The Better Part of Life
As a result of an event I witnessed recently, I 've been made even more mindful of how much mutual kindness, respect, and a little laughter play in being able to have some therapeutic healing and peace. As we have seen from the levees of New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina to the people we know or hear about who suffer with dangerous addictions...."quick fixes" are just bandaids and more often prove more damaging in the end. People who farm and others who work closely with the earth understand that natural processes can take time and are the natural way of things. However, in a modern day"instant gratification" paradigm, even highly skilled and educated professionals may not be able to see this. Because so much in their own successful careers is based on time and money, some could be judgmental about something they may not understand. When we are more aware of the precision of our machines than the workings of our natural systems, we might want to think about that.
A lot of mistakes are made ~ many fights have been fought, and blood pressure risen (which can damage the HEART) because of things not being done more quickly than we'd like them to be. Living linearly in a straight line is like being on an express train and not having a chance to see the scenery. We may be missing the better part of life when we miss the processes and the meaning of it. ~ Patty Ann Smith
Flowing In Rivers of Being
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Did you know our human bodies are 80% water?
We are flowing in Rivers of Being.
We flow in and we flow out.
Water animates us,
keeps us alive, our spirits whole.
Water touches everything
and everyone.
from a Native American Spirit Brother
The Rainbow
Sunsets and rainbows, green forests
and restive blue seas,
all naturally colored things are my siblings.
We have played together on the floor of the world
since the first stone looked up at the stars.
Maya Angelou
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Planet Drum for Bioregional Awareness
"Planet Drum Foundation is working hard to promote bioregional awareness and action....Our main goal is to support bioregionalism - an approach towards ecological sustainability based upon creating sustainable ways for humans to interact with the unique natural features of each place: climate, land forms, watersheds, soil, and native plants and animals. Everyone is part of a bioregion, and at Planet Drum, we help people get in touch with ecology - to "reinhabit" their life-places." http://www.planetdrum.org/
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"When a person cannot deceive himself, the chances are against his being able to deceive other people." ~ Mark Twain
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
from Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese"
Spiritual Ecology
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"Ecology is defined as the science of the relationships between organisms and their environment. Generally we think of these relationships as being of a physical nature, but historically and practically, it is not. A beings environment is not only physical but we have an emotional as well as spiritual environments. Those of us who have been researching the spiritual environment of this world will usually agree that the spiritual proceeds the physical. That means that if there is a physical problem there is usually a spiritual problem behind it, and if we address the physical without addressing the spiritual, the resulting changes will be short lived. If, however, we address the spiritual and set the underlying problem right, the physical rights itself. This is because right relationships and honoring on the spiritual ensures right relationships and honoring on the physical."
Ecopsychology
"Ecopsychology, or eco-psychology as it is sometimes called, is situated at the intersection of a number of fields of enquiry, including environmental philosophy, psychology, and ecology, but is not limited by any disciplinary boundaries. At its core, ecopsychology suggests that there is a synergistic relationship between planetary and personal well being; that the needs of the one are relevant to the other."
The International Community for Ecopsychology http://ecopsychology.org/
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