ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self
PRACTICE: Gratitude and the wound
connect the gratitude practice to that deep wounded part in you, let them meet, and let gratitude be thankful for the wounding, all of its deep discomfort and pain
- start to see how the world is supporting you, to see what’s coming in (like the love), see all the gifts that come in
To support our awakening:
1. Tune in to your instrument - develop relational rituals first with yourself, then with energies beyond you
2. Work with that instrument to build familiarity and depth to hold the paradox and weight, to be coherence and stillness amidst the maelstrom
3. Connect with Spirit, tune in, and merge
4. Finding a community to
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Mindfulness is the capacity of being there body and mind united. When you drink your orange juice, drink mindfully and you will enjoy your juice because you are really there one hundred per cent.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River
Thich Nhat Hanh
And it should be effortless. The habit energy is struggle. The natural state is effortless ease - to enjoy the miracle of that moment.
The most powerful journeys we must take are the ones we are not ready for and cannot prepare for.
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Bayo Akomolafe
humility is the antidote to humiliation - it requires surrender and acceptance of what is.
we were never trained for this - perhaps only the saints at the blue level completely in servitude to God are the closest examples we have, and have turned away from because of the negative aspects of organized religion. Don’t let those aspects blind you to
... See moreMy belief is that tears, although they look like a mere emotive reaction, are much more: a deeply free action that many do not enjoy. They proceed from deep inside, where we are most truly ourselves. Tears reveal the depths at which and from which we care.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
When was the last time you shed tears for the planet? For another human? For yourself?
How do you know what you truly care about if you have not cried for it.
We can’t shed tears for those or that outside of us unless we can shed tears for ourselves.
Healing trauma involves recognizing, accepting, and moving through pain—clean pain. It often means facing what you don’t want to face—what you have been reflexively avoiding or fleeing. By walking into that pain, experiencing it fully, and moving through it, you metabolize it and put an end to it. In the process, you also grow, create more room in... See more
Choosing to Face Our Pain
“Faith in something,” he has written in several books, “is an inducement not to dormancy but to action.”
Jimmy Carter
“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be
done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can
shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.
The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”
From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI