This week I wanted to share my latest video. I've been concentrating on Heart, Sacral and Root recently. I really love the sounds of these three together.
Singing bowls have been around since the 1980s. There is some thoughts that maybe our ancestors worked with crystals and more recently science has shown that these crystals resonate a sound that has proved beneficial to human cells.
Singing bowls can be used for meditation and just a relationship to the sound waves has shown positive impact on the human body.
I have been working with the bowls, using the sound to help welcome relaxing and create a release in my body. Excess energy seems to float away.
This session was extremely helpful for me. Even the dog let out a little call to let me know he was enjoying the session.
I created this as a way to help me learning the Four Noble Truths. For me it was easier to remember if I had just one word for each of the truths. This is the second of four blog posts related to the Four Noble Truths.
To understand that suffering exists is the beginning of the Four Noble Truths. Now where does this suffering come from? What is the origin of our suffering? What is Samudaya?
I chose release here because release is the opposite of attachment. It reminds me that I need to release that attachment in order to cease the suffering in my life. Suffering comes from attachment. Attachment to people and things. If we get a child, we fear losing the child. If we get any new possession, (car, house) or even a new job, after we have the happiness of having those, along with that comes naturally the fear of losing them.
So first we learned that life is suffering. Living equates to suffering. To live is to suffer. Now, we know why we suffer. We suffering due to attachment. Attachment is the fear of loss. So we are suffering because we don't want to lose what we have. Samudaya is understanding that there is a source of this suffering.
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Today was good day. Hubby helps out a friend of ours by taking her son to school. Today and tomorrow are the last days of the school year so he went off early this morning to take care of that. While he was away I went outside to finish up his chores really fast so maybe we could go to a movie or do something fun that he might like.
Part of my chores in the morning is feeding the feral colony outside and getting the eggs. Hubby waters the garden.
A little blurry but here is White Tip in front, Ragged Tooth behind her and back on the back fence you can see Lou sitting waiting for his turn.
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
This is Brown Kitty (yes, I'm running out of names).
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
This handsome boy is Phantom.
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
Smudge didn't show to the bowls until late, I'll get a pic of him next time.
The hens have decided that all the eggs must be placed in the same nest. Even if one hen is already in the nest. We have six nests for 7 chickens. They all lay in the same nest. Sometimes a different nest, but all in the same nest each day.
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
This morning Hubby needed to hoe the garden and cut the grass along the edge. So I did all the chores really fast. The cucumbers are doing really well, tomatoes.. eh.. Melons... pretty good. I only photographed the Melons and the Cucumbers, I'm trying to shame the tomatoes into growing better.
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
When hubby came back I was sure he would take me to see X-Men or something, I surprised him with his completed chores and asked him what he wanted to do. He said.... (wait for it) Buy a door.
Yeah, that's right, he wanted to go buy a door. So we piled in the truck and went to buy a door. We found a door at Habitat for Humanity yesterday, so we decided to go see if it was still there.
We scored our door and then took a drive. We like to ride together. We used to be stuck on the 5 coming from Oceanside to San Diego every day driving from work to home when we lived on the West Coast. We loved just sitting and talking in the car. We found locations for 3 new Flea Markets we plan to check out over the weekend. We grabbed some lunch and then headed home.
Hubby began the door work. He took off the old door, did some stuff with the chisel and then asked me to hold the door. He then had to leave to go pick up the kid from school. He came back and finished it. Now I have an awesome new door in the studio!
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
I really love the door handle. It looks almost like the pages of a book on the top. Lots of character.
Photo Credit - Renee Sosanna Olson
After dinner we had to go release the kitties we got spayed yesterday. Here are the two we released.
We then went for ice cream and came home. I have the best life in the world. And the best husband.
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