RelativiTea: Home for Father’s Day June 13, 2008
Posted by Dr. Pamela Gerali in Intention, Spirtual Awareness.Tags: A New Earth, Awareness, Eckhart Tolle, Einstein, Frequency Holder, Presence, Relatives, Relativity, Thomas Moore, Transition
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Family life is full of major and minor crises — the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce — and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. –Thomas Moore
My husband and I just drove 1,253 miles in our motor coach to visit my birth family and celebrate Father’s Day with my dad. At the urging of my other the entire family will be together—most likely with my dad for the last time before he makes his transition. Dad will have the opportunity to hold his new grandson, his only namesake for the first and last time.
This will be a bitter-sweet moment. We will all be together and will want to make it festive, but Dad’s condition is anything buy positive. In December he had another stroke. Twenty years ago, at the age of 58, he was paralyzed on the left side by his first stroke. The fact that he lost his right hand in a saw mill accident when he was nineteen and wore a hook for many years meant that my mother had to help him with many basic requirements of daily living. Twenty years later, she is still tending to him, but now he is blind, without short-term memory, incontinent, and totally dependent. It has been her labor of love.
Dad sleeps most of the time now and drifts in and out of awareness. He even sees and talks with his father and others who left us years ago. Dad is ready to go, but something has kept him here. Perhaps this gathering and the opportunity to say “good-bye” will free him from his need to hold on to his debilitated body.
This time with relatives will require lots of presence. It will be easy to get caught up in the drama and fall back into old judgments. Or I will assume my former role as “Peace Keeper,” smooth ruffled feathers, and make everyone happy and everything OK.
Einstein spoke about “relativiTea” the impact of the researcher in his scientific work. He discovered that whatever the observer noticed influenced the outcome of the experiment. In other words, whatever we see is what is—even if only in our eyes. And we know that we create our lives through our thoughts and beliefs.
During this week with relatives, it is my deepest intention to remain aware and be a “Frequency Holder” that Eckhart Tolle described in A New Earth. I will remain present, open, loving, and most of all, non-reactive. What is is, and all is well.
IntentionaliTea: Doing and Being our Best June 5, 2008
Posted by Dr. Pamela Gerali in Essence, Intention.Tags: A New Earth, Divinity, Don Miguel Ruiz, Eckhart Tolle, Essence, Humanity, The Four Agreements
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My husband and I celebrated the life of a friend at a memorial service this evening. It was truly a bittersweet occasion. On one hand, his wife, family and friends are extremely sad and will miss him deeply. On the other hand, he lived life to the fullest and brought joy to many. He firmly believed that he was part of the whole, a spiritual being enjoying a temporary earthly experience, and now he is reunited with God. But he is still with us in spirit.
His very sudden passing reminds us to live every moment to the fullest, and to be and do our best. Don Miguel Ruiz emphasized this intention from Toltec wisdom in his book, The Four Agreements. He states that “Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstances, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.”
I am committed to doing my best in every moment. Sometimes I fall short of my ideal or my goal, but I try. I also try to be my best in every moment, and sometimes I fail at that as well. In my efforts to get the job done or meet a deadline, I may be a little abrupt or pushy. It is not my intention to hurt anyone or supersede their “authoriTea,” but in those busy times, I may lose touch with the loving, peaceful Essence that I am. That is when Ego takes over and my efforts are less than efficient or effective.
We are the hands, feet and heart of God on Earth. We are emissaries of Love and Light and when we are in tune with our true nature, we can easily express love every moment of every day. This is my intention—not to just to be a vessel of love or allow it to flow through me, but to show up as Love and Light. In this state, we hold that higher frequency that Eckhart Tolle described in his book, A New Earth, and everyone is uplifted. This is how we express our “diviniTea” through our “humaniTea.”
