Sex as Re-Creation,, Part 2

The second effect of sharing our spirit during sex is re-creation. I'm not talking about recreational sex in the casual, superficial sense. I'm talking about sex in a re-creational sense, in the sense of sex as a form of play.

Sex as Play

Play is any activity that is pleasurable. Pleasurable activities restore and renew our spirits. They re-create us. 

When sex is pleasurable, like other forms of play, it restores and renews our spirits. It re-creates that which makes us alive.

Two Basic Experiments

Try this: Set aside some private time for some sex play with yourself. Before you begin, focus your attention on the center of your chest. The area behind your breast bone and between your breasts. This area, often called your heart, is the home of your spirit.  If it helps, place one or both over this area and breathe into and out of your heart. Become aware of how your spirit feels. How would you describe the feeling?

After you have a good sense of your spirit, play. Have sex-play with yourself. Pleasure yourself to orgasm.

Afterwards, give yourself plenty of time to soak in the pleasure, then focus on your heart again. Breathe into your heart and breathe out.

How do you feel now? Do you feel different than before you pleasured yourself? If so, how? What effect on your spirit, if any, did your sex-play have?

When you have the opportunity to share your spirit with another during pleasurable sex, reflect on the experience afterwards. How did you feel before, during, and afterwards? Did your feelings change? If so, how?  What effect, if any, did the sex have on your spirit?

With these and other playful experiments, we each can discover for ourselves the connections between our spirit and sex. 

Our Spirit and Sex, Part 1

Our spirit is what makes us alive. We express and share our spirit with others in a variety of ways, with 

our facial affect, speech, tone of voice, gestures and actions.

Sex: A Spirit-Related Matter

Touching is one action by which we express and share our spirit with others. Since sexual touches and embraces are specific ways of touching, they are ways we express and share our spirit with others. So, sex is a spirit-related matter.

Sex as Procreation

In this post I want to highlight two effects of sharing our spirit during sex. The first is procreation. The woman gives birth to her egg. The man labors and with the final push of orgasm gives birth to his seed. His seed races to penetrate her egg. Their bodies and spirits merge at the cellular level and create new life. 

Sex is essential to life. By sex life continues and remains potentially eternal. As long as females and males embrace, eggs and seed merge, and healthy babies are born and nurtured to adulthood, human life goes on.

Sex as procreation-ovulation, sexual embrace, orgasm, conception, gestation, birth, nurturing and protecting our young to adulthood- these are life-affirming celebrations we do well to value and honor deeply.

In part two, I will discuss sex as re-creation and share some experiments to play with. 

Spirit-Centered Protection

My life, health and well-being are primarily my own responsibly. It is primarily up to me to protect myself from harm and keep myself alive and healthy. It is a responsibility I refuse to relinquish to others. Since protecting myself is about keeping myself alive, and since spirit is that which makes me alive, self-protection is a spirit-related matter.

Spirit-centered protection looks at self-protection from the perspective protecting one's own spirit in order to stay alive and live a healthy, creative, and happy life.

Self-Protection is Inherent to Our Spirit

Based on observations of living beings, I think it is reasonable to generalize that every living being has a natural, basic instinct to protect itself from harm. When we feel threatened  we either fight, flee, or freeze. Self-protection is inherent in our spirit. That which makes us alive has a basic desire to stay alive, unharmed, and healthy.

Self-Protection is Life-Affirming

Self-protection is life-affirming. It is something we do well to become very good at if we value our own spirit and life. If we do not value our own spirit and life, something very serious is wrong and we do well to address it.

Self-Protection Takes Many Forms

For us humans, self-protection takes many forms. It includes breathing fresh, clean air; drinking fresh, clean water; eating fresh, organic whole foods; having sufficient clothing and shelter; sleeping well; doing meaningful work; and protecting ourselves from both predators and natural disasters. 

Being able to protect ourselves is one characteristic of living as a mature, adult human being.

Questioning Relinquishing Our Responsibility to Others

We do well to recognize that often those who encourage us to depend on them for our protection, do us no favors. They nurture a dependence on them that weakens our natural instincts and bodies, and limits our freedom. They put us at risk.

Questioning Self-Sacrifice

We do well to recognize that often those who call for self-sacrifice do us no favors. Those who call for self-sacrifice rarely sacrifice themselves. They call on others to do what they themselves will not. 

However, we also do well to recognize our natural instinct to put our own lives at risk for those who are dear to us. For example, it is natural for parents to risk their own lives to protect their young. It is natural for friends to risk their lives for each other. Such actions to protect the lives of those dear to us and unable to protect themselves, differ greatly from those where we are asked to sacrifice our lives for cowards who clothe their appeal in abstractions of greater causes and higher callings.

Some Question to Consider

How safe are you? Are you giving yourself the air, water, food, shelter, and protection from harm you require in order to not only live but thrive?

What do you need to do to better protect yourself from harm?

What can you do today to take some steps in the direction  of better protecting yourself from harm?

If you have relinquished you responsibility for protecting yourself from harm, what can do to take it back?

The Spirit in Play

Squirrels, cats, monkeys, and whales play.  Dogs, dolphins, and crows play. So do we humans.

What is Play?

It's natural. It's any activity during which we feel pleasure.

The pleasure we feel might be physical, mental or emotional. Since the seat of our emotions is our spirit, play is a spirit-related activity.

Play alternates with work, rest, and sleep. We work to provide for ourselves what we need to stay alive- water, food, clothing, and shelter. We rest and sleep to assimilate, recover and regain our strength. We play for pleasure and pleasure re-creates us. Pleasure renews our spirit, that which makes us alive.

The Necessity of Play

Re-creation, renewal of our spirit, is a basic necessity of life. When we do not play, we do not renew and replenish our spirit. We weaken our spirit and make ourselves vulnerable to illness and injury. We increase our risk of premature death.

We cannot not play. We naturally play just as we naturally breathe.

An article from Scientific American says this about play:

 “Free play,” as scientists call it, is critical for becoming socially adept, coping with stress and building cognitive skills such as problem solving. Research into animal behavior confirms play’s benefits and establishes its evolutionary importance: ultimately, play may provide animals (including humans) with skills that will help them survive and reproduce." You can read the entire article by clicking on this link

Here's a quote from an article from HelpGuide.org

"Playing can boost your energy and vitality and even improve your resistance to disease, helping you feel your best." You can the entire article here

Improving Your Game

It can be helpful to become aware of the activities we do for pleasure. Make a list of the things you do that give you pleasure.

When you play, be all in. Don't hold back. Play!

After you play, rest. Rest gives us time to soak in the pleasure of play and allow it to renew our spirit at deeper levels.

Conclusion

It's not much of stretch to say that our lives depend on play. 

The more we work, the more we need to play. It renews our spirit.

Spirit-Centered Sleeping: On Sleeping Well

In an excellent WebMD article, Camille Peri summarizes recent research on ten consequences of inadequate sleep:

1. Sleepiness causes accidents

2. Sleep loss dumbs you down 

3. Sleep deprivation can lead to serious health problems

4. Lack of sleep kills sex drive

5. Sleepiness is depressing

6. Lack of sleep ages your skin

7. Sleepiness makes you forgetful

8. Losing sleep can make you gain weight

9. Lack of sleep may increase risk of death

10. Sleep loss impairs judgment, especially about sleep

You can read the entire article by clicking on the link below.

Her article illustrates that sleeping well is essential to our health and well-being. It's essential to staying alive. Since our spirit is that which makes us alive, sleeping is a spirit-related matter.

So, we do well to assess how much we value sleeping well. How much we value sleeping well is a reflection of how much we value our own spirit and life. 

We also do well to assess how well we are sleeping. If we aren't sleeping well and want to do better, there is a lot of excellent research and information published about various things we can do to improve our sleep, heal and strengthen our spirits, and improve the quality of our lives. 

Sleeping well is a very individualized thing. It takes trying different things to find out what works best for us. So, enjoy the process of discovery. 

And be assured of this: you do not have to buy anything to improve your sleep.

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/excessive-sleepiness-10/10-results-sleep-loss?page=1

Spirit-Centered Breathing, Part 4: Awareness

Once we've tried the basic spirit-centered breathing experiments, we have taken our first steps to no longer taking the air we breathe for granted.

Again, since we have to breathe to stay alive and spirit is that which makes us alive, breathing is a spirit-related matter. So is the quality of the air we breathe.

Our Homes

Wherever you are take note of the quality of the air you breathe. Often the air in our home is more polluted than the air outside. What chemicals and gasses affect the quality of air you breathe in your home? What can you do to reduce indoor pollution and improve it's quality? 

Simply switching from chemical-based cleaning products to vinegar, baking soda, lemon juice, and hydrogen peroxide can help. Adding air-cleaning in-door plants also helps. And, depending on where you live, opening the windows occasionally to let in cleaner outdoor air can help as well. 

Traveling

When you are walking, riding a bike, driving a car, taking public transportation, or flying take note of the quality of the air you breathe. Is it fresh and clean? Can you take alternative means of transportation or routes where you can avoid combustion engine exhaust and breathe cleaner, fresher air?

Our Destinations

When you arrive at your destination- office, factory, store, restaurant, someone else's home, a park, a hotel- what is the quality of air? How does it affect your spirit? Is the air helpful or harmful for you to breathe?

Conclusion

Unfortunately, in the highly industrialized West, much of the air we breath is polluted. Improving its quality begins with a heightened awareness of how essential clean, fresh air is to our health and well-being and the health and well-being of all the living.

Spirit-Centered Breathing, Part 3: Aromas

The breathe of life we breathe is often aromatic. Flowers, coffee, soap, recently cut grass, smoke from a chimney, steaks being grilled, freshly baked bread, cookies right out of the oven, perfumes and colognes, body odors, bathroom and liter box smells, chemicals, car exhaust, and a decaying carcass are just a few things that might scent the air we breathe on any given day.  

Have you noticed that it is when they change that we become aware of the aromas in the air we breathe?

Three Experiments to Try

Experiment 1 : When you become aware that the aroma of the air you're breathing changes, pause.

Focus on the core of your being, your heart, behind your breast bone and between your breasts. Breathe the aroma into your heart, hold, and breathe out. Repeat at least three times. 

What do you feel in your heart? How does the aroma in the air you breathe affect your spirit?

Experiment 2: Buy some dried white sage leaves, a small smudge bundle. You'll also need something to safely burn it in and some matches or a lighter.

Before you burn the sage, focus on your heart, the core of your being, behind your breast bone and between your breasts. Breathe into your heart and breathe out a few times. Take note of how your heart feels.

While focusing on your heart and breathing in and out, light the sage, let it burn for a bit, then blow out the flame.

Still focusing on your heart, breathe in the smoke of the sage, just enough so as not to be uncomfortable, and breathe out. Do this for several minutes and be mindful of any changes in your spirit.

What did you notice? Did your spirit change or remain the same? If it changed, how so?

Experiment 3: Buy one bottle each of the following high quality, pure, organic, therapeutic grade essential oils: lavender, peppermint, and lemon. Wait until after the following experiment to learn what all you can do with these oils.

Place the oils in front of you. Focus on your heart, the core of your being, behind your breast bone and between your breasts. Breathe into your heart and breathe out a few times. Take note of how your heart feels.

Open the lemon essential oil, put one or two drops in the palm of your hand, put the cap back on the bottle, and rub your palms together. Lift your palms up to your nose and breathe the aroma into your heart. Rub your palms together again and breathe in the aroma into your heart again. Repeat as many time as you like.

Focus on your spirit. Does it feel different than before smelling the lemon essential oil? If so, how so? How would you describe its effect on your spirit?

Do the same exercise with the lavender, then the peppermint oil.

Afterwards, learn what all you can use these essential oils for. Notice if you experienced for yourself what you learn from reading about the oils.

Spirit-Centered Breathing, Part 2: Wind, Breath, and Spirit

Thumos and spiritus the Ancient Greek and Roman words for spirit (that which makes alive) also referred to both wind and breath. The exercise that follows explores the connection between wind, breath, and spirit.

Go outside. Find a place to walk, sit or stand where you will not be interrupted.

Notice the wind. See and hear it rustling the leaves of the trees. It makes them alive. 

Feel the wind touching your face. How does it feel?

How would you describe the wind? Gentle or harsh? Hot, warm, cool, or cold? Humid or dry? Give it a personality. In Western culture, the four winds of the four directions are considered male spirits. Does the wind you feel, feel like a male?

Focus on the core of your being, your heart, behind your breast bone and between your breasts. Breathe into and out of your heart. Notice how your heart feels. Without forming an opinion about how you feel, just feel what you feel.

Breathe in and fill your lungs with the wind. Breathe out. Continue breathing in the wind and breathing out. Continue breathing the wind into your heart for as long as feels right to you.

How do you feel after breathing the wind into your heart? Do you feel the same or different than before you breathed in the wind? Do you feel more like how you described the wind or not? 

Whenever you have the opportunity, practice this exercise with different types and wind and see what happens.

Spirit-Centered Breathing, Part 1

Introduction

We can live three weeks without food, three days without water, and only three minutes without air. To stay alive we have to breathe. Since spirit is that which makes us alive, breathing is a spirit-related matter.

We do not just need air to breathe in order to stay alive, we need clean, fresh air. Breathing clean, fresh air sustains our spirit, life, health, and well-being. Breathing polluted air weakens our spirit, reduces our quality of life, causes disease, and quickens death.

And yet, it is so easy for us to be mindless of breathing and the quality of the air we breathe. It is so easy for us to take for granted the air that is essential to our lives and the lives of others. Worst of all, it is easy for us to take for granted polluting the air we breathe, as if polluting the air we breathe is just a natural part of life. It isn't.

An Exercise in Spirit-Centered Breathing

Try this: If you live in or near a city, pick a high traffic time, and find a place to walk or sit near the traffic. Focus on your heart (not the organ, the core of your being), the center of your chest, behind your breast bone and between your breasts. This is where our spirit resides. 

Breathe in through your nose, breathe out, and take note of how you feel in your heart. 

Still focusing on your heart, continue breathing in and out through your nose. Take note of what you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. Take note of how you feel in your heart. Suspend forming an opinion about how you feel, just feel how you feel and remember it.

Next, take sometime to go to a highly wooded area during late spring or summer when there are lots of green leaves on the trees. Repeat the exercise you did in the high traffic area. Focus on your heart. Breathe. Take note of all of your sense perceptions and how you feel in your spirit. 

Compare and contrast the high traffic experience with the highly wooded experience. What was similar? What was different? Which feels more life-affirming in your heart?

Spirit-Centered Drinking, Part 4: Effect on Others

What effect does our drinking have on the spirits of others? Does it unnecessarily devalue, diminish, and deny the spirits and lives of others or does it help care for, support, and affirm their spirits and lives?  

Asking ourselves these questions might lead us to see that we can easily take for granted what we drink. We can drink mindless of the effect on others.

Asking these questions can lead us to understand that they are not easy questions to answer. Asking them can also inspire us to wonder and ask more questions.

I find it helpful to be specific. What effect does drinking this bottle of water have on others? My answers to this question differ from the ones I ask about drinking this cup of coffee, this cup of tea, and that shot of scotch.

Such questions can lead to me asking, "Where did this drink come from and how did it get to me?"

If I'm drinking bottled water, I can become aware of where it came from and how it got to me. When I do this I am amazed by the complex industrial matrix with which I connect when I take a sip from the bottle of water I hold in my hand. 

After I become aware of the matrix I'm in,  I can reflect on whether or not I want to remain in it or opt out for something more life-affirming for myself and others. If I choose to opt out, I can then explore my alternatives for the best life-affirming choice available to me at the time and take steps in that direction.

Spirit-Centered Drinking, Part 3: The Spirit of What We Drink

Why do we call alcoholic drinks "spirits"? Perhaps because they are spirited?

In my view, everything we drink is spirited, the question is how? How spirited is it- a lot, a little? How is it spirited in terms of its qualities? Is it mild or strong; sweet, salty, sour, or bitter; cold, cool, warm, or hot; healthy or not; or health-giving or not?

Try this: Before you take a sip of whatever it is you're about to drink, focus on the center of your chest, your heart. Breathe in, breathe out. When you breathe out open and extend your spirit to what you're going to drink. Connect with it, spirit to spirit.

Now take a sip, hold it in your mouth, and from your heart, with your spirit, attend to the spirit of what you're drinking. Do this with each sip.

What do you become aware of? What do you feel? How would you describe the spirit of what you're drinking? How spirited is it? Is it a good spirit for you to drink into yourself?

Spirit-Centered Drinking, Part 2

Spirit-centered drinking is drinking mindful of our own spirit, the spirit of what we drink, and the spirits of others. 

Here is an exercise: Before you drink water, coffee, fruit juice, tea, beer, wine, scotch, or anything else check your spirit. Focus your attention on the center of your chest, breathe in, breathe out. How is your spirit? How does it feel? How animated is your spirit? Is it warm or cold? How would you describe it? After you have a good sense of your spirit, take the next step.

Drink. Take a sip. Hold it in your mouth and taste what you're drinking. Swallow. Notice how it feels flowing down your throat.

Now, attend to your spirit again. Focus again on the center of your chest. Breathe in, breathe out. How is your spirit now? How does it feel? Has it changed? How?

Take another sip and repeat. Hold it in your mouth and taste what you're drinking. Swallow. Feel it flowing down your throat.

Attend to your spirit, the center of your chest. How does it feel now?

Repeat the steps above until you finish your drink.

Spirit-Centered Drinking, Part 1

Since spirit is that which makes us alive and we must drink water to stay alive, drinking water is a spirit-related matter.

Fresh, clean drinking water is the water of life.

Isn't it interesting that we often take for granted something so essential to life as water?

According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, our brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and our lungs are about 83% water. Our skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even our bones are watery: 31%.

Here is a link to a page of facts about the water on which our lives depend:

 http://www.waterbenefitshealth.com/water-pollution-facts.html

How did we get to the point in Western culture of treating the water of life with such little care and respect?

How did we get to this place where we so recklessly pollute the water on which our lives depend  as well as the lives of all other living beings?

Who talked us into giving up our personal responsibility as well as other's responsibility for maintaining the highest quality of the water on which our lives depend?

More importantly, how long are we going to keep polluting the water on which life depends?

At what point will we stop the life-denying practices that pollute our water and threaten all the living?

These are just some of the questions I ask to set the table for talking about spirit-centered drinking of water.

My next few posts will present some practices by which we individually and collectively can make a meaningful difference in how we take care of the water on which we all depend, the water of life. 

Spirit-Centered Eating, Part 3: The Spirits of Others Affected by Our Eating

Everything we kill and eat is the neighbor, child, sibling, and possibly parent of others. What effect does our killing and eating other living beings have on those to whom they are related? Are we mindful of the effect?

Do we take the killing and eating of plants and animals for granted? If so, why? How did we become so thoughtless about killing and eating other living beings?

How might eating habits change by being mindful of the spirits of others connected with what we kill and eat?

Next time you're about to eat something, pause for a moment.  Consider the effect of your eating on the spirits of others affected by the killing of what you're about to put into your mouth.

The Wisdom of Spirit-Centered Eating

Perhaps there is wisdom in us being mindful of our own spirit as we eat. 

Perhaps there is wisdom in being mindful of the spirits of those we kill and eat.

Perhaps we do well to be mindful of relationships affected by the death of what we eat.

Perhaps we do well to treat with deep respect and honor those we kill and eat. On them our lives depend.

Spirit-Centered Eating, Part 2: The Spirit of Our Food

What about the spirit of what we eat? 

When we kill other living beings in order to eat them, their spirits leave at different speeds. For example, an apple doesn't die as soon as we pick it. Its spirit leaves gradually over time. However, the spirit of a freshly killed chicken leaves quickly.

How spirited are the seeds, roots, stems, leaves, vegetables and fruits we eat? How spirited are the fish, birds, and other animals we eat? Generally speaking, fresh, local, in-season, organic, whole foods are the most spirited. The sooner we preserve the plants animals we kill, the more spirit they retain. However, the more processed plants and animals are, the less spirit they retain. 

Try this: eat a meal of fresh, local, in-season vegetables and eat a meal of the same vegetables from a grocery store's canned vegetables aisle. See if you sense a difference in the spiritedness of the two meals. An even easier test is comparing fresh, free-range, organic chicken eggs with cheaper caged, chemically-treated chicken eggs. Can you sense the difference?

Spirit-Centered Eating, Part 1

This is the first of a three-part series on the practice of spirit-centered eating.

Our spirit is that which makes us alive. To stay alive we must eat. To eat we must kill and take the spirit of what we eat. Eating is a spirit-related matter.

One of the practices of thumotic spirituality is spirit-centered eating. It's being mindful of spirit- our own spirit, the spirit of what we eat, and the spirits of others- while we eat.

Our Own Spirit While Eating

What happens to our own spirit while we eat? Is our spirit nourished, uplifted, and strengthened or is it deprived, brought down, and weakened? 

What about how we prepare, serve, and eat the plants and animals we consume? How do these affect our spirit?

What about the circumstances of eating- the place and the others with whom we eat- how do they affect our spirit?

Simply being mindful of our own spirit while we eat can transform our lives.

Part 2 will be about the spirits of the plants and animals we eat.

Why Practice Thumotic Spirituality?

Thumotic spirituality isn't for everyone.

It isn't for those at home in the status quo of the Western industrialized culture- capitalists and their machine-like factory workers building widgets and providing services in compliance with productivity numbers.

It isn't for those at home in the Western monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in which adherents alienate themselves from non-believers as well as the rest of nature.

Neither is it for those who seek an escape from Western industrialized and monotheistic culture by turning to Eastern religious ways and looking inward.

Thumotic spirituality is for those who can no longer deny the denial of life, destruction, depletion, depression, disease, and death in the wake of the so-called "progress" of Western civilization.

It's for those seeking a life-affirming alternative within Western civilization. 

It's for those who value life, all of life, and want to engage in rather than escape from it. 

It's for those courageous enough to be responsible for their own life in relation with others, blaze their own path out of the Western status quo, and shift the momentum of Western civilization, one person, one step, at a time.

How to be Mindful of the Spirits of Others

The first fundamental exercise is practicing being mindful of our own spirit. The skill we develop from practicing it helps us with the second fundamental exercise: being mindful of the spirits of others.

Purpose

The purpose of this fundamental exercise is to simply connect with others, spirit-to-spirit, with complete openness, full acceptance, and kind curiosity. It's to turn our attention to the spirits of others and calmly hold it there with no expectations of outcomes.

Benefits

This exercise affirms, heals, and strengthens our own spirit, the spirits of others, and our relationships. These benefits increase as we do this exercise on a regular basis over time.

Resources

As with the first fundamental exercise, we need nothing special to do this exercise. We do not have to do this exercise at a predetermined time. We can do it anytime we choose. We do not have to go to or create a special place. We can do this exercise anywhere we choose. We do not have to learn to sit a special way or do anything out of the ordinary with our legs, hands, or posture. Any posture is fine. There is nothing to buy- no books, special clothing, jewelry, images, or paraphernalia. We already have everything we need to do this exercise.

What to Do

As with the first exercise, remember, in thumotic spirituality we understand spirit in terms of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos. Our thumos, our spirit, is quasi-physical. It is located in the center of our chest, behind our breast bone and between our breasts. We often call it our heart. 

Start by focussing your attention there, in your heart. That's where your spirit resides. Become aware of your own spirit before connecting spirit-to-spirit with another.

Smile and breathe into your heart. When you breathe out smile and imagine, think about, and feel your heart opening and your spirit reaching out to the one with whom you want to connect.

When you breathe in let your spirit stay connected with the other and attend to the connection of your two spirits. Let information from the other flow in. If the other chooses not to connect, that's okay. This is not about forcing unwelcome connections.

When you do connect, form no opinions, just be together, connected, spirit-to-spirit. Take note of but let thoughts, mental images, physical sensations, and emotions come, stay awhile and go. 

Continue for as long as feels right.

Some Spirit-to-Spirit Connections to Play With

Now that you know how  to connect spirit-to-spirit with others, here are some suggestions for things to try. 

Entertain the idea that everything that moves is spirited and alive. Physicists have been reporting for quite some time that everything is in constant motion. Everything is moving. Take that one more step: everything is spirited, alive.

Try connecting spirit-to-spirit with others besides humans. If you have pets, try connecting with them. Try connecting with plants in your home and outside. Try connecting with trees. Hugging is optional.

Find an interesting rock or gem stone and connect with it. Be open to whatever you experience. It's okay if you experience nothing interesting at all.

Experiment with connecting with a stream, creek, river, waterfall, lake, or ocean.

Try connecting with the wind you feel on your face and in your hair.

Mountains, valleys and other land forms can also be interesting to connect with.

Finally, try to connect with Sun and Moon. 

What do you experience? How do they feel to you? How does it feel to connect spirit-to-spirit? What did you learn? 

Add practicing this fundamental exercise to your day, develop you skill, and see where it takes you.

In upcoming posts, I'll share additional practices to try.