Birthday Tribute to a Good Friend

Dear Folks,

Today I wanted to write a tribute to a dear friend, Shiila Safer, because her birthday was a few weeks ago. What she does fits right in with this blog...

Shiila is a very warm person, she exudes kindness. Her thing, these days, is to do a wonderfully creative version of therapy, with its focus being to assist folks in reconnecting with nature. Reconnecting mind to its feeling nature is the key to wholeness. It would almost go without saying, except that so many of us aren’t...

Mind requires connection to be sensed, just like a tuning fork is barely audible until its handle is touched to wood. In other words, mind requires a resonator. One way or another, your mind seeks to be connected; will it be to feeling its nature or to the ego in you? For a number of reasons I’ll discuss in another blog, most of us usually don't connect mind to feeling nature; we are habituated to connecting mind to ego (personal and/or collective), instead. Shiila's teachings are centered around sharing the passionate union she experiences with nature, in particular, big ol' trees. The gal is a nut for a good grandmother tree! I just love that about her. Through her sessions (and also a wonderful book she wrote last year), many fortunate people are given the opportunity to receive a sparkling bit of initiation that fires up their mind-feeling nature’s sense of oneness, sometimes for the very first time.

Who hasn't had a moment where we have felt the reality of our animal nature, and known that it was here that we needed to be rooted, to make all else flow smoothly in our lives? Who doesn't sense that there is a simplicity and ease, a tangible knowingness that we may feel, that lets us relax and feel goodness?

Thank you, Shiila, for your devoted expression of love and service. May all whose heart's desire, be connected mind to its feeling nature, so that your mind can relax, your body can maintain health and your whole being is filled with the inspiration of those who give of their loving kindness, as Shiila does so richly.

Rock On, Gal!
Laurel