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  Kathleen Hannan

Virtual Chorus post 3

3/19/2020

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  Gravity is a Healer - a guided meditation
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Dear Friends, 
I learned several years ago that, as Warren Grossman, author of To Be Healed By The Earth wrote, "lying on the ground is an antidote to anxiety."   Lying directly on the ground is the most powerful.  But tuning into and releasing into gravity when we are indoors, on a chair, on our beds, or standing, is also very calming, restorative and healing. As you surrender, it's also very opening to keep aware of the space above, below, before and behind you, as well as your inner space.  Then there is a balance in our awareness of form, the weight of the body on the earth, and the formless realm at the source.

If you have any big feelings coming through, and most of us do, or if you just feel tired out from all the news and tremendous changes, and most of us are, I hope listening to the guided meditation recording above will support you in letting yourself pause, surrender to gravity, and meet your feelings directly as they move through.  And perhaps you'll get a chance to go out to your yard, or a park, or the beach, spreading out a sheet or blanket and just letting Earth do her healing thing.  In that situation you really don't even have to focus so much on surrendering.  It just happens.   Love, Kathleen

P.S. And please find a way to lie down or sit that is comfortable for you.  Here are some ways to surrender to gravity while keeping aware of the big space.  And remember, you can also do this driving in your car, or walking down the road!   Gravity goes with you wherever you are.  

   
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​Sweet gravity holds me dearly
Anchoring me to my home earth
Guiding me deep into dreams
 
Sweet gravity take me down
Take me in
Take me home
 
I turn myself over to the
safety of your embrace
As you love me, I love you

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Virtual Chorus post2

3/16/2020

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​As many of you probably have seen, there is a very funny youtube going around of public officials telling us not to touch our faces, and then touching their faces! I watched it several times, laughing rather hysterically, knowing from personal experience how hard it can be to change a habit. And I must say I was getting rather discouraged about the human capacity for change. 


But then suddenly something occurred to me.  All of those speakers were giving instructions in the negative, giving us a very clear picture of what they don't want us to do. "Don't touch your face!"  Meanwhile, as we all know, not thinking of a pink elephant is pretty darn near impossible.  And so is not touching your face! 

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From years of working with little kids, with grownups and with myself, I know that saying what we want to have happen is way more likely to result in the desired outcome.  It is just how our brains work. 

So what if we say, "Please keep your hands relaxed, open or folded  in your lap."  Or, "Remember to let your arms hang comfortably at your side.  Or "Keep resting your hands cozily in your pockets."  Or, "If your hand starts to move toward your face, you can notice that and move it away from your face and rest it again in your lap."

Stay safe, and have fun finding calming and comfortable places for your hands to hang out until this virus is history!  
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Virtual Chorus post 1

3/16/2020

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Dear Choristas, 
​During this time when we are not singing together in person, here is a place to post things, to make a kind of journal of this time of keeping our hearts connected while respecting the wisdom in meeting in maintaining what I'm calling a Non-Local Energetic and Spiritual Connection.

Please use the comment function to comment, or to leave links to articles you like or youtube songs you want us to hear. And if you have a photo, drawing, poem or song you create that you want to post, send it to me via email and I will post it.

I may post other poetry or other things that turn up, created  by people outside of chorus. But I would love to be swamped by chorista creations!   To start us off, here is a beautiful poem that three different choristas have sent us this week. 
​Pandemic
by Lynn Ungar 3/11/20

What if you thought of it

as the Jews consider the Sabbath--
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love--
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.

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