Archive for July, 2009

Dance

Seeds XI, 31

Seed: Dance

The next three Seeds were inspired by an email signature Herracia Brewer cited in Science of Mind July 2008. Here’s the second one:

Dance as if no one is looking.

Do you know the song “I Can’t Dance, Don’t Ask Me”? Ella Fitzgerald did a bang-up job of it years ago. So what I want to know is … why can’t you dance? Interestingly, when I went to look up the lyric, it was misquoted as “I Won’t Dance, Don’t Ask Me” most of the time. There’s really no difference between can’t and won’t; the result is the same.

At a memorial service I officiated recently, I had the sincere pleasure of watching two sisters under the age of six really dance. There wasn’t a speck of self-consciousness between them, or around them. They danced because they were alive.

So when do we get self-conscious, and forget how to dance as if no one is looking? Puberty probably. Think about it for a minute. Is anything served by our self-consciousness? Is the world a better place if we can’t dance? I don’t think so.

Next time you get the chance, leave your self-consciousness home with a video, and dance your pants off. I think you’ll find that this kind of dancing creates joy, and that joy most definitely serves the entire universe.

Be joy,

Susan Corso

Dr. Susan Corso

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Ten Rules for An Optimistic Life

This is from a tear-out in Ode Magazine’s Laughter Issue …

 

10. Fall in love

9. Feed your mind positive thoughts

8. Indulge your passions

7. Laugh

6. Keep a feel-good journal

5. Enjoy the simple things

4. See the glass half-full

3. Find positive friends

2. Volunteer for a cause you believe in

1. Subscribe to Ode!

 

So now let’s look at the spiritual reasons behind them …

10. Fall in love—with yourself, with another, with a kid … relationship is the laboratory that teaches us the most about ourselves.

9. Feed your mind positive thoughts—since you get a choice, why not the positive ones?

8. Indulge your passions—knowing what your passions are is half way toward living a fulfilled life.

7. Laugh—at yourself, at others, at your kids … laughter is the one thing that guarantees perspective, which we all need.

6. Keep a feel-good journal—gratitude works every time.

5. Enjoy the simple things—and the complicated ones as well … the key is “enjoy.”

4. See the glass half-full—again, you get a choice.

3. Find positive friends—and be a positive friend

2. Volunteer for a cause you believe in—or work for a cause you believe in … the point is to find out what you believe and act accordingly.

 

 

1. Subscribe to Ode! This one needs no explanation.
   

 

Great advice for a joyous, free, fulfilled life.

Captain Karma

 

For some reason—probably the two eclipses in July—a lot of my practice with folks has focused on karma this month. The Law of Karma is simple: what goes around, comes around.

At issue are several things: how karma works, how to change it, why to change it, and what to do once it’s changed.

The Sanskrit roots of the word mean act or action. Karma is the universal law that every action has consequences. Not necessarily bad consequences, just consequences.

So what do I see when I intuit that someone is caught in a karmic pattern or a karmic relationship? Usually, I get a sense of stuckness around the person, whether in personal energy or thought patterns. It is often accompanied by a feeling of hopelessness.

Over the years, I’ve discovered that almost all karma can be dissolved with three powerful words, just three.

 

No,
Thank You.

 

Yep, that’s it. No, thank you. No big ritual. No powerful scenes. Just a simple rejection of the universal invitation to play out a pattern that no longer serves the soul. What the universe takes from these words is: I’ve had enough, I’ve learned the lesson, I’m ready to be done.

What about the other ten or so percent? The kind that stays, that we can’t seem to release, that feels like a playback loop? That can be handled as well, but it can need some additional assistance.

The easiest way to release karma after the nearly fail-proof formula above is by finding out where it lives in the body. When you talk about, think about, reach out to the person involved, there should be a sensation somewhere in the body.

Let’s use a hypothetical. A woman is in a relationship with a man who doesn’t exactly ring her chimes. They fight all the time, and even when things are good, they’re not that good, but she can’t seem to break up with him. That’s when I begin to look for karmic connections.

Mind you, I don’t tell karmic tales. I don’t figure out who was the slave owner and who was the slave. I simply check to see if there’s some power struggle going on between the two people which could be explained by karma.

“Where do you feel it in your body?” I ask.

“In my solar plexus.”

Then, I offer the karmic sufferer an imaginary pair of holy, golden scissors so that she may cut the cords of karma that are binding her to this person. I give instructions to cut the cords front and back for at least nine days. The front cords are about your future with the person, and the back cords are about your past together. Usually it takes far fewer than nine days to complete the actions necessary to make the desired change.

Simple. Effective. Worth it.