Inspirational Writing: Poetry for 2012
My wish for you is:
May you be blessed this new year-as we continue to move through cataclysm to breakthrough on a global level. You may be feeling this on a personal level too, as energies are shifting around us-as we enter the Age of Aquarius.
Yesterday, new years day 1/1/2012, as I did my daily reading, I got the card “Kali” which in this deck means “endings and beginnings,” Kali is a Hindu goddess linked with destruction and endings. Further, the card meaning is “allow the old to dissolve, know that it is making way for the new to enter.”
At this point in time, I highly recommend meditation as a profound practice that can stabilize and ground you. I created an instant audio download kit called Zen of Crisis, that takes you through 3 practices-walking meditation, guided deep relaxation and a calming breath practice. All or one would be helpful at this time. See below for other helpful posts on meditation and some free resources.
I found this poem so bittersweet and tender and wanted to share it with you.
Namaste, Kala
Testimony (for my daughters) by~ Rebecca Baggett ~
I want to tell you that the world
is still beautiful.
I tell you that despite
children raped on city streets,
shot down in school rooms,
despite the slow poisons seeping
from old and hidden sins
into our air, soil, water,
despite the thinning film
that encloses our aching world.
Despite my own terror and despair.
I want you to know that spring
is no small thing, that
the tender grasses curling
like a baby’s fine hairs around
your fingers are a recurring
miracle. I want to tell you
that the river rocks shine
like God, that the crisp
voices of the orange and gold
October leaves are laughing at death,
I want to remind you to look
beneath the grass, to note
the fragile hieroglyphs
of ant, snail, beetle. I want
you to understand that you
are no more and no less necessary
than the brown recluse, the ruby-
throated hummingbird, the humpback
whale, the profligate mimosa.
I want to say, like Neruda,
that I am waiting for
“a great and common tenderness”,
that I still believe
we are capable of attention,
that anyone who notices the world
must want to save it.
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Womens Uncommon Prayers (Morehouse Publishing, 2000
Check out some other related posts on this blog:
Simple Breath Awareness Meditation Instructions
A Tongue n’Cheek guide to meditation called 5 Reasons Meditation Is Better than Sex (my second most popular post)
A Post on Metta (Loving-kindness meditation) with benefits and free audio links to learn more.
