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February 21, 2019

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13 Ways of Looking at Community

“Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.” Parker Palmer shares more in this beautiful essay. { read more }

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For more inspiration join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Parker Palmer: Healing Our Divided Selves and World. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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February 20, 2019

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In An Unspoken Voice: The Changing Face of Trauma

Peter Levine therapist, best selling author and educator has spent over 40 years understanding and developing treatments for trauma. He is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing technique. He shares from his book “In an Unspoken Voice”, how our perspectives on trauma and extreme stress have shifted from acceptance as a part of our biology, a part of every life, to something separate and minimizing. How the traumas and terrors of life have been stripped of dignity and neutered by names and diagnoses like battle fatigue or PTSD. Peter teaches us how changing our perspective can help us to reconnect to the wisdom inside each of us, and our innate capacity to transform these experiences. The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect. { read more }

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The next time you find your mind going over a traumatic or stressful event, notice what your body is doing, is there a place that is calling your attention, tightening up or walling off? Where is it located, is it hot, cold, tense – do the sensations start to shift the more you are present with them? How does giving this attention and presence to yourself feel? Learn more about Peter Levine’s work in this interview: Freedom from Pain. { more }

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February 19, 2019

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Sacred Instructions: Creation Songs

“The relationships that exist between people and place are often memorialized through defining words that merge into story. As Indigenous people, our lives comprise these words and the stories that they illustrate. These words and stories paint a picture that brings into form all of the elements of our existence. They provide a clear view of our unique cultural landscape, and they offer us a defined sense of place within the world. In order to fully recognize our place in creation, we must realize that our stories are not the only stories that are being told. Every living thing has its own creation song, its own language, and its own story. In order to live harmoniously with the rest of creation, we must be willing to listen to and respect all of the harmonies that are moving around us.” Drawing from her heritage and also from her experience as an activist and attorney, Sherri Mitchell addresses crucial issues of our time, and offers timeless wisdom. { read more }

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What is your creation song? Make time to listen inwardly and expand your awareness today. Learn more about Sherri Mitchell’s life and work here. { more }

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February 18, 2019

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Recording Nature’s Conversation

Matt Mikkelsen is a documentary film maker, sound recordist and environmental activist in an unusual cause: the preservation of “natural silence”soundscapes undisturbed by the noise of human activity. He works with Gordon Hempton on the One Square Inch of Silence project, symbolised by a small red stone placed in the centre of the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park, Washington State, the so-called “quietest place in America.” Matt, along with cinematographer Palmer Morse, is also the creator of the award-winning short film Being Hear, which documents Gordon’s work and philosophy. Its message is not only about the importance of preserving places of natural silence, but also about the value of deep listening in a society drowning in noise. Find out more about Matt and his work in this interview. { read more }

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Go for a ten minute walk or a ten minute sit. Close your eyes. Let your breathing slow down. Settle into the receptive energy of listening. Be present with the sounds going on all around you. Carry that receptive way of being present through the rest of your day.

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February 17, 2019

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Maria Popova: Books are the Original Internet

Maria Popova is a Bulgarian-born writer, blogger, literary and cultural critic living in Brooklyn, New York. She writes Brain Pickings, a blog she calls “my one-woman labor of love.” In this interview by Oscar Schwartz, she says “Books are the original internet.” Schwarts calls her “switched on, irresistibly articulate, fully engaged…She talks about complex ideas in a way that transforms them into something I want to talk about with my friends. She makes big concepts relevant.” { read more }

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Popova says of her blog, “I post the ideas that reflect what I’m interested in, that augment how I see the world. I see myself as recording the process of my own education rather than sharing ideas.” Why not begin to “record” your own thoughts by forming a conversation group with your friends about things that matter to you?

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February 16, 2019

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Growing a Cross-Cultural Garden

Padma Hejmadi paints a delightful landscape of her life of travels and setting roots through gardens all over the world. She weaves back to memories of her roots and family gardens in India and learns of community and connection and culture through her relationships with the garden of life. { read more }

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What is something you could do to remind you of your connections to all of nature in this garden of life?

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February 15, 2019

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Scilla Ellsworthy: A Business Plan for Peace

A distinguished activist for peace for over 30 years, Dr. Scilla Ellsworthy has met with scientists and nuclear weapons policy makers from all five nuclear powers. She founded the Oxford Research Group, Peace Direct, and co-founded ‘Rising Women, Rising World’ and FemmeQ, and was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is interviewed here about her latest book, “The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World without War.” In it, she points out that while 1,686 billion dollars is spent on militarization every year, it would only cost two billion dollars to put into action methodologies that are known to work to prevent war and armed conflict worldwide. { read more }

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We too can help on a local level, meeting with our communities to discuss peace projects. But first, as Ellsworth cautions, we must work on our own emotions: “Perhaps a lot of people in public positions got where they got without doing any inner work,” she says. “It’s up to us to do that inner work so we are conscious of our own motivation and what’s propelling us…I need to deal with my own feelings first.” For more inspiration join Saturday’s Awakin call with Tibetan Buddhist scholar and author Alan Wallace: Fathoming the Human Mind and the Nature of Consciousness. Details and RSVP info here. { more }

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