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I never imagined myself being seventy years old. It was a distant
horizon, like looking at a sunset from a mountain top. But, life catches up
with our preconceived imagination, and for me the day just arrived in full
realization. Realization that I've lived a long time on
earth, filling it with adventures that have compounded over the years.
Early memories of dancing and singing around the living room at three,
sparking enrollment in tap and ballet lessons at four, piano lessons at age
eight, serious ballet study at Peabody Institute beginning as a preteen, and
performing in public during late teens and early twenties. Smoothly
edging into hatha yoga, meditation, and eastern philosophy at age thirty.
Culminating in a sharing of what I'd learned in dance and yoga, plus my
personal discoveries and development from age thirty six on, through thousands
of articles and twenty plus books.
A big change in my attitude toward others arrived with the gift of grace
on my thirtieth birthday while on my first Integral Yoga retreat: I was
overcome by a transformation from self-centeredness to a desire to devote my
life to nurturing my world family, starting with my children and husband. This
change and expansion of consciousness to being part of a world family continues
to this day.
I've made good use of the internet. Besides sharing thousands of lesson
plans in dance and yoga I continue to lead a daily ten minute worldwide cyber group meditation
at 8pm. That is, 8pm on a rolling basis, or everyone's 8pm. As of this time we
have over 750,000 people joining in, accumulating back over fifteen years.
Being age seventy is for me a time to listen carefully to the
ever-present Holy Spirit Vibration, and as inspired, be still in meditation, or
actively meditate through sitting at the computer writing prayers and articles.
My motto continues to be "Just
Love All."
I've realized that one can be in the role of a family person, not
necessarily a monk, minister, or nun, and grow and expand spiritually.
Reflections by Susan Helene Kramer, December 30, 2016.
Reflections at Age Seventy copyright © 2016 Susan Helene Kramer; photo of Susan
by Stan Schaap
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