WE SHARE BREATH;

A MEDITATION

WE SHARE BREATH;

All things breath in one way or another. The foliage, the animals, the water, the planet, the people. We have been breathing and sharing the same breath as long as the Earth has been home to anything. As we have evolved, we have sullied the air but we still breath it and share it with all things. If we can become consciously aware of this sharing of breath we may become aware of it's importance to the health and welfare of our home planet.

This meditation is posted here to that end.

Sit in a comfortable and relaxed position (outside is best)  and bring your self into alignment with an alpha or meditative state (as in your tradition.)

Bring your awareness to your breath (breath through the nose only at this point) feel the air entering your body and feel it circulate throughout your biology. Become aware of it filling your lungs and how it moves into your blood stream to oxygenate your body...give gratitude for this as you study the breath and its life giving oxygen.

Now, become aware of the life around you; all of it, great and small, seen and unseen, even the rocks and dirt. Feel for water under the ground or at a distance from you. Open your senses to all of it.

For this next part you may focus on on particular item or on a body of the item (IE. One tree or all the trees around you)
As you inhale deeply, hold the focus target in your mind and allow your heart chakra to fill with love for it and think at it, “We share breath.” and exhale through your mouth in the general direction of the target. Send all your breath and love toward the intended item giving gratitude for its life giving return of breath.

Continue until you are filled with love, gratitude, and peace for your life and surroundings.
Peace and Joy, Love and Light, Namaste, Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2021, all rights reserved

NO, REALLY I LOVE IT

I was having my hair cut the other day and the gentleman in the chair next to me and I struck up a conversation about people in a relationship. He said that he had learned in his life to just say “Yes dear, that is lovely! No, really, I love it.” no matter how it looked. I countered that it wasn't that way with my husband and me. If he thought something looked off, wrong or not flattering, he would tell me so. The man said “and you get mad and there is a fight right?”

I took a few seconds to think about it and decided that I could answer with all honesty, “No, we don't fight. I ask for his opinion expecting honesty and I get it. Why should I be mad when I asked for his truthful opinion?” My conversation partner, and the hair dresser were both unconvinced. They decided that I was being duped and that my take on it was all wrong....this made me sad, not for me but for them.

On my way home and for a few hours after this encounter I pondered this topic. Are all relationships as dishonest and shallow as the one they had described? When I got home I posed the conversation to my husband and he raised an eyebrow and asked me if I was questioning his veracity at this late date (we have been married almost 19 years) I told him no, that I was wondering about other people.

One of the things that gets promised in most wedding vows is to love, honor, and cherish the other person. I am forced, in light of this conversation, to wonder how one can love, honor or cherish their chosen partner and lie to them on a daily basis. If you truly do love someone you don't send them out the door looking bad when all you had to do was say something like, I think the blue one looks better on you, or no that hat doesn’t flatter you. By the same token, if you don't want the truth, DON'T ASK FOR IT. If you do ask, then don't get mad at the answer. Stop and think for a minute how ridiculous that exercise truly is. In asking what you don't want a truthful answer to, you are setting your partner up to start a disagreement...why would you do that except to create drama. Why do you feel that is a good idea. If you want to fight, why not just ask for your significant other to tell you a whopper of a lie about anything and fight about that? Or to be more honest about it say “I want to fight with you because our life is peaceful and wonderful and I would rather it be mean and awful.” and start your fight that way? Sounds pretty stupid right? Well it is no more stupid than the constant lying.

Next time you are about to ask a question, decide whether your question is worthy of the truth and  important enough to ask or are you just starting some drama. Do you really want the truth? When it's your turn to answer, you might ask whether the person asking wants the truth or are they just making noise; if you aren't sure, ask them. Try and start a new tradition of truth and respect in your relationship, you may be surprised how easy it is and how much better you feel.

I hope this has given you some insight into something that may make your life more love filled and less dramatic. “May the entire Universe be filled with Peace and Joy, Love and Light. May the light of Truth overcome all darkness! Victory to that Light! Jai!”

Bright Blessings Chessie
© Chessie Roberts 2012 All rights reserved

A CLOTH BELT, A STONE AND VICTORY

A CLOTH BELT, A STONE AND VICTORY

Kevin and Liam met one day several years ago after a particularly brutal bullying session by some of the older boys. The two little boys had created a fast friendship because they were always being told, “Go away you're too little! You are weak, we don't need you. You are poor and dress in rags! Go away!” They felt bad because of this and the fact that the taunts were true. They felt safer together and found that avoiding their tormentors was easier with two sets of eyes.

The little friends had created a game of 'sling stones' and had gotten exceptionally good at it. They would use their cloth belts as a sling to launch the stones at a target. Kevin could actually sling one stone on his up swing, reload and throw another one on the back swing, hitting his target with both stones. He was teaching Liam how to do it. One day while they were practicing in the open meadow outside town, they saw the big boys approaching. Quickly Kevin and Liam hid behind some big rocks that were jutting up on the edge of the meadow. Their escape was just in time and the bigger boys did not see the smaller twosome. There were six fellows in the group of bully boys and they began playing a game with a ball and stick. The older boys jealously kept the rules of their game from the younger children. It seemed to be something the older ones thought was somehow special only to them. What they didn't know was that Kevin and Liam could not have cared a whit about it!

As the duo watched the game unfold from behind their rock cover but soon became bored and began talking quietly to each other about the nuances of the double shot with the sling. Their conversation was suddenly interrupted by shouts of alarm and dismay from the bigger boys. Without thinking about being seen, Liam and Kevin jumped up to see what was happening. The bully boys were grouped together staring at a pack of three wolves that had come quietly upon the group while they were focused on their game. The wolves had the group neatly circled with no avenue of escape.

Without a word between them, Liam and Kevin loosed their cloth belts, loaded them with rocks they had collected earlier and began their advance upon the wolves. Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Three stones fired, three targets hit. One down the other two running and yelping! Thwack! Thwack! Two more stones met their targets. Our little heroes were met with shouts of gratitude and amazement by the used-to-be tormenters. The truth was out that little things are important whether it is a small person, a quiet know how or just a cloth belt.

Bright Blessings and Much Gratitude for all things Great and Small! Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2012, all rights reserved

PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING

There is an old joke about how we see the glass half full or..: An optimist says the glass is half full... a pessimist says the glass is half empty...manager asks whether you are pouring or drinking...an engineer says the container is twice the size it needs to be...A realist says it doesn’t matter. It's just gonna have to be washed later anyways...The FDA says the glass has a design flaw and needs to be sent back to China to be re-engineered...a Republican says "Who's been drinking out of my glass?"...a Zen Master quietly picks up the glass and drinks...an opportunist drinks the contents while the other two argue...an Accountant wants to know why you're wasting money on a glass that's obviously too large...A physicist says the glass is neither. It is completely full, half with water, the other half with air...An analyst says it is neither, it simply contains 50% of its potential capacity....An alcoholic says “Make it a double”...an optometrist says you need new glasses...we hear "It doesn't matter." from The Nihilist..."Forget about it, just smash it." from The Anarchist..."There's no need to argue." from The Pacifist..."It is what it is" from The Fatalist.

Get it? Everyone has their own perspective, on everything! Another way to look at it is to take a glass and look thorough it at your vehicle, you have now filled the glass with something a whole lot bigger than you think it would hold. In reality (if I may use that concept here) all you have done is change your perspective.

You can do this perspective changing thing with your thoughts too. Dr Dyer says “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” There is so much truth in that statement for when you begin to look with new eyes and with love you start to see things that way. Wonder of wonders, as you continue to look for peace and joy and allow them to permeate your mind, they permeate your heart.

Now here is the cool part; from your heart, your new mind-stream will flow out to all around you, capture them and spread into their sphere of influence and flow out and continue on and on. How do you think the world would be if everyone did this? I can see lots of lovely things happening in lots of unexpected places. People really helping others with no ulterior motives, only love. Hunger, war, hate, famine, intolerance, neglect, abuse, and other things will fade away. A bit optimistic you say? Well, yes, thank you for making my point.

 Bright Blessings Chessie
© Chessie Roberts 2012, all rights reserved

“May the entire Universe be filled with Peace and Joy, Love and Light. May the light of Truth overcome all darkness! Victory to that Light! Jai!”