Weathering Plagues

This morning I read a poem by Thomas Nash, [1567-160_]... about the Bubonic Plague...it's the voice of one who knows their own death approaches, and no medicine will help.   Villagers each day seeing family and neighbors piled onto wagons and wheeled away....

Our current pandemic of COvid19 (and other names) is as vicious, perhaps...with our sensitivities spared somewhat; of the in-your-face horror of it.  Yet, bodies were piled into rvs...so many people lost ... still all the public being intimidated with the fear of infection, the requirements that we constantly wear masks in public, though medical doctors everywhere are revealing how ineffective they are.

How much in fear are you?  

My constant personal effort is to get 'under' the fear and boot it as far from myself as I can.  I turn my thoughts to how...what practices...keep me healthy; flushing the body; avoiding constipation of body mind or spirit...which means a good clean diet of mainly vegetables, nuts and fruits.  Ample exercise and fresh air.  I walk barefoot inside and outside my home, where I know there have been no poisons applied.  

I may have more anger than fear, for I do believe the curious experimentors of science, and those who wish to control all else and others have created this pandemic, and I don't doubt it could be a PLandemic.   What power do I have, assuming this is true?  The power to change my mind...as always, the only real ChangeE I or YOU are capable of.

THEN...there is the now scientifically approved fact that my mind and yours can create ... we can enfold ourselves in a sort of shelter of Creative Thought by keeping our attention on the path we are trodding.  Constant valuation...WHERE do I want to wind up???

Health ... I want health ... of Mind, Body and Spirit.

So I stretch my once-tutored mind to believe things I've experienced yet been told cannot be 'true.'

I catch the stories in my glove, and hit what I see as dross right out of the field.  It's a constant returning to Principles and known ways to keep healthy.

Stay with me...invest your best into yourself and your neighbors...all good energies we feel naturally emanate all around us; our good thoughts are medicine for everyone.  

Consider the magnificence of your body...enhance it's immunity with beneficial flora, and avoid foods that make bodies acidic.  Dis-ease fails to flourish in an alkaline body.  Have you considered the word disease...it is describing a lack of ease in the bodymind, which is the forerunner of sickness...BE AT EASE... understand that our bodies wish to live and experience...yes; our bodies have a consciousness; autonomic systems that unfold faithfully each day unless we break the 'laws' which contain them into perfect health when we follow.  These laws come not from legislators...these laws are simply tenets of truth that we can either act from or suffer the consequences.

I wish I could say that I am 100% faithful to natural law...alas, I am human...I get bored, impatient... and go the way of error at times...so what to do, then??  Pick myself up, dust myself off...and start all over again!  Our small failures serve the purpose of waking us up to our apathy.

Our consciousness, the consciousness of the planet and the universe...all are like the endless spires the create the magnificent Chrysanthemum...only by seeking the stem can we find the origin of the plant.

Embrace your efforts, let go your failures (remember the lessons though)...my Heart and yours are joined in the ethers...our Higher Selves Know how to guide us to greater understanding.  Stand with me!  Keep sharing your successes; your insights...Stand together while standing alone.

With reverence for All Life,

Rev. Irene Windhorse

Irene Windhorse ~ Transformational Spiritual Services ~ With Reverence for All Life

Peace...From Where?

Hi, it's been a hugely lonnnng time since I've said 'hello...'
There is much these days to Avert Attention...my stars; one tragedy after the other; threats of more coming~infringements on security, citizens' rights, purity of food and energy...the debate on 2012...

As I've repeatedly told Couples...Unless both Partners are Working on themselves...it can be choppy to downright rocky...and in the World, Peace will come out of the Eventual Willingness and Determination of Humans to Monitor themselves, and chip, and polish, and trim a bit here and there on their own Egos...and I mean capital “E” Ego as BIG Ego; the one that likes to push ahead of everyone else in a crowd...the one that will ride the right highway lane down to the light, or construction crew...then cause more of a traffic jam for everyone while it noses and jockies it's way back into the lane to be first when the line of traffic is ready to move adding to some traveller's time, 5-20 minutes more...or more!

I was once one of those...30-40years ago; then I stopped to consider the dynamics of each such action. After a long time of people doing that, I got miffed, and over the years, downright angry...so I started doing it too, to beat out whoever I could...and when it had been done to me enough times, I stopped to consider the buildup of time that acrued while one car waiting to let one or two cars into a locked line of traffic...progressing up the line...how unfair, I realized; embarrassed, I began Working On Myself Harder...
Being patient in the first place when traffic stops and goes; that takes Work....
and being patient with that person who just jumped the line; or is trying to get past you...that's downright TOUGH...yet, that's where we have to go to break the Paradigm of Pain, Fear and Discomfort. I mean … it's so much more satisfying... isn't it? To send expletives in a torrent of explosive gamma rays... IS it really more satisfying? For it surely is not Productive... so...can I get Satisfaction?
Still Workin' on it...but I've realized that Living in the Satisfaction is much more Appealing....And it “Delivers!”

Funny thing about that Big Ego, though...when it has the Opportunity to be around Sensible, Calm, Rational, Expansive, Compassionate, Encompassing of Life; Controlling Only Self...soon the True Essence of Quiet Joy, Resilient Satisfaction, penetrates and nurtures Being...Once one has known that Joyous place...they want to stay there....yet it is a process of letting go the familiar; even if painful, even that eliciting anger...the Big Ego holds on, because it is Familiar... and admitting to being an out-of-control idiot is far more 'embarrassing' until one learns that only by going through that Walk of Fire will the Freedom come. Ego knows how to handle this situation, it thinks...yet until the Way to Peace (that Work on Self) begins, a person doesn't realize that they've been running the same circuit...laying the same plans...making the same argument; using the same words...or deception, or physical force....and getting the same disappointing results.

To Bring Harmony to Self and the World,
BE HARMONY
BE HARMONY
BE HARMONY

Ongoing Effort...

”I Am the Change I Want to See in the Universe.” ('my' Gandhi)
I am Safe as I Change;
Considering Options Open to Me
Choosing Actions that lead to my Ease, Evolution, and Elation.
Enjoying the Glory that Spirit Creator meant for me to Enjoy; the Sweetness Creator had left for me, as a “Banquet Table laid before me...”


Have you ever wondered why no one has yet composed verses for each Season of our Weather out of those songs that so inspire by their melody, beat...unique tempre? That Christmas Song that you only hear in the Yule Season; yet you find yourself humming the melody in June, and realizing a great Contentment and Elation throughout your Being...We should hear those songs more Often; Very Often...these are medicine. New Verses to Old Classics!!!

Musak and Canned Music and whatever you want to call it is affecting you every day...Seek sounds that Nourish you...it may vary; one kind of sound now...anther later...the Importance is in Affording yourself the Ability toward Discernment. As any skill, muscle, etc; without Practice, no skill in Discernment...no Epitamy of Achievement, Sense of Success and Self-Esteem. So if you choose a song/album/station and you begin to notice a sort-of dark kind of feeling in stomach, solar plexus, shoulders; feeling different in the room and your body...if it's a good, sunny feeling, GO with it! If not; courageously speak up, change the choice, or move to a place where the sounds are pleasant.

Love to you,

Irene Windhorse ~ Transformational Spiritual Services ~ With Reverence for All Life

BEing Peace~Ending War in Every Way

Hi, it's been a hugely lonnnng time since I've said 'hello...'
There is much these days to Avert Attention...my stars; one tragedy after the other; threats of more coming~infringements on security, citizens' rights, purity of food and energy...the debate on 2012...

As I've repeatedly told Couples...Unless both Partners are Working on themselves...it can be choppy to downright rocky...and in the World, Peace will come out of the Eventual Willingness and Determination of Humans to Monitor themselves, and chip, and polish, and trim a bit here and there on their own Egos...and I mean capital “E” Ego as BIG Ego; the one that likes to push ahead of everyone else in a crowd...the one that will ride the right highway lane down to the light, or construction crew...then cause more of a traffic jam for everyone while you it noses and jockies it's way back into the lane to be first when the line of traffic is ready to move adding to some traveller's time, 5-20 minutes more...or more!

I was once one of those...30-40years ago; then I stopped to consider the dynamics of each such action. When people would do that, I got miffed, and over the years, downright angry...so I started doing it too, to beat out whoever I could...and when I stopped to consider the buildup of time that waiting to let one or two cars into a locked line of traffic...as it progressed up the line...how unfair, I realized; embarrassed, I began Working On Myself Harder...
being patient in the first place when traffic stops and goes; that takes Work....
and being patient with that person who just jumped the line; or is trying to get past you...that's downright TOUGH...yet, that's where we have to go to break the Paradigm of Pain, Fear and Discomfort. I mean … it's so much more satisfying... isn't it? To send expetives in a torrent of explosive loudness... IS it really more satisfying? For it surely is not Productive... so...can I get Satisfaction?
Still Workin' on it...but I've realized that Living in the Satisfaction is much more Appealing....And it “Delivers!”

Funny thing about that Big Ego, though...when it has the Opportunity to be around Sensible, Calm, Rational, Expansive, Compassionate, Encompassing of Life; Controlling Only Self...soon the True Essence of Quiet Joy, Resilient Satisfaction, penetrates and nurtures Being...Once one has known that Joyous place...they want to stay there....yet it is a process of letting go the familiar; even if painful the Big Ego holds on, because it is Familiar. Ego knows how to handle this, it thinks...yet until the Way to Peace (that Work on Self) begins, a person doesn't realize that they've been running the same circuit...they've been saying the same words...making the same argument; using the same words...or deception, or physical force.

To Bring Harmony to Self and the World,
BE HARMONY
BE HARMONY
BE HARMONY

Ongoing Effort...

”I Am the Change I Want to See in the Universe.” ('my' Gandhi)
I am Safe as I Change;
Considering Options Open to Me
Choosing Actions that lead to my Ease, Evolution, and Elation.
Enjoying the Glory that Spirit Creator meant for me to Enjoy; the Sweetness Creator had left for me, as a “Table laid before me...”


Have you ever wondered why no one has yet composed verses for each Season of our Weather out of those songs that so inspire by their melody, beat...unique tempre? That Christmas Song that you only hear in the Yule Season; yet you find yourself humming the melody in June, and realizing a great Contentment and Elation throughout your Being...We should hear those songs more Often; Very Often...these are medicine.

Musak and Canned Music and whatever you want to call it is affecting you every day...Seek sounds that Nourish you...it may vary; one kind of sound now...anther later...the Importance is in Affording yourself the Ability toward Discernment. As any skill, muscle, etc; without Practice, no skill in Discernment...no Epitamy of Achievement, Sense of Success and Self-Esteem. So if you choose a song/album/station and you begin to notice a sort-of dark kind of feeling in stomach, solar plexus, shoulders; feeling different in the room and your body...if it's a good, sunny feeling, GO with it! If not; courageously speak up, change the choice, or move to a place where the sounds are pleasant.

Irene Windhorse ~ Transformational Spiritual Services ~ With Reverence for All Life