Make peace with all the women you once were.
Lay flowers at their feet. Offer them incense and honey and forgiveness.
Honor them and give them your silence. Listen. Bless them.
Let them be, for they are the bones of the temple you sit in now. ~ 💜🤎💜 (by Emory Hall)
In her own words;
Judi Dench
“Don’t prioritise your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humor though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritise your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritise the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better..
Many messages coming in on this topic .. I think many are lighting their load and releasing .. in mass that’s going to lift our planet in our ascending .. prayers for each soul who’s holding on to that which does not serve them .
Thy Will be done … it’s not easy but necessary to surrender to your best and highest power .
#YouGotThis 👁️
#AskAndItIsGiven🙏🏼
Touch and Tenderness are so vital.. When our sons were small, was the only time, I got hugged , on a regular basic
The Importance of Being Held~~
The average length of a hug between two people is 3 seconds. But the researchers have discovered something fantastic. When a hug lasts 20 seconds, there is a therapeutic effect on the body and mind. The reason is that a sincere embrace produces a hormone called “oxytocin”, also known as the love hormone. This substance has many benefits in our physical and mental health, helps us, among other things, to relax, to feel safe and calm our fears and anxiety. This wonderful tranquilizer is offered free of charge every time we have a person in our arms, who cradled a child, who cherish a dog or a cat, that we are dancing with our partner, the closer we get to someone or simply hold the Shoulders of a friend.
A famous quote by psychotherapist Virginia Satir goes, “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” Whether those exact numbers have been scientifically proven remains to be seen, but there is a great deal of scientific evidence related to the importance of hugs and physical contact. Here are some reasons why we should hug::
Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter that acts on the limbic system, the brain’s emotional centre, promoting feelings of contentment, reducing anxiety and stress, and even making mammals monogamous. It is the hormone responsible for us all being here today. You see this little gem is released during childbirth, making our mothers forget about all of the excruciating pain they endured expelling us from their bodies and making them want to still love and spend time with us. New research from the University of California suggests that it has a similarly civilising effect on human males, making them more affectionate and better at forming relationships and social bonding. And it dramatically increased the libido and sexual performance of test subjects. When we hug someone, oxytocin is released into our bodies by our pituitary gland, lowering both our heart rates and our cortisol levels. Cortisol is the hormone responsible for stress, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
Connections are fostered when people take the time to appreciate and acknowledge one another. A hug is one of the easiest ways to show appreciation and acknowledgement of another person. The world is a busy, hustle-bustle place and we’re constantly rushing to the next task. By slowing down and taking a moment to offer sincere hugs throughout the day, we’re benefiting ourselves, others, and cultivating better patience within ourselves.
Affection also has a direct response on the reduction of stress which prevents many diseases. The Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine says it has carried out more than 100 studies into touch and found evidence of significant effects, including faster growth in premature babies, reduced pain, decreased autoimmune disease symptoms, lowered glucose levels in children with diabetes, and improved immune systems in people with cancer.
Hugs strengthen the immune system. The gentle pressure on the sternum and the emotional charge this creates activates the Solar Plexus Chakra. This stimulates the thymus gland, which regulates and balances the body’s production of white blood cells, which keep you healthy and disease free.
Almost 70 percent of communication is nonverbal. The interpretation of body language can be based on a single gesture and hugging is an excellent method of expressing yourself nonverbally to another human being or animal. Not only can they feel the love and care in your embrace, but they can actually be receptive enough to pay it forward to others based on your initiative alone.
Hugging boosts self-esteem, especially in children. The tactile sense is all-important in infants. A baby recognizes its parents initially by touch. From the time we’re born our family’s touch shows us that we’re loved and special. The associations of self-worth and tactile sensations from our early years are still imbedded in our nervous system as adults. The cuddles we received from our Mom and Dad while growing up remain imprinted at a cellular level, and hugs remind us at a somatic level of that. Hugs, therefore, connect us to our ability to self love.
Everything everyone does involves protecting and triggering dopamine flow. Low dopamine levels play a role in the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson’s as well as mood disorders such as depression. Dopamine is responsible for giving us that feel-good feeling, and it’s also responsible for motivation! Hugs stimulate brains to release dopamine, the pleasure hormone. Dopamine sensors are the areas that many stimulating drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine target. The presence of a certain kinds of dopamine receptors are also associated with sensation-seeking.
Reaching out and hugging releases endorphins and serotonin into the blood vessels and the released endorphins and serotonin cause pleasure and negate pain and sadness and decrease the chances of getting heart problems, helps fight excess weight and prolongs life. Even the cuddling of pets has a soothing effect that reduces the stress levels. Hugging for an extended time lifts one’s serotonin levels, elevating mood and creating happiness.
Hugs balance out the nervous system. The skin contains a network of tiny, egg-shaped pressure centres called Pacinian corpuscles that can sense touch and which are in contact with the brain through the vagus nerve. The galvanic skin response of someone receiving and giving a hug shows a change in skin conductance. The effect in moisture and electricity in the skin suggests a more balanced state in the nervous system – parasympathetic.
Embrace, embrace with your heart.~~
art: Dorina Costras
Detachment was a horrible failure , attachment can get very distorted . It’s time to address exactly what the individual child needs and not fail the needs of foundation.
Do you see me ?
Do you hear me ?
Do I matter ?
Discomfort with intimacy seems to be on the rise—and no one’s quite sure why.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/04/insecure-attachment-style-intimacy-decline-isolation/673867/
This is a therapy begun thousand’s of years ago, for stress relief , I believe in Japan.
I remember this from childhood , and knew no fear , being in a group of children 4 or more..Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to do more that discuss this ancient art with others hoping a business could result as more folks become aware .
It goes with my earlier post today on natures healing of body , soul and mind .
The Science that speaks to the communication of trees, reminds me of my childhood. I’ve always loved trees .
This is so true , the ocean attracts for its sedative , antidepressant effects , and the forest attracts for the peace and challenges here on my mountain. Life expectancy for rural women is longer.
The disruption of these therapeutic environments has not deterred me from making my home here and even after being warned I’d be run off , I stayed .
The blow back to each and every individual who presented my challenges , is happening or has happening .
I surrendered all these grievances to Divine long ago, who allows me survival.. onward to thrive .
Patric Plesa’s ‘ethical ecology’ urges us to rethink therapeutic environments, bridging mental health with environmental ethics.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/nature-as-partner-not-resource-a-call-for-ethical-treatment-of-therapeutic-environments/
‘’The festival of Lammas (Loaf Mass, the feast of bread) falls on the wheel of the year halfway between Litha, the Summer Solstice and Mabon, the Autumn Equinox. The calendared date for the festival is August 1st or 2nd. This is the first harvest festival of the year. At this festival we experience maturity, the joy of community, and we celebrate collaboration and union. It is a pause, a time to congratulate and express gratitude to our body, our family and friends, partners, community, and the earth. It reminds us of interdependence, giving and receiving, and the need to support and be harmonious.
We are able to slow down into flow as preparation for the winter months complete, the food is gathered in, and the element of water enters into our energy field. Our connection to Goddess and our interdependence on her body for our life is at its peak. Goddess has conceived, gestated, and birthed life. Now she will
regenerate. It is time for her and us to journey inward again. Motherhood and nurturance are celebrated fully at this festival as the Crone, the dark, calls us more insistently. The spring and summer are exhausted. We have completed the outer action. At Lammas we pause, say thank you and release, let go. Like the earth, we are ready to rest, integrate and renew.’’
– Kay Louise Aldred, ‘Mentorship with Goddess: Growing Sacred Womanhood’ – Girl God Books
Art by Holly Sierra
Paulie’s Park, this late afternoon.. Sun was setting, grey sky’s behind me, and as I left this picture begged to be taken.
The Mimosa tree , far right, lower in her magnificence, reminders of Granny Minnie Zola’s from yard in Salem, Va. They grew proliferating, and I had some of her trees in my back yard , which was thrilling .
Peace is being restored ..
I prefer to believe the 2 orbs are magical faries😉❤️😘✌️
GreatCosmicMothersUnite 