I Am Thankful. Not just because it’s Thanksgiving. We don’t need a national holiday to express something so natural. But we do need other people in our lives, and the Thanksgiving Season provides us with the opportunity to gather in celebration of just what makes life beautiful. What can make life even more beautiful is making being thankful a daily practice.

Please join me and meet others at my blog for a moment this week to share what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving Season (yes, even my non-US friends and blog subscribers).

Post as many times as you like, even if you think of something new to add! Reflect on the special things or experiences (no matter how small or large) that have expanded your outlook, and the exceptional people who have touched your life.

Here are a few things on my mind this Thanksgiving Season:

I’m thankful for the positive energy, enthusiasm and encouragement of my friends, each one of you here and everyone offline.

I feel rich with so much support from my family and loved ones. I thrive on the bond of love and friendship that I have with each one. In particular, Mom, I am thankful for your love. You are an inspiration and a joy, a fabulous storyteller and my best friend.

I am thankful that I have learned the secret of giving unconditional regard to others, to myself and–just as important–accepting this gift from others. Living this way has so changed my being and world that I have made it my life’s mission. I appreciate being able to promote it as one of the primary channels for creating true wellbeing.

I give thanks for the technological genius of the internet and the random and happenstance way that it connects people–now with FaceBook and other social groups, I am thankful that we are even closer than “six degrees”.

I especially appreciate each one of the lovely people I meet daily: in my personal life, through my energy healing work, and in writing for this blog; you are truly a large part of the special joys of my life.

What are you thankful for?

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A stash of good things that someone could really use.
Or that I feel like giving to someone I meet.

Sometimes it’s a book that I really like.
That offers practical wisdom.

I just found a cool book to add to my stash.
It’s called, Don’t Believe It!

It’s about living bravely.
Written in everyday language.

Which is a breath of fresh air. Unlike so many reprinted books on ‘creating your reality’.

You know, the ones that have great information.
But were written more than a century ago in ‘New-Thought’ style…
And that some so-called current books resemble.

I like it also because it gives simple explanations.
Like about how the mind creates circumstances that seem to defy logic.
Or so called “Reality”.

So give this book a read.
If you like it, you might also keep a stash.
To ‘pay it forward’…

“Math is nature’s language: it’s method of communicating directly with us.”~Numbers

The perfection of  Phi, this universal form which can be found almost everywhere, including classical art and human life, is at the foundation of what makes life so infinitely fascinating. Although we usually don’t realize or  remember that divine mathematics is the author, the composer and, some say, even the Creator of such beauty.

It can also be healing to the soul. When you look for this spiral — and you’ll find it just about everywhere — allow it’s expression through nature and in art to perform its own subtle magic on your senses. Even those beyond the five. Especially take time in your meditations to appreciate its form found in the frequency waves and patterns of energy, matter, sound and light.

Sacred Geometry and The Golden Mean: in nature and art

I like the visual interpretation of the Golden Ratio in Sacred Geometry as featured in the meditative video, below. Its use of artistic imaging is set to a mysterious sounding score, a milder soundtrack than the high-intensity theatrical music used in so many YouTube treatments of this concept.

The video I chose to include here, in my opinion, does a better job than many others I viewed to contribute to the weaving of the teachings of Phi, which are so perfectly and clearly demonstrated in nature.

But the imagery is what got me, compared to other videos. Even the almost subliminal picture inside the iris in the opening view (no doubt intended to elicit the usual response) demonstrates the beauty of design in man.

In the end of this little piece, I wondered if the music which had skillfully helped to weave the message in the slide presentation would be overpowered when the TV clip was (abruptly) introduced.

Given its own somewhat subdued soundtrack of restaurant music and conversation soundtrack, I wondered if with proper permissions the TV clip could be better served if inserted after a short intro to the video. Before mixing in the other music. Then I’d have the TV clip fade into the slide show and music.

And yes, I’d include the cleverly placed image winking in the eye… but save it for the end.

Soul Reunion and Healing With Sacred Geometry

So how does meditation on The Phi heal? Be your own judge; take a look at the world around you and see if, when you notice the spiral everywhere, it doesn’t do a little something to help you appreciate and even find meaning in your purpose, which is really Oneness, after all.

Description from YouTube: The “Golden ratio”, Our one true connection to the cosmos, and perhaps God himself..Enjoy.

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However much advice you may get along the way, there is one secret ingredient to the great recipe of life. And that secret ingredient is …you.

This ABC report shows how even science is finally catching up with what many healers have known for at least decades: that we can create better environments for pre-birth memories. And if you are planning to become pregnant, this article is chock full of ideas from respected healers on how to ensure that the environment of your fetus is filled with positivity.

But what if you have already raised your children, have no children, or want to help yourself and those you love to change any unhelpful genetic or environmental programming?

You can still make changes after birth by changing the patterns that you were either born with or had adopted at some point during your life. It’s a simple process that usually involves participation in some type of energy healing process, coupled with a strong desire to be healed.

Greg Braden has talked about this type of healing in many of his works. He teaches about the matrix code that each of us carries with us into our life, and how it effects everything even our health. He gives examples  of how people were no longer governed by that code. In the case of a very young child, this was evidenced by the disappearance of HIV virus that he was born with.

I like Braden’s work because he backs up theory with studies (usually referenced in his books). I have found his suggestions to be quite effective in spiritual treatments for my clients, in particular his teaching that healing can be as simple as “shifting the way [a person thinks], the way that [they] feel, and the way that [they] emote”.

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If you want to browse Greg Braden’s work, here is a page from Amazon (my affiliate link). They offer some of the best prices and in many cases free shipping.

Looking for more Positive News: I was inspired to write this post based on an email and links sent to me by my friend, John. I welcome your comments on any positive news you are aware of.

The indigenous cultures see themselves as the elder brothers of our world. Their message to their younger brothers: You are destroying the world.

Being positive is healing, but a Pollyanna positivity that ignores the world around you can be as indiscriminate or even damaging as an overdose of the media’s version of news.

What to do, then, when tired of the clamor of opposing viewpoints of individuality vs. global unity?

Seek to understand the truth, first within. Then, when you find its balanced presentation there, look for hidden messages of Truth as both hope and caution in the world around you.

Story telling – found in the world’s mythologies and in today’s cultural reporting of ‘life as a spiritual practice’ – is filled with metaphors. These can help you define your individual relationship with the natural world.

An example of today’s repository of cultural and spiritual diversity can be found in the National Geographic.

Engaged in the storytelling tradition for over a century, National Geographic has been presenting and preserving more than just brilliant visual presentations of the world’s culture.

Through providing vivid visual story, it also presents a layered message: one of global hope through diversity with another of warning.

What can we do to preserve the vanishing cultures of our planet?

This video of a lecture by Wade Davis of National Geographic speaks to that preservation. He asks, “In the end, then, it really comes down to a choice: do we want to live in a monochromatic world of monotony, or do we want to embrace a polychromatic world of diversity?”

Hopeful programs are emerging to propose the introduction of permaculture solutions and turn the world’s pollution and other problems around.

What is “Greening the Desert™”?

The PundaZoie Company, creator of Greening the Desert™, is one company who is part of a growing awareness of and commitment to sustaining the environment by imitating nature. They use sequestration and dry-land habitat improvement, locking-in carbon and using hardy, drought-resistant and salinity tolerant trees and shrubs.

Trees absorb carbon, so PundaZoie calculates the likely carbon uptake per hectare for every project using select species. They choose trees by suitability criteria for soil type, climatic condition, rainfall, growth rates and other factors.

Here are a couple of short videos about permaculture methods:

Positive News: Part of the commitment of WhoHeals is to provide healing solutions in your personal world, including the reminder to focus on what is good about the world. While positive news may be difficult to find on CNN, fortunately it exists if you look for it. Please share any reliable sources of positive news you’ve found.

With the world news trending toward more and more negative reporting it comes as no surprise that people are searching for ways to be more positive. While positive thinking can contribute to a healthy response if you are seeking to enhance your well-being, it cannot change things by itself.

Some people find relief from the barrage of negative reports streaming into their living rooms all day long by just turning it off or limiting it judiciously. Why should you allow the endless loops of network news that is programmed with soundtrack obviously selected to have more theatrical impact to condition your response or become addicted to its grip or to feeling more helpless?

There are creative ways to adjust what you let in other than hiding under a rock or pretending all is well if you feel it is not. And hiding from how you feel is far from healthy; the body knows the truth of what you’re feeling.

So how can you responsibly seek relief and spread more focus toward the positive? What about finding news that offers solutions? This can be a means of adding to the expansion you may prefer to see by sharing.

Is there even any positive news?

I will be looking and reporting. Here’s a video from National Geographic on healing rainforests. It features a shaman from Paraguay. Below that is more about one of the groups working to save the rain forests.

Group saves rain forests

There are groups doing something to try to save the rain forests. One, World Land Trusts reports on how they are helping protect one of the most important Brazilian Atlantic rainforests remaining. They receive support to acquire additional properties, which strengthens the REGUA reserve and protects many threatened species, such as the Wooly Spider Monkey.

R.E.G.U.A. stands for Reserva Ecologica de Guapi Assu and is located in eastern Brazil. It protects one of the last stands of tropical rainforest left in the severely depleted Atlantic Rainforest, or Mata Atlantica, in Brazil. REGUA is home to at least 420 species of birds of which 120 are endemic to the coastal Atlantic Rainforest biome.

There are other projects supported, such as protecting Cloud forests in Ecuador where they  supported Napo Andean Forest Foundation to buy 494 acres in the Cosanga valley to protect spectacular Andean cloud forests.

Want to see a map of our forests? Check this first from NASA: Global Forest Heights.