Conversation – 16

@shoelady60,

I feel your pain wow what a day. We had a really hard thunderstorm Friday Night.
It shook the house and I turned off everything and went to bed as I was tired.

Here say when. 🤣😎 Keep Jake cool I am still working on projects.

Club Sheba

@sheba2011

We had a very severe storm late afternoon yesterday. Power was out until 10:00 PM in my area, some not back on yet in other areas. Major flooding, I don’t think I’ve ever seen wind this hard and I’ve lived here all my life. Trees down all over the county. We had limbs/branches in our front yard, a tree on the side split and hit my neighbor’s fence and the neighbor had a front yard tree fall and block his driveway and part of the road. Major mess. My husband worked for three straight hours last evening on the front yard and most of the day today on the back and he’s not finished. Just what I needed – a mess inside and now outside. And, to boot, my two SIL’s decided to stop over today with no phone call. Hubs working out back, me at the store and post office in my ugliest shorts and tee, no makeup, humidity drooped hair and a house that looks like a tornado just passed through. Hmmm. . . .do I need a drink? YAAAAS!! I hope your last 24 hours were better than mine.😫😝

Incense Meditation

Meditating with incense can offer many benefits; embers become shooting stars, and the silver ribbon of smoke becomes unraveled clouds.

When we focus on incense sticks during meditation, we move into a mystical space that is both physical and spiritual. Like us, the incense stick is earthbound with an ember that burns for only a finite time, but the diaphanous spirit it releases is unbound by time or space. Rather than shutting down our senses to focus on an inner realm, incense involves our senses as we follow whirling smoke upward and outward while we take its scent into us, filling us as we breathe.

The journey starts with a flame, and then a glowing ember releases smoke to rise above us in an ethereal dance. Ashes fall below, purified by the fire. We can use this to imagine negative thoughts being changed from darkness into the beauty of warm gray snowflakes and a scented spun-silver plume, lighter than air. We can watch as our atmosphere is altered to become reminiscent of the heavens and lifts our thoughts: Embers become shooting stars, and the silver ribbon of smoke becomes unraveled clouds. Altered senses may guide our inspired thoughts to travel along new, perhaps undiscovered, pathways.

We can also imagine our physical selves being represented by the incense stick, our inner fire releasing magic into the world. That part of us emanates outward, expanding to mingle with the breath of those around us as we ride the wind to become part of everything. We can also see in the swirling smoke our life’s path, not a straight line but a twirling, meandering ballet that moves us ever onward and upward. We may leave a bit of ourselves behind as we bounce off of our surroundings, working through them, but no matter what we do, we cannot avoid our final destination: oneness with all that is. As spiritual beings enjoying the physical experience of life, incense meditations can help us remember the beauty and wonder of our existence, where heaven and earth, body and spirit, are all available to us in every moment.

@kittengirl,

Good Morning in California and I pray it is a good one for you. 🌹Still in our hearts
and prayers. Kitten give all your cats a warm hug. 💕

Keeping it cool California Style. 😎

Cherie,

Good Morning in S. Cali wishing you and the children a safe and cool week 😘🌹

You can do this in S. California. 💕

@shoelady60,

Good day in the beautiful ‘burgh. 😘😎I know you are busy I am multi-tasking just
wanted to give you a Monday Shout out. I know you have company coming so
enjoy. 😎😘💕

Give Jake a nice OZ pet. 😘🌹Stay cool things are heating up in OZ.

@71flowerchild,

Good day in Texas or wherever you are. We all miss you just have fun. Give the
fur babies a nice OZ pet. 😘