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Opening Your Heart

Opening one's heart is key to good health

After days at the keyboard my upper back and chest were in a huge knot. So the other day I was giving myself accupressure on my upper left ribs where they insert in the breast bone and these words keep sounding in my mind's ear---Open Your Heart, Open Your Heart. Again and again and again. I've been at this intention for many years--on the body level and on the emotional level.

Food and the Heart

With the history of heart disease in my family, good heart health is really important to me. I have changed my diet over the years--very little fried and that only in EE Olive Oil. Lots of veggies and fruits (OK some ice cream--esepcially when In the Keweenaw Peninsula--slaver over Jilbert's--the best in the world!) Little white or refined foods--almost no sugar or fructose.  I need to up my exercise. I need to shed 50 pounds.

This is the easy part.

Not Naive but Open

But the hard part is changing my mind to be trusting in the right way--not to be naive and seek alliances with those who would harm, but to keep my heart open to all the wonder and good that is out there.

To have my heart resonate to those vibrations and not to the ones that harm. Nowadays it is easy to become cynical and jaded...but my deep body message is to Open Your Heart to all that would bring love and abundance...LEAP! for it. and at the same time stengthen your heart with healing--people, sound, love, and herbs--such as hawthorne or lavender.

 

 

Nettle and Lavender Seeds Sprouting--Supporting Our ReFIREMENT

Can you be too excited about seeds sprouting--NO!! Nancy and I started writing this blog several years ago and have been gratified and encouraged by the positive responses we've received.

We are now taking a few more simple steps in our own reFIREMENT. We started by assessing our present resources and among them was the big yard surrounding this house on three sides. Another our ability to risk and stay close to the edge. Another our creativity.

Our Healingwitherbs project is just at the very beginning. A bed is dug. Some nettle seeds planted in a recycled plastic salad container (a great reusable tabletop greenhouse) are beginning to sprout. Some lavender seeds are sprouting. Holy Basil seeds have been ordered. So for under $20.00 we will see what returns we can acheive. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO exciting--what all will come from those little seeds.

A high school mate has already shown what she can do in reFIREMENT. See this website http://www.yahsbest.com/. Suzanne, who is Yah, organically grows the vegetables for and bottles salsas and more. Can't wait to visit her farm and taste this summer.

In the warmth and light of reFIREMENT, all kinds of seeds can grow lending validation to a new abundant life.

 

Dropping Your Old Baggage: Your Best Transformative Gift to Yourself

by Virginia Cornue

I wrote about Mummenshantz a post ago. Mummenshantz, a non-verbal theatrical production, is all about taking the mundane and transforming it into something amazing that speaks to the human condition--a black box with bits of colored tape becomes a means of intimate communication when the tape bits mark out a face on one side of the box. A huge red balloon and an equally huge yellow tube play together and then involve the audience as playmates in their game of communication.

I've thought a lot about transformation in the past 5 or so years. And worked to bring about many transformations in myself. Time has added others. But at this moment of seasonal transformation--just on the other side of winter Solstice--I have determined to undergo another and deeper transformation. I am setting my baggage down--all the old emotional baggage--all the old baggage that has weighed me down--and weighed me down in my body weight, my spirit, my productivity as well. I am setting down the baggage that has been dragging me down, holding me back , sapping my energy, filling up lots of space, blocking off the abundance, the riches of life I deserve --that we all deserve. That everyone deserves. That is possible if there is room in your life and heart

I've done massive amounts of healing over the past few years. and done that healing well. I've created many new channels in my life, many new pathways to travel. to explore, to create, through which to meet potential new partners of every sort. I need a new lighter set of luggage, pared down, sleek, trim and ready to move--into my burgenouing new life. So now is the time to set the old baggage down--maybe with a thump, maybe just gently, maybe just give it away to some one else.

Whenever some of the old baggage is found lurking, I'm going to think of what Mummenschantz would do.

Mummenshantz would stick some tape on the side of my baggage: some bits for eyes, a curved bit for a mouth, a looped bit for a nose, two loops for ears. All of a sudden, my old baggage would be smiling face, maybe even laughing with a big open mouthed belly laugh at the wonder of it all, at the silliness of it all and the possibilities of it all. Yes, indeed their transformative creativity would make my old rock filled dragging me down baggage into a HUGE smiling face encccouraging me onward. And would make us all  laugh. SO--here's the the mummenshantz of it all. Here's to the mummenshantz in all of us! The best gift possible this year.

 

Happy Holidays, everyone! Go mummenshantz yourself, Virginia