Life on a String
In these turbulent times I met up with longtime friends for some mindful breath, sound, and movement. Continuum Movement is a very helpful practice to land in the body and let whatever emotions and sensations that might be stuck to move freely and to transform in moments of discovery.
As the breath breathed me, the sounds sounded me, and the movement moved me, I was reminded of mala beads, These are the Eastern prayer beads strung together to mark the recitation of sacred words. The rhythm and repetition and sound vibration are an embodied healing.
I felt I WAS a mala bead, a living prayer, my essential prayer:
May everyone be connected
to our shared Earth
and to their own higher wisdom.
May everyone have
what they need.
That is a vertical axis, but what about the horizontal? I then wondered about the string. What is it that connects your bead, your prayer, your life and mine?
It is the mycelium, a fine filament network of communication that the fungi use to build soil and connect the plants to each other. Anything can travel immediately through this network, just like the mala bead string.
We get to choose what we put out on the string. Do we see what connects our beads, our prayers, our lives? Do we send out openness, trust, gratitude, love, and true respect? Or is the string something that we struggle with so much that it breaks and leaves us as beads, prayers, and lives scattering and isolated?
Take care to polish your bead through activating your personal prayer. Root yourself in your vertical axis. Let’s tend and mend the horizontal axis together. Let’s take care to send out goodness and kindness through the string. Remember that All That Is is counting on us to stay together.
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JOURNALING
What is your essential prayer / sacred intention?
What helps you to embody and activate that prayer?
Who helps you uphold your prayer?
Imagine another bead, prayer, and life that you judge, don’t understand, want to separate yourself from. Note the emotions and sensations this brings up.
What energetic healing message can you send their way that would strengthen the string and affirm or even expand your own bead, prayer, and life?
Note how this feels in the body.
