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Le pouvoir de la plongée en temps de guerre - ramener la lumière

Le pouvoir de la plongée en temps de guerre - ramener la lumière
Israeli Continuum Teacher Leela Shalem explores the power of Continuum in time of war—experiencing internal space, peace, & reconnecting to the vastness of life

It is so hard to describe the indescribable

To experience, directly, horrors that undergo the fundamental essence of

Humanity itself.

Experiences that no human being should experience in his or her lifetime.

But here it is.

Here.

Happening.

And I live here.

So I Am a part of this collective experience.

I will not tell you stories of the horrors.

It is too much for a heart to contain.

I will just tell you, that no heart was left unbroken.

In the first weeks of the war, my heart dispersed into small pieces.

My nervous system met its edges.

Many structures that my perception had been holding, were spread out in

all directions.

My soul was lying on the bottom of the ocean.

Day after day after long long day.... time moves differently in times of

horror.

Each day and its stories, its pains, and its moments of light.

Moments of practice: gathering attention, breathing, sounding, moving, and

again, and again...

Moments of beauty, moments of love, moments of compassion, closeness

and tenderness.

Drop after drop, ray after ray.

Until spontaneous gatherings, regrouping, and strengthening took place all

over my body and soul.

The black cloud, so dark and full of pain, became a cloud of rain, and began

to rain, pouring water on the wounded earth.

Yesterday we gathered a group of continuum practitioners, in the

Continuum studio in my village. 12 KM from the border with Lebanon.

The studio is built as a womb, and it holds the resonance of Continuum

practice of the last 12 years.

In all the hours we practiced, there were no sounds of bombs.

The only sounds that were heard were our MMM, AAA and OOOOs.

With the MMM sound,, the "Mother sound", we called our attention back to

the body, back to our earth. Our systems that are so alert these days, were

able to find rest, comfort and security.

Then we started touching our upper heart and “lower heart” (located in the

belly) gently with AAAAA and OOOO sounds, allowing the piles of deep

pains: fear, sorrow, disperse, and others to start flowing, like rivers going

back to the ocean, going back to the source.

We were able to find some internal space and start experiencing peace

again. To reconnect to the vastness of life, where what is happening right

now, is only one part of all that life is, feeling again our connection to the

infinite, perpetual dance of life.

At the end of the dive, we gathered in a circle, and from the depth of our

“one” joint heart, we sent an AAAA sound with its wide wide ripples, to all

the souls that are suffering now from cruelty, violence, hatred, evil and

ignorance.

May all beings be safe and live in inner and outer peace.

Leela Shalem
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