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It’s Earth Day today, April 22 2023. I am waking to heavy rain bringing in a cold front. Rain, shine, fog or snow, I am deeply grateful whenever my day begins with…
The first step is to sit comfortably and feel the healing light and energy from the Earth entering the body through the tips of each and every toe. This light is then moving slowly through the feet, the ankles, the legs, the knees, the thighs, and pausing in the torso. The Earth’s light then moves up along the back, rests in the shoulders, shifts to the front and moves up along the stomach and the chest, and relaxes the entire upper body. Down along the arms and elbows and wrists it goes, reaching all the way to each fingertips, filling them with light. The Earth’s light then shifts to the neck, the jaw, the face, lips, nose, eyelids, ear lobes, forehead, and finally emerges from the top of the head, relaxing everything it touches.
Every single morning that I remember to accept the grace of the Earth’s healing light, and practice the sequence of relaxation described above, I am reminded of the Earth’s ever-presence and its ever-giving. In my experience, the beauty of the relaxation practice is in its simplicity, its accessibility and its sustainability.
I imagine that every one of us has their own ‘go-to’ practice of relaxation, renewal and inner restoration that taps into the ever-abundant grace of Mother Earth and her ever-flowing resources that are all around us. There is often one or more of Earth’s five core elements that we may have an affinity for – water, earth, fire, air and ether – and the elements we choose for our practices may even change over time.
Which of Earth’s element(s) do you have an affinity for in your daily practices? Are there any particular physical senses that are most effective for you to connect with the core of Earth’s ever-loving grace? How does the health of your physical relationship with the Earth influence your inner awareness of truth and existence?
Kumud
P.S. Join us Sunday April 23 at 9amET for our weekly gathering and conversation in #SpiritChat on twitter as we celebrate ‘Earth Week’. Bring some of your favorite Earth-photos and Earth-poems to share. Namaste – @AjmaniK
Resources: More details of the ‘Earth’s healing-light relaxation’ are available at heartfulness.org or in the free HeartsApp app.
(Earth Day 2023… Happy Birthday, Mom!)
The #SpiritChat Community 
Celebrating Earth Day sitting outside in brilliant AM sun overlooking Paquime, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Mexico, celebrating the Mogollon who lived here 1150 with a striking relationship with Nature. They disappeared with the Spanish invasion of Mexico although the remnants of their culture and way of life remain and tell a story. I wonder what our story will be centuries from now? Will our ruins tell our story? Or will our descendants be around to remember? Happy Day today to my friends at Spirit Chat. We will be “on the road again” tomorrow and sorry to miss the chat. More later from your wandering wonderer.
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What a wonderful place to celebrate Earth Day, Gary! Yes, what will be our story, and how will it be told? I hope that no matter who tells it, it is the story of goodness, of kindness, of light and lightness… that we lived and loved with grace and respect for all that sustained us… enjoy the rest of your journey!
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