Showing posts with label Conscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conscience. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2016

Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love
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I start the Pachelbel Cannon in D and sit to write. Memories of thousands,(I am a seminar junkie), of students sat in hotel rooms in meditation, contemplating unconditional love as the canon played. I see their faces, feel my eyes swelling as the music activates the message, the magic mantra-I Love Myself it echoes in my heart, mind, and body.
It is a lullaby that builds upon itself. A simple 1, 2, 3 as a way into myself and a way out of my pain, my fears, my self-pity. A gentle swing that captures my essence till I become the music and who I am and what I may become,becomes a powerful feeling to share.
            Forgiveness, hope, faith in change and a brave new world are echoed by the canon as I Love Myself repeats itself
            A trainer spoke, “What do you want?
            Unconditional Love.
No earned love, no ‘have to’s’, no fulfilling parental expectation, or
succumbing to societies demands, Unconditional Love.
            The trainer honored the space in which to experience the message with a divine space, a pause, as the canon builds from lullaby to dance, a ballet where partners couple.  
            The trainer speaks, “What do you want others to experience in your presence?
            From deeper in our hearts, from the still small space of conscience, from the essence we transform and realize  “I want you to experience UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for your self.
            The healing of each of us, of the planet re-initiates itself as the gratitude for life, for breath, for choices resonates with the bowing of the cello. We feel the message to appreciate each moment as the cannon plucks away, pay attention to the refrain for Now and Forever.
            The canon is a little over six minutes long and millions have heard the sounds whether in a Gallo wine commercial, from the Oscar winning movie Ordinary People, or the seminar rooms. 
            You and me, brothers and sisters, ponder the compassion of self love, we emote-feel again, and refresh ourselves wiping away tears, breathing anew to love without conditions.
            I am grateful to the gods of technology that make my phone cell play that cello tune anywhere, anytime.  I hear the effortless refrain begin and swing the lullaby as love builds becoming the power to share, here and now.
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ignited by a tune, kept alive by your attention.
Speakers, use the music.




Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Conscience

Let your conscience be you guide.
         Within all of us are many voices, many reasons, emotions, sensations, choices and challenges. How to know which one is conscience?
         Conscience isn’t the loudest, doesn’t have an accent, sure isn’t pushy, or even assertive.
         Conscience isn’t concerned with being right or making anyone wrong.  
         Conscience resonates with feeling good. It doesn’t need press, (I’ve written for years and finally got around to acknowledging the wisdom of a childhood cartoon hero and his intent to do the right things.) but conscience lets me sleep easy at night, and may even add color, sound, music and messages to Mr. Morpheus directions in dreamland.
         Conscience speaks with respect for me and all I connect too.
         Conscience doesn’t  need editing. 
         Knowing conscience is there, available at each moment, that conscience is not something I have to exercise, update, upgrade, reload, just remember it is speaking in a still small voice with all our best interests at heart.
         Hearing conscience speak is a comfort.
         I wonder if it is an identity, a guardian angel, or a connection to higher center. I knew it existed before Pinocchio and Walt Disney crowned Jiminy Cricket- “Lord High Keeper of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong, Counselor in Moments of Temptation, and Guide along the Straight and Narrow Path."
         Conscience seems like one of the first things to go with politicians often unpopular with teens, and easily lost in the din of the high tech 2000’s. 
         Did Donald bankrupt his conscience? When I think Donald I think Duck is an appropriate verb.J
         Where is conscience in cyberspace?
         Conscience is a voice that needs recognition, a revival. It is not a religious movement to be aware of, but a podcast to listen for inner guidance. A voice that brings meaning to our methods, clarifies our course, helps align the new age and gives speakers the conviction and honesty to share core values.