Born, Live, Continue--Beautifully

 5/18/15 InnerConstellation.com Blessing: Think on all the causes and conditions that came together (including your mother and father) to produce precious you with your beauties, strengths, challenges and beliefs. Touch your relatives, give praise--you are a miracle.

What does it mean to touch our ancestors and descendants? In Thich Nhat Hanh Plum Village tradition touching our ancestors includes realizing we are not separate from our loved ones, it's in fact impossible to separate ourselves from our mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, sons, daughters....Science shows that their DNA is our DNA. Without their existences, we would not exist and vice versa--we interare.

This truth very much aligns with the Native American tradition of honoring our ancestors. By continuing consciously, beautifully, our ancestors and future generations continue beautifully. There's opportunity to transform habit energies that pop up, no only for myself but for past generations and for my descendants to come. It's possible to arrest seeds of anger, impatience, worry, struggle and water instead our seeds of freedom, patience, contentment and peace. Touching our ancestors and descendants includes looking deeply at our collective shortcomings and gifts and dedicating ourselves to transformation, for the well-being of ourselves and our loved ones. How do we do this?

• Ceremonies and daily practices for insight and recognition (Touching the Earth)
• If your practice is feeling strong, invite an ancestor or descendant who you know struggles to sit with you, or take a mindful walk with you.
• If your practice is in need of refreshing, invite an ancestor or descendant who inspires you to sit with you or walk with you.

Bow down and resource solid earth, be still, recognize and bless the gifts and challenges, release and rise transformed. When we do this we walk in our world a free person, using everything as an occasion to practice love and beauty.