A Quiet Voice

“My spine feels like its splintering.” Am I meditating correctly?

If you’ve ever thought about meditating or tried it and thought you did something wrong, then this episode is for you. It’s a vulnerable dive into my first time trying just a 15 minute meditation in a Shamabalan Center in Asheville, NC. When I thought that pain is part of the process and my pride got in the way - and still often does.

Before I was nearly dragged into a meditation center by friends trying to help me rediscover what it meant to be ALIVE, I thought meditation was done in mountains or only in monasteries.

I had lost myself through the tasks of modern life, yet the relationships, grocery shopping, due dates, and distractions didn’t keep me from discovering powerful magic by stepping outside of time.

This episode is about rediscovering a felt presence of strength by stepping outside of time and our habits to let magic find us and discovering a little inner presence.

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The end of January usually brings some disappointment as all my New Years Resolutions start to lose their shine. I begin to think that this year will be no different from the last. February, though, brings a shift in energy away from Winter’s survival mindset and closer to Spring’s rejuvenating light.

Imbolc, one of the seasons on the Celtic calendar, the Wheel of the Year, gives us all an opportunity to connect with a natural rhythm found only in ourselves.

Forcing ourselves to live according to another’s story or bending to the will of another’s schedule can cause problems. Stress, depression, anxiety can be relieved when we learn to follow our own internal rhythm.

In this episode, we explore the energy of Imbolc and why we need not be discouraged if our year is not going as we had hoped from the start. Connecting to the Hear and Now lets us begin to see that what is happening in our world does not have to happen to us.

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Between the flashing fluorescent lights, zoom calls, putting on a friendly face for customers, or being on our feet for 8 hours, we all give away our energy at work.

If we are not careful, then we will carry the drained feeling of the workday into our homes and pass them onto our friends, family, and loved ones.

With just a little slow-breathing, visualization, and intention we can wash away the “drip” of the day - as the Buddhists call it - which causes our shoulders to tighten and leaves our jaw clenched.

In this episode, I guide you on a short, intuitive meditation to cleanse your energy, and mine, of the day’s work. Use this meditation to ease into your home and resting state deeper and be more present in your non-work life. 

I thank you for walking this path with me and want to know your thoughts or insight.

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What do a first kiss, a step onto the stage, and a job interview have in common?

Leaps into the unknown. Hurling ourselves into an abyss but feeling the intensity of life flow through our bodies.

Many of life’s most magical moments require us to trust our inner strength to perform and not overthink. Too much thinking or digesting information can bring stress and a myriad of health problems along with a sense of being STUCK.

We must learn to trust ourselves in order to pursue a fully lived life and not become ensnared by others’ wishes, expectations or let another write our story.

In this episode, we explore how to begin an inner dialogue by letting intuition begin to be our guide to knowing our inner yearning.

I talk about how a magical tarot card reading with a psychic medium opened my eyes to how my body can be an instrument of wisdom and deep insight.

Link to a powerful Tarot Reading for 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3oU3pabGU&t=3458s

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Whether the doorway to the boss’s office, the first morning of a healing journey, or any such moment when your chest quickens and shoulders tighten, where do we look to find enough courage to trust the abyss? How do we start to see the universe, as saints and sages do, to be a feather bed?

The more we can disconnect from our past, the less trauma and pain begin to become ideas of our future. We begin to open up to the felt presence of being alive and all the possibilities that come with it.

In this episode, we explore a quick evening ritual that can help us disconnect from our past and restore our openness to tomorrow by feeling our inner radiance. Miracles and the magic of a fully lived life are all around us we just have to begin to cultivate presence to see.

Thanks for listening!

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What happens when we let go of expectations and allow for the unpredictable and unexpected to brighten our journey? In this episode, we continue to explore the deeper ideas in threshold thinking. 

Artists, poets, and philosophers tell about what happens to your life when you learn to leap off the abyss. My hope is that as you see ledges in your own life - new jobs, new relationships, new opportunities, or crises - that they do not paralyze you with indecision or fear but open you to new ideas and a sense of adventure.

The meditation in the previous episode was designed to help you dip your toe into another experience of consciousness. It is one thing to listen to my spiritual journey stories but quite another to feel yourself begin to dig into the felt experience of being you. 

What you discover is your own secret, unexplainable to anyone else. Expectations, though, and preconceived notions can cloud meditation just as they can our life - a lived creating experience.

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In this episode, I invite you to take a few minutes to discover a way into the felt experience of being you. When was the last time you let yourself just be in your complete wholeness rather than a part of something else? It is a gift that comes without expectations but as a time to sit just outside your frame of scattered stresses, worries, and wonderings. Try this short, 10 minute, meditation for a little inward discovery of a secret that only you can know and experience.

The words I say are just echoes of many past meditations and retreats I’ve done. I recorded this meditation as an experiment for myself as much as other listeners. Some things can only be felt and not told.

I thank you for walking this path with me and want to know what you felt or didn’t feel.

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As we all finish out a dynamic 2021 I, and likely you, tend to reflect upon progress since the beginning of the year. Dangerous questions like: Where am I compared to January? How do I feel on an average day? Seem to spin in my mind. I didn’t record this podcast near the end of the year, but it seems very appropriate, and I hope that it offers you some peace in what can be a stressful time of reflection looking into the new year.

In this episode, you will learn what the labyrinth can teach us about walking life’s path whether occupational, spiritual, or creative. The labyrinth is an ancient and rich symbol of life, death, renewal, but much more can be found by exploring the experience of walking it. At the end of the episode is an exercise to help us sink into each step rather than always anticipate the next turn. I hope you enjoy it.

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December 21st is the Winter solstice day and though overlooked by our Modern calendar, it can be a secular way to ring in the holiday season. We can welcome balance by exploring the darkness during these long nights until the day brings us into spring and abundance.

In this short extra episode, we dive into how the Celts and pre-modern Irish people observed the solstice through megalithic structure and myths. What can we learn from beginning traditions that hold celestial events in reverence?

Pictured is Westport’s Killadangan Winter solstice complex (the one I describe in the episode).

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What can fairy forts, Irish hares, and campfires teach us about our inner voice? 

In this episode, I share a story of a skirmish between my logical and intuitive minds near a fairy fort and I begin to wake up to mysterious wisdom contained in a flame. You will learn how looking is the first step to seeing and how wisdom is all around us if we just take a moment to look without judgment. Takedown the logical filter and you may be surprised what you’ll find.

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