Opeyemi’s mission is to empower people through ceremony and health education. Through her work Opeyemi unites traditions of healing & celebration, honoring people’s life passages and allowing them to actively choose healthier lives.
Imagine a new (and very old) healing relationship:
I am a retired family doctor and a mother of two. I am capable of easing your worries about a child with a fever.
I can go with you to a scary medical encounter as an advocate, help organize your family to take 24/7 shifts with a relative in the hospital, sit down with your family to discuss a new cancer diagnosis
I can come and stay in your home if you are ill, and need support with cooking and cleaning.
I can walk you through medical tests and studies, helping you prepare, help you understand what the tests are FOR and what the results mean, discuss conventional options and alternative treatments.
I can help you create healing space and environments that go beyond the current definition of “health” into REAL WELLNESS.
The Cuban medical system (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjk1ydj3koY) assigns each family doctor 120 families. I am offering the above services as a subscription, in a pilot project for 100 Families. This is designed to supplement not replace your PCP ( I do not prescribe, nor diagnose, nor admit people to hospitals). An individual subscription is $20/month; $30/month for a family. Enrollment is open, and will continue until I reach my100 family goal. In three months, I will report out to everyone (and take feedback on) how this relationship is going.
For more information, call 413-336-1291
In this Winter of Wellness, I am birthing my own awakening. I give thanks to the powerful influences in my life that act as “point people” walking three steps ahead of me. Barbara Marx=Hubbaard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtC3miggFFY&list=FLyN3uxhJGfaOsY4yKxnYUYw&index=9&feature=plpp_video). Rev. Micheal Beckwith (http://www.agapelive.com/ ).Marianne Williamson (http://www.marianne.com/).
With their excellent modeling, I move with grace into spaces that used to be beyond my own comfort zone. Barbara has shown me the power of connecting great ”left brain” ideas to Essence. Michael preaches from the heart, standing on a podium with his eyes closed, simply allowing for Spirit to flow through him. Marianne has the power to bring focus and awareness to an issue; she will gently question the client for more clarity before she aligns with them and offers up prayer, calling forth Miracles.
What I am birthing now is a weaving of left/right brain in myself.
Suddenly, many of the weird aspects of my life are falling into place. I now know why I was a biochemistry major with a minor in cultural anthropology, all those many years ago as a pre-med student in a liberal arts college. My background allows me to find communicable language for the phenomenon of the physiological shift that I feel in my own body. Now I have the words to ask my clients questions about their own transformation. Not only can I look inward and scan my pineal gland (do you know WHERE/WHAT your pineal gland is?) for health and growth, I can support others in getting clear on their own Awakenings. Cultural anthropology allowed me to wake up to the Old Story/ need a NEW story of Dominator culture, long before others began to speak of the need to Awaken the Dreamer (www.pachamama.org). That science social science background has served me well as I sink into understanding and enthusiasm for Brian Swimme’s insights on the power of the Universe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE4XdGeduTg), even as I translate it for friends who hear Brian and register a big fat blank…
“Everyone is doing the best that they can” is my mantra of compassion, as a recovered workaholic, as a recovered (quiet and cold) rage-aholic, and as an overly time focused human being.
“I am a spiritual being, having a human experience” is my other.
I take this time, right now to review in awe what has happened to me, since becoming an Agent of Conscious Evolution:
1. I opened to love, and re-connected with a former fiance (who had broken our engagement). Through the 12 weeks of the course, our relationship deepened. I left a job, and moved in with him., preparing to “Snowbird” together in the Southwest, in a trailer, in the desert. I practiced a ”more sustainable”lifestyle, living with him in an “off the grid” existence. In October, we became engaged again. Chop wood. Carry water. Much happiness .
2. Catastrophe, in December. Ten days before Christmas, my fiance broke our engagement, for the second time. This was a great tempering experience for my ego, and an amazing opportunity to move into my Essence. The mantras fed me. Miracles happened at an astonishing rate, erery day.
3. Catastrophe #2, in December. The 21 year old friend of my 23 year old son fell 200 feet to his death, in a hiking accident in Sonoma, Arizona. My dance ommunity– we who had raised this child together since meeting him in utero, were stunned. I witnessed the finest in us all; and we midwifed ourselves through the worst in us. This death experience became a cauldron of healing for FOUR communites. Complicated issues of religion (the Islamic members of his Morrocan family vetoed cremation; how to get the body “back East to their Brooklyn home from Arizona without paying thousands?), patterned chaos (can anyone find the actively alcoholic birth father on the streets of New York, in time for the memorial?), and culture clash (five hippie types reassuring the Seventh Day Adventist sister that her brother’s grief over the loss of his step-son needed WITNESSED SPACE and breathwork, not an ambulance ride to the E.R.) all managed to dance together.
4. Miracles, continue. I moved the last items out of my ex-fiance’s home on December 30th. On December 31st, my blind date with a friend of a friend’s become an experience of The Sacred Couple. We two deeply wounded ones opened ourselves to Essence, and were initiated into priest/preistess space of the Morpho-erotic field. More on that, in a later post.
5. And finally, there is the circle. I am in communities where children learn circle process at their parent’s knees. At that Brooklyn funeral, attended by Muslims, Jews, pagans, Christians, and atheists, by Morrocans, African-Amreicans, Whites and Asians, by street-wise Brookly neighbors of the deceased and by wise elders of the Rainbow tribe, we had circle process. Space, for eeryone to see and hear each other.
What I am birthing now is a deep confidence that we truly ARE the ones that we’ve been waiting for. May this birth process be orgasmic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5bm9-B6Ec4)!
I just listened to the first of the shift network’s “Winter of Wellness” series. What a ride; the guest happens to be a conventionally trained M.D. (www.elliottdacher.org) who has moved beyond that form of healing. Someone else like me, out there!
He focused on meditation as a much needed tool for our Winter of Wellness. Listen for yourself, by signing up for the series (free!) here: www.winterofwellness.com
What struck me about this first program was the timing. I just spent Sunday in Brooklyn, attending a memorial service for a 21 year old. This young man died in a hiking accident 11 days earlier. The challenge that this death presented to four different communites of friends/ family was huge. What I witnessed in the coming together of communites was profound.
Due to the quality and complexity of his life, Muslims were brought together with African-American Christians to mourn his loss. Pagans danced with Jews, in a mother’s dance of grief, release, and acceptance. Circle process was used to create a space to share from the heart, where a neighbor was able to tearfully reminisce about meeting this beautiful soul many years ago, while simultaneously confessing that that meeting was actually harrassing (goading for a fight) and homophobic. Another youth shared the peak experience of hiking with our departed one, and seeing the most beautiful sunset of his life. Stories of heart, and healing.
There was tension between the Seventh Day Adventist members of the step-dad’s family, who wanted to call an ambulance when the step-dad finally, after being strong and contained for days, opened his heart to his grief. The counter-culture dance community members preferred breathwork and emotional release techniques. But we all got along, and we were able to fold ourselves together despite differences. Four hundred people came together to grieve this sudden and unexpected loss.
I was quite astonished to hear the webcast today conclude with a parable about a mother who had lost her child. The story went that the wise elder of the community gave this grieving woman an assignment; she was to travel through the village to find someone who had NOT suffered. Of course, she came back with stories of much suffering; some even greater than her own. The exercise had left her with more peace and a feeling that tragedy too is a part of life.
A very painful part of life. I leave the reader with Dr. Dacher’s final prescription to make our lives healthier:
“Find a place of peace and quiet for yourself. Realise others are suffering as well. Come back (from your own suffering) and do loving and kind things for someone else… open the mind and the heart will open”
I give witness that this formula works, and can grow us into better human beings.
“A few weeks ago, our six month old baby girl started projectile vomiting and then became unusually sleepy. We were not sure what to do, and we did not want to take her to the emergency room if we could avoid it because of the invasive methods used there. Instead, as our first course of action, we called our friend and former physician Opeyemi. She asked us about Bella’s symptoms and what she had eaten that day. From the information she gathered, she was able to let us know that Bella was not seriously ill and was most likely having an allergic reaction to an egg yolk that we had given her to try earlier in the day. As the night progressed (being new parents), we were still worried and asked Opeyemi to come and look at Bella. She did, and her in-person assessment was very reassuring and helpful as well. She recommended that we stick with breast milk for the next couple of days. The next day, once the allergen was cleared from her system, Bella was laughing and playing again. We took her to our primary care physician as Opeyemi had recommended, in the morning. But, we were so grateful for her support in the meantime!”
#1. The “100 Families” Project:
Imagine a new (and very old) healing relationship:
I am a retired family doctor and a mother of two. I am capable of easing your worries about a child with a fever.
I can go with you to a scary medical encounter as an advocate, help organize your family to take 24/7 shifts with a relative in the hospital, sit down with your family to discuss a new cancer diagnosis
I can come and stay in your home if you are ill, and need support with cooking and cleaning.
I can walk you through medical tests and studies, helping you prepare, help you understand what the tests are FOR and what the results mean, discuss conventional options and alternative treatments.
I can help you create healing space and environments that go beyond the current definition of “health” into REAL WELLNESS.
The Cuban medical system (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjk1ydj3koY) assigns each family doctor 120 families. I am offering the above services as a subscription, in a pilot project for 100 Families. This is designed to supplement not replace your PCP ( I do not prescribe, nor diagnose, nor admit people to hospitals). An individual subscription is $20/month; $30/month for a family. Enrollment is open, and will continue until I reach my100 family goal. In three months, I will report out to everyone (and take feedback on) how this relationship is going.
My intention is to create a steady income for myself, and to model for other healers a way out of the managed care system.
#2. The “Mermaid Magic” Project
Last Fall, I set up programs for men over 40 (see “Wellness Tips for Extraordinary Men” here: http://www.witchandclown.com/wellness-products/).
This winter is for THE WOMEN. I set up a program for men first, because we women care take everyone ahead of ourselves. I knew that I would not be able to get the women enrolled, if “their men” were not cared for.
Ladies, our time is here!
We will connect on line with occasional red tent like adventures together “face to face and heart to heart”. My goal is to create self-empowering circles of support, and to increase our access to wellness. Mermaid magic will be a DONATION BASED service; contribute if you can; no women turned away. Pay me what you can, as you are able, and enjoy the postings. Comment as you see fit.
Blog posts/ newsletters related to both projects will begin the week of January 15th.
Here’s a holiday gift that requires NO MONEY…
Give someone you love the gift of loving touch,in the form of a SAFE, boundaried “sensory awakening ritual”. This is a term I learned from Margot Anand, author of several books on tantra and healthy sexuality:
http://www.margotanand.com/
Here’s the basic recipe:
Gather about five items from around your home that represent interesting experiences with the four senses of hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
Here’s some examples:
For hearing: whispered words, a bell, snapping fingers, crinkling paper, a giggle.
For smell: a bottle of vanilla, garlic, a perfume or essential oil, incense or the smell of a match (after extinguishing it!), peppermint
For taste: anything from your kitchen, just let the tasted items make sense as you present them (don’t give your loved one a clove of garlic for them to chew up, if they don’t like garlic)
For touch: a light stroke of a hand, placing items in the hands of your loved one, feathers, sandpaper…
Now that youv’e gathered your items, place the loved one in a comfortable position where they can sit/ lie for about 30 minutes.
Blindfold them.
Begin to offer them the experience of the objects that you have assembled. Use the order listed (hearing/smell/taste/touch) as this reliably WORKS to open the loved one up to a real “natural high” as you help them deepen the experience of being embodied.
Finish the ritual, by removing the blindfold and telling the perosn that you love them.
Use this, with a lover.
Use this, with a friend.
Use this, in a family, adult to child (I did this once, using peanut butter and marshmallows for taste sensations with three 6 year old giggling kids).
This “works” with up to about six people, each having a 15 minute turn.
In a nation of skin-starved individuals, what a special holiday treat!
Here’s a WELLNESS TIP for this holiday season: occupy your holidays.
The national “Occupy Together” movement advises us 99% ers to “keep it smart/keep it non-violent/and keep it going”. Support the movement with smart choices for your holidays, mind/body and spirit.
We Americans suffer from Thanksgiving through New year’s Day from what I call “our Hollow Days”. I saw this each year as a practicing physician. Beginning with Thanksgiving, my work was complicated by an increase in heart attacks (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22084747/ns/health-heart_health/t/holidays-bring-heart-attacks-along-revelry/), depression, and suicides. Hospitalizations increased, as my hypertensive and diabetic patients fell away from disciplined behaviors that kept them healthy the rest of the year.
We Americans mask our feelings of unease and depression by overeating, drinking, and OVERSPENDING our way through these holidays.
Why do the holidays make us sad? Maybe because we are all pretending that we are happy. Maybe it is all the mixed memories of childhood wonders and family dysfunction that get us down.
This year, our economy is so bad that there is simply no denying it, when December rolls around. Check out how these SEVEN PRINCIPLES of KWANZAA (created to help urban Black families deepen connections and not overspend each Christmas season) might influence your holidays, whether you are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Hindi, Neo-pagan, or atheist. It’s great to notice how the Occupy movement is reflected in each principle, too.
UMOJA: Unity. The occupy movement has us thinking about the collective needs of 99% of us who have not been listened to before.
KUJICHAGULIA: Self Determination. The occupy movement is suggesting that we take back our democracy from corrupt corporate interests.
UJIMA: Collective work and responsibility. The occupy movement is modeling a new kind of horizontal democracy that is very exciting
UJAAMA:Cooperative ECONOMICS. This is the big one for the holidays. Buy local. Think sustainabilty as you make holiday plans (more on that, later).
NIA: Purpose. The occupy movement is framing a conversation about priorities, for the nation.
KUUMBA: Creativity. The occupy movement is a creative response to a national disaster; the loss of our democratic process.
IMANI: Faith. Each day the Occupy movement grows is an example of faith in action.
These principles are especially valid this year as we struggle as a nation to come to grips with some frightening/exciting changes. Americans cannot buy our way out of the mess we are in. That Kwanzaa priciple of “cooperative economics” means that you pay attention to where you spend those hard-earned dollars, this holiday season.
Here’s a couple of suggestions:
Join the 3 50 movement to support your local businesses (http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/locovore-movement-save-economies.html). You remember them? The ones that DIDN’T screw you over, financially? The idea is, if we all spend $50 a month on three local businesses that we value, then we would not keep losing local businesses to big box stores and corporate chains.
Buy local food for your holidays: (http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/eatlocal/). Know where your turkey/hubbard squash or salmon for the holiday meals comes from.
That was for your mind. Next blog will be for your body and your spirit!,
How are all you Daughters of Earth doing, close to one week post gathering?
As one of the Rainbow Temple facilitators, I had an insight/idea/suggestion. Last year, Alisa helped us prepare for a shift in our relationship to our money and our beliefs about abundance. She suggested that all women prepare for the next DOE by saving the money that we would need to attend ALL YEAR LONG, so we could not say” I don’t have enough” one month before the gathering.
I am suggesting that we prepare for next year by using “film therapy” with respect to issues of race, ethnicity, class, and body image.
What a concept! At my Facebook “Temple of the Healthy Spirit” fanpage, I will be posting links to films, trailers to films, and you-tube clips relevant to films to help us think about these topics with some depth. I will also create a category for this topic, at my website; let’s call it the RRC (race relations commitment) category.
Why this topic and why now? Because London is going up in smoke, as I am writing this on August 12 and we have the same issues to address on this side of the Atlantic.
So let us begin. Start simple. This weekend, a new film is out, called “The Help” (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYmhc8Xk8g) Get yourself to the movie. Better yet, take a friend. Best of all, take a friend from a different ethnic/class/ or racial group.
And, if you haven’t GOT a friend who “qualifies”, then that’s a real opportunity for self examination, isn’t it?
Being a sci-fi child was unusual, in my family African-American artistic artistic. My scientific temperament made me feel the black sheep much of the time.
My geeky tendencies were nurtured outside of my family from an early age. Max, my third grade science teacher introduced me to atomic theory. I saw a standard drawing of a nucleus, a proton and an electron and had an epiphany. It represented EVERYTHING. Finding the language of math and science to explore this way of seeing the world was a given for me, from that day onward.
Then there was ”A Wrinkle in Time”, read aloud by my fourth grade teacher. This mythopoetic story of Meg (clumsy misfit struggling to find her place in the world, suddenly transported into a great struggle to save Earth from Dark Forces) prepared me to believe in miracles, and in the power of love.
It is with very mixed feelings that I have witnessed the end of America’s space program. The return of the shuttle Atlantis on July 21– the same day “we” walked on the moon–IS the end of an era. It was an era that started on the wrong foot. A race AGAINST the Russians. The planting of a flag, CLAIMING the moon for “us”.
A poem I wrote in 9th grade still reads true, all these many years later:
“I once heard a Navajo woman,
who was withered,
Like the last leaf of Autumn
Say,
Upon hearing that man had reached the moon,
Very quietly,
Very softly,
‘I don’t think that man was meant to go to the moon’
And I knew that when she died
A small piece of humanity would die with her.
Because she still saw the moon
As luminous power in a night sky,
As a Goddess, to be respected–
Not a rock on which to plant a flag
Or a dumpsite for discarded LEMs.”
Could the millions spent on the space program have been better utilized? What were we humans exporting, anyway? How could we simply leave all our junk up there out in space? Was space becoming the new “away” for throwing things away?
About two weeks ago, I was having a conversation with my geeky MIT grad buddy, the product of parents who are both engineers who work for NASA. His defense of a continued need for the space program boiled down to “having somewhere to do the dangerous experiments”.
Hmmm.
Like exploding nuclear bombs? Or biologic warfare tests?
It was not until 1992 that anyone looking like me went into space. Mae Jemison was a dancer, and a doctor, as well as an astronaut. She resigned from NASA in 1993. In 1996, she filed a police brutality report against a Texas police officer, following her arrest for a traffic violation.
That incident alone enforces my belief that we have a lot more work to do ”down here” before our government gets back to space exploration.
We’ll get there; in the right time in the right way.
With the REAL Right Stuff next time.
Love a bi-polar day. That could be my son (diagnosed), or my mother (would fit today’s criteria)…
I love and HATE the idea.
Labels make me crazy. I have spoken about this, on my radio show:
http://ia600507.us.archive.org/8/items/ChannelingTheMuse_108/CTM062510sanity.mp3.
l I counsel about this, and help people create healing ceremonies for themselves:
and I am campaigning HARD to wake folks up to the problems with long term use of psych meds:
http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/drug-induced-dementia/
and provide SAFE suggestions for tapering and monitoring while adjusting or eliminating such meds:
http://willhall.net/harmreductionguidecomingoffpsychdrugs/
So, what do I think about Love a Bipolar Day?
I am remembering getting excited about the Wayseer Manifesto, and having a cynical friend remark that 80% of the 9 minute video could be a diagnostic study of mania:
Things that make you go “HMMMMMM”.
What I know–
#1 Labels suck the life out of people.
#2 Mental diversity is simply not tolerated, in the United States of America.
#3 Americans are consumers, not citizens, and consuming drugs (legal and illegal) is a multi billion dollar business. One in three Americans are on psychiatric meds; THAT is sick.
#4 the closer a person is to nature, the less likely they are to fall into unpleasant relationships with EXTREME STATES (that would be develop neuroses, become depressed or anxious, have a nervous breakdown, or become psychotic)
#5 the difference between a shaman and a schizophrenic is the voice in the shaman’s head STOP when asked to stop.
#6 the difference between a mystic and a madman (or woman) is a mystic knows when to keep their mouth shut.
Wow. Weeks of wonder. The Extreme Weather issues are hitting closer to home. Personal relationships are heating up. I am having more miscommunications, with more necessity for CLARITY in setting boundaries, while offering love and support from an appropriate distance. Friends are dancing with physical health crises, including dancing with death. As local celebrity Bob Paquette was honored after his sudden death at age 55
(see my archived radio show: http://ia600607.us.archive.org/30/items/ChannelingTheMuseLifeAndDeath/CTM060311final.mp3) I find myself in awe of the depths of living I learned he had experienced…
That is my brief report in, for Full Catastrophe Life. How is everyone else doing, out there?
Now I am going DIRECTLY to the esoteric. Transmissions from the Hathors keep feeling “right” to me, now. I pass them along to you…
footnotes:
* having walked away from conventional medicine 6 years ago, with all of the wildness and wonders of a “post MD life”, I really resonate with this… what is going on for YOU??????
Where this gets “magical” for me, is in bringing in multi-DIMENSIONAL possibilities.
I am having experiences with dimensional shifts, small miracles, and outrageous serendipity, more and more. Time to begin talking about this with other advanced guard. I
Check out “Extreme States Revisited” (see attached flyer) this THURSDAY JUNE 9th from 5 to 7 p.m. at 74 Federal Street in Greenfield. Adrian Montagano and I will be sharing our process, then opening the event for hearing the experiences of others.
**this line reminded me of a Sci Fi book by Robert Heinlein called “The Book of Job”… in it, everyone gets the Life after Death that they are expecting. You might find this to be an interesting read, but I hate Heinlein’s sexism:
Heinlein’s book of Job (review on amazon.com)
“This book is more psychedelic and postmodern. It centers around a conservative protestant minister who’s life is turned upside down when, after walking through fire while on vacation, he finds himself in another world that is just slightly different than his own. Every time he gets a little used to it, the world changes again and he has to start from scratch.”
Ursula LeGuin does a mind-blowing number on this concept of multiple dimensions and personal reality, with her novel, “The Lathe of Heaven” Made into a movie (which I “serendipitously” just found IN IT’S ENTIRETY on line:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6032236535078716306#)
THAT’S the kind of coincidence I mean.***My Near Death experience with suicide gave me a great opportunity to have my faith in post death existence secured. YET I have found myself totally stymied by the out-of body/alone/YIKES of this experience, when using the consciousness expanding herb, Salvia Divinorum. This is my personal check in on NOT being ready, should I be asked to transition into death, tomorrow…
How are you doing?
What about with loss of beloveds, relationships, professional work, home, or STUFF?
I intend to begin an in depth exploration of The Tibetan Book of The Dead; being midwife to The Great Transition has it’s homework assignments.
How are YOU dancing into This Great Transition?
Hello everyone. I have been posting information that I believe is helpful to maintaining balance and centeredness during these challenging times. what A blessing to have this information simply flow to me, through links, and blogs, and other web pages.
Here is some valuable information, posted through the H2O program (see http://www.h2opportunities.net/)
From Dori Midnight:
As you’ve probably heard, there may be some radiation moving across the
pacific in the next weeks heading towards the west coast from Japan. To keep
going, be alive, and not shut down, we need courage, nourishment, and
support – make a pot of soup
1. SEAWEED: eat nori, put wakame, kombu, and hijiki in your soups and stews.
The iodine in kelp helps draw out the radiation and protect your thyroid
from radioactive uptake.
2. MISO: good medicine full of live cultures, amino acids, minerals, and
protein. I’d recommend making a big pot this week, having a bowl everyday
and feeding it to all your friends- recipe follows.
3. MUSHROOMS: strengthen your immune system with some shitake mushrooms,
sauteed or in soups.
4. Eat vegetables, especially DAIKON radishes and BURDOCK root- stick them
in your soup too or make a shredded salad (recipe below). Daikon has been
used for drawing out radiation, post nuclear fall out- it’s cooling and
detoxifying
5. BATHS in epsom salt and baking soda (1 lb of salt, with a bit of baking
soda 2x week)
6. DRINK lots of WATER
7. IMMUNE support: do the things you know boost your immune system- sleep
well, eat garlic and Vitamin C rich foods, and go easy on the sugar
8. LOVE: send prayers, love, healing thoughts for those who need it most.
Instead of freaking out or shutting down, let your anger, fear, and grief
flow- it’s what makes us human and feel connected to what’s going on in the
world right now. Crying is a potent way to detox, friends. (emphasis mine)
9. HERBS: if you want to get herbal, some great allies are nettle tea,
cilantro (eat a lot of it or take a tincture- it helps draw heavy metals out
), and milk thistle (helps your liver process toxins). Also Yarrow
Environmental Essence from FES is a beautiful formula to support the body in
environmental disasters.
RECIPES:
Magical Medicinal Miso Soup
Saute one onion, sliced thin, til translucent. Add water, seaweed of choice
(I like Kombu and Wakame), shitake mushrooms (dried or fresh), burdock root,
carrots, and any other hearty roots you like. Simmer for 25 minutes.
I like to add shredded or sliced ginger near the end, so it’s strong, and
some garlic, which I like really strong. You can also add greens, like kale
or spinach. Simmer another 5 minutes.
Because you don’t want to boil your miso, I usually put a large dollop of
miso paste in my bowl and then pour the broth on top to dissolve it.
Drink and offer bowls to all your loved ones and neighbors, kiddos and pets,
family and friends.
Get your Daikon
Easy Shredded Salad
Shred carrot and daikon radish (2-3 roots)
Mix with sesame oil and a little umeboshi vinegar (also a great medicine!),
sesame seeds, whatever fresh herbs you’ve got on hand (I love mint or
cilantro), and a little tamari. Eat and feel alive and well thanks to the
plants, the sun, the water and the farmers.
Dori Midnight
community folk healing + magic + apothecary
www.dorilandia.com <http://www.dorilandia.com/>
http://midnightapothecary.blogspot.com/
<http://midnightapothecary.blogspot.com/>
And, this meditation from a channel for the Hawthors:
(see http://tomkenyon.com/who-are-the-hathors)
A Hathor Planetary Message Through Tom Kenyon
Medicines of Light:
Protection and Healing from Radiation Poisoning, Neurotoxins, Bacteria and
Viruses.
With the earthquake in New Zealand, followed by the earthquake in Japan, it
is clear that you have entered a more complex phase of the Chaotic Node
We wish to impart a method for protection and healing from radiation
poisoning as well as other physical conditions. We call this Medicines of
Light.
This is obviously related to current events unfolding in Japan, however, as
future earth changes unfold, you may face similar challenges in your near
future from other locations around the world
This method will assist you to both protect and heal yourself from exposure,
not only to radioactivity, but also to neurotoxins and to mutating forms of
bacteria and viruses. From our perspective you can expect to see an increase
of these in your near timeline.
The method involves connecting to your Celestial Soul, the BA. This action
is to connect to the realms of light that are a part of your being.
Everything that exists in your cosmos can be viewed as a qualification or
energetic expression of light—even your densest forms of matter are
essentially a form of light.
In this method you connect to your Celestial Soul, holding the intent and
expectation that it will impart to you an energetic that protects and/or
heals you. You send this intent to your Celestial Soul with the emotional
vibration of appreciation or gratitude. This is simply the vibrational
resonance that activates this higher aspect of your being.
Once you send this intent conjoined with appreciation or gratitude to your
BA, you shift your awareness into your heart chakra, receiving the energetic
of healing or protection into the heart chakra. You might experience this
energetic as a form of light, or as geometric patterns, or you may feel the
sensation of a descent of energy. You may also experience this energetic
simply as a thought/feeling.
Once the energetic is received in the heart chakra, it is ready to send.
For this phase you will need some pure water, since water holds this type of
information extremely well. Holding a container of water in your hands,
through intent, you send this energy that is in the heart chakra down the
arms into the hands and through the chakras that are in the center of each
palm. The energetic enters the water through this pathway.
We suggest you amplify this energetic by repeating the procedure three
times, for a total of three times—two more times in addition to the first.
You then drink the water. The water permeates the water element of your
body, and the healing and protective qualities eventually enter every cell.
Through this action you are qualifying light, causing it to descend through
the central pathway of your body into your heart and sending it into the
water element. The consciousness of the water receives this energetic, and
when you drink it, the body receives it.
If you find yourself in a situation where you have been exposed to
radioactivity you would engage this procedure as we have described it,
qualifying the energy that descends from the BA to protect and heal you from
any possibility of radiation poisoning. If you have other means to protect
yourself, you should obviously engage these as well, but even if you are
left with nothing but the tools of your own consciousness, you can protect
and heal yourself.
If you have been exposed to neurotoxins you would do the same. If you are in
the midst of an epidemic that involves bacterial or viral infections, we
advise you to do the same.
As you collectively enter more deeply into this more complex and intense
phase of the Chaotic Node, bacteria and viruses will mutate faster. This
method will allow you to protect and heal yourself from these mutating life
forms.
It is important to understand that you are creating the protection and
healing through the powers of your own consciousness. You have direct access
to your own light realms. You have the sovereign right to engage the light
realms on your own behalf and on the behalf of your loved ones.
If you find yourself in one of these difficult situations we have described,
we suggest you take the Medicine of Light—which is the water that you have
charged—several times a day, as your intuition guides you.
The physical ramifications of the earthquake activity in Japan and the
resulting tsunami are very difficult to deal with. But we wish to shift our
attention from the physical to the mental, emotional, and spiritual effects
created by such a disaster,
Due to the fact that you are in a Chaotic Node and energies from deep space
conjoined with solar flare activity are affecting your energy bodies, you,
as a collective, are more affected. What we mean by this is that witnessing
the suffering of your fellow humans shatters the heart. There is a
recognition that their predicament could easily be yours. This recognition
can create an opening in your heart, and it is through the heart—your
heart—that higher states of consciousness are realized, and so the
earthquake in Japan is, in many ways, an earthquake of the collective heart.
The times before you are not easy. From our perspective, increased earth
changes are upon you. But one result of such events is that you are shaken
to your roots and the mass hypnosis pauses for a moment. And in such utter
and surrealistic devastation, many of you see very clearly that your
civilization rests on tenuous grounds. We mean this both literally and
figuratively.
And so our advice for this phase of the Chaotic Node is to learn and master
the ability to create Medicines of Light for yourself, so that when the time
arises, you know how to engage this power of protection and healing that you
possess in your very nature. And we suggest you navigate through these times
not only with your minds, but with your hearts—and let your hearts be
touched, for it is through your hearts that you will ascend the spiral
pathway to your own greatness (emphasis mine).
