Dear little flower,

A tiny blue flower pulled me deep into its world today. A wildflower (a weed to most people here about, I’d guess.) Such a successful ground cover that it fills my back yard most pleasantly and in no time.

The flower blooms near dawn and fades in the heat of the afternoon, turning brown, probably dropping off to seed quickly given how it spreads. It seems to be somewhat drought and heat tolerant but has loved the bogginess of our 10 days of storms and rain.

It’s sturdy of stem and root, yet easy to pull up, relocate, remove. What an adapter, and the flower a small rare beauty. When I bend low and enter in, this seemingly insignificant bloom affords me a long moment of awe.

Bees love it, and – pushing aside the dense foliage – I discover a fecund world of worms and bugs happily at home, generating much for many. Nearly knee-high now, it so thickly mats my small backyard that it can’t be walked thru.

Next year, perhaps I will lay down some boards or pavers for a path, to allow a short meander around the old pecan tree. Growing well in every opportunity – in dead leaves atop concrete by the fence, in cracks in pavement – I have let it grow. In three years it has transformed the poor dense soil in the yard into several inches of rich new topsoil. It’s a little miracle worker weed.

This is a plant, a flower, to learn from about thriving and adapting with style and humility, yet great beauty. It’s in perfect harmony with the elements and with fellow life forms and knows how to offer what is needed.

Observing nature being natural I always learn so much about how to be, don’t you?

🍃 Mayet 🍃

Dear Sensory one,

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I read of a woman who finally achieved boundless self love through her sense of touch. She used one hand to tenderly and slowly caress the other and her arms, shoulders, legs and feet – truly registering the sensations of her own gentle touch on her skin. Take a moment just now to slowly stroke your own hand and arm and you will immediately see how this could be.

Rumi is said to have achieved enlightenment using sight in a gazing practice – extended soft-focused gazing into the eyes of another. He followed his physical sight inward until he saw the god within the other – that God within all things – and then he saw it gazing back at him, as nothing less than himself, in unfathomable divine love. This practice transported him to another level of being.

Quan Yin is said to have achieved enlightenment by listening to the sound of ocean waves and the space between them. Alternately, I have heard it said she listened to waves lapping on a lake. Or the sound of the river. Is it known where she lived and what, therefore, she might have listened to? I don’t know. But she followed her physical hearing with such attention that she fell into the space between the sounds, where that which is God resides.

Whether drumming and dancing around fires, a dervish in their concentrated spin, Rumi gazing, Quan Yin listening, the miracle of self-caress, one thing is clear: sight, sound, touch, taste, movement – the body is built to help achieve enlightenment, not hinder it. The senses can be sacred doorways opening to expanded worlds.

See, listen, sing, breathe, touch. Take time to use your senses for their greatest potential. Even taste… a meal spent feeling the sensations of food in your mouth, really savoring and tasting it with heightened awareness. Truly experience your sensations when engaging with your meal through sight, taste, touch, smell and sound. Even this common act done with mindful open-hearted attention can lead to ecstasy, or a depth of silence, or such profound gratitude that all else falls away.

There is no need to leave your body to ascend, it is meant to assist you along the way!
I think that’s something wonderful to consider!

~X💜Mayet

Dear Time-shifter,

Several times each week during my morning meditations I write messages or thoughts that come.  It’s a long time habit.  Recently I was sorting through some of my older Morning Musings and came across this one that I felt served as a nice message for us all today.  Who doesn’t want to improve health and age better, after all?

Fall Out of Step With Time

The rumble tumble of time turning rocks in the river is polishing and shaping, yes, but wearing them down as well. Time is like that river and the faster the tumbling of time in human life, the more the physical incrementally wears away.

Here is our suggestion: Slow the flow of time like the shaman and wizard of old, stepping out of time with the world, anchoring in the inner peace within the core of Light you are. Lifespans lengthens then.

This is one of the advantages of entering with more regularity into ceremony or meditation – to step out of time, to break its tendency to build up speed. It is in time that one ages.

One of the best ways to step out of time is to become engrossed in a hobby, a joy, an activity. Focus to the point that time loosens its grip, falls back ticking softly in the distance. Or not at all.

Know also that breath alters time – regulate your breathing, learning to breathe right extends the timeline and certain breaths create timelessness as well.

The quality of time is changing, have you noticed? The linear way of relating to it doesn’t work as well. Turn this to your advantage and begin to drop the habit of time. In the timelessness is greater capacity for magic, wonder, love, joy and well-being.

To improve your health, reach your spiritual goals and extend your life, we suggest you begin to fall out of step with time.

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Timely words, don’t you think? 😉
Love, Mayet