This Moment’s Invitation

 

There is strength in kindness.

There is strength in friendship.

There is strength in loving awareness.

There is strength in sitting stillness.

 

Each moment is a gift.

Each moment is an awakening.

Each moment is an incubation of flow.

Each moment is a sharing.

 

This is the true self

  in expression, manifestation, and joy

  in the climbing of mountains,

  in the walking through valleys,

  in the descending of rapids.

 

This moment invites

  a stepping into the circle of love.  

 

The Great Welcoming triads are here:

  grace, gratitude, and grandeur,

  beauty, truth, and goodness, 

  purpose, passion and possibility.

 

Come with me into the fields of forever.

  Let us walk together.

          

        richard hammer
             4-4-21

 April is Poetry Month! 

Take time during the day to read a poem or write one. What is the creative muse in you wanting to say? 

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Self Permission Slip

 This Day

  may I move with insight, flow, and intent

  may I move with integrity, peace, and joy

  may I move with gratitude, grace, and loving kindness 

  may I move with patience, resilience, and resolve

  may I move with creativity, beauty, and abundance

  may I let love lead the way and open the door.

 

            richard hammer

                 4-1-21

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My friend Lorna Kant loves to write haiku - lines of 5-7-5 syllables.

When one comes to a

Bridge over troubled waters

Trust that it will hold

Invite yourself to cross the bridge of not good enough and come into your creative expression moment.

 

          Next Steps

 

How do you know when it is time

  to travel in a different direction? 

 

Is it star alignment?

Is it voices in the night?

Is it a trusted friend's insight?

Is it a card pulled from a tarot deck?

Is it a reading the writings of a wisdom teacher?

Is it going on a retreat and journaling?

 

There are paths, practices, and parallels.

 

Perhaps it is your enneagram type calling?

Perhaps it is your yin or yang side calling?

Perhaps it is your interaction with a loved one?

 

Is it a whisper or a shout that is heard?

Is it a shove or gentle nudging?

Is it a seasonal life pattern change?

 

Where are you out of balance? 

How do you know?

 

Can you open your heart and listen?

What values you hold need a deeper dive into?

Is it a small shift or great step to more fully embody

  these values? 

 

Spirit is always calling.

Nourish and nurture this calling.

Shift the terrain, inner and outer. 

 

Can you view your life as a theme?

Harvest the gifts of the past.

Cultivate self-honesty and self-love.

 

Decide to walk forward into the Light.

Decide to move what is stuck.

Decide to pause and listen for what wants

  to come in you, through you, and as you.

The mandala of your being is being expressed.

What is to be given? What is to be received? 

In all ways radiate this with gratitude and kindness.

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9-5-20 - richard hammer 

 

Today Is The Day

Today Is The Day

Today is the day

to add another thread to your life,

the creative weaving of the loom of you,

to add another awakening

to the ever changing vista,

to appreciate all that is you

and around you,

to be available to the experience

of rising and setting suns,

to touch another

with your ever flowing loving kindness,

to sing and dance wildly

in the evening moon light

while kissing the stars,

Today is the day to be all you can be,

authentically, unreservedly, boldly, uniquely you.

This IS your time.  Seize the day.

And show the world your happy face.

richard hammer

7-21-20 

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The photo is of Rebecca Dowling, a relative, 

who passed on from cancer at a young age. 

So much life lived and to be lived.

The Mystery Point

The Mystery Point

There is a stepping in and a stepping out,
and the place in between.
A moment of lifting of veils of conditioned
awareness for what lies there.

This is the mystery point,
a point of infinite energy and engagement,
a point of power, presence, and possibility,
a point of joy in the unknowing,
a point of allowing the fullness of being
to be uniquely expressed.

Just this, now
and now, and now.

~ richard hammer (6-12-20)

   Wisdom Moments

There is wisdom everywhere.

There is grist for the mill everywhere.

There is light for the next right step everywhere.

Pause now and listen.

What is asking to speak?

What is the voice that seeks being heard?

Sit here for awhile

  river’s edge, shoreline, or open field,

  mountain top, or forest path.

Open to the beauty that is shining here.

Open to the mirror of yourself

     Seeing you.

          richard hammer

               5-27-20

This time of CV Lock Down - March 2020

This time of CV Lock Down - March 2020

I have been pulling a card each day of the CV lock down from the Gabby Bernstein deck of cards titled Miracles Now.  Yesterdays card was – “When I fell blocked, emotionally distressed, or overwhelmed – I turn to my breath”.  Today’s card is “I am ready to receive love”.

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There’s a current Oprah-Chopra 21 Day Meditation ongoing series titled Hope In Uncertain Times. Currently on Day 8 – Activating the Hope Inside You. There’s a five day look back (free) to catch up. I have done most their 21 Day series but am finding this one to be one of the best.   Go to https://chopracentermeditation.com/experience

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Yoga International offers many free very good  programs.  

General areas of interest are in the categories of 

Move – Meditate – Relax – Breathe, 

They also have many very good courses to spend time on. 

See at  https://yogainternational.com 

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Then there is exploring the world with Kelly Wendorf and EQUUS.

Today's email article from her is noted below. You might like to subscribe.

15 WAYS I'M STAYING SANE IN LOCKDOWN  (today’s email from Equus)

https://mailchi.mp/equusinspired.com/15-ways-im-staying-sane-in-lockdown?

Kelly Wendorf is an ICF Certified Master Coach. a spiritual mentor, facilitator, horse-woman, published author, poet, mother of two astonishing people, and courageous life explorer. She is the Founding Partner of EQUUS, and the author of the new book Flying Lead Change (Sounds True), released in October 2020.   -https://equusinspired.com/

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And then there is this from poet and writer Jeff Foster for readers this week.

NONE OF US ARE IMMUNE  -- - Jeff Foster
It’s going to be okay.
It really is.

We will face this situation together with love, humour and patience.
We will weep together, we will laugh together.
We will discover togetherness in our apartness.

And the worst of it will end one day.
And we will have learned so much by then.

We will now be called to face very difficult feelings inside of us.
Fear. Grief. The loss of an old way of life. Our devastated plans.
We will learn to face ourselves. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
Nowhere to go except within.

A sacred quarantine.

We will learn to face our boredom. Our restlessness. The part of us that wants to be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else, having some other experience, in some other Now, living in some other life.
We will let go of the wonderful future we had planned.
We will let the fantasy future die, release it, and grieve it.
We will return to the solidity and warmth of the present.

We will make the present into our home.
We will begin again, here, build a new house on new soil.
We will explore a new way of life.
Strange, at first. But full of possibility.
Slower. Kinder. Quieter.

We will talk to each other honestly about death, and life, and impermanence, and how we feel about all the changes that have come to us and our loved ones.
We will learn to value life a little more.
Yes, perhaps we will learn to value life a little more.

And live with our hearts cracked slightly open to the elements.
And lean into uncertainty, and find our salvation there.

None of us are immune to change.
To rupture. To the shattering of old, familiar forms.
This is the way of things, this has always been the way of things.

From this perspective, nothing has gone wrong.
Crisis simply means “turning point”, and none of us are immune from the turning.

The breaking of the old makes way for the birth of new.
It has always been this way.

Love. Humour. Patience. With these things, we will come through.
Stronger than before. Renewed. Ready.

I am sending you all my love, my friends.

- Jeff Foster 

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May you be safe and know love this day.

May you pass it forward seeing others being safe and knowing love. 

Richard