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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