Lessons of the Labyrinth:
I often walk the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan labyrinth, outside of Grace Cathedral, on California Street in San Francisco. It seems to adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan somehow do for my brain what the reset button does for adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan my computer when it is stuck
In fact, I have adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan often commented to myself that the Labyrinth resembles a brain. While I walk, I do my best to adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan breathe deeply and open to receive each moment through my senses 360* and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan practice gratitude that I am walking easily and all my senses are adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan working well. I often get insights into the apparent paradoxes of living in this adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan level of creation. Here are a few of them.
Lesson #1 Sacred is a human distinction. All of creation is sacred.
At first I was upset with the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan tourists and others who walk across the Labyrinth without respect for adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan its sacred context and meaning. Then I noticed that the pigeons also had adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan no regard for the Labyrinth’s sacred context and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan meaning. Why, I wondered was I so hard on people who adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan had as much idea as the pigeons and who are also children of the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan one creator. I was able then to release my Self-righteousness. Being Self-righteous keeps me from adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan the experience of being loving and being loved.
Thank you pigeons for teaching me all of life is sacred.
Lesson #2 Birth and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan Death are the great levelers. We ALL enter and exit these same portals. The half way point in the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan center of the Labyrinth is different for each of us, as we have adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan no way of knowing how long or short our journey will be adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan here. Carpe Deum!
Lesson #3 RUSHING = STRESS = DISTRESS =DIS-EASE
When I rush, I rush towards the end of the Labyrinth = death. It is adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan certain. No need to rush. No need to compare my pace to adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan someone else’s.
Lesson #4 Goals are adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan simply games I have created. I remember to enjoy the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan process.
I take in and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan consume the moments on my journey through my 5 senses: touch, smell, taste, hearing and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan seeing.
#5 Presence = Presents/Gratitude: How many people, plants and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan other creatures contribute to my moment to moment experience on my journey. All of creation is adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan here
To share presence.(presents). I use my walk to regain mindfulness of each moment with each step.
#6 Balance: I practice opening my gaze and doing cross/crawl and other applied kinesiology or “Brain Gym” exercises while staying on the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan path to practice awareness of my inner center and the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan seamless integration of my inner reality with all there is. I remember that adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan I am a multi-dimensional being connected both to the center of the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan earth and the limitless reaches of the universe and both distinct and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan indistinguishable from everyone and everything else…depending on which level of reality I am focused on.
#7 Generosity: Stepping aside to adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan let folks and pigeons pass allows me to practice generosity, ease and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan flow. If they are headed toward me, I can cut a adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan corner or step aside to avoid meeting them and use the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan metaphor to practice avoiding conflict in my life.
#8 Certainty: If I simply place one foot in front of the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan other, I will arrive at my final destination. No way to adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan get lost if I mind my own business. Spirit is adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan guiding my steps one breath at a time. I am adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan literally receiving inspiration from respiration.
#9 I receive the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan wisdom of the Universe and express gratitude and respect for all that adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan is while in the center. Then I go forth from the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan Labyrinth and give the gifts I have received!
#10 I am adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan free to walk at my own pace in my own style, no adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan matter who is watching.
It is adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan an opportunity to be aware of my fluid body, my fluid posture, gait and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan feet.
#11 Non - attachment: People enter my life and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan walk beside me for a while…then adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan go their own way, on their own evolutionary path just as they do here, on the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan Labyrinth.
#12 Today’s message was that adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan I have a choice to be a Sacred Liver or adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan to be Scared and have a toxic liver by making my system acidic with the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan stress of BEING a scared/fearful liver. I am adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan motivated by this message to do a liver cleanse. My liver and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan other “organs” make the music of life. Each “Chakra” literally has a musical note.
#13 Recently there was a adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan story going around about a master concert violinist who decided to adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan contribute his art to the NYC subway during rush hour. As the story goes, only a couple of adults and few children stopped at all to notice and appreciate his gift. Today, as I walked the adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan Labyrinth, I reflectd on the gifts of the master artist in all mediums and adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan how I am usually unconscious of the beauty that I am adobe photoshop 7.0 training video mp4 pakistan and that surrounds me:) The cherry blossoms on the walk home were especially exquisite.
Here is a hyperlink to a site that allows you to “walk” the Labyrinth online even while you are in bed: http://www.labyrinthonline.com/chartres.html