{"id":1758,"date":"2010-01-12T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T05:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:04:24","slug":"loving-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/loving-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The focus of today\u2019s Nia practice, chosen at random from the basket of cards, was \u201cLoving Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loving movement \u2013 as in \u201cI love to move!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Loving movement \u2013 as in a gesture of love or an offering to a person or to the Holy.<\/p>\n

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Loving movement \u2013 as in a chapter, an episode, a section of music or life.<\/p>\n

Loving movement \u2013 as in a revolution, like the civil rights movement, the women\u2019s movement, the men\u2019s movement, and now, the loving movement of collective consciousness toward more loving.<\/p>\n

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The motion of love comes in all sizes, shapes, layers and dimensions.<\/p>\n

The body itself has a natural affinity for loving movement, as does the mind, the heart, the spirit and the energy body.\u00a0 We could actually say loving movement is a definition of life.<\/p>\n

All life is movement, even if it\u2019s dead or so-called inanimate.\u00a0 Atoms and molecules moving, gravity and electricity moving, the imagination and the spirit spiraling, contracting and expanding. \u00a0All 75 trillion cells of the body are in constant, loving movement.<\/p>\n

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All life is love. \u00a0The movement of heaven\u2019s energy pours down into the flesh.\u00a0 The movement of the Earth\u2019s energy rises up through the feet.\u00a0 These are movements of love.\u00a0 And moving in between heaven and Earth is the mystical third thing, known as life, known as now, known as the human\u00a0being, known as the love child of heaven and Earth, moving, wriggling, dancing, crawling, reaching, shimmering, intending.<\/p>\n

How do I recognize the sensation of loving movement?<\/p>\n

I ask my body, \u201cBody, precious body, are you experiencing the sensation of loving movement?\u201d\u00a0 The asking itself is a loving movement. \u00a0Listening for my body\u2019s reply is loving movement.<\/p>\n

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Loving movement is a practice.\u00a0 Like Nia\u2019s practice of the joy of movement, loving movement is a practice that can sit right next to any emotion, any thought and any intent. \u00a0The practice of martial arts is loving\u00a0movement when we understand the martial arts is the practice of just enough \u2013 using just enough force, not too much, not too little, just right.<\/p>\n

A path, such as Nia or the martial arts or music, is itself a loving movement. \u00a0And our response as we move along and toward that path is a loving movement.<\/p>\n

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Breathe in the loving movement of the breath, in and out, like the ocean tide, and ride the waves of loving movement in the belly.\u00a0 Let the movements of love soar through the body.<\/p>\n

Be held by the moving fields of love, moving and being moved. \u00a0Let the waves of breath carry the body. \u00a0Let the waves of love carry the body. \u00a0Rock yourself in your own arms and let the loving movement of the Earth hold the loving movement of who you are from underneath.<\/p>\n


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