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Dear Friends and Community,
I am sorry for the missed email last week, and for this one being late. Our power went down and took the wifi with it. Power came back but not the wifi, until yesterday. At the same time I came down with flu, so there was no way I could have done the email last week anyway. I am still trying to be done with it, or have it be done with me, but it seems to want to linger. I hadn’t had the flu for 25 years, and this is worst than I remember it being. I was…well…25 years younger. Ahhh youth! Flu cases are way up in our area, so be careful, and a mask is not a bad idea.
How are you? It has been a strange time for many in this area with power outages lasting some days. High winds and cold that add just another layer of bizarre to the new landscape where a democracy was trying to survive.So aside from the daily grind, we now have to navigate this shifting ground that is cutting loose the safety nets, and the last break systems that worked as guardrails against tyranny and the seizure of absolute power by absolute morons. White men dishing out fear at every turn. Gross men who themselves live in fear of life and love. We have come to a fork in the road. Our choices here…Be afraid, or be feared. Collapse or expand.
I am personally sickened by what is happening in our country, to our country, I am sure there is some buyers remorse, some outrage, and even some shame for those that chose this. It will get worse, I feel sure. I do not see a move to reverse where we are at the moment. This is the chaos group and we will have to learn how to navigate the chaos. And we will have to develop a little chaos of our own.
I will continue down the page after the weeks classes and events.
Announcement:
No Drum Circle tonight as I continue to recover from the flu.
In Heart Space:
Sunday Feb 23 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2025-02-23/)
Monday Feb 24 ~ 6 to 7:15 PM ~ Monday Meditation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/meditation-for-beginners-5-classes-25-2025-02-24/)
Thursday Feb 27 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~ True River Sangha (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/true-river-sangha-2-2025-02-27/)
Sunday March 2 ~ 10 to 11 AM ~ Rise and Shine Yoga (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/mindful-yoga-2025-03-02/)
Sunday March 2 ~ 2 to 4 PM ~ Women’s Way’s Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/womens-ways-circle-2025-03-09/)
For Reiki classes and or sessions please contact Myra Riechel at 610-348-5698
Upcoming Classes:
Due to the uncertainty of Nicks surgery things will be subject to change. I so appreciate your patience with the schedule.
Wednesday March 3 ~ 6:30 to 8 PM ~ Co-Creative Writing Coven (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/co-creative-writing-coven-8/)
Saturday March 15 ~ 12:30 PM ~ A Study of the Teachings of G I Gurdjieff
For more info please contact Myra Reichel at 610-348-5698
Friday March 21 ~ 7 to 8:30 PM ~Heart Space Drum Circle (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/heart-space-drum-circle-2-2025-03-21/)
Wednesday March 26 ~ 6:30 to 9 PM ~ Soul HeART Creation (https://www.heartspacemedia.com/events/soul-heart-creation-4/)
When World’s Collide…
It will always come down to us making a choice, and then more choices. It will always come down to us having a moment of sight…of perception, of knowing. A dawning of truth. A memory of an ideal we hold about being American, that is now being tested, the lines now blurred, and unsure of what it means for any of us right now to not let go, to hold on, and to fight back.
Awakened, woke, aware, alerted people do fight back. And our weapons, yes weapons, must be sharpened to cut deeply into the dead beast heart. Anything that is this fear-fulled and fueled is really dead. There is no love of or for life. So our energy must be full and fueled with love. LOVE. And so, we have to keep choosing with our hearts. We have to allow our hearts to see what is next, and then next, and then next. My mind knows what it sees. My mind is angry for what has happened, for the ignorance that prevailed, for the ugliness that was chosen, for the cruelty and arrogance we had seen once before and yet allowed again. For all those hurt already my mind feels so angry. For the wrecking ball that this is, and for all the next targets…we will all feel this, my mind feels so agitated.
My mind is a world I hold. But it must be ever influenced by my heart so that I am not full of rage for what has occurred and how little there is to really do anything about it the way things used to be done. People such as these…this president and all is minions, allow us to learn to choose better. I know, that no matter what happens I have the world of my heart, my inner world, to protect, as well as the sanity of my mind, and its resources. What sometimes look two worlds, is really a team. We need both worlds. We need to be in both worlds, work from both, be fearless in both, be feared in both. This needs to be a strategy or we are in the chaos. We do have power, even if they want us to think, feel and act like we don’t. But, again, we are discriminating against choices. The choice to lean in to the chaos, feel helpless, allow helplessness to steer us into feeling disoriented and then to orient ourselves in being disoriented. This is not the good choice. Never has been. Never works for
those with a target on their backs. And we all, people of consciousness, have a target on out back.
This happened the last time he was president. And so here I am again, realizing the work is never quite done, not complete until my heart triumphs over the rage to accomplish something akin to healing. To know that this all must come down crashing before anything new can be built.To realize that there is so much more we will have to see until a new wave of better choices crash the shore. It has only just begun. And many of us are in the early stages of grief and shock. But we cannot stay here. We must determine and discriminate between what choices we have. The demands on our awareness are enormous, so to say we need to be alert and attentive are an understatement. Our choice must be for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for one and all. Those not wanting that are our enemies…yes enemies, and they must be thwarted in their attempts to do harm to our all our fellow beings,men, woman, children, lands and resources. What is alive must fight for the right to thrive. What is dead
needs to be done with, learned from, and buried. They are zombies and they mean to do no good for anyone. Parasites wanting to feast on our fear. Don’t let them do that!
People will want to make a reasonable argument that awakened, conscious people don’t talk like this. We have walked way beyond what can be determined as reasonable. This is a war. And war is never reasonable. What is unreasonable and should never be excepted as such is what is happening in this country. Choosing a felon for president, and then just kissing up to his every horrible whim and sick idea that finds a way out of his mouth, now that is unreasonable…stupid even. The blind leading the blind. Again, we can move away from being the worst kind of person, should we begin to see, to care, to hurt. Our freedom to choose is our greatest gift.
What to do with our heart during a coup?
Don’t let it break beyond its usefulness.
Do not settle for anything that hurts people. A wrecking ball will swing at us all, so we must stand for all.
Be exactly what this time demands of us, and exactly what this takeover is not…it is not fearless…so be fearless…work on it, pray for it, manifest it, no matter how frightened you may feel, be brave, be courageous, be compassionate, be loving, be bold, be truthful.
Be alert, awake, woke, attentive, in every moment.Let yourself see what needs to be seen and addressed. Now is not the time to shut our eyes, or avert them away from the carnage.
Women are most feared in this dead zone, so be a real fright to them. Never give up or give in. Our resources run deep into ancient times. Our ancestral healed grandmothers are waiting for us to ask them to warm their hands in our fires. So lets do that!
People of color, again, especially women, are next to be most feared. How foolish we have been not to go with our gut and choose Kamala…Lotus. Paying the price for such foolishness will feel most shameful at some point…if not already. We have to ask ourselves at some point why we choose against the best interest of ourselves, our children, our knowing, our better Angels…and of course our country.
Work from a heart full of gratitude. Remain and renew your gratitude every day…every moment. It fuels our imagination to manifest what comes next. See things as already being accomplished. Small victories are most acceptable. Standing up for each other is not an option.
Be a gathering storm. Use your grief ladened rain clouds to water your rebellion for freedom and justice. Let your lightning strike to continue breaking ground, clearing paths, and yes even spiting hairs until all the dead ends are gone.
We need not judge the work, we just need to do it in the way that spirit will speak to each of us to do.
Give your money to those helping people during this time. There are many groups, law firms, social services, watchdog groups, political activist groups, food banks and the like.Begin a google search. Donate if you can to the cause that hurts you the most.
Don’t wait for this administration to feel bad or care about any of what it is doing. It won’t! It just does not care. It has no consciousness or conscience. It is allowed to exist with the opportunity to awaken those fast asleep.
Now converse to that, we can care too much. It can get to us. It can break our heart and our stride. Their lack of caring can debilitate those who care so much…too much. Our expectations will create obstacles on our path, and our judgements will blind our thinking. So, doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do, with no expectation of outcome, or remorse over failures, has to be the way. Equanimity! To do what needs to be done, as our heart guides us to do. Not for favor, not for ego, not for anyone in particular except as to hold the the highest standard of life and the only way for all of us to live in peace and harmony.
Below are the four immeasurable thoughts that as human beings we must attain, to in fact be considered human beings. They are part of a loving kindness, or metta practice worthy of our contemplation. They assist us in keeping our arrows straight and targeted.
Chaos alone cannot not be a strategy, as well as hope, or prayer. These four principals became a guiding focus and teacher in my own growth and healing. Among and amidst all that we will have to do at this time, we will have to do this as well and along with everything else.
I hope they will serve you in a similar way.
For Oneself…
I go for refuge until I am awakened.
To the Buddha, the Dharma, and the supreme assembly.
By my practice of giving and other perfections,
May I become a buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings.
The Four Immeasurable Thoughts:
May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all sentient beings never be separated from the happiness that is without suffering.
May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free from both attachment and hatred, holding some close, and others distant.
So worthy this is of a meditative and contemplative practice.
I did my best here with a still flu foggy mind. I hope each week going forward to offer good practical ways to stay active with a brave heart.
Nick New’s…
Nick was scheduled to have bypass heart surgery next Tuesday. Due to some autoimmune inflammatory markers discovered in his labs, that surgery is now on hold until we can figure out the next things to understand. We are getting answers finally. We don’t like the answers, but we are learning to navigate this new terrain. The painting reflects the hugeness of this for us. Size and scope exaggerated. The eyes as guardians and protectors, the feathers as prayers, and the gold and silver blank space for things unknown and unseen. The heart looks bullish and I kind of like that.
We can use this for our own hearts…for the heart of the world…and how bullish we need to be at this time for healing and wellness to prevail.
I thank you for being here.
Peace and blessings,
Denise
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