A Memorial Day Tribute

I found two videos today that I want to share.... They are different, but yet they have a deeper similarity......

The first - a tribute to the men and women serving our country. They are someone's mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, cousin, nephew, niece...... who risk their lives every day to ensure our freedom.

I have two step-sons serving. One is back and soon to rejoin the civilian ranks. But I have friends and clients who have family members still involved in the military, as I'm sure you do too.

Remember them - the ones still serving, the ones who never came back.... the families and friends who love them....



Imagine a world where there is no more war.... no need for tributes like this...

A world where people live in peace.....

I believe it can happen. But it's not up to our Soldiers.

It's up to us.

When we choose to come from a place of Love, we move toward Peace. When we choose anything that is not love, we move away from it.

It's up to us - you and me.

World Peace..... begins in our heart - in my heart, in your heart.

What will you choose?

Here's to continuing the Journey.... remembering.... choosing love.... choosing peace

-Becky

P.S. I'll post the other video tomorrow.

I Suck at Hating

While searching online for some of Dr. Emoto's water pictures for a Sound Healing workshop a couple of months ago, I came across a video interview where he talked about his Rice Experiment.

(Dr. Masaru Emoto,  The Hidden Messages in Water, discovered that water from clear springs and water that has been exposed to loving words show complex, brilliant snowflake patterns, and that polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts form incomplete, asymetrical patterns.)

In his Rice Experiment, you get 3 jars and put cooked rice in each one then fill them with water. On one jar, you label "I love you" and on another you label, "I hate you". The 3rd jar is unlabeled. You then place them at least a foot apart and each day, to the one labeled "I love you" you say to it, "I love you." The rice jar labeled, "I hate you", you say to it each day, "I hate you." The unlabeled jar you completely ignore. You do this for 30 days.

The results I've seen others do, by the 30th day, the "I hate you" jar of rice is pretty nasty. You can see one example here: www.43things.com/entries/view/3685797. You can see other examples by googling "emoto rice experiment pictures."

My 30-day results picture did not turn out that way. Here's what I got....

 Day 1 - Love

Day 30 - Love

                                                                     

Day 1 - Hate

Day 30 - Hate

Not much difference.

When I started this experiment, I started with the "I love you" jar and did the "I hate you" jar second. But that didn't feel good, so I'd go back and do the "I love you" one again so that I could leave in a more positive frame of mind.

After a few days I realized, oh... talk to the "hate" one first, THEN the "love" one! (Duh! :)

I also figured that I would gather all my frustrations and sort of "throw" them at the "hate" jar as I said the words. But I found after almost a week of doing this, it was getting harder and harder to get into the "feeling" of hate each day.

What this experiment made me aware of was the difference in the "energy" feeling of "love" and "hate." Going back and forth from neutral to love, then back to neutral and to hate - then doing it the other way around, from neutral to hate, then neutral to love - it really fine-tuned my awareness of how those feelings felt in my body.

I highly recommend this experiment for that reason.

Here's to continuing the Journey.... experimenting... loving.... hating..... feeling the difference....

-Becky

A Great Way to Send Love

Visualization is "seeing" in your mind's eye - or imagining.

Some people think they can't "do" it. However, I think as humans we do it so naturally that we aren't even aware of it. For instance....

Think about your car. Did you picture it in your mind? If you didn't get a clear picture, you probably at least got a sense of it, right?

Think about an event in your past, like the best birthday you ever had....

Some kind of image and feeling came to mind, didnt it?

When you remember a past event, or imagine a future event, or think about anything, your mind gets some sort of image or picture or feeling. That's in essence, visualization.

AND your mind does not know the difference of whether the event - or what you are "seeing" - is real, as in happening right now, or if it's imagined, something that happened in the past, or in the future, or if you're just "making it up."

The thing is.... whatever you put your attention on, that is where energy flows. It's like sending a signal out to the Universe that says "this is important, this is what I want". The more you think about it - visualize it - and the more emotion you put behind it, the bigger the signal gets.....  (even if it's something you consciously say you don't want)

But.... getting back to love.....

Visualization is a great tool to use to send love. Remember, energy flows in the direction of your attention..... And adding emotion gives it a super-charge.

Here's an exercise to try this Valentine's Day - or any day....

1. Sit quietly and take several deep slow breaths.
2. Put your awareness on your heart. You may want to place your hand on your heart.
3. Think of someone you love and allow yourself to smile and remember them in your mind.
4. Imagine that you are breathing through your heart and with every exhale, imagine that you are sending out loving, healing energy to this person. You may want to add color to that energy, seeing it as a white beam of light coming out of your heart going into their heart. Or some other color.
5. Breathe, smile, focus, and imagine connecting with them in this way for several minutes, or as long as you like.

My new Heart-Speak Meditation has a variation of this visualization exercise on it with original, soothing music behind it. I invite you to check it out at http://tinyurl.com/heart-speak

Here's to continuing the Journey..... sending love and healing to you on this Valentine's Day.

-Becky

Clear the Fear, Embrace Faith

"He who fears something gives it power over him."
- Moorish Proverb

With all the fear talk about the recession and everything, I wanted to do something to help people get out of the fear! and refocus their energy on more life-enhancing avenues of thought.

What you focus on, you get more of...

If you are hooked to the media and their constant bombardments of how bad things are.... then that's what you'll see all around you - only the bad stuff.

And "THEY" will have won - you've bought in to their hysteria-making, which ups their ratings, which helps their business.

It's their business to bring you the doom-and-gloom because that is what sells.

Can you really afford to continue investing in fear?

"There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much
more in our faith to make us unafraid."
- Frederick W. Cropp

It's time to Clear the Fear and Embrace Faith... faith in yourself, faith in God, the Universe, ... whatever you call that Higher Power ....

But, to get back to Faith, you've got to make room for it by letting go of the fear.

That's what my teleclass on Saturday, March 21 will help you do. We'll go through a very powerful process of releasing fear, reconnecting with your heart, and refocusing on the love that is within and around you.

You'll also learn about the Power of Your Voice and why it's one of the oldest healing tools in the history of mankind.

Find out more or register here. I hope you'll join me.

Here's to continuing the Journey... being in service... doing what I can to help heal the planet....

-Becky

Sound Healing Meditation for Love and Peace

In celebration of Valentine's Day, the World Sound Healing Day, and the dawning of Aquarius, (see two previous posts) I've just created a Sound Healing Meditation using the Sacred Solfeggio frequency for Connecting and Relationships - FA 639 Hz - which corresponds with the Heart Center. These original sound frequencies were used in ancient Gregorian chants, including the great hymn to St. John the Baptist. (get more info here)

The sounds you hear (in order of appearance) are "pink" noise, OM tuner, and the FA tuning fork. The FA tuning fork is played 9 times (symbolizing completion). The whole meditation is 9 minutes. (turn up your speakers... the pink noise is quiet :)

Click here to download…

Meditation Suggestions:

1. Use the beginning pink noise to take three deep breaths and get settled and comfortable.
2. The first tone will be the OM Tuner which is the vibration of the Earth in a 24-hr period lowered about 30 octaves. This is a deep, relaxing sound. As you listen, breath into your heart. You may wish to lay your hand on your heart to help focus your awareness there. Continue breathing with your attention on your heart center throughout the rest of the meditation.
3. As the first FA tuning fork sounds, think of someone you feel a deep connection and appreciation for. Breath in this appreciation, love, and gratitude. Imagine the air you are breathing in and out is the color pink.
4. As you exhale, see your breath connecting with theirs. Feel your hearts dancing in gratitude for one another.
5. If you wish, tone the sound "AH" or hum the sound of the tuning fork. Or just enjoy the sound as it washes through you.
6. Continue breathing and feeling and visualizing, adding more people into your circle of loving awareness.
7. Gradually enlarge your circle to include your city, your state, your country.... and the world. See yourself and the world in peace, connecting easily and effortlessly, filled with love and appreciation and gratitude for each other and for life on this planet.
8. After the 9 FA tuning forks have sounded, you will hear the OM Tuner again. Imagine your world family going back to their lives and you coming back to yours still feeling the connection with them. We are truly all One.
9. Continue to feel this loving connection until the pink noise fades out. Then take one last slow deep breath in and out, saying a prayer of gratitude. When you are ready, slowly open your eyes.

Here's to continuing the Journey... breathing... feeling.... and becoming peace and love.

-Becky

World Sound Healing Day, February 14

February 14 at noon Eastern, join Jonathan Goldman, (master/guru of sound healing) , the Sound Healers Association, and thousands of people as they tone the heart center sound, "AH".

"AH" is a universal, non-denominational heart sound. When you tone (sing) this vowel sound with focused energy, it is extremely powerful.

You're invited to sound the "AH" heart sound for 5 minutes with the intention of Peace and Love at Noon Eastern or at any time throughout the day on Saturday.

You can go to http://www.templeofsacredsound.org/ and enter the Toning Chambers and tone along with a pre-recorded "AH". Or you can download an "AH" sound from the Healing Sounds website.

"In order for compassion and, kindness to manifest on the Earth, it is vital that the Global Heart of the planet be activated as well. This can be accomplished is through sound.In many sacred traditions is the understanding that there is mind, there is body and speech (sound). Sound is the interconnecting linking mechanism between body and mind. With Temple of Sacred Sound, through using Global Sound, we can work with the Global Mind (the Internet) to activate the Global Heart as well as create a direct connect to spirit and to the Divine." (HealingSounds.com)

Here's to continuing the Journey... taking responsibility for BEing the change we want to see... getting involved and helping the world change for the better!

These are exciting times!

-Becky

The Age of Aquarius... It's Here!

Remember the 1969 hit, Aquarius?

When the Moon is in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Then peace will guide the planets
and love will steer the starts.

Well, at dawn on February 14th there will be a concentration of cosmic influences blending with the energies of Aquarius and the Moon will be in the 7th house.... (You can get all the astrological details here.

The exciting thing is that the "Universe" will be in perfect alignment to support our collective manifestation of love, peace, and the dawning of this new age of spiritual enlightenment.

You are invited to be a part of this momentus event and to set your intention for the future:

At 7:25am on 14th February - and for the 18 minutes of the alignment, you are invited, in the universal heart, to add your own intention for love and peace and to co-create the dawning of the Age of Aquarius to that of the Cosmos. In whatever way feels appropriate for you, you may choose to align with7.25am (UT) or 7.25am your own local time energizing a wave of intention that will surge around the Earth.

Here's to continuing the Journey... aligning our collective intentions for peace and love... helping to set the course for this exciting time of change as we move into higher levels of consciousness.

-Becky

PS. for some inspirational nostalgia... watch the 5th Diminsion perform Aquarius.
Here are the lyrics:

When the moon is in the seventh house

and Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of a Aquarius,

the age of Aquarius

Aquarius, Aquarius

Harmony and understanding

Sympathy and trust abounding

No more falsehoods or derisions

Golden living dreams of visions

Mystic crystal revelation

and the minds true liberation

Aquarius, Aquarius

When the moon is in the seventh house

and Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace will guide the planets

And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the age of a Aquarius,

the age of Aquarius

Aquarius, Aquarius

Let the Sun Shine in....