Every penny given in care and love to the people of Haiti is a penny of peace, love, hope and healing for Haiti and our world.

Every hand yanking away rubble or repairing the water system is peace, love, hope and healing for Haiti and our wold.

Every hand bandaging the wound of a precious, living, breathing man, woman, child, mother, daughter, wife, husband, father, son,  uncle, aunt, cousin, and lover is offering peace, love, hope and healing for Haiti and our world.

Every arm carrying the lifeless body of a precious and loved man, woman, child, mother, daughter, wife, husband, father, son,  uncle, aunt, cousin, and lover is offering peace, love, hope and healing for Haiti and our world.

Every heartbeat of prayer for the people of Haiti is offering peace, love, hope and healing for Haiti and our world

May this peace, love, hope and healing spill over where there is war, lies, fear, and hatred and gently replace them.  May we know ourselves as united people living together on our beautiful home, Earth.

The world is ours to heal or wound.

Let the healing of Haiti be a healing  for our world.

Blessings,

BlanketofPeace

I’m going to post for a week and see what happens.

This life is an instant.  Real life is forever. Bless the people of  Haiti who are living, or who’ve died.  Send them love.  Know their peace.  Look to see what is true for you in relation to your family, your “family of man, of woman,  of children, of humanity” in Haiti.  Look to see.  Listen to hear.  Soften to feel.  Slow down, so you can see, listen and feel.  And you will know your truth.  What you will do for Haiti.  What you do for another, you do for you, you do for all.  We are one, we are.

In Peace,

Nancy

“When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future.

Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

The only way love can come into your life is not through form,

but through that inner spaciousness that is Presence.

Love has no form.”

- Excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s “Stillness Amidst the World”

Take a breath and collect yourself from the past.  There is no peace if the past is reaching into the present with negative energy and stirring you up.  Breath is a wonderful tool to bring you present.  For this moment, breathe and let the past disappear.  Breathe and set down the resentment, regret, anger.  You can pick them up again later, if you wish. And most likely you will.  Perhaps we remember these hurts in order to protect ourselves from a similar experience.  See if you can take the learning and leave the heavy energy.  Breathe and feel your feet on the ground, your legs and hips in the chair, your breath in your nose, throat, chest and belly.

Take a breath and collect yourself from the future.  There is no peace if the future is reaching into the present with negative energy and stirring you up.  Again, breath is one tool.  For this moment, breathe and let the future stay put in the future.  Breathe and set down the worry, anxiety, and fear.   You can pick them up again later, if you wish. And most likely you will.  Perhaps we decide to worry and be fear-filled in order to prompt us to take actions we believe will protect ourselves from repeating the past.  See if you can let go of what you cannot control.  Worry is like trying to steer a car right now for next week.  Oh, do I know worry!

Now you are here.  Now you are now.  Now your awareness is centered in your body, your present thoughts related to the present.  Now you are with your breath.  Now you are you.  Notice, notice.  You know what it’s like to be completely absorbed in a task – your mind can only do one thing and so it has no room for regret or worry.  We all find activities like that fulfilling.

Peace,

Nancy

Eric Fromm

You–Past–Future–Others–God–Feelings–Culture–Beliefs–Ego–Talents-Challenges –Love–Groups–Fat–Cancer–Illness– Institutions–Countries–Others’ Beliefs / Actions –Spiders–Snakes–Kittens…. These are a few example components with which we humans have a relationship. Any one of these components actively exiled from the whole disturbs our inner peace. Suppose we resist an event from our past. That resistance disturbs. It’s like a magnet from the past reaching forward and drawing to it energy and attention. It takes up resources that could be used to create, plan, laugh, have sex, etc. It often generates unconscioius beliefs. Resisting any one component gives it undue emphasis. We think we gain peace by ignoring or excluding or judging parts that disturb us. The opposite appears to be true. For years I couldn’t sleep, so for years I’ve fiercely and fearfully guarded my sleep time – afraid to fall into a pattern of exhaustion. Now, I just sleep. I put way less energy on the process. Love includes aspects of allowing, accepting, generosity, and forgiveness. This kind of love is the glue that unites all the parts into a whole. Love is a cornerstone of peace. Without this love there is still turmoil.

1. Focus on What is Not Working. Spend hours a day watching the news or reading it in the paper and talking about it to others. Let all your energy and attention be wrapped around the doom and gloom of the layoffs and the lack. Fill your brain and heart and time with those images. You are guaranteed to feel crappy, lousy, hopeless, fearful and not get a good night’s sleep which will make the process more dire the next day.

2. Pull In. Breathe very shallow breaths in the midst of all that fear so your body gets the message that something is terribly wrong. Stop moving so much, just huddle by the glow of the TV and get stuck. Hold your shoulders hunched up a little, tighten your chest, tense up your back, clench your jaw just a little. Your body will most likely join you with a cold or the flu, to guarantee you’ll be down for a week and every day will look more dire.

3. Stop Doing your activities, or finding new ones that you can pay for right now. Clomp around the house in your pajamas. Don’t get any help from your physical and spiritual support systems. Be stoic. Do it on your own. This will guarantee that any solutions that were on your horizon will never reach you, and every day will seem even more dire.

Whew! If you’re not down yet, amp it up!

Ack! Uck! How did that feel? I hope it felt disturbing to you. It sure got me down to write it out and picture it! I challenge you to do the opposite! Create your own weather and economy. Look for bright stories! Don’t wallow in the news. Follow up the bad news with good news – get some balance. Thank you! As you lift your energy it will lift those around you and ripple out to the world. I know it might seem a little Pollyanna to you, but you can choose your mood, create your own weather, and create your own economy!

Joy,
Nancy

Here’s an example from nature.  An eagle is built to hunt small, live animals. It has a very keen eye, sharp talons, a beak with leverage to tear and pull. It would be ridiculous to insist that an eagle become a vegetarian and eat leaves or seeds. Not going to happen. An eagle is always congruent with its nature. It lives on purpose without questioning. It would starve trying to eat seeds.  However, a finch is designed to eat seeds would starve if it tried to hunt small animals.   Both are relevant in the systems of nature.

Each individual has a Life Purpose – whether it comes from soul, genetics, or environment, or all three.   This is something that they do and be better than anything else, like the eagle is better at hunting than any other way of getting food.  You are uniquely designed to be a certain essence (perhaps love, peace, beauty, the sword of truth, joy). You are uniquely designed to do a certain thing in the world (like the eagle to hunt animals). You might put things together, help people find their path, see and communicate the next step, nurture new beginnings or bring harmony to relationships. This is your gift you give to the world.

Knowing your purpose and choosing to follow it (it is your choice) is  a cornerstone of your inner and outer peace.  Knowing your purpose allows you to ground and center yourself around your true nature. You are not fighting your strengths – trying to eat seeds with an eagle beak.  When you know and align with purpose, you are in harmony and at peace with your nature, rather than resisting it.

Stay tuned for the other cornerstones of peace.
I’m a Licensed Life Purpose Coach.  I’ve been trained by Tiim Kelley to help people find their purpose.  I lead people home to peace where their sacred dreams are born and nurtured into reality.   Please find out more at Emerging Brilliance.

Nancy