Be the Harmony

Gaia is beginning to inhale, we're in transition.

The subtleties of Nature are becoming not so subtle. It seems the energies of Mother Earth are strong and urgent these days. What is emerging from the dormancy of winter? Is it spring or winter, or both? We’re not quite there yet. We are in a transition of not clearly winter and not clearly spring. Rather both are happening simultaneously in my part of the world. There is an energy occurring that feels “in between AND both” and “transition” is a key word.

Gaia is beginning to inhale. The Breath of Life is in motion and the birds are giving us clues. Over the years I have watched the raven crows return to our backyard with their “children.” I watched as they paired off. I noticed when they were secluded nurturing new babies. I’ve seen the yearling raven crows alone because the parents are nurturing a new brood. I love watching raven crow parents teaching the young ones how to forage for worms and insects in the grass while the year older siblings tag along too. I’m used to recognizing clearly defined seasons for each of these phases of the birds’ lives. And something odd has come into my awareness.

The other day I saw a pair of quail that were acting as though they were mates. I said to myself, “It’s too early for this.” And near them was a larger covey of quail. Usually during the mating season I only see pairs together. Here were both – the mating pair and the group. Then yesterday, I saw a similar thing in a pair of geese waddling together and very close by was a larger gaggle of geese. It appears that some of the birds have begun to mate while other larger numbers are still hanging out together. Like a vision of a full moon rising in the east while the sun is getting ready to set in the west both visible in a clear blue sky, two actions are meeting and intermingling.

This behavior of birds “in between” seasons and the concept of transitioning between one vibration to another also shows up in the 12 organ functions of our bodies. The body’s natural system of healing includes each of 12 organ functions taking the lead for a 2 hour period in a 24 hour day to focus on the most vitalizing energies for that organ. There are elements of energizing, supporting and harmonizing going on within Nature and within our bodies all the time.

The 12 organ functions operate as a team like a vee of geese flying with one goose at the lead. When one goose gets tired and they all just know that it’s another goose’s turn to lead in order to maximize each one’s energies, there is a smooth transition. One comes forward to lead in high vitality and the other falls back to rest. There is a moment when the goose coming forward and the goose falling back meet.

Are you noticing something falling away from your life while new opportunities are emerging? It isn’t all one or the other yet? I am.

I am mindful of another example of transition happening within me in that I am really feeling drawn to bright clear red now. Am I feeling this affinity because Valentine’s Day is right around the corner or does Valentine’s Day coincide with Gaia circulating primordial red fire light in the Northern Hemisphere causing an awakening of the sleeping ones of winter?

With all of this transitioning and emerging going on, remember that Healing Touch Quick Steps energy medicine self help in my book, Instant Healing, is a perfect complement for the inner and outer YOU because you have direct access to the source of Life energy. In particular a great Quick Step for transitions and getting in touch with your destiny is the one called “Use Your Life Well.” To stay in tune with your inner primordial fire you can apply the Quick Step called “The Central Connection.”

I am sending you blessings for your health and wholeness.

Enjoy,

Barbara

Copyright (c) 2012 Barbara J. Semple

Giving and Receiving, the Noosphere, and Is Life Living You?

I’m writing to share some thoughts that have arisen for me from the influx of energies around 11-11-11 including an unconditional flow of giving and receiving, accelerating time, shifts happening, the “Noosphere” and more. All of this as we move into a holiday season filled with travel plans, getting together with family and friends, and lots of eating. So, before we get too full…:-)

Time certainly seems to be accelerating these days. Is Life living me? Yes, there is an Impulse phenomenally larger than me causing movement and awareness throughout the planet. You can look at happenings in the news around the world to see shifts playing out from problems that have become evolutionary drivers.

And then there are celestial timings. I am enjoying seeing Jupiter so luminous in the night sky again. The Full Moon on the morning of 11-11-11 was spectacular. I woke up before sunrise and Moon in the western sky was as bright as day with a lovely pink aura around it. I definitely felt magic was “in the air” as Moon and Sun changed duties for the day powerful and simultaneously smooth as silk like owls ruling the night and hawks ruling the day.  Whatever 11-11-11 was for you, I hope you noticed more love and light in your life.

I did meditate at 11 a.m. that day and experienced a sense of Big Love filling my field. I found myself sending love to Gaia and all of Her inhabitants and then to everyone I knew as well just like what happens when I make a pot of soup from scratch. I am cutting all of the vegetables and preparing for each phase of the soup creation and I find myself sending everyone I know and even people I don’t know, love.  I feel overflowing with nourishing, nurturing love. So, you may have felt me sending energies your way. :-)

I made an elk hide drum on Thursday of the Full Moon. Elk ‘medicine’ brings a message to pace yourself and rest to sustain great physical stamina. So on 11-11-11 at regular intervals throughout the day and into the night my drum was involuntarily making sounds as it was drying and tightening. It was beating on its own that day!

"Beating on its own..." What is present for me lately is the magnificence of my heart - the heart - and how it beats without any effort on my part. And my breath – I am breathed without any work on my part. Then what follows is, “Who is breathing me, who is beating my heart?”

Now to thoughts of thanksgiving with 11-11-11 energies "in the air," in the “Noosphere” (pronounced "know a sphere'": the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity, especially in regard to its influence on the biosphere and in relation to evolution) [see Jose Arguelles’ book, Manifesto for the Noosphere: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Human Consciousness]. Consider the natural flow of giving and receiving. Giving and receiving are two sides of the same breath, the exhale and the inhale. When someone says s/he is really into giving, giving, giving much more than receiving, isn’t that placing a conscious or unconscious intention to receive less and placing a “condition” on the natural, unconditional flow of giving and receiving? When one gives from the heart, Oneness, Essential or Authentic self, one always receives, in fact actually opens the door to receive as well.

Effortlessly giving and receiving, exhaling and inhaling, is second nature, true nature really,  like breathing. You cannot say, “I am exhaling and I am not going to inhale as much as I am exhaling." And yet, many people do breathe lopsided, don’t they? The natural flow of “godness,” when we are being breathed by God/Source/Creative Intelligence/Impulse, the exhaling and inhaling that are both part of one whole breath, are even, like yin and yang, as above, so below, so within, so on the outer. One part does not receive any less or any more than the other part and both are part of a Whole breath. Giving and not allowing the ability to fully receive or placing a ‘condition’ on it like “I’d rather give than receive,” closes the door to wholeness and inner source's agenda.

Getting together, simply being in heart to heart, spirit to spirit space, the place or field of the love and light of Oneness together uplifts and expands the Whole. When we do, we create a resonating field that literally informs the whole field of consciousness and in particular our planet, Gaia. In this “giving and receiving” time that can be quite busy, remember to make space for being spirit to spirit, heart to heart. Spirit can be best heard coming from Silence and making quiet space for "no thing" in Nature and by connecting with your inner source with Healing Touch Quick Steps energy medicine allows the mind and outer surroundings to slow down a bit to receive the special gifts from those moments.

Fyi, holding the thumb helps make space and helps with digestion of food as well; and making a ring with your thumb and ring finger encourages a natural flow of the breath. Something to think about…

I send you many blessings for your health and wholeness. Happy thanksgiving wherever you are.

Barbara J. Semple

P.S. Remember, my Instant Healing book makes a great gift of health for every body. www.instanthealingbook.com

Copright (c) 2011 Barbara J. Semple

Fall in Love With Your Life

Happy Fall Equinox!
The message for today is:

Fall in love with your life and be the scientist of your spiritual practice.

I know it has been a while since I've written. I basically took the last 2 months off from my development of the Healing Touch Quick Steps® programs and marketing. I was beginning to feel way too much pressure to do and be too much. So, I have waited for Spirit to enliven me back into the writing mode. And today I celebrate my return!

During my time off, I became newly acquainted with a very-different-from-ocean-energy, great body of water. Spending 4 days watching Sun and Moon rise on the North Shore of Lake Superior, I found a few agates and some very cool jasper rocks. I also discovered a deep stability exuding from formidable Lake Superior with her constantly moving oftentimes robustly agitating waters that feels profoundly sound to me - sound like a solid foundation; sound like the center, the core of Earth is stable. The vibration of the area filled with ocean-like waves and glimmering light seems to be highly magnetic. In fact I found a small piece of red jasper on the shore that actually had a third of its weight variegated within the jasper as hematite. When I held a magnet to it, the magnet stuck to the rock! I had the sense that as a resident of the west coast where Earth's magnetic flux has always been more unstable and fluctuating, indulging in relaxing time at Lake Superior was a beneficial "re-set" for the magnetic particles within my brain. And so it is.

This morning, still on the cusp of this equinox, I acted on the urge to step out into the warming morning light and look for fresh red clover blossoms for tea. I came upon some plantain that wanted to be harvested, and I picked one of our red delicious apples from the tree. I became lost in the bounty and beauty of Mother Earth's land and trees, radiant sun, the perfect redness of the apple, the luscious verdant green of the plantain, and the perfect, perfect blush of red clover. I felt I was being made love to, given strengthening energy, and…I completely lost track of time. Ah.

I thought about anyone who might not have a yard to walk in and I wanted to say to you, "I encourage you to grow something that you can eat, even if it is only a windowsill herb garden. Eat an apple fresh from the tree (organic, of course). All of the elements have come together in a magnificent way for Apple to reach her peak. Buy from your local farmers' markets. God bless them all for the labors of love they provide us. Find some way to be in a human-plant kingdom relationship. To be so is truly a nourishing gift of love to yourself."

You might think how funny, seeking out and participating gracefully in relationship with the whole process including growing, loving and harvesting a plant. Consider this. Plants are masters of light, you see. Their entire existence is all about receiving the light of Sun into every part of their being, and transforming it, synthesizing it. After you pick 2 or 3 plump red clover blossoms that still have the morning dew kissed with sunlight in its folds, rinse them clean and place them in a cup. Fill the cup with boiling water, cover it and let it steep for 10 minutes or so. Now look at the red clover blossoms. Red Clover has given forth the best of herself into the water. The color, light and immediacy of her recent connection with Morning Sun are now in your cup. Add a little raw honey if you like and there you have it! Liquid light is now nurturing your being."

Nature is the force behind these miracles and mysteries of goodness and light. Nature is the force that you and I engage when we apply Healing Touch Quick Steps energy self-help. We are all made up of the same elements that are finely directed and wielded by the Creative Force within and around All of Life. On this day of equilibrium of Sun and Moon, day and night, I wish you Unconditional, Cosmic Love. When you actively participate in your self-healing, you are actively self-loving. Self-Healing = Self-Loving.

Many blessings,
Barbara J. Semple, Self-Healing Advocate

(c) Copyright 2008. Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved. 

Sirius-ly - It's Time to Take It Easy!

Each year around July 4^th, our Sun and Sirius align together. In fact, Sun and Sirius will rise exactly together in the morning on July 6^th. What does this mean to you and me? Well, for one thing, since Sirius is 25 times brighter than our Sun, there is a lot of extra “sunlight” happening. I find myself usually feeling the need to take it easy, to reduce my work load and social commitments, and be more quiet and peaceful. I offer that suggestion to you.

In fact, what about attending a movie? Recently, I had an opportunity to preview the movie, Bloodline (2008), an independent film by director Bruce Burgess, which is currently playing in limited release around the country.

If you liked The Da Vinci Code movie, you might like Bloodline. If you are interested in the Mary Magdalene and Jesus mysteries, you might like Bloodline. There’s a cave, a body, intrigue. Sometimes it feels a little hoaky. And like many ancient mysteries that act like fiction, there may be some truths in what seems to be something else. 

Bloodline is a documentary. We are taken to Rennes Le Chateau. We see places previously unseen – at least by me. We become engaged in the countryside of the south of France. We meet two unlikely characters. And we must, in the end, make up our own mind about what we are shown. I found Bloodline interesting and worth seeing, for the fun of it. Most of all I hope people will see it because it opens dialog on the subject - both inner and outer. What if Mary and Jesus were really married? How would your world be different today? (For more information about the movie, check out www.imdb.com.)

And speaking of the heat, one perfect Healing Touch Quick Step that helps with our coming into harmony with the hottest season of the year (right now in the Northern Hemisphere) is called Nourish and Nurture.  This graceful and vitalizing quick step is in my Healing Touch Quick Steps HOME GUIDE and is in the Top 10 Healing Touch Quick Steps DVD.  My teacher, Mary Burmeister used to say, “You may not be able to control the wind. You can adjust your sails.”

If you are finding the heat and intense sunlight affecting your energies these days, consider “adjusting your sails” by applying Nourish and Nurture Healing Touch Quick Step.

Stay tuned over the next few months. I’ll be announcing my new webinar series soon. Enjoy your summer! Take care. Take good self-care.

Many blessings, Barbara J. Semple 

Copyright 2008 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved. 

Oprah and Eckhart have catapulted a momentum!

I am feeling a profound energy occurring as we are in the cusp of the Vernal Equinox and Aries Full Moon [Aries - Think strong, forceful enough to spring tulips up from their winter sleep.] I think I have never before felt the magnitude of such unconditional love energy surrounding me, and so I write. 

The thing I love most about my Healing Touch Quick Steps self-help practice (which is a direct off-shoot from my studies of Jin Shin Jyutsu® self-help) is that when I place my hands on my body, or when I give someone an energy healing session applying the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu®, I am touching Source energy, or Universal Consciousness. This is as Big Picture as it gets – Source, the Source of All Life. And the world is becoming aware of this very same Source in a new way.

On the Monday, March 17^th telecast with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle, someone asked “Who are we beyond the mind?” Eckhart responded that no conceptualization is correct. “Here is a hint,” he said. “We are the formless consciousness behind all that.”

I have been participating in the phenomenal 10 week telecast with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle and I am loving knowing that there are 2 million plus people who are focusing at the same time on allowing more and more of their “Big Picture” [my words] Consciousness to be the “Big Doer” [my words] in their lives. I think it was Oprah who said that night that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Eckhart said he feels it is, “I am the consciousness inhabiting this body.”

Recently, our much beloved Mary Burmeister, Founder of Jin Shin Jyutsu® of the West, returned to the Creator, the Eternal Formless. A student wrote a remembrance of her first class experience with Mary in about 1983. She said, “Mary walked into the room, sat down, put her hands in her armpits and said, “I’m giving my best friend a hug.”  Wow! Ponder that. Was she speaking of her "best friend" as the "consciousness inhabiting her body"? Those of you who have already discovered Healing Touch Quick Steps know that what Mary Burmeister was doing when she crossed her arms and placed her fingers in her opposite armpits is called “The Complete Breath Hug.” Thank you Mary.

Being a long-time and now life-long student and practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu, I learn that we are all alive because the Formless becomes Form AS us. Knowing the formless, that “consciousness that inhabits this body” as Eckhart calls it, could be a really cumbersome thing to do, requiring more of your sometimes limited time and energy, you might think. "It will take me too long to get there," you might think.

Reconsider. Where does one begin? You’ve already begun by reading this blog, by engaging your mind in thoughts of healing and Oneness; reading Eckhart’s book, participating in the telecast, and by including a daily self-help routine of Healing Touch Quick Steps. This is important because when I place my hands on my body and feel the pulsing of energies flowing, moving, changing in the moment, and my body responding in the movement, surface to deep and deep to surface, I am truly having an effortless (key word, effortless) personal experience of a Formless/Impersonal Source. And, I didn’t know that’s what was going on when I first began doing it 17 years ago. Especially tuning in to Oprah and Eckhart, I'm having my own Aha! moments about healing touch self-help. You have access to the very same Source when you apply your hands with Healing Touch Quick Steps self-help, as simply as placing your fingers in your armpits. Try it.

With the magnificent momentum of unconditional love and Cosmic forces that are surrounding all of us and everything on this planet during this particular Vernal Equinox, and your thoughts of the vastness of  the Formless part of yourself, consider this. The generations being born now will reap the benefits of awakened collective consciousness that were started in the 60's and 70's and 80's and so on. They won't need to go through the challenges many of us have already journeyed. That's effortless for the newcomers.

Author Greg Braden says we only need 8,244 people for a critical mass to cause collective shifts in awareness to occur. Translation: A momentum is with you and everyone in the world right now. Think of the Oprah programming, millions of people engaged [a lot more than 8,244], and, the ever-expanding peace movement, and, the increasing global stewarding movement. Like a rocket shot up into space, there is lift in its tail that carries what is behind it upward too. A lot of fabulous vertical energy moving is going on! Think of all of the people who are awakening every moment to the whole body realization of choosing life and harmony among all species. Ah.

Yes, there is chaos with this huge movement of energy, humanity in great flux, and, there certainly is a marvelous movement of goodness “afoot!” No matter what chaos and goodness are going on in the Universe, Cosmos, Gaia, and your own body and little every day world, remember adding Healing Touch Quick Steps is one of the easiest, most effortless ways for you to connect with Source, the Formless consciousness that is inhabiting your body, anytime, anywhere, in a very palpable, ever-expanding way. How great is that? Feel it pulsing. Listen for your harmony. It’s waiting to be heard!

Many blessings,

Barbara

Copyright © 2008 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

2008 Looks to Be a Powerhouse Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!

2008 has a Universal energy picture to be a powerhouse year filled with goodness encouraging us to breathe freely and fully while actively creating our inner and outer worlds. Let me explain.

2008 is a 10 year (2 + 8 = 10). From the study of sacred numerology, I know that the sacred number 10 came into the Universe as the Infinite Abundant Storehouse of Life Power. From my 18 years as a practitioner of the energy healing art known as Jin Shin Jyutsu®, I know that on the body, the divine intelligence of 10 is located on the upper back at the shoulder blade area where our "wings" are, and helps us receive the Infinite Abundant Outpouring of Life Power through our breath freely and expansively.

Also, 10 is 1 amplified 10 times. The sacred number 1 is the divine intelligence known as The Prime Mover. Located on the body at the inside of the knees, its essence is very physically active and moves anything that needs to move. Its nature is vertical connecting the heights and the depths of us.

So, what rings true for me is that 2008 with its Universal energy pattern of 10 and 1 is full of possibilities and full of uplifting, shifting, "Great Movement" potential. 1 is Unity. One Thing connects heaven and earth. Let it be so for you too. And so it is.

On that joyful note, may I remind you to check out my website www.healingtouchquicksteps.com for superb self-healing products, upcoming classes, as well as finding a practitioner so that you experience this year 2008 in a way of being in life effortlessly - with ease, grace and joy. Take care. Take great self-care!
Blessings,
Barbara

Copyright (c) 2008 Barbara J. Semple. Entire contents. All rights reserved.