I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Six and the concept of movement, dance, and exercise:
Movement/Dance/Exercise
Back in the days of the Ra contact taking speed walks was one of Carla’s basic ways of keeping her body in shape because she continually had low physical energy due to the toll that arthritic pain took upon her body. She normally walked about five miles in an hour. I walked with her in those days as I also needed to exercise my body to keep it in good shape, and she helped me out by making me hustle for all I was worth just to keep up with her. Carla also participated in a jazzercise class which was another way that she was able to keep her body strong and able to serve as the instrument for the Ra contact. Ra encouraged Carla to exercise regularly:
Questioner: The second question the instrument requested was: How may I best revitalize myself not only now but in the future?
Ra: I am Ra. This instrument is aware of the basic needs of its constitution, those being meditation, acceptance of limitations, experiences of joy through association with others and with the beauty as of the singing, and the exercising with great contact, whenever possible, with the life forces of second density, especially those of trees; this entity also needing to be aware of the moderate but steady intake of foodstuffs, exercise being suggested at a fairly early portion of the day and at a later portion of the day before the resting. 25.2
In our later years together Carla and I loved dance of any kind. Movement to a catchy rhythm that was fun and gave us a chance to exercise our bodies on a regular basis. It also was a means by which the balancing function in our brains was activated and helped us to keep our bodies’ balance on an even keel. She had taken ballet as a child and also spent most summers at the Noyes Camp in Connecticut where the students were asked to dance their interpretations of a fish, or a star, or a bird, or a flower and such. In my own experience previous to meeting Carla, I loved to do what I would call improvisational dancing with a variety of steps produced on the spur of the moment. So we made a great couple that could riff off of each other’s dance moves and just let our bodies go and have fun together. Most of our dancing was done at home as a form of evening entertainment which was also useful in helping us wear our bodies out so we could get a good night’s sleep. In this quote Q’uo gives us a path to discover the spiritual nature of ourselves through dancing:
In so many ways, you are seduced time and again by the more subtle forms of non-physical formation, ritual and habit.
How to lift entities away from that? In many cultures, instead of entering silence the practice of mystics is to enter rhythm by chanting, whirling and dancing. Repetitive movements, repetitive sounds, repetitive tones are things that will batter and finally break the habit of thought. Whether you are drawn to entering the formless by simply sitting down and stopping talking, by designing a particular kind of silence, or by entering into the chanting or other ritual which takes one out of oneself by out-talking the talker, is completely a matter of your own discernment. But the job that you face when you attempt to disconnect yourself from form is to get past the lions at the gate of your temple, that is, your heart. Those guardians do not want you inside if you are still of the world. They do not want you inside your precious heart still grumbling, worried, bargaining, rationalizing, justifying or worried about being right. There are many teachings…
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…of bringing oneself to one’s own knees outside the door of the heart and laying it all down: every idea, every concept of self, every vestige of, “I did this,” and, “I thought that,” and, “I’m right”—emptying the self and becoming truly able to receive. However you get there, get there before you enter the sacred space of your own heart. For there the Creator awaits you, full of love, full of Its own nature, which is your nature as well, waiting to enfold you in the embrace of absolute and unconditional adoration and devotion. Q’uo, November 4, 2004.
Even in the last few years of her life, when Carla was basically confined to a hospital bed because of a wound from back surgery that wouldn’t heal, we still exercised together. She and I would walk around the circuit in the middle of our house that connected the hall, kitchen, living room and office. I would face her and hold her hands in mine and walk backwards as she walked forward for as many as 50 laps when she was at her strongest. This was something that we could enjoy together when her mobility was decreased, and it was an effective exercise to keep up her body’s strength. She also did specific exercises in bed which had the goal of keeping her legs strong and flexible.
Through the years all of our dance, exercise, and movements together we were doing much more than just exercising our bodies. We were expressing our joy for being alive, our love for each other, and for seeking and serving the One together in all that we did. I think that this might be a helpful attitude for anyone who would like to engage in any form of exercise or dance.
I am in my mid-70s now, and I feel that it is more important than ever to exercise my body as our bodies tend to get weaker the older we get. I think that exercising is as important for the body as are our spiritual disciplines are for our minds and spirits. So I still take speed walks of about a mile and a quarter six days a week. I also have a modest weight-lifting program three days a week and a program of stretching six days a week. Another fun exercise is dancing in the evenings before I go to bed. I believe that our bodies have what you could call feelings and minds of their own that respond to the joy of movement in a rhythmic way. Ra even suggested that such might be true in their statement in 84.17:
Indeed, the body complex as a whole is greatly misunderstood due to the post-veiling assumption that the physical manifestation called the body is subject only to physical stimuli. This is emphatically not so.
This morning I gathered another load of moss from around the Flower Fall in the front yard and then finished up the area in the Moss Garden that is next to the little creek that runs through the middle of my yard.
This afternoon I also gathered another load of moss, about ten square feet, and planted it further up the walkway in the Moss Garden. It is taking more moss to fill all of the places that need it, so it looks like I will need another three loads, or thirty square feet, of moss to complete the job.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
February 23
Blessedness
I am the living spirit of divine love and I greet you in the blessed name of Jesus the Christ.
Has the concept of “blessed” touched your life, your thoughts and your feelings in the last little while? Does the sweep of your life include consecration? We surely hope that it may.
And if it does not, we who speak of divine love and bear the consciousness of that love urge each seeker to gaze in faith upon the blessedness of that which lies before you this day. For each moment is sanctified to the sanctified eye, ear and heart.
Surely we who came to comfort shall comfort still and be with each. And if blessedness is escaping your consciousness, turn within and ask in humility to be shown that vision of beatitude which lies within each event which comes before you.
For those who act are all blessedly loved by the divine consciousness which is love. That love strives to move into a world of illusion and shadow. May your consciousness of blessedness lighten the area about you. May your vision, given by grace and produced by your will to worship, bless in turn all those about you.
We leave you in peace, that undergirding strength of love divine, now and forever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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