To Have Children Implies to Assume the Responsibility of Their Emotional Care

TO HAVE CHILDREN IMPLIES TO ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THEIR EMOTIONAL CARE

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet).

Translated by Suzan Loutzenhiser and María Cicuéndez

The Maories grandmothers of New Zealand communicate by oral tradition that young couples, hopeful of parenthood, must retire to nature to reflect if they are truly willing to take on the responsibility of educating their future children. Their message demonstrates that parenthood is more than the act of bringing a child into the world. Parenthood, when approached with consciousness, is a full-circle process of accompanying children towards adulthood, and releasing them back to Life, their true mother.

If the couple decides they are not ready to sacrifice and have children, the Maories and the rest of the tribe would acknowledge their decision with respect, knowing their choice was the end result of deep introspection. In our own society, too often we feel that having children is expected, part of a role we have to play. Often the inability to have children leaves couples feeling less than, and rejected. And those that can have children sometimes step into the role of parent without much forethought at all. Although our world is changing at a rapid pace in some areas, our society has far to go in others, such as respecting a couples’ choice to have or not have children.

This example of honesty and introspection needs to be heard and followed in the western society where the privilege of having children is more often than not taken for granted in too many occasions. Nowadays, when pro-abortion laws raise blisters in society, both locally and on an international level, it is time to look deeply and think about the vital importance of committing as parents to educate those children brought into the world. Too often, a lack of such premeditated thinking leaves flocks of children abandoned, if not physically, then emotionally.

We live in contradictory times in which half of our global society fights to control booming birth rates while the other half hopelessly tries to conceive, struggling through situations of hormonal, financial and often emotional torture. For instance, the government of China imposes by law that a couple conceives only one child, allowing a second son, in some rural regions, as long as the first baby was a girl. This law has led not only to numerous abortions, legalized in China, but also to a high index of abandoned babies, especially if these babies are girls.

In India, astonished tourists can verify how some mothers, desperate, give their daughters away, putting them in the arms of foreigners to free them from misery, while many western couples suffer for not being able to accelerate the tedious and endless process of adoption.

Which facts are behind this imbalance of natality on a world-wide level? What contradiction is to blame for the growing sterility index in the civilized world while the Third World is the cradle of the fecundity? It is evident that in spite of not having hunger in the Western world, the transgenic foods and stress, among other factors, produce sterility in the kingdom of consumption.

If poverty forces many parents of the Third World to physically leave their children, professional demands of an extremely competitive world do not allow parents in the Western world to balance their jobs with their personal lives. This outside pressure forces many to choose between their careers and the demands of parenthood. Unfortunately, more often than not, a form of abandonment ensues when parents spend more time on their careers and less time with their children, filling the void of their absence with material gifts, and cybernetic and televising friends.

The present familial group differs from those of other generations in which children grew with masculine and feminine role models of all ages, where they were intermingled, enriching themselves from the coexistence. According to the maories, natives of New Zealand, without a strong connection with the ancestors, children do not know where they come from and they do not know where they go towards. Lamentably this is an ingrained sensation in adults of this generation who have children in a “mechanic way” without having gone through the process of inner-growth, and therefore being disconnected from their own spirit.

This is why it is of vital importance that parents consciously accompany their children through the process of growth, even if this pattern of conscious parenting was not laid down by their forefathers. Our generation must break this unconsciousness.

Where there is life, there is hope. If natural parents do not know how to nourish the soul of their children, perhaps Mother Nature will show them the way. As a well-known Spanish song by Mecano group says, “If a baby cries, the moon will diminishes to make the baby a cradle.”

We are children of Life and Life will take charge to educate and to feed us all the way during our human existence. Being conscious of this fact, and conscious of our roles and responsibilities as parents, can only enrich our experience and our children’s awareness of this wonderful gift.

MARÍA CICUÉNDEZ –

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On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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Voice and Sound: Sources of Life

VOICE AND SOUND: SOURCES OF LIFE

The involvement of the patient in its healing process is crucial for his recovery

Translated by Diya Naeck and María Cicuéndez

Who does not remember having felt much better after listening to a song? What does music has that evokes feelings and sensations that touches us so deeply that overwhelms us with emotion and changes our mood immediately? What power does the voice has that it is able to exactly transmit how a person feels?

This article is a reminder to listen to our own voice and open ourselves to the magic of sound that helps us to regenerate the energetic balance as a powerful vital energy source able to generate health and therefore, life.

In search of finding effective healing methods which would allow help patients to recover their health, the holistic medicine brings scientifically proved explanations to illness equally provable and totally compatible with the traditional medicine, as it is the case of voice and sound application, in the affected sick body organs.

This healing technique would be done either through harmonic chant, originally from Mongolia, a very powerful healing art–in terms of sound healing, that consists of emitting two simultaneous voices amplifying them in the buccal cavity and cranial resounders, or through certain musical instruments, like Tibetan and crystal bowls, shaman drums, Tibetan bells, and didgeridoos, among many others.

With this intention to fuse the conventional or allopathic medicine with the alternative one through voice and music therapy, the Sound Healers Association Director, Jonathan Goldman wrote the book “Healing Sounds” – 1992, a trip through the history, techniques and physical and mathematical knowledge related to the harmonic chant healing. A gift of music for the soul–and for the body, and perhaps most of all, for the spirit, a musical technique that patients could decide to learn in order to get involved as the key for their healing.

It would be essential that patients became aware of their responsibility when it comes to become healthy, instead of abandoning themselves in their doctor´s hands. Few patients know that sound has the power to break negative thoughts and therefore blocked energy, as well; allowing that the sick part of the body recovered its lost equilibrium due to the projection of harmonic chant or the sound of any of the mentioned instruments. This is possible since all sound therapy is based on the resonance principle, by which a higher and more harmonic vibration can transmute a weaker, dissonant and non healthful one.

From a physiological point of view, the vocal overtones produce changes in the heart rate, breathing and cerebral waves, which brings about a mind modification which facilitates well-being. It has been scientifically proved that sound helps to regulate the immunological system calming mind and body. At physical level it is used to palliate anxiety, distresses, stress, depression, sadness, insomnia and hyperactivity, among others diseases.

Music is a gift of life within the reach for everyone. Not controlling harmonic chant and instead transforming oneself to it would be a very tempting, magical and healthy invitation!

MARIA CICUENDEZ

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Convivir con el Miedo a Vivir

CONVIVIR CON EL MIEDO A VIVIR

Enfrentarnos a nuestros temores con amor y una actitud positiva son las claves del equilibrio emocional

Dicen los sabios que el miedo es lo contrario del amor y que la sociedad actual se sostiene en los cimientos del temor a vivir en lugar de aceptar la vida como un regalo, una oportunidad para conocernos a nosotros mismos, encontrar nuestra propia voz, mediante la escucha, y construir nuestros sueños con la fuerza de la alegría y de la ilusión.

Dicen que fuimos creados por una fuerza de vida que volcó su imaginación más desbordante en pintar los colores de la naturaleza, de las razas, de la flora y de la fauna y de los innumerables matices que constituyen la creación. La riqueza y variedad de la vida se ve cubierta por la oscura niebla del temor, una emoción primaria derivada de la aversión a la amenaza que se manifiesta tanto en el ser humano como en los animales.

Esta percepción de peligro, real o supuesto, es claramente perceptible en la montaña. Al pasar de la claridad del día a la oscuridad de la noche parece como si hubieran cambiado el decorado de una obra de teatro y hubiéramos pasado de sentirnos seguros, como en el vientre de nuestra madre, a estar totalmente desvalidos, como ante el trauma del nacimiento, nuestro primer llanto de miedo ante lo desconocido. Nuestro primer gran reto: ¡Vivir!

El ser humano tendrá que enfrentarse a esa sensación de temor a lo largo de toda su existencia y la mejor actitud para hacerlo más llevadero será la confianza en la vida misma. El esfuerzo en mantenerse positivos y “ver la botella medio llena en lugar de medio vacía”. Un carácter del que hacen gala los personajes de ficción denominados hobbits de la famosa película “El Señor de los Anillos”. Unos alegres duendes que siendo los más pequeños de los seres, consiguen restablecer el equilibrio y la paz en su mundo mediante la fuerza de su creencia en la vida, en la amistad y en el derecho de toda criatura de vivir en un entorno saludable ¡y por qué no, feliz!

La mayor enfermedad del siglo XXI no es el cáncer, ni el sida, sino el miedo que alimenta enfermedades físicas y emocionales. El temor que merma voluntades, ilusiones y en definitiva el deseo de vivir. “Las mentes invisibles que dirigen realmente el mundo”, no los gobiernos, ni las empresas, sino aquellos multi-millonarios que hacen y deshacen en el planeta a su antojo responsabilizando a las cabezas de turco, que les representan en reuniones internacionales, saben cómo remover las aguas del pánico en la sociedad.

La crisis económica es el caldo de cultivo de la angustia más profunda del hombre. El miedo al desempleo hace de revulsivo para tener que enfrentarnos a emociones que escondemos a diario. Miedo a no ser “lo suficientemente bueno profesionalmente”, miedo a ser “demasiado joven o demasiado mayor”, miedo a “no estar a la altura de las exigencias del cambio”, miedo a no poder afrontar la hipoteca y otros gastos, miedo a perder nuestro lugar en la escala social que ocupemos, miedo a “no ser nadie sin tal coche o tal casa”, miedo a que nos abandone nuestra pareja y a que nuestros hijos no nos valoren igual por no poder mantener el nivel económico al que les habíamos acostumbrado, malcriándoles.

Es evidente que una asignatura de por vida es aprender a enfrentarnos a nuestros propios miedos. Lo primero que habría que aprender al respecto es desde dónde hacerlo. Tendemos a ser auto-destructivos y a auto-criticarnos desmesuradamente, casi siempre de puertas para adentro. Aquí sería necesario un cambio de actitud radical. Aparcar la auto-crítica negativa para tratarnos con todo el amor y respeto. Escuchar cómo nos sentimos en lugar de juzgarnos. Y desde ese diálogo afectuoso con nosotros mismos, tomar las decisiones pertinentes para darnos solo lo mejor para nosotros. Esta actitud nos provocará replantearnos toda nuestra vida con consecuencias bilaterales que sin duda merecerán la pena afrontar.

Para ayudarnos en el proceso de “poner buen rollo en nuestras vidas” cada uno tendrá que encontrar las herramientas que se adecuen más a su forma de ser, desde un cambio de alimentación, hasta el deporte, pasando por infinidad de terapias naturales entre las que destacaría la práctica de relajación japonesa reiki, musicoterapia, cristaloterapia y yoga.

Por otro lado, las plantas medicinales nos ofrecen toda su riqueza energética y natural para restablecer el equilibrio. La Organización Mundial de la Salud recomienda las esencias florales del investigador británico Dr. Bach que entre otras características, ayudan al hombre a superar diferentes estados de miedo mediante el efecto sanador de las flores.

El Dr. Bach propuso Mímulo (Mimulus guttatus) para temores de origen y causa conocida, Heliantemo (Helianthemum nummularium) para el pánico extremo, como por ejemplo a la muerte. Scleranthus (Scleranthus annuus) para el miedo a tomar decisiones, Cerasífera (Prunus cerasifera) para el miedo a perder la razón y Castaño Rojo (Aesculus carnea) es de gran utilidad en lugares donde intervenga el miedo colectivo como en hospitales donde hay mucha “preocupación en el ambiente”. Las esencias florales aportan su particular composición para ayudarnos a mantener una actitud más serena y relajada ante la adversidad a la que nos enfrentamos. Se pueden encontrar en farmacias y en herbolarios, siendo aconsejable tomarlas baja la recomendación de un terapeuta especializado.

No es una ficción que la humanidad anhela la tranquilidad y la armonía en sus vidas y que cada persona busca a su manera la forma de encontrar “pedacitos de felicidad”, algo que los mencionados hobbits, duendes de la novela “El Sr. De los Anillos” conseguían alcanzar de una manera natural y descaradamente mágica. Es real que aunque nos sintamos pequeños en la globalidad del mundo, cada criatura es grande en si misma. Al nacer recibimos la protección de poder mirar hacia dentro y, de una manera instintiva, encontrar el calor del útero materno y así poder volver a salir a nuestra particular rutina, fortalecidos y concienciados para fluir con la vida en lugar de luchar contra ella.

MARIA CICUENDEZ

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Listening to the Beat of Mother Earth

LISTENING TO THE BEAT OF MOTHER EARTH

Translated by María Cicuéndez

I remember fondly how a nature-loving friend of mine made me aware of how Mother Earth nourishes us on a daily basis, going basically unnoticed by most people. I took some moments to realize that I was alive because Gea provided so, nourishing me with foods born of her womb, giving me land on which to live and exerting a gentle force to keep me grounded on her surface.

According to a television program on the Amazon natives, humans can increase their perceptions of nature and of Mother Earth’s heartbeat through the use of medicinal plants that alter one’s state of consciousness without being under the effect of any drug. It is a state similar to that achieved by mystics though the use of meditation. People who had this breathtaking experience described perceiving the earth as something alive; they could hear its breathing and they perceived each movement as an image sequence similar to that from the film “Matrix”. These Amazon indigenous peoples as well as Indians consider what we call reality to be an “illusion” which they call “Maya”, a dream of the soul. They therefore believe that the earth’s true essence is something very different from what most human beings are able to perceive and comprehend.

In any case, a tangible reality for all of us is the increasing deterioration of our blue planet. A popular Spanish proverb that “when the river sounds that is because it carries water”. Mother Earth’s lament grows more audible every day with the already-occurring dreadful consequences of the changing climate on living creatures.

In the past few years, social alarms have gone off and governments around the world have been forced by the public outcry to hold environmental summits to try and at least show that they care, although they have not taken effective decisions to stop this tragedy. We have heard a lot about environmental plans to increase the planet’s quality of life, but specific and meaningful warning messages have not been treated with a sense of urgency. Already back in 1854, when the Indians were displaced from their homes and forced onto reservations, the Native American Chief Noah Seattle, or Sealth, made a request to then-US President Franklin Pierce to respect the Earth, a speech that made history:

“Here and now make this condition that we will not be denied the privilege without molestation of visiting at any time the tombs of our ancestors, friends, and children. Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch. Our departed braves, fond mothers, glad, happy hearted maidens, and even the little children who lived here and rejoiced here for a brief season, will love these somber solitudes and at eventide they greet shadowy returning spirits”.

As Noah Seattle explained, men should not be so ignorant as to believe that they could control the Earth or their Creator “Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors — the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people”.

The lack of respect for the earth as something sacred and the dreadful consequences of this were already augured in 1854. Factors such as contamination caused natural disasters and the extinction of animals and plants, among other environmental tragedies.

Therefore, the key for the planet’s healthy future does not reside in political meetings, which inevitably yield environmental “solutions” that will not harm the profitability of industries. Such solutions are designed primarily to assuage the public, without having any significant positive impact on the environment.

Mother Earth’s request therefore goes directly to every one of its children, responsible for taking care of its well-being through becoming aware of this bond as it summons the 10th of the Native American Principles: “Treat the earth with respect as something sacred. Be Close to the Great Spirit and show respect to everyone”

As a gift for returning love to the mother earth, one day, without expecting it, we might be surprised to be able to hear its beat. A life miracle that some has already enjoyed like Chief Noah Seattle!

MARIA CICUENDEZ

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Mother, Protect Me When I am Inside your Womb, Give Me Your Peace to Grow in Harmony with You and Life!

MOTHER, PROTECT ME WHEN I AM INSIDE YOUR WOMB, GIVE ME YOUR PEACE TO GROW IN HARMONY WITH YOU AND LIFE!

Babies learn everything about their mothers when they are inside their bodies

Especially to feel loved

Translated by Olga Cadenas and María Cicuéndez

According to the tradition of the Yupik people, natives of Alaska, the spirit of a developing baby within the maternal womb pick up all the emotions and the events that are happening to the mother and the family during the gestation, a reason why pregnant women must become aware of providing the baby peace and a lot of love.

“If the mother suffers stress, anger, pain or frustration, those feelings do have an impact on the child, which supposes for him/her a great handicap from the beginning of life. The Yupik know that a growing child has a great consciousness. That is why they teach to the future mothers the importance of being at ease and becoming aware that the baby is already learning a lot about them, specially about being loved, as it is explained in the book  “Grandmothers counsel the World” by Carol Schaefer.

“The baby will also have an affective deficiency after birth, if the parents are too busy to nourish and educate him/her appropriately. It is a must to make the future mother conscious of the great influence that she makes in her baby even before it is born. To become aware of this fact will make this relationship go through the right path from the very beginning”.

Carol Schaefer gathers in her book “Grandmothers counsel the World” the teachings of thirteen women elders from different continents, considered to be guardians of their tribes’ wisdom. The aim of the book is to give a gift to the world: their advises, which seek to unify the hearts of everybody as One.

For the 13 grandmothers, the connection with the physical mother is as essential as the union with the Mother Earth. When they disappear, their body die but their spirit remains alive. Indigenous people believe that all living creatures are interconnected and are a single spirit, like the mother and the son are a same being when this one grows in its mother’s womb.

Due to the alarming and undeniable corruption of the spirit of Humanity, these wise women have decided to share their ancestral and secret wisdom with the world. According to their explanations in the book of Carol Schaefer, the global human family is lost, confused and sick. Disconnected from ourselves, we don’t get nourished from the planet that feeds our body and soul. This is the reason why these wise women, healers, shamans and midwives request to pregnant mothers and their families to be conscious about what they are contributing to the baby before, during and after his birth.

According to the regressive therapy technique to the maternal womb, the moment of birth, the bridge between the gestation state and the exit to life, will have an affect on the baby for the rest of his/her life, as well as the emotions that the mother goes through pregnancy. Experts in this discipline predict the type of personality that the baby could have based on the baby’s birth. A graphical example of this statement is the case of a baby that is kept inside of the womb against his will. This will provoke the baby  to have phobias to remain locked up in small sites, like an elevator or the subway as he will have an inexplicable feeling of anguish, and the desire to take air in a compulsive way.

Children of the world guardians try to make women remember all these details, which are essential and often forgotten, because of a demanding society that does not leave space for the natural development of the species. The deep needs of human beings, like taking the time to nourish a baby, go against the exigencies of the modern life that makes pregnant women sick, and therefore their children. The obligation to work in order to help to provide for the family, leaves little margin to women to dedicate themselves to their babies as it would be required to grow in balance with their mother. However, the intention to provide peace and harmony to the baby will reach the heart of the baby who even before his birth already knows what the really important thing is: the peace of spirit.

MARIA CICUENDEZ

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Mentioned book: “Grandmothers counsel the World” – Author: Carol Schaefer
Trumpeter Books – An imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc.

*The International Counsel of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers was in Spain in 2008.
More information in:
www.consejo13abuelas.com
www.grandmotherscouncil.com
www.sacredstudies.org
www.forthenext7generations.com

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The Heart as Our True Spiritual Guide

THE HEART AS OUR TRUE SPIRITUAL GUIDE

Therapists are life facilitators as human as their students

and should never be idolized

Translated by Mònica Gómez Ferrero

Practicing meditation, reiki, chi kung, yoga, christaltherapy, sound and voice techniques and taking flower remedies, among a long list of therapies which pretend to activate our energy flow, are great opportunities for personal growth through self awareness. There are options to really look inside to heal those issues in our lives that make us unhappy in order to reach inner self balance.

Nevertheless, there’re only a few practitioners of these disciplines who really understand the meaning of being honest with oneself in order to face whatever needs to be changed in their lives from a humble and determined perspective.

Due to ignorance or lack of role models to follow as examples of people who have gone further in the personal growth path, something that Native Americans call “vision quest”, many people get scared to death when realizing some unknowing aspects of their personality that they don’t happen to accept, instead of reaching the expected Nirvana when attending a New Age course. What about the promises of the Age of Aquarius? How does this come to terms with the daily exercise of facing life hardships? How can we learn to love and accept ourselves just as we are?

The book “The knight of the rusty armour” by Robert Fisher mentions that “When pupils are ready masters pop up” but who is this Master? Who is the qualified Guru that decides whether something is good or bad for us?

According to Buddhism, the Inner Being inside each creature calls everyone several times during life to achieve whatever lessons the soul decided to learn as a specific human being. Buddhist and Hindu agree that the soul has endless faces one for each life that the soul decided to have in order to learn about life. The kind side of Karma would be that each life would be a new chance to start learning from zero in stead of having to pay for other’s lives mistakes.

Life is generous! Is there any loving mother that wouldn’t forgive their children? Our own soul is Mother. It is called Shakti Kundalini in India. A Divine Energy which provides life. She is the real mother that lives in our hearts and shows us the truth about our identity. She is a compass to take a look when doubting. It is an instinctive voice, the wildest and most natural energy flow within our body from birth. It is that sixth sense that lives inside our heart as the real spiritual master to follow all the way!

On the other hand, there are people who have gone further in their personal growth through self awareness and life experience, which allow them to guide others in their “vision quest”. These therapists are wonderful and necessary. However, they should never be considered as “gods on earth” since they are as human as everyone and should be even more humble and understanding because of their decision to guide people in their personal inner search. However, some of these facilitators have a tendency to believe superior than their students. Christ recommended “Not to judge not to be judged”. It is therefore a must not to fall into the trap of EGO during our “Vision Quest” using spirituality as a tool to raise our hurt self-esteem pretending to feel superior to others.

Real spiritual guides are very humble and do not need to show off their virtues to make people compliment them. They feel connected to life and they know that is their biggest treasure. They are Light Channels and they feel thankful for that reason. Metaphorically, they are like mobile charger that connects others to electricity, but only God, the Universe, the Father, the Mother (whatever name everyone chooses to call the divine manifestation) can give real light and reconnect us to our real essence.

The book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse shows all the steps that Buddha followed until reaching enlightenment Who wanted to be the first had to start being the last one”. leaving everything to reach everything. On the other hand, Christ gave a humility lesson kneeling down and washing the feet of his disciples claiming that “

From here, I encourage people who sincerely want to listen to their soul to find within their hearts their true master and the strength to accept the healing crisis that will come up as the consequence of doing a real “vision quest”. A fake and “light” spirituality does not convince anyone serious. Quick and easy wisdom cannot be bought at a department store. The Path towards Oneself may seem full of stones but there are also flowers in the way. Let’s get closer to smell their fragrance both freely and in our own way but always remain aware!
MARIA CICUENDEZ

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La Voz y el Sonido: Fuentes Creadoras de Vida

La involucración del paciente a la hora de sanarse

es fundamental para su sanación

¿Quién no recuerda haberse sentido mucho mejor después de haber escuchado una canción? ¿Qué tiene la música que evoca sentimientos y sensaciones que nos embargan y nos trasladan a otros estados de ánimo y de conciencia? ¿Qué poder encerrará la voz que nos transmite exactamente cómo se siente una persona?

Este artículo es una llamada de atención a escuchar nuestra propia voz y acercarnos a la magia del sonido que nos ayuda a reestablecer el equilibrio energético como una potentísima fuente de energía vital capaz de generar salud, y por tanto vida.

En busca de encontrar métodos de sanación eficaces que consigan ayudar a los enfermos a recuperar la salud, la medicina holística aporta explicaciones a la enfermedad, igualmente demostrables y totalmente compatibles con la medicina tradicional, como es el caso de la aplicación de la voz y el sonido, en las zonas afectadas del cuerpo.

Esta técnica se realizaría  bien a través del canto armónico, de origen mongol, arte musical que consiste en emitir dos voces simultaneas amplificándolas en la cavidad bucal y los resonadores craneales, o a través de determinados instrumentos musicales, como los cuencos tibetanos o de cuarzo, tambores chamánicos, crótalos y didgeridoos, entre otros.

Con esta intención de fusionar la medicina convencional o alopática con la sanación alternativa a través de la voz y del sonido, el director de la Asociación de Terapeutas de Sonido, (Sound Healers Association), Jonathan Goldman escribió “Sonidos que Sanan” (Healing Sounds – 1992). Un viaje a través de la historia, técnicas y conocimientos físicos y matemáticos del efecto sanador del canto armónico, que requiere la implicación del paciente en su sanación.

Sería importante que los enfermos tomaran conciencia de la responsabilidad de involucrarse en sanarse, en lugar de abandonarse en las manos de los médicos. Pocos enfermos son conscientes de que el sonido rompe formas de pensamiento negativo, y por tanto de energía bloqueada, permitiendo que se reestablezca el equilibrio en el órgano donde se haya proyectado el sonido mediante el canto o alguno de los citados instrumentos.Toda terapia de sonido se basa en el principio de resonancia, por el cual una vibración más intensa y armónica transmuta a otra más débil, disonante o no saludable.

Desde un punto de vista fisiológico, los armónicos vocales producen cambios en el ritmo cardiaco, en la respiración y en las ondas cerebrales, lo que provoca una modificación de la conciencia que facilita bienestar. Está científicamente demostrado que el sonido ayuda a regular el sistema inmunológico calmando el cuerpo y la mente. A nivel físico se utiliza para paliar estados de ansiedad, angustia, stress, depresión, tristeza, insomnio e hiperactividad, entre otras enfermedades.

La música es un regalo de la vida al alcance de todos. No controlar el sonido sino convertirnos en él es una invitación muy saludable.

MARIA CICUENDEZ

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Happiness is in Authenticity

HAPPINNESS IS IN AUTHENTICITY

To learn how to fly implies that one needs to be confident and not to be influenced by others’ blackmails

Translated by Madhavi devi dasi

To learn to live as we are instead of adapting to the demands and expectations of others is a difficult task that requires a lot of determination. It also requires us not to fall into someone else’s clutches just to stay “in the comfort zone” even if we have to go through criticisms and blackmails.

Emancipation is fomented by western cultures, considered evolved, in Europe and the United States as well as by some indigenous tribes, labelled as belonging to the third-world, but are actually ruled under very high values that should never be forgotten. Their rites of initiation are the entrance to adulthood in which the initiates are considered capable to take charge of their lives.

It seems that in western countries, and more often in eastern as well, the influence of tourism, in countries like India is creating needs that did not exist, mostly in adolescents, who are more receptive to being brainwashed. It is a fact that, worldwide, many people are burdened by a struggle to achieve success, which would have a different meaning for each individual. However, the values and norms of a society are related to reaching a societal position and wealth. The goal of succeeding ends up becoming more important than achieving personal dreams for the most part.

Besides, reaching a good socio-economic status, having an attractive and eternally youthful body (via surgery for instance) are sending messages that lead to fake happiness. It is alarming that some television programs even “propose” changing one’s body as a unique way to achieve self respect and self acceptance. It is not uncommon for an individual to apply the Darwin survival law which requires one to step on the rest of the species in order to achieve one’s goals (in most cases, materials gains only).

This makes us ponder about the meaning of life. Where do we keep our personal dreams once we have already achieved some materials gain such as a beautiful house and a car that makes your neighbours envious? How can we measure our self-esteem if we haven’t achieved any of that or when we feel like we are losers? Shouldn’t we learn how to fight for our true wishes instead of hiding them with defeating ideas? Are there resources and possibilities on earth for everyone or the collective unconsciousness has decided that this is only possible for “the chosen ones”? What can people who view reality superficially do when crisis shakes their existence?

In the French comedy, “the Free Planet” (the Belle Verte), the Earth was visited by very evolved beings who came to teach about consciousness to human beings from another planet. Many of their missions had to “connect” people with a different vision of life. This change of approach caused emotional and psychological readjustments which were apparently funny yet dramatic. The movie is a wake up call for all of us to think about the suffering that caused “wakening” and “refusing” to be the followers.

The book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach (1970) addresses the pain of a seagull named Jonathan who wants to fly higher than the limits marked by its Flock. If we dare to be absolutely honest with ourselves, how many of us will not leave our dreams behind under the excuse of comfort, safety, and blackmails of our dear ones? Oftentimes, pressure comes from people who don’t love us much, such as our bosses and colleagues, who do not care about us but to mob and harass us in order to make us feel worthless. The intention behind that attitude is actually to exploit people so that we would work harder in the fear of losing the job or privilege.

Christ said “Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” To be oneself, it is a must for one to be willing to develop both capacities maintaining our values as Jonathan the Seagull that flew very high and taught others to enjoy the sunset in the highest. That’s the reward for the most daring to be true and be faithful!

MARIA CICUENDEZ

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The Human Energy Field, Reflection of our Health

THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD, REFLECTION OF OUR HEALTH

Translated by Diya Naeck and María Cicuéndez

Nowadays the collective unconscious has incorporated vocabulary from the world of natural therapies, related to energy, using them without being aware of their exact meaning or their importance in health keeping, a fact that specialized therapists are trying to change.

Requests like “putting a chakkra”, usually make therapists smile, and since according to the Hindu Veda tradition these energy centers are already incorporated in our body from birth. It would be as asking someone “to put a lung to somebody”, which is completely absurd.

According to the Mexican Mayas humankind is living a transformation, which symptoms are shown, partly, in the emotional and economic crisis that we are living. This big evolution will represent an opportunity to change the materialistic mentality that prevails in the world, for a more down to earth one, respectful towards the planet and living creatures.

This awakening of humankind to a more fraternal and respectful values could be the cause of the announced transformation of the planet at different times and rhythms depending on the perception of people. It would be something like starting to identify a sound that comes from within, or a deep wish of communion and connexion with the planet, like babies would look for their mother just following their instinct. Something that can be explained but felt.

The human soul wishes to find balance, harmonizing the right and left brain hemispheres which if unbalanced can cause physical and mental diseases. These negative or positive vibrations can be detected at the energy field, also called aura, visible through the Russian Kirlian photography, a device that can perceive it.

The characteristics of the aura have been thoroughly investigated by the well-known North American scientist, Barbara Ann Brennan, a physicist who worked at the NASA during five years and is actually a therapist in New York. Brennan described the energy fields in her best seller “Hands of Light” (1987) as a luminous being that surrounds the physical field and penetrates it emitting its own radiation. This scientific approach would be a bridge between the traditional medicine and our psychological preoccupations, since diseases begin to become perceptive to the aura before affecting the body.

“There are several schools which define the aura in different ways. However, all of them divide it into fields which are classified by their positions, colours, brilliance, forms density, fluidity and function. The energy field is divided in the etheric or vital field, emotional, mental and intuitive or spiritual field being each one of these fields in a higher vibration than its precedent”. Barbara Ann Brennan explains that the aura is the reflection of the being because it shows our emotions attracting people or situations which vibrate at our same positive or negative vibrations.

It is therefore, important that humankind becomes aware of maintaining the balance of all the fields that compose the aura in order to keep healthy. According to the Indian medicine of the Vedas, the direct relation between the physical body and the energy field that surrounds it is the key to mind and body equilibrium. A life goal!

MARIA CICUÉNDEZ – www.mariacicuendez.webs.com

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Adolescents and the Respect for Themselves

ADOLESCENTS AND THE RESPECT FOR THEMSELVES

WOMAN, RESPECT YOUR BODY!

Adolescents need affection, education and great amounts of confidence

to become the mothers of the next generations

Translated by Emel Ertas and María Cicuéndez

My gynaecologist told me alarmed, that the number of women who have gynaecological problems is increasing considerably world-wide! The reasons for this fact are unhealthy feeding, stress, the deficiency of creativity (in a mechanized life) and the lack of respect for the body. Many women don’t realize that it is harmful to take hormones unnecessarily and inconsequentially. Birth control and morning after pills are required to be taken under medical supervision but too many women take them irresponsibly without being aware of the consequences for their health.

Adolescents who will become women and the mothers of the future generations should know how to respect their bodies and realise that their bodies are sacred and that they are the ones responsible for their own lives. This is a society task to be carried in a constructive, dedicated and loving way.

In the American movie “I Could Never be Your Woman”, 2007, the actress Michelle Pfeiffer plays the role of a divorced mother who works as a scriptwriter TV sitcom for teens. Ironically, the values that she tries to teach her own adolescence daughter contradict the values she portrays on her show for teen characters such as beauty and easy success.

In one scene the protagonist Michelle Pfeiffer shares the special and complicated moment of her young daughter’s first period, a sacred event, the door to adulthood, according to indigenous traditions, which nowadays  does not have an initiatory meaning anymore, as it reflects the adolescent who just happened to have her first menstruation at the film.  It is striking that she asked her mother when she will be allowed to have sexual relationships because she likes a classmate. Something that wakes up all type of fears in her divorced mother!

Where goes the magic of celebrating as a rite of initiation being able to conceive Life? Mass media have contributed to trivialize this moment, as well as the Women’s collective subconscious which enforces the bad reputation and rejection of the menstruation. For many women the concept of menstruation is associated with a sort of “monthly curse, painful and dreadful time for most women on earth.

On the other hand the book by Miranda Gray “Red Moon” explains the importance of women becoming reconciled with our vital cycles to recover harmony and health in our lives. According to the author, the pain during the period is actually provoked by the conscious or unconscious rejection to femininity. Therefore, she encourages to respect such monthly process in order to be healthier.

When women of this generation loose respect for our body, by despising it or letting contemporary medicine take control over our feminine cycles, they also forget the concept and sacred value of menstruation, losing tuning with the purification that the process of the feminine cycles represents for Native American.

According to the book “Grandmothers Counsel the World”, by Carol Schaefer,

during puberty, through the indigenous rites of initiation, women shamans connect the adolescents with the spirit of femininity and they open the doors to their intuitive abilities and their own and unique wisdom as how to become an adult woman and a future mother. They provide confidence to the young ones on their personal skills to contribute the community.

Whereas the film, “I Could Never be Your Woman”, the contradiction of the messages that are being globally sent to adolescents, future adults and heirs of the Earth is perfectly reflected. The westernization of our planet is causing damage in the corners of the world, where many adolescent suffer for not having “the right body” or not wearing the “accepted brands”, forgetting their personal worth just for being human.

On the other hand, 13 indigenous grandmothers from different countries agree in denouncing internationally, through books, interviews, conferences and internet how the minds and bodies of the adolescents are being brainwashed  worldwide prompting them to consume and to be “richer and more good looking than the neighbour”, instead of being educated  in a more constructive, healthy and solidary human values.

The 13 grandmothers speak to the adolescents of the world, women and mothers of the future society. They dedicate messages of affection and understanding to adolescents worldwide to remember their essential feminine nature, to feel that personal voice that beats within them. Perhaps the sound may be a bit confusing during this moment of transition in their lives. The grandmothers want to share their ancestral wisdom regarding what being a woman means, so that adolescents have role models as precedent to confront life firmly and feel happy to be alive.

However, the adolescents mothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, neighbours, educators and ancestors are the real guests to share with them their initiatory moment, like something nice, unique, beautiful and special- So they can just be proud of being themselves, no matter how they look like or which race or social class they belong to. All human beings are just wonderful creatures as they are!

MARIA CICUÉNDEZ – www.mariacicuendez.webs.com
Mentioned book:  “Grandmothers Counsel the World”. Author: Carol Schaefer
Publisher: Trumpeter, 2006.

*The International Counsel of the 13th Indigenous Grandmothers was in Spain in 2008.
More information in the following sites:

www.consejo13abuelas.com
www.grandmotherscouncil.com
www.sacredstudies.org
www.forthenext7generations.com

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