From: “LOVING THE EARTH” reflections on yogaecology, climate change, permaculture and community, the only thing missing is the unicorns (h/t to WUWT reader Hank Veild)
Meditation for Climate Change
This meditation came to me a week ago in meditation. I often let my consciousness and breath follow my spine up and down. Recently I learned a figure 8 breathing visualization from Kate Sutherland which helps to ground oneself.
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, eyes closed and your attention on your breath. Sitting or lying down works too, but standing is the easiest way to start.
Inhale slowly and bring your awareness to your heart.
Exhale slowly and imagine your breath is traveling the front of your body and entering to the center of the Earth.
Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing up energy from the center of the Earth, up the back of your body, and into your heart.
Exhale slowly and imagine that your breath is going from your heart up the front of your body as high as it can go – to the stars, heaven, the sun – whatever works for you.
Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing energy down from the sky, down the back of your body and into your heart.
Continue breathing the same shape. Next time you exhale, imagine your breath is travelling down to the earth, to the reserves of oil and coal and gas. Imagine a protective sheet of shimmering light around them so they stay in the ground. See all the wells and pumps disappear from the reserves.
Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing energy up from the Earth, into your heart.
Exhale slowly and imagine your breath is going from your heart up towards the sky, to the atmosphere. Visualize that you can see the carbon dioxide molecules (one carbon, 2 oxygen) and you are touching them gently, loving them and letting them transform into oxygen and carbon.
Inhale back to your heart, bringing the carbon atoms with you.
Exhale and imagine you are bringing your breath and the carbon atoms down down to the center of the Earth. Return the carbon. Smoothly pet tight the mines, the drilling holes.
Inhale up to your heart. Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide.
Continue. Use your imagination to add other healing images. Now you are a channel for that change.
Repeat this figure eight as long as feels right – perhaps 5-20 cycles at the beginning. When you are familiar with this practice, 4 or 5 cycles is enough to feel quite grounded. To start, you can trace the figure of eight shape with one hand, as a way to help your awareness move.
When you are finished, you can write down or paint your experiences, or share them here!
“Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide.”
This poor soul must have no clue that human breath contains ~ 40,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide.
Our exhaled breath contains about 4% CO2 That is 40,000 parts per million, or about 100 times the current atmospheric concentration.
Let’s hope he/she doesn’t “love away the carbon dioxide” to the point of hyperventilation.
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I forgot to tell you that we like trees, but not McCarthy”s
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sorry I sent the wrong message :
http://actualites.nouvelobs.com/obs/societe/20141017.OBS2403/et-vous-que-voyez-vous-dans-cette-drole-d-oeuvre-place-vendome.html?cm_mmc=Acqui_M
I tried this and wrote down my experience like they suggest:
BULLS#!T
Kate Sutherland …..Change Artist???
http://www.strocel.com/podcast-kate-sutherland/
possible the worst misspelling of piss artist your likely to see?
“Next time you exhale, imagine your breath is travelling down to the earth, to the reserves of oil and coal and gas. Imagine a protective sheet of shimmering light around them so they stay in the ground. See all the wells and pumps disappear from the reserves.”
Imagine you can remember the gasoline shortage and lines at the gas stations in the 1970’s?
Most of these people weren’t ALIVE in the 1970’s.
Cuz if they were, they’d know that hippies suck.
Sounds cheaper than carbon sequestration. Imagine that.
If only warmists would settle for meditation like this and leave the rest of us alone. I’m willing to give them credit for good intentions if they’ll be content to fight global warming with their imaginations.
“Recently I learned a figure 8 breathing visualization from Kate Sutherland which helps to ground oneself.”
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Try visualising Naomi Oreskes during your meditation – then you’ll want to ground yourself whilst holding a live 220VAC mains.
+100
Ponder the BTUs you are exhaling.
Good lord. Lol.
Every alarmist should be required to do this so that all the adults can get on with reality.
Fantastic.
It seems to me that he/she may be on to a good thing here. If the temp curve remains flat or (Heaven forbid!) cools a bit, she/he can claim all the credit for Saving Mother Earth from becoming a cinder! Not bad odds.
Unbelievable…where do these people come from?
New Age, which goes far far beyond Middle Ages.
Tasmania..
Then again.. Maybe Sydney’s North Shore or any upper-crust, pretentious, left-bent suburb where they enjoy late night dunce-cap cork-sniffing, wine-quaffing and lip-flapping about anything pointless.
May [your] day be as peaceful and full of joy as a unicorn farting rainbows.
Visualising this! Love it.
Thanks Andrew N
“Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing up energy from the center of the Earth, up the back of your body, and into your heart.”
I did a lot of that back in the 70’s when the price was $10/oz.
We didn’t go by the ounce. We went by “fingers”.
(For some reason I can’t remember how many fingers a dime bag was.)
Your memory slipping is one of the first signs.
It’s more now.
Nah. Here in northern Cali they give it away. Only outsiders pay for the stuff…
If you draw too much energy from mother earth, she’ll fry you to a cinder.
“… imagine your breath is travelling down to the earth, to the reserves of oil and coal and gas. Imagine a protective sheet of shimmering light around them so they stay in the ground. See all the wells and pumps disappear from the reserves…”
“… imagine you are bringing your breath and the carbon atoms down down to the center of the Earth. Return the carbon. Smoothly pet tight the mines, the drilling holes.
Inhale up to your heart. Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide…”
Yeah, that’ll work…
Beyond parody. I wouldn’t know where to start. I’m not often stuck for a song concept but this beats me.
Something from Dr. Hook.
Try this:
Dead Kennedys California Über Alles
Don’t knock it!
If we can get them all to do this and leave the rest of us and our “carbon pollution” alone…..
“Inhale back to your heart, bringing the carbon atoms with you… visualize your heart as black as coal, as hard as stone…
Meh. I just shake my head.
“We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people…. Go figure.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
The author of this guided meditation and blog, while highly entertaining, is pretty harmless…
He (or she) claims to have been: “Born in families of not-so-long-ago-farmers, and raised at a socialist cooperative kindergarten, I went to see the world and universities and worked as an environmental activist and educator.”
Being an environmental activist and educator isn’t for everyone though: “Honestly, it was stressful and I missed to sing and dream and be enough.”
But fortune would shine upon this wayward soul: “One day, I went on a pilgrimage from Sweden to BC, Canada and met my love. Here I seek my dreams about yoga and deep ecology, to be a farmer-poet overfilling with peace.”
I’m not at all worried about the peace-filled farmer-poets. The politicians are the dangerous ones.
Deep ecology?
Right. So cut he/she off the dole, and tell them to get to their idealic farming.
Real farming. You know, with plows, shovels, hoes. Lots of sweat. And weeds, and frost, and hail…
A strong dose of reality would do this poetically dreaming idiot a world of good.
Regardless of her naive faith in changing the course of nature with meditation, you are judging someone you don’t even know. She probably does work for her sustenance. Many environmentalists (myself and my family members included) and back-to-the-landers work a hell of a lot harder and more ethically than the deadbeats on the dole who pretend to represent us. We can’t even get those monkeys off our backs when they retire while continuing to suck off the public teat. And don’t get me started on the banksters.
Thinking of all the people I know who are active environmentalists—from petition gatherers to tree sitters—I can’t think of a single one who doesn’t work for a living. We are teachers, farmers, ranchers, bookkeepers, business owners, lawyers, artists, social workers, electricians, and more, and we care about this world we are leaving to future generations. That’s why we walk the talk and put our time, resources and bodies on the line.
So stop painting environmentalists as deadbeats. It reflects poorly on what is otherwise an informative web site. I’d like to direct my climate alarmist friends here, but the ignorance sometimes expressed on this site makes me think twice. You won’t change anyone’s mind by accusing them of not knowing how to work. Besides, judging from the number of responses to an article dating from nearly a year ago, a lot of people frequenting this site have way too much time on their hands…
Yes, Rud Istavan, but we should keep in mind that some environmentalists are lawyers, artists and teachers and lead very, very busy lives.
Which in turn keeps us busy, wasting all of this wonderful prefrontal power debunking spurious scientific claims, ridiculous green art and protests, and legal harassment by activists.
No, but she’s a fine example of the combnation of stuipity and ignorance we’re up against.
“Imagine there’s no carbon
It’s easy if you try
No life within us
Above us, no more sky
Imagine all the people dropping dead today”
(Now someone else can do the next verse.8-)
“You can say it’s a wasteland
But it wasn’t always one.
There was a day there was life here
But it dies when all the carbon’s gone”
Guess what science they believe.
nescience
These people are seriously deranged. They actually believe this stuff is true. I had one show me a quartz crystal point, you know the ones, a nicely shaped clear point on one end and mass of tiny misshapen and cloudy crystals at the other end along with the fracture where it was broken from the main mass. This woman pointed out every singe newly formed crystal on that broken end that had “grown” since she started wearing it around her neck. She explained how her energy and the crystal’s energy was healing it and soon both ends would be whole and clear. Yes, she was working on her PHD at UC Santa Barbara in some social “science field” I’ve forgotten.
These people are in our schools, universities and social service agencies and they are TEACHING people the “truth” about evil man and climate change. Facts and data are useless. We need to keep them AWAY from our children and the ignorant (the press is included in the latter.) True believers are very, very scary people no matter how looney they seem they can do a huge amount of damage to truth and reality.
They have always been there. They will always be there. Get used to it. The human mind is not a rational place. Get used to that too. Being humans, we all have our crack-pot emotional trigger-points. Hidden in various ways. True believers are our friends, they make us take a sharp look at our given truths and realities, and every now and then help us create new ones. According to the playwright Henrik Ibsen, the normal life-cycle of a truth is about twenty years. No more.
Ibsen also said,
“You deluge the world to its topmost mark.
With pleasure I’ll torpedo the ark.”
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27560322?uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104992075473
In our time, twenty years may be way too optimistic. Also, nowadays just *what* is truth?
“Continue breathing the same shape. Next time you exhale, imagine your breath is travelling down to the earth, to the reserves of oil and coal and gas. Imagine a protective sheet of shimmering light around them so they stay in the ground. See all the wells and pumps disappear from the reserves.”
Cut, cut, cut! New take:
“Continue breathing the same shape. Next time you exhale, imagine your breath is travelling down to the earth, to the reserves of oil and coal and gas. Imagine a protective shimmering light of exploitation rights hovering in front of your mind. Grab. Drill. Earn. Exhale a grateful 40 000 ppm, see all your competitors’ wells and pumps disappear. Continue. Use your imagination to add other healing images. Go chakra-fracking, stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, eyes closed and your attention on your breath. Sitting or lying down works too, but standing is the easiest way to start. Release your inner strength into those porous layers of imprisoned energy, let it flow out and up, out and up. Repeat this figure eight as long as feels right – perhaps 5-20 cycles at the beginning, then adjust according to current gas price. Exhale. Relax. Not all muscles; don’t fart. Visualize that you can see the carbon dioxide molecules (one carbon, 2 oxygen) and you are touching them gently, loving them and letting them transform into tangible dollar bills. Touch lovingly. Exhale.”
“yogaecology”!?
May the Force be with your proctologist.
I hyperventilated and passed out. Who do I sue?
Forget the “of the week” part. This gets my vote for a “Climate Craziness Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Heh! someones out on that CO2 by an order of magnitute. We breathe it in at 400ppm and out at 4000ppm, not 40,000. Even in the hyperventilated atmosphere of a nuclear sub it doesn’t get above 8000ppm.
Nope, the OP was right. There is 100 times as much CO2 in the air we exhale. The oxygen going in is about 21%, going out it is about 14-16%, The CO2 going in is about 0.04%, going out it is about 4-5%.
correct
In a nuclear sub it DAMN SURE can get above 8000 ppm .
Been there, done that. It only requires the scrubbers to go down while you can’t go to periscope depth to ventilate.
Yup:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/17/claim-co2-makes-you-stupid-as-a-submariner-that-question/
I’ve seen recordings even higher than 11,300 ppm.
Some scrubbing of the air to remove excess CO2 is performed by the sub’s filtration gear.
Hope all submariners here take your Vitamin D supplements:
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/47157210/effects-prolonged-submersion-bone-strength-metabolism-young-healthy-submariners
Effects of a Prolonged Submersion on Bone Strength and Metabolism in Young Healthy Submariners
AUTHOR(S)
Luria, Tal; Matsliah, Yinnon; Adir, Yochai; Josephy, Noam; Moran, Daniel S.; Evans, Rachel K.; Abramovich, Amir; Eliakim, Alon; Nemet, Dan
PUB. DATE
January 2010
SOURCE
Calcified Tissue International;Jan2010, Vol. 86 Issue 1, p8
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Submariners taking part in prolonged missions are exposed to environmental factors that may adversely affect bone health. Among these, relatively high levels of CO2, lack of sunlight exposure affecting vitamin D metabolism, limited physical activity, and altered dietary habits. The aims of this study were to examine the effect of a prolonged submersion (30 days) on changes in bone strength using quantitative bone speed of sound and in markers of bone metabolism that include bone turnover (BAP, PINP, TRAP5b, and CTx) and endocrine regulators (serum calcium, PTH, and 25[OH]D) in a group of 32 young healthy male submariners. The prolonged submersion led to increases in body weight and BMI and to a decrease in fitness level. There was a significant decrease in bone strength following the submersion. Speed of sound exhibited continued decline at 4 weeks after return to shore and returned to baseline levels at the 6-month follow-up. There was a significant increase in circulating calcium level. PTH and 25(OH)D levels decreased significantly. Significant decreases were observed in both TRAP5b and CTx levels, markers of bone resorption, as well as in N-terminal propeptide of type I collagen (PINP), a bone formation marker. Prolonged submersion led to a significant decrease in bone strength, accompanied by an overall decrease in bone metabolism. Bone strength was regained only 6 months after return to shore. Prevention and/or rehabilitation programs should be developed following periods of relative disuse even for young submariners. The effects of repeated prolonged submersions on bone health are yet to be determined.