Welcome to Moments Photography by Sandy's blog about photography and creativity. Always on the prowl for ways to keep learning, trying, inventing and shooting pictures. I will share my adventures, addictions, and antics below. Come visit often and share what you will. Live abundantly, giving, sharing and loving. . .
The Star That is You
The star that is you is always with you. You are never alone. It does feel that way if you live in your head. So don't just live in your head. Get back into your body by looking at your body. Look at your hands. Really look at them. You might even do something simple with them. Notice as much as you can about the movement in the body. And breathe with the intention of paying attention to the air flowing in and out. Again, breathe in. Breathe out. It is in noticing your body that your mind will become calm. If it tells you anything. Just notice it. You don't need your mind to tell you how you feel. Just feel. Where is the energy in your body? Take a breath and imagine that the air is coming up from the Earth under your feet. Follow the breath to your waist. Then with noise like you're trying to cough something up, continue the release of the air. Imagine the air flowing up from the waist up through your chest, into your head and out the top of your head. Then reverse the flow. Inhale a breath from the top of the head to the waist with noise and then without sound from the waist down to the Earth. This is a way to pull in your essence. Your star or spirit essence. I first learned of this breath and practiced it in groups of five. A full breath is from the Earth back down to the Earth. I was making a long drive and practiced this breathing several times during the day. At the end of the long day of driving I didn't have the usual fatigue and my body adjusted without the usual symptoms. So I continue practicing this kind of breath every day. Try it. And when you are ready to add on look up Mula Banda. It uses this breath with constriction of muscles which adds more health practices for the body.
Be Free to Be
What if: we all felt the same thing? Let's say we take 30 minutes and feel what it is like to be free. To be free to love life as a compassionate being. To be free to create. To be free of disease. To be free of financial restrictions. To be. Feel it. Visualize light entering your body, circulating and healing inside yourself. Expand it outward like the light that you are, into the room. Now feel this light fill up your house, surrounding area, county, state, country, continent, and around the world. Don't stop, continue to radiate this light. Push the darkness, negativity and disease into the purple flame above your light to transmute it, transform it, and transcend it off the planet. Join the multitudes as we do just that...Saturday, April 4, 2020. Feeling is the prayer. Your heart is five thousand times stronger than your brain, allow this area of your body to be the center point. C.S.T. 9 P.M., adjust for your area and tell your people. We are one. WE can and must act line one to create this. Additionally Sunday 10 A.M., 1:11 P.M. (Sunday every week, also 7:11 A.M.) #ourlightsunite
Four S words
4S words: sun, sorry, scary, sensible. The sun gives me the sensation of hope and a bright attitude unless there is too much and then it wears me down and I feel like I cannot move or I’ll become exceedingly exhausted. Sorry can soothe me if you care to be connected to my weariness and empathize that you want me to feel better. Or sorry can mean that I’m sorry or too miserable to amount to anything at this time. This can be scary, if I’m looking at this present moment as if it will continue in all the moments that follow. Being scared like this can be a motivation to do things differently if I choose to. This fear has its place in helping to make decisions. But fear as a tactic for making someone damaged so that they will need you is not acceptable and will cost your Spirit for this lifetime or the next one. So let’s use our senses to be sensible. Will this fear or being scared help in this situation of social distancing? If the fear keeps you distant from others, then yes it has done its job. If being scared is your new normal, then no it has taken over your senses and is not allowing other feelings and sensations to monitor a balance. Sensible is helpful for the decision making that is currently before us. Use this word to make sense of your reality. What do you sense in your body? Are you identifying the feelings? If not, then these feelings can control you or others who observe these feelings in you can use them to their advantage. Sense your feelings, identify them, make conscious choices by being mindful of what feelings you have and what the body tells you in forms of tension, pain, or unnecessary hunger for example. Sensible denotes too the process of making a decision that is practical, useful when implemented and with wisdom, likely to be of benefit to you as self and you as a collective. Be sensible in this virus situation, that can make you feel scared, and sorry among many other feelings and get out in the Sun to feel its nourishing rays while you connect to the Earth and all the living beings, creatures, elementals and elements. Your thoughts create. Be mindful.
An Object and Its Shadow
Oh, so the light falls upon you and then what do you see? A shadow forms behind you. Now the question arises, "Will the shadow become bigger than you or will you rise into the light so the shadow diminishes as you go?" That is the ultimate question and the answer is how you decide to live your life. Not that it won't change. Just like the sun as it moves across the sky casts its light creating shadows that change throughout the day, so you can live more or less in the light with the choices you make. Your shadow will change throughout your life. Each person has a shadow cycle or issues or learning to be done in their life time. Be patient with yourself. Be firm. Be gentle. Be who you need to be so that you can learn your lessons and give the best version of yourself to the world. Being yourself as you know it in each moment of now is really the best you can do. If you think you can do better, then do it. But don't be too hard on yourself if you made decisions that you can now see from a different perspective. Know that you did the best that you could for that moment. And if, it really wasn't your best, then know this and work to do better. That's the job of your shadow - to show you a part of yourself that is the part of you that reveals itself depending on how you are living in the light.
I Choose the LIght
I choose the light. Call me a do good-er. Good is good, right? Parents definitely promote it. Your peers may not. You will be criticized no matter what you do. You need to only do what really matters to you. Easy, right? It is easy after you know what matters or who matters to you. Your own matter, as in your body is a good place to start. Taking care of your body is really important yet not fully embraced as a young person unless you were given a physical challenge that forced you to make adaptations. My personal struggle is maintaining a body that likes the food I put into it. I was raised in the 50's. At that time the establishment provided and encouraged packaged foods, white bread and canned foods. I didn’t know anything else until I went off to college. Keep in mind I did not live in the same place as I grew up an Army dependent. To do my body good, finding fresh foods was a game changer. My body did not like fried foods. Thankfully I wasn’t born in the south. My children were but I did my best to cook healthy meals. In the last five years I have learned a lot about cooking fresh foods. It seemed a large challenge at first as most changes do. But it really isn't hard. If fact you cook in less time. It's the addition of new ingredients like ginger, deactivated nutritional yeast, chia seeds, hemp seeds and herbs that make the meals a combination that takes practice. Fresh foods will make you feel lighter. Science has proven that as we age we really don’t need as much food as is encouraged. It has also been proven that we don’t need to eat meat or dairy if we want a light body free of disease. After researching food for the past 4 years, I am not quick to take any recommendations from doctors that are emerged into the thinking of the 50’s. I am encouraged by the movement that is focused on organic gardening, lessening the footprint on Mother Earth, and leaning into a plant based way of eating. I believe that much of this is because way too many people have allergies and babies that will not tolerate the packaged food that contains so little nourishment causing these young parents to find new ways to take care of their young. I was the only person I knew growing up that had allergies. Now everyone is familiar with allergies. It might surprise you to know that I do not have any allergies. Let that sink in. No allergies! This is due to my change in diet to the lighter choices of plants. I started the journey by trying to find a way to increase my body’s metabolism. I read and followed the book “Hot Belly Diet” that begins with many account of people reversing their diagnosis of diabetes. So at the end of the month I felt better than I ever had my whole life. I was in my fifties. I continued as a vegetarian for the first year and a half, only eating seafood when I went to the beach twice a year. In the second year I noticed that eating shrimp brought back the tension in my gut I had lived with my entire life. So I quit eating meat. Yes, all meat. It has brought me a lighter body, a healthier body and an abundance of ease in my body. My body that keeps me grounded to this planet. The planet, Earth would be better served if more people lived in the light of knowing that plants, not dead animals are the fuel for our lives. Look at the pictures of the light emanating from plants. This is what you are eating. You are eating light energy. Eat light. Be light.