further information and more cultural perspectives about the importance of indigenous knowledge to saving life on Earth. Content will be posted to this page.
LOCAL EVENTS
7 Days of Rest - Hyderabad, India
1-7 January 2019
Daily Activities
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Offered by
Chindu and SAFA
Chindu, a cultural resource centre and SAFA a skill training centre working with Dalit, Muslim and other disadvantaged communities in Hyderabad are creating a 7 Day in-house event for their staff dedicated to the 7 Days of Rest and Reflection during which we will offer a daily program, working with different experiential modalities (arts, movement, playback theatre, meditation and more) to learn how to connect with the different elements individually and collectively for the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants.
7 Days of Rest - Deventer, The Netherlands
1-7 January 2019
Daily Activities
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Offered by
Jannah Wijffels
& Via Natura
7 days retreat to recallibrate with mother earth. To restore the relationship with our resources. To redefine our goals and actions for 2019. To really commit to what we can do if we take full responsibility of what is happening in the world right now.
Free entrance.*
Weeklong extensive program!
To sign up, you can send an email to: info@jannahwijffels.nl
For more information about the event in Dutch, see Facebook event page.
7 Day's of Rest and Reflection - The Hague, The Netherlands
1-7 January 2019
Opened Daily
from 1 PM-7 PM
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Offered by New Humanity Dojo
The New Humanity Dojo wants to contribute to the 7 Days of Rest and Reflection and offers the space for you to do that in communion, in connection with your fellow evolutionaries.
We want to create an environment together of 'Existential Relaxation' and we invite you to together with us sink into a deeper relaxation than you ever have experienced before.
Everyday of the week will have a different quality of 'Existental Relaxation' and we will keep that quality (lightly) in our awareness as the theme of the day.
The day will be co-created in the moment by the people that feel called to be there and show up in their wholeness, their full humanness.
We start the day with an opening circle and sense into what is in our awareness. We then let the day unfold into and from 'Existential Relaxation' and the engagement with the abundant qualities in each and every one of us that come from that.
Sacred Circle and Meditation - Granada, Spain
1-7 January
Daily Ceremony
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Offered by
Grian A. Cutanda
We will pay tribute to all the elements and beings of nature through a daily ceremony in the four directions, earth and sky, and we will accompany it with a meditation within the sacred circle on that foundation of Life that is dedicated every day.
Ubuntu 7 Days of Rest - Earth Prayers - Cape Town South Africa
1-7 January 2019
Daily Program
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Offered by
Ubuntu Wellness
Ubuntu and 7 Days of Rest join in a global event to unite and activate consciousness for the good of the earth and all its creatures. Join us for a daily ceremony under the branches of Nokuphila, our sacred tree for prayer, meditation, singing and maybe even dancing to the rhythms of Her being. Our daily program is inspired by the Earth Prayers of Petra, a renowned spiritual ‘Heartist’whose incredible images are a harmonic meditation in themselves, conveying precise healing resonance for us individually and globally at this time.
Long Live the Amazon * 7 Days of Prayers for the Lungs of Earth - Brazil
1-7 January 2019
Daily Activities
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Offered by
Marianne Soisalo
We, the Mariri crew, guests and artists in residence of the jungle lodge will be gathering together with our beautiful indigenous activist friend Daiara from the Tukano tribe on each of the days to pray and honour the Foundations of Life dedicated to the Amazon forest, now sadly threatened by a new ecocidal Brazilian government.
We invite the rest of the global community to remember this most important source of our most basic needs; oxygen and water and its inherent value to continue green and alive without being further plundered for resources by human interests.
7 Days of Rest Retreat - Tel Aviv, Israel
1-7 January 2019
Week long program
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Offered by City Tree
7 Days of Rest Retreat
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A week of rest, replenishment, reflection, urban ecology and preparation for activism at the CityTree Eco-Home in the heart of Tel-Aviv.
The retreat will be in Hebrew.
25 Bialik St., Tel Aviv - Israel
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7 Days of Rest - Online sharings
1-7 January 2019
Week long sharing
Offered by
​Lïla Avery
Fuson
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Sharing an online space for seven days via FB and our blog with lavender themed insights, healing modalities and distillations.
Ritual for the 7 Elements of Life - Worcester, USA
1-7 January
Offered by
Shaun Bartone
Private DANCE Ritual for #XR Protect and Honor Life Campaign
Earth Healing
Worcester, MA, USA
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7 Days of Reflection at Toberbeg Lodge - Dunlavin, Ireland
1-7 January 2019
Daily Activities
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Offered by
Nick Bryson
A DAILY OPEN GATHERING SPACE GIVING THOSE WHO ATTEND THE CHANCE TO COMMIT TO PROTECT AND HONOUR EACH FOUNDATION OF LIFE (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Climate, Biodiversity, Web of Life) The daily event will take place for around 40 minutes at 4.30pm each day in Toberbeg Lodge. Nick and Signe will hold a space for people to come together around the shared intention of restoring our sacred relationship with the primary elements of Nature in community. From 1st January through to 7th January 2019 you are very welcome. Children welcome!
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Toberbeg Lodge, Dunlavin, County Wicklow, Ireland
7 Days of Beauty
1-7 January 2019
Daily Video
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Offered by
Jamie McHugh
A 7 day online series of 5 minute somatic-aesthetic contemplative pauses with music and images from the natural world for restoring balance. Each day, a new video will be posted on the 7 Days of Beauty FB page.
For more information see the Facebook event page and the 7 Days of Beauty Facebook page
7 Days of Craftivism - Brooklyn, USA
1-7 January 2019
Daily Activities
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Offered by
Lee
On each day we are creating fabric objects with reflective poems or sayings to put out honoring each of the 7 concepts. They will be gifted to random places.
In Brooklyn, USA
Cleanse Site Project - Hannover, Germany
5th January
1 - 3 PM CET​
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Offered by
MiraMichelle
Cleaning The Land of Past Trauma & Energetic Blocks
Das Land der vergangenen Trauma & Energieblöke reinigen.
When we Clean the Land we Heal Our EARTH
When we Clean Our Earth we Heal OURselves!
PROTECT THE SACRED!
Uplifting the Collective Vibration & Raising the Bar of Humanity!!
The Cleanse Site Project(CSP©) is a ‚Not for profit’ project intended to serve humanity through heart centered focused action. The ceremony, administation and organization are a service for the Earth & all her Peoples. The Cleanse Site Ceremonies are free of cost. We do appreciate donations & welcome people to volunteer to further continue this work of Cleaning & Replenishing our Earth Home!
Now is the time to step up and do what we can to Heal our Earth and our Humanity. Every citizen is being asked to take this as an up most priority and gather with like-minded people to start a huge wave of healing across our world. mm
Please meet us at the Ernst August Statue right outside of the front of the Central Station. Hannover. 1pm to 3pm.
Raaga - An Evening of Music & Love - Rishikesh, India
5th January
7:15-8:15 PM IST
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Offered by
Thousand Thoughts
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Thousand Thoughts, as a partner community invites you to be a part of a "Raaga - An Evening of Rhythm", a musical evening devoted to the enlightenment of souls weaving Indian and western music together directing a spotlight on oneness and love.
We aim to bring out the feeling of love and oneness through the union of Indian and Western Music.
Schedule:
Introduction - The Theme of 7 Days of Rest
Guitar and Flute - Sound Healing
Theme Based Music - The Fusion of Indian-Western Music
Free to attend
Register yourself for free through the event link to confirm your presence.
Register here: https://goo.gl/V3Aa1y
Note: Prior registration mandatory.
Truth Heals - Mill Valley, USA
5th January
4 - 6 PM
(GMT -8)
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Offered by XR Netherlands​
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Men sitting In circle in support of women - to support world healing together.
Mourning Ceremony Extinction Rebellion NL
5th January
2 - 4 PM CET
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Offered by XR Netherlands​
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We will take time to mourn the suffering caused by climate change and other inflictions caused by human activity.
Hope Holding + Action ‘CLIMATE’ XR Kentucky
5th January
6- 8 PM EST
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Offered by
XR Kentucky
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Because it matters how we FEEL about the climate - Hurstbridge, Australia
5th January
4- 7 PM GMT + 11
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Offered by Brigitte Kupfer
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Archive 2018
Invitation DAY 5 2018
​Offered by Shelley Ostroff​​
INVITATION
DAY FIVE: Rest in Loving Communication – Reflections and practices
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1. Embodied Communication: Your entire body is always communicating. At different times of the day and in different situations, pause and pay attention to what your body is saying in the way that you are sitting or standing or walking. If you were to look at yourself from the outside, what would you imagine yourself to be communicating through your body language to the world around you? Offer yourself some gentle attention, transform the way you are holding yourself and experience the impact of this shift.
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2. Communicating with your body: Notice the internal sensations of your body, what is it saying to you, what is it feeling, what is it needing? Notice how you communicate with your body, both in the way you think about it and the way you treat it. How can you listen and communicate more lovingly with your body.
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3. Smile: Even if you are not happy, just for a moment, smile, and notice how the shift in your face impacts the rest of the body. Notice the communication of the smile within you and beyond you.
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4. Loving inner messages: What words of support, love or acknowledgement would you like to receive right now? What words would soothe you and inspire you? Offer those words lovingly to yourself. Notice how receptive you may or may not be and soften into even greater receptivity.
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5. Witnessing communication: As you communicate through the day, watch the communication and reflect on it. Notice how you are communicating, the tone and pace of the words you choose, the content of the words, the essence and energy of the words. Notice the body language you use as you speak. And as you notice imagine what this communication would look like if it these communications were more heartful, more loving to yourself and others? Practice bringing heartfulness into these communications.
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6. Deep listening: Notice the way in which you listen to others. What is your body language as you listen? What are the voices in your own head as you listen? What are the interpretations and judgments about what is being said? How can you perhaps hear what is said by the other from a different vantage point or from a more open and empathic perspective?
7. Practicing empathy with others: Put yourself in the position of those you are communicating with. Imagine what it is to be them. What is the story that has led them to this moment – and to the communication they are offering.
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8. Practicing empathy with yourself: We are constantly communicating with ourselves through our thoughts, judgments and interpretations. What is the quality of the way in which you communicate with yourself? Practice being kinder, gentler and more understanding of yourself as a bridge to transformation
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9. Honest communication: Honesty and integrity involves practicing self-awareness. Honesty often gets confused with judgment – but honesty is generally less about ideas and more about emotions, and personal experience. Honest communication entails developing a vocabulary of emotions and experiences and spending time listening to and acknowledging what one is experiencing. Practice noticing the difference of energy when you speak with judgment and interpretation of yourself or another and when you are speak from personal experience, taking responsibility for whatever you are feeling.
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10. Sifting messages: Discern the messages that are nourishing to your soul and those that are not. Practice listening to those that are nourishing and letting go of those that are not. In the same way practice nourishing others with your communication.
11. Interspecies communication: Spend time with an animal, either physically or in your imagination. Watch its behavior, sense its breath and its energy – what is it feeling? What is its experience? From a very calm and unexpecting place, send it a loving message. Spend some time with the animal communication webinars offered through 7 Days of Rest.
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12. Journaling: Spend some time writing your thoughts and feelings. Optimally spending at least 15 minutes a day writing whatever comes to mind without censorship offers a powerful journey of self-awareness. Start today with taking 15 minutes to talk to talk to yourself and listen to yourself through this process.
13. Intention: Set an intention to grow more and more into loving and honest communication with yourself and others and cultivate practices and processes for doing so.
Guided meditation DAY 5 2018
5th January 2018
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Offered by
Shelley Ostroff
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Tree Sisters Meditation Day 5 - Activate
5th January 2018
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Offered by
Clare Dubois
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Day 5: Activate
Do you long to take off your brakes, let go into your inner knowing, tap your connection to all life, root yourself in this truth and liberate yourself into sacred activism for the planet in ways that make sense to your heart?
This meditation helps us unleash our love into action, alchemize internal chains into quantum leaps and activate our restorer consciousness and the appropriate response to restore our world.
