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me encanta como canta y su personalidad

La admiro

tiene un hermosisimo corazon♥

Me encantaria tener una amiga como ella ^^

Este video lo hice la semana pasada se ve lindisima

para navidad mi regalo sera mi REBIRTH!!!!!

Per iniziare

Trovate un posto nella vostra casa dove potete sedere in modo confortevole senza venire disturbati, preferibilmente un posto che potete usare con regolarità. Non è necessario sedere per terra, potete usare una sedia o sedere ovunque, se siete confortevoli. Provate ad assicurarvi di minimizzare qualsiasi potenziale distrazione, per esempio accendendo la segreteria telefonica o togliere la suoneria al cellulare. Aiuta molto avere una candela accesa davanti alla vostra posizione, ancora meglio con una foto di Shri Mataji davanti alla candela, in quanto aiuta sia l’attenzione sia la percezione delle vibrazioni. Va bene anche una mappa del sistema sottile, in modo da capire meglio le vostre sensazioni e auto-guidarvi nella meditazione.

Se meditate per la prima volta, potreste trovare difficile stare seduti e fermi o portare l’attenzione dentro di voi quando chiudete gli occhi, ma non vi preoccupate, questo migliorerà con la pratica.

Sistemarsi

Una volta che vi siete sistemati, portate la vostra attenzione lentamente sulla sommità della testa. A questo punto potete utilizzare le affermazioni che abbiamo già riscontrato per i chakra che abbiamo visto, per aiutarci a portare l’attenzione dentro di noi. Possiamo anche dire dentro noi stessi: “Perfavore fa’ che possa andare in profondità nella meditazione”, un paio di volte.

Dopo un paio di momenti possiamo sentire dei pizzicori, del caldo o del fresco sulle nostra dita della mano, o anche una sensazione lenta di movimento lungo la spina dorsale, come la Kundalini comincia a salire fin sopra la testa. Aiuta se proviamo ad ignorare queste sensazioni per cominciare, in quanto l’importante è raggiungere questo stato di consapevolezza senza pensieri, in cui non siamo strattonati dai nostri pensieri ma semplicemente li possiamo guardare fluttuare dentro e fuori la nostra coscienza.

Entrare in profondità

Dopo pochi minuti possiamo notare che mentre siamo seduti pacificamente, i pensieri passano ancora attraveros la nostra mente. Questo è piuttosto naturale e non dovremmo pensare che la meditazione non funziona semplicemente perché pensiamo in continuazione. Portiamo solamente la nostra attenzione, lentamente, sopra la nostra testa e proviamo a mantenerla lì. Infatti ci potrà volere, oppure no dipendentemente dalla persona, un po’ di tempo prima che possiamo notare un rallentamento del flusso dei pensieri, ma sperimenteremo i benefici della nostra meditazione molto prima che ciò accada.

Per finire

La meditazione può durare quanto vogliamo, anche dopo essere stati 10 o 15 minuti, possiamo lentamente finire la sessione.

Questa descritta è una meditazione molto semplice, che possiamo fare in qualsiasi momento della giornata. Gli altri post integrano questo tipo con le varie qualità dei chakra e dei canali sui quali meditare.

Dovremmo veramente cercare di meditare almeno una volta, preferibilmente due volte al giorno, una al mattino per prepararci alla giornata e una alla sera per scaricare le pesantezze accumulate e, quindi, dormire meglio.

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In un qualsiasi momento in cui ne avete l’opportunità, dovreste meditare ogni giorno per almeno 10 minuti. Alcune persone trovano che iniziare la giornata in uno stato di pace e silenzio rende il giorno migliore. Alcune persone trovano che il momento migliore è la sera, in cui l’effetto calmante li aiuta a portarli in un profondo e riposante sonno successivo. E molte persone meditano sia il mattino che la sera, e includono alcune tecniche di pulizia nella meditazione serale.

Come meditare

La meditazione è un processo semplice, e prende forma nel momento in cui ci siediamo tranquilli e permettiamo alla Kundalini di salire da dove risiede lungo la spina dorsale fino a sopra la testa – lungo quello che chiamiamo canale centrale.

La Kundalini pulisce i vari chakra individuali e lascia la persona in uno stato di profonda pace e rilassamento. Varie altre tecniche di meditazione, fatte apposta per facilitare l’entrata nello stato di Consapevolezza senza pensieri sono insegnate nelle classi di Sahaja Yoga. Queste includono semplici mantra e movimenti delle mani che incoraggiano l’attività di pulizia nei chakra.

Andare nel profondo con la meditazione non è qualcosa che possiamo forzare. E’ semplicemente questione di dedicare pochi minuti ogni giorno in cui possiamo sederci con calma, non fare niente e sperimentare il potere della pura introspezione, attraverso la meditazione e la percezione delle nostre vibrazioni, e sensazioni. Facendo questo, col tempo noteremo che la nostra meditazione diventerà più efficace e i benefici più tangibili.

Om Sathguru Sri Seshadri Swamigal Thiruvadikkae

Disciple:

In meditation, should one concentrate on the Chakras?

Master:

There is no need to concentrate on the Chakras; one should focus the mind on the desired object. All the Chakras are dependent on the inner Self. The Inner Light controls them. Concentration on the light of the inner Self will open the Chakras automatically.

El Proyecto Chakra es un proyecto de software libre creado por un grupo de gente que le gusta Archlinux y KDE.

Chakra es un rápido, amigable y extremadamente poderoso live CD y/o distrolet (versión personalizada de una distro^[1]) basado en el galardonado KDE (K Desktop Environment, Entorno de Escritorio K en español) y en una de las distribuciones GNU/Linux para experimentados: Archlinux.

Actualmente está en fase alfa, cuenta con un instalador gráfico, configuración automática de hardware y por supuesto algunas herramientas más y extras.

Sólo pruébalo si te gusta y dinos (¿eso se escribe junto o separado? ) lo que piensas.

Tomado y traducido desde The Chakra project

Como much@s sabrán El proyecto Chakra desarrolló KDEmod, un conjunto de paquetes de KDE modular, ajustado y optimizado para Archlinux. KDEmod viene con un montón de adiciones y cosas extra y además provee paquetes de KDE3 y KDE4 en sus repositorios. Chequéalo aquí.^[2]

Ten en cuenta que no es necesario instalar Chakra para probar KDEmod, se puede hacer eso directamente en tu Archlinux. Mira aquí para más información.

He leído por ahí (en otros blogs) a personas diciendo que desde que en los repositorios oficiales de Archlinux existen los paquetes cortados de KDE ya no es necesario instalar KDEmod, puesto que, de acuerdo a lo que ellos piensan (lo que se evidencia por lo que dicen) KDEmod sólo servía y era útil por la posibilidad de instalar aplicaciones de KDE en paquetes unitarios y no en meta paquetes. Pues bien, yo les digo a esas personas que  están muy equivocadas. KDEmod, recordemos, está optimizado para Archlinux, no así los paquetes que están en los repositorios de Arch. Además hay otro punto demasiado importante, y que tal vez es el más trascendental de todos, desde mi manera de ver las cosas: KDEmod, en sus repositorios, provee unos paquetes llamados debug, los cuales no están contenidos en los repositorios de Arch y que contienen información de depuración de errores de las diferentes aplicaciones o paquetes de KDE. Cualquier persona que haya reportado caídas (crashes) de programas en bugs.kde.org sabe de lo que hablo. En este mismo sentido, recuerda que una de las formas de ayudar al software libre es reportando errores, por lo que, si usas Archlinux, te invito a probar KDEmod, instalar cada paquete con su respectivo paquete debug (si existe) y también a instalar KBugBuster un programa que te ayudará a reportar errores de KDE en forma fácil y sencilla.

Aquí puedes leer más acerca de cómo crear reportes de caídas útiles en KDE.

Finalmente decir que Chakra al igual que KahelOS es una excelente alternativa para usuarios noveles que por “miedo” o falta de conocimientos no se atreven a instalar Archlinux en sus máquinas.

Como dice más arriba, Chakra provee un instalador totalmente gráfico y herramientas de configuración del sistema propias, muy intuitivas y muy fáciles de usar. Además no piensen que por estar en su fase alfa es inestable, nada de eso, al parecer se encuentra en esa etapa porque los desarrolladores son muy comprometidos con el proyecto y quieren crear más aplicaciones que le hagan la vida aún más fácil al usuario final, además, por supuesto, de mejorar las herramientas propias ya existentes.

Aquí les dejo algunas capturas de Chakra:

Imagen tomada de (2). Clic para agrandar

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¡Saludos!

^[1]Archlinux Fácil !!!: Proyecto Chakra

^[2](2)The Chakra Project

Holiday Hours

Black Friday 9:00am – 9:00pm

Monday – Saturday 10:00pm – 7:00pm

Sunday 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Also called as Aakaash (space) Mudra.

Keyword for this Mudra is “expand”.

• This Mudra activates Jupiter inside you and brings abundance in your life.
• It will expand your horizon and get wider views of life and you will become a good judge of the life’s events.
• The teacher in you will be activated too.
• Person who is mean minded and selfish will become broad minded and selfless.
• This generates blue energy and thus activates throat Chakra.

Chant Bija Mantra “Om Hum Namaha” while doing this Mudra.

Touch the middle finger with thumb on both the hands

Partie une

Partie deux

Partie trois

Here’s another piece that’s going int the knitted chakra anatomy series. This is a representation of the Third Eye or Ajna (to perceive and command in Sanskrit). This energy center in the body is related to vision and the eyes.

I’m writing this post because so many well-meaning, conscious, spiritual people are missing some significant information and tools when it comes to Law of Attraction and being a conscious cocreator of your life with Spirit.

One of my wonderful Facebook friends recently wrote a post:

“If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so:

‘Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.’ — Abraham”

This sparked a controversy with 19 people weighing in, many fully agreeing and many others, myself included, objecting to this as an oversimplification and stating that, even though it is true that our focus does permeate our vibration and thus create, it is actually NECESSARY to understand and heal our past in order to learn what we need to from it and be able to truly free ourselves from its hold on us and move on into something even better.

We have to put our attention on our intention BUT if we are not aligned strongly and consistently enough with our intention, if we are trying really hard to make it happen but it’s just not working, that’s a sure sign we need to do some inner healing work before we do any more manifesting and attracting and creating. It’s inner, not, outer time, first.

I feel so strongly that so many New Age, metaphysical folks are so hyped up about positive thinking and “just focus on what you want,” they are missing something vital:

For most people, with most long-term issues, simply striving to be positive and focus on their intentions is NOT enough to bring about the desired results. We need to learn from our past, and use that wisdom to create our best future, while living in and enjoying the present.

So here I go on my soap box again.

The Abraham work and all the other good Law of Attraction stuff out there is not intended to be interpreted as “Ladeeda, we can just be positive 100% of the time and only good things will come to us. All that yucky stuff from the past – I’m done with that now and all I have to do is think good thoughts and I will attract all my desires. Abracadabra!”

So allow me to bust that myth and empower you with a much more in-depth and practical approach:

1- Our past is important. Just as our current emotions are indicators of the distance between where we are at and where we want to be, our past is one of our teachers as well. We can – and indeed need to – turn our wounds into wisdom. Some of our life experiences we may label “good” or “positive,” we feel we were successful and these we can apply to continue to utilize and build upon what worked for us, while the so-called “negative” experiences or failures are also useful in several ways.

For one thing, we can clarify more clearly what, exactly we DO want by contrasting it with what we do NOT want anymore. This applies equally well to health and lifestyle choices, work, home, community, as well as relationships.

Secondly, we can learn psychologically and spiritually: What was my lesson in this?

Thirdly,we can discover, with proper reflection, which may include prayer, meditation, journaling, counseling, or even insightful conversations, that there was truly a silver lining, a gift in every experience we have had. Sometimes we don’t see it at the time, it feels horrible, we may even be devastated that that relationship or career didn’t work out, that we had that disability or lost our house, but ultimately, when we see through the eyes of Spirit and Love, we will always find that everything happened for a reason and we can find something to be grateful for, even if it’s just the ability to make a different choice next time.

2- Until we learn our lessons from the past, we are going to UNCONSCIOUSLY repeat them. This is true of humanity when we look at larger societal choices as well as on the personal level. Ignoring our past and zapping it like it didn’t even happen is not the solution. In fact, ignoring our past and stuffing it over there, oh, that’s too messy, I don’t want to deal with that right now, does not free us from it, it actually dooms us to repeat it.

3- The Abraham work says that our DOMINANT thought is the one that runs the show, and I agree with this. The catch is: Our dominant thought is seldom a conscious thought, so we cannot expect to simply push a button and “There, I’m only going to think good thoughts, feel good feelings and make good choices from now on.”

We have to heal all those billions of subconscious beliefs that we are carrying around which arose out – what? Our past experiences and programming, of course.

I do agree that many people spend far too much time simply repeating their “story,” which actually keeps them stuck in it and keeps giving it energy. There is a big difference between looping an old version of a reality we no longer want, whining about it, being a drama king/queen, vs. actually being willing to visit the past (with support if necessary) with the intention of looking in the mirror, releasing what no longer serves, with forgiveness, finding the lesson and gift in it, and moving confidently forward into a better life we are creating for ourselves, from the inside out.

Do we need to look at our past? Absolutely.Do we need to keep telling it over and over? Absolutely not.

4- We need to process stuck emotions. Sometimes we need to move some rage. Shake off some old energy. Sometimes we need to express ourselves to someone, forgive, be forgiven, and it doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead or whether their human self is willing to hear a word we are saying. We just talk to their Higher Self, soul to soul. We look in the mirror and show them a mirror as well. I have an extensive guided meditation and energy healing journey that I guide people through called the Healing Past Relationships Journey (soon to be available as a CD/MP3 audio) which facilitates this soul-to-soul communication, energy exchange, forgiveness and healing. Or you may be able to do it for yourself, perhaps by writing a letter or through ceremony. We need to visit our past just enough to learn from it and to heal it, not rehash it or keep talking about it for decades.

We also need to forgive ourselves. And forgive God!

The work I do as an energy healer, intuitive, hypnotherapist and life coach focuses on identifying the current condition of your Body, Mind, Heart and Soul and creating a complete, intuitively guided healing program that empowers you to remember who you really are, to love and heal yourself completely, and to clarify your vision and reawaken your passion, power and life purpose — to create the life and love of your dreams. I am a Law of Attraction coach, and people often begin working with me when they realize (see with Real Eyes) that they are working so dang hard on themselves, have been for years, yet something is still stuck. They are willing, finally, to do what it takes to really succeed, so we go places, often in the first session, that completely amazes them.

5- We need to heal core issues and heal on all levels.

For example, some of my recent clients have improved their relationships, found lasting love, launched their heart-centered business, created more harmony in their parenting or other family relationships…..In every case, we needed to do some deep CORE ISSUE healing at the level of the SOUL and the ENERGY FIELD, the kind of healing that is more difficult to do by one’s self when we are emotionally caught up in our “stuff,” scared, frustrated and depleted.

I do sometimes have clients who try to turn the sessions into talk therapy and keep going on and on about their problems. They are stuck in their story. So I ask them, “Do you want to talk about it or do you want to heal it?” If they keep wanting to talk about it, they are not ready for the kind of healing I do. If they want to heal it, I can help them heal themselves but we have to go much deeper than just talking. Deep omnidimensional energy healing at the soul level i.e. soul retrieval, regression, rebirthing, hypnotherapy/NLP, ceremony, forgiveness work, can be extremely helpful, especially if a person is unable to break free of an old belief/energy. We shift the energy & belief at the original cause and core. I channel empowering self-healing techniques they can do on their own to continue the healing and keep building the positive energy.

We don’t ever have to be 100% healed, nor is that even possible so long as we are human. But we need to be healed enough to be free to focus on what we do want, move forward and create from an aligned, clear, positive state of being and love.

6- ALIGN, ATTRACT, ACT.

People so caught up in the Law of Attraction who simply read a few books, go to a few workshops, watch a couple of movies, often fail to understand that trying to get into ACTION mode before you are ALIGNED does not work. Law of Attraction works – once we are aligned with our desires. If some part of our subconscious mind or energy field is still playing the tape of a limiting, negative belief, we are not going to be able to just attract what we want, no matter how many affirmations we say or vision boards we make!

7 – I want to make one more point about the past and this concept of time. We can only live in one time: the present. We need to heal and learn from our past and draw upon its power, we need to envision and align with our best future, and yet we can only live right here, right now. All times exist in this moment of choice: now.

I personally feel we need to spend MOST of our attention right here, where we live. In this body. On this planet. Enjoying this life to the fullest. Mindful. Heartful. Soulful. Bodyful. Beautiful! When we work with the concept of time as fluid and simultaneous and quantum rather than linear, we find that every moment is a portal home.

We can also change our past shamanically, redream it. This helps us create our best future as well. This can be done through shamanic trance healing and/or conscious dreaming.

We each have the power to facilitate miraculous healing and success beyond our wildest imagination. We don’t have to spend years healing the past. We can heal it in an instant, or it may take several months or longer, but if we go deep enough and work at the level of the soul, core beliefs and original causes, the quantum and cosmic fields and on all levels, if we do this work with a vibration of love for ourselves and all beings, we will grow into being who we came here to be.

I love the Abraham work but sometimes a phrase taken by itself does not present the complexities of the spiritual nature of the Universe. True healing and conscious creation of our lives will always involve navigating the territory of our past with loving kindness and forgivness, with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow so we can create an even better future. And we can do this today.

If you would like more information about Omnidimensional Healing of Core Issues blended with intuitive life coaching, and a free Special Report on Law of Attraction Graduate School – Abundance Affirmations with Ooompf!, please visit my main website at:

www.LoveandSpirit.org.

Endelig har jeg funnet og kjøpt den perfekte syngebollen.
Syngebollen har tonen B (H) og er dermed rettet mot kronechakra (hodet).
Ca. 13 cm bred, 7 cm dyp, vekt ca. 400g.

Ikke hverken stor eller tung med andre ord, liten og lett å ta med seg.

Men når det gjelder utseende er dette stor kunst!

My third eye was officially ‘opened’ during my first class with my Teacher. That was also the defining moment when I realized that healing and energywork – is all serious shit business.

As my Teacher was performing the first ‘attunement’ – tuning the students’ aura frequency to a certain level – I visualized an image of White Tara, instead of Isis which we were supposed to (wrong channel?!) It even got a little funny when Goddess Tara reached forward towards me – I remember backing away slightly – and she pressed her palm onto my forehead.

Then I saw the image of an eye (forcing itself) opening in the middle of my brows. I was tickled, thinking it was quite silly that I imagine my own 3rd Eye opening.

But it stopped being funny when I perceived Tara saying, very clearly: ‘You always had a 3rd Eye. But it had no eyeball. Here it is.’

Seriously? No eyeball?! I was quite stunned. It was only then I realized that what I was about to embark on was a serious vocation, not a weekend hobby…

I must say that my 3rd Eye – the 6th Chakra – developed in stages. Just a week ago, during an intense meditation session in my healing room (at the same time my Teacher was meditating in the Great Pyramids in Egypt), I perceived my 3rd Eye turning into the color purple – which is how it is supposed to be. I think previously it was just a white lotus…

I am also very fortunate that the function of my 3rd Eye can be activated when needed, and deactivated when not. Hence I do not ’see’ literal colors or auras or spirit guides in daily life – well, sometimes I get ‘glimpses’ of things or thoughts when I pass-by or touch people. But most of the ‘glimpsing’ and ‘perceiving’ only occurs when I do healing-work or in deep meditation.

I would say, this 6th Chakra is not an ‘eye’ per se – but more like a channel (just like the other Chakras – energy channels) which allows you to tap into universal ‘energy lines’. These energy lines exist everywhere, and connects far and wide. The 6th channel allows you to receive, perceive, and also understand universal signals (although a lot of the dissemination function is done by the 5th Chakra, the Information Center).

Energy is everywhere. No one can deny that!

Often I hear that many people are fascinated with the 3rd Eye, or wanting to ‘open’ the 3rd Eye so that they can ’see’ spirits and what not. I think that can be dangerous. Even more when the lower Chakras are not strong enough to support the energy surplus in the upper Chakras. One might risk losing their sanity, for lack of grounding energy and wisdom.

The two Chakras adjacent to the 3rd Eye are especially crucial. The 5th Chakra at the throat is the center of disseminating information received. Without this, one cannot comprehend what the 3rd Eye perceives. The 7th Chakra is the connection with the Universe or God. Without this one functioning healthy as well, one will not have the wisdom to accept, understand, and manage what is being perceived by the 3rd Eye.

Don’t say you wanna ’see’ something just cos it’s for fun.

Like I said – it’s serious shit. Sometimes there is no turning back.

Cheers!

A livello fisico, il terzo chakra è correlato allo stomaco ed alla parte superiore del fegato. Se lo stomaco non è regolato, la digestione e l’assimilazione risultano compromesse e ciò causa tensione nel chakra. Occorre dunque prendersi cura dello stomaco, il nostro atteggiamento nei confronti degli alimenti ed il nostro modo di mangiare avranno ripercussione sulla digestione, se mangiamo frettolosamente o quando siamo pensierosi o irritati, la digestione non avverrà in modo corretto. Dare troppa importanza all’alimentazione danneggia ugualmente questo centro, lo stomaco si sovreccita e l’energia non circola armonicamente nel corpo, dovremmo dunque mangiare serenamente, con gioia come se si dovesse meditare.

Il Nabhi destro

Una persona che ha acquisite le qualità nel Nabhi destro diventa qualcosa come il re o la regina dell’ambiente ove vive, ed incarna il benessere collettivo. La prima qualità di una regina è la dignità, deve essere una donna dignitosa, sensibile e dolce, con influenza positiva sull’inconscio collettivo ed il benessere del proprio paese. Si stabilizza in noi attraverso la nostra attività, se siamo inattivi questo principio si affievolirà, dunque dobbiamo essere attivi e produrre ricchezza trasformando la materia, creando o svolgendo un’attività professionale.

Bisogna lavorare, gli uomini in particolare non possono accontentarsi di stare a casa e lavorare saltuariamente, lasciandosi andare, occorre loro una buona attività professionale in cui vi siano possibilità di evoluzione. Sia nell’ambiente di lavoro che in quello sociale, devono progredire e migliorare senza soste, dovete essere persone di buona qualità e molto competenti; non si tratta di correre dietro al denaro ma di stabilizzare questo principio in voi, dovreste adoperare e manifestare tutte le vostre qualità.

Il Nabhi sinistro

Il principio del lato sinistro nel Nabhi ha lo scopo di eliminare l’odio e le tensioni tra la gente. A livello femminile è rappresentato come regina del focolare, il suo ruolo consiste nell’assorbire le tensioni tra i figli e con il marito, la donna è dunque una sorgente di pace ed a lei incombe l’onere di evitare le frizioni tra le persone. E’ essenziale che la donna possa svolgere questo ruolo, vedi il detto “solo la ove la donna è rispettata, gli dei risiedono”.

E’ una garanzia di benessere di armonia ed anche di prosperità materiale. Il marito deve a sua volta, aiutare la moglie a svolgere questo compito e deve venerare la madre di famiglia come tale: è un punto essenziale per stabilizzare il nabhi sinistro.

Si tratta dunque di uno sforzo a due, l’uomo non deve, in alcun modo, insultare la propria moglie, mancarle di delicatezza, alzare la voce o dirle cose sgradevoli. Ma la donna per essere rispettata, deve essere rispettabile, non deve cercare di dominare, deve esserci un atteggiamento comune tra i coniugi.

The greatest manifestation of Om or the holy Ghost as the Christians call it, is Hanumanji.  There never was and I suspect there will never be a greater manifestation.  He is the supreme ruler who effortlessly does all the work and is still alive.  Amazingly, Rama Bhagwan took samadhi, but his Guru Vasishtha Maharaj, his disciple Hanumanji and Ravanas brother Vibhishana are still alive. My guru from the subtle world, Vishnutirthji Maharaj told me a few weeks ago that his favorite verse in Sundarkanda by Tulsidaji was verse 54.  I have copied the meaning of the verses here.Each of these monkeys is as mighty as Sugriva (the king) and there are tens ofmillions like them; who can dare count them? By the grace of  Rama they areunequalled in strength and reckon the three spheres of creation as of no more accountthan a blade of grass. I have heard it said, Ravana, that the commanders of the variousmonkey-troops alone number eighteen thousand billions. In the whole host, my lord, thereis not a single monkey who would not conquer you in battle. They are all wringing theirhands in excess of passion; but the Lord of the Raghus does not order them (to march)…We shall suck the ocean dry with all its fish and serpents or fill it up with hugemountains. Nay, we shall crush the ten-headed Ravana and reduce him to dust.. Suchwere the words that all the monkeys uttered. Fearless by nature, they roared and bulliedas if they would devour.

This whole Shloka refers to the Hanumanji who is Om.  This is the universal prana which runs the entire universe and Hanumanji is the living embodiment of this universal prana.  The other ten million monkeys in the verse refers to the ten different kinds of Pranas in the body.  The ten pranas have tremendous power and under the supreme order of God (Rama), and the guidance of Hanumanji, they have the ability to destroy ego (Ravana).  The process whereby this happens is sucking the ocean dry (meaning sucking all the prana from the body and thus destroying all vices) and they fill up the mountain (referring to Sushumna).  At this time they have a very loud roar (which refers to one of the anahata nada) heard.  This is the sound of Om.  The word roar is used which is reminescent of the word used in the bible – Gods voice is likened to a thunder or roar.  It is the constant rumbling / roar heard as a symphony of music at the Agna chakra (or when fully everted – the manas chakra). 

This interpretation which I have given will be very difficult for anyone who has not experienced the manas chakra or the everted Agna chakra to understand.  To reiterate and speak in more plain words – at the Agna chakra, when one is fully surrendered with the ability to fully stay there without any reservation one begins to experience several things simultaneously.

1) A constant symphony of music that is very endearing.  At the apex of the symphony is a constant roar the sound of undifferentated Om

2) With more perseverance one begins to realize that this roar or soun is Shakti, the holy ghost, Hanumanji or the universal prana that controls and runs the entire universe.

3) This universal prana or holy Ghost runs solely at the Will of God. 

4) The best sadhaka has no personal wish but to merge his wish into the supreme Will of God. 

This is the beginning of Sankalpa Shakti.  This is the beginning of conquering dreams.  At this stage, one goes beyond certain Mantras or the automatic recital of certan shlokas or mantras. 

I found out this morning that I have received funding for a research trip to San Francisco in December, to view work by and interview Love Art Lab (Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens). The hope is that I will write something for publication or conference presentation based on the research I do on this trip. I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that I’ll be there meeting them/talking to them about their work/seeing their work in less than a month. I have thrived on their work remotely for so long . . . I can hardly imagine preparing myself for first-hand engagement.

These are the (unfiltered) ideas I am interested in talking to them about:

-The implications for perspectives of the body in their work, both their larger project of Love Art Laboratory, the projects they have done year by year, and their recent evolution into “Sexecology” (the intersection of sexology and ecology). What does it mean that the whole Love Art Lab project is centered around the chakra system, which is a distillation of energy centers within the body (the body as the starting place for this project, via the work of artist Linda Montano)? What does it mean that these projects are predominantly performative (or artifacts of the performative), which situates the body at the (intersecting) center of political activism, environmentalism, interpersonal relationship, sexual identity, etc.?

-What does intersecting “sexology” (the study of sexual behavior, predominantly in humans) and “ecology” (the branch of biology dealing with the relations of interactions between organisms and their environment; environmental science) say about how we view the body, organizations/relationships of bodies (people), etc.?

-What kind of progressive “body cultures” or cultures for progressive perspectives of the body are furthered in their work (this might address anything from clothing trends, body modification such as tattoos or piercings, exploring the boundaries between the private and the public as it relates to revelation of the body and bodily (even sexual) acts, etc.)?

-How does their work illustrate a conflation of art, life, and love? How has that functioned, the art seeming to be so entangled with the personal relationship between the artists (collaborators and wives)? How does that affect/direct the content of the work? How does the relationship serve as material in the art, and how does the art serve as a component of the personal relationship? Where is the line between public and private? What gets put into the art, and what stays out of it? What comes into the relationship, and what has to stay “in the studio,” as it were? To whatever degree the art functions as a profession, how does that affect the art or the relationship? I am fascinated by artist relationships, specifically in which both the relationship and the art are collaborative. I am fascinated by relationships emerging from the creative process (re: “click here for slideshow or 6-8 character limit“; “Autumn Quartet“), how art furthers relationships, how relationships function as material for art, etc.

-On some (utopian, idealistic) level, I think I am looking to Annie and Beth as gurus of sustainable integration. That isn’t fair and I know it, but their work integrates so much: personal, public, professional, creative, political, sexual, ecological, etc. etc. etc. And somehow, from the remote observer, it seems to be working. I need this to be answered . . . disillusioned, nuanced, confirmed, whatever. The most difficult part of the creative life (for me) is the integration. I am interested in Fluxus artists. I am interested in early post-modernism, and how they worked so hard to dissolve the boundary between art and life, and at the same time I am interested in maintaining my connection to the art form, to the history of dance, the technique and craft and practice of it. I don’t want to integrate dance and life simply by considering my daily mundane life (the walking to and from school, drinking coffee, reading and writing papers, washing dishes, folding clothes, seeing friends, etc.) dancing (which it is); I want to maintain a dancing practice, a connection to dancing history and technique without those things feeling remote from the rest of life . . . by which I think I mean (predominantly) relationships. I mean cooking and cleaning and other life experiences as well, but I think the conflict I find most of all is the amount of time that the “dancing life” demands infringing on the quality and quantity of time I can spend nurturing and fostering human connection. The irony is that my art form is predominantly social; we do it in groups of people.

I should say that between the project I just completed with CoCo Loupe, Eric Falck, and Jeff Fouch (“click here for slideshow or 6-8 character limit”) and the project I am working on with Erik Abbott-Main, Eric Falck, and Amanda Platt, I feel nearer to this “integrated living” than I have (in quite some time)(ever). And yet I feel like (I hope) Annie and Beth can say something to this.

That’s all I have time for. Ecstatic to have funding. Can’t wait to be in San Francisco.

I am looking forward to Thanksgiving break and a few days of travel. This will be the last MILLTONE instrument listed this week. This tunable steel tongue hand drum features a Hammered Light Green coating, inside and out. A Sri Yantra on the inside, MILLTONE lettering  and Chakra symbols on the outside are all custom cut White vinyl.

Model 4G-HLGRN-320, Nov. 17, 2009

Chakras and Sri Yantra

Fun and Easy to Play, Enjoy!

Click here to visit the eBay auction for this MILLTONE steel tongue hand drum.

Thank You

Today I am grateful for Jacqui Bonwell.

I went to Jacqui’s Master Chakra Cleanse at Prana Power Yoga in Cambridge.  I’ve heard that it’s a “life changing” class and holy cow, it really is.  If you practice yoga and have had a chance to practice with Jacqui you’ll know what I’m talking about.  If not, I highly recommend one of her Master Chakra Cleanses.  In the most loving and awe-inspiring way, she creates a safe space where you can dig down to the very root of your soul and begin to heal.

She’s an inspiring teacher and one I am very grateful to have met.