Monday, February 13, 2006
AC 1981
AC 1981
Hi Monica - its great that you are doing this - starting a blog that is...especially since its your velada year. This is my first comment into a blog so I hope this entry works...
HS80 Assumpta - that's our batch enjoyed the fantastic trip down memory lane in our velada held last last October. Just keep trying to bring everyone into the loop. Most will come very late into the velada but that's ok, you'll find that the amount of time, effort an dinput you put in will also be what you get from the whole process. Remember...velada is not just the day itself - but the process of months of preparations and being together.
Will forward your blog to Bing J-Ongsiako my sister so she can loop this too to everyone in your batch...that is, unless she the blog address already.
Cheers
Jeannie E. Javelosa
Hi Monica - its great that you are doing this - starting a blog that is...especially since its your velada year. This is my first comment into a blog so I hope this entry works...
HS80 Assumpta - that's our batch enjoyed the fantastic trip down memory lane in our velada held last last October. Just keep trying to bring everyone into the loop. Most will come very late into the velada but that's ok, you'll find that the amount of time, effort an dinput you put in will also be what you get from the whole process. Remember...velada is not just the day itself - but the process of months of preparations and being together.
Will forward your blog to Bing J-Ongsiako my sister so she can loop this too to everyone in your batch...that is, unless she the blog address already.
Cheers
Jeannie E. Javelosa
DREAMS YOU REMEMBER
Images that go in the fraction of a split second, fleeting away like will-of-the-wisp, even as our consciousness tries to ran after them. Images that leave behind residual feelings that take moment to decipher their meanings, and the messages our subconscious sends us. Sometimes images of inspiration that answers problems we carry during our waking hours. In their potency, they are healing, in their insight, they are precognitive. Dreams allow us to safely and quietly go insane inside for a time a day, as a hypothesis goes.
Everyone dreams. But not everyone remembers what they have dreamt. Dreaming is one way the mind lets off steam, fears, and excess energy from the subconscious. Upon waking, we snatch images hoping to retain them in waking memory. Sometimes, if we can quickly write down what we remember, then well and good, so we can further study and reflect on them when we have time. There are also the dreams that we remember long after we have awakened. These, when understood and deciphered, often point out an issue, problem or challenge we are facing at the present time.
But I would like to focus on specific dreams that recur and recur over and over again during a period of one’s life. These are dreams that often have the quality of having the same beginning and often ending at the same scene. Or it repeats over and over again through time, with similar backdrops but with subtle changes of personalities or objects within the dream. And we never really forget them. This is the key phrase…that you never forget it and can recount the dream experience in detail as though you are still in it, even many, many years later. Here lies a mysterious veil that we can lift to connect once more beyond time and perhaps, heal one’s self. What this kind of dream is showing us is a fragment of an unfinished scene in a past life. There is the spiritual/esoteric belief that when souls experience many lifetimes, between each life, there is review of a life finished. Here, a review of the life and healing of karmic wounds happen. Before moving into another life experience in another physical body, the soul drinks from the well or fountain of forgetfulness. It is said that the soul must do this or it would be carrying too much pain and karma from so many lives past–and battle-weary, it may choose not to move into body again. But sometimes, not everything is totally forgotten. This recurring dream is part of the cell memory, which the mind now picks up and cannot be forgotten. An example of such a dream told to me is this:
I am running in fear, with me is my sister (in this lifetime) and we are running through this dark and scary house. Someone is after us. I am screaming, then a man comes and I see a knife. I scream loudly. End of dream. This woman has had this dream repeatedly through her childhood until adulthood. This dream often is an opening portal connecting her to a state in a past life, perhaps at the point of death. She told me that whenever she dreams this, there is a fear that hovers and haunts her throughout the week. And she tries so hard to brush away the dream. I told her to instead, stay with the dream, call on it before she sleeps to get better insight. To meditate, reflect and pray over the dream, to stay with the dream so totally that it would reveal its message. By consciously staying and trying to see the dream for what it is can actually exorcise it from the cell memory.
Sometimes the memory (I don’t call it a dream anymore) is so beautiful and set in, what seems like another space, world or dimension. Again, it may recur, and for every recurrence, one actually begins to move around, interact and experience other things or beings still in this strange place or dimension. I have had many such dreams where I actually know I visited other spaces/dimensions. My particular favorite is a place I would somehow get to during points in my past where I was hurting terribly. I would enter this mist-filled spa-like place with pools. There was one person per pool, but no one talked to each other. The colors were muted pastel, and gentle rainbows and light reflections broke through the mist. A beautiful being (I thought them my spirit guides or guardian angels) would minister to me and just let me bath in the pool. The place was pure healing. Throughout my life, and always, whenever I had a heartache or heartbreak, I would inevitably find myself in this beautiful place. I always came back to waking consciousness healed in some deep, spiritual way.
Then there are dreams when you may see your departed loved ones and friends in the dream so vivid and clear. When this happens, your soul, while you are asleep, has met up with the soul of the departed perhaps to say goodbye, or just to connect. These dreams are real out-of- body experiences to other dimensions. Interaction here is in the soul level and often, a message of goodwill, love or unfinished business is often conveyed.
Dream-keeping and analysis is one of the best spiritual disciplines one can do. It becomes spiritual when it connects you to that innermost part of your soul, and the wisdom that lies therein. It becomes a discipline when you actually take time to do it (even when you don’t feel like doing it) and chart your soul development or deepening of your consciousness. Let me share with you how I have done my dream analysis through the years. I continue to use four steps of analysis:
Step 1: Objective first-party recording. Upon waking, quickly take pen and paper and jot down everything in your dream objectives. Example: Blue car (shape, color, make, was it going fast or slow?), yellow snake (was it advancing to attack you or just sitting there?), old shoes (where was it, what color?)…
Step 2: Objective third party meaning. Get a cheap commercial dream book in any bookstore. Look up the meaning of the symbols you saw. ”Blue means…., car means….yellow means….old means...” and so forth.
Step 3: Subjective first-party opinion. This is when you give your personal interpretation to the images in your dreams. This is where you must take more time to reflect and allow the dream’s meaning to come out. Example, you may relate the “blue car” to your boyfriend’s car, the yellow color to a favorite color of a friend, a snake being a dangerous symbol for you, etc.
Soon, you will be able to define your own personal vocabulary of dream symbols.
Step 4: Ask yourself “What is happening to my life right now that would merit this dream?” Suddenly you may see a friend (yellow snake) doing all these subtle flirtations with your boyfriend (blue car). And the meanings may present themselves–whether there is a jealous fear happening inside you, or warning signals are coming up for you to carefully watch your friend, before she steals your boyfriend away!
Sometimes too, you may not be able to connect anything in your life with the dream. That’s OK. Sometimes the meaning is revealed days, weeks or months after. What is important is that by writing and doing this process, the mind and subconscious begins to be trained to bring forth visual images whose messages you will clearly see, and can use for your own healing, spiritual advancement and soul understanding.
Now, clearly and emphatically say….”I will dream tonight…”
Images that go in the fraction of a split second, fleeting away like will-of-the-wisp, even as our consciousness tries to ran after them. Images that leave behind residual feelings that take moment to decipher their meanings, and the messages our subconscious sends us. Sometimes images of inspiration that answers problems we carry during our waking hours. In their potency, they are healing, in their insight, they are precognitive. Dreams allow us to safely and quietly go insane inside for a time a day, as a hypothesis goes.
Everyone dreams. But not everyone remembers what they have dreamt. Dreaming is one way the mind lets off steam, fears, and excess energy from the subconscious. Upon waking, we snatch images hoping to retain them in waking memory. Sometimes, if we can quickly write down what we remember, then well and good, so we can further study and reflect on them when we have time. There are also the dreams that we remember long after we have awakened. These, when understood and deciphered, often point out an issue, problem or challenge we are facing at the present time.
But I would like to focus on specific dreams that recur and recur over and over again during a period of one’s life. These are dreams that often have the quality of having the same beginning and often ending at the same scene. Or it repeats over and over again through time, with similar backdrops but with subtle changes of personalities or objects within the dream. And we never really forget them. This is the key phrase…that you never forget it and can recount the dream experience in detail as though you are still in it, even many, many years later. Here lies a mysterious veil that we can lift to connect once more beyond time and perhaps, heal one’s self. What this kind of dream is showing us is a fragment of an unfinished scene in a past life. There is the spiritual/esoteric belief that when souls experience many lifetimes, between each life, there is review of a life finished. Here, a review of the life and healing of karmic wounds happen. Before moving into another life experience in another physical body, the soul drinks from the well or fountain of forgetfulness. It is said that the soul must do this or it would be carrying too much pain and karma from so many lives past–and battle-weary, it may choose not to move into body again. But sometimes, not everything is totally forgotten. This recurring dream is part of the cell memory, which the mind now picks up and cannot be forgotten. An example of such a dream told to me is this:
I am running in fear, with me is my sister (in this lifetime) and we are running through this dark and scary house. Someone is after us. I am screaming, then a man comes and I see a knife. I scream loudly. End of dream. This woman has had this dream repeatedly through her childhood until adulthood. This dream often is an opening portal connecting her to a state in a past life, perhaps at the point of death. She told me that whenever she dreams this, there is a fear that hovers and haunts her throughout the week. And she tries so hard to brush away the dream. I told her to instead, stay with the dream, call on it before she sleeps to get better insight. To meditate, reflect and pray over the dream, to stay with the dream so totally that it would reveal its message. By consciously staying and trying to see the dream for what it is can actually exorcise it from the cell memory.
Sometimes the memory (I don’t call it a dream anymore) is so beautiful and set in, what seems like another space, world or dimension. Again, it may recur, and for every recurrence, one actually begins to move around, interact and experience other things or beings still in this strange place or dimension. I have had many such dreams where I actually know I visited other spaces/dimensions. My particular favorite is a place I would somehow get to during points in my past where I was hurting terribly. I would enter this mist-filled spa-like place with pools. There was one person per pool, but no one talked to each other. The colors were muted pastel, and gentle rainbows and light reflections broke through the mist. A beautiful being (I thought them my spirit guides or guardian angels) would minister to me and just let me bath in the pool. The place was pure healing. Throughout my life, and always, whenever I had a heartache or heartbreak, I would inevitably find myself in this beautiful place. I always came back to waking consciousness healed in some deep, spiritual way.
Then there are dreams when you may see your departed loved ones and friends in the dream so vivid and clear. When this happens, your soul, while you are asleep, has met up with the soul of the departed perhaps to say goodbye, or just to connect. These dreams are real out-of- body experiences to other dimensions. Interaction here is in the soul level and often, a message of goodwill, love or unfinished business is often conveyed.
Dream-keeping and analysis is one of the best spiritual disciplines one can do. It becomes spiritual when it connects you to that innermost part of your soul, and the wisdom that lies therein. It becomes a discipline when you actually take time to do it (even when you don’t feel like doing it) and chart your soul development or deepening of your consciousness. Let me share with you how I have done my dream analysis through the years. I continue to use four steps of analysis:
Step 1: Objective first-party recording. Upon waking, quickly take pen and paper and jot down everything in your dream objectives. Example: Blue car (shape, color, make, was it going fast or slow?), yellow snake (was it advancing to attack you or just sitting there?), old shoes (where was it, what color?)…
Step 2: Objective third party meaning. Get a cheap commercial dream book in any bookstore. Look up the meaning of the symbols you saw. ”Blue means…., car means….yellow means….old means...” and so forth.
Step 3: Subjective first-party opinion. This is when you give your personal interpretation to the images in your dreams. This is where you must take more time to reflect and allow the dream’s meaning to come out. Example, you may relate the “blue car” to your boyfriend’s car, the yellow color to a favorite color of a friend, a snake being a dangerous symbol for you, etc.
Soon, you will be able to define your own personal vocabulary of dream symbols.
Step 4: Ask yourself “What is happening to my life right now that would merit this dream?” Suddenly you may see a friend (yellow snake) doing all these subtle flirtations with your boyfriend (blue car). And the meanings may present themselves–whether there is a jealous fear happening inside you, or warning signals are coming up for you to carefully watch your friend, before she steals your boyfriend away!
Sometimes too, you may not be able to connect anything in your life with the dream. That’s OK. Sometimes the meaning is revealed days, weeks or months after. What is important is that by writing and doing this process, the mind and subconscious begins to be trained to bring forth visual images whose messages you will clearly see, and can use for your own healing, spiritual advancement and soul understanding.
Now, clearly and emphatically say….”I will dream tonight…”
Saturday, February 11, 2006
SPEECH IS ENERGY
Ok so a friend told me that I should open a blog...so here I am , totally gradeschool level with the computer but somehow have managed to do this....now what? This is suppose to be a diary or journal on line...so lets give it a try by my sharing my article in my column....
SPEECH IS ENERGY
A friend of mine called to ask if there was a different reason as to why she could not shake off her soar throat for the past month or so. She wanted to know if there was a reason for this in the etheric level. Since energy manifests itself in the etheric level and is finally expressed in the physical level, then sickness, or any dis-ease will normally have its roots at the etheric level. I responded by saying that she must have something inside her she cannot say, something that she is not finding enough will to do, say or bring out. This is because her dis-ease was at the throat area, and it is there where one energy center (the fifth charka or the throat charka) can be found. This energy center stands for everything one says and believes in, and also the will to be able to say it clearly and truthfully.
My friend thought my explanation apt as she, being a writer, was actually in the last editing phase of her book. This collection of writings has been something she had been working with for years and now she was in the stage of compiling her spiritual journeys and insights. For someone like her, known as a hard-core writer and journalist, such spiritual topics would truly be difficult to birth. And thus her sore throat at this point of her life to symbolize that blocked energy waiting to be released.
It was synchronicity that after talking to my friend, I picked up a yoga magazine that had something on speech–of how one has to have the “four speeches” to allow for the “full-spectrum truth” to come from the head, to the mouth, via the tongue and emerge out of the nose via the breath, and fully supported by the eyes as telepathic waves move with sound to the ears of the listener. The article gave the example of singing a hymn…where the song releases its deepest meaning and secret when every word is pronounced, with the inflection and melody. Then the song must be sung with the passion from the heart to single-mindedly bring out the message of the song while surrendering one’s being to the act of singing that hymn.
Speech is energy. Like thought and movement or action, speech, and everything else in this world of ours (seen and unseen) is energy. It is energy that moves about in different levels and dimensions. Speech meanwhile, has a special connection that grounds us to our actions and the physical world. We react to the world and our relationships by communicating our thoughts. And yet, we are not always aware how preciously powerful speech really is.
The speech energy comes form one source, and this is the throat charka. Have you ever notice that when you abuse or overuse your voice–like screaming at the top of our lungs, your voice in particular robs you off energy to speak deeply. When we loose the ability to speak deeply, we also loose the ability to speak our truth. On the other hand, when we gab and gab and let all that hot air out with no sense, words leek out of us and we are no where near our truths. This is the first level of speaking…this ordinary VERBAL SPEAKING – this kind which we all hear and use daily, the physical speech that are words with sound to communicate and to express that we are doing about our world, in our own way. So, we ask someone what they want for lunch. We gossip about the latest love triangles, we tell our husband not to forget to pick up the kids. This first level speech activity is something we never even put two or three sense worth of thinking time.
The second level is MENTAL SPEECH. This is the energy of speech that stays inside our mind. These are the internal monologues and dialogues we have about our wisdom and ideas (or the lack of them!). This is the level that we use to harness our rational mind, our emotional thoughts and feelings that would spur our intention to act on something. This is also where the unruly “monkey mind” often stays, where our mental speech chatters too much and no sense can be made of anything inside our minds.
The third level is SINGLE MINDED SPEECH. When we can identify with this level, it shows that we are becoming more sensitive. This level shows where our energies are focused with intent. These intentions, sharp and clear are what we want, desire, need and go for. This is the beginning of the will that directs our life. The highest or fourth level is PURE INTENTION. This is where the source of all speech emanates from….where the form of speech has no thought, but just “is”. This is the root and essence of speech, and is often the innermost part of us, this space that connects us to the true Self, where our Truth resides. When we speak from the heart, we make use of the four speeches. And only in this manner can we say we are really speaking our truth.
So it is when we are truly and deeply in love with someone that we are speaking a great truth when we mouth “I love you.” And likewise when we feel something of great emotion, like anger, hatred, jealousy, we are also speaking. This is why–even as we joke and say “I hate you!’ the words release a negative energy that speaks of some part of a truth inside, no matter how flippant it may have been said. Remember that speech is energy, and energy makes up matter and our physical world. So when we speak, we actually build the kind of experiences that surround us and that we attract. We literally “call” to us the kind of life we are having. So there is a connection after all…when in a deep blue funk …lets stop and reflect…what is it that we are saying, or cannot say?
SPEECH IS ENERGY
A friend of mine called to ask if there was a different reason as to why she could not shake off her soar throat for the past month or so. She wanted to know if there was a reason for this in the etheric level. Since energy manifests itself in the etheric level and is finally expressed in the physical level, then sickness, or any dis-ease will normally have its roots at the etheric level. I responded by saying that she must have something inside her she cannot say, something that she is not finding enough will to do, say or bring out. This is because her dis-ease was at the throat area, and it is there where one energy center (the fifth charka or the throat charka) can be found. This energy center stands for everything one says and believes in, and also the will to be able to say it clearly and truthfully.
My friend thought my explanation apt as she, being a writer, was actually in the last editing phase of her book. This collection of writings has been something she had been working with for years and now she was in the stage of compiling her spiritual journeys and insights. For someone like her, known as a hard-core writer and journalist, such spiritual topics would truly be difficult to birth. And thus her sore throat at this point of her life to symbolize that blocked energy waiting to be released.
It was synchronicity that after talking to my friend, I picked up a yoga magazine that had something on speech–of how one has to have the “four speeches” to allow for the “full-spectrum truth” to come from the head, to the mouth, via the tongue and emerge out of the nose via the breath, and fully supported by the eyes as telepathic waves move with sound to the ears of the listener. The article gave the example of singing a hymn…where the song releases its deepest meaning and secret when every word is pronounced, with the inflection and melody. Then the song must be sung with the passion from the heart to single-mindedly bring out the message of the song while surrendering one’s being to the act of singing that hymn.
Speech is energy. Like thought and movement or action, speech, and everything else in this world of ours (seen and unseen) is energy. It is energy that moves about in different levels and dimensions. Speech meanwhile, has a special connection that grounds us to our actions and the physical world. We react to the world and our relationships by communicating our thoughts. And yet, we are not always aware how preciously powerful speech really is.
The speech energy comes form one source, and this is the throat charka. Have you ever notice that when you abuse or overuse your voice–like screaming at the top of our lungs, your voice in particular robs you off energy to speak deeply. When we loose the ability to speak deeply, we also loose the ability to speak our truth. On the other hand, when we gab and gab and let all that hot air out with no sense, words leek out of us and we are no where near our truths. This is the first level of speaking…this ordinary VERBAL SPEAKING – this kind which we all hear and use daily, the physical speech that are words with sound to communicate and to express that we are doing about our world, in our own way. So, we ask someone what they want for lunch. We gossip about the latest love triangles, we tell our husband not to forget to pick up the kids. This first level speech activity is something we never even put two or three sense worth of thinking time.
The second level is MENTAL SPEECH. This is the energy of speech that stays inside our mind. These are the internal monologues and dialogues we have about our wisdom and ideas (or the lack of them!). This is the level that we use to harness our rational mind, our emotional thoughts and feelings that would spur our intention to act on something. This is also where the unruly “monkey mind” often stays, where our mental speech chatters too much and no sense can be made of anything inside our minds.
The third level is SINGLE MINDED SPEECH. When we can identify with this level, it shows that we are becoming more sensitive. This level shows where our energies are focused with intent. These intentions, sharp and clear are what we want, desire, need and go for. This is the beginning of the will that directs our life. The highest or fourth level is PURE INTENTION. This is where the source of all speech emanates from….where the form of speech has no thought, but just “is”. This is the root and essence of speech, and is often the innermost part of us, this space that connects us to the true Self, where our Truth resides. When we speak from the heart, we make use of the four speeches. And only in this manner can we say we are really speaking our truth.
So it is when we are truly and deeply in love with someone that we are speaking a great truth when we mouth “I love you.” And likewise when we feel something of great emotion, like anger, hatred, jealousy, we are also speaking. This is why–even as we joke and say “I hate you!’ the words release a negative energy that speaks of some part of a truth inside, no matter how flippant it may have been said. Remember that speech is energy, and energy makes up matter and our physical world. So when we speak, we actually build the kind of experiences that surround us and that we attract. We literally “call” to us the kind of life we are having. So there is a connection after all…when in a deep blue funk …lets stop and reflect…what is it that we are saying, or cannot say?
