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Feeding the Field on Earth Day

Feeding the Field on Earth Day

by Sara, from Institute of HeartMath

There is more to this phenomenon than the feeling you get. HeartMath researchers repeatedly have identified mental and physical changes that study participants undergo as they experience positive and negative emotions. HeartMath’s research and other research have shown that focusing on core heart-felt emotions can enhance one’s connection with others, and that this connection extends far beyond the individual. The research article Coherence: Bridging Personal, Social, and Global Health concludes that being responsible for our emotional energy and increasing our compassion, care and other positive feelings are not only reflected in improved personal health and happiness, but also feed into and are reflected in the global field environment.

So this Earth Day and each day, lets increase our responsibility for the environment by each one of us asking, “What am I feeding the field today?

Global Coherence

Years of researching the transformative power of positive emotions led IHM several years ago to conceive the possibility that personal coherence and positive energy on a grand scale could have a global impact and begin to heal the planet. IHM leaders and researchers asked a question:

“What if people around the world intentionally experienced sincere love, care, compassion and other positive emotions simultaneously and fed this positive energy into the global field environment?”

This question led to an experiment, and after nearly five years, more than 40,000 members of the resulting Global Coherence Initiative, with members in 87 countries, regularly feed positive energy and heart-focused care and intention into the planetary field environment.

Collectively, we create a field that interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field and energetic systems. As people intentionally send coherent love and care to the world, a more powerful heart-filled environment is created. This helps to build a reservoir of positive energy that benefits the planet. This reservoir can then be utilized to help bring balance and stabilization to people, thereby making it easier to find solutions to problems like climate change, the destruction of the rain forests and other global issues.

GCI scientists are establishing a worldwide network of sensing stations, the Global Coherence Monitoring System, to measure fluctuations in the Earth’s geomagnetic fields. These stations have many tasks, including: detecting how planetary events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are reflected in and predicted by patterns of activity in the Earth’s magnetic field; and examining how collective human emotional resonance in response to mass events of emotional significance is reflected in the Earth’s magnetic field. Learn more at www.glcoherence.org.

How Can You Feed the Field?

The Institute of HeartMath and the Global Coherence Initiative is calling on their worldwide membership and supporters on Earth Day to show their commitment to care for our planet.

Please send your heart-focused care and feed positive energy into the field environment. Regardless of your personal, political and spiritual beliefs, raise your voice in thankfulness and committed care for Earth. There are countless ways to do this.

Below are some great ways to show your thankfulness and committed care for the Earth:

  • Do the Quick Coherence® Technique, or whatever method or practice you choose, for five to 10 minutes on Earth Day to send the Earth appreciation, care and a sincere commitment to planetary healing.
  • Spend five minutes with at least another person, your family, or a group of friends or colleagues envisioning Earth and its inhabitants in harmony. Some people may wish to continue this for a few days before and after Earth Day.

Join thousands of others and spend some time on Earth Day in the Global Coherence Initiative’s Global Care Rooms, where people send collective care

“One of the things I like to do is ask myself at the end of the day: What did I feed the field today?,” says Dr. Rollin McCraty, IHM’s director of research. “How much of my day was spent being kind to the people I interacted with, being compassionate and caring, versus how much of my day was wrapped up in my to-do list or feeling irritated that things weren’t moving fast enough and so on? Because it all counts, it is important at the end of the day to assess what we fed the field.”

It is a very heartening momentum as we come together on Earth Day to make a difference in our world.

For a better understanding of how we affect the world around us, read one of IHM’s most popular article: Each Individual Impacts the Field Environment.

What Can You Do for Earth Day?

What Can You Do for Earth Day?

What Can You Do for Earth Day?

Earth Day is a day for action; a chance to show how important the environment is to you. Whether you organize an event in your community or teach a peer about environmental issues, Earth Day is about uniting voices around the globe in support of a healthy planet. This year for Earth Day 2012, we will Mobilize the Earth™ and demand a sustainable future. See below for ideas on how you can get involved:

 

Attend an Earth Day event

Organize an Earth Day event

Organize a Day of Service

  • Set up a volunteer event in your community to clean up the environment or help improve it
  • Don’t forget to register your event on our events toolbar!

Pledge an Act of Green

Sign our Petition

  • Help us achieve Renewable Energy for All, ask your government to end fossil fuel subsidies, invest in renewable energy technology, improve energy efficiency, and make energy universally accessible

Join an Earth Day campaign

 

Earth Day Network

Earth Day: The History of A Movement

Earth Day: The History of A Movement

Earth Day: The History of A Movement

Each year, Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.

At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. “Environment” was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news. Although mainstream America remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. The book represented a watershed moment for the modern environmental movement, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries and, up until that moment, more than any other person, Ms. Carson raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and public health.

Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center.

The idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes as national coordinator. Hayes built a national staff of 85 to promote events across the land.

As a result, on the 22nd of April, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. “It was a gamble,” Gaylord recalled, “but it worked.”

As 1990 approached, a group of environmental leaders asked Denis Hayes to organize another big campaign. This time, Earth Day went global, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting environmental issues onto the world stage. Earth Day 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It also prompted President Bill Clinton to award Senator Nelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1995) — the highest honor given to civilians in the United States — for his role as Earth Day founder.

As the millennium approached, Hayes agreed to spearhead another campaign, this time focused on global warming and a push for clean energy. With 5,000 environmental groups in a record 184 countries reaching out to hundreds of millions of people, Earth Day 2000 combined the big-picture feistiness of the first Earth Day with the international grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. It used the Internet to organize activists, but also featured a talking drum chain that traveled from village to village in Gabon, Africa, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Earth Day 2000 sent world leaders the loud and clear message that citizens around the world wanted quick and decisive action on clean energy.

Much like 1970, Earth Day 2010 came at a time of great challenge for the environmental community. Climate change deniers, well-funded oil lobbyists, reticent politicians, a disinterested public, and a divided environmental community all contributed to a strong narrative that overshadowed the cause of progress and change. In spite of the challenge, for its 40th anniversary, Earth Day Network reestablished Earth Day as a powerful focal point around which people could demonstrate their commitment. Earth Day Network brought 225,000 people to the National Mall for a Climate Rally, amassed 40 million environmental service actions toward its 2012 goal of A Billion Acts of Green®, launched an international, 1-million tree planting initiative with Avatar director James Cameron and tripled its online base to over 900,000 community members.

The fight for a clean environment continues in a climate of increasing urgency, as the ravages of climate change become more manifest every day. We invite you to be a part of Earth Day and help write many more victories and successes into our history. Discover energy you didn’t even know you had. Feel it rumble through the grassroots under your feet and the technology at your fingertips. Channel it into building a clean, healthy, diverse world for generations to come.

Earth Day Network

Today We Will Be Celebrating Earth Day, I know, I haven’t totally lost my mind yet (well….)

The reason we are celebrating Earth Day today is because tomorrow I have a lovely doctor’s appointment. I get to find out what method of treatment he has in mind for my hip and what days those treatments will take place and how many I will need(I know a run on sentence, can’t hush even when writing, lol!).That means we won’t be on the internet tomorrow, so why not celebrate our Mother Earth a day early. Really, we ought to celebrate Her more than just one day a year. Instead of one day a year, every day ought to be Earth Day. We ought to remember She is not only our Mother but it our job and responsibility to take care of Her every day. She gives us something special, life. Without Her, we couldn’t survive or exist on this planet. So one day a year, we show our dear Mother some love, I think it ought to be every day of the year but what do I know, I have already hung myself out on a limb this morning, lol!

Anyway, Happy Earth Day a day early!

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Wishing All Our Dear Brothers & Sisters of The Craft A Very Beautiful & Blessed Day!

Starting out a little different this morning, no fancy graphics or anything like that, just this. I woke up this morning at the crack of dawn to greet the Sun as usual. Oh my, He was shining so brightly and brilliantly over the tops of the trees. You could see His Rays extending for miles and miles it seemed like. It was breath-taking. Then it hit me, today is Easter for the Christian faith. Hmm, hadn’t really thought about it much and don’t know why it did hit me but when it did I started to chant. It is a chant I am sure you all know, “The Goddess is Alive and Magick is A Foot!” That is what has took me so long to get here this morning, I have been looking for it on YouTube and can’t find it anywhere. Just my luck, something I truly wanted to share with you today and can’t find it to save me. I did find a song that I am going to share with you and I believe you will enjoy it just as much, “I am Pagan and I am Proud!”

As I stood outside waiting for the Sun to fully rise, I did some reflecting. I know today is Easter and I know what it means to the Christian religion. But for most witches and myself, it doesn’t hold any meaning at all. I know we have Christians amongst us and I hope you have a very beautiful and blessed day. But since you are here with us, I would ask that you respect our beliefs on your special days as we respect yours. With that said back to my reflections, I heard the other day on the News that this year was the most disappointing year for mainstream religion yet. More people are leaving mainstream religion than ever before. Now where they are going they didn’t say but I have a feeling I know We have seen a huge increase in membership in the past year. We pick up to 5,000 new members each week. It makes me stop and wonder what has happened. Has our word finally gotten out? Do they now realize that we offer something more than other religions? Perhaps, perhaps not.

I know this morning while I was reflecting, I got to thinking about it. I was outside, listening to the birds sings, feeling the wind blow on my cheek and just enjoying all our Divine Mother has blessed us with. This great big beautiful world and such blessed and magickal lives. It is true the Witches are Blessed. On with my reflection, I got to thinking about what Easter really means for the Christian religion. Today is a day that Christ was suppose to rise from the grave and they celebrate his victory of life over death. We have nothing like that in our teachings or our beliefs. No where will you find it. Our Gods and Goddesses never died. There are still with us to this very day. They live on eternally, forever and ever. Our Gods and Goddesses are alive. We see them every  day in our lives, we use them in our rituals, they help us when we are in need. There is no denying they are very much alive and well to this very day.

I had someone yesterday at the grocery ask me if I was going to give my “Easter” speech kiddingly. I told them I didn’t think so this year. Oh, you ought to hear it, it is a something else. It is much too long and well let’s say, I am Pagan and a witch and leave it at that.

I think I have probably already said too much but today is just as special for us as it is the Christians. They celebrate a God risen from the death. We should be celebrating Gods and Goddesses that have never died and never will. They are with us continuously, forever and ever. They have made promises and promises kept. They have never asked to kill in their name and they have showed us unconditional love. They have showed us how to treat others as we would want to be treated. Most of all they give us the promise of rebirth. The opportunity for us to be reborn and reborn. A never ending cycle of life is what we are guaranteed. So while the world celebrates Easter, let us celebrate something even greater, our Gods and Goddesses. Let us give them honor and praise for fulfilling our lives and letting us see a world so few get to see let alone experience.

Let us give thanks to our Divine Mother & Almighty Father for this glorious Sunday morning! 

Your Karmic Number for April 20th is Five

Your Karmic Number for the Day is Five

Getting this 5 today means that you are moving in opposition of change. You have been marching in place. This is fine if you are only looking to increase your heart rate, but who wants to do that? If you want to see definite changes in your life then you need to find internal and external motivators to get you going. Locate the friends and family who have been giving you good advice. They care for your well-being. Recognize that and be grateful there are people to help you. Use this to develop your inner strength. In time, you will be taking giant leaps.

The Ogham Reading for April 20th is Onn-Gorse

The Ogham Reading for April 20th is Onn-Gorse

Onn-Gorse

While it also may have thorns, Gorse is known for a vibrant yellow flower that can last almost year round. For this reason this plant has become a symbol of vitality. It may be hardy and have some thorns but it protects wildlife and shines bright for everyone to see. When you draw this letter keep in mind optimism, positivity, and vigor. With Onn you will prevail as long as you keep your flower in bloom!

Fortune – This Ogham tells you that you will prevail! Stay happy and optimistic and everything you seek will turn out great!

Your Daily Rune & Witches Rune for Saturday, April 20th

Your Daily Rune for April 20 is Fehu

 

Fehu

“Fay-Who” – Literally: “Cattle” – Esoteric: Mobile Property, New Beginnings, Wealth

Key Concepts: Wealth, money, food, sustenance, Hamingja, luck, personal power, circulation of power, financial strength, prosperity

Psi: Beginner’s Mind, presence, freedom, first impressions, young love

Energy: mobility, luck, charisma, dynamic power, liquid and mobile transferable energies, abundance, circulation, ‘mana’, sexual attraction

Mundane: money, recent purchases, reputation, freshness, fashionability

Divinations: New beginnings, social success, foresight, energy, travel, money, control; or greed, failure, atrophy, poverty, endings.

Governs:

  • Delegating your energy to another, power transference or projection; the sending rune
  • Drawing gravity into the personal sphere
  • Promotion of personal and social evolution, changing circumstances of importance
  • Increase in personal monetary wealth
  • Beginner’s mind and presence as a tool for consciously creating a fresh start

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The Daily Witches Rune for April 20 is The Crossed Spears

The Crossed Spears

Meaning: The presence of the spear signifies arguments, negative events, and all manner of strife of an upsetting nature. However similar to the ‘Tower’ tarot card if next to a positive rune it could mean the end of an argument or quarrel. If with the rings it means the healing or renewal of a relationship. If there are military connections it could mean promotion. If illness is within the equation it means a speedy and successful recovery.

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“Blessed Are The Witches”

 

Your Daily Tarot Cards for Saturday, April 20th

The Daily Tarot Card for April 20 is The Fool

The Fool

Keywords: open to possibilities, journey, quest (for something, to realize a dream, etc.)!

Astrological Correspondence: Uranus

The Fool is the card without a number. It usually is positioned at the beginning of the major arcana but can be either at the beginning or the end as it depicts our learning experience through life from beginning to end. The Fool signifies one’s potential and abilities. Embarking on his journey toward self-knowledge, the Fool is at the same time adventurous and fearful, seemingly open to all possibilities, yet apparently unaware of the dangers along the way. It is a card of pure adventure. Irrational impulses, foolishness, and poor judgment are some of the negative aspects of this card. At the end of his journey the Fool has learned life’s lessons and is aware of his place in the world and is at one with himself.

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The Daily Love Tarot Card for April 20 is Temperance

 

Temperance

The card says Romance with a capital ‘R,’ and it vibrates to a higher frequency. When it is real, you have no doubt someone loves you. It is why you love them so much. You are high on each other and the pursuit of happiness. Trust your instincts and wisdom. Resonate with confidence that attracts and holds the partner who looks for real substance and is sure they have found it in you

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The Tarot Power Card for April 20 is The Hanged Man

The Hanged Man

You’ve denied a call to action that came from the most important person: yourself. As a result of pushing away parts of yourself that you don’t like, you may find yourself going around in circles or not making any progress at all. You’re not the victim here, as you have the power to release yourself at any time. Trust your gut feelings more, even if it doesn’t look good on paper. You have to address this sometime soon.

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