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Learning to Love – Power to the Seeds

Early Sunday morning, January 7th 2018, 3 poems kept me awake in their persistence to be born. Meditate on this one, if you please, as we all must continually remember – & choose, to be Learning to Love

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POWER TO THE SEEDS

Words flow at me –
so many options,
like exotic concoctions,
some fully cocked, some half–
or is it half-baked?
Isn’t this all a crock?

Who decided what is a weed?
Or what’s a good breed,
and who’s a bad seed?

Why can’t I grow on my land,
what I hold in my hand?
Who owns the trees – the bees?
For millennia, we farmed Nature’s seeds.
Who said you monsters of greed
can do as you please – but not we?

I just want peace,
to be free, to breathe;
to stand with the flowers,
lemon yellows, pinks, and greens.
In the sunshine – to swim in sweet waters,
and deep blue streams.

I dance in my dreams with my beloveds,
from ancestors to those yet to be.

Arm in arm are we…
and all I feel is this endless love,
which is the seed
they planted in me.

By Ellen Farrell, New York, NY, Copyright 2018

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Yoga for Health

By Ellen Farrell, MA, NCC, LPC, EEM-AP

I want to be healthy on all levels – how can Yoga help?
According to The Philosophical Basis of Yoga Therapy by Dr. Timothy McCall (Yoga Journal online)

“texts such as Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita inform the modern practice of therapeutic yoga… a path to liberation, an end to suffering.”

According to Dr. Swami Shankardev Saraswati,

“Yoga trains our body, mind and spirit, transforming our nervous system and mind so that we can attain, maintain, and sustain higher awareness.”

 

Patanjali taught about the eight-limbed path. The first limb includes “yamas” – rules about morality and ethics such as being gentle, non-greedy, honest. The second limb contains “niyamas” these are about HOW we create health – through discipline (inner fire/enthusiasm), self-study (how attitudes and choices influence behaviors and state of health) – and as the Bhagavad Gita encourages, do your best – and disengage from results.

Another teaching of Patanjali regards suffering. In yoga-speak this is called the “Monkey Mind”. Sages compared this anguish-filled restlessness to that of a drunken monkey. Yoga “stills the fluctuations of the mind”.

The remaining limbs, include doing postures (asanas), and breath work, meditation and visualization – these teach us how to calm the Monkey mind.

Ultimately, yoga can help us to feel connected to the sacred, within and without. Intuition is developed, and an ability to listen to the small voice; and to connect with higher wisdom, unconditional love, and the divine.

According to Dr. McCall, the questions (dharma)

“Why are you here? What have you got to contribute to the world?”,

help us to not only be healthy but also to live peacefully and authentically.

Printed in the SCAD Chronicle 2006, under the heading, HEALTH GURU written by Wellness Specialist and Counselor, Ellen Farrell MA, NCC, LPC who coordinated wellness and lifestyle management services. Updated, 2016.

 

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