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52 days of Moving and E-volving Emotions Manual - 44th day, September 2002
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Light and Water, Spirit and Feeling,
and the folks that flock to the festival
and my Efrat orchestrating everything.
Despite 6 hours
2014 |
The FELT days 165, 166, 167, 168 ~ of the next 15 FELT years
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5 y e a r s = 5 4 8 0 days
of g e f u e h l t e - g e f u e l l t e Z e i t "inmitten der Ewigkeit", f e l t - f i l l e d t i m e "amidst eternity" from the beginning of my 76th till the completion of my 90th year [unless I'll die after all] The feeling chosen from a day is exhibited in max. 7 lines per day since August 28, 2013 On 6 days of the week I learn, but Shabbat is dedicated to my main feeling: grate-full-ness. Since feelings must be vibrated~ wombed, each day closes with a song, fitting the 7 lines To challenge myself like that -while not knowing what will be "staged" in my personal and in the world's drama till 2028 , exhilarates me! |
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in busses and trains,
Rotem so much enjoys what I enjoy,
the artists
February 18, 2014-OHEL 20
though not by the slaughter of whole-sound lambs, but yes by standing before YOU in the tent of Appointment. see more below |
continuing: (18)
"Nebo-Let-Go"-slow
and "Nebo-Let-Go"
- in one go =2006:
a sculpture of 21 years of my exterior creating
A sculpture by Succot-builder Dani Kish at the edge of the Ramon-Crater
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continued Day 16- from among 42 days -
Every Dream Seed is blessedly designed to birth Each growing as life-supporting structures, .... In choosing to activate, nurture, tender, ..... Beloveds, |
"Once upon
a time, "It was a
journey with a purpose: "But we knew
at the outset "That is why,
thousands of years ago, we planted three seeds |
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PONDERING [Febr. 18-20,
2014] I pointed out then the connection between Gid'on's calling his altar "YHWH is Shalom (= wholeness)" and the later instruction of exemplifying this wholeness in how an altar should be built technically, physically. Mona countered: "but the very term of altar is still "a place of slaughter", and when they slaughtered the required animals there, they did use "iron"! I said: This is
the way of f the Bible: |
EXPLORING
Gadi about Simon and Sharon Ma'or, the two fathers of Ya'el Gavish's three
children.
EXPLO
February 19, 2014-OHEL 21
continuing: (19)
"Nebo-Let-Go"-slow
and "Nebo-Let-Go"
- in one go =2006:
a sculpture of 21 years of my exterior creating
see the translation of this document , beginning on December 30, 2014 |
What dreams will you bring to
fruition this year?
continued
Day 17- from among 42 days -
GO AND GROW Each new day reveals subtle shifts and
changes, With Faith Wisdom, we surrender and flow Like the deepening roots of our Dream Seed, While we may yet see |
We feel the cosmic impulse of creation We follow our bliss and celebrate what IS, In Gratitude we go ... and Grow.
From Julia Cameron's, Blessings |
Today's
Morning Book WATSU, Freeing the body in Water, by Harold Dull. second edition 1997, into which I wrote after having gone through the experience myself: "Holding (touch)~~~~ Supporting (being with)~~~ Movement. I never understood, why I was urged to take up a course in Watsu and at a time, when I had not a penny to spend on more than survival-needs. The book opened towards the end at "Holdings". and when associating with it a recent encounter and a recent reading, I suddenly understood... [Nowadays there is a website Watsu, but I didn't find there what this time, in the book, en-lighten-ed me: p. 136 Holdings: .... to explore what being held means I first introduced this simple exercise or process in Watsu classes at Harbin in the fall of 1996. It was so powerful and effective that we are making it a regular part of all our trainings. 1. Explain to Watsu students: Watsu is a holding therapy.Being held brings up many different things for people. For many it adds another dimension to being touched. We all have some need to be held, but are not always aware of it and may confuse it with other needs. ... one person (the holder) holds another (the explorer) while a third (the witness) sits nearby to listen to whatever the explorer wishes to say about his immediate experience and/or what it brings up from the past. 2. Ask those students who would like to explore being held to stand up until a third of the group are standing. Ask the explorers to first pick their holders, and then their witnesses. Explain the process. The holder is to find a comfortable position against a wall with cushions etc. The explorer determines how he or she is to be held, whether leaning back against the person or lying in their lap etc. The explorer can change the position and the placement of the holder's arms as often as desired. The witness sits nearby in silence listening to whatever the explorer says. The explorer is not required to say anything, but they are encouraged to take this opportunity to explore as deep as possible what being held means to them. Have the groups of three as spread out around the room as possible. 3. Allow the process to continue at least 15-20 minutes. When it feels near completion, give them 3 minutes to wind up silently before calling them back into a circle. 4. In the circle each Explorer describes their experience and what they discovered in it, followed by those who held and witnessed them sharing their expriences. ...In the first intensive I began with this process, the full range of issues that come up for people in Watsu were brought to the surface. - Some recalled being held by their mother. - Some expressed how important it was for them to be held this way without any sexual intention. - One man realized how important it was to be held by his father and how much he missed him. - Another shared how he confronted his sexual feelings while holding a woman. - One woman recalled how on her wedding night after making love her husband turned his back to her to sleep, and how much she just needed to be held. Sharing these experiences, and sharing how deep each was affected, gave the participants a deeper sense of Watsu 'ethics' than many hours of generalizing and opinion based discussion could. It also created a strong bonding of the group from day one. A couple months later I tried the same exercise with a group of aquatic exercise instructors from Japan. Children in Japan are held more than in the West but adults rarely embrace or hold others, particularly in public. The first issue that came up for most of them was the difficulty of asking for what they wanted, of expressing how they wanted to be held. Another issue of primary importance was expressing how they felt. They enjoyed the exercise and many eagerly explored the differences between being held from behind, from in front and from each side. They recalled what they felt when their parents and others held them these ways. Some had powerful experiences of energy. Others apologized for not having such powerful experiences. Not as many issues around sexuality came up, possibly because it was an all women group. The exercise added much to bonding, and helped me, even through translatino, get a better sense of each student. I felt it added to the students getting "the spirit of Watsu".... I cannot remember to have ever been held or hugged or kissed by my poor widowed mother. Even when she suddenly demanded that we kiss her when leaving the house for school (perhaps when I was already 16 or 17), she never kissed us back, and so this kissing was nothing but discomfort. |
These
coincidences day after day! I had just copied the "exercise" of Holding, so wonderful even if not in water, when I found a facebook info in my e-mail-box, from Tova, the wife of my stepson Joel At the end this man asks to not divorce, but heal your relationship, and to do so by "holding", by carrying your wife on your hands. like "the angels" do in one of my favorite psalms [91:8] and my song. The ohel-verse today warned of just the same: do not betray your wife, but the Bible didn't yet know about the need to be physically held and healed. |
I envy Hagar
Gal, the daughter of my stepdaughter Dita for her profession of holding both, mothers who give birth and children who are birthed A post on Facebook by Hagar's mother-in-law with this picture as another coincidence today: HOLDING-HUGGING-TOUCHING |
PONDERING
- CONTINUED from Febr. 19: February 20-21, 2014 In the morning of February 19, 2014, I was inspired to write more about the deep insights, phrased above in "Felt Days". Later I wanted to move this excellent passage into a separate frame, yet when "copying" it, I forgot to "paste" it and found out about this error only 6 hours later. The passage couldn't be retrieved and I am grieved. It probably means, that I'm still far from truly understanding the "three needs". The tents in the desert's air, earth and energy will be the physical space that - as my recent song says - "will host us humans to find ourselves." But what does it mean, "to find ourselves"? I'll a little bit follow my life-path of trying to understand, "how to save the World": It's how I phrased "this" at the age of 6 believing then, what the Catholic Church taught (we were Protestants, but my consciousness awoke during the 2 1/2 years of having been evacuated to a Catholic village , from 1944-1946) that only humans who are baptized will be "saved". I told elsewhere, how terribly frustrated I felt: "Let's assume I find a way to baptize all humans now on earth, what about those who are already dead?" I skip forward to 1967, when I began to work on my Ph.D. thesis: I had wanted to call it: "The meaning of suffering in Judaism". Yet the professor whom I called to get info about literature in the Middle Ages, came down on me like a thunderbolt: "To look for the meaning of suffering is a Christian idea. Jews endeavor to p r e v e n t suffering". This is not exact: Jews like Rabbi Aqiba, too, searched for "meaning". And yet what I learnt from the ancient Jewish thinkers was, that what happens to us, is not blind Destiny, It is the consequence of wrong-doing. Asking "what CAUSED our catastrophes" shows that they felt responsible for what happened. Feeling responsible for what happened, means accepting responsibility also for what WILL happen. I know, that it's this capability of taking responsibility which let the Jewish people survive through all destructions and exilations, unlike other people who "caused" themselves the same experiences, but did not take responsibility and therefore got lost in their new environments. This understanding made me take up a c t i o n >>>Partnership. But at the same time I also expanded my understanding about how to deal with suffering. I'll again skip many years and pin down two main phenomena, about which I learnt in the Right-Use-of-Will Books and in Godchannel.com I understood that we attract painful "triggers" so that "holes in our wholeness can heal". These holes are the consequence of denials. The other main reason for pain etc. are "judgments/beliefs". Like the belief (still prevalent!), that some humans have to be sacrificed, so that the rest can live. How to heal triggers and how to release judgments, this has taken up most of my thinking during the last 27 years. But there is a third main reason for suffering and therefore ---- for wrong-doing! I often repeated [e.g. in pp26] that what we deny mainly are - painful emotions - needs judged unfulfillable - "negative" qualities - feared greatness but I don't recall if I ever investigated "needs judged unfulfillable". Yes, I gave enormous attention to what I saw as the too greatest needs: The need of "Cain" - i.e. the need to feel worthy and equal , self-respecting and self-loving and the need for "Zest and Full-fill-ment". The fulfilment of these two needs has to be found in ourselves. But there is a third need, which is dependent on others: the need to be held and hugged, yes physically touched. I often told that a gruesome experiment in the 19th century : about orphans, who were fed, clothed etc. but never given any warmth, never held, hugged, touched. They all died eventually. . I haven't made clear, that the three needs , - since people do not know how to feel - are "fulfilled" in a shallow or even dangerous way, The dampening, dulling, dimming of "Cain's" need is apparant in the biblical myth itself, in personal & national wars, and even in "Babylonian Celebrations". The dampening, dulling, dimming of the need for Zest & Full-fill-ment is apparent in countless phenomena, like "Babylonian Entertainments", like addictions of every kind, like youth-delinquency, etc. etc. The third need - the need for being held, hugged, touched - - is most of the time mixed up with "sex" and "romantic love". Now, after 3 days of "pondering", I feel helpless, powerless, how "I'm to give less attention to the physical manifestation of the Tent-Vision and more to how this will evolve humans' coping with their 3 main NEEDs." |
This morning , still in bed, I wondered, Next day another spiral: "re-viewing
intent with gratitude" (s. below) |
Today's postcard: My father from the war in France: "here we were stationed for some hours", 1940 |
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ting
in Galiee stoe,
our Kayak paddling, our sliding on ice,
guests-of-honor of Efrat an her staff,
but the greatest experience of all:
our enchantment with our ow sculpting of female (
le (Rote
February 20, 2014-OHEL 22
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continuing: (20)
"Nebo-Let-Go"-slow
and "Nebo-Let-Go"
- in one go =2006:
a sculpture of 21 years of my exterior creating
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What dreams will you bring to
fruition this year?
continued
Day 18- from among 42 days - In beginning our Blooming Humans journey, Some recorded these prayers/intentions in journals
and on blogs, Each of us is birthing our Peace of the Great
Coming Together Connect with the original intent you set Record these in whatever way feels resonant
and empowering.
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As you do, approach this endeavor from a space
of Gratitude. In recording our current visions, intentions
and roles Remember --- what we Appreciate APPRECIATES. In Gratitude we go ... and grow! |
"When you
project gratitude, regardless of circumstance or condition, Gratitude is an
essential facet of love |
Senegal: he smoothes his mother's curled hair (perhaps 50 years ago) I didn't think, that my hair - "beautified" for that "Babylonian Celebration" - had any relevance. But the fact, that instead of a morning postcard this clip appeared, let me think: how is people's, especially women's craziness about their hair connected to "Cain's" need to feel worthy and be honored? In any case - the accidental photo of me at that Celebration s. above reinforces my dislike of long smooth dispersed hair, even if it's not blonde (this goes beyond "disliking"- for "blonde hair and blue eyes" were considered "Aryan" by the Nazis!) though the neighbors at another table and my children liked , what Meital had her hairdresser Miri commanded to do with my hair. Still some good came out this: Miri adviced me to daily massage my scalp - finger tips dipped in olive-oil: "This will bring blood into your scalp: it won't be over-sensitive as it is now, and less hair will fall out. Why did Ben-Gurion stand on his head? Because it brought blood to it!" Finally that line in Ps. 23 makes sense;"Thou hast anointed my head with oil"! |
EXPLORING An article about the present situation of the Negev Bedouins (by David Sandovski, the lawyer who - without money - helped us set up the Company for Desert Resources in 1994), with the appendix of a 20 min. video of TV "Mabat Sheni". [See the 4th line from the bottom: "integrated building of houses and tents!"] |
February 21, 2014-OHEL 23
which - out of time and history - desperately tries to "keep" what was gone, thus immobilizing what should move - most of all "the Tent of Appointment". |
continuing: (21)
"Nebo-Let-Go"-slow
and "Nebo-Let-Go"
- in one go =2006:
a sculpture of 21 years of my exterior creating
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continued
Day 19- from among 42 days -SELF LOVE
In nurturing our Dream Seeds, This Love magnetizes to it vibrationally-matched
experiences, It all begins with Self Love. Be present to opportunities to practice Self-Love. In recognizing our outer reality |
Accepting we create
our own reality ..... We are One,
On this day honor...love...cherish...bless
and nourish ... Feelings of
guilt, shame, anger, vengeance, ....Forgive yourself
for withholding love from the aspects of yourself |
* After the sculpting of this "felt day" and the "ohel-verse", I left early (8:40) for the pool, since Ofir still hadn't moved the car out of "my" veranda (Friday!). Not only would it have been even more difficult to maneuver the outer and the inner tent out to the garden, but I was afraid to confront Ofir with what I was doing, though I told him about my decision to erect the tent every Friday and dismantle it on Sunday. When I came back from the pool, I knew already that I would not have the courage to ask Shalom and Nitza, my neighbors for help. The hardest job, erecting the tent in "my" garden, last week, was done with the help of Tomer, but I still wasn't sure about the best place into which to squeeze the silvery tent above the black tent, so that the angles would be as close as possible to the geometrical measures of the tetraheder. I just finished cooking my porridge, when the car left and I rightaway headed for my ardous undertaking. When Ofir came back I was just placing the stones on the brims of the tent on the side near the neighbors, i.e. where Ofir could not see me. I don't know, if he discerned the tent - in any case he did not approach me and I continued to complete my work. - Already when dismantling the tents, I decided to use only one mattress and enwrap it with Ushi's patchwork, sowing it all around the mattress. Luckily the two thinner mattresses fitted exactly under the 2 thick mattresses which make up the sitting-corner on the veranda. One sits a bit lower than before, but that is fine, and the lowness of the mattress in the tent is also fine. |
Will someone come? or at least ask about it? That's
not my business.
"My door is open for all Your surprises, I
yearn to be part of the sun when it rises..."
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ENVISIONING Tents-Song - Shirat-ha-Ohalim |