Earthquakes, flooding, fires, and other ways that Nature moves and clears energy have been happening more frequently and on larger scales.

When you send blessings out to the people, animals, and areas of Earth that are in need, you do a great service and it makes a difference.

Blessings are energy and light.

I invite you to take a moment to center in, breathe, and bathe yourself in a sense of peace and light.

Then send healing blessings out to the many places that need it right now:

Japan
New Zealand
Africa
The Middle East
and all others who are suffering.

May all beings be happy and in good health.
May all who need help receive it.
May our beautiful planet find stability and peace.
May all of Nature be in harmony.
May we choose to live together in love, joy and peace.

This video is a sweet healing meditation for Japan, which is about 5 minutes long:

Om Shri Gaia Ma, Purnatva Gaia Ma

The oil spill is a microcosm, showing how detrimental some of our human practices can be, and awakening a massive motivation for change. Using intention and visualization, you can send powerful light to the oceans and the earth – this has been done in many ways and makes a great deal of difference.

This meditation was ‘given’ to me by a great Earth Healer; a giant Smokey Quartz crystal. Crystals contain great wisdom, and this particular crystal is a very powerful healer with depth and far reaching insight.

I asked it to give me something to offer as healing for the Gulf Oil Spill that I could share with you, and yesterday – at dawn on Summer Solstice – I put it on video.

Below the video is the transcript of the meditation I was given.

Please visit my mom’s blog if you’d like a local view on how the Gulf oil spill is affecting New Orleans and Louisiana. You may also enjoy her very informative and engaging book, Why People Live in New Orleans. (I’m on the cover of the book, sitting in a tree, playing guitar.)

Gulf Oil Spill Earth Healing Meditation

Imagine clear waters and vibrant life.

Dolphins swimming joyfully in the pristine flowing ocean.

Picture the oil coming together into little black crystals that fall to the ocean floor and lay shimmering in their rainbow colors.

See the ocean life happy and grateful for the light you are sending.

Light up your heart, pure and bright. Feel your whole being filled with light.

Create a vast light of healing to surround and penetrate the oceans, the earth’s crust, the veins of oil, and deep down into the earth’s core.

Breathe this light more vibrant and lasting. Stay with that image for a little while.

Anchor this healing light and intention with powerful words of peace and healing.

Om Shanti Shakti Ma

Om Shanti Shakti Ma

Om Shanti Shakti Ma

Write these words, and the word LOVE, and the word JOY, into your light workings on the ocean ripples of light.

Let your healing be a great gift to your own heart.

Know that your contribution makes a great deal of difference.

Om Shanti Shakti Ma.

• Please leave a comment below to share your experience with this meditation.

Light of Healing in the Gulf of Mexico

I received this message in my email today. I’m not sure where it originates, but I think it’s worth posting. See if you resonate with this message and meditation.

If you meditate on the vision and energy of a Net of Light, as described below, even for a few minutes each day, you will contribute significantly to the healing that is so needed right now.

Though the Grandmothers speak here in an urgent way, there is much hope.

Stay in the light of your heart as you do this work. This light is limitless, boundless, and capable of healing ANYTHING.

Message from the Grandmothers.

Grandmothers Message: You Are Desperately Needed

Today the Grandmothers woke me with this message and asked me to send it out. Please forward it on so we reach as many people as possible.

“We ask you to cast, anchor, and hold the Net of Light steady for the Gulf of Mexico,” the Grandmothers said. “This crisis is affecting the entire world, and humanity is asleep. Wake up!” they cried. “Animals are dying, plants are dying, and your Mother is writhing in agony. If you hold the Net of Light steady at this time you will help stave off further catastrophe.

“You have been lulled into a false sleep,” they said, “told that others (B.P.) will take care of this problem. This is not so,” they said. “And this is not the time for you to fall into oblivion. Determine now to stay awake, and once you have made that commitment, think of, cast, and hold the Net of Light.

Hold it deep and hold it wide. Amplify its reach to penetrate the waters of the Gulf and dive deep beneath the crust of Mother Earth. Anchor it at the earth’s core and as you hold it there, ask it to unify with the mineral kingdom of this planet. It will do this and will harmonize with all the solid and liquid mineral states on earth-including oil and gas.

The Net of Light will call these minerals back into harmony. Men have wreaked havoc. They have abused the kingdoms of life on earth for many years, but this time their destruction has reached crisis proportions.

“Whatever human beings have damaged, human beings must correct,” the Grandmothers said. “This is the law. We repeat: This is the law. You cannot sit back and ask God to fix the mess humanity has created. Each of you must throw your shoulders to the wheel and work. We are asking for your help. Several years ago we gave you the Net of Light so you would be able to help the earth at times like this. Step forward now. This is the Net of Light that will hold the earth during the times of change that are upon you,” they said.

“First move into your heart and call on us. We will meet you there. The Net of Light is lit by the jewel of your heart,” they said, “so move into this lighted place within you and open to the Net of which you are a part. Bask in its calming presence. It holds you at the same time that you hold it.

“Now think of magnifying your union with us. We, the Great Council of the Grandmothers, are with you now, and all those who work with the Net of Light are also with you. There are thousands, even millions now connected in light,” they said. “Along with this union, call forth the power of the sacred places on earth. These will amplify the potency of our joint effort. Then call on the sacred beings that have come to prevent the catastrophe that threatens to overwhelm your planet. We will work together,” they said, nodding slowly.

“Think of, cast and magnify the presence of the Net of Light in the Gulf of Mexico. See, imagine or think of it holding the waters, holding the land, the plants, the sea life, and the people. Holding them all!” they said. “The Net of Light is holding them steady; it is returning them to balance. Let the love within your lighted heart keep pouring into the Net of Light and hold, hold, hold.

Calmly and reverently watch as the light from your heart flows along the strands of the Net. It will follow your command and continuously move forth. As soon as you think of it, it will happen. We ask you to practice this for only a few minutes at a time, but to repeat it throughout the day and night.

“We promise that this work with the Net of Light will do untold good,” the Grandmothers said. “We are calling you to service now. You are needed. Do not miss this opportunity. We thank you and bless you.”

Addition from Dr. Emoto (Found this on Facebook):

Let us all suspend our hatred and anger for the moment and let the intention for healing arise. This is what is most needed at this moment.

Dr. Masaru Emoto’s research reveals that water physically responds to emotions and communications. He sends this prayer.

• Please feel free to add a comment with any suggestions or contributions you have. Thank you!

Because it is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and doesn’t have the kind of infrastructure necessary to deal with what has happened, monetary donations are very needed.

However, money isn’t the only thing you can send them. Blessings, prayers, and healing light are incredibly powerful and can do so much to shift the energy of that part of the earth into harmony.

Below this short video is a simple meditation you can do to shine light and love into the heart of Haiti.

Meditation for Haiti

Sit beautifully and be centered in yourself.

Turn to the healing pulsation of your breath.

Ask the limitless light within your heart to expand and illumine your entire being.

Now, connect down into the core of the earth, sending a grounding cord down from your root chakra.

See a beautiful ball of luminous light in the heart of the earth and bring it back up your grounding cord into your own core, and up through the crown of your head into the stars.

Feel yourself grow even more bright and know that you are fully centered in yourself.

Now, in your mind’s eye and in your heart, imagine Haiti totally cocooned in this beautiful light.

Send radiant peace, healing, and fathomless love to the part of the earth that is Haiti.

Send courage, peace, love, and healing, to all the people who live in Haiti, and to all those who are contributing to their recovery.

May all those who transitioned from this world into the next be at peace and be blessed on the next part of their journey.

May the earth be healed and be in harmony.

May Haiti be fully illuminated with the light and love of healing.

And so it is.

Thank you for your focus and your continued intent that Haiti be healed.

• You are invited to post a comment below if you’d like to share your experience with this meditation.

Are things that bad?

Well, on one hand, yes. There are wars being fought, economies collapsing, governments totally dropping the ball, morally bankrupt corporations that have way too much power, and a very real need to nurture our environment.

On the other hand, there are more people at this time than ever before who are raising their awareness of how we’re all interconnected, and how important it is to act in accordance.

We’ve reached critical mass of positive people; people who are choosing to live in ways that reduce their harm to the earth and others. In fact, we’ve surpassed critical mass. We’re the new wave of global, multi-generational citizens who have decided it is time for change.

“So is it possible to be happy in these chaotic times?” Yes. Definitely.

But being happy doesn’t mean ignoring what’s going on. On the contrary, actually DOING something about some of the problems the world is facing is an important step to happiness. Because when you’re actively involved in making things better, you can rest easy knowing you’re making a difference, even if it’s in seemingly small ways…

Step One – Remember that we’re all connected. What’s more, the fathomless energy that created this complex phenomenon we call life is intrinsically good. At our very essence, we’re all goodness. It’s just that some people have forgotten this fundamental truth. It’s okay. They’ll eventually remember again.

Step Two – Increase your awareness. Do this on many levels. Meditation is a key part to happiness and peace of mind. It helps you stay in your center even when you encounter things that are disturbing. Also, increasing awareness means knowing what’s going on in the world, both the amazing changes that are reshaping things for the better, and the devastating events that are pulling in the opposite direction.

Step Three – Do something. Sometimes the appropriate thing to do is to simply get on your yoga mat or sit for meditation. You can breathe peace into existance in this way – it’s very powerful and effective. Yet there is also a time for making noise, spreading the word, and actively participating in change.

The following video contains very important information about women’s rights in Afghanistan. It’s really behind the times there. Truly, something needs to be done about this, and one of the most critical things is for people to KNOW about it. If there isn’t awareness it can simply be ignored, and that isn’t acceptable.

However, before you watch the video, center in with this Mini-Meditation:

Sit beautifully, with your pelvis grounded and heart lifted.

Take a deep breath, soften your face, and come into your heart.

With your awareness on your breath, remember this truth:

We are all One. And at our essence we are all good.

And, no matter what, everything will be okay.

Take another deep breath, and enter the sanctuary of your heart where peace lives.

Stay there for a moment.

Now, create a bubble of light around yourself. Nothing can harm you, and anything you see that is sad or disturbing can not shake you. Rather than anger or sadness, feel a soft empathy, and a desire to help. You are completely anchored in light.

Listen to the voices of these women. They have a story that needs to be heard by the masses.

You want to do something to help them, don’t you?

(By the way, if you came out of your center watching the video, just do the mini-meditation again. One of the most powerful ways to shift the world into harmony is to stay steady in your own loving light.)

Here’s what you can do:

1. Send your friends a link to this article so they can not only watch the video, but know how to keep themselves in a place of equanimity at the same time. Send this to all the women in your life, and even to the men. Tweet it, Facebook it, Email it, and otherwise help people know that this is going on.
2. Get the film, RETHINK Afghanistan, and arm yourself with the power of information.
3. Watch the RETHINK Afghanistan documentary with others, and watch this education motivate people. This movement will spread like wildfire with you behind it.
4. Dedicate your meditation or yoga practice to this cause. While you stay in your center, you can also send out super focused energy to fuel the needed change so that these women and women around the world have basic rights and can live in dignity.
5. Be GRATEFUL for what you have. If you’re a woman, give thanks for the blessings that you have. If you’re a man, give thanks for the women in your life and your ability to support them with your respect and kindness.
6. Share your thoughts below by posting a comment if you feel moved to do so.

There are even soccer games being played in the most unlikely places – a mall in Tokyo, the desert in Africa – all in celebration of peace.

Ahimsa, non-violence, is the first guideline of yoga. It reminds us that, since we are all interconnected, harm to one is harm to all.

One of the most important steps in global peace is finding peace with yourself. Coming into a place of self acceptance and practicing treating yourself with kindness can sometimes be a challenge, but it is one of the best possible choices you can make.

By being at peace within yourself you naturally influence a peaceful environment around you. In addition, the vibration of peace that you anchor within supports the matrix of peace around the globe. Even if you do nothing else, this alone is a worthy contribution to world peace.

Mini-Meditation:

Sit beautifully.

Take a breath and settle into your pelvis.

Expand from the inside and let your breath lift your heart.

Invite these two words to resonate within:

Om Shanti

Om Shanti

Om Shanti

Sit within the vibration of peace, and simply breathe.

Make peace with yourself, and then see the whole world blanketed in the light of peace.

Stay for as long as you’d like  (at least a full minute or so…)

May all beings be happy

May all beings be free from suffering

May all beings live lives of joy, love, and peace.

To download a free MP3 of this meditation, right click and save this link:
Meditation For World Peace

Remember to sit back, take your hands off the computer, and breathe your way through this meditation.

Meditation for Global Peace

Sit comfortably with your spine beautifully balanced and close your eyes.

Take a breath and settle down into your hips and legs.

Feel the earth beneath you.

Let your inhale breathe you taller.

Feel your heart rise, and gently direct your shoulders back so your heart is revealed in all its beauty.

Open the front of your throat slightly so you feel the crown of your head floating above your tail bone.

From the inside, become spacious.

Expand your awareness past your physical boundaries.

Feel your breath naturally grow deeper and more free with this spaciousness.

Gather all of your focus into this moment right now.

Feel yourself be breathed.

Now focus your awareness within your own heart.

There is a light so bright within you, so resplendent, that it has never known darkness.

Connect with that pulsating, glowing light.

It is the light of pure consciousness.

As you breathe, this light grows.

With each inhale it expands.

With each exhale, soften and feel your self sparkle.

With your next breath, feel the light effortlessly penetrate past your skin.

See yourself completely filled and surrounded with light.

Take a breath to feel this in every cell of your body.

Now, from that boundless source of deep peace and love in your heart,

From the energy that is this light,

Extend a pillar of light from your heart into the core of the earth.

Watch this beam of light connect your heart and the heart of the earth.

The beam of light anchors itself in the center of the planet, then returns back to the center of your own heart.

Take a breath to feel your connection with the nurturing, ever giving planet which we call home.

Now, bring your focus back to your heart.

From the pure, powerful, ever peaceful source of light within

Expand your light out around you to fill the room

Saturate every nook and cranny of the space you are in with light.

Now, expand this limitless light out beyond your immediate space.

See it extend through your neighborhood, quickly covering ground until the entire country is covered in a blanket of light.

See the boundaries of nations dissolve in this light.

As you take your next breath watch the light wrap around the entire earth.

The whole planet is cradled in the light of peace.

You can even see particular places of instability like Afghanistan, the middle east, Africa, Mexico, and all others held in the healing power of this light.

Feel this breath help peace settle in these places.

Come back into your heart with your focus, still seeing the world held in light, and reconnect your awareness with the center of the earth.

See every point of light on the surface of the earth now connect with the pulsing loving light at the heart of the earth.

You are sitting on a planet that is totally saturated and surrounded with light.

Feel the profound peace that is this light.

Now, with your next inhale, draw on that fathomless source within

Exhale and feel your self pulsate with this power.

Staying centered in your heart, see the planet in your mind’s eye as if you were witnessing it from space.

Keep this image in your mind and yet feel yourself sitting on the earth, totally aware of the light that connects the entire world.

With an inhale extend light both down into the heart of the earth and up thru the crown of your head

With your exhale see the entire planet shine light out from the heart into all points of space.

Feel the stars shining into you as you touch them with light.

Fly through the galaxy and out into the universe as the light of the earth sparkles like a galactic diamond.

Now, come back into the sweet peace of your own heart.

Bask in your breath.

Say a prayer for peace now.

May all beings be happy.

May all beings be free from suffering.

May all beings choose to embody love, joy, and peace.

May this planet be blessed with the healing light of pure love and profound peace.

World peace is the ultimate dream.

Here’s the thing – we have a chance to make this dream a reality! When you read this article in its entirety you will understand how.

Karma yoga is the practice of yoga as service. It’s yoga in action.

Now, this can happen in any number of ways. It can be as huge as dedicating your life completely to selfless service like Mother Theresa, or it can be as simple as making people smile.

The key to karma yoga and seva (selfless service) is living in awareness and doing what you can to make things better. That doesn’t sound so hard does it?

What’s important is that it’s relevant and realistic. Relevant, meaning it’s something you care about. You are more likely to be more effective and enjoy serving when it’s something that impacts your life. Realistic, in that you’re doing what you can, from the heart, without over extending or depleting yourself.

Karma yoga is something that should enhance your life and your own energy, because doing good is hugely rewarding.

Yet the action itself is enough – when you start looking for compensation or expecting something in return for your service, the practice of serving is not pure. Practice being able to perform an action without being attached to the results. This is a challenge, yet it is enormously freeing.

You can pick any cause; take world peace for example. We all have to pitch in to make the dream a reality. And it CAN happen. It is happening.

But there’s also a lot of turmoil that isn’t helping the whole world peace movement – or maybe it is. It’s definitely raising awareness.

Raising awareness alone is something you can do that doesn’t take a lot of time, effort, or resources. By learning about what’s going on you can share your thoughts with others. Often you’ll be so impassioned about what you learn that you’ll hit the ground running to spread the word and make change in whatever way is most possible for you.

Try this for motivation: Watch this 2 minute trailer for a new documentary. Go on, I’ll wait…

What do you feel? Empathy perhaps? You might feel sad or angry – if this happens then let those emotions soften instead into something that feels better and is more helpful such as determination.

The strongest feeling I get from watching that video is an overwhelming sense of motivation to DO something. Let’s make peace happen. Let’s call on all our resources to make change.

We CAN create world peace.

How, you might ask, do we tackle something this big? One person at a time.

Here’s what you can do:

Tell people about it: Post this link on Facebook, Twitter, or send emails out to spread the word.

Support the movement and learn more: Get the documentary RETHINK Afghanistan and watch it with your friends.

Call, write, or otherwise contact your government officials. Tell them what you think about the dangers of the war in Afghanistan and kindly ask them what they’re going to do about it.

Get peaceful: When you embody peace, you naturally influence people around you and the matrix of peace on the entire planet grows stronger. Here’s a free meditation for global peace.

This may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to your karma yoga. Remember, whatever you decide to do, let it naturally arise from your desire to make this world a better place. Never doubt the impact of any action you make from the heart.

World peace is not a myth, it is absolutely attainable.

With each person who raises their awareness, with each simple act of kindness, with each voice that says “this has to change, and it changes NOW”, we are getting closer.

What will you do for world peace?

(comment below and let us know)