A Piece of Chalk

Something about Me and Stones♥

 

Working with Chakra Energies

    Those who wish to embody the Tao
should embrace all things.
To embrace all things means first
that one holds no anger or resistance
toward any idea or thing,
living or dead, formed or formless.
To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself
of any concept of separation; male and female,
self and others, life and death.
Divison is contrary to the nature of the Tao.
Foregoing antagonism and separation, one enters
into the harmonious oneness of all things.
                                                        (attributed to Lao Tzu )

 

 

How does Chakras and Colors correspond with our relationships? How does this effect our well being? There are 22 energy points on our body that receive and submit energy. This effects our emotions, health and mental abilities.

Purple-Crown Chakra

Green-Heart Chakra

Yellow-Solar Plexus Chakra

Orange-Sacral Chakra

Red- Base Chakra

The following links are suggested reading for the chakra according to TAO tradition ♥

rear chakras ascending		front chakras descending
Crown
Back of Head		Upper Forehead
		Middle Forehead Lower Forehead Brow
Mouth of God		Talu/Lalana
Back of Neck		Throat
Base of Neck		Thymic
Shoulder Blades		Heart
Diaphragmatic		Solar Plexus
Door of Life		Navel / Sea of Ch'i
Sacral		Pubic
Coccygeal
Perineum

 

The Four Agreements

I just finished my 'second' read on this little pocket book by Don Miguel Ruiz. Don Miguel Ruiz's book, The Four Agreements was published in 1997. For many, The Four Agreements is a life-changing book, whose ideas come from the ancient Toltec wisdom of the native people of Southern Mexico. The Toltec were 'people of knowledge' - scientists and artists who created a society to explore and conserve the traditional spiritual knowledge and practices of their ancestors. The Toltec viewed science and spirit as part of the same entity, believing that all energy - material or ethereal - is derived from and governed by the universe. Don Miguel Ruiz, born and raised in rural Mexico, was brought up to follow his family's Toltec ways by his mother, a Toltec faith healer, and grandfather, a Toltec 'nagual', a shaman. Despite this, Don Miguel decided to pursue a conventional education, which led him to qualify and practice for several years as a surgeon. Following a car crash, Don Miguel Ruiz reverted to his Toltec roots during the late 1970's, first studying and learning in depth the Toltec ways, and then healing, teaching, lecturing and writing during the 1980's and 90's, when he wrote The Four Agreements (published in 1997), The Mastery of Love (1999), The Four Agreements Companion Book (2000), and Prayers (2001). Don Miguel Ruiz survived a serious heart attack 2002, since when his teachings have been largely channelled through seminars and classes run by his followers, notably his sons Don Jose Luis and Don Miguel Ruiz Junior. Like many gurus and philosophical pioneers, Ruiz has to an extent packaged, promoted and commercialised his work, nevertheless the simplicity and elegance of his thinking remains a source of great enlightenment and aspiration. The simple ideas of The Four Agreements provide an inspirational code for life; a personal development model, and a template for personal development, behaviour, communications and relationships.

 Here is how Don Miguel Ruiz summarises 'The Four Agreements':

agreement 1

Be impeccable with your word - Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

agreement 2

Don’t take anything personally - Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

agreement 3

Don’t make assumptions - Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

agreement 4

Always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Karma Cube

I was lucky enough to find a Karma cube ,complete with mantra, at frenchies the other day when I went to Clare with a few friends. I haven't seen one sense I recieved one as a gift in my childhood, that one being long gone now. They are wonderful for divining! I tried to find some information on this but only came close with the following 2 articles for you.
Power Cube
and
The Power of Understanding

Memories in Light

I've had to add this beautiful photo of a prism caught in a diamond. I've always looked to the Light. Remembering my afternoon's as a child, hidden away in the attic of the large 4 apartment building that  my Great Grand Mother and Grand Mother rented, I can still see the dust dancing thru the gleaming sky, casting a gentle shadow in my imagination. The old attic had two rooms that were used in the 'old days' for the maid to live in. It had a rusted old bed against one wall and a broken wicker chair for my dolls to sit on.

The morning light was the best as the sun rose thru the window into the old rough boarded floor, casting the light into a beam that passed into the other room beyond. As it emanated, it twisted to reveal a prism that danced along the edge of the beam.  realizing, as a child does, it vibrated the air with a energy that erupted into a thought in my small mind. A remembrance, a story, a memory, or a time. To remember that the light is in itself, time...