Contemplation Mudra

Right hand on bottom, left hand resting in  right palm thumbs touching (can also do it reversed if that suits you better).
The thumb is the symbol of the Cosmic consciousness and the hands signify an empty bowl.
Mental Attitude:
I empty myself of all negative thoughts and feelings and become ready and open to receive the light of the Universe.

Affirmation:
“ Thy will be done” or “ I am an empty vessel to receive this knowledge”.

                                                               WATER

                           WHY ,WHY ,WHY, is water so important??????

No one really knows where it came from, how it was formed and there is as much on the planet today as there was since the beginning of time and it has not changed for millions of years (that we are aware of). It is the most common element that we know of. Water is not only a substance but also a concept such as in the teachings of Taoism where there are many references to water in its action of being soft yet strong.

Everything we know of originates in water or with water in it in some way shape or form. We ourselves are at least 70% plus water based and our brains are a higher content of at least 85% , so if water is changed in any way it will also affect how your brain functions. As humans the structure of our DNA helix can’t function without water. Water is a medium with which all nature is governed.

Water is the only element that can expand when frozen, contract when liquefied and be turned into something gaseous. With scientific research it has been shown that water has MEMORY! The water chemical composition does not change structure but the molecules can organize themselves to join together to form groups called clusters which become like magnetic recording devices (similar to our nervous system). It receives and can imprint on everything. Each water cell has 440 thousand clusters (which stores information personally responsible for its own internal environment). Which means water can record and store information and also be a transmitter of information. Testing also shows that water has a photographic memory of a distance of even 10,000 kilometers.

Some of the scientific tests showed that using structuralized water (water that was recorded into) it changed the vegetable matter so it grew bigger, better and faster.

Other testing shows that human emotions and thoughts have the greatest impact on water. Water can react to words. Therefore negative thoughts can deform water and give our body a negative charge and the same can be said for the opposite. Positive thoughts and words give us a positive charge. Testing has proven that the most powerful reaction to words recorded so far, are LOVE and GRATITUDE.

Prayers and Mantras can change water in the fact that these things are usually said in an 8 hertz vibration (said in any language) which is the same frequency of the earth’s magnetic field. In understanding this we realize that mindful prayer and positive thoughts can create a more harmonious environment in our body and all that surrounds us.

Music also has a huge impact on water. It can form crystals that harmonize into beautiful shapes from the vibration of the music played or deform the crystals.

REMEMBER : Every word you think or say is like a water droplet. So be grateful for food and the nature around you. In fact be grateful for your computer or your car or anything you may have or encounter each and every day.

                                                  NAMASTE

  Creating personal care products using essential oils.

BASIC BATH SALTS
1 cup of Epsom salts or Sea salts (can do ½ of salts and ½ baking soda)
Use 10 drops (or less) of a single essential oil or a combination of them, using 10 drops altogether or less. For children use 4 drops total and babies only 1.
Mix them together in a glass bowl (not metal or plastic)
Then pour it (or ½ of it depending how much you want to use at the time) into the running water and swish around to disperse the salts and oil. Soak for about 10 minutes. Keep warm and rest afterwards (if you are able).

WHAT IS AROMATHERAPY? – It is the specific use of PURE essential oils by topical use (skin application or inhalation and baths) recommended by a qualified therapist.

WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL OILS? – It is the condensed liquid (fat soluble and highly volatile) after an extraction process. Which means it is the plants most valuable, therapeutic and nutritional properties in high concentration that permeates the skin easily and evaporates quickly.

BRIEF HISTORY – Essential oils have been around for over 20,000 years (that we are aware of). It has been found in all cultures around the world including Biblical times to Roman, Greek, Asian Indian time periods (to name a few). Essential oils have had a great deal of scientific research done on them (due to its large use in the perfume industry) on their abilities to affect the mental, emotional (can add spiritual) and physical aspects on people.

IMPORTANT POINTS

*************   MORE IS NOT BETTER   **************

There are 20 drops of essential oil in 1 ml.
Heat and light causes oxidization and all essential oils are antiseptic.
Pure essential oils are sold in brown or blue glass bottles.
Essential oils stay in the body up to a maximum of 48 hrs.
The smaller the amount of oils used the more it stimulates the emotions.
Rate absorption is determined by skin thickness and heat

Shekinas Temple reflects my continuing Bellydance endeavours and also my Wellness – Shamanic Work as well. I currently have my clinical practice ( Massage Therapy, Aromatherapy and Reflexology) at Healthy Balance Massage Therapy in Windsor Nova Scotia (see links bar).

I have completed my Level 2 Reiki (from a very inspiring teacher) and looking forward to achiveing my Level 3 in the very near future. I am doing a combination effort in this and blending my Shamanism and Reiki together (along with Mudras, some cranial work and other holistic tools I have gleaned from this wonderful road of life).

I will be posting a New Mudra each month for anyone who wishes to try it and experience their own transformation in their own way.

Yours in Care.

Shekina

Hand positions and hand movements have been an integral part of dance for as long as we know, just as hands have been an important part of communication and expression to one another for centuries. Your fingers and hands are like energy antennas. They send and receive messages, reaching as far as you wish it to. Hand gestures are the mother of all communication and are supremely powerful. A great deal of energy can pass through your hands to another person eliciting a response that can heal or harm, excite or entice. A lot can be said about a person who can dance with their hands as well as their body. There is an energetic pattern at work where your fingers and hands can capture and lead an audience in whatever direction you want, while at the same time guide your body movements. The use of mudras gives us a connection to the divine play of the cosmos.

In the words of a famous dancer, Nadia Gamal “ we have feelings in our fingers and it translates those feelings to the body, so if you have flowing fingers you have  flowing body movements or if you have soft hands you have soft body movements or sharp hand movements equal sharp body movements. Your feet keep you grounded to the earth but the control and balance is in your hands. Hands give you the movement and your hands eyes and body show the feelings”.

Both hands and all ten fingers have separate and particular meanings corresponding to a part of the body and a planet in the solar system. In the Polarity system the fingers correspond to an element, thumbs (ether), 1st (air), 2nd (fire), 3rd (water), 4th (earth). The right hand is the receiver, while the left hand is the giver. These meanings are also significant in the hand positions of mudras. Each finger has an ability, tendency, or meaning in how it affects your life. That is why it is important to follow the hand and finger movements with great care and accuracy. Mudras can help you reach your best, aid in healing you mind, enhance your body and spirit and increase changes in your life for the better while bringing you to a new level of awareness and self empowerment.

One of the most common hand gestures is the index finger touching the thumb. Its meaning is that the ego (the index finger) is bowing to God (the thumb) in love and unity or (air meets ether). Using mudras on a daily basis can help you heal, rejuvenate, and balance your body, mind, and spirit, and connect you to the voice of divine wisdom. Most of all, mudras will awaken and magnify your inner power and have a powerful healing ability on your spiritual state as you become more in tune and connected to the universe . Daily practice will help you release old, draining, unhealthy energies and will recharge you with new, vibrant life force. Mudras are a great source of preventative medicine for maintaining a healthy mind, body, and spirit.

There have been many cultures that use the term Shekina but the most common is the Jewish-Kabbalistic version of Shakti; the idea was that God could not be complete, or whole, until he was united with her (like the yin and yang). The Kabbalists believed that it was God’s loss of his Shekina half or the seperation of the I AM to EGO which brought about evil. From the Hebrew Shekina means “dwelling place,” giving the concept that God had no “home” or possibly lost it’s way without her. Like her Tantric counterpart Shakti, the Sh’kina was the source of all “soul” in the universe. The Gnostic Christians of the fourth century spoke of Sh’kinaas a “spirit of glory” or divine presense, in who Beings of Light lived, as children in their mother’s body or home. Mani referred to the Aeons of sh’kinas or female spirits of the sacred year.

The Kabbalists taught that it was essential to bring the male and female cosmic principles together once more since they are one and the same within each soul and are always searching to bring about a union, which could possibly be achieved through sexual magic, signifying the union of the sun (man) and the moon (woman), which was graphically expressed by the hexagram. Philosophically the Kabbalists were saying “the supernal mother Shekina is manifested in the earthly mother, with whom her husband should lie on the Sabbath (Sunday)”, because “all the six days of the week derive their blessing” from this coupling. Rabbi Eliahu di Vidas said, “Who has not experienced the force of passionate love for a woman will never attain to the love of God.”

Jewish mystics claimed the “outer garment” of the Shekina is the Torah, “Holy Law.” Man becomes a Bridegroom of the Torah by study, symbolized in erotic imagery. He has to court her as he would a beautiful maiden. “She begins from behind a curtain or veil to speak words in keeping with his understanding, until very slowly insight comes to him like the slow writhings of a dance reaching a furvour of excitement and enlightenment.” The Shekina as the “Indwelling One” might be compared to the Latin I-dea, or Goddess Within. “She opens the door of her hidden chamber ever so little, and for a moment reveals her face to her lover, but hides it again to be repeated time and time again. He alone sees it and is drawn to her with his heart and soul and his whole being.”

As man requires his Shekina for his enlightenment, so God requires his Shekina for his wisdom and creativity. This is a crucial tenet of Kabbalism. A.G.H.