Backup-Drive for Earth’s Love

‘The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” – Kahlil Gibran

DreamBlogger – Ken Sheetz

Dr. Sarah Larsen in Nashville on Valentine's Day

The day before Valentine’s Day Dr. Sarah Larsen was homesick for her kids and husband back in LA.  And who could blame her?  Since her amazing 10.10.10 LA event she had been on the road for DreamShield almost more than she had been home.

The angels had demanded much of her and she’d gladly answered the call.  Her love and wisdom have benefited this grouchy reluctant light worker greatly, and though her patience with me for all the times of wanted to quit had dimmed a bit, it still shone brightly in her imploring eyes.

So I checked with the airline to see if we could cut our trip a few days short and get Sarah home in time for Valentine’s Day.  Alas for the homesick doctor, airfares were to costly to make the change.   In better times I would have rewarded such a tireless worker with tickets but spirit work does not pay much in earthly terms and so the doctor would have to spend Valentine’s in Nashville.  Sarah made the best of it getting in touch with old friends while I caught up on my blogging about the trip.

On the eve before Valentine’s Day as I lay down on Rachel and Robert’s day bed I thought about an article I’d read on the plane from LA about the pole shift in Mayan predictions about 2012.  Some of these so-called experts on the human mind and 2012 speculate humanity will lose its entire memory due to this fact our thoughts are stored as electromagnetic energy.

I thought about Sarah losing memory of the love of her husband Greg and her kids Tye-Tye and Jamsine and of me and my family and friends in such a drastic pole shift.  Yep.  It was another one of those negative visualization fear things, the ungentle 2012 stuff we undo in DreamShield.

So despite my total exhaustion from the Medicine Wheel planetary addiction meditation that had brought us here, I asked the angels what we could do to protect the memory of everyone’s love for one another on our little blue world.

In a flash of divine inspiration I knew all the empty space left inside me that I was feeling from Lee McCormick’s Spirit Recovery ranch addiction meditation had made me a storage receiver, a vessel, to hold a back up copy all of earth’s love.  “Me?  Holder of earth’s love?” I grouched to myself or whatever angels might be listening.

I wrapped myself in blankets like a robe and sat myself up on the edge of the day bed.  I looked up at the eye shaped transom over Robert and Rachel’s front door.  The transom became a bright computer screen filled with data.  A beam of data shot from the transom as the memories of love of all earth’s billions flooded into my mind.  I’d had “downloads” – a light worker term that I think sounds too sc-fi –before, but nothing on this scale.  This was the mother of all downloads.

Now the next wave of love data for all living creatures, big and small, flooded into me.  I’d not expected to be this Noah’s Ark of love.  But I accepted it’s beauty with an amazed smile.  Next came the love of the trees for the sky.  Last even our bacteria’s love flooded me.  “Bacteria feel love?  Come on.” I griped to the angels who simply giggled at the sight of this exhausted middle-aged businessman turned reluctant light worker wrapped in a blanket like an Indian chief.

Yep, I feel many times I was picked for this work because it’s some kind of cosmic reality show.  I must be a hoot in the Orion’s belt system.

Next morning, Valentine’s Day, Sarah asked me how I’d slept.  “Not much.” I said, adding like this was all her fault somehow, ” I was a receiver of a back up copy of all the love of the earth all night.  Today sometime I’ve been told broadcast this love into the back up copy of the Parthenon in downtown Nashville.”

Sarah Larsen simply smiled and said, “Cool.  I’m going to call Greg and wish him a Happy Valentine’s Day.”  And with an attitude like this sort of thing happens every day Sarah headed off to another room to call Greg.

Later that amazing Valentine’s Day where I felt my head might explode it was so full of love, I in fact made the trip to the Parthenon on my own while Sarah went to an exhibit Greg’s art.  Years earlier the two met and fell in love here in Nashville before marrying and moving to LA.

Rachel and Sarah dropped me off promising to pick me up at 5:30 PM as my cell phone was out of juice.  I walked around the Parthenon, an exact copy of the original in Greece built in 1897, perfect for a back copy holder of earth’s love, walked about it three times I was told by the angels, I felt like some kind of lonely odd ball.  But I did my planetary meditation job and the couples perched on the steps kissed as the red lights of Valentine’s Day came up.

This made me all the more lonely.  I’ve not been in a conventional relationship in years.  Why pick a brokenhearted divorced man as the holder of earth’s love I wonder as I made the video you see below?  I suppose my empty heart left more space for the angels to make me a vessel of all earth’s love.

I asked as a reward for this crazy work — hey it never hurts to ask –as I circled the Parthenon, completing this ritual of love transmission to the statue of Athena within the structure, that one day through this work I can find a great mate who can put up with the paradox of my pessimistic yet optimistic nature.

So, dear reader, page mark this blog.  And if the the North and South pole’s shift come 2012, as many so-called experts predict, and you wake up without a memory of who you love, get thee to Nashville and the Parthenon.  The back-up memory of all you love awaits there in the heart of the statute of the goddess Athena.

What’s cool is the angels tell me they update the memories each night into Athena.  Angels are so clever.  The little stinkers.

PS.  In typical light worker fashion Sarah was late picking me up.  I was not dressed warm enough as the sun set over the Parthenon and I sat there shivering in the cold like some homeless nut case for over 20 minutes past the agreed to 5:30 pickup time.  I found myself wishing to be back working with my old Chicago real estate buddies, by whom you could set your watch, while making millions as I had in the past when I built skyscrapers instead of this silly nonsense.

Don’t worry.  I got over it when I saw Greg and the kids welcome Sarah home from Nashville at LAX with such love.  Yep.  I’m still on the job of a gentle 2012.  Here’s Sarah daughter Jasmine “Jazzy” singing along with her dad at an Agape concert.  Who wouldn’t be homesick in Nashville, on Valetine’s Day with love like this waiting for them back in LA?

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Six Simple Steps to keep your Mind Sharp!

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Dream Blogger – Dr. Sarah Larsen

Dr. Larsen is one of the founders of DreamShield: Planetary Meditations for a Gentle 2012

If you meditate your brain changes so you can perform better.

Research using neuro-imaging technology has shown that meditation techniques can promote significant changes in brain areas associated with concentration. *

In the past,  it was always assumed that extensive training was required to achieve this effect. So for those who would like to boost your cognitive abilities, without the monk-like discipline, time commitment, and cost; this information is so timely!!

Psychologists studying the effects of a meditation technique known as “mindfulness ” found that meditation-trained participants showed a significant improvement in their critical cognitive skills (and performed significantly higher in cognitive tests than a control group) after only four days of training for only 20 minutes each day. They got smarter and more efficient!!

“In the behavioral test results, what we are seeing is something that is somewhat comparable to results that have been documented after far more extensive training,” said Fadel Zeidan, a post-doctoral researcher at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and a former doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where the research was conducted.

“Simply stated, the profound improvements that we found after just 4 days of meditation training– are really surprising,” Zeidan noted. “It goes to show that the mind is, in fact, easily changeable and highly influenced, especially by meditation.”

The meditation training involved in the study was an abbreviated “mindfulness” training regime modeled on basic “Shamatha skills” from a Buddhist meditation tradition, conducted by a trained facilitator.

“The simple process of focusing on the breath in a relaxed manner, in a way that teaches you to regulate your emotions by raising one’s awareness of mental processes as they’re happening is like working out a bicep, but you are doing it to your brain. Mindfulness meditation teaches you to release sensory events that would easily distract, whether it is your own thoughts or an external noise, in an emotion-regulating fashion. This can lead to better, more efficient performance on the intended task.”

“This kind of training seems to prepare the mind for activity, but it’s not necessarily permanent,” Zeidan cautions. “This doesn’t mean that you meditate for four days and you’re done – you need to keep practicing.”

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One of the best known and most respected Zen masters,  Thich Nhat Hanh, has been my teacher of Mindfulness!

I teach a process that allows you to get more done based on Mindfulness Teachings.
Basic Model:  Six Simple Steps to keep your Mind Sharp!

Doing this allows you to be more effective and bring your complete attention to a project before you begin it! (total time 1-3 minutes)
1. allow your body to completely  relax
2. close your eyes
3. simply focus on the flow of your breath occurring at the tip of their nose.
4. If a random thought arise,  notice and acknowledge the thought and simply let ‘it’ go by bringing the attention back to the sensations of the breath.”
5.Open your eyes and begin the project.  (Work,  working out, and just about anything!)
6. Notice the cooler air coming in each breath and warmed air leaving periodically through the project!
Subsequent training builds on this basic model. You can learn  physical awareness, focus, and mindfulness with regard to distraction.
Set aside 20 minutes every day for a quiet Mind Meditation.

*This study appears in the April 2 issue of Consciousness and Cognition. Zeidan’s co-authors are Susan K. Johnson, Zhanna David and Paula Goolkasian from the Department of Psychology at UNC Charlotte, and Bruce J. Diamond from William Patterson University. The research was also part of Zeidan’s doctoral dissertation. The research was presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s annual meeting in Montreal.

“Findings like these suggest that meditation’s benefits may not require extensive training to be realized, and that meditation’s first benefits may be associated with increasing the ability to sustain attention,” Zeidan said.

“Further study is warranted,” he stressed, noting that brain imaging studies would be helpful in confirming the brain changes that the behavioral tests seem to indicate, “but this seems to be strong evidence for the idea that we may be able to modify our own minds to improve our cognitive processing – most importantly in the ability to sustain attention and vigilance – within a week’s time.”

Learn more about Dr. Sarah Larsen at www.drsarahlarsen.com

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