ТEXT
(Repeat 4 times)
IDEA
- the practice of praying in all religions;
- the meditation practices;
- in art: admiring a picture as a whole without focusing on separate forms and colors.
"When we extend one arm upwards at an angle of 45˚ we receive.. (and) through the leg on which we are supported, we receive.. Through the arm and the leg which are extended down and back at an angle of 45˚ we cast off the impure, all of our accumulated unprocessed and disharmonious energies.. Through the repeated lifting of the arms forwards and upwards and the repeated lifting of the legs, we express the desire of our spirit to reach the heights. One works on earth but one’s inner vision is always directed to the world of the stars." [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.79]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: “Aoum” (also spelled “aum”), “om”, “aoumen” are ancient words which in European languages develop into Amen: expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, "So be it”. Write in your own beautiful words a wish, that ends up with these words.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: What do you do when you come across an unfamiliar word? Is it possible thatone and the same word has different meaning to different people and why?
4. Experience: Tell us of situations and experiences when you have managed to cast off a disharmonious state. How did you manage that?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise, that with your stretched arm upwards you reach something beautiful and light/ the stars; while with your hand stretched to the back you cast off behind your back everything disharmonious in you.
6. Definitions for Aum (Om) in Wikipedia: (1) The eternal process of birth, life, death and rebirth. The Aum is the Universal symbol of Creation. (2) The sacred syllable of creation, the Word that went forth in the beginning and from which all other sounds originated. (3) Unity between all people, creatures, and things.
7. Quotes. The Earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at hOme - yea, I'm always at Om(Eden Ahbez). The Amen of nature is always a flower(Oliver Wendell Holmes).Find your favourite quote on Aoum.
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Think right, always think right. (repeat 2 times)
Sustain most sacred thoughts of life that radiate light. (repeat 4 times)
We can manage our thinking process: we can accept the positive thoughts from the world and we can support our own positive thinking on life – people, tasks, experiences. Humans alone can have this conscious attitude, to choose what to think of and how – positively or negatively. In the exercise we perform thinking by staying in one place while the arms make very slow movements; next, the attitude to life is like attitude to its symbol, water on Earth, and we make a scooping gesture; last, the effort to sustain good thoughts is performed with a movement to support something. Some examples:
- for life: I have a positive mental attitude;
- for people: I think of the good in them;
- for my tasks: I think that I can cope with them;
- for difficult circumstances: I think that everything will turn to good.
“This exercise begins with the slow movement of the arms from the right to the left and then back to the right. Then, while walking forwards, scooping motions are made with the hands, followed by the arms pushing outwards as if supporting something. This movement connects us with the world of thought and we enter it. Through this movement, a rhythm is brought to our organism that comes from the sentient world, the world of just and noble thought. The first part of the exercise, with the slow movement of the arms from the right to the left and back again, is the receiving of that which is sent from the world of thought. The second part is the imparting of that which we receive into our lives and activities. [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.79]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: How many times do the words “think” and “thoughts” repeat? Write your own “sacred thought” about life. Finish up the sentence “Life is…”.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration to the exercise. Considering Roden’s stature The Thinker, make your own project for the thinking person statue.
3. Questions: How can you control a negative thought? Do thoughts influence our feelings and why?
4. Experience: Tell us of situation and experiences when you have managed to think positively irrespective of the circumstances. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise: 1. that your arms are like two antennas that catch all good thoughts from the environment. 2. that your hands scoop water from the “sea of life”. 3. that you support a wall (your thoughts) stay upright.
6. Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation for thinking. For example: I can think well. I have positive mental attitude.
7. Quotes: I think, therefore I am (René Descartes). What we think, we become (Buddha). The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory (Paul Fix). Find your own favourite quite on Think.
MUSIC
part 2: Scooping
part 3: Supporting
the whole exercise
MOVEMENT
IN PLACE
SP= SP for the exercise
SCOOPING
SUPPORTING
SP:
IDEA
We work out, we build something with persistence. Weaving is the only work/labour activity in the lyrics of Paneurhythmy. We work under some binary conditions: with our mind and heart (by moving left and right), between two poles (by moving between two opposite positions), and in pair with our partner (by moving simultaneously in complementary directions to the inside and to the outside). In the activity of weaving the thread moves sideways left/right, and pushing mechanism – forwards; in the exercise this is performed with stepping sideways steps, followed stepping forwards. Some examples for processes and states in nature, person and relationships:
- birds weave their nests in pairs;
- on a loom we weave textile/carpets;
- we work on/construct a product;
- we work on our perfection and development;
- we build good relationships;
- in nature, the energy flow of electricity and magnetism between two poles is work;
- when we have an opponent to our idea, we weave our thoughts between our viewpoint and his viewpoint;
- when we have a subject of our attention, we weave our feelings between their attitude and our sympathy.
“This exercise expresses the organic process within nature, the process of building. Does not a circulation of electricity and magnetism occur between the North and South Poles of Earth? This is expressed in this exercise through the crossing movements from left to right, and vice versa. Furthermore, polarity exists within every material particle. Between the two poles, electric and magnetic energy flows. These forces work within people as well. Every organ has its polarity. This exercise leads us to perceive, on the one hand, the constructive principle within nature; and on the other hand, it indicates one right way of introducing harmony and rhythm into this process both internally in us, as well as externally in the life of humankind” [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.79]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: Weaving is a metaphor as well: what example does the text provide? Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/ essay/poem about the “the loom of life”.
2. Drawing:Draw an illustration to the exercise. Draw a rug with your partner without lifting your pencils from the sheet, moving them forwards and sideways as in the exercise.
3. Questions: What activities require thread by thread efforts in order to achieve final result? How do you weave a good feeling/thought?
4. Experience: Tell us of situation and experiences when you have worked out something with persistency. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise, that you and your partner work out a beautiful texture together.
6. Positive affirmations: Write your own positive affirmation for weaving. For example: We work out something nice together. I weave beautiful thoughts/feelings.
7. Quotes: People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it (Howard Newton). We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning (Henry Ward Beecher). Find your favourive quote for Weaving.
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IDEA
- for the trees the Sun (light) is their ideal, so they strive as high as they can;
- for the animals best living conditions are their ideal: water, light, food, warmth;
- for a child his parents are his ideal;
- at school the favourite teacher is an ideal for the pupil;
- in a love relationship the beloved is an ideal;
- in sport the highest achievments and the best sportsmen are ideals;
- pop stars and actors are ideals for beauty and specific skills;
- for a reasonable person love, wisdom, truth are highest ideals.
QUESTIONS
1. Text: Write in your own beautiful wordsa poem using “upwards rise”, “reach the height”, “the top in sight”, “be in flight”.
2. Drawing: Draw a picture of a person striving upwards. Draw one of your ideals. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: What ideals do you have? What/who can be an ideal? How high can one jump?
4. Experience: Tell us of situations and experiences when you have found some ideal/something great/for some ideal. What was the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you exercise, that you jump as high as to reach the ceiling of the room/ the clouds/ the sky/ the stars.
6. Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation for Jumping. For example: I bow to the greatness of nature.
7. Quotes: Mother Teresa “We can do no great things, only small things with great love”. Find your own favourite quote on Jumping (ideals and greatness).
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IDEA
QUESTIONS
1. Text: Which words in the text associate with “light”? What does “nature’s dancing throng” consist of? Give a synonym to “waft away”. Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/essay/poem about the perfect person.
2. Drawing:Draw an illustration to the exercise. Draw a perfect person. Draw three pictures entitled Truth, Love and Wisdom (or Acting, Feeling and Thinking): in images, colors or shapes.
3. Questions: Can someone really be perfect? If Love, Wisdom and Truth are three fairies what would you ask of them? If your thought, feelings and actions were thе three sides of a triangle, how would it look like; could you say that the sides are equal? Why love, wisdom and truth are related to the pink, yellow and blue colors?
4. Experience: Tell us of situation and experiences when you have done something with effect on you, on others and nature at the same time. Or situations when you have thought, felt and acted simultaneously in perfect harmony with yourself.
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise, that inside the circle is pink, forward is blue and outside the circle is yellow.
6. Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation for Evera. For example: I can think, feel and act well.
7. Quotes: Mohandas Gandhi “Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.” Immanuel Kant“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Antoine de Saint Exupery “Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” Find your favourite quotes.
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- birds and butterflies can fly;
- I achieve something long cherished/ something that I have made many efforts;
- I set an example to the others how to do something;
- we disseminate achieved results from a project;
“This exercise expresses the uplifting impulse which makes everything grow.. These movements can also be called the right way of spreading the words and helping them grow into life”. [1, p.78]
QUESTIONS
1.Text: Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/ essay/ poem about Flying. Who can fly in the text of the poem?
2.Drawing: Draw a flower disseminating its seeds. Draw a bird flying. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3.Questions: Birds can fly and people have long dreamed to be able to fly. What is your dream?
4.Experience: Tell us of situations and experience when you have disseminated the results of something that you have achieved after hard work. What is the feeling?
5.Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise that you fly like a bird. What does your bird look like?
6.Affirmations: Write your own positive affirmation for flying. For example: I can fly. I can achieve my dreams.
7. Quotes: Antonio Porchia “Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.” Find your favourite quote.
Literature:“Ikarus”, legend. Hans Christian Anderson “The Ugly Duckling” fairy tale. Richard Bach “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”- a novella about a seagull learning about life, and a homily about self-perfection.
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IDEA
Purifying is a process of cleaning, of maintaining purity. Some examples of processes and states in nature, in the person (thoughts, feelings, deeds) and relations:
- the rain purifies nature and washes out the streets;
- people and animals maintain clean the environment they live in;
- we keep our body clean by breathing/ washing etc.
- with good words we maintain our relationships pure;
- with pure thoughts and feelings we maintain our good mood;
“The blowing of the air signifies the words, and the moving of the arms outwards represents sowing the seeds of the words. This exercise… is an expression that reasonable words given through language need to be sown. It can be named as well: the introduction of the pure word into life, or the right way of introducing pure thoughts, feelings and actions into life”. [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.78]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: “Cleaning” is a synonym to “purifying”: what is the difference? Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/essay/poem about cleaning/purifying.
2. Drawing: Draw two pictures of dirtiness and cleanliness: with images or colours or shapes. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: Do you like to clean and why? What ruins the purity of thoughts/ feelings/ relationships and how do you clean them?
4. Experience:Tell us of situations and experience when you have cleaned something (eco action, untidy room etc). What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise that you pronounce good words which help order and harmony around you.
6. Affirmations: Write your own positive affirmation for purifying. For example: I can maintain cleanliness.
7. Quote: Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well (Mohandas Gandi). Find your favourite quote.
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IDEA
Clapping is a process when we express our joy after overcoming some obstacles.
Some examples of processes and states in nature, in the person (thoughts, feelings, deeds) and relations:
- we enjoy a trip in the nature after a week of hard work;
- pets are happy when we give them attention;
- we are happy because of success/ well done job;
- we enjoy the presence of our friends;
- the audience claps for good performance.
“This gesture is the joy of the soul which has acquired freedom; the joy of the butterfly which has emerged from its cocoon; the joy of the grass which has shown its first tender shoots above the dark cold soil; the joy of the flower opening to the sun’s rays for the first time”. [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy,p.53]
QUESTIONS
1.Text: How many words for joy can you find in the text? Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/essay/poem about joy.
2.Drawing: Draw a picture of someone who is happy. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3.Questions: What makes you and other people happy? What is your joy when you have achieved something with and without overcoming some obstacles.
4.Experience: Tell us of situations when you have experienced joy. What is the feeling?
5.Imagination: Imagine while you play the exercise that you are clapping hands as a happy child.
6.Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation for clapping. For example: I am happy with my life.
7.Quotes: In search of the Blue Bird, Tyltyl speaks with the Great Joys: The Great Joy of Being Just, the Joy of Being Good, the Joy of Fame, the Joy of Thinking, the Joy of Understanding, the Joy of Seeing what is Beautiful, The Great the Joy of Loving, the Joy of Maternal Love (Maurice Maeterlinck, "The Blue Bird"). Find your favourite quotes on Joy.
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Liberation is a process of acquiring freedom. Some examples of processes and states in nature, in the person (thoughts, feelings, deeds) and relations:
- a bird hatches, breaks the limitations of the egg;
- a butterfly comes out, breaks the limitations of the cocoon;
- migrating animals overcome obstacles to find food and water;
- we free ourselves from a bad habit which limits us;
- we give freedom to another person to be her/himself;
- we break free from obstacles on our way;
- we break free from depressing thoughts and bad feelings.
“This movement destroys everything that was holding you back. This is the liberation from the old and the attainment of the new. It is the entering into freedom. We can also call it the destruction of all unnatural relations… This is an appeal for liberation, an appeal to leave the prisons. It says to us: “Leave the life of eternal sunset and enter into life of eternal sunrise. Drop the chains of death and enter into the freedom of life. Come out of the dark caves where love does not exist and enter into the joy of love”. [4, p.51]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: Explain in other words “dew drop”, “seven-stringed harp”, “attain oneness”, “higher plane”. Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/essay/poem about liberation.
2. Drawing: Draw a picture of a butterfly coming out of a cocoon. Draw two pictures of limitation and of freedom: with images or colours or shapes. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: What would you like to break free from (limitations, habits etc.)? When we go out in the nature what do we break free from?
4. Experience:Tell us of situations and experiences when you have overcome some limitation. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine while you play the exercise that there is an invisible chain around you and that you break it with your hands.
6. Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation for Liberation. For example: I break free from limitations. I am free to be my real self.
7. Quote: Don Quixote: Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and should be ventured (Miguel de Cervantes). Find your favourite quote.
