I've been thinking further this idea of mine, that what we need is a Global Warming of the heart, and how it can help cool these worsening environmental results of our over-heated minds. It's a specific idea, a specific approach, remedy, response, in actual physical terms. In actual bio-energetic terms, if you will.

The environment is also inside. Ecology is also the inner biosphere. It's open and permeable. "If you think it's a bubble, you're in trouble."

The idea about how a global warming of the heart could help an essential cooling down of the mind comes from the pointed observation by a revered Tibetan teacher that we modern folk, east and west, north and south, tend to suffer particularly from what is called restless "lung" or mobile energy-- not just in our lungs, but in the very energetic make-up of our moving, over-dynamic-but-quite-lazy "wind energy." yes, this observation is perhaps most apt to tuned-in, powered-up "modern earthlings" with plenty of "juice" (in the plugs and tanks at least). We're too juiced up and the walls are cracking.

As a practitioner specializing in sacred chant the past 30 years, this theme of "lung" energy has been very present for me (in projects like my 1991 CD, "Windhorse Riders", yet I too have clearly had to face this tendence in my own "modern earthling" make-up.

Extending this vision of an over-heated earthling mind to great Nature and our current planetary situation is as simple as you looking up from your goddam computer screen for a minute... :-)

Sorry... but you're reading a little more intently now, perhaps...

The general getting-all-heated-up state of the planet, I wager, is directly connected to our over-heated minds... let's call it Infection Convection....

So, to be very specific, I propose, in addition to echoing happily all energy-saving suggestions like "Tune In, Turn it Down, Turn it Off," that we all consider adding "Cool it off."

That means addressing in oneself this issue of the over-active, heated-up, restless, lazy "lung" or moving energy. Trouble is, we're all a little deaf, as it were, to the "Hear/Know Good, See/Know Good, Speak/Know Good" litanies, please like "center yourself more," "meditate every day," "do more yoga" or whatever (not to mention the New Age's favorite aspirin-like reach-for, so-called "healing sounds-- "take two mantras and call me in the morning").

So let's try a more inner approach to "cooling off...". I claim that a global warming of the heart-- more compassion, openness, tolerance, peacefulness and yes, love love we do-- will be one as they say contributing factor to the Great Cooling Off of the Mind...

So-called breath work can help... basic mindfulness, remembering to "come back to oneself" can help... it can be simple, almost neutral... the self-healing dimension can be almost invisible but quite present...

...just cooling off... in the mind.... letting the energy settle back down... to a warm-hearted place....

to a quieter presence in the abdomen...


no rush...

all in good time-.....less