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Open your mind and fully trust your eyes to see what the eyes see.Let your mind sit to the side observing and reporting what they eyes see without censoring and judging what it is that you may or may not see. You see and that is all there is to it.
At 45 degrees of lattitude I get a long twilight. It doesn’t let me see in the dark but I often think so! The last rays of light fade so gradually that my pupils widen accommodating the change and before you know it I am in the dark without really noticing that there’s only a couple of light beams left to see by.
The sun set at 9:33pm last night and I carried on mowing the lawns and making compost. An hour later twilight was deepening and I continued. A torch would have created invisibility beyond its beam so I relied on my eyes and completed the work. I hadn’t looked at the time until I came inside as I don’t like my head to fill with “Its so late outside you cannot see”.
I came in at 11:30 and went outside again later. The moon was coming up over the trees bouncing lightbeams of a glistening roof.
It is miraculous the amount the eyes see. The mind places limitations that mean you only notice what it tells you you can see. There have been times when I’ve seed far beyond the limits I normally place on my vision. The Australian aborigines were able to see the distinctive V of kangaroo ears many kilometres distant. It is like seeing things that the mind tells you couldn’t, but you have. It is both the eyesight and the third-eye sight.
Spiritual Exercise:
Imagine that your brain deceives you. Allow your eyes to gift you all that they see. Seeing in the dark and at other times can be a great deal of fun. Explore all that the physical eyes reveal to you. You will also find yourself seeing as Soul, maybe sensing whether there are cars coming around the corner, or that the person in front of you “looks healthy”. If there is anything you want to see ask your eyes to see it.
Ask your mind to only speak up if it is certain that you are hallucinating and to lie quietly if it could be true that you are seeing what you are seeing.
I held my new nephew in my arms for the first time today. A little miracle in a two week old body, that opened an eye occasionally to have a wee peeks at the world. I met this Soul three to four weeks ago. His name then was Eulidona. After that I kept wanting to say he’s going to be a male, but thought as soon as I said so, I’d be wrong and he’d be a female. His new name is Zacharia and he wasn’t in his body. Soul was off being Soul somewhere and body was running on remote.
I look foward to discovering his personality as he trains his new body to express himself; before he forgets his former life, though maybe he will choose to remember it.
Place Deva’s generally run the whole operation themselves. They take into account what humans want and do to a place but humans are usually unaware of their existence and make little direct input into the management of their place.
After connecting with Harmony’s Deva earlier this month, I decided to connect again in today’s spiritual exercise, and the Deva invited me to participate at a much more conscious level if I wished. So I discussed it with them, and with the Deva and my co-guardian, assumed full authority over who does what at Harmony. We are all to always do this with love, and to stay happy and calm all the time. Explosions of emotions, and ripples of dis-harmony, can disturb sensitive beings enough to lose their connection with what is right.
In the past I had told the birds, possums, goats and other animals what they could not do, and had been told many times that some levels of consciousness do not understand no, and so to them a ‘No’ statement is a ‘Do’ statement.
It seems much more effective to have every being ask for permission before they do anything. This all takes place at higher levels as has always happened within the spiritual heirachy under the Deva. So introduced birds may eat on the grass, hang-out in our mature hazelnuts and any native tree, eat foods put aside for them, such as the kale seed-heads we have left for them and fly within the clearing.
Rodents, mustelids, possums have been asked to leave by dawn tomorrow except where they are bringing up a family nested on site. They can complete this before moving on.
Introduced daytime mammals have been asked to leave by mid-night. Wild goats have been given prior permission to be here so they have been asked to consider the merits of Harmony’s ‘big picture’ and to leave if they wish. Any animals can visit briefly for safe harbour in times of emergency.
Any being can ask the Spiritual Masters, the Deva or either of us human co-guardians for whatever its needs are, and may be given special permission to do things such as sit in the human’s fruit trees.
Since giving this permission, I know they have the message, because every thrush and blackbird I’ve seen eating on the lawn has flown up into the hazelnut tree afterwards, and areas other than the kale, are noticeably quieter.
Any being can ask the Spiritual Masters, the Deva or either of us human co-guardians for whatever its needs are, and may be given special permission to do things such as sit in the human’s fruit trees.
“The key to allowing your awakening, as well as the change, is the ancient science of compassion” – Gregg Braden
The Heart is a Brain
Your feeling that many of your important ideas about what you most need to do come from your heart are heart-felt and correct. Your heart has neurons (nerves) that communicate with and listen to the neurons in your brain. Your heart makes hormones to modulate nerve activity and communciate with cells throughout the body. Your heart independently regulates its own rhythm and your whole body knows the beat of its pressure waves travelling through your arteries, and the electromagnetic pulse of each contracting and expanding heartbeat.
Your very breath modulates your heart. The heart sits between your two lungs and feels them filling with air and emptying. Rebirthing teaches that connected breaths rock the cradle in which the heart sits. Just as the child is soothed by the rocking back and forth motion of a cradle or pram. In the womb the child’s body grew in the company of this same motion from heart and lungs above. Held breaths have a frightening effect. The baby feels it if the mothers heart skips, or the pram or cradle stops its back and forth motion. Fast, shallow breaths encourage the heart to breath faster. Slow, deep breaths encourage your heart to “breath” slower.
Exercise
How fast do you need to breathe?
Is it really necessary to breath and beat that fast?
Exercise
Sit in a swing, sea-saw or rocking chair, or lie in a comfy hammock and get a nice cyclic swinging rhythm going with the help of a friend. This is what the Rebirthing, Heart Math (see below), and certain yogic and Chi breaths do. Breath together if you can. Then for 3 or 4 minutes match the swing’s rhythm to your breathing (and theirs if they can too), and imagine you feel your heart in your chest. Once your are in the rhythm of it. Have your friendly assistant change the motion of the swing, sea-saw, rocking chair, or hammock without warning you beforehand. Their movements should be gentle, firm and insistent in briefly imposing their own rhythm onto yours. Have them give you a few minutes to settle back into breathing and listening inbetween imposing their limits on your movements. Keep feeling your breathing and your heart beating, notice any changes, and discuss these with your assistant. Stay in charge of the process.
The heart comes before the brain (next chapter) because it connects to GAIA and the environment around us and feeds details to the brain and body. Gregg Braden teaches us in his book “Walking between the Worlds – The Science of Compassion” that changes in the electromagnetic field (EMF) of the heart change the EMF of Earth and that effects of the planet have also been measured in the heart field”.
Appied kinesiology has a theory that the left-right chambers of the heart relate to left-right functions in the body-heart and the top/bottom halves relate to higher and lower ‘thought’ functions just as in the brain (cerebrum/cerebellum). It is possible that the front/back of the heart relates to past and present/future as has been shown in extensive muscle tests of brain and body function.
HU
Sing HU (a spiritually charged word for God sung as in the boy’s name Hue) with a long drawn out uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu after the H. Sing it with your heart with all the love you can. Hu is a love song to God. Sink into your heart space and feel all that love waiting for you to discover and accept it.
Visit Eckankar for more information on HU, download a sample of people singing HU, or order a CD.
Heart Math
Heart Math encourages heart-based living by listening to heart rates and heart overtures (this author’s word use) and centering/breathing techniques to bring the hearts many rhythms into coherence. Overtures are my term for the heart rhythms that heart math speaks of when you measure the time spaces between heart beats. These measurements reveal a cyclic rhythm that translates to music if adjusted into the frequency of our hearing. Just as music can be heard when the songs of insects, such as bees and cicada’s are slowed down into our “speed of hearing”.
Check out Heart Math who are busy encouraging coherence and heart based living. You can download plenty of help to de-stress, relax, and get your heart waves flowing with rhythm.
Exercise
Take 5 minutes to sit or lie in a quiet space where you will not be disturbed by people, animals, or loud noises. Ask your heart for its daily news. What does it want you to know right now. Sit with it, write it down and come back in a week to review what you wrote.
If your heart says it wants to be looked after physically it might like:
Heart Herbs
Capsicum (Cayenne pepper) dried form from Supermarket. Traditionally believed to help prevent clots and to help the tissues stay alive when there is less oxygen.
Hawthorn berries. Tinctures or capsules.
Take these and/or others as recommended by your health practitioner.
Heart Nutrients
Carotenoids (this is the beta-carotene (carrot) family and full family is best)
Flavonoids (this is the Vitamin C family: full family is best)
Garlic, a clove or two a day helps keep blood vessels clear and supple.
Lecithin, a teaspoon or two a day helps keep blood vessels clear and supple.
Salmon Oil (free of toxins). Vegetarians may substitue flaxseed or evening primrose oil
Vitamin E (full family 8 vitamin Es in natural form is best)
Minerals: Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Selenium
Salt: Celtic Sea Salt harvested without touching metal, and magnesium rich with all trace minerals to prevent salt causing any problems in the body and to fix any that mineral-absent, pure, white table salt has caused.
This information is not for self-subscribing. Take each as recommended by your health practitioner.
Exercise
Heart pumping exercise that raised your heart rate and keeps you breathing deeply for 20 minutes or more three times a week. Have a health check up first if you are not sure of your heart health.
Pulsing
If you have a pulsing book to study, or a practioner in your area, explore the feelings of motion through your body, as they initiate different back and forth waves of rhythmic motion by placing their hands on places like head, shoulders, hips, and feet.
Exercise
Love is a heart-felt. Prepare someone a meal, or make them something while feeling the joy they are in your life, the love you have for them, the support you are keen to give them by doing this. See how they enjoy the joy you put into it.
Five Elements
In Chinese Medicine the heart is of the fire element. It is a yin organ because it works continuously. Blood carries your fire, your passion throughout your body. As you might well belief issues to do with love, forgiveness, security, and anger affect the health of the heart. Laughter heals the heart and as Norman Cousins, the Man who laughed at death, watched comedies to heal his body of cancer.
Exercise
Love is a heart-felt. Prepare another Soul a meal, or make them something while feeling the joy they are in your life, the love you have for them, the support you are keen to give them by doing this. See how they enjoy the joy you put into it. You may do this for friends, family, cats, dogs, birds, or livestock – anyone who can show their appreciation.
Soul Food
On page 137 of his book “Baking Bread with Children” Wareen Lee Cohen (www.hawthornpress.com) says “I have baked for communites large and small, sometimes with assistants as young as four years of age. I remember baking and serving fresh bread for a conference of 120 people. The mood in the kitchen was especially festive. We were working well together, singing and thoroughly enjoying our tasks, and one another. We filled the kitchen with our music and purposeful activity.
The bread we baked – some Italian loaves with herbs – turned out especially light and flavourful. They were not exceptional by a baker’s standards, but the way they were received by the guests was notable. The guests went straight for the bread and kept on asking for more and more. They literally sang its praises until there were only crumbs left. It seemed that they could taste the joy of our young bakers and craved more of this complete nourishment.
Time and again I have noticed a similar phenomenon. Other chefs have confirmed that whenever the mood in the kitchen is light and gay, so too is the bread. Likewise, when the mood is heavy, somehow the bread just won’t rise or taste right. Joy-filled bread nourishes the baker as well as the consumer in ways that go far beyond the nutrients of the ingredients. It has become soul food, with joy as the chef’s secret ingredient”.
Exercise
Eat food made by different people. You can do this one even if you live alone. Buy it from supermarkets,cafes or restaurants. You may even notice that their food is ‘not what it used to be’. Think about what those preparing the food may have been thinking about while they did so. Do you feel that they were enjoying their work?
When I was young I hardened myself to criticism and lived in my head so that I didn’t have to feel. I lost my sense of self-love and joy for living. I worked hard and had lots of money. I would have been dead in my 40s but I met wonderful people who started teaching me and my heart. I decided to have feelings. After lots of rebirthing and kinesiology I learned to listen to my feelings and my brain learned to respect their decisions. My brain and heart now have synergy, they play together on the same team… and I’m older than 40!
Affirmations
Louise Hay says on page 39 of her little book “You Can Heal Your Life” that if you squeeze all the love out of your heart in favour of money or position, and believe stressful living is worthwhile you more likely to have a heart attack or other health problem.
Her affirmative statments for the heart are “My heart beats to the rhythm of love”, “I bring joy back to the centre of my heart and express love to all” and “Joy, Joy, Joy. I loving allow joy to flow through my mind, and body, and experience”.
Heart Pain
See your doctor if you have what you think might be heart pain. See an applied Kinesiologist if your heart tests healthy and you still have pain in the chest or arm have a kinesiologist or massage therapist check your pectoral muscles for referred pain.
Health Checkups
Doctors, Nurses, Naturopaths and many others can listen to your heart and take your blood pressure. They can refer you to a cardiologist (heart specialist) if needed.
Iridologists and Reflexologists can give assess your health from reflexes in your eyes, and feet. Kinesiolgists can muscle-test and tell you what physical, dietary, nutritional, psychological and emotional factors are affecting heart and blood vessel health.
I need have
Heart of Earth
Fire of Spirit
Wind of Change
Wave of Emotion
Air of Inspiration
Oh mighty elements
Thankyou
For your devotion
To our mother earth
- David Baillie
You live beside a mountain of love
What do you aspire to climb?
You live beside a sea of love
In what do you choose to swim?
You live amongst all beings
Whom do you love?
Do you accept love, arms outstretched?
Do you let love in to all parts of your being?
Does love then radiate from you
Seeking out others?
Do everything for love
Do all things as gifts of love
Then you are
Living in Love
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Have we forgot that Spirit the matter does not make
Soul does Spirit embrace to again the matter make
All is Soul of God embued
Consciousness to Soul does grant
The wisdom to embrace
That every substance has its Master
Teaching It of Its learning
Every species has its Deva
By which It fulfil Its purpose
Every being its Guardian
To speak for it at Solar Council
Every element its elemental
That dreams it into form
Love to All Beings
- David Baillie
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My seed shape needs to grow
Please tickle water up my roots
And teach me how to breathe
So I may stand as stem and trunk
And reach my friend the sky
Give me stems to spread like wings
And unfold my leaves upon the air
From tender bud do give me
the flowers that are your home
Then I will call upon the bees
And create me some seed
My children then will call you
Because they too need to know
How their shape will grow
Written for the fairies
Love, David Baillie
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It is magic out there in the woods
Sometimes you think it is the rain
Sometimes you think its the wind
But really it is magic
Out there in the woods
An Elemental Poem
by David Baillie
In July (2008) I visited Karori Sanctuary in Wellington and in August Lorraine and I travelled throughout Northland meeting the Kauri, Pohutakawa and other old trees. This is the story that resulted:
Inside Harmony we first took down all fences that separated us from the animals and thus also separated all animals, including us, from our foods within Harmony. We enjoy being able to move freely wherever we have right of passage.
A fence is protective barrier used in the de-fense of our person and property. To have one is to define those outside as potential enemies. To place one around us defines ourselves as defenders – willing to fight to defend our property, our people, our food and shelter.
We have no such fence inside Harmony. Our perimeter fences give notice to visitors that they enter someplace different – that if they come in, they have changed places. Our fences encourage them to pause, and consider where they are before entering into a space of harmony. A different place of being.
We generally keep most domesticated stock and pets out with our boundary fences as we have not yet been able to teach them about harmony and they, without insight into its nature, take the land and its foods without respect to others. Our perimeters and especially our gate declare our intentions as owners and ask visitors to stay out if they did not intent to enter with respect for the rights of others. Those who enter and do not listen to the ways of Harmony are asked to leave.
Open boundaries around forests are a statement that everyone is a friend – if they want to be. They don’t have to prove themselves as one first, they already are because they can visit anytime.
Being asked to visit gives all the opportunity to listen and thus discover friendship, and the respect and understanding of others that builds harmonious relationship with others.
In five years without a gate we found other humans assumed our drive to be a public road open to them to drive on up, so we place a letterbox to let them know we were there. In those five years we found escaping domesticated animals would do the same as their owners.
In visiting fenced sanctuaries, such as Orokonui and Korori Eco-Sanctuaries I found that those who had created these X-cluder fences had a them versus us sentiment expressed in their focus on their enemies, and a pride in the warfare (trapping and poisoning programs) to keep pests out. We thought some of the absence of life energy felt in these places was due to these pest control projects.
In visiting open sanctuaries without predator proof fences, where such warfare existed on an even greater scale, such as the Kauri Bushman’s Park, Trounson Kauri Park, Waipou Forest, and Wenderholm Regional Park (Auckland), I was surprised to find that they felt more alive, and more energetic. It seemed the difference lay in the lack of a fence, and that this effect was enhanced by a more open attitude being nurtured by the creatures within and their guardians.
The old trees in the latter also spoke of the energy gifted to them in the reverence of those who visited and treasured them. Our two examples of “gated communities” Korori and Orokonui seemed similar to the many large property developments we also explored in Nelson, in that they add few such trees. It seemed to be an honour to their warrior guardians that they would tame the wild beasts in areas where in 500 years trees that no longer existed could once again thrive.
Likewise the areas that had old trees, and here I include locally Harmony and Volco, all the Kauri Sanctuaries we visited, and Wenderholm with the oldest grove of Pohutakawa, had not been predator fenced. In old forest there is no place for ego-driven pride in the goal of a 500 year restoration project to turn young scrub into forest when already one humbly walks beneath ancient trees that have done that same job for thousands of years.
With respect to kauri, Te Matua Ngahere, this nation’s 4,000 year old “Father of the Forest”, 2,000 year old matai, Mareikura, who we think of as “Mother of the Forest”, and older ancient ones of such presence that those who have seen them first thought them cliffs I walk humbly in the knowledge that forests nurture humans, and we will not walk without them.
In listening to these trees, all those who live under the mountains of this land, New Zealand, will find the message of this land, is the oldest of this world: to “Live in Harmony with All Beings”. Words of Waitaha, of Te Wai Pounamu (“The Waters of Greenstone”) the waka, anchor, and stingray are alive again. All are teachings on how we may walk, that the rest of the world may learn how to live.
This story appeared in Harmony Stories, July 19th, 2008.
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