A client came to me last week looking for small rituals with which she could re-direct her life toward a more spiritual, authentic, in-the-NOW experience. We practiced several exercises for cultivating her enriched day, and I added one more just before she left. I took my Kissing School book off the shelf and read her the last couple of pages. I want to share it with you as well.
 
Putting Love on the List
 
            I was sitting outside the market one day, quickly trying to remember the items on the grocery list that I'd left at home. I closed my eyes and waited for my mind to focus and gather the information. The message that came to mind rushed through my body, leaving shivers and goose bumps. It said, "Put love on the List."
            "Oh yeah, I'll pick some up," I thought. "I think I saw it on the bread aisle."
            I closed my eyes again. The message repeated, only louder: "Put love on the list!"
          Well, that got my attention, but it took another few moments until I understood what was being asked of me. It was if all the ingredients for a rich and luscious love life were to be collected along with the Swiss chard and the yogurt. I was instructed to write down my groceries, and every second or third item was to be a "quality of loving" that I'd like to have more of. I was going to the market for love and dinner. Swiss chard, apples, and appreciation. I was not to leave the fruit stand until I allowed myself to experience a full measure of appreciation, right then-for any ol' thing!
            OK, that felt good. Now:  honey, almond butter, and joy. "Feeeeel the joy coursing through your body. See how it lightens your load, Cherie" Oh yeah!
            I gathered up milk and sensual breathing; salmon, mustard, and the feeling of snuggling; tea, cat food, and the sense of lingering kisses all over my body.
            Who knew grocery shopping could be so yummy?
            Long before I reached the surprised cashier, I was radiant and grinning all over my body. That feeling lasted for hours, and I'm sure the food was imbued with magical powers by then.
            I found out later that I could add love to all my lists: the to-do lists, phone call lists, lists of household repairs. It's a sneaky, fun, and profound way to cultivate the experience of loving, every day, any ol' where.
 
It was an excellent end to the session since this woman is a lover of lists, and I savored the moment.  I reminded my own self to put the love back on my forgotten lists as I closed up my office, got into my car and started wandering home. 
 

 

Peace, Love and Thriving, a Resonance Re-set Group

 

I didn't get very far down the road before I was listening to my inner guidance outlining a new inter-active group meditation for me to facilitate. Most inspirations I'm given feel optional, this message had an urgency and a kind of BIGness to it, and I was told to pull over and get out my pen and paper. OK, what's the deal?
 
I felt like I had come to a counsel of beings and they had a mission for me. (I don't think I've ever gotten a "mission" before, grin). I won't really get paid for it, but what I need for essentials like snacks and venue will be offered, it's simply something I have to offer that will assist us all at this time. Are you as curious as I was??
 
What I was told is that humanity needs some assistance re-setting their emotional/creative set-point. There is so much fear in our energy fields at this time that even the most casual of thoughts about scarcity, traumatic weather, wars or any other topic hooks to this dense collective field of fear and readily sucks us into a dark and gloomy funk. It's essential that we re-calibrate our fields to resonate with that which we DO want to experience if we don't want to actually manifest that which we fear. The first re-calibration session needs to be before the coming election. Voting from fear never brings us what we desire.
 
I listened, and I wrote, and I saw that it was no mistake that I had read the story about Putting Love on the List tonight. Spirit is such an elegant orchestrator!
 
Here's the gift I offer you now.
 
Putting Peace, Love, and Thriving on the list

 

The first Monday evening of each month, beginning with November 3rd, an evolving group of loving, thriving peacenics will gather together from 7-9 pm to re-calibrate our neuro nets, DNA, hormones, cellular receptors, energy, hearts and minds to the frequencies of Love, Peace, and Thriving.
 
 

An evening of cultivating the energy

 

The meeting has several components;
 
1) After introductions we'll spend the first 15-30 minutes doing embodiment practices to anchor and ground us in our bodies, open our hearts and relax with each other. This activates our individual and group presence.
 
2) Each willing participant presents a topical piece they've discovered: an article, book quote, poem, sonnet, song, awakening, personal experience, vision, dream, visual representation, aromatherapy, whatever, on the topic of either: Peace, Love, or Thriving, engendering a small conversation from their presentation. We will savor the various resonances of peace, love and thriving like sipping on the elixir of life. (Accompanied by snacks & tea)
 
3) I will lead the group in an energy meditation that was taught me by my guidance in the mid 70's, an old favorite you may know as the Spoke meditation. This meditation has the effect of creating a group brew for embodying the energy and steeping us in the vibrations. Not only will we be focusing on the core energies but several of the facets of each energy as well, building a sub-system of frequencies that support and expand the web of well-being.
 
4) During the next month we will be seeking out another presentation piece to bring, staying open to the experience of, and realigning to the vibration of these qualities. We can also be emailing each other with links to pieces we'd like to share, and I'll be posting some of our favorites on the monthly newsletter. We will be putting love, peace and thriving on the lists of our lives and offering it to the world at large.

 

My first sharings for inspirational links:

Bill Moyer's video on peace thru music, called Playing for Change: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/profile2.html 

 

Several great articles on this month's Bleep newsletter. I particularly enjoyed the one

using cell receptors as an analogy for our ability to receive all possibilities:
http://www.bleepingherald.com/oct2008/energy-biology

 

Enjoy, feel free to pass them around.

 

 
Logistics:
At my office: 2808-II East Madison, suite 202, Seattle, WA 98112  

On the first Monday of each month:  Nov 3, Dec 1st. 

For 2 hrs, 7-9pm
$10 donation for space, beverage and snack

 

Call or email to let me know you're coming, we need to have enough snacks! If you feel inspired to add your special touch to the snacks, feel free. See you soon!

 

206.324.2526. or Cherie@kissingschool.com

 

Sincerely,