INNER WORK
LONGER INNER WORK EXERCISE FOR OUR EARTH MOTHER
The Process: : Make a print copy of this exercise. This exercise is designed in a series of stepped plateaus that work together to gradually intensify one's focus and emotions. A 'circuitry' of sorts of ever more intense emotional energy is created by reading inwardly the bold-faced passage, closing one's eyes to mentally repeat over and over again just the last line, opening one's eyes to read the complete bold text passage over again, then once more, closing ones eyes and centering back again on just the last line. Doing this 'back and forth' a few times maintains the heightened specific emotion of the exercise and can make it even stronger, but this is an optional step. Another way to increase the intensity of the specific emotional energy is to commit to memory the complete bold-faced passage used in each exercise. The exercise consists of alternating plain text and bold-face text passages. Doing this exercise involves reading, alternating with periods of closing one's eyes to focus on the specific emotional energy of Peace and Love by repeating inwardly just the last line in each bold-faced passage. Inwardly repeating this last line generates the most intense emotion. The last line in these bold-faced passages has been written simply so that they succinctly capture the emotion, and can be easily memorized and repeated with one's eyes closed.
The plain text passages should be read from your print copy in a relaxed manner, as you'd read a passage in a book. The images allied with the words should spring naturally to mind without any effort or deliberate focus required. Their purpose is to center your attention on the specific subject of this exercise, to bring associated images to your mind, and to evoke the emotions of Peace and Love that this particular exercise involves. The bold-faced text passages are meant to be read inwardly with greater intensity of focus and feeling. Their purpose is to generate ever more powerful emotions of Love and Peace. Inwardly repeat the last line of the exercise as many times as you wish, and for however long you choose to stay with the intensified emotion conveyed within it.
THE EXERCISE
Find a comfortable spot, close your eyes and relax your body. Take several deep, cleansing breaths to clear your mind. If you have a personal routine you use to prepare yourself for any inner work, such as surrounding yourself with Divine White Light, grounding yourself to Earth, etc., you can do that as well. Once relaxed and centered inwardly, visualize in your mind’s eye an image of Earth within the backdrop of space. Hold this image in awareness. Begin to get a sense of all of all of humankind collectively focused on the larger Cosmic/Planetary dimension of our existence.
Maintain and deepen this sense of all of us collectively focused on our planetary presence. Feel it. Feel it being experienced by all people everywhere. All our habitual busywork and pre-occupations are suspended as we collectively take this time out to feel and experience our quite literal and concrete togetherness on our home planet, within the depth and grandeur of space. Widen and expand your perspective beyond your present ego, beyond your physical body to become ONE with this collective centering on our planetary Presence and Togetherness. Feel yourself firmly grounded in awareness and At-One-Ment with all of humankind in this more expanded spatial orientation. Begin to get a sense, while still maintaining this collective planetary perspective, of how our former, more limited ways of orienting ourselves spatially by nations and continents pale in comparison, and how this more expansive perspective renders those old ways largely insignificant. (Close your eyes and focus on the image above. When it feels right to you, open your eyes and proceed to the next section)
Once grounded in Planetary Presence and Togetherness, sense all of us begin to focus our awareness on our Earth Mother with an attitude of humble receptivity to the living presence of Gaia. Sense all of us everywhere, on every landmass of Her body, now beholding the living, loving presence of our Earth Mother, and entering into a personal relationship and communication with Her. Each one of us is now feeling the presence of Gaia with us.
We begin to communicate to our Earth Mother all the love, and the tremendous sense of gratitude we feel for all She has given us. Love for our Earth Mother pours forth from every human heart to saturate and overflow within our Collective Consciousness Field and immerse our Earth Mother in our energies of Love and Thanksgiving. Our love also finds physical expression in our multitude of human forms scattered over Her body. Whether we're on grassy plains, in mountain valleys, or standing along coastal shores, in a desire fore greater closeness and to touch our beloved Earth Mother, many of us now kneel onto sun warmed sands, or touch our foreheads to the ground that physically links us to Her, or lie prostrate on sweet-smelling grass, embracing Her with our outstretched arms and touching our beating hearts to Her body as inwardly we begin to repeat the following words:
Most blessed, and beautiful, and holy Earth Mother,
We thank you for the rich and diverse family of life You bring forth.
We thank you for the lush extravagance of your bounty
that has sustained and nourished us
from the very first birth in the bloodlines of our creatureliness.
As You bear us through the heavens
our beautiful blue white jewel among the stars,
We love you completely, perfectly and fervently
With all our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
We love you Earth Mother, very, very, much
We continue to intensify our Love for our Earth Mother unreservedly, passionately, joyfully. A great wavefront of Love, Rejoicing and Exultation for the splendor that is our beautiful home planet rises up from our collective human presence everywhere on Her being. We become the Love, Rejoicing and Exaltation as we affirm in the fullness of our hearts, our unending gratitude and appreciation for everything our Earth Mother has given us so freely and bountifully. We inwardly repeat again:
Most blessed, and beautiful, and holy Earth Mother,
We thank you for the rich and diverse family of life You bring forth.
We thank you for the lush extravagance of your bounty
that has sustained and nourished us
from the very first birth in the bloodlines of our creatureliness.
As You bear us through the heavens
our beautiful blue white jewel among the stars,
We love you completely, perfectly and fervently
With all our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
We love you Earth Mother, very, very, much
On every landmass of our Earth's body we come together in joyful celebration to honor Her. Some of us are gathered together on mountaintops at dawn, others of us, on the other side of oceans; come together at dusk on great open lawns, village greens and parklands in the center of our human settlements. Others of us dance below twinkling stars on hilltops as all of humankind everywhere collectively begins to drum, dance and sing praise songs to our Earth, our voices raised as One to the heavens. We sing of our Love, and our Gratefulness... With one voice, we sing out to the stars, the Sun, and every living being in the Cosmos, of our joyous, unbounded Love for our Earth Mother... We sing praises to Her exquisite beauty, revealed in every mountain, forest, river, wildflower, snowflake and sunset... We sing of our gratitude for all the nourishing foods She so abundantly provides for us all... We repeat again:
Most blessed, and beautiful, and holy Earth Mother,
We thank you for the rich and diverse family of life You bring forth.
We thank you for the lush extravagance of your bounty
that has sustained and nourished us
from the very first birth in the bloodlines of our creatureliness.
As You bear us through the heavens
our beautiful blue white jewel among the stars,
We love you completely, perfectly and fervently
With all our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
We love you Earth Mother, very, very, much
We've learned to express our Love for our Earth Mother in ways too innumerable to count. We've greatly reduced our numbers by not reproducing as much. As humans, we take just our 'fair share' and no more. On every part of Her being where human settlements once created ugliness and blight, we've torn away the concrete and sown wild grasses. Tall trees now grow where lifeless structures of steel once stood. We live everywhere in harmony with the rhythms of our bio-region. We know, honor and protect all of Earth's other children who live in Her river valleys, who swim along Her shores, or nest and soar over Her mountain ranges. We express our Love for our Earth Mother by creating beautiful gardens everywhere, restoring eco-systems, and re-planting trees over every barren hillside and reclaimed highway. Our cars are few in number now as we live and work in small communities surrounded by great forests... Our Earth is a green world once more... Our love for our Earth Mother grows even more intensely within us as we repeat once again:
Most blessed, and beautiful, and holy Earth Mother,
We thank you for the rich and diverse family of life You bring forth.
We thank you for the lush extravagance of your bounty
that has sustained and nourished us
from the very first birth in the bloodlines of our creatureliness
As You bear us through the heavens
our beautiful blue white jewel among the stars,
We love you completely, perfectly and fervently
With all our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
We love you Earth Mother, very, very, much
Still relaxed, begin to become aware once again of your body and your physical surroundings. Take 3 or 4 deep, cleansing breaths. Slowly open your eyes. Sit in stillness for a few more moments to reflect on the inner work session you just completed. If you’d like to stay with the experience a little while longer, write down your feelings and any insights or images that came to you as you were engaged in the exercise, and any after-thoughts or ideas you might have concerning future sessions.