Fri May 2 2008
McCallum Marketing CEO John McCallum, who founded the first National Rain Day in 2007 supported by a group of like-minded entrepreneurs (pictured - from left are Stuart Fraser, John McCallum, Diane Pike & Aldwyn Altuney), said the focus of this year's special day was to 'love our rivers'.
"Our rivers are the life blood of this beautiful land of Australia," Mr McCallum said.
"When we picture them full and flowing and giving life to all that is in them and around them, we are honouring the balance and harmony of all that sustains us."
He said many rivers in Australia were in trouble.
"There has not been enough rain in some places to fill them or they are being affected by excessive irrigation and unsustainable agricultural practices, so they are not flowing freely and lovingly and supporting all that depend on them," he said.
"This means nature is suffering and in places dying, our water catchments are affected and there is not a balanced agricultural equality."
He said we could learn from the first Australians of this land, who danced for the rain and when it came they would dance again in thanks and celebration.
"We can embrace our nation, our communites, our families, friends and neighbours and importantly, our young in honouring and offering gratitude for the sacredness of rain, our rivers and waterways.
"Too often it does not suit us when it rains so we energetically turn it away with our curses, disappointment and frustration. We are learning the premise that the consciousness of each one of us creates our world.
"This means we can change the world. When we collectively offer love and gratitude for water, then we will experience the balance and harmony of healthy waterways and catchment areas. When we think, meditate, imagine and create pictures, stories, images etc of what we love, what we love to happen will happen."
To celebrate the 2008 National Rain Day, the public is invited to:
1. Initiate a "Love our rivers" creative campaign in local kindergarden and primary schools. The collective imagination of young children is extremely powerful. Invite them to draw, paint, create models, write stories or poetry, sing or recite etc, expressing the emotion of loving our rivers. This can be timed to hold an exhibition or event on the day. Some of the work can be used to create calendars or postcards, which if titled "Love our Rivers", will keep the energy vibrant longer.
2. At 11am (EST) on May 8, 2008, gather in communities or social groups with family and friends or if it can only be you, just be there, at a place where there is water, the sea, a river, lake, reservoir, dam, pond etc. Offer audible love and gratitude by just telling the water: "I /we love you and thank you for your life giving essence that sustains us." It is more effective if you are comfortable holding hands in a circle. Visualize all the waters of Australia being connected and receiving the love and gratitude you are offering. Hold that energy in peace and silence and know that you are creating balance and harmony and bringing profound healing and energizing to our waterways.
3. If it is hard for you to get to a waterway, place a glass or bowl of water on a table and repeat the same thing as above.
4. If you wish to focus on specific areas that are still being affected by insufficient rainfalls, at 11am (EST) on May 8, 2008, repeat the process that was introduced on the inaugural National Rain Day in 2007. That is: individually or in groups, gather together, give love and gratitude for water and our waterways, state the area you wish to focus on and listen to or recite the visualisation prayer available on the website www.nationalrainday.com. Hold the energy knowing that you are inviting balance and harmony to the area. So let us all, the people of this land join in with a rain song.
"I invite everyone who resonates with this to share in the experience in whichever way they can and hold the vision that our land will enjoy balance and harmony, our crops nurtured, forests and land honoured, our waterways, catchment areas, reservoirs, rivers and lakes reach fulfillment," Mr McCallum said.
"Collectively we can bring peace, abundance, balance and harmony to our land for future generations."
THANKS FOR DOING YOUR BIT!
For more details, visit www.nationalrainday.com
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