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i bless you with the healing power of love
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The word meditation scares a lot of people. People always tell me “oh meditation isn’t for me, my mind just races too much” , and I say that’s exactly who meditation is for. Meditation doesn’t mean to just sit there and all thoughts go away. Meditation isn’t just sitting in a certain position and being in bliss the whole time. A lot of times it is the opposite. The point of meditation is to observe what is going on. Resting into the place of awareness within our being, instead of following the narratives we so often follow. Or trying to force thoughts to leave. So it’s okay if your mind is all over the place. That’s the first step. To realize “wow, this thing never shuts up”. The mind always has something to say. It’s always analyzing, judging, worrying, and making up scenarios that don’t even exist. But we continue to buy into the mind. We follow the thoughts. We play out the bad what if scenarios. Until we are living in a world made of thoughts. A world of illusion. Meditation is about observing and not letting the thoughts pull you away from the awareness that is beyond all thought. Even if a thousand thoughts pop up during meditation, that’s okay. They will. But each time one pops up, we have the choice to follow it and buy into it, or let it go and come back to awareness. And the more we practice coming back to awareness, the less our thoughts will have control over us. We will start to be able to live from that place of awareness instead of in the never ending thought patterns we have been living in.
instagram.comHealing and
You energize whatever you attend to.
As poet Brandon Wint wrote in a much-quoted social media post several years ago, “Not queer like gay; queer like escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness all at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like, and to pursue it.”
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
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bell hooks
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bell hooks
A quote by bell hooks
95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise.
You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.
The Headless Way: A Simple Trick to Realize You’re Not in the World
youtube.comFeel it rather than think about it. The moment you create direction and structure (a plan, even a spontaneous one) from the depth of your feeling awareness, you are now creating from a deeper place in you, rather than your often habitual and outcome-driven thinking. This is how a culture of leadership directed by sensitivity is built. One attentive
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