#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
#BEFRIEND DIVERSITY - MAKING FRIENDS FOR LIFE
A message following the 7 Days of Rest: Moving Forward Together
As we begin to move beyond the 7 Days of Rest Global Event, we extend a heartful thanks to all who have contributed to making this event all that it has become! Today, we share our intention to continue to build on the powerful momentum and growing community, and invite all to continue together in service of the healing vision.
Here, we share some initial ideas for moving forward, while recognizing that much that was seeded and that emerged during the 7 Days of Rest is still being revealed. We look forward to discovering and cultivating the rich field of intention and action in service of a thriving world for all.
7 Days of Rest - Anytime, Anywhere
With all the inspiring resources that we have gathered for these 7 Days of Rest we intend to maintain this offering as an evolving self-retreat program and toolkit for anyone to follow at anytime. While certain materials may only have been made available for this week, when we have the infrastructure in place, we will include new offerings to be shared that can further enhance the experience and depth of this 7-day quest.
Rise in Solidarity with Mother Earth #RiseforMotherEarth
One essential and powerful calling that has emerged from the event has been to create a campaign/movement to Rise in Solidarity with Mother Earth. The vision is to support and catalyze global awareness and action so that the sacred feminine and masculine can rise together in loving partnership and stewardship of the planet and all its inhabitants. If you would like to play a co-creative role in this campaign, please email us at 7days@togetherincreation.org with the subject title: Rising in Solidarity with Mother Earth.
2019 & Beyond
A call has come forth from the community to make 7 Days of Rest an annual event. This extension invites us to dream our collective evolution and manifestation as we embark on a yearly spiral of planetary healing and replenishment.
We are deeply grateful to be sharing this journey with each and all of you. As we take time to listen and reflect upon our unique and shared experience we look forward to discovering what else wants to emerge as we move forward together in restful reflection.
THE INVITATION
During the 7 Days of Rest, from January 1 to January 7, individuals and communities around the world will co-create a unified field of intention and action for the healing of Mother Earth and all Her Children.
The “Rest” that is invited also includes a variety of activities that can be integrated into time at work, at school, or at home with family and friends. Our primary objective is to create a sacred collective space and time away from the busyness as usual for us to reflect together, as a species, how we can realign with our hearts, with each other, and with the intrinsic intelligence and order of nature. Through co-creating a coherent field of rest, deep listening and benevolent actions, we amplify the emerging global culture of peace, health, cooperation, wise governance and reverence for all Life.
For 7 Days we join forces across the world to:
~ connect in stillness, compassion and dedicated action
~ remove stress, noise and toxins
~ commit together to planetary healing
~ set the intention and foundations for co-creating a thriving world for all
PERSONAL PRACTICE: RECOMMENDATIONS
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Silent time - alone and together, reconnecting to the sounds of stillness that enable us to re-calibrate with the wisdom of our bodies and nature.
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Minimize all work, consumerism, media and social media activity – (if possible, a full consumerism, television and social media fast). This ideally means connecting to the virtual world only for the purposes of joining focused global meditations or programs relating to human and planetary rest, healing and replenishment.
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Clearing the body from toxins and eating only plant based food – as fresh and organic as possible. Different dietary suggestions will be offered on the website for optimal detox and nourishment.
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Breath, yoga, sound and movement practices that support the body's rest, healing and replenishment.
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Meditation, prayer, intention setting and practices that cultivate deep listening, present moment awareness, intuition and spontaneous visions.
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Practicing gentle loving communication with one’s self and those in one’s environment.
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Rituals dedicated to the healing, nurturing and replenishment of oneself, the planet and the entire Web of Life.
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Communing with and honouring nature, animals, the plants and the elements.
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Journaling insights, dreams and intentions.
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Connecting consciously to the 7 Day global prayer and meditation field either online or offline.
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Practicing living in gentle, simple community and extending one’s field of compassion to all beings.
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Envisioning a healed world.
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Gratitude for all that is healthy and nourishing in one’s own life and in the world.
PARTICIPATION MAP
SUPPORT, FIND & JOIN LOCAL & GLOBAL EVENTS
The event invites individuals and communities to self-organize, lead and engage in diverse healing and peace-building activities aligned with the 7 Days of Rest, that support the healing and replenishment of people, other species and Mother Earth.
These events can express the diverse cultures, passions and areas of stewardship participants feel called to focus on - giving expression to the collective caring for all parts of our interconnected whole.
The website will showcase a calendar of events organized by partners of 7 Days of Rest, and you can find and create events on the interactive map below.
You can also support the event by becoming active ambassadors, spreading the word and bringing on board your networks to amplify the collective field of healing for the good of all.
Artists of all media are invited to create inspirational works dedicated to the 7 Days of Rest that invoke the spirit of healing and replenishment and share them with us on our Facebook page.
EVENT MAP
You can also upload activities and experiences of compassion on our Compassion Games Report Map
GATEWAYS 2018
There are many different ways to honor 7 Days of Rest - and contribute to the global field of healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants. We are in the process of building pages with our partners that offer inspiration and resources for these different gateways into the 7 Days. The following are some of the gateways that are emerging.
CONTACT US
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Inspiration from the
growing community
"We need moments of quiet to support the world through a time when we seem to be losing our collective heads."
Sebastian
I so very much am aligned with this project/event!
Silence has always been where my deepest Wisdom has come from. Such a deeper need on our planet to slow down, keep it simple, focus on one or two things, mindfulness and REST.
Rejuvenated Souls are needed to co-create and build a New Earth. Rest, forgiveness, heart connection then we are ready to Collaborate and design and move through to the New Portal. Universe is waiting for us to understand it's Silence first to set the foundation.
Jackie
This is such an important initiative! The world is moving so fast that is it far to easy to get swept up with it. It is for this reason 7 days of Rest offers us a gift.. the opportunity to formally unplug from our default patterns so we can reassess how we want to live our life. If we use this time to pause and settle within ourselves we can get in touch with what we are really feeling, and discover what is important to us. To question and reevaluate what our purpose is here on this earth? Are we aligning the way we live our life with our core values and beliefs? If we can nurture ourselves both on the inside and outside by listening to our heart we'll be able to make the necessary changes needed to improve the quality of our life, the lives we interact with and the world.
Julie
I do believe that rushing is violence... when we rush too much we do violence to our bodies and mind and spirit. I see that this creates disease in our bodies/minds. Let's come together and go slow in the sacred time. IN this deep and profound energy we will find the peace that is needed to create lasting change on this planet.
Michelle
"Inspired and beautiful vision! Can't wait to participate....."
David
Taking time at the start of the new year to rest calls to every part of my being, personally - knowing it also can have such a restorative effect , collectively, on all of Life and Mother Earth, how can we say anything but YES?
Lynda
"Unifying, inspiring and much needed....looking forward to join together with other to come together and move forward together"
Leslie
An absolutely inspiring and beautiful vision! An initiative so timely and so sorely needed. Thank you!
Frank
Inspired by this initiative. It facilitates a collective coherent field of Unity in our World which will be most powerful and by adding Sound Harmonics daily , your own mantra sound or an offered collective mantra /song it has the potential to unite the worlds within ourselves , within this galaxy and merge in a accelerated symbiotic dance with the energy and frequency of Mother Earth.
This Collective Harmonic resonance wave will create a field of Love that is so powerful that anything that is in dissonance within/without will be dissolved and the restoration of Balance , Harmony and Peace will be returned .
Exited with the transformational potential !
Yukia
Like our in-breath and out-breath, REST is our natural state of Being. This is our great reminder to come back into balance with giving AND receiving. Imagine CONSCIOUSLY breathing and resting in the ease of our own Essence for 7 full days. Now imagine the whole world doing that! Ahhhh....
Linda
The mind is the most powerful and magnificent tool to Heal the planet and all its inhabitants.It is sorely needed vision to inspire all and my deepest gratitude to you and Rathane Thero for this groundbreaking work.
Mangalika
inspiring and healing event for our world and hearts.
Ori
Collectively tapping into this purity of vision is the replenishment and inspiration we so desperately need to reconnect with our creative deepest selves, our beloved animals and all of nature.
Dawn
Excellent initiative!! Our culture is so out of balance in the direction of work, producing, achieving...doing,doing,doing and so in need of stillness and rest..time for pure beingness. Years ago I was in Bali during their New Year which is honored by a day of total silence, meditation, fasting, no machines or computers are used..no businesses open, no fires burning...Total stillness. It was divine!!! And I have always carried this wish for us in the Western world to adopt a practice like this...Many Blessings for the initiators of this movement!!
Maya
Such an incredible vision and event for a new story and future for earth and humanity. So honored to know about this and am grateful for the success and growth of this inspiring and growing event. Thanks and love
Destiny
To me, giving 7 days to gather our energies and consciousness within, and communing with Great Spirit, together, is even more powerful than sending thought forms out into the world. In Silence is where WE are. Sharing infinite Blessings of Gratitude with US ALL.
Joie
We are finding out that faster, bigger, more isn't always better, if fact it damages the planet, and we steam on, because "that's how it works"...not! So good a global initiative helps us all to reconnect, rethink and become real.
Floris
Time of visualizing goals for the coming year. Cultivate Patience, Tolerance,become more charitable.
Mike
So many ways to be in the stillness, to allow it to flow into and through you to strengthen the balance in ALL, and to develop, give, and receive Unconditional Love
Trish
So many ways to be in the stillness, to allow it to flow into and through you to strengthen the balance in ALL, and to develop, give, and receive Unconditional Love
Trish
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
We are deeply grateful to those planetary stewards who have contributed so lovingly and generously to the 7 Days of Rest Global Event. Each of these stewards brings a powerful devotion to humanity and to Mother Earth, and their unique contribution anchors and amplifies the energy of the 7 Days of Rest.
Shelley Ostroff PhD,
Founder and co-host of the 7 Days of Rest
Yan Golding, Co-host of the 7 Days of Rest
Stewards
Immense gratitude to the diverse partners and supporting organizations who have contributed in so many ways to 7 Days of Rest. Special thanks also to all the people across the world gifting their time and skills to make this event all it can be in service of a thriving future for all!
