Cycles of Remembering

 How do you remember? What do you remember? 


This past Sunday, before Memorial Day, I e-hosted in the Elevation Church chat on Youtube. This is my service. I volunteer, enjoying the experience of “walking people to their seats” online, welcoming them with the appropriate links/ information to support their experience, and prayer. 


This Sunday while volunteering, someone placed a prayer request in the chat. It was for their elderly friend who has Dementia, who is struggling to remember. It was the woman’s birthday. I thought about this for a while. How much we take our ability to remember for granted. How, in some cases, we go out of our way to try to forget. 


Today, Memorial Day, I offered a Memorial Meditation through Revolution Yoga. We used the Kirtan Kriya in which you chant Sa Ta Na Ma in a loud voice, then in a whisper and then silently to yourself and Infinity, while moving your fingers into various mudras. This is a meditation that has been scientifically studied and offered to those who have Alzheimers. It balances the electromagnetic field, among other things. In honor of remembering all that we have been gifted by way of people and life experience, we chanted through the cycles of creation.


Sa- birth, Ta-life, Na-death, Ma- rebirth--


How and what we remember is like this, a realigning, over again. We realign with an idea, a memory from the past, ourselves, and people, constantly. We remember in cycles, a little at a time, over and over again. We forget who we are, our power, and truth at times, and then we remember again. 


The woman whose birthday it was on Sunday, even with declining memory, will align too, with some part of who she is whether it be the memory of her birthday or something else. Maybe, she will even celebrate for a moment before forgetting and aligning with something else again. We all do this the same. Maybe not as dramatically, but we all are constantly aligning, shifting, and realigning. This is a part of life in our bodies.


May we keep remembering, dear friends. May we keep coming back to what really matters and align with love at our hearts as we cycle through, in gratitude for what has been. And when we forget, may we realign. 


Happy Memorial Day 2021! Happy Remembering!! 


Let's practice aligning again this summer, starting in July. Save the dates, so we can be together for this time soon!





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Boston Rohan said…
Well spoken as always.

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