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The following contains monthly activities to do to learn medicine for the earth, to learn how to create, be, see and enjoy spiritually.  Vibrate with the the spirit in the universe, circle the nucleus of your soul.

These activities are meant to be simple, so that you can try them easily as you go about the living of your life.  The activities are listed monthly but feel free to go back and check ones that have passed.  Medicine for the Earth is about the way you live your life so these activities focus on the living and the being in your life.  

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January 2003 | February 2003 | March 2003

 

January 2003 - The Thou

Essence

To realize your own potential, to appreciate your value on the earth it is important to understand The Thou Principle. 

Thou

  1. The person or divinity spoken to or addressed (used as 2nd person singular pronoun esp. in earlier literature and religious writing); you.

If we are to value ourselves, the environment, and those around us, anything we need to develop a reverence for The Other.  The Other is a sense that something or someone is separate or different from us, that it is foreign.  Once something is foreign it is hard for us to trust it, it is hard for us to love this thing that is a stranger to us.  When humans do war you can see how the people of the opposing nation are made into The Enemy, they are made into The Other.  The Other is less made less valuable by emphasizing differences and separateness.

In the "war" of love the opposite must be done,  a sense of the value of The Other must be cultivated.  If you can find the beauty in something you are naturally drawn into a loving relationship with it.  By beauty I refer to that which makes something beautiful.  Is it a smile, is it a kindness or conversely perhaps its just delightful how stubborn a particular person is?  Is their beauty in the way an old car struggles mightily to get its owner to her/his destination?  Is their beauty in the rain changes the color of your hair?  When you see The Other's beauty you begin to see its Thou.

The Thou is a sense of reverence for something that might other wise seem like The Other to you.  It is a feeling of the value of a person or a thing, it is having an innate feeling of its beauty.

Activity

Practice The Thou principal this month by developing reverence.  Take an object or a person which you would normally not think much about, or even one you do not like and look to see what is beautiful about it/him/her. 

If you have chosen a difficult subject it may take you a month of study and looking.  Or you can look at many things and try to get a sense of its beauty in a moment to moment type of way.    You may wish to pick one thing, an element of nature such as water and spend the month simply increasing your reverence for that object.

Ask yourself what is it about this object that makes it beautiful?  or What way does it contribute to the world?  Is there something that makes it unique? Delightfull?  In what ways does it resemble something I love?  It what ways does it caretakes the world around it?  What does it add to the world by its existing in it?

Substance

Once you have developed reverence for an object/person(s) notice how you feel?  Has anything changed with the practice of reverence?  The next time you see your subject do you feel differently about her/it/him?  How would seeing the world as a Thou change the way it feels to live in it?

 

February 2003 - Time

Essence

For many people time becomes an enemy.  And yet time is a substance we swim in every day, it touches all the parts of our lives, our families.  How can we live joyfully if we come in contact constantly with an enemy?

Eternal

  1. Having no beginning or end; existing outside of time; timeless.
  2. Seeming to have no end
  3. Being unaffected by time or change.

What is time really?  Is it a constant thing?  Physics would say no. Einstien's Relativity would say no.  Mystic teaching would say no.  All point to the idea that time is a perception.  We can see this in the way time flows effortlessly when we are experiencing joy, how it grind to a stop when we are unhappy. 

The things that make us unhappy concerning time seem to be our feeling of lack around it - that there's not enough, the sense that what we do with it must be "valuable", and the way we rush through it not allowing our self to experience its passage. 

Wise Words:

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
Sister Mary Paul

Such inhibitions [with dancing], however, come from the unfortunate tendency in our culture to compare ourselves to others instead of truly honoring and enjoying our own experience of space and time."
Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth


Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Laurence J. Peter

So if time is a perception, we must change our perceptions about time in order to friend. When the shaman goes on a journey he/she will often find that she/he has as much time as is needed to get the work done.  There is nothing but our own beliefs stopping us from having the same experience in or ordinary lives.  If we stop believing in time's limitations we will begin to feel the truth about time, that in time's each moment is contained an eternity.

Activity

Choose one or more of the following activities and try it out this month.  Each category provides some examples for things to try on that topic.

  1. Explore your perceptions of time.
    Write down any beliefs you have about time on a piece of paper and notice if they seem to come from a feeling of lack, from rushing, from a strong emphasis on what is you are defining as valuable activity, or from not doing what is actually important to you.
    Meditate or journey on the topic of time.
    When you feel that you are tense ask notice what your perception of time is in that moment, when you feel that you are relaxed notice what your perception of time is then.
    Create a picture that fully represents what you believe about time, and then look and see what it tells you.
  2. Try to detach yourself from time. 
    When you are travelling somewhere, such as to work or a long distance take off your watch, tape a piece of paper over the car's clock and don't let yourself look at the time until after you have left your car.
    Spend an entire day without looking at the time, if this is hard for you you may have to begin small and work up.
    Complete an activity without paying attention to the passage of time, look and see what time it is when you get it done.
  3. Give yourself more time.
    Find a simple place where you can give yourself time, leave earlier for an appointment, before you answer the phone let it ring again and give yourself that moment to take a complete breath.
    At least once put 10 minutes into our schedule in a spot where you didn't think you had any time. Do something you enjoy, read something, look out the window, sit.   If you hear yourself hearing but I don't have time to do it now/then, you are missing the exercise.  Try to do this "when you do not think it can be done."
  4. Slow Down
    Experience the paradox that the more time you take the more time you have.
    Slow your walking pace down when you feel yourself rushing.
    If you are late for something, take a few seconds and stand still, take an extra moment at the stop sign, walk slower, or take a moment to say good bye to your loved ones with your full attention.
    Catch yourself making decisions not to do something because you are in a rush, such getting a drink of water, decide to do after all, and do it slowly and without rushing.
  5. Practice your powers of time
    Detachment for time is essential for these activities.
    Form an intent that you are going to complete an activity effortlessly in a period of time that doesn't seem like quite enough.  If you are doing something an activity say to yourself just before your start 'I will complete to such and such a point in 1 hour' or similar.  DO NOT look at the time until you complete the task to that point, don't think about whether you are achieving goal or not.  When you complete the task look to see if it happened quicker then you expected. 
    Before you travel to somewhere, decide that you would like to get there 10 minutes earlier then you would expect.  You must do nothing more then form the intent, do not drive faster, or walk faster, make a special effort to enjoy the journey, and do not look at the time.    Just check and see if you did in fact arrive as you had intended.
    When going out to do some errands decide that you would like get these things done in one hour, or whatever time is appropriate.  Detach and do not think about this again, see what happens.
    Just before beginning an enjoyable activity decide that you would like it to feel longer, if it is a weeks vacation decide you would like it to feel like three weeks, an hour horseback ride, decide you would like it to feel like a whole day.
    These techniques should be tried more then once, you will be surprised with the results.  But you must not worry or be attached to time, detachment is essential or none of these techniques will not work.

Substance

I drive 60 miles to work every day in the Chicago land rush hour.  It takes me an hour, an hour and a half, sometimes 3 hours for one leg of my journey to or from work.  My friends and colleagues often ask me how I do it, and say oh it must be terrible.  I remember when I first started I was lost in my "suffering" woe is me I have this long drive.  One day when I was telling one of my "stories of woe" and my mother turned to me and said either you have to decide to accept your commute for what is or it will make you miserable, and you must stop describing it as bad to others. 

I realized that I was keeping myself in a negative place by complaining and thinking of my commute in the negative.  I decided to think more positively about it and to change my perception of time while doing it.  What has worked for me is, not looking at the time until I arrive at work, not rushing or changing lanes to get there faster, filling the time with pleasant activities such as music, or silence, and remembering that my life does not begin when I get to my destination, or end when I begin my journey.  My life exists in each one of those moments on the road and therefore I must value it as much as I do other moments in my life.  By valuing that time it has become one of the blessings in my life.

How do you feel about time after completing some of the activities?  Do you feel any changes in your perceptions?  Do you feel you have the power to make time a blessing in your life?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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