What is stable in you? What always remains the same? Does your body stay the same? Do your clothes stay the same? Does your teacher stay the same, your family or your house? Does the weather stay the same? Look deeper. Is there something inside of you that is forever? When you sleep at night, are you still there? What part of you? Are your feelings always the same? Some are more like the weather, aren’t they? Some are hot and fiery and burn quickly, like anger, some smolder, like jealousy, some frazzle and crack, making you jumpy, like fear and nervousness, and some are quick, like in a game of surprise.
But there is a sensation, more like a solid presence within. It’s like the feeling you have for your pet or for your favorite place where you go to feel safe. It could also be how you feel when you are with your mom, dad, grandparent or favorite caregiver. It also lives in your imagination. It comes from within you and is you more than all other things. It is LOVE. And love is not just a feeling. Love is God and God is love and God is you.
Love is always and forever, the stable, balancing, calming, centering presence that abides in everyone and never leaves. It is LOVE that is us all the time, the unconditional Love of the Divine Self. The rest, our bodies, our surroundings, our emotions, everything our touch, taste, smell, feel, see can sense, are like the weather, they come and they go.
We can use the calming activities below to center in to that wonderful, stable God place in each one of us. These activities also support the root chakra, our energy center of safety, stability, and groundedness. ❤ Karen
Activity 1: Take 5 Breath
Hold your non-dominant hand out in front of you in a comfortable position. Starting from the thumb, with your other hand, trace the finger to the pinkie as you breath in. Breathing out return to the thumb. Do this 5 times.
This is a great exercise for centering and calming fears, anxiety and anger.
Activity 2: Deep Belly Breathing with Sea Otter Cove
Read out loud Sea Otter Cove: A Relaxation Story, Introducing Deep Breathing to Decrease Anxiety, Stress and Anger While Promoting Peaceful Sleep by Lori Lite and illustrated by Max Stasuyk. Also act out the book together, demonstrating the deep belly breathing techniques. Pretend you are laying on the rock, as the mermaid or the otter. This book is also available as an ebook from Google and other sites.
Activity 3: Make a feather mobile
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| picture credit: Scholastic |
Materials:
Stick
String
Feathers
Simple tie feathers along a branch and hang the branch. You may also choose to paint the branch and the feathers. Now use your breath the make the feathers move. See how far away you can get from the mobile and still move it with your breath. Watch how the gentle breezes, or Earth’s breath, move your mobile, even inside a still room. Can you feel these gentle breezes too?
Activity 4: Stack river rocks
Stacking stones is a calming and focused meditative activity while at the same time really fun. Gather stones to keep in your yard for this practice, or play it when you go to the river or rocky shore. It is engaging both to the mind and to the body and it teaches a lot about stability and the importance of a strong foundation.
Activity 5: Sing-a-long to I am the Earth
This is a wonderful song to share with your children and family. We often switch up the lines to talk about all that we are: a flower growing, a bird singing, a wolf howling. You’ll love to hear what your kids think up!
Lyrics
I Am the Earth
Artist: Glyn Lehmann
Lyrics in parentheses are sung simultaneously, as a second melody, or part
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