Breathe

Thinking of the turmoil in the world tonight- of riots in the UK, people frightened by falling stock markets, famine in East Africa. . . I keep inhaling the heat of rage and fear, and exhaling out cool calm.

We can do that you know- we can be little transformers. It's all energy. If we are willing to sit with our own or another's fear or anger, we can breathe it in, sit a little closer to it (I know it's counter-intuitive) and turn it around, using that powerful energy to send out what is needed, to generate deep cool calm peace within, surrounding the raging fires of fear and anger with the life-giving rain of compassion.

Of course, it's not you or me "doing" anything but making ourselves available to the Great Heart that holds us and gives us the free will choice about how we will use our own small heart to participate in the wholeness we share.

It's way of praying- and it doesn't replace praying with our actions, doing what we can, giving what we are able- but I have faith in all the different ways we can come together to co-create peace.

08Aug2011 Oriah Mountain Dreamer.