Blessings

A couple weeks ago I watched a film called "Water: The Great Mystery".  This film explores the structure of water, and how the structure (not the chemical compound) changes based on the influences of emotions, sounds, words, temperature and so on around it.  The film sited Emoto Masura's work on the messages from water.  Masura has experimented with taping a word facing inward on a glass of water and then flash freezing it and looking at the crystals under a microscope.  When words like "thank you" or "love" or "beauty" are used the crystals are symmetrical and beautiful, when words like "hate" or "kill" or "idiot" are used the crystals are asymmetrical and unattractive.

The film draws a correlation to the spiritual or religious practices around the world and how everyone has a practice of saying "grace" or a prayer of thanks when eating a meal.  These words of gratitude could have an effect on the water molecules in the food.

After watching this film, I have been greatly aware of the water I am drinking and the food I am eating and being mindful to thank the water and the food for the sacrifice and gift that has been given for my nourishment.  This mindfulness has spread to being aware of the sounds emanating from the TV or car stereo and what those sounds may be doing to the water molecules in my body.  I am aware of the words I speak to others around me and what effect my words may have on the water molecules in others.

I have found myself smiling more, humming, dancing and even smiling at myself in the mirror.  I have noticed that I feel more alive, more awake and happier.  I am making conscious choices to be in love.  Knowing that allowing myself to be upset can affect the water molecules in myself and in those around me has helped me choose joy.

I am incredibly grateful for this film and I recommend it highly!

Be love, be in love, and love being!

Why it matters . . .

I have talked about my Wild Women Workshop for a while, and planned to start it in October.  However, there were only 4 people signed up, so I moved the workshop back to a start date of December 3, to allow more time for more people to sign up.  I want you all to know why this workshop matters so much.

This past Saturday October 29th, I was attending a seminar by the author Charles Eisenstein.  He has written several books. (“Sacred Economics,” “The Ascent of Humanity,” “The Yoga of Food.”)  In this seminar, working with a partner we did two exercises.  The first was to state something, and then make up two stories about the thing we stated, one story would be obviously smaller and the other bigger.  Mine went like this:

Only 4 people have signed up for my Wild Women Workshop, and I have moved the date to get more people.

Story #1: People don’t think my workshop is worth spending money on.

Story #2: My workshop is so exciting that people are afraid to sign up because they may change.

The second exercise was to speak a vision of a possible future that would relate to my first statement.  The partner was to stand in the place of the vision and ask me what hurts.  “What hurts,” could be looked at as what is missing or what is “wrong” that your vision addresses.

This process went like this:

My vision: I live in a world where women are strong and powerful.  We have let go of our captivity.  My daughters are wise and strong and make choices from their power.  Men and women live in equality and respect.

Partner: What hurts?

Me: I have chosen relationships that are abusive and that squash my gifts.

Be with the feeling.

Partner: What else hurts?

Me: My daughters have suffered because of these choices.

Be with the feeling.

Partner: And what else hurts?

Me: Men in our culture have been wounded in such a way that they close their hearts.

Be with that feeling.

Partner: And what else hurts?

Me: Little girls in our world are sold into slavery and marriages to be raped over and over by men.

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I finally understood in my cells why this work matters.  I can’t single-handedly go to Yemen or Afghanistan and save all the little girls and women.  I can however empower women around me, who empower women and daughters around them, and the ripples flow out.  Something else I learned this weekend, someone in my class said that wounds heal from the edges in.  If we don’t start here on the edges doing our work, how can the healing ever reach the center?  It doesn’t work to jump into the middle of the wound to heal, we must start on the outside and work in.  So, I say, with absolute conviction that my workshop is not “just” a workshop, it is the beginning of the healing of the edges so that the wounds can be fully healed.

So if you are a woman, or teenage girl and want to make a difference, know it must start with you.  If you are a man receiving this, you probably have mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, cousins or friends in your life who have gifts to offer the world and need a little “goosing”.  This workshop is not about militant feminists getting together to rally against men.  The gifts that women have are healing for men as well.  This is a workshop to recover the lost intuition and empowerment so that our gifts can be freely given to this world.  

Email me at spiritpoint@sprintmail.com and I will send you the flyer for this workshop.

If no one else signs up, I will offer the workshop to the four who have signed up, no matter what.  I would, however, love to see ten women in this workshop, because I say it matters.  

Love,

Dee

You Matter

Every particle of the Universe is important.  Change one particle and you change everything.  Sometimes our lives seem random, like someone happened to make love with someone else and accidentally a new person is born.  You weren't planned, or so you think.  My firstborn was not "planned" and yet my life twenty-nine years later is so incredibly enriched by her presence, I know it couldn't have been random.  Each of you are particles of the Universe, and are intentioned by something bigger than ourselves.  You are matter and you matter.

As an acupuncturist, each person who walks into my treatment room is beautiful, unique and an important part of the whole.  It is one of the things I love about my work, witnessing the unfolding beauty of individuals who are interconnected to all the other individuals in a perfect fabric of living, breathing, ever-changing expression of love.