Legands Of Rock And Roll

Hello, I hope everyone had a great Christmas day. I enjoyed the day with my family and especially the grand kids because they were so excited with what Santa had brought them! Last night I watched the Kennedy Center Honors and was brought back to my teenage years as they paid tribute to Led Zepplin. I can't remember how many slow dances I danced to Stairway to Heaven at the school dances, or how many times my girlfriends and I sat around listening to their albums, but I do remember how much their music moved me through those years. Here are the highlights of the tributes to them for any of you who are fans and missed the show. I think the video of Stairway To Heaven will leave you with goosebumps too.
Thanks for visiting,
Janet :)

In a performance that had Robert Plant on the verge of tears, Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart sang ‘Stairway to Heaven’ as the finale of a star-studded musical tribute to Led Zeppelin during the Kennedy Center Honors. The Wilson sisters were joined by the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham’s son Jason on drums, making the tribute all the more endearing.


History of The Legendary Led Zepplin

Balance Your Emotions

Hi Everyone, I hope you are doing well. I am doing good. The world is filled with magic and it is also filled with sadness, with this loving kindness practice you may find a way to cultivate a sense of stability in yourself that allows you to accept sadness and not just cling to joy. Dealing with difficult emotions are hard for all of us and it is easier to focus on joy and happiness. When you do this practice find that good feeling in your heart and try to feel it throughout your body. Then think of a sadness inside you, Don't try to control it or change it. Let both feelings of love and sadness pass through your heart like waves, don't grasp onto one or push the other away. Continue in this way until you feel a calm balance between these feelings. As you go about your day this practice may help us to find balance in the mist of our chaotic, every changing emotions. You may not feel that the first time you practice it, but keep trying and it will come to you.
Thanks for visiting my blog,
Take Care,
Janet :)

A Day full of Happiness

Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all doing well. I am doing good. This loving kindness meditation is about one of our most important physical and emotional parts of our body. Our hearts. Your heart is a muscle. It also needs to be exercised. If your life experiences have led you to lock your heart up and throw away the key then your heart is in need of some reviving. In order to do that you may need to practice living from your heart again, rather than your fearful mind. Some people live from the heart, those who do are just naturally trusting and loving and appear to believe in the goodness of the the world. I know that is how I am and I often learn the hard way sometimes. If you live your life on the lookout for danger, you are probably always on guard and ready to protect yourself against any person because you fear them from earlier life experiences, they hurt you when you when you were in a trusting place. So today you can decide if you want your heart to be guided full of love or continue to live in a fearful mind. The bravest thing you could ever do is love. What would it be like to go back to the time you responded from your heart and not your fear filled mind? You may begin to notice the world is full of more allies, than enemies. Opening your heart again, you will feel your world expanding. Although it may be hard for you, for just one day act from your heart. Simply say to yourself throughout the day,
"May I listen to my heart"
"May I respond to the world from a place of love"
"May I know I am safe and protected"
"May I know deep trusting love"
I hope this loving kindness practice inspires you as it has me.
Thanks for visiting my blog today,
Take Care,
Janet :)

Clear Your Heart

Clear Your Heart

Hi Everyone, I hope you are doing well. Forgiveness can be a difficult emotion to give out freely for some of us. Even when we tell ourselves we will a better person in the end. Maybe using this loving kindness meditation could help you forgive in a better state. We have all been hurt by someone, past or present. Many of us carry that hurt around longer than we should. When we continue to carry this pain, anger, resentment with us, we are really hurting ourselves. It can really keep us from living in the present and moving on. When we forgive that person, we will have more room in our heart to love. Weather you chose to meditate formally or informally bring to mind that person who hurt you and the feelings that come along with that memory. When you begin to feel the anger, the pain, notice how it makes your heart feel. Not forgiving this person can constrict your heart like a Brier growing around your heart shutting out the light. Begin to say to yourself, I forgive you for whatever hurt you may have caused me, intentionally or unintentionally to the extent I am able to. As you forgive this person you will begin to feel a weight lifted off of you. Your heart will begin to clear and make more room for the light to shine in. And where there is light, there is love and that can only be a good thing.
Thanks for visiting my blog,
Take Care,
Janet :)

Love Travels Like The Wind

Hi Everyone,
I hope you are doing well. I am doing good. I hope you all have a good
weekend. I wanted to share this loving kindness meditation with you today.

Love travels like the wind

I like how that sounds, love travels like the wind. Gandi referred to love as the "subtlest force in the universe", because like the wind it can travel anywhere. Love is a deep feeling of goodwill that actuaslly has the power to make you and others feel. What would it be like if you were to meet anger with love. What a miracle that would be! It takes strength to chose to love whole-heartedly in
the face of anger. This is a lifelong challange, but in the end the efforts could make a big difference in your daily life. The next time someone acts out in anger towards you, like a co-worker lashing out at you, or the bus driver who rolls his eyes when you pay for your fare with pennies. See if you can send love their way instead of anger. Anger dries your heart out, love moistens it. Think to yourself, "You gave me your anger, I do not accept it. Your anger is still your own." Direct these loving-kindness phrases to this person in your mind. May you be filled with loving-kindness, May you be peaceful and at ease, May you be happy. The greatest happiness you could ever hope for would be to have a loving heart in any and every situation. It may be tough to compassionate at times, but it's certainly worth it. Maybe over time it will become like second nature. I am gonna give it a try, I hope you do too. Thanks for visiting
my blog today,
Take Care,
Janet :)

Compassionate Blog Award

Hi Everyone,
I am so honored to be the 10th recipient of the Compassionate Blog Award. When Maitri wrote me the other night to tell me I was moved to tears. I am grateful to be a part of this wonderful community of bloggers who write on a daily basis, not for monetary value, but to inspire humankind and bring hope to all that read our blogs. If that is what you do please click on the link below and join our community to help us to grow and reach everyone who needs a kind word, some hope and inspiration. Thank you for starting this community Maitri and thank you again for the recognition. This is why I started this blog, to inspire others and it is has been returned to me in so many ways, by so many people that I have had the honor of crossing their paths.
Take Care,
Janet :)

Dear Friends,
I have been doing my 300 drops a day on entrecard and some are very random as I try to drop back on everyone who drops on me but sometimes they are not blogs that fit with my philosophies so I thought, "Why not start my own Mr. Linky List to gather together in one place all of the wonderful blogs that are dedicated to Compassionate Living. This may take many shapes and forms. Maybe you are an "artist with heart." Perhaps you are dedicated to animal welfare, or have a cause that you support that is rooted in compassion and loving-kindness. There are so many possibilities, the spectrum is wide and as many colors of the rainbow.

I am not looking for SEO blogs, or blogs that are nothing but ads, or who have a high ad content and almost no real heartfelt blog posts for the simple joy of connection with others. It is in this spirit that I am creating this list so that I can drop on you and support blogs that I really believe in. In addition to this I am designing a "Compassionate Living Blog Award" and every Sunday I will review the blogs that have signed up so far and on Sundays I will put their widget up as high as possible in the sidebar in a little section called, "Compassionate Living Blog Of The Week." A free week of advertising as a thank you for your kind and gentle efforts in the world.

IN ADDITION TO THIS: I will be creating, this week, a new page on my newly designed nine year old website, Dragonfly Cottage, that will house, forever after (as long as the blogs are live), all of the widgets of all of the winners of the awards.

My heartfelt thanks to one and all. I hope you will join soon, and you must leave a comment after your link goes up. That's the way the Mr. Linky links work! I will be keeping a close eye on the list and any inappropriate links will be removed.

Maitri
http://compassionatelivinglinkslist.blogspot.com/