DNA: Means of Communication and Healing

Scientists have shown that under stress our DNA contracts, making its magical markers less available to the body. When we feel love, the DNA expands. Expanded DNA leads to physical healing.

Throw in another idea: the DNA, in its spiral configuration, much like wires wrapped in a spiral around a metal or glass bar, creates a magnetic field (Reference Gregg Braden's Fractal Time).

Crystals, another means of storing and distributing energy are found in the Earth's crust. If you haven't seen pictures of the Cave of Giants, start here.

Then we know about the magnetic grid around the planet, emanating from the poles. The magnetic grid of the planet is in constant flux and has been weakening over the past decades, and is weakened further during times of solar flares, affecting weather patterns, human moods, and of course electronic communications.

Remember from high school science class and trips to science museums (OK, I love this stuff!) how metal filings create shapes around a magnetic field. Add another magnet and the shapes change.

So, here's my point: The Earth is in communication with us physically through magnetic fields interacting with our DNA. We receive from the Earth. We send to the Earth. We are connected through these interacting magnetic fields.

Drum roll. If you want to create healing on the planet, improve the weather, improve the outcome of all manner of things, open your heart. It is the proven way to make the gift of the DNA available for all of us.

Universe: Friend or Foe

Albert Einstein is attributed with saying “The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. “ Quoted in Morris Berman: Coming to Our Senses (1989)

I think this is a very interesting question. Do I trust the Universe and allow intuition, guidance, serendipity, going with the flow, or must I stand strong in my own intentions and actions, gathering what I may in case the proverbial stuff hits the fan?

It seems to me that if the Universe is friendly, then there would be natural balancing events in nature. Such is the balancing cycle of oxygen and carbon dioxide: Animals emit carbon dioxide and take in oxygen. Plants balance that by emitting oxygen and taking in carbon dioxide. Water comes down as rain and cycles back into the clouds as evaporation. Plants die, producing organic fertilizer for the seeds they dropped, allowing the plant to return the next year.

If the Universe is friendly, then there are mechanisms that return life where there had been destruction. Look at the inevitable grass growing through cracks in sidewalks and macadam. Look at the return of trees to the Mt St Helens volcano area. Look at the return of trees to the Blue Ridge area that just 20 years ago were destroyed by Gypsy Moths.

If the Universe is friendly, then there is a larger beneficial perspective to horrible-seeming events. Whatever destroyed the reign of dinosaurs on Earth, though catastrophic for the dinosaurs, ushered in a world hospitable to humans. The last great ice age – bitterly cold and destructive of crops and lifestyles, made possible the migration of peoples onto this continent; then when the Europeans arrived, some of them found life-saving help from the indigent peoples.

From a larger perspective, we might see the devastation of hurricanes, floods, droughts and other weather events as also beneficial in some way, ushering in a new sense of community, rebuilding with better, greener technology. Likewise, the devastation of ethnic violence or the betrayal by business or government leaders ushers in a new consciousness of integrity and oneness of all peoples.

Where do you stand on this fundamental question? Universe: friend or foe? If friend, how do you allow the Universe to move through you? Intuitions, inspirations, chance events, the guy in the elevator, the phone call asking you to volunteer, the song that reminds you of an old friend. How do you act on these, how do you allow and embrace these whispers of the Universe, of your oldest and bestest best friend.

Meditating on Peace

This simple technique came from the work of Herbert Benson and colleages at the Mind Body Medical Institute ("The Relaxation Response").

If you are new to meditation, this is a simple and effective practice. Find 5 - 20 minutes where you can be comfortably undisturbed. Sit with the back long and the chest and breath open. I find that pressing up through the crown of my head, tucking my chin slightly, and relaxing the shoulders and belly provide the right posture and energy flow. Create a cacoon of quiet. Soft non-rhythmic music is nice but not necessary. Take a few deep breaths to help you relax. Close the eyes.

Then the practice is to slowly repeat the word "peace". This can be done on the exhalation. This can be done when you realize your thoughts have wandered. This can be done when you think you've just about fallen asleep. Beginners can repeat with each slow out-breath. More practiced meditators can use the word "peace" as an anchor to which to return when the mind has engaged. It is natural for the mind to find other things. No worries, just return to saying "peace". When you find empty mind, that is the experience of peace. Then just as soon as you notice it, the mind revs up again, so back to saying a slow, accepting "peace".

As you complete your meditiation time, draw that feeling of peace into your heart. Let it concentrate in your heart. Let the peace expand to every cell, to your skin, and out into your energetic or auric field. Then send to same feeling of peace deep into the core of the Earth. Let the peace concentrate and expand from the Earth's core throughout the planet and out to the surface, bathing every creature, inhabitant, plant and mineral. Then feel the peace expanding to the atmosphere.

Close with an expression of gratitude. Slowly stretch and move on with your day.

Thank you for sharing this peace with me. Blessings.

Choosing Peace

In meditation this morning, I was reminded of the phrase, "You can choose Peace". I first heard this in a Master Alignment reading years ago when the practitioner told me in an altered breathy pace, "Instead of this, I can choose peace."

So, today I reminded myself to find ways to choose peace. And why not! Dr David Hawkins, in his book, "Power Versus Force," where he reports of years of studying different emotional states and their relative level of consciousness, says that peace calibrates higher than any other emotional state. And wasn't it Einstein that said that a problem cannot be solved in the same consciousness in which it was created? So to help solve my work, home, personal and of course world problems, coming from the highest level only makes sense.

Then there's the practicalities around choosing a different emotion. It takes practice, it takes becoming aware of your first gut reaction. I heard from a dear teacher years ago that although we can't always control our first reaction, we can learn to chose our second and subsequent actions. Often our reactions are learned, conditioned, and socially programmed. In the moment, in the inhale or exhale after an emotion hits us, the challenge or charge, is to notice. Acknowledge what we feel, become aware of the thoughts that fuel the emotion, remember our intention to be an instrument of peace, and over time, the ability to choose the next moment into peacefulness will become stronger. With this framework, it becomes easier to allow the energy of an emotion (energy in motion) to just pass through you and not grab hold of your heart or throat or fists.

The biblical and liturgical greeting, "Peace be with you" takes on greater depth and meaning. As the saints have said, Peace be with you!

Here's me

Here's me at my wedding last year. I was wearing a Punjabi suit. Actually, we both were. More on that later.