Dedication to truth and radical self care, says Aisha Salem, can hold this culture in the embrace of existence as heaven on earth. When we drop into presence and honesty about what matters in life, we assert a rhythm that creates paradise – in moments!
In a moment of paradise I walk in the forest, dedicated to self care. I don’t need to be there for someone else. I’ve left all housekeeping, all mobile media, to invisibly pace daily along this old-growth forest walk, chanting a mantra. My nervous system rejuvenates.
Sustaining, Liberating, Enlightening, Infinite, Destroying, Creating, Nameless, Desireless.
“The Guru Gayatri mantra eliminates karmic blocks and past errors, balances brain hemispheres, purifies the magnetic field, and brings compassion and patience.”
Balance, purification, compassion, patience. It’s ancient wisdom and what it takes to establish self care that rejuvenates. These trees are so grounded, their roots go so deep, and so high, reaching towards a solar angel. I walk rhythmically, that’s what heals me.
Once it was Sanskrit, now I recite the Foundation Stone Meditation. Angels, Archangels, Archai, Dynamis, Exusiai, Kyriotetes, Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones. When I’m old I’ll sit in the forest playing Tibetan Bowls. What is important is the ritual of rhythmic me time.
I imagine the beings of trees as I walk, chanting. I become like a tree – radiating healthy greenness, allowing humans to pass me by without worrying – so strong in my centred self AM I.
This is my radical self care, it keeps me whole. After many years of scourging for my dedication to truth. Aisha Salem’s revelation is not news to me. Dedication to truth beyond the hive mind matrix and attention to diet, rest and spiritual activity is viewed as radical. Why?
It’s economically unaccountable (although it supports production) thus dangerous to the status quo. But those who journey beyond the dominant paradigm into realms where spiritual science meeting emerging scientific discoveries, receive healing experiences that far exceed the expectations of the average human.
By tuning into what we really need – in each moment – we allow our parasympathetic nervous system to guide us from a place of security and love. Initially this indulgence is hard to justify. It takes practise to allow our deepest needs to guide us. What we think we ought to do is a cultural program perpetuating falsehoods and procreating dystopias. When we can drop the babble and discern what nurtures our self, we begin living in ways which propagate utopia.
So slow down and listen to yourself. Create for joy not for money. Do yoga – the union of soul and body, of masculine and feminine, sun and moon, spirit and matter. Reconciliation.
This rhythmic creation – footsteps in a forest with a mantra.
This radical way of becoming whole.
My dedication to my truth. My radical self care. So I may return – through separation – to inner union – face up and open hearted in the world.
Wholeness River Retreat 