and Hu?

If I translate my blog title "Just Be You ( and Hu)" it means "Be the Beautiful Divine Soul that is really Who You Are, and Pray."

Hu is an ancient, sacred name for God. There are many, thousands, hundreds of thousands, of us on the planet who have learned this name. And we sing it as a love song to God, Creator of us all, every day.
Too often our prayers are overflowing with our words addressed to our Creator, naming our woes, our joys, and our petitions for what else we want in our lives. Somehow I think God already knows all that.
I have learned that perhaps the best way to pray, is to bring myself into harmony with this Loving Creator God, then just listen. Singing Hu is the perfect way to do that! So simple. So powerful. So true. Care to give it a try? Here's how:
Sit in an upright, comfortable position. If you are physically challenged in any way, it works just the same, lying down. Be relaxed, and focused. Gently put your inner attention on your forehead (you have a spiritual eye there-it's where you daydream!) then, in a long, drawn out breath just sing..."Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." Then repeat. At whatever pace, and in whatever key you choose. You can vary the pace and key however you want. Do this for 10 to 20 minutes every day, and watch the miracles unfold!

Just Be Me

Sounds simple, doesn't it? "Just Be Me." Growing up in the shifting sands of those who drank, like the chameleon, I learned to change my colors to suit the sun. Or the moon. Or the many shadows in between. It's not the thing I want to talk about. I'm done with all that. Thanks to Al Anon, my spirituality, many friends, and a loving extended family. What I'm exploring now are the multi-faceted, rainbow colored, thousand lotus blossoms, intricate thought patterns, complex feelings and emotions that are me.
I wrote a poem in high school many years ago that asked simply "Who am I? Why am I here?.......whoever I am, when will I know.....why?" I've been questioning Life, God, Divine Meaning, Purpose, Universe, Choice, as long as I can remember. And I've found many good and true answers. Some can be proven; many cannot. Complex answers. Simple answers. I have a better understanding now than ever in my past, and yes, that includes past lives. I know. I've seen. I've experienced and I've remembered. Yet my quest continues for the rest of the journey to simply Know Myself.
I asked my 18 year old daughter just yesterday, "When you're my age, and you're telling your family about your Mom, what will you say?" She answered without hesitation,"That you were special, kind, so very loving and helpful to me, and you absolutely could not, no, not ever, make a decision." You know why? Because I don't know myself. Though I've healed many wounds of the past, too often I still stand on shifting sand as I waver between all possible choices of any decision. Maybe it's because I've finally learned something. Maybe I know more of me than I first thought. Looking back, I made hasty decisions too often and lived to see why they were hasty. I have physically moved everything I own, either by choice or circumstance, over 25 times. And that's just this lifetime! So now the new rule is, no more hasty decisions. Must deliberate. Must consider the consequences not only for me, but for my daughters, my co-workers, my boss, my family, my cats, my checkbook, and my Karma.
So this journey is just beginning, yet I might be stepping on the path somewhere in the middle. I may already know more than I once thought, and the goal today is not so much to learn something unknown, but to discover more of what I already know!