#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
2.01.2020
EXPERIENCE
7 Days of Rest 2018, Day Two - an invitation to Rest in Loving Senses
7 Days of Rest & Reflection 2019,
dedicating Day 2 to Protecting
and Honoring Water
7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity 2020,
Experiencing Diversity through our different Senses and Intelligences
invitation
Guided Daily Meditation and Reflection Practices: an offering from Shelley Ostroff
A guided meditation, reflections and practices will be offered each day by Shelley Ostroff inviting you into an exploration of the essence and vibration of the daily themes. Journalling the thoughts, images, dreams, emotions, sensations and experiences that arise throughout the entire week can deepen your journey through these seven days.
There’s a rhythm coming through
It’s showing us there’s something new
With its beat we can step aside
Follow nature as our guide
Feeling deeply into sound
Listening to the pulsing ground
Potent meetings beyond reason
Planting fruits for every season
It’s different when we recognize
There is no hierarchy of shape or size
Or color, texture, taste or prism In our holographic organism
In each other we’re reflected
Yes, it seems we’re all connected
~ Shelley Ostroff, from IS
02.01.2020, DAY TWO: EXPERIENCE Experiencing Diversity Through our Different Senses and Intelligences
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Inviting the Experience of Radiant Diversity: Sitting in a quiet and restful space, invite in an honoring way, the experience of Radiant Diversity to reveal itself to you. Spend some time experiencing yourself and your surroundings through your different physical senses. What is your experience as you allow each of the different senses to become the primary portal for your experience? Begin to sense into how they work together with other, more hidden intelligences, to provide the wholeness of your experience in the now.
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Radiant Diversity within: Sense into the inner world of your body-mind. Notice the inner sensations moving through you at any given moment. What is calling your attention? Notice the workings of your mind as you move between the more rational, emotional, imaginative, intuitive and other portals of meaning making. Sense into how all these diverse portals work together to enrich your experience of life and inform you about your inner state of being. Notice what happens as you more consciously activate these portals and acknowledge them for the essential and life-enriching information they offer.
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Radiant Diversity without: Sense into your environment. What diversity calls your attention? What are the different forms and colors and movements and sounds that draw your attention? As you attend to the world of differences around you how does this shift your relationship your environment. What is pleasurable and nourishing to you? What is less pleasurable?
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The Nature of Radiant Diversity and the Diversity of Radiant Nature: Find a place in nature or imagine that you are in a familiar natural environment, what is your sense of Radiant Diversity. How does it reveal itself to you? What is it showing you?
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Portals of Experience: As you go about your day, pay attention to the different kinds of differences you notice - what draws your attention? What are your primary portals for experiencing these differences? Which physical senses are more active? Which mental and emotional portals are more active? Are you more focused on the diversity among humans, and if so which differences call your attention? Are you more focused on the diversity of your natural environment? What aspects of the diversity in your natural environment call your attention? As you become more aware of the more active portals of experience, you may want to consciously explore engaging with diversity through the senses and intelligences that are less familiar to you. How does this shift your perspective and experience of yourself and of the world around you?
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The Offering: How would you like to honor the diverse senses and intelligences that enable this rich encounter with the world around you? Perhaps you would like to express your gratitude through a daily practice, an artistic expression, a blessing or any other form of appreciation?
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The Intention: How has this encounter transformed you, and what wish and intention has come forth within you from this reflective experience?
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Sensing your Vitality Code - Nature’s code for ever-evolving harmony in diversity and empathy with all of Life.
Spend some time reflecting on your own Vitality Code:
- What do you most love to give to the world? Which of your different senses and intelligences most inform your ability to give these gifts to the world?
- What do you need to receive in order to be able to offer your unique gifts to the whole? Which of your diverse senses and intelligences must be nourished, and in what way to enable you to give these gifts?
- How do you imagine yourself thriving in your fullest potential in mutual nourishment with your immediate community and all of Life? How does this picture activate your different senses and intelligences?
For more information about the Vitality Code, please visit the Vitality Code Gateway
Art from the Heart of Radiant Diversity and the Vitality Code: Express what is most alive in you from these different reflections and practices through any form of art – dance, music, visual arts etc. If you would like to share your Heartist offering and inspire others with it, please share it in our Community Sharing Space.
Blessings for a deeply meaningful day of connecting with, remembering and honoring the Experience of Radiant Diversity of the senses and intelligences within you and beyond you that contribute to making Life all that it is.
honoring thich nhat hanh
“Life is available only in the present moment” - Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Daily Practice
Total Relaxation
Daily Song/Chant
The River is Flowing
Dharma Talk
by Thich Nhat Hanh, 29-12-2013
Please also visit the GATEWAY: HONORING THICH NHAT HANH that has been co-created with Emelina Corrales-Legrand and Thomas Legrand from the Plum Village lay community.
global silent minute
"Bring in the New Year with a Global Silent Minute at 11 am EST / 4 pm GMT (convert) as we all participate in 7 Days of Rest and Radiant Diversity. Join millions on both sides of the veil for seven days to create a new rhythm as we focus together in the power of 'silence as action' on global cooperation. Global Silent Minute will go live at 5 minutes to the hour calibrated locally to 9.00pm GMT.”
practices and wisdom offerings
The End of Suffering ~ The Great Bell Chant
All of humankind is being invited into a greater conscious Love; a deeper richer vibration of Love, Compassion, and Healing. One might say, the Greatest Love we have ever known. By playing the End of Suffering, Great Bell Chant each day for 7 days, all are simultaneously enjoined into its frequency, message and mission. We call this The Ceremony of the Bells. This is a wonderful way to raise the vibration of Earth; the vibration of humanity and set a clear vibrational and conscious intention for this special year: 2020, the Year of the Encircling our Planet with Love.
Each day is started by a special message associated with the theme of the day followed by the "End of Suffering" Great Bell Chant, read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem. The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Michael Stillwater. The work came from a CD/book called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, and it can be purchased by going to www.wisdomoftheworld.com.
Offered by Ejna Fleury
TreeSisters ~ Guided Meditation
1-7 January
Daily Quote and Meditation
Clare's Quote for Day 2: Experience
"What is asking to be experienced through intimacy with all that is? What is it that you think you are, it may only be a fraction of the truth? What is it that you become when you experience your vibration interacting with that of those that you love or those that you do not know? What if the privilege of being alive is life itself asking to experience intimacy with everything that it is, with every kind of intelligence and consciousness through an endless flurry of sensation, impression, perception and translation..."
Meditation Day 2 ~ Experience ~ Ground yourself, feel supported in every moment to feel stronger, more connected to nature, more present, confident and alive.
Offered by Clare Dubois TreeSisters
Please also see the Gateway of the Trees for more inspiration from the Guardians of the Trees
Transformation 365 & Contemplative Life ~ Daily Contemplative Practice
1-7 January
Video Release
Daily at
1PM EST
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Here's a practice that will change the way you see the world.
Since childhood, we’ve all developed unconscious filters or veils through which we perceive life. They are often based on painful self-judgement and cause us to see the infinite potential of life and ourselves with a limited view. They hinder joy, creativity, and ultimately the realization of our fundamentally unbound and free nature. This practice will give you the direct experience of seeing beyond these veils as you open your eyes to the realization of pure awakened awareness as the truth of who you are.
In the field of awakening consciousness, David Ellzey is a teacher, author, awareness mentor, and transformational performer with clients including The United Nations and individuals and organizations across five continents. In his gentle yet laser-clear way, he teaches people how to let go of their filters of limitation and begin to recognize the unlimited reality of Self, even amidst the challenges of daily human life. A contributor to various consciousness journals, David is author of the book The Ocean of Now.
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Offered by David Ellzey Transformation 365 & Contemplative Life
Animal Talk Africa ~ Meditation with the animals
1-7 January
Daily
Prerecorded
Meditation
Wynter invites you to take around twenty minutes, each day to allow yourself to spend this time with the animals and Nature: Being, Loving, Transforming, Experiencing- for yourself and for the animals.
Day 2: Connecting with a Specific Animal Friend
In day two of Meditations for the Animals, you spend this time connecting and "being" with an animal in your life who you know and love. Experience a deep heart connection which leads you into the process of communicating with this beloved animal friend. Give yourself, and your special friend this time to really "be" together. Your animal friend does not need to be physically with you at this time of meditation. There is no limit of space or time, during this meditation you will experience the heart connection which is there at all times.
Offered by Wynter Worsthorne AnimalTalk Africa
Please also see the GATEWAYS: THE ANIMALS, #ISPEAK4, BE-FRIEND DIVERSITY, and LOVING DIVERSITY for more inspiration from the Guardians of the Animals.
Sacred Female Rising Institute ~ Wisdom Offering MiraMichelle
1-7 January
Daily Wisdom Offering
Singing a sacred song that has been kept alive for thousands of years is to peer into a timeless frame and directly experience the ‘Coded Wisdom’ (Wangari Maathai) of our ancestors.
MiraMichelle shares ancestor prayers, a sacred song and respect for all of life through the direct experience of Nature.
Offered by MiraMichelle Sacred Female Rising Insitute
"I Speak For" Earth Medicine Wheel Constellation
Robin Youngblood offers a Medicine Wheel Earth Constellation in support of the global campaign #ISPEAK4
"I Speak For" is a way of connecting with one of our many Earth Relatives, hearing what they want us to voice for them, and understanding how each of us can help. We will do this through a Medicine Wheel Earth Constellation, in a guided shamanic journey. I know that you care as deeply as I do about restoring balance. Please join me and All Our Relations to listen to the needs of Creation.
The #ISPEAK4 campaign that is dedicated to discovering and sharing the wisdom and gifts of those who do not speak the human language, to cultivate greater understanding of and empathy with all aspects of Creation.
Grandmother Robin Tekwelus Youngblood, of Okanogan/Cherokee heritage, travels the world sharing the spiritual values, prophecies, processes and ceremonies of the many indigenous peoples she has trained with. Grandmother Robin's teachings assist each person to recognize their gifts and purpose, heal blockages and activate their ancestral DNA. This is a time of purification and transformation and we must all share our gifts to help restore balance and harmony among All Our Relations.
Please also see the GATEWAYS: THE ANIMALS, #ISPEAK4, BE-FRIEND DIVERSITY, and LOVING DIVERSITY for more inspiration from the Guardians of the Animals.
Daily Water Blessing and Prayers
For each of the 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity Efrat is praying for the healing of the Waters.
"Peace and blessings to all,
On the "seven days of rest" starting January 1 to 7,
I will pray for water all over the land.
I invite you to pray with me, wherever you are.
If you have the option be by a water source.
We pray for the water. Healing and love for the water.
Pure and clean water for all creation.
We pray with all our heart for the water in the waterfall, oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and streams,
Rain, fog, dew, clouds, ices, wells and groundwater.
Water in all their forms.
Please pray with me with a pure heart, light and holiness of heaven and water.
Water is God's blessing for all creation.
Please be a center of light all over the land.
Let us pray from January 1-7, 2020
9 am - 9:36 pm Jerusalem time.
"We walk Together. I can not walk without you."
Efrat Sar-Shalom has been teaching A Course in Miracles for 31 years in Israel and Barcelona. We are deeply grateful to Efrat for this sacred offering.
Offered by Efrat Sar-Shalom, founder of Women of Peace
7 Days of Joy ~ Daily Practice
Start 2020 With 7 Days Of Joy! Experience (more) JOY and share it with our beautiful diverse world.
Through daily meditations. You can attend LIVE (highly recommended) or on replay.
Offered by Halina Goldstein - Joy Keepers Network
7 Days of Wholeness ~ Daily Practice
1-7 January
Daily Practice
True You Holistic Life Coaching will be hosting an event to help us find healing and happiness within ourselves so that we can share it with those around us!
Day 1 will be a day of self-acceptance. Without it, we cannot accept and love others. A link to a guided meditation will be shared.
Offered by True Holistic Life Coaching
online events
Message from the Wolf Sanctuary
1-7 January
Daily Sharing
Day 2 with Kim Kapes and Canoe at In Harmony With Nature Animal Haven
As we EXPERIENCE diversity in our daily lives, open up and be aware of what you are sensing within you. Allow yourself to grow and evolve to be more aware and thereby more loving, compassionate, accepting...
Please also see the GATEWAYS: THE ANIMALS, #ISPEAK4, BE-FRIEND DIVERSITY, and LOVING DIVERSITY for more inspiration from the Guardians of the Animals.
Good of the Whole - Facebook Hearth Resonance attunement
EXPERIENCE, EMBODY AND EXPRESS THE ETHOS OF WHOLENESS.
Day 2: Experience with Nahid Mohktari
As Mentoring Stewards committed to the GOOD of the WHOLE, we are listening, speaking from our hearts and intentionally expanding the resonant Field of Love. We gather at the “Watering Whole” and find ourselves nurtured, revitalized and uplifted, as a collective consciousness. Begin your morning for 15-20 minutes in heart-full resonance celebrating the diversity of ALL life.
Offered by Good of the Whole Hosted by Shelley Darling & Resonance Stewards
Loving Waters ~ 7 Days of Watershed Wisdom
DAY 2: H20 or H302? with Elizabeth Herald The inquiry and exploration into the Intelligence of Water.
Join Loving Waters Core Council "Watershed Wisdom" daily, as we explore Water: The Source of All Diversity.
Offered by Loving Waters Hosted by Loving Waters Stewards Council
Miss Kindness ~ Music and Meditation
1-7 January
Daily Song and Mediation
1pm PST
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Join in for the 7 days of rest and radiant diversity. Music and Mindful Meditation with Miss. Kindness for the entire family. Sing along to song of unity and kindness invite friends and family members to join in. Daily we will have a new song to learn and a global meditation that will help remind us that we are a global family, where everyone belongs.
Offered by Miss Kindness Karen Palmer, We
UP for 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity
1-7 January
Daily Facebook Live Attunements
10 am SAST
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Day 2 of the the 7 days of Rest and radiant diversity... Today we invite you to tune into your senses... feel the nature of your 5 senses deeply and consider your 6th sense and your common sense and perhaps the most infinite one - the sense of humour!
Thank you 7 Days of Rest for the opportunity to be part of this inspired collective co-creation... as we root into our decade of peace!!!
READATATION ~ A Daily Spiritual Adjustment
Relax, sit in comfort with a cup of tea/coffee, and join Ron and Victoria on Facebook Live for a daily 20 minute immersion in Readatation: A Spiritual Adjustment
Offered by Vistar, hosted by Dr. Ron and Victoria Friedman
GOOD of the WHOLE ~ Evolutionary Entelechy with Oriana Marici
Day 2: Evolutionary Entelechy
Experience the entelechy of evolution encoded within all life. Learn how to align and attune to its greater potential unfolding.
Offered by Good of the Whole, with Oriana Marici
ROLLING OM PRODUCTIONS ~ Daily Blog
1-7 January
Daily
Blog
Day 2: EXPERIENCE
We’re delighted that Kat Robertson is joining with her extraordinary art works and journals. Kat is posting daily blogs about her artistic journey around the themes of the day.
"I love to connect this ‘rolling om’ with the global zeitgeist, working for global harmony and right relationship with Mother Nature.
I took part in the ‘7 Days of Rest and Reflection‘ last year and found it to be a wonderful way to begin a new year and set intentions. A way to feel part of a global healing and also a great way to loosen up my thinking and become more open to ‘otherness’ and the wider picture."
Offered by ROLLING OM PRODUCTIONS ~ Kat Robertson
LOCAL EVENTS
7 Days of Rest ~ Stadsretraite Deventer ~ Netherlands
1-7 January
Week long
Retreat
7 days, form 9.30 pm to 9.30 am we come together in contemplation, meditation, singing and ceremonie.
Offered by MindFoolnes, Jannah Wijffels
7 days of Rest & Radiant Diversity ~ Retreat at CityTree ~ Israel
1-7 January
Week long
Retreat
A week of deep rest, nourishment or fast, as you choose, observation, deep connection to the Vitality Code generating the diversity of Life and learning of the Codes for a Healthy Earth.
Offered by City Tree, Alon & Tami Zori
Riverbend ~ Bending the River of Time ~ Canada
1-7 January
Week long
Retreat
At RiverBend Seniors Community, we are creating an eddy in the River -- we are making time to take time for ourselves and each other to contemplate All that has been, All that Is and All we desire... Sending heartfelt prayers of gratitude and love to the One, the Creator Inside us, all around us and That which is becoming, through us...
Offered by Shannon McArthur
Rest and Restore ~ India
1-7 January
Week long
Retreat
Kakao Zeremonie & Singkreis ~ Germany
Lasst uns das neue Jahr entspannt beginnen. Wir öffnen uns für die Erfahrung mit dem heiligen Kakao, mit Musik und verbinden uns mit der Intention von 7 Days of Rest für die Erholung des Planeten und aller Bewohner.
Offered by Sacred Female Rising Institute with Annabelle Bini
2 January
Singing and Sharing Circle with sisters, brothers and children ~ Germany
Experiencing the heart connection by being together in the circle and sharing sacred songs, inspiring written texts/ stories, food and our love together with our children.
Offered by Janina Harazim
2 January
Meditation Circle ~ Germany
In der Woche von 7 Days of Rest bist du herzlich Willkommen in den Räumen von Wiebke Hinzer zu einem Meditationskreis. Wir gehen in Begleitung und Verbindung von Mutter Erde in die Wahrnehmung von Körper, Geist und Seele.
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Offered by Sacred Female Rising Institute with Wiebke Hinzer
2 January
Singing & Sharing Circle with Children ~ Germany
Singing- and Sharing- Circle with children Experiencing the heart connection with our sisters, brothers and children by being together in the circle and singing sacred songs, sharing inspiring written texts/stories, food and our love. Date: 02.01.2020 Time: 15.30 - 19.30h Place: Lehmkuhle in Rittmarshausen/ Göttingen Please bring: your favourite sacred song, story and food to share
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Offered by Sacred Female Rising Institute with Janina Harazim
2 January