Holidays, Sweetgrass, and Peace.
This Holiday Season please consider buying local.
No big box store is going to notice if you take your money elsewhere. What you spend at small businesses can be life changing. Consider a family owned eatery or coffee shop when you are out and about. We have many wonderful restaurants and great coffee shops here in Greenville, that are family owned. Support your community. Heartfelt Energy has Gift Certificates should you choose to give the gift of an experience.
I saw this on facebook and feel it is important to pass it on:
Sweet Grass
The elders tell us that it takes longer for us to heal today and the reason is because the old trails our ancestors used to use to find us have been destroyed.... so now our ancestors are having a hard time finding us to help us heal. We are also told that was the first plant to grow on Mother Earth
When we harvest Sweetgrass, we get three bunches of seven strands
So there will be 21 pieces of grass,
We do not pull it, this is the hair of Mother Earth.
We braid the three strands of seven pieces right there on Mother Earth
Then we gently cut it
If we want to state our intentions, we can bring tobacco as to bring Creator in on our words as to how we will use this
For an offering we can offer something the plant can use, like water,
So offer the relations around it, it’s brothers and sisters, mother and father
And so on, give them a gift of water.
When we burn sweetgrass, remember these things:
Its a kindness medicine...with a sweet gentle aroma when we light it.
Its symbolic...
There are 21 strands used to make a braid...
The first 7 strands represent those 7 generations behind us~
Our parents
Our grandparents
Our great grandparents and so on for
7 generations behind us~who we are and what we are is because of them~ they've brushed and made the trails we have been walking up til now... but the trails have been destroyed, we have lost our connection.
The time has come to heal and reconnect with our ancestors.
The next 7 represent the 7 sacred teachings...
Love, Respect, Honesty, Courage, Wisdom, Truth and Humility.
The elders tell us how simple, powerful and beautiful the teaching are:
1 Love: unconditional affection with no limits or conditions that starts with loving yourself.
2 Respect: due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights or traditions of other, with consideration, thoughtfulness, attentiveness, politeness, courtesy, civility, deference.
3 Honestly: have a character of integrity, and honor be free from fraud or deception, legitimate truthful.
4 Courage: bravery, permitting one to face extreme dangers with boldness withstanding danger, fear or difficulty
5 Wisdom: the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment the quality of being wise.
6 Truth: the face of the matter, veracity, sincere, candor and genuineness a determined in principle entirely by how it relates to things
7 Humility: freedom from pride or arrogance, being humble, when we truly understand the teaching of humility, that we are not any better then anyone else and you are not any better than me. that at the end of the day we are simply human beings, this is what makes this teaching powerful and beautiful.
The last 7 strands are those of the 7 generations in front of us~
Our children .....
Our grandchildren.....
Our great grandchildren .....
as well as those children yet to be born.
It is important because everything we do to Mother Earth will one day effect them...We have lost our way, Mother Earth gives us everything we need to heal ourselves and the earth. We must go back to our roots and bloom.
IMAGINE
Peace
There is No Alternative to Peace
Peace is the only Way.
I am asking you to join with thousands of us
who connect in the collective consciousness.
As we slide into bed at night we take a few moments,
we hold our Earth in Healing Light,
In Peace, and Justice for all People.
As we awaken to a new day
we take a moment or three to hold our Earth
in Healing Light, In Peace, In Justice for all People.
Imagine
Each day I remind myself,
I put my hands over my heart center, and chant
"I am Soul, I am Soul, I am Soul"
Love
is the most powerful force for change in the world.
Remember the magnificent soul that you are,
and act accordingly.
My Prayer for us all
Peace
may we all know that there are no others,
we are all one
and that we act accordingly
Health
of our body, our mind and our soul
Prosperity
may we have enough
enough joy
enough food
enough shelter
enough
to share
Love
may we be reminded
of where we came from
that we are a beautiful Soul
that we are so loved
just as we are
