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Marvelous Night for a Moondance

joyvolution — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:08:14 +0000

Just got back from girl’s night out a little while ago…Now I’m dancing in my panties on my deck — the one with the mountain view — in the chill night air with the drifting clouds backlit by moonlight and pierced by tiny points of starlight.

Goddess energy — kundalini — flows strongly tonight and Her Spirit moves me to share it, pass it on & Pay it forward — with a firm yet gentle Tantrika touch

Joy on Wheels

joyvolution — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:57:44 +0000

I am listening to the delightful sound of the icecream truck that recently discovered my neighborhood. Like Pavlov’s dog, when I heard the peals of the mechanical bells chirping that happy tune, I ran barefoot out the door with a big wad of cash. Dashing across the parking lot, I was the very first customer of the afternoon. As I studied the pictures of frozen treats on the side of the truck, I was transported to a world of wonder, where the biggest decision I had to make was Strawberry Shortcake or Fudge Crunch — 35 years peeled off me like the bills I gleefully forked over to Terrence, my newfound love — my door-to-door ice-cream vendor.

So what if two fancy popsicles and an ice-cream sandwich cost $5.00. Instant joy, time travel, a return to innocence and Terrence’ golden smile: priceless

Hold Fast to Joy*

joyvolution — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:48:17 +0000

Hold Fast to Joy*

Hold fast to Joy

Were joy to die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to joy

Were joy to go

Life is a barren field

Covered in snow.

* Homage to Langston Hughes’ Dreams

Joy seeds make Joy fruits

joyvolution — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:22:52 +0000

17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.

19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. — Matthew 7:17-20

As we sow, so shall we reap. For any decision we make and every action we take, the seed is the intent held at the moment of its inception. Fear breeds fear and joy breeds joy. Saving for a rainy day is different than saving for a dream-come-true. Planning around risk-avoidance is different than simply building in a cushion for contingencies.

It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it. Context, context, context…

Indescribable Joy

joyvolution — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:05:40 +0000

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:

I were but little happy, if I could say how much”

– Shakespeare

” The Way that can be spoken of is not the true Way.” — Lao Tze, Tao Te Ching

To honor his birthday, on April 23rd, I imagined posting a killer quote from Shakespeare on the topic of Joy. However, the best laid plans of mice & women, oft go astray. Upon further research, none seemed to grab me and so I did nothing, except beat myself up for blowing off the post. Finally, I realized there was a perfect Shakespeare quote for the occasion that reflected my dilemma exactly:

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:

I were but little happy, if I could say how much”

Apparently, Shakespeare had the same problem: how to describe to another that which can only be experienced for oneself.

Let joy kill you!

joyvolution — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:56:26 +0000

JOY by Carl Sandburg

Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere--
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.

“Joy kills man” is a gripping headline. Sadly, “Man kills joy” is not news. Why do Joy-killers proliferate in our society? They are recruited through resonance and entrainment with miserable people. And, as we all know

The concept that the vibration of one thing effects the vibration of other things… is called resonance and entrainment in physics. When the vibratory rate of anything is placed in proximity to anything else the vibratory rates of the two things will naturally pull each other toward a balance. http://www.ylfes.com/quantum.htm

When two beings of different vibrational frequency interact, there are essentially only three possilble outcomes: 1) the higher frequency being must step down its vibration; 2) the lower frequency being must step up its vibration; or 3) they cannot coexist in the same sphere and, in effect, repel one another like polarized magnets.

Love, the turner of men’s Hearts

joyvolution — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:03:45 +0000

If a majority of people experienced daily multiple orgasms — in a free, fun & healthy way — it would end warfare, eliminate most social conflicts and resolve a host of other personal & planetary issues. A mass outbreak of orgasmic ecstasy would radically transform our world socially, economically, politically with more ease, grace & joy than previously conceived.

How to achieve a massive outbreak of joy? Practice Tantra — a sexual form of meditation that heightens mindfulness, develops conscious (circular) breathing, and includes relaxing bathing rituals that reduce stress. Sounds simple, but the results can be profound:

“Tantra is that Asian body of beliefs and practices which, working from the principle that the universe we experience is nothing other than the concrete manifestation of the divine energy of the Godhead that creates and maintains that universe, seeks to ritually appropriate and channel that energy, within the human microcosm, in creative and emancipatory ways” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra

Every day, I meditate, pray, visualize/manifest and, most importantly for my work as a vibrational healer/tantric massage/medicine (wo)man have as much fun — physically, emotionally, mentally & spiritually as possible to hold the vibration of joy so that I may entrain my clients to an ecstatic and enlightened state of being, if only for a little while.

I am a priestess — a conduit/channel of the Divine Feminine aspect of God — experienced emotionally, mentally and spiritually as unconditional love/unity/bliss, and physically as sacred orgasm. Incidentally, contrary to popular belief, sacred/multidimensional orgasm occurs independently of physical phenomena like erection, ejaculation or even physical contact in some instances.

My home is my sacred space and a temple/portal to Divine ease, grace and joy — and keeping the love/joy energy amped up requires daily practice of tantra (sensual/sexual meditation and ritual for the sublimation of sexual energy), Kundalini yoga, meditation, and purification rituals. Frequent showers or smudging with crystals/incense is absolutely essential to cleanse the aura field. Prayer, visualization/affirmation and ritual help me creatively and constructively channel the intense energy flow that I tap into, lest I unconsciously direct that raw creation power sloppily or negatively.

Namaste –

Stella

JoyVolution

joyvolution — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:38:22 +0000

joy
noun
1. great happiness: feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind
2. something that brings happiness: a pleasurable aspect of something or source of happiness

volution
(və-lū’shən) noun
1. A turn or twist about a center; a spiral.
2. Zoology. One of the whorls of a spiral gastropod shell.

joyvolution
1. A conscious choice to turn toward the path of happiness, especially of a spiritual nature, with every step we take in life, rather than be guided by fear, greed, conformity or expediency;
2. Using qualitative (love-based), rather than quantitative (fear-based), criteria in decision-making based on the premise that the process (i.e. the journey) is of equal or greater value than the outcome (i.e. the destination).

Joyvolution is the process of choosing ease, grace, and joy as the basis for all decisions, large and small. All that we think, say, feel and do creates our personal reality and shapes our world.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. –Kahlil Gibran

The sum total of all the little things we do adds up in a big way, so we ask that you make a conscious choice to use your heart and Spirit to guide you. Trust in your spirit and in your heart, which are ruled only by love and you will see that you have the power to add to the sum total of happiness, joy and well-being for yourself, your loved ones, and for the world at large.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. –Kahlil Gibran