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Help Dolphins from ‘The Cove’ become “Net-savvy” and “Fishermen-safe”

Joe Noonan — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:01:46 +0000

Helping Dolphins become “Net Savvy” and “Fishermen-Safe”; Applying principles of ‘The 100^th Monkey’

‘Celebration of Life’ Internet Radio – Tues, Nov 2nd at 7 pm New York /Wed, Nov 3rd, 8 am Kyoto, Japan.

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The 80’s brought us “Dolphin-Safe” tuna, now its time for us to help create “Fishermen-Safe” Dolphins! Can a group of inspired people align their vision well enough to communicate a message to the dolphin collective? Applying principles from the ‘100^th Monkey’ study, in which a whole species of monkeys spontaneously began applying the actions of a few, we’re going online on the ‘inner-net’ to send the dolphins some net- and fisherman-safe strategies!

The dolphin hunters are continuing their hunt in Taiji, Japan, site of the movie ‘The Cove’. They chase the dolphins into the cove using a wall of sound, and they keep them captive there with nets. On this show we will be sending them images and strategies to “swim far, fast and deep’, as initiated by the Taiji Dolphin Action Group, as well as to overcome the puzzling world-wide cetacean reluctance to leap over simple water-level nets to regain their freedom.

(Listen to the show HERE on Tues, Nov 2nd, 7 pm EST/ Nov 3rd, 8 am Kyoto, Japan. Listen live or to the recording))

Join Celebration of Life host Joe Noonan and his guest Teresa Bolen at 7 pm EST (New York) on Nov 2^nd / 8 am Nov 3^rd (Kyoto, Japan), as we super-charge telepathic human/cetacean communication using EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), guided meditation, interspecies communication and quantum physics to help dolphins become both “net-savvy” and “fishermen-safe.”

Teresa Bolen is a passionate dolphin advocate, an EFT virtuoso, and founder of Magic at Your Fingertips. She teaches in Japan and has done ceremony at the Cove in an ongoing effort to bring healing to the waters there.

Joe Noonan is an author, international speaker and a shamanic wilderness guide. Joe has been bringing groups of people to swim with the wild dolphins and whales for the past fifteen years. He leads sacred Water Ceremonies around the world. Join Joe’s newsletter for upcoming ‘Celebration of Life’ radio shows, his YouTube videos and wild dolphin retreats at Planetary Partners.

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Awakened by Sumac; Nature’s beauty does it again…

Joe Noonan — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 04:57:05 +0000

I spent most of October drinking in autumn up in Canada, its very similar to the New England I grew up in, except that instead of saying ‘A-yup‘, they say ‘Aye?‘ The beauty of sumac trees have caught me… their spectrum of colors keeps grabbing my eye… They radiate such a vibrant red, they pull me from my walks, have me crossing fields and streets and streams, all so I can get right up close and gaze deeply into their colors…

Vibrant red sumac leaves

One day I was walking the narrow edge between a field of young wheat and a maple forest. The maples were turning mostly yellow and orange, I was looking for the trademark red, when I spotted a clump of sumac ahead… it was bright and bold, like the fiery red crest of a cardinal, and I found myself walking excitedly towards it, like a kid at Halloween towards a house surrounded by trick-or-treaters.

I gazed in awe at its many colors; infinite shades of red, orange and yellow. There was one leaf that the afternoon sun shone thru so brilliantly that it looked like gold… I savored that light, felt some part of me drinking it in as if it was pure prana, liquid chi…

Golden sumac leaf in autumn light

I spent half an hour with that one leaf, there at the edge of forest and field… I returned to that one spot, day after day, and literally drank in its glory…

Beauty, illuminated with the light of an afternoon sun… feeding my spirit with light, colors and vibration in a way I cannot understand, nor need to…. I am happy enough to know that it is enriching me; body and soul…

That one branch opened me, now I find myself seeking out sumac wherever I go… I fancy myself a bit of a connoseur, (even if I don’t know how to spell it)… Connoseur sounds too aloof… I am a devotee, yes, a humble fan of this radiant tree spirit, ever ready to stop everything and gaze, with devotion, into her vortex of color and light… to be transported into dimensions so vast and vibrant, I lose myself in her beauty, only to ‘come to my senses’ moments or minutes later, noticing the color has changed yet again from the restless passage of the sun…

And so in my love of her magic, she reveals more; more variations and more beauty…. I find that some of the leaves are threaded with lines of passage; the worm-like trails of bugs who have, in their mythical journey into butterflies (at least in my imagination), have eaten their way across the undulating slopes of a sumac leaf, leaving tracks of their passage that reveal yet another kind of beauty…

Tracks within the leaf

I find myself following these tracks as a race car fan follows the Indy 500, though every one of these trails is unique, telling their own story of the life of a leaf-eater turned butterfly…

One day, along a set of abandoned railroad tracks, I found a sumac with spots! I came closer, looked deeper… the spots look like African war paint, the leaves look like warrior’s shields… and another whole new kind of leaves, spotted sumac leaves, entered my awareness…

These spotted leaves transport me into a tribal ring, they look like the colors of a queen’s robe…

Sumac Warrior Shields

I looked up what others say sumac’s flower essence does for the human spirit; most concur it is a form of physical and spiritual empowerment, along with a way to feel more involved and connected with life. For me, the loving energy of sumac is one of grounding into spiritual energies, joy and vitality.

Thank you for joining me in this journey, it is grounding (and joyful!) for me to share it as intimately and profoundly as I experience it… It’s my heartfelt guidance that the more we connect with Nature’s beauty, the more graceful our collective awakening will be, for us and for all other forms of life in our world.

Here’s to our beautiful awakening!

Love,

Joe

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Ocean of Abundance! A Florida Beach ReUnion!

Joe Noonan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:49:57 +0000

After a month away, I flew back to Florida today.

I left the vibrant cool colors of autumn and my sweetie pie back in Toronto at 4 am… I’m about to go on the road for a few weeks; Boston, Santa Fe, San Diego then Texas, and in anticipation, my body and spirit have been CRAVING an ocean immersion fix!

I arrive in long pants, sox, sneakers, shirt and sweater. The sweater comes off in the terminal, the shoes and sox come off at the curb while waiting for my ‘brother from another mother’, Jeff, to pick me up. Soon as I’m back in my humble studio, the shirt comes off, the A/C goes on and the jeans are ditched for shorts. Ahhhhhhh…

Two hours later, I’m peddling my bike to the ocean…

Its only a mile, the lone hill between me and the shore is the bridge over the intercoastal waterway. This is the first body of water I cross, then I weave thru 4 lanes on A1A, then a left turn down a quiet side street…

One block, two blocks, then thru the palm trees, I see her; shimmering turquoise blue and my heart leaps…

I pull up to the park, lock my bike against the tall slender trunk of a palm tree that I love (she’s fed me coconuts), grab my fins off the back of my bike and head for the water just steps away…

I walk across the beach, warm sand between my happy toes as my eyes scan the horizon, drinking in the vast liquid expanse, feeling my own spirit expanding out to match her…

Close in, there’s two people wading in waist deep water… Beyond them, a yellow kayaker, beyond that, a red kayak with a dive flag… He’s at the outside edge of the first reef, next to a favorite spot of mine… (I hope he leaves some lobster for me!), further out, another dive flag (he’s on the second reef), and then two more boats past that. I smile, drinking it all in as I come closer to the water’s edge, our reunion steps away…

Suddenly, just past the two people, a silver and blue Bonita tuna, about 2 feet in length, leaps out of the water, making an arch like a rainbow, colors flashing in the afternoon sun… WOW!

He hits the water and it explodes! About 8 silver, yellow and blue jacks launch themselves in every direction in response. What vitality! What abundance! Had I looked a moment earlier or later I’d have never seen it… how abundant, how blessed…

I come to the edge, toes in the salty sea, and say a prayer of thanksgiving… My love for the ocean has become reverence, entering her is an act of grace… slowly I wade in, inviting her completely inside me, appreciation of her pouring forth effortlessly… I swim out to the buoy and back, freediving and rolling on the sandy bottom, reveling in the 82 degree water. Wahoo!

I see the trail of a couple of sand dollars; I dive down, turning them over in my hand, setting them gently back down… Its good to be back, I love this place…

Slowly I swim my way to shallower water, the early evening sun angling in yellow… A flash of movement beside me, I flinch, the shadow flinches in response… Its a school of mullet, about fifty of them. They flee, my startled response too much for their edgy defenses…

Caught by the grace of their pod fluidity, I follow… Not too fast, (it’ll scare them further), just enough to slowly close the gap between us.

I send them love, waves of love, from me to them, from me and the ocean, from life to life… They slow, circle around, the biggest fish in the school swims over close, looking me in the eye… I swim alongside the school, they move closer…

Suddenly we are together, an odd coupling of sentient beings, united in mutual appreciation. My eyes are on them, admiring the beauty of their movements, every single one of their 50+ eyes are on me… I am a hunter, they are prey, but I’m not hunting now, and we mutually agree to leave that story behind us and bask in the flow of mutual love and respect.

The three biggest mullets keep swimming closer, I cannot help but think about how tasty they are! I smile, they know the difference when I’m without spear and appetite! We look deeply into each other’s eyes, recognizing that we are different only in outer form…

We swim together, as above, so below… the waves choreograph our shallow water dance, picking us up and splashing us down in unison…

I’m getting cold and the sun is setting, reluctantly I swim for shore. The shallower I get, the warmer the water gets… What’s the hurry, I ask myself, the increased warmth relaxing my shivering muscles. I tarry, floating in 2 feet of water, watching the play of sun and waves on the undulating carpet of rippling sand beneath me…

The sandy ridges move and shake with each incoming wave, the sculptor’s hand never idle… each undulation creates another flash of symmetry human hands only dream of…

Something brushes my leg and I almost LEAP out of the water! Skin rippling, I turn…

Two tiny Palmetto, oval-shaped silver sided fish with coal black fins, scurry between my legs… I kick up some sand; they dart in to inspect, looking for tiny morsels of food. I watch, enchanted, their silver sides flashing in the light…

One of them brushes up against me again… My body tingles from so gentle a touch… he swims around and under my leg, rubbing his silver side against me again and again… a flood of ripples race thru me in ecstatic reply…

Amazed and delighted, I let my legs rest on the sandy bottom as my torso rocks in the waves. Again he undulates his body against the skin of my bare legs, moving up my thigh… I pull the open cut of my shorts close, afraid he might swim right into them! The other one joins in; like two kittens rubbing up to say hi!

I sit on the bottom, putting my torso underwater. Like a pair of dancers, together they swim up to the center of my chest, at heart level, fluttering against me, one going clockwise, the other going counter… I’m in total amazement as they each do a complete circle around me, touching.. me.. all.. the.. way.. around…

Overwhelmed by a flood of love and sensation, my mind stops.

I know these are not just ‘fish’; these are loving entities, embracing me such that a burst of joy floods out of me and into the water like a bolt of lightning…

They bob and weave, rub-a-dub dubbing up against and around my legs… I can almost hear them purring, or is it me… Its so ecstatic, I’m goofy, almost dizzy… maybe its the waves, I lie to myself, rocking in awe of the magic of their touch…

If people only knew, knew the beauty and the joy and the magic, so readily available, right here, with a mask and snorkel, with some time to slow down and simply be immersed…

The idea of doing winter family retreats on this beach returns… its a lot of work, my mind retorts, I’m already doing too many different things. The kids will love it, the ocean replies… Some people will take advantage of it, spoil the whole thing, my mind fires back… You’ll be facilitating a powerful deepening, a reunion of spirit and earth, the elements whisper…

I’ve had this dream before; organizing weeklong retreats for families right here along this very water’s edge, during the winter months when the icy winds blow up north. Give those who seek a natural connection a way to dive deeper; immerse themselves in the churning January seas… It looks like fun, yet a lot of work too, find myself tensing from the thought…

I’m reminded that I need not leave the water, I can facilitate the deepening from here, by my own deepening, my own deepening vibrating thru all of the oneness, awakening, remembering the depth and intimacy of this embrace…

Write about it, they say, share the wonder we so joyfully share with you… as I am, now, thru these words, so YOU may remember the beauty of her grace… I know you know, (you’ve swum and dove and read this far with me…), I know you feel the same movement, the same remembering, the same awakening of the divine feminine, of the oceans of life, within you as well…

Wahoo!

Joe

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JOE NOONAN is an author, speaker, life coach and spiritual guide. He leads leadership retreats around the world and facilitates self awareness programs for those on the path of awakening.

A guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah, Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us.

Following are some of his programs:

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A Single Breath…

Joe Noonan — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:15:10 +0000

God, fulfillment, Oneness, Union…

We search, we look, we think… we wander thru life like beggars, searching…

All the while surrounded, immersed, saturated…

Its never anyplace else but right here, right now, in this moment…

Life is in the breath, life is the breath…

Any time, anywhere, in a moment, we return to oneness, to the present, with our breath…

Yes, it is this simple… You already know this truth…

A single breath, uniting heaven and earth, human and divine, you and God…

Our minds are trained to take us away, (it can’t be that simple… its more complicated than that… move on, this is crazy talk…)

Our minds are conditioned, invested, to return us to the hunt, seeking…

What do you want? Anther prize, another victory, another achievement

that will yet again disappoint you? Beautiful Being, nothing short of the Infinite

can fulfill you,

nothing short of Totality

is worthy of you…

Stop the seeking, throw down the cards, tip over the scale of us and them, yes and no, win and lose,

and fill yourself with what has always been present…

The Breath, uniting you with the infinite

of who you are…

in a single breath…

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JOE NOONAN is an author, speaker, life coach and spiritual guide. He leads leadership retreats around the world and facilitates self awareness programs for those on the path of awakening.

A guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah, Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us.

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Absolutely ANYTHING done mindfully is a blessing…

(A realization that dawned on me as I was cutting up a big buttercup squash… I was harried, wanted to already be eating the squash, not prepping it, and as I went to cut the squash with a big knife on a wooden butcher block cutting board, I paused and remembered that I was not alone and that NATURE was with me…

… Took a conscious breath, blessing myself and the squash, (and EVERYTHING in the process), and leaned into the knife…

… as it slid so sweetly thru the squash’s firm yellow flesh, I felt the union of lover and beloved, hunger and satiation, knife, Joe & squash…

… and I reverently put down the knife, ran over here to the laptop, and started typing… it was one ECSTATIC moment! Now, I’m headed back to my beloved squash! XOXOXO

Be Choosy! Tips for sorting thru a full email box!

Joe Noonan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:01:54 +0000

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I have way more emails than I’ll ever read…

Today my inbox has 2500+ unread messages…Every few months, I move them to a folder marked ‘Archive’.

Navigating email is an art… I just made another discernment about how to sort thru which ones I open and which ones I respond to…

(Most of the 2500 I’ve at least skimmed the subject line… hint: if you want me to read an email, give me a specific subject title!)

Today I received this from someone on Facebook…

Subject: hello!

Hi Joe, I am just briefly reading a little bit about you…I dont actually agree with swimming with dolphins in any context, can you give me some more info about yourself and what you do? thanks ___ x”

As a Cetacean advocate, I was about to respond and take five minutes of my valuable time, when I realized that this person has instant and immediate access to all the information about me that they could ever want right there on Facebook… (I’m well-linked!).

And they’ve already indicated their position with a certainty that would obviously require some time and energy to shift. (“I don’t agree… in any context“).

I love educating people on the many gifts dolphins and whales offer us, (including Humanity’s total awakening!), yet why spend my time with someone who 1) wants me to educate them about me so we can 2) talk about their rigid postion?

I’d much rather spend the time sharing beauty and insight with you! (YES, this is five ‘well-spent’ minutes!)

Here’s to all the beauty around and within!

XOXOXO

Joe

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JOE NOONAN is an author, speaker, life coach and spiritual guide. He leads leadership retreats around the world and facilitates self awareness programs for those on the path of awakening.

A guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah, Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us.

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Nature’s Lofty Treetop Inspiration @ International Peace Day!

Joe Noonan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:43:24 +0000

Sept 21 was International Peace Day!

I was atop a big pine tree on an island north of Toronto… this tree, and Nature in general, gave me some insight into peace…

I find myself reacting to people’s comments to ‘make peace’… like it isn’t there, then we create it. Ha! The arrogance of the mind…

Nature in her wisdom and beauty reminds me that peace always is, whether we take notice of it or not… Peace is the space, the silence from which all music/life springs forth. If the music is filled with strife, it may obscure our awareness of the peace of its origins, but it doesn’t affect it…

I feel the truth of this resonating in my being as I type… felt it just as strongly in the tree… all of Nature, everything around me, echoes this truth…

Is it true for you??? Check and see… take a conscious breath… pause… listen to the silence… despite the mind’s rambling, do you feel the peace???

Pine trees emit a frequency that quiets and calms the overactive mind… this one calmed and rocked me… the view from the top is spectacular!

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JOE NOONAN is an author, speaker, life coach and spiritual guide. He leads leadership retreats around the world and facilitates self awareness programs for those on the path of awakening.

A guest on National Geographic, Fox TV and Oprah, Joe reflects back to people that this world is already a Heaven on Earth, and that the tools to find joy in the moment are around and within us.

Following are some of his programs: