Monday, January 6, 2020

2020 Change and Being


 2020 Change and Being

There’s a time for change,
  and a time for standing still

A time for wandering,
  and one for cultivating

A time for creating and manifesting
  and one for resting and resetting.

What kind of time is it for you today?

Let it be one of mindful inquiry
  and even of allowing the unknowing

One of accepting the grace that
  the universe has in store for you.

Take time now to write to inspire
  your vision for action.

Visual acuity is graded as 20/20
  when there is clarity near and far.

What is it inside that is clear, your inner vision?
What do you see beyond you that is clear?

What work, or action, is calling you forth in
  both fields of seeing, inner and outer?

Call it educated intuition, a stirring of the pot
   to see what rises to the surface

Then savor and serve it to the world. 


            richard hammer
                1-6-20

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

For 2020 - Do These Write Outs


For 2020  - Do These Write Outs 
(make it a game with yourself)
An Opening of Doors for establishing insights and thresholds

Name 20 Things to be Grateful for.
   It could contain things that went really well for you, or someone you love,
    in the last year. Gratitude helps establish clarity.

Name 20 Things to do in 2020 to raise your energy level ….
     and the level of you appreciating your being alive, of being “Here Now”.

Name 20 things you can/will do to “Pay Forward” to help others in 2020.
  Your time at a charity, a note of Thanks to someone who needs to be “seen”,
  perhaps some gift from your heart that would be unexpected by the receiver,
  a monthly monetary  contribution to an organization that is helping others, …

Name 20 things you could create or develop in the coming year.
  These could be things you will learn, such as cooking a recipe, developing a new craft  or skill, or visiting a new place that you have never been to before.
  It’s a cultivation of self exploration and the elements around you. Life is a gift to be discovered, enjoyed, and appreciated….. and shared with others.

A Practice for You

Adopt an Essence word for you for 2020 that will help guide you.
It is an alignment word. A word that brings you back on track for 2020 endeavors when you have wandered off.  It is a word that has a feeling to it that inspires and leads you on the year’s journey.  It can be two or even three words. Like a mantra, repeat it to yourself mentally upon rising as a remembering. Write it out and post it somewhere for you to see.

In 2018 my Essence words were Simplify-Clarity-Trust.  The gift is that they continue to stay with me even two years later and I take on a new set of words for a new year.
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Establish a plan of daily self care that includes
The Daily Triple 20 each is for 20 minutes, or more.

1. Walk outside, in the sun. Perhaps in bare feet at the beach for earthing benefits.
2. Exercise - specific movement: yoga, pilates, QiGong, physical strength training, weight lifting, swim, bike, run, fitness classes with others or following online.
3. Meditate – a formal seated practice (your style), or just sit quietly (maybe in nature), could include journal writing.  



The Lens - Ram Dass



The Lens
by Ram Dass

Lens 1 shows you a balding old man - my physical being.
Lens 2 is my personality and social responsibility - father, student, meditator.
Lens 3 is my mythic identity- Jung's archetypes that are bigger than life. Lens 1, 2 and 3 identify the differences between us. How I differ from you and you from me.

Lens 4 allows you to look into the eyes of another. There is another awareness looking back at you. It's another awareness witnessing the scene. 

But Lens 5 takes you somewhere else. You look and you see yourself looking at yourself by looking at yourself. There’s only one of us in Lens 5. if you get down into the smallest units of matter – the quarks and electrons and sub-neutrinos, all that stuff way down there behind the patterning of stuff – it’s all the same stuff.
It’s all homogeneous and moves in and out of everything. There’s only one of it. You can call it the One in the spiritual unity that lies behind the diversity. You can call it God if you want to. There’s no name for it, and many names.

In Lens 6 you disappear. I disappear. Even the lens disappears. I am nothing more and nothing less

RAM DASS


Love – Serve – Remember