{"id":362,"date":"2011-04-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-04-11T22:25:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T02:25:24","slug":"let-the-beauty-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2011\/04\/let-the-beauty-we-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Let The Beauty We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2011\/04\/full-moon-invite-md.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/107\/2011\/04\/full-moon-invite-md.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Today, like every other day, we wake up empty<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">and frightened. Don\u2019t open the door to the study<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Let the beauty we love be what we do.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">-Rumi<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">One of my favorite ecstatic poets whose writing touches my soul, reached out to me a while back at a kirtan with Suzanne Sterling and friends. This was a portion of what turned out to be a beyond belief (literally) weekend in which over and over, I was called on to surrender what no longer served or impeded growth and love and to call in what I most desire in all areas of life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It began when, along with 12 or so other WWWW (Wise Wild Wonderful Woman), I sat in circle, offering music, drumming, words, fire and intention at our monthly full moon Goddess gathering. I have known many of the participants for several years and some are new to my life. All are powerful in their own right . In their presence, I feel creatively inspired. When we parted company until the next month, having also indulged in decadent delights, including sushi and chocolate (two of my favorite food groups:) I allowed the car to take me home on auto pilot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The next day, I attended a workshop offered by Dr. Darren Weissman, who is based in the Chicago area, who spoke on one of my favorite subjects&#8230;.Infinite Love and Gratitude. He came upon the realization of the healing property of those words, along with the sign language symbol for \u201cI Love You\u201d and uses them as mantra and mudra combined. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Darren describes how those three concepts coalesce:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Infinite means &#8220;the universe&#8221; or &#8220;the collective conscious,&#8221; which has no beginning or end. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Love is the universal power that propels life, fueling your will and enabling you to face and overcome challenges. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Gratitude empowers you to go through life without judgment. You see the value of any experience (even situations you may have once perceived as &#8220;bad&#8221;) as an opportunity, rather than being a victim of circumstance<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Part of the admission price for the workshop included a copy of his book, entitled <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>The Power of Infinite Love &amp; Gratitude<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">. By the time I got there, the copies had been allocated and I was told that I would receive mine in the mail, unless someone didn&#8217;t show up who had ordered a copy. At that moment, I had set intention for leaving there with a book and then I set aside the thought and enjoyed the workshop, allowing for doing some compassionate healing work for myself through the use of what Darren calls <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Lifeline Technique\u2122<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> into which he incorporates the I, L &amp; G concept. The idea is offer that energy to yourself, another, the planet&#8230;. and also to the parts of ourselves that we may have disenfranchised, such as reciting \u201cinfinite love and gratitude to the part of me that fears loving and losing again.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">At the close of the workshop, a drawing was held to win a DVD series that introduces the work, a $500 value. \u201cPretty cool, I thought&#8230;I would love to have that to further my exploration into these ideas that I had begun to use with my patients and myself.\u201d Like the other people in the room, I put my slip into the basket and then walked out into the lobby to talk to someone. A moment, later, Darren asked, \u201cIs Edie still here?\u201d Guess who won? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Another cosmic coincidence&#8230;while there, I was talking about my friend Lisa Balter whom I hadn&#8217;t seen in months. She lives not far from where I was. A short while later, I stopped at Whole Foods and who should be behind me in the checkout line?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">So, back to the kirtan&#8230;. what drew me there to enjoy the rockingly angelic voice of yoga teacher, kirtan artist, Suzanne Sterling was my friend Brittany who, along with Seane Corn and Hala Khouri and other devoted volunteers traveled to Cambodia to do Seva (service work) with the organization called <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Off The Mat Into The World.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> I had gone to Brittany&#8217;s home recently and she mentioned that this spiritual song-bird would be coming to the area. I felt inexorably drawn to hear her, and with 25 or so others, to sing and dance along with her. Talk about ecstasy! She opened with encouraging us on this evening of the full moon to release whatever it was from which we chose to unburden ourselves and welcome in our heart&#8217;s desires&#8230;.sensing a theme here? The Goddesses Kali and Durga are about wiping clean all that no longer serves as well as fierce love and compassion and the first chant honored them. Once the room was sufficiently swept clean of those energies, we invoked the names of Sita and Ram, emanations of the Divine feminine and Divine masculine as means of allowing love in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The evening ebbed and flowed with soft sweetness and intensely powerful movement. I found myself enraptured, getting lost in the sound and feeling reverberation that seemed to burrow into my chest. Swaying, reaching skyward, undulating, stretching, curling inward, I was danced by the music, such was the call to surrender. At the end, I found myself feeling as if I was, as I have heard it said, \u201cdrenched in the nectar of the Divine.&#8217;\u201d and then Suzanne sang the words to the poem that began this story. I felt the tears come, without conscious invitation, but arriving even so. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">On this weekend of a full moon; \u201causpicious\u201d is what Suzanne called it, the Gods and Goddesses were properly honored, whether it was in the living room of a friend, a holistic center or yoga studio or under a starry sky as the gusting wind blew me to my car and carried my heart into the heavens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Namaste ~<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannesterling.com\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">www.suzannesterling.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthematintotheworld.org\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">www.offthematintotheworld.org<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. 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