An Obeserver's Notes USA 2016 -Presidential Debate Virus.

An Obeserver's Notes USA 2106

RIP Matriarchy EGALITARIAN RISES. .

Over the past few months especially with the Presidential Election of 2016 approaching fast I have been engaged in some very intriguing conversations about our structured society, and matrimonial, and patrimonial way of viewing our world.  . One of which, just happens to be about the difference between matriarchy and patriarchy. Two of our sisters I will use as subjects simply by our society standards for this article. Hillary Clinton is a perfect poster of the evil matriarch(female, women) this is not true she is just an evil person, has nothing to do with her being a woman. Elizabeth Warren now she is in the "other" category which I would take as a compliment.She knows of the persecution of that title and all that it will bring. (matriarch).  Of course just stick any of the "good ole boys white club in the other ring.

The one resounding echo was "Women in charge and enslaving men". I am speechless and that is hard to do. While I expected the counter parts of the male gender to sputter out this nonsense it hit me hard to hear my sisters tell the same tale. I retreated back to my office and felt the need to clear the air and set the record straight, or as straight as our experiences have clearly defined.

ma·tri·ar·chy
ˈmātrēˌärkē/Submit
noun
a system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
a form of social organization in which descent and relationship are reckoned through the female line.
the state of being an older, powerful woman in a family or group.
"she cherished a dream of matriarchy—catered to by grandchildren"

I purpose a different viewpoint if I may, a reassurance of offering what a matriarch was defined pre-contact America's. Sisters hear and read this well, this is how we rise and how we also fall walking behind in the shadow's.

Matriarchy is a term used to describe a society different or in the "other" category. The label derived from the early European hierarchical patriarchy This mostly entailed the church and religious motives along with a superior unjust inequality. . It often applied to any society that did not conform to what was defined as 'civilized". Basically, what this meant was that any society where women were considered equal to their men counterparts the Europeans automatically viewed the culture as "other or uncivilized" and subjugated it in the most brutal and and forceful ways possible.(The religion sector became the dominant patriarch building block.  Don't really see a difference today? The simple truth is these societies posed a threat then and still do today,to the hierarchical patriarch type of system and the European invaders views of how the world should be.

Take a look at the definition I posted above the first one is the only one people see, not sure why perhaps because it is the first, or the most negative of the three listed. I am going to ask you now, to return to that section and take a good look at the second and third definitions and hold those in your mind for the next part of the article. Let's get down to the nitty gritty of what is truth, and what is myth. I also say, remember this too, words don't teach but experiences do. While digesting the words from the definitions I ask you to recognize the grace, the dignity, and soulful purpose of those statements. After all, the matriarch represents women which is the feminine energy, and patriarch the men which in turn is the masculine energy, which by the way we all have a 50/50 shot of containing both, while some tip either way on the scale. Sisters take this as a spiritual movement a circle of all the energy that has been passed down over centuries, and now let's remember and awaken.

Let's introduce a new word a word that the First Nations People (the ones post pre-contact Americas
they held a society know as a" egalitarian.." They relied on constant consensus and basic cooperation for their basic survival. Which in today's world is still the level at which we live. (wages being a prime example) They worked together to solve societal problems and they firmly believed in society safety nets..Can we say the same? It also helped that they shared everything in the community. This is not even considered today.

Many first nations followed the adage you might never know one's father, (brutal times), but you always knew one's mother, grandmother, and elder woman. This also stemmed from a belief of the these people that human sexuality was not a threat to society. Women were just as free to pursue their sexuality as men.Gender, and gender identity, sex, and sexual orientation were not stigmatized by these First Nation people. In other words, if a person who happened to be a women was a better hunter and warrior than gatherer (which required a high level of plant recognition)and weaver, she was not only allowed but highly praised to achieve and excel to use her skills as a hunter and warrior for the balance of the community. The same logic applies to the men of the society. Both are accepted for their strengths not their gender.

The matriarchy of the First Nations were highly dependent upon equal rights for every member of that society, sharing the power amongst all members of the given society.  Sisters what has happened to our spirits our truest essence of our birthright.? Sharing the wealth was considered in the best interest of the egalitarian society for it kept harmony which brings balance of members which also meant strong opposition to inhumane treatment. Basic birthrights; air, water, food, shelter, etc, were just not a consideration.


So now I see how these conversations take a turn and end up in some off the wall realm between what is word, and what is experience. I truly see why in this day and age why so many hierarchical patriarchs and monarchs, and democracies, women, men, feel the heebejeebees over the word Matriarch...I stand today, as the leading woman in my linage, my family, my community of sisters, I see a new horizon, new awakenings, a powerful surge of energy growing and expanding perhaps the First Nation's Peoples are not so lost and forgotten, perhaps they merely have quieted until we rise once more. Yes, I will be the one that when the conversations move to the realm of matriarch, I shall claim EGALITARIAN as the crowd hushes and ignorance bleeds silence, perhaps then a true conversation shall emerge.

My sisters be strong, be free, but most of all FLY to the truest energy that we are...We were born of the same, by the same, and for the same of all energies in this universe.
Peace

Intergrading Meditation Into Drug and Alcohol Centers.

Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers Today

Over the years the industry of Drug and Alcohol Treatment has grown to enormous numbers it is also projected to grow by 31% from 2012 to 2022. Speaking from experience of twenty four years in Recovery the spiritual side of the program has become watered down with a very narrow viewpoint for the 21st century. The rehabilitation center I came out of(1992) was old school mostly medical and emotional with very little attention to the holistic and spiritual side from the get go. Yes, prayer is implemented from the first hour of entrance and yet so much is left untouched. Thank goodness for AA meetings and sponsors.
 Addiction no matter what the ism is, boils down to dis-ease with oneself, hence the phrase it is a disease. The facts  are that most addicts come broken and lost, empty and feeling apart from not a part of the world.  A pattern of bad habits, bad choices, and well the spiral continues to the rock bottom point.  

The industry today is big business, from the courts, to the centers. to the sober living houses, long gone are the half-way houses of old. This is the 21st century and while it has kept up with the medical and psychological sides, it lacks still on the holistically spiritual side which is truly having the individual tune into his or her body, mind, and spirit as a center of three. This century has brought forth the holistic concepts of homeopathy, holistic healing, Reiki, EFT tapping, Yoga, Herbs and natural organic eating, energy and sound therapy, and my favorite Meditation just to name a few that have really come to the forefront of awakening and tuning into our truest selves. 

When entering a rehabilitation center, most people are at their lowest in all three centers, body, mind, and spirit. This is the point to which many if these were implemented at the beginning of the journey it would allow old habits to be quickly countered with new healthy loving habits and also create a earlier practice motive. Early recovery demands early methods of meditations. 

How Meditation Helps Recovering Alcoholics

However, at the root of every meditative practice is a quest for detachment or inner calm. In this sense, meditation fits nicely with recovering alcoholics’ central goals, i.e. establishing distance between themselves and their desire to drink.

It’s this psychic distance between wanting to have a drink and actually doing so that is so useful to recovering alcoholics. When students enroll in meditation classes, either through an alcohol rehabilitation clinic or an independent meditation schools, they learn to view their own impulses from a third-person perspective. In so doing, there’s a potential to cultivate peace and contentedness without resorting to alcohol or substance abuse.

Relation to Rehab

Many alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs have included meditation in their overall treatment plan. It’s not used in place of other therapies.  Instead, it provides powerful additional support for addicts in recovery. Part of the value of meditation is that those in treatment can practice it even after the initial recovery period is complete.  This makes meditation a valuable tool they can use to stay sober for the rest of their lives.

Research supporting Meditation for Addiction

A growing body of research supports meditation as an effective addiction recovery technique. For example, one study found that recovering intravenous drug users felt meditation was one of the best therapy tools to help them overcome their addiction [1]. Researchers who examined incarcerated substance abusers found that those who were taught how to meditate had lower levels of relapse and more positive outcomes after release than those who received only conventional recovery treatments [2].

Research suggests that meditation also helps people with alcoholism and drug addiction when it’s incorporated into a practice that includes physical exercise. For instance, yoga sessions that include meditation have been shown to be an effective part of addiction recovery [3]. In another study, recently-abstinent cocaine addicts who learned Qigong, a Chinese practice that incorporates meditative techniques, reported fewer cravings and other addiction-related symptoms than those who received a placebo treatment [4].

Meditation is not only for the spiritual

With all the talk about higher powers and Buddhist or Vedic meditation, a person couldn’t be blamed for assuming that meditation as a part of alcohol rehabilitation is a specifically spiritual endeavor. While it’s true that the world’s best known traditions of meditation all have a spiritual bent, there are just as many secular takes on meditation as an act of mindfulness rather than prayer.

What is Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

“…mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), brings together the latest understandings of modem science and forms of meditation that have been shown to be clinically effective within mainstream medicine and psychology.”

- Mark Williams,The Mindful Way through Depression

Since this sort of thinking circumvents any talk of faith or otherworldly intervention, it gives scientists a chance to have an empirical look at the benefits that meditation can play in addiction recovery. One study conducted by the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin found that mindfulness meditation can play a role in preventing relapse.

Dr Aleksandra Zgierska coordinated the study, and she says the practice of mindfulness as a means of staving off cravings is nothing new – it’s just that most of the evidence of its effectiveness was anecdotal until recently. Now, backed by clinical research, meditation as an alcohol rehabilitation tool is garnering mainstream attention.

To integrate this holistic healing and many of the others into mainstream  rehabilitation centers would only prove to add one more useful tool on the road of recovery. To be so archaic in this Dawn of Aquarius Time seems to be counter productive to the generations walking out of today's center's without every tool possible to their complete recovery and cure of this dis-ease. 

HOCUS POCUS FOCUS!!!!!!!!!

There are defining points that occur or have at least for me. I get the most of the lessons, and visions, and definitely the signs of things contrasting and expanding. I have always seen them in a pattern sense of knowing. I see patterns and am good at looking at them to find what is actually true. Take a Kaleidoscope and when first glancing at the piece through the glass you see a magnificent placement  of lines, and angles, and shapes and colors all vibrating at their own purpose and combining all these elements you get a glimpse of extraordinary a bliss of unexplainable geometry. It's captivates us at that point, and we stop there seeing only the surface of the patterns. I know, stay with me, though follow the pattern of the writing and it will lead you to well....that's the ending and I won't blow it now.

I began with one digital art piece I created long ago, it now was the maze of kaleidoscope that would bring me one step closer to my source, the source, our collective source but also it opened a new dimension of vibrations I have never known, a new level of knowing perhaps, these are all very sloppy words to convoy a feeling that in truth now words can adequately describe. As, I stared at the design I felt a leaving a expanding of my seeing it was as though it was a liquid I could easily move and slide back in and out again, it was amazing. There among the BIG PATTERN, the tiniest of kaleidoscopes appeared one after another in perfect timing and they lined up perfectly to what I call the spiral connection of life the vibrations that connects each of us to the source of all beginnings and endings. There I sat, dazed and hypnotized by this rhythm and movement. It required so much focus and openness to all matter, vibrations, heartbeats you get the idea. So after about an hour of this intense wild viewing and just being devoured in the beauty I began to appreciate every single line, angle, color, and in turn it brought more and more to the surface for me to take in and feel so so many vibrations of everything.

As the day went on so did the kaleidoscope of my perception and focus, it was sheer magic I saw micro mini patterns in big macro moments when everything was hustling and bustling I moved slower, yet swifter, with ease and peace. I stopped and took a breath and in a instant, something came in and somehow it started to contract pulling out of sight and touch..I again stopped and took notice, it was my vibration which had changed the pattern not the art of the image it continued in it's vibration leading it's purpose it never lost it's focus or changed it's feeling it simply does what it does because it is natural and connected to a source of all things. It accepts this. I needed to learn this, as this is the next level in my kaleidoscope journey. I felt a downward decline in my vibration and it sunk low and slowed way down, in the moment I stopped to breath, I soothed my feeling of lowness and started to raise it slowly with focus, and good thoughts, memories, reminding myself there is great love for me here, things are always working out for me, and you know what I got back to that place again. I am vibrating on the inner most level of the sources kaleidoscope of this life, to stop and smell the roses cause they are pretty fucking awesome. Appreciate everything that comes and goes for it really was meant just for you and one for me..it is the natural design.

I finally closed down the day, I called this the HOCUS POCUS FOCUS meditation, lesson, call it what you need to but I will use it everyday, every moment it is a magical place to be. I am happy to be back and you know I write just for me and you, I don't care about views, or page hits, or advertising monies. I write this to share and really just have a voice somewhere in this legacy of social media and internet epitaphs. I write for us dear sisters, so I can put it out there and rise to the sisterhood of this moment.

NIGHT OUT WITH THE GALS....I'M A VIRGIN.

The feminine energy is soaring in my vortex tight now. I really am digging it, but also am realizing too how I separated from that energy long ago, you know when the youth in you told you lies and society pitted us against each other. I was raised with so much feminine energy strong, and powerful, some would even say magical. I never gave it a second thought, that it was going to change.

As time went by, and I started out on my journey, I found that the energy I was raised with was a rarity (as I look back right now in this moment). back then, I felt it hindered me made me different that is the illusion I was trained to believe. Being different, was not a good thing. Better to fit in the box, than be outside it. I retreated from my sisters and their energy, for all I kept getting pounded with was it's a competition we are all OUT TO GET EACH OTHER. This boggled my mind, and didn't really feel right, but I lost in the moment of wanting to fit in succumbed to the whole bag of lies.

Back to today, short little background as to the full essence of all vibrations come full circle. My birthday is on the 19th of March and usually I celebrate it with my whole family, my kiddos and others but definitely both energies moving.  This is the universe is making a strong strong point with my on the feminine energy as well as connecting me with all my sisters. It turns out that this Thursday, night for the first time ever in my fifty one years of celebrating this one will be with just the females. We will be heading out to a place called the THE SWEET SPOT. Now, this didn't start out that way, we all were looking for something to do we looked and looked and then this little number came up on one of our social sites. We invited everyone of course but something in the air or the energy must have screamed with female energy and all that was left was me , my two beautiful daughters, and some very close friends will be heading out.

Now this must sound very strange coming from me as most of these posts are strongly related to the rising of sisterhood, so what better way for me to truly walk the walk and talk the talk. I look forward to the adventure and bonding we will have for those moments. I will have a wonderful story to tell either way and after all isn't that what makes rising of the sisterhood so special as we all get a little lifted by each of the stories, and also the words help but in the end it is the experiences that make it all worth while.

FULL MOON SICKNESS...HEALING TIME

The final full moon of winter has begun. She was magnificent last night. I have been out of the loop or the vortex for a few posts. It all started with a small cold and has morphed into a deep rooted chest infection. The heart chakra and solar plexus chakra. Fits perfectly as to why these two chakra's got hit that is my most vulnerable spots physically, emotionally, spiritually.  Now I am the type of person that has always related my physical illness to yes basic germs invading my body and infecting it that is a normal and natural process for which my body easily responds with joy and excitement to go to work and start healing after all that is the purpose and pleasure of this human form. The body will heal, to the best of it's capabilities, there in lies the true magic of what is to follow. I also believe in the contrast of that as my emotional state will reflect my physical health..I know I hope I will explain it below.

When the body is at it's best is when I am at my best. When I am in the groove which is almost all the time I love my body and have always had mad respect for it's amazing powers and it's ability to maintain me in this place and time. Then something comes down the river of life and shifts my boat, tips it, rocks it, and then my focus drifts to the circumstances of my environment or event. This is where it turns a little out there, so now that I am in it so to speak I start to let my body health take a hit, a small one mind you, I am still aware so I think OK I can spare a little unhealthiness to do this over here. Soon, it snowballs and my focus has now completely left the field of healing and good vibes and feeling good.

Now, my body has taken in germs, natural and normal germs that most days my body can easily and painlessly heal. Germs are on the attack and because I left the vibration of healing and focusing and mindfulness of everyday feel good healing thoughts I devoted to my body, and now I am really feeling the illness. It has struck and dug in deep. My chest, my lower back, my mouth, so many areas are now showing the signs of my neglect both in the physical action of taking care of my body, but the most IMPORTANT thing is my vibration of happy, healthy, and joy have been lowered so far down that it hinders the body from a productive, positive, and timely healing. My feelings start the process then my thoughts come in and mount up based on my feelings or emotions then from there all that is left is the manifestation of what the other two started.The end result in this case was a deep rooted emotional state that lingered in my heart and solar plexus areas and it took a huge toll on my physical well being, now I am at the bottom of it and my illness combined have taken a hit, I have quickly readjusted my vibration.  My body needs my feelings to support it's health, my body requires my mind to sync with my feelings(spirit, essence,) so that it can carry on it's purpose of giving me a healthy, joyful, happy, and peaceful, life.

 It is all a spiral cycle each one linking to the next and if I am not careful I a may end up with a chain of rusty sick links that will always keep me ill...Feeling and focus is the constant state I choose it keeps my vibration closer to source the vortex of all existence. Feelings hold the key to all vibrations in this human form, focused on those is the key to a raising in vibration a lowering in vibration. I find that when my vibration is high no matter what, even if I have to act like it ain't...so to speak I feel the vibration rising and that is always a good thing.

Peace love and light. Hope you all made it through the winter season with health, warmth, good purging, cleaning up the past, cleaning your emotional grid, filling it with something different , fill in all those gaps, what will you fill it with???

Spring is abound..Birthing, and new life is ahead.