Tag: Biomimicry

Home in a Dolphin’s Breath

by Suzanne Maxx ©

The respect for nature grows with each breath on the World Team journey. I continue to learn from dolphins, even when self-isolating in this large home, on this small island off of Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA.

My writer’s retreat was meant to go into the early months of 2020.  This retreat, now hermitage, or imposed self-isolation, began when I couldn’t return to Fiji.  I wasn’t able to make the flight from California to Fiji because of my lung’s ability to heal— to take a deep breath from the smoke of fires in CA 2019. 

How surreal it is like the world, the collective consciousness, that is the WE, US, have joined together in having to go within, stay home, reprioritize, renew our life’s patterns and systems, and for many of us, take a deeper breath.  A breath to review and renew what is important.

Yes, I was incredibly challenged to breathe, for what seemed like an eternity, but was only about 30-40 hrs. All I focused on was conscious breathing and each moment striving to take a deeper breath.  I used every breathing technique I knew from over the years of taking on my pulmonary function and respiratory system, which had been in the past impaired.  I tried to recall what I learned from Nei Kung to Conscious Breathwork.  Each new breath, birthed an infinite light within, unattached to a presence in form, as I let go on the exhale.

The “Stay Home” mantra, began to challenge me coming into week four.  I remember in being human we are each unique, we each sometimes respond differently to the same thing based on our immune systems. But we do have our breath in common, and this home, as mentioned in World Team’s Universal Declaration

After all of the years of swimming with the dolphins in the wild in Malibu, Hawaii, Fiji, even New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island the dolphins continue to teach and enlighten.  One dolphin actually came to me, during this recovery time, when I couldn’t go into the water.  I had just begun to go outside to walk on the private property out on to the dock that extends from the home yard to the water for a “self-isolated” communion with nature.

Swimming with dolphins in the wild in different parts of the world for decades the name, “The Dolphin Lady” became an alias.  I feel most at home floating in the ocean, and often when I float the dolphins come, as if “called”.

Can you image the heartfelt joy I experienced during #StayHome with me, coming into this Holiday tide when a single dolphin (perhaps pregnant and about to give birth), swam underneath the dock as I walked above? I notice the dolphin’s breathing— the importance of the breath has a deeper meaning now, amidst this COVID19 Public Health Crisis, not only for me personally but perhaps for us all?

A learning and deep observation from the grace of bio-mimicry medicine offered out for all to consider from the dolphin’s breathing.

We can learn a lot from dolphins.  Dolphins stay underwater, and just when one wonders where they will rise— surprise! The dolphin breaks the surface from the depths, breaching up to move in new ways. 

Did you know dolphins breathing is conscious? For a dolphin, every single breath is an active choice. Breathing is not automatic for dolphins, unlike humans. In other words, dolphins can’t go into deep unconscious sleep and still breathe as far as we know. Dolphins float and reach a meditative state where they are not totally unconscious. Dolphins use one half of the brain to rest, remaining semiconscious. This cat-napping state is often referred to as “logging” as the dolphin will float horizontally or vertically like a log. A dolphin’s conscious breath heals and reminds us all how to consciously breathe deeper!

Nei Kung is the single most important element I do now related to breath.  Tai Chi offers this fundamental principle with exercises unlike any other form of movement from my experience, as it is conscious.  The importance of weights for the bones and muscular skeleton, Nei Kung is fundamental to understanding the energy of the body(Chi) with breath, (as is singing)! And how the Chi can be used for self-healing, which may be the highest form of self-defense, immunity!

Breath and conscious breathing are key for us all now, understanding the importance of each breath can be a matter of life or death. Coming to learn to move our brain to higher frequencies of consciousness through meditation and prayer. Or even floating may allow us also to turn part of our brain off and realize a higher consciousness through our breath.  Realizing the healing power of nature with respect may also be a matter of life or death for human beings, and our world as we live in this common home. Will we give nature time to breathe to recover from humanity’s priorities?

I wish we could just “Pass Over” and skip the global #Pandemic #COVID19 #CycloneHarold #Catagory5 aka #TCHarold #LocustsEastAfrica #GlobalCacophony #EconomicCollaspse #GeoPoliticalConflict #TradeWars #5GControversy #ConspiracyTheories and fast forward to collective systems’ transformation to the part where we all rise together?   What is the role of the UN, the SDGs the global goals? And US, the people around the world?

The present realities require us all to give our all— to collectively embrace the elephant in the room, related to what many call the #ClimateCrisis, but really it is a collective inquiry— how does humanity live in balance with nature, including our own human nature for the future we want, together with systems ready for transformation? 

These times of crisis can bring us true communion with nature, and our global diversity of humanity may indeed come together, perhaps a deeper realization of Pentecost this year?.  Will we have the arch of illumination, to awakening to that light of Buddha to birth with the spring flowers of Hana Matsuri Blossoming, birthing with Buddha’s Birthday celebrated by the sprinkling of water celebrating or the Takayama Spring Festival, in nature this year?

It’s a lifetime of learning in observing dolphins, their capacity to love, to breathe and to teach. May we each prioritize both personal and collective transformation until we can live in a better balance with nature and when it is time, ALL RISE!

#Dolphin, #Breathing, #Birthing, #Breaching, #Teaching, #CircleofLife, #WorldTeamConsciousness, #BeyondSpecies, #StayHome,  #WithMe,  #FlowerFestival,  #ShakyamuniBuddha,  #Passover,  #Easter,  #Rising,  #Christ,  #Pentecost, #Awareness, #Breath, #Conscious, #Dolphins, #Communion, #Nature, #Biomimicry, #Healing, #PulmonaryFunctions, #SOS_IS, #OceanLearning, #Meditation, #Light, #Sound, #Sonar, #Stillness + #Movement=#Balance

Act Locally, Act Globally – Think of Us All As Part of One

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Change seems to be accelerating. Change, not just with our climate, but also with the “systems” humanity has created, spurred by Globalization.  Whether that be the legal system, political system, financial system, health care system, or educational system— the systems in place to provide the world’s basic needs.  Have we learned to scale our systems to meet Globalization’s challenges? Humanity can learn  from how nature scales to support the whole—  Biomimicry of man-made systems seems key to the stewardship of our earth and for an organically sustainable future.   

Global transformation is in the works, and is needed within all systems including those within our one global governing body – the United Nations. Friday ended the two week climate talks in Bonn, Germany. The disappointment was all too familiar as it seemed like yesterday, but it was a year ago when World Team Now produced the event as part of the UNFCC’s Rio+20, and also an event at The People’s Summit.  We went down to Rio once again with great expectations for more progress than what was able to be achieved inside the United Nations’ RIO+20 conference’s time. So now, it is distressing that there was a huge snag caused by foot dragging by Russia in a key entity, the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI). At least there was some progress in the overarching 2015 international climate action agreement. Why wait until disaster? We clearly need more projects that influence public perception. “To see is to believe” for most, so we need more examples to inspire the masses to embrace change.

At World Team Now, we are growing, and eager to see the change that happens once our non-profit World Team Now can be supported by our World Team multi-media platform, and broadcast.  Our World Team project too needs to be demonstrated to be fully understood, and to that end our development of our pilot project continues.  While we are working to have this World Team model up in full scale, we have been occupied with events.  In California, for example what we did in Malibu with Earth Day (photo album here), with our “Ride & Drive”, and “The Circle-Up  Around Renewable Energy”.  We owe a shout-out to all of those who showed up to participate or volunteer, and for the support of Nissan of Thousand Oaks, and Edwards/Wildman.  We hope to be sharing some of the edited footage soon at WTN’s upcoming event September 26 and 27.   Another example is what World Team Now is doing in NY to support ACORE’s Renewable Energy Financing Forum (REFF)-Wall Street. Join us and get 20% off registration by using this code “SPT20WTN”. REFF is the perfect activity, included with more than 20 Energy Industry Events for New York City’s Energy Week, June 24th-28th.

Please save the dates for World Team Now’s upcoming annual event in Malibu September 27th & 28th, 2013. Watch World Team Now’s Event’s page for more details about the timing.

Speaking of timing, two great renewable energy demonstration projects born in Switzerland also have “New York” as a destination.  PlanetSolar, is the world’s largest solar boat, and it includes an interesting research component with the project it just arrived in New York.  The soaring approach to change done state by state has value. The Solar Impulse is a renewable energy demonstration project with great potential. You can take flight and  follow in real time on their final segment of the “Across America” trip, and join the history in the making as they land in New York early July.

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PlanetSolar reaches New York, the second american stopover of its 2013 campaign

The two states where World Team Now is based are proudly taking leadership positions in the environmental transformation needed to address climate change— let’s hear it for California and New York, especially Mayor Bloomberg’s action plan to address the affects of climate change .  The water situation and the issue of drought is rapidly becoming more serious, due to climate change.  Often, to execute solutions at a scale needed to address the affects of climate change, bonds are created.  California is taking the lead with creating a Water Bond.  World Team Now was present when Senator Fran Pavley, Chair of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, hosted the Hearing; “Encouraging Regional Water Solutions: Implications for a Statewide Water Bond” at Pepperdine University.  Californians are set to vote on the $11.1 billion water bond in November, 2014.

More action needs to be able to take place on a state level and even city level, which gives more weight to the “Think globally, act locally” mantra—  but not to preclude think global act global actions which are needed as well— the local can catalyze the global.    It is a huge victory to finally permanently close the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in California, not just for the immediate risk of radiation, but also in respect of the long term issue of what to do with the radioactive rods which are byproducts of nuclear reactors. With no safe disposal protocol for these rods, even closed plants will continue to pose risks to the public and our planet forever The pressure is on for Southern California Edison to strive towards truly renewable energy— the kind with no radioactive byproducts to threaten public safety. It is time for us citizens to spearhead energy independence, be active in supplying a diversity of local renewable energy resources (supporting grid stability as a benefit), and to learn how to responsibly use energy.

But it is time for the whole of us in society to consider “Act locally, Act globally- Think of us all as part of ONE”.

 

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