Anxiety? Incessant thoughts about what's going on? Hard to disconnect from the news? Physical pain?
Today I share two meditations that can help. I facilitated them last night for my "open house" group and folks really loved them.
Meditation #1 starts at minute 2:18 (it's about 9 minutes in length)
Meditation #2 starts at minute 11:50 (it's about 18 minutes in length)
We live in interesting times, don't we?
This global pandemic experience is certainly uniting all of humanity in a way no event I can think of has ever done. Can you think of any other time where all around the world, humanity was all on the same side, with the same uniting experience? Save from alien invasion movies, I think we'd be hard pressed to find another event quite like this.
It's also bringing out the best in people.
I shared this idea with my Reboot group this week and they LOVED it!
Where in your life might you need to “turn on the light”?
And if you’d like to witness my rawness at discovering my own fix-it attitude, you can read my poem below the video.
Imagine yourself as a musical instrument.
Pretend for a moment that you’re a piano, or a guitar, or a drum.
Imagine the edges of your body being the walls of the instrument, and imagine feeling the hollowness inside. Your body as a resonance chamber for the sound the instrument will emit.
Imagine now the music being played, and imagine the waves of sound moving through the instrument. Invisible vibrations that are nonetheless absolutely real. The walls of the instrument feel the sound and move at the frequency of the vibrations from the keys being struck, the strings being pulled, or the hyde of the drum being tapped.
Today I find myself pondering the following question:
Let me tell you how I got here. It's been a confluence of insights from different readings, in addition to experiencing what's currently present in my life.