Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

TOTHEHEART getting to the heart is the direct path to enlightenment heart, hearts, and more hearts...how often do we attend to, tune in to, our heart, and the hearts of others?  attending to the heart reveals it's life giving beat that reverberates through our entire system, measurable on any part of the body...modern science shows that the heart has it's own neural cells like those of the brain--the heart is a second brain! it stores memories, produces its own neurotransmitters, sends messages to the brain, and is an organ of perception, including perceiving emotions and electromagnetic energies from all living things! what we could learn if we become still and listen to our hearts...take 1 minute and place your hand over your heart...breath slowly through your nose and FEEL...that's it...extend the time to 3, 5, or more minutes as you feel led...once you've developed your own heart love empathy, you can extend this empathy and love to the hearts of others--including p...

PINK AURA FIGURE pink aura figure hands outstretched...facing the world dancing her heart out pink aura, hands out, face world, dancing heart...there are many images in this haiku...all blending together within the pink aura of the subtle figure at center...naked, facing the world, dancing with all her heart, hands open to give and receive...positive, inspiring, confident, female. place your hands outstretched in front of you while imaging a colored aura surrounding your body (the aura doesn't have to be pink, any color that you resonate with will do)...now do a little dance, whatever your body feels like doing for a few seconds, a jig, a flowing ballet movement, a rock'n shaking down the bones, some hip hop moves...whatever you feel inspired to do...now check in with yourself...how does it feel...consider how else you might cultivate the sense of wide open, confident, heart felt dancing this week.

POPPING OUT spinning octagon popping out of its edges triangles...circles it isn't a far leap from octagon to octopus...have you ever seen a octopus spinning? or maybe felt one inside you...as it spins, the underside edges of its tentacles begin popping out, to expand, to suck, to affix...creating love triangles, three forces counterbalancing...some of these triangles evolve and transform into circles...an eternal dance... where does the eight armed creature reside within you? how are it's tentacles popping out of its edges...suction cups on the underside of the octopus arms? can you observe the triangles of energy reaching for something? do the triangles tip into a state of balance? do they eventually transform into a circular dance? lots of questions for contemplative reflection...  

VIBRATION inside cell membrane many shapes and processes constant vibration i see different aspects of a cell in the image, but it doesn't look like a typical cell in a biology text; however, the idea of different shapes (forms) and processes (function) apply not just to cells but to all of life, AND all of life is humming, in a constant state of vibration how about a little humming for fun...it's easy...close your lips, inhale through the nose, and on the exhale make a soft sound that vibrates in the nasal cavities...a hum...this is the hum of being...the hum of the universe! How does it feel? There is much more to the physiology and benefits of humming...see the book: The Humming Effect: Sound Healing for Health and Happiness by Goldman and Goldman. 

HOPPING DOTS hopping from 1 dot to another in a chain cellular cascade it's hard to imagine that everything started with just one "dot"...from one dot...hop to another...then another...and another in a chain of dots that seems to go on and on until, looking back, we see a "cellular cascade." if a dot represents a day, and a chain of dots reveals our marking of weeks, months, years, and decades...only in looking back over a lifetime can we see the BIG pattern, the "cellular cascade" that was hidden in the individual dots of our life. what is it like hopping from dot to dot, from day to day...what is the feeling of the FLOW of life...do you feel a connection between the dotted days as they chain together over time...what might the imagery of a "cellular cascade" suggest?   are there practices that help you "hop" mindfully from one dot to another, from one day to another...things that nourish your mind, body, and spirit?  sleep is ofte...

S W I R L I N E S S bits of swirliness moving into the vortex of the heart of things Sometimes it feels like the bits and pieces of life are swirling around...during these times i often don't see the direction of the swirls...rather, it's a state of being called "swirliness"...lots of things/stuff just swimming in and around me...if i can drop into the energy and information of the swirliness, sometimes i feel the pull of a vortex, a direction tug...something at the heart of things...could this be the pull/push of the Divine? When do you feel the swirliness of life? Does it feel like it has a direction or purpose? Where is the heart of the swirliness? Is it possible to facilitate a directional movement of the swirliness or be aware of the general direction toward this place of the heart among the swirliness of life? Meditation? Prayer? Walkabout? Reading? Writing? Dialogue? Art? Music? Nature?

BALL OF LIGHT golden ball of light... loving, healing energy... penetrating ALL it may appear that there are rings of arrows pointing inward toward the yellow ball of light at the center of this image...alternatively, consider the "arrows" as wings of birds flying from the center to carry the yellow loving healing light to wherever it is needed...smaller balls of light accompany the outer ring of birds, symbolizing the light moving outwards, penetrating all. we all carry the Divine spark of light within us...it's up to us to allow this loving, healing light to radiate from our being, to accompany others on the journey that need light, to carry the light of ourselves to wherever it is needed, to let our light penetrate all... describe some of the many ways you share your light with others?

4 BIRDS begin triangles adding black circles and lines lo! there are 4 birds! starting from the middle triangles touching sides and meandering toward the outer rim with more triangles and a few black circles...surprised by the appearance of 4 birds...sometimes, in the thick of things, we don't know what the end result will look like...perhaps more trust in the process is needed...trust that something good will come of it... what are you presently in the "thick of," triangulating your way around, sometimes caught in the vortex of black circles...test out your situation by taking a step back and connect with your ever present witness...can you see the birds getting ready to fly?

XPLOSION dots are encircled  extending out from center in an Xplosion the dots appear to be moving out from the center...rewind in time and an explosion at center could be the reason for the dynamic movement of the dots outward from the center...each dot is encircled in a protective ring whose color is different from the center...all are moving with energy and purpose, moving out to who knows where... can you recall and explosive event in your life that set into motion a number of different "circles" of energy? there is no conscious way to manage all of these arising and rapidly moving circles...all we can do is witness and try to "go with the flow," managing the after effects as best we can...perhaps this is akin to some kinds of trauma which, according to Peter Levine in Waking the Tiger , can get stuck in our nervous system if not released, causing a number of repetitive cyclical and unhealthy symptoms until the body finds a way to release them in a safe place......

LAZY OVALS lazy ovals dance with the chicken pocked center backup...a flower! i remember having the chickenpox as a youngster and soaking in the tub followed by Mom rubbing chamomile lotion all over the pox to lessen the itching... when in the thick of things, it's hard to "backup" and see a bigger picture...whenever i feel ill, consciousness shifts and it's difficult to think clearly (for me), a sort of "lazy oval dance" comes over me, and backing up to see the flower of life is something i often need help with. are you able to "backup" when in the thick of things? what kinds of practices help you "backup" and see a bigger picture? if you are able to backup, can you see the flower(s) in your life? if you can't see them, can you smell, feel, or taste them? wishing you many connections with the flowers in your life, both in and out of the thick of things.