THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC AND
OTHER THINGS THAT HEAL AND HELP
If we have food, clean air and water (and maybe wine), a roof over our heads and all the tools for spiritual attainment, what more do we need?
The rule of 3 for survival
- you can live
3 minutes without oxygen
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
3 months without human contact.
(these rules have been broken many times but they are guides.)
The Ancestors
We still have these ...
Laughter the best medicine
Norman Cousins cured himself of an autoimmune disease unresponsive to medical treatment by watching funny movies. He wrote a book on it called "Anatomy of an Illness."
Hunter Campbell M.D. (of Patch Adam's movie fame) built a healing clinic based on the same principle. When it comes to laughter, there is nothing as beneficial as a good belly laugh. The diaphragmatic movement is said to stimulate the nearby vagus nerve helping to induce a relaxation response. Convulsive reactions free up muscular tension and release "armoring and previously locked down holding patterns." Laughing (and crying) release endorphins and decrease sympathetic tone (flight or fight.)
Other things that create a parasympathetic relaxation response include:
Exercise such as the "runner's high."
Yoga (and breath work or pranayama,) chi gong, hiking and other forms of active meditation.
Eco-psychologists have found that hiking in a natural environment is better than a walk in an urban one. Patients who can see a nature scene out of their window do better. Jail inmates who work in gardens have been shown to have greater restorative effects. Nature heals, even the tending of potted plants.
Aromatherapy, scented oils, incense and eating chocolate increase dopamine, serotonin and endorphins - the latter - spicy food too. Sunlight betters our mood and the opposite can depress as in Seasonal Depressive Disorder.
Then of course as a last resort there are SSRI's - selective serotonin uptake inhibitors.
"You enter the forest at the darkest point where there is no path ..."
Joseph Campbell
The opposite is true. Best not to enter too deep, unless we are on a hero/ine's journey and have the transformational tools. Do not watch too much news, use excess media or look for bad tidings.
In the upcoming blogs the Hero's journey will feature and we will begin a new theme but then for our spiritual transformation and not just our restoration. The Ancestors hope to show how we can turn the shit into manure and how covid can be grist for our transformational mill. The Phoenix will rise out of the ashes - not just materially but also transpersonally.
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Maybe now we can all better attend to our needs and not our wants.
For most, restoration will still be about returning to the old "way" which is becoming more and more unsustainable.
However, for an increasing number of us covid is a wake up call for a serious spiritual change. Usually it's loss of a job, a loved one or an illness that motivates - now it could be all of the above plus a global crisis.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something; build a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
So meditate, ponder your questions, concerns and goals while listening to this collection of eclectic songs.
The 60's were a good time for catharsis though the questions and challenges were different then.
BLOWING IN THE WIND
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When I lose my way, God will come along another road and reach me. When I grope in the land of forgetfulness, God will remember me. When I no longer know who I am God will call me by my name. When darkness is my only companion, memories and old prayers will be stars and in time or beyond it, someone will be sent, bringing a lamp. Christine Fleming Heffner
Messages from the ancient ones, our ancestors - on whose shoulders we stand - will be the lamp.
I had a dream message before covid hit, the words were
Someday we'll have to be, someday we'll have to be, together - all alone.
Had no idea what it meant until now.
SPIRITUAL CELTIC
The Ancestors
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE
The Ancestors
https://youtu.be/q7pzic4mf7o
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