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 its 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 yourself 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

                     NO, I REALLY LOVE IT 

                                                 © Chessie Roberts 2012 All rights reserved
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 hairdresser 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

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!”

HUMANS AND TREES

Trees; we love them, we have worshiped them; they are universal symbols found in the mythologies  of all peoples around the world; they are ancient symbols of growth, unfolding shelter, nurture. They are seen as gatekeepers to the next world and to other realms. They are touted as the keepers of higher vision and the absorbers of its higher knowledge and wisdom.

The correlation between their life cycle and humanity’s is seen as a bridge between us and the Earth and the Heavens. And, to further intertwine us with the trees, our environment depends upon them and theirs upon us....we share breath and because of this, the tree is a wonderful metaphor for our condition of growth and health.

Trees and humans can be broken down into “like” parts. A humans physical foundations correspond the the trees  lower trunk and roots. Like a tree we must pay attention to what we are growing in, our soil, air and water (what type of environment are we creating with our thoughts, perceptions, judgments and responses). We have to be pruned (loss and renewal) in order to achieve growth.

Just as a tree is open to damage from outside sources such as insects and pollution, we are too. If we are not aware about keeping out spiritual, mental and emotional energies balanced, the imbalance will work its way into our physical body and show up as illness. This is why learning that we truly operate on different levels within us is very important.

Learn to take care of your balance of body, mind and spirit so that as you grow and evolve into the wonderful person you are meant to be, your path will be a joyous and blessing filled one.

Bright Blessings, Love, Light and Laughter , Chessie

© Chessie Roberts 2012, all rights reserved

FOR MOTHERS DAY

FOR MADELON M. SCHWARTZ

1924-1997

                                                Lyric from the title cut from “The Angels Sang” by Archer's Meadow
                                                             written by Chessie Schwartz Roberts © 1997, All rights reserved.

An' the angels sang before they came to take her

In all my life 'twas the only thing that I saw shake her.

She was all that's left, all the rest had gone before her.

All that's left behind are memories in my mind--- and I adore her

You have someone with you to guide you along,

Some one to teach you and to help you be strong.

Someone to protect you; they won't steer you wrong.

You learn how to love them, and then you are gone,

oh, you learn how to love them, and then they are gone.

An' the angels sang before they came to take her

In all my life 'twas the only thing that I saw shake her.

She was all that's left, all the rest had gone before her.

All that's left behind are memories in my mind--- and I adore her

Where does love come from? Where does it go?

How does it chose us? We may never know.

It brings us such sadness, it brings us much joy.

It just comes to take us and make us it's toy.

Oh it just comes to take us and make us it's toy.

An' the angels sang before they came to take her

In all my life 'twas the only thing that I saw shake her.

She was all that's left, all the rest had gone before her.

All that's left behind are memories in my mind--- and I adore her

http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_5080974

To all mothers of all ages on both sides of the veil. Enjoy your parents as much as you can, you will miss them when they move on to the other side. Bright Blessings to you all and HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!

© Chessie Roberts © 2012, all rights reserved

PROGRAMING

PROGRAMMING 

© Chessie Roberts 2012, All rights reserved

“One determination I have concluded...technology has been used

 on us in the same manner as we used blinders on horses...the

 leather pads attached to the sides of a horse's head...to keep him

 focused...only...on what we want him to see...we spend most

 of our days and nights...looking down...when we absolutely

 need...to be looking

 up...”{Leo Walton}

I know that we are programmed by all sorts of things through our lives. I teach this information to others and explain to them how and why it happens. However, in the past six months or so, I have had it displayed for me in an unexpected way.

I try to use my time in pursuit of knowledge, wisdom and information rather than just staring mind numbingly at the TV but, I have discovered a station that carries the shows, or should I say programs, from my youth. I admit, I was sucked in and I now understand why. It was so that I could report to you what the programmers did to us.

The cartoons from the 40s and 50s were overtly sexual. The ones from the 60s alluded to the alteration of one's brain chemistry. As I have watched the westerns, I have realized the overt damming of and the assimilation the Native American and the African American into a “whiter culture” and have watched the pendulum swing (slowly) in the direction of honoring other cultures and allowing them to just be.

I have seen the Feminist Movement move from total oppression to the acceptance of women as people too. I have watched the dawning of the fact of molestation that, when I was growing up, no one talked about, the fact that seems to be mainstream in our society these days I find a bit alarming.

I have watched, this time with conscious awareness and better understanding of what I was seeing. I have watched, with horror, the demise of our dietary choices and a dumbing down of society as a whole as we have been programmed to give our power over to those “who know more that we do.” 

The doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists and even celebrities who are now knowledgeable about things “beyond our comprehension”. We have sat in bondage to the flickers of the waves coming from the box that mesmerize us into believing we are separate entities, that we are entitled to whatever we think we desire, and should get it no matter what the true cost; that we must rely on the opinions of others to make us worthy to be. We have been taught that we need to have committees of friends with whom to share our ideas in order to make them worthy of presenting. Society seems to have embraced the idea that we are connected to everyone else's drama and that we should re-act accordingly (get spun up in it) 

This idea is embraced while we look away from our true connection to the planet and ourselves, and our responsibilities to it and to ourselves. We feel detached from everything unless there is fear, drama and angst. We have given over the wisdom of the ancestors, our own common sense and the ability to think for ourselves to the prognostications of our electronics. 

Those wonderful toys that bring everything, true or false, within eyesight and earshot. The information we get now is so fast and overwhelming that we are numbed by it and accept what is easy. Take the product, aspirin for instance. For eons it (willow bark) was used for pain relief and as a blood thinner. Then big pharma began touting it as a help in time of heart attack, which it was, but the selling job was so successful in the US that now the advertising is geared to remind us that it is good for pain relief; and the pendulum swings again.

The other thing we get from programing is the idea that we need to be victims. This pendulum is just now swinging back to the “stand in your own power and lift yourself up” side of things. I say good to that.

Now I am not saying that this is all a bad thing, but I do caution balance and due diligence. If it doesn't vibrate comfortably with you, check it out. By the same thought process, if it seems too comfortable, check it out; is it playing into your memes (false ideas of truth) or is it reflecting a prejudice you have? If it sounds too good to be true; it probably is. If you can achieve it without any effort; run the other way. If you are angered by it; you should figure out why, there is probably a lesson in it for you.

Wisdom is a wonderful thing, but it does not just fall on you like rain, it is something you have to look for, work for and truly desire to find. It requires work on your part, like it or not anything worth having is worth working for. By becoming aware of the programing around us that is, in our present time, fast, furious and doesn't give us much time to think and make a conscious aware decision to “wake up and pay attention” {EOS} we can use it to our advantage. “Turn on, tune in, drop out” was the rally cry of the kids in the 60s. We can change that to better use in this century “turn off (the TV) tune in (to our higher self) and drop in (on your own power and life) to make this the best year you have ever had.

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