OGT DAILY Day One Hundred and Eighty One REMINDERS

Gray day.  Rain in the morning.  Aching back again and legs.  Stiffness.   Harmony, happiness and pain relief are not guaranteed.   They all seemed very far and distant this morning when just yesterday I felt blissfully fine  I am reminded that it is Bastille Day and the poor excuse we have for a president is over in Paris being feted by their new president with all the pomp and pageantry he can muster. Very clever strategy to get Trump to fold on the Paris Climate Accord even if its a sickening site.   Bastille Day commemorates no great joys, but painful and bloody battles of the common man against the powerful.   There are no great joys without also great pains.   So I stretched and tried to remember that this too would pass.    Giving in to pain, fear and depression just perpetuates it.  

Bastille Day

Modern mystic and philosopher Ken Carey says:  'Those who are motivated by fear, no matter how they justify such motivation to themselves, are working to keep the world in darkness."
http://www.mysticmamma.com/tag/ken-carey/

I'm reminded of 45 and the fear mongering and hatred he stirred up in order to become elected.

Franklin Roosevelt in his now famous first inaugural address in 1933 said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself," and encouraged the entire nation to come together and work against the common ills of poverty and unemployment during the great depression.  He is was largely responsible for the social safety net (social security etc..) which we now take for granted and which Republican conservatives have been itching to dismantle.   

It can be difficult when faced with darkness or pain to succumb, but I've learned in my almost 60 years ways to quell both fear and pain.  One of the few side benefits of age is wisdom.   My favorite new technique, which helped me out of my creaky funk this morning is a breathing and energy technique called Cohesive or Focused Breathing (Dr. Robert Brown, Steven Elliot).  Many of the components are based on mindfulness and breath technique, but also QiGong which is a Chinese method for working with the bodies inherent energetic system (Robert Peng, QiGong Master).

Robert Peng, QiGong Master Teacher

My friend Ron taught this technique a few weeks ago at a retreat.  What I used this morning was the QiGong technique of The Four Golden Wheels.   These activate the body, clear our blocks of energetic flow and help to balance breathing and heart rate as well as the nervous system. 

Marvelous.  Like a miracle.  I was fine the rest of the day.

http://podtail.com/podcast/sounds-true-insights-at-the-edge/the-master-key-awakening-the-four-golden-whee/