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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Oh Dear. Oh Dear.
I looked for the sarc tag at the end of the article but you must have accidently left it off. This can’t possibly be real… can it?
The possibilities are endless … just imagine …
Inhale and slowly imagine that as you draw energy from the earth and the sky you are able to sprout wings.
As you exhale imagine you are able to start to slowly flap your wings.
Inhale and imagine you are able to increase the power of your flapping wings, rising above all earthly concerns.
Exhale and imagine yourself able to fly anywhere you wish to go, as fast as you wish.
Inhale and imagine yourself coming to a landing at your desired destination.
… if it’s at work, continue your breathing exercises and imagine yourself working and getting paid for your hard work.
… if it’s at a store, continue your breathing exercises and imagine yourself placing all your purchases in a single large bag and paying for your purchase with the money you imagined receiving at work.
With the power of this exercise all your physical needs are met without once leaving the comfort of your home.
Just imagine.
hey, taxpayers in australia pay ABC to play an hour of similar nonsense from Californian non-profit New Dimensions Radio each week. the latest episode, which links all the civil rights leaders to
CAGW activism, tragically promises a Part 2 at the end of the broadcast!
AUDIO: 20 Oct: ABC RN: New Dimensions: Moving From Despair To Hope In Threshold Times: Part 1 with Paul Rogat Loeb
As Paul Loeb says, “History is not ended, the future is not foreclosed, there are things we can do even if we can’t quite see the path.”
He encourages us to find what has meaning for us and take a stand. Only when we step up can our efforts ripple out and have an influence on the arc of time towards peace, justice, and sustainability…
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/newdimensions/moving-from-despair-to-hope-in-threshold-times3a-part-1-with-p/5822562
There is nothing wrong with breathing in. The breathing out part is the detestable one, which loves a heck of a lot of disgusting carbon pollution up into the atmosphere. Now, imagine you could only get rid of that bad habit and keep breathing in and in and in until everything goes dark and peaceful. It is an advanced exercise, which can’t be completed more than once in a lifetime, but never despair, you can make it. As soon as you get at that stage, all your worries cease to exist along with your own self.
Does it hurt to have so little knowledge of the real world? It should. Ignorance should be painful, very painful.
Often it is. The problem is that when people don’t make the connection between the pain and choice made out of ignorance, the ignorance remains.
In other words, experience doesn’t always result in wisdom.
PS I haven’t bought a dime bag in over 40 years.
So that means that you’re in the market, yes? 🙂
There is a proven cure for ignorance that works every time. Stupid is terminal.
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
For heaven’s sake girl, do you want to overheat the entire universe with all that CO2 you are directing there?
Nutters I say the world is full of nutters.God help us this fool should be locked up.
There’s a much more serious point here. This poor woman has been frightened out of her wits by the lies about AGW.
She’s been converted — by those liars — from a kind, good-hearted woman into a member of an evil perverted species. She’s been driven into despair and made to feel guilty. There’s no escape for her. She can’t become non-human. So she’s forced into anguish and regret and into living a life of penance, just to feel OK about being alive.
This is part of the evil those people have done. Naomi Oreskes, Michael Mann, James Hansen, Kevin Trenberth, those lie-mongering NGOs — WWF, UCS, Greenpeace, and all the rest. And including the willfully prejudiced reportage. They have corroded away the inner happiness of good-hearted people. The more sensitive the victim, the worse the effect.
Feel sorry for that poor woman. She deserves your comfort. She’s been violently psychologically violated. Violated by completely hard-hearted unrepentant evil-minded villains.
Hey Pat! You make an excellent point. I have had friends caught up in the CAGW meme set, and had one tell me how he despaired of mankind’s survival and could no longer sleep at night. If their mania were confined to themselves, it would be bad enough — but we need to remember that their mania compels them to control YOU and ME and everyone else in the world. The CAGW belief calls for the aggressive use of force to prevent YOU from living outside of conformity to THEIR rules. These people are not content with “we agree to disagree.” They demand that the entire planet convert to their religion.
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Is this exercise mandatory? because I get moody after working all day. 🙂
You have to understand, these people are Canadians (sorry out there).
The woo is deep and blessed above the 49th latitude. Below not so much.
May be caused by over exposure to geomagnetic storms and cosmic rays.
You laugh now–but not so much when the Keeling Curve turns down!
I hesitate to point out….There was a generation which never blushed to borrow any tradition from any where in the world, strip all of the commitments, disciplines, meanings, and duties (or shamelessly replace them), and keep the fluffy breathing exercises and the appearances.
Hippies always could pour any meaning into any text or practice they wanted.
To illustrate. An anecdote. I visited the largest used book store in Oregon. I went to the religion section for several reasons. I decided to get the Amitabha Buddhist texts, if possible. There was a very large Pure Land section, with hundreds of books. When I asked, there was not one copy of the text itself; just important glosses in one book, which the very informed person in charge of that area happen to know of. Otherwise, I would have went begging.
This generation thinks it knows what other religions teach, but I submit that all anyone has read for 5 decades are Boomer descriptions, full of distortions and modern expectations. You say well that it is craziness. Just look how shameless and manipulative it really is – but it has been regular fare for decades. And I have seen the Green manipulative populism in the rest of our folk beliefs also. Boomers are doing it to Zarathustrianism and Christianity. Laugh, but this is nothing new.
Upthread someone said these people are in our schools. I work and live in NE Oregon. No one of that description works here and I can swear on the Bible! The only one that comes close to even looking like a light-headed yoga princess is actually a gun-toten momma who can shoot the eye out of dear from quite a long distance!
Get her number for me! I’m very forward ha!
NE Oregon sounds good — but stay away from Eugene!
“. . . the only thing missing is the unicorns . . .”
I feel compelled to object on behalf of unicorns everywhere. No self-respecting unicorn would consider associating with such a silly activity.
Besides, as everyone should know, unicorns breath in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. Their declining populations I’ve already posited as the cause for the increase in CO2 concentrations world wide.
I’ve submitted my research grant application already to several esteemed research institutes.
Stay tuned.
’tis a fact.
Is it dragons? I think it’s dragons..
I think I recognize this person. They have a day-job as a fact-checker for the EPA.
As a legal aid attorney, I have talked with a lot of people who are mentally unbalanced. None of them have been as loony as this meditation/yoga queen.
‘Recently I learned a figure 8 breathing visualization from Kate Sutherland which helps to ground oneself.’
Relative of the ‘Flying Nun’?
Probably would work a lot better if you stand naked inside a pentagram, wear copper bracelets, and finger your quartz crystals.
Doncha’ know fer crissake?
Very interesting:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=laugh-in&FORM=VIRE1#view=detail&mid=73EA2B7C8361502B999073EA2B7C8361502B9990
The terrifying thing is that they believe this crap…and even worse they can vote and cause other damage to society by the things they do
Thank you all very much I have not had such a good laugh in a while and I think I’m with this comment.
H.R. October 21, 2014 at 2:25 pm
Forget the “of the week” part. This gets my vote for a “Climate Craziness Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Keep ’em coming.
James Bull
Sorry, I can’t help myself. What an absolute tosser.
May be a problem here. A human being breathes out, on average, 800 grams of CO2 a day.
Before 1900 population was around 1 billion. Today we have passed 7.3 billion.
Don’t tell the greenies or they might get excited.