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THE POWER OF NOTHINGNESS (CONT’D)
The first three exercises we’re doing this week are from Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969), a Belgian-French explorer, Buddhist and writer famous for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet in 1924, when it was closed to foreigners. The Power of Nothingness then continues with Colette’s exercises. Using them together, we are carefully lead to release those things that keep us repeating the same unproductive habits and as Colette says in her poem, Cerf Volant “If we cut the links, like a white bird, the Soul flies.”
Today we begin the Power of Nothingness, or Empire of Nothingness, the fifth chapter of Colette’s Exercises in The Encyclopedia of Mental Imagery. The aim of these exercises is beautifully stated by Colette in her poem, Cerf Volant:
“I am not myself, but a lot of little selves. By possession and passion, they tied me down. If we cut the links, like a white bird, the Soul flies. -Colette
The first series of exercises in this chapter is called Seeing Life Through A Crystal Eye. In the first exercise you’ll come upon the word reliquary. The book’s glossary defines a reliquary as “Container for relics (holy items), which may be the physical remains of saints or other religious figures (e.g. bones, pieces of clothing, or some associated object).
As we’ve mentioned before, with long exercises don’t get caught up in the language. Let your images flow with what you pick up readily. These are the elements of the exercises that have value for you in that moment. You can always go back to the exercise during the week–or any time you wish.
HERE’S THE AUDIO OF THE IMAGERY POSTED ON FACEBOOK.
Close your eyes and breathe out three times. See, feel, sense and know a candelabra for three candles, holding two, the third space empty. How are you effected by this?
Breathe out one time. See the candelabra and place a third candle in the empty space. Feel how consensus comes about. Breathe out one time and open your eyes.
Do this Imagery for seven days, preferably first thing in the morning or before going to bed.
CLICK BELOW FOR AUDIO OF SEEING WHOLENESS IN THE WORLD IMAGERY II
P.S. I have no idea why the Click and Listen symbol has disappeared–and why clicking on the audio (now the name of the Imagery immediately above this P.S.), takes you to a black screen. The good part? You can hear the Imagery exercise. We’ll work this out ASAP.
What a wonderful gift! To get a chiropractic adjustment from Mrs. Santa Clause while Santa waits to take off with his reindeer. Anything can happen if you believe.(That’s Dr. Bryn Gillow and Dr. Greg with me at one of Life Is Good Chiropractic’s many celebrations of life.)
Hoping you had as fun-filled a holiday as I did. And now that these busy days are waning, it’s time to get back to our Wilhelm Reich Audio Imagery from the Encyclopedia of Mental Imagery.
Click Here And Listen to Into the Mirror, See Your Face: To Remove Symptoms, Ex. 1
Click Here And Listen to Into the Mirror, See Your Face: To Remove Symptoms, Ex 2
Click Here And Listen To Into The Mirror, See Your Face: To Remove Symptoms, Ex 3
Note: Colette recommends this exercise be practiced once daily in the AM for 21 days.
It’s not my intention to rush these exercises, but our aim was to complete Reich this year. Here’s the final group of exercises in the Reich chapter. They’re called We AreEmbodied Beings By Elaine Waldman, a Reich student, and are designed for overcoming sexual inhibitions. If it’s too much to complete, let me know through the Comments section and you can do them from now through January 5, otherwise, we’ll begin the New Year with The Power of Nothingness.
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 1
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 2
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 3
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 4
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 5
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 6
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 7
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 8
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 9
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 10
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 11
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Overcoming Sexual Inhibitions Ex 12
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Ex 13
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Ex 14
Click Here And Listen To We Are Embodied Beings, Ex 15
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Hope your holidays were joyful and blessed. Barbarah
WELCOME TO BARBARAH’S BLOG AS WE MOVE INTO THE CULMINATION OF ADVENT: THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST
The community response to the Sandy Hook School tragedy demonstrates the best in people rising out of unimaginable events to embrace and support one another. In their own way they reflect what Mary experiences when she births Jesus Christ. She revels in his innocence, knows and feels the pain of his destiny and embraces everyone he draws toward him, creating a community in which all are welcome.
PROTECT YOUR HOME AS A HAVEN
We control our environments, so let’s make them as healing as possible. Here are a few suggestions:
1. Give television a rest. You’ll save your energy for positive acts of loving kindness, protect your children from the needless details and retelling of this tragedy, and maintain an atmosphere of normalcy in your home–a respite from everything that may be going on beyond your doors or being broadcast endlessly by TV news.
2. Take the advice of your children’s school counselor about answering your children’s questions. Nothing is more confusing for a child than to get several variations of what has happened and why. And above all, do not pressure children to talk about this. When ready, they will initiate the conversation. They need time to process the information they have, and to grieve in their own way.
3. Children’s Imagery is an effective tool during times of crisis and loss. Next week you’ll find an article on Healing Imagery for Children. The techniques suggested have been used with great success by Colette for children often experiencing death and violence in Israel, by Dr. Epstein in his private practice and by me with children at pre-school centers. In the meantime…
Spontaneous drawing is a gentle way for children–and adults–to express what they cannot put in words. Keep paper and crayons of many colors accessible. Resist analyzing the drawings. Simply ask the child if they’d like to tell you about their picture. For some children, much will gush out. For others, what they have drawn is all they are ready to express. It’s tempting to want to “get through” this and see evidence that your child is unscarred, but resist pushing for more than the child is ready to give. If you child wants to display the drawing(s) that’s fine. It’s also fine for them to keep the drawings private.
Keep track of the drawings. They tell a story and can be a valuable tool if your child seems stuck for weeks and needs help.
Christmas is a season of joyous reverence. The Advent/Christmas Audio Imagery as well as the Imagery for Sandy Hook School victims may comfort you and guide you.
Have a blessed Christmas. Barbarah
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The Imagery for this fourth week of Advent through Christmas can be reached by clicking on the first item in Categories. If you have completed the exercises–or desire to help the victims of the Sandy Hook School tragedy–go to the post called Healing Imagery for Sandy Hook Victims and Their Families, the top item in Recent Posts.
P.S. With two unimaginable events calling for Imagery, with Advent and Christmas, we have not yet completed the Wilhelm Reich exercises, We Are Embodied Beings. I’m aiming for the Thursday before New Years, December 27, 2012. Hope you’ll join me. .
…These are sad days for this small, beautiful community. Let’s not stand hopelessly by. Spend a few minutes doing this Imagery exercise to relieve the anguish and pain of this incident.
CLICK BELOW FOR AUDIO IMAGERY: BRINGING LIGHT TO SANDY HOOK VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES
(This exercise is done as one. It is completed when you hear the tone.
Close your eyes and breathe out three times. See, feel, sense and know yourself standing at the center of an infinity sign. Move onto the loop of the infinity sign to your left and quietly walk counter-clockwise searching for any fear, anger or violence within yourself. See these feelings release as grey smoke. Breathe out one time and open your eyes.
Close your eyes and breathe out three times. See, feel, sense and know yourself walking slowly around the loop of the infinity sign to your right, moving clockwise. As you walk see golden light hovering over the Sandy Hook School victims and their families. Watch as this healing energy expands and moves out into the world. Return to the center of the infinity sign. Stand quietly and allow the healing light to penetrate your being. Step off the infinity sign. Breathe out one time and open your eyes.
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Repeat this exercise as you feel the need and let it guide you.
WELCOME TO BARBARAH’S BLOG AS WE ENTER THE THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT…
Barbarah Fedoroff
Advent is the season for preparing ourselves spiritually to receive the wondrous gift of Christmas: The Birth of Jesus.
Christmas has also become one of the largest secular celebrations of the year. And although we are aware of the value of spiritual preparation for this holiday, the busyness of shopping creeps in, the energy becomes a bit frenetic–and we may be left searching for a way to become spiritually elevated for this holy celebration.
The Gift of Imagery…
With Imagery, you can spend a few minutes doing an exercise that will set the spiritual tone we long for during this time. You’ll find Journeying To Christmas here in Audio Imagery, exercises you can do one or more times.
As promised, you’ll also find A Children’s Pre-Christmas Journey done as a waking life experience. In going through the adult exercises, you’ll note that they’re based on an infinity sign, a sign of endless possibilities. For children, I’m suggesting we simplify, using an open circle instead. The open circle is the very beginning of a spiral, signifying a journey upward. When we journey around an open spiral clockwise, we call into manifestation something positive, exactly what we aim to do in the children’s exercise.
The Children’s Christmas Journey
Begin by explaining to the children that on the days coming up to Christmas there is a great spirit of love and giving, the qualities found in the infant Jesus and his parents. Tell them that together you are going to create a special path so they can take an early Christmas Journey to bring something special into the world. Then have a conversation with them about how you will do this, first by creating a path in the shape of an open circle on which they will take their journey.
If it has snowed, you can take the children outdoors and have them make an open circle in the snow. So there is sufficient space for a child to walk onto the beginning of the path to start their journey and off the path at its end, lightly mark the pattern and have them go over it, making it more distinct.
No snow? Together create the open circle out of small stones, chalk on a driveway or whatever ideas come to you. The important thing is for the children to participate and to understand the aim of walking on the path.
When your path is completed, instruct the children to think about and wish for something wonderful they’d like to bring into the world. Have them close their eyes and see it happening. Then, with their eyes open, one by one have them enter the open circle where you began marking the path. Remind them to walk slowly and to silently think about their wish. Be at the end of the path so they leave correctly.
For teenagers, you can introduce them to the adult Christmas Eve Journey. You may suggest that they journal their experience, if they choose. If they want to do the Imagery daily until Christmas, remind them that their Imagery may change from day to day.
A Christmas Eve Journey For Adults (Do Once–Or Once A Day ‘Til Christmas)
In these exercises you have the opportunity to release something no longer beneficial for your well-being–and then in the second exercise, replacing that with something you want to bring into your life. Take a few minutes to think about this before you begin the exercises. Do not dwell on this. Your first instinct is authentic and correct.
Also note: Each of the exercises contains two components. The exercise is not completed until I say Breathe out one time and open your eyes, and you hear the tone.
Click Here For A Christmas Eve Journey, Audio Imagery, Exercise 1
Close your eyes and breathe out three times. See yourself in fresh-fallen snow. After a time, draw an infinity sign in the snow and stand at its center.
Breathe out one time. Holding a lit candle, see, feel, sense and hear yourself stating your intention to let go of an obstacle in your life. Name or describe the obstacle silently. Begin your journey around the loop of the infinity sign to your left, moving counter-clockwise. As you walk, repeat your intention until you return to the center where you began your journey. Breathe out one time and open your eyes. (Note: You are not continuing onto the other loop of the infinity sign at this time.)
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Click Here For A Christmas Eve Journey, Audio Imagery, Exercise 2
Close your eyes and breathe out three times. You remain at the center of the infinity sign holding your lit candle. See, feel, sense and hear yourself naming or describing a positive intention you want to bring into your life, Now begin your journey around the loop of the infinity sign to your right, moving clockwise. Continue walking, silently stating the positive intention until you have returned to the center of the infinity sign. Breathe out one time and open your eyes.
Close your eyes and breathe out one time. See, feel, sense and know how preparations for the Birth of Jesus are going on in the heavenly kingdom. Absorb it for a long moment. When you feel ready, step out of the path and place your lit candle on the ground beyond. Breathe out one time and open your eyes.
You’ll find other Imagery for this third week of Advent in Categories, the first entry.
May your find peace of mind and a sense of reverence in your heart throughout this holy season. Barbarah
P.S. Next week I’ll post the last group of exercises in the chapter, Wilhelm Reich Imagery.
Moving closer to Christmas, we celebrate the second Sunday of Advent on December 9, 2012. The Imagery for this day will be found by clicking the column to the right, on Archives, first item, Advent: Spiritual Preparation for Christmas. Do the exercises at your own pace. Advent is a beautiful season in which we strive to be all we can be in anticipation for the birth of Christ. The exercises also keep you in the spirit of the coming holiday. Enjoy!
(Click on Advent” Preparations for Christmas, the first entry under Categories in the column to the right.)
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“In the abyss of the unknown are hideous monsters…Calm and quiet, I wait for those that are just there. Then they transform into fresh charming youths ready for thequest.” – Colette
This quote, from The Encyclopedia of Mental Imagery, introduces the chapter Wilhelm Reich Imagery. The line well describes these Reich exercises. If you feel inclined, read this quote several times, until you can recall the words. Then Breathe out three times, and see before you the images they evoke. Remain in the image no more than 12 seconds, Breathe out one time and open your eyes.
And now for the Wilhelm Reich Imagery Exercises
As you do these exercises, you’ll find that Exercises one and three each have two sections. You go directly from one section to the without opening your eyes.
SEXOLOGY: FOR OVERCOMING SEXUAL INHIBITIONS, Exercise 1
SEXOLOGY: FOR OVERCOMING SEXUAL INHIBITIONS, EXERCISE 2
SEXOLOGY: FOR OVERCOMING SEXUAL INHIBITIONS, EXERCISE 3
May you life be enlivened with Little Life-Changing Experiences this holiday season! Barbarah
P.S. I made an incomplete reference to an Enya recording in the Advent: Preparations for Christmas section. The CD is called And Winter Came, the song I referred to is Journey of the Angels.
This weekend we enter the beautiful Christmas season known as Advent. During this time, Christians prepare themselves spiritually to celebrate the Birth of Christ. This is the third year we celebrate this season together on this blog. And each year, we’ve presented rituals/traditions special for the season. I’ve tweaked them a bit, added the audio feature, but I resist tampering with their sameness because they come from an honored place in my spiritual holiday tradition.
Honoring traditions is a gift we give each other on holidays. The special preparations and foods…the search for the perfect Christmas tree…the sequence of the activities…re-membering ancestors with stories and anecdotes that energize them…their similarities and differences we see in each other…the shared events that weave a tapestry identifying a family and its values. And the reminder that while our lives are so different than those who came before us, they are in many ways the same.
YOU’LL FIND ADVENT: SPIRITUAL PREPARATION FOR CHRISTMAS, LISTED IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN, UNDER CATEGORIES.
The narrative and Imagery exercises you find are recommended for this first Sunday of Advent on December 2,2012.
We’ll resume Colette’s Imagery next week– And also lead you to the narrative and Imagery for the Second Sunday of Advent
Hope your Thanksgiving was all you wished for. Blessings, Barbarah
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HERE IS THE AUDIO IMAGERY FOR THE EXERCISE POSTED ON FACEBOOK FOR THIS WEEK JANUARY 1, 2013
What a wonderful gift! To get a chiropractic adjustment from Mrs. Santa Clause while Santa waits to take off with his reindeer. Anything can happen if you believe.(That’s Dr. Bryn Gillow and Dr. Greg with me at one of Life Is Good Chiropractic’s many celebrations of life.)
Barbara Fedoroff
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