Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living

A blessing a wish from my heart to yours!

Blessing backstory:⁠

A while ago I decided to find uplifting images, ones that made me smile and lifted my spirit. And to send them together with a blessing, a personal wish, to my immediate family. Over time it’s become a ‘daily-ish’ morning practice via WhatsApp to a slowly growing recipient list. Recently I’ve started to share these blessings and images on social media too, with a prayer that they brighten the world of those who receive them. And most recently I've started recording an audio version (started on 25Jan22).

Invitation: Let them wash over and through you...may something resonate, soothe or remind...so much love always!

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Blessings also shared on IG (@aliveloren) & Medium (aliveloren.medium.com)

Context: In January 2018 I committed to a 40-day day fast and to write a post daily documenting the experience. The greatest gift was living more presently, more mindfully. Here on the Alive Loren podcast, you can find this series read aloud as an AUDIO BLOG.

May you be inspired to live more presently and connect to more magical moments.

For more context to this AUDIO BLOG series listen to '117: Important Updates'. The reading starts from '118. Day 0: OMG did I really commit to a 40 day fast?' You can easily identify these episodes as they start with the word 'Day....' ENJOY!

👉 To read the original blog post for this episode, head over to aliveloren.medium.com and search 'Day 38 of 49: Be Humble continued'

👉 Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living.

Learning to surf is still way up there on my bucket list. It's such a profound symbol for me of the balance between DOING and BEING. DOING in terms of showing up to the learning process and BEING in terms of being nowhere but on the board, deeply present to the moment, in time of surfing itself.

What about playing with the idea of our lives, being an opportunity to experience riding the ever cresting wave of life itself?

Hmm...and what about our lives being an opportunity to experience the reading, the screening of the greatest story ever told?

Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery!

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A blessing a wish from my heart to yours!

Blessing backstory:⁠

A while ago I decided to find uplifting images, ones that made me smile and lifted my spirit. And to send them together with a blessing, a personal wish, to my immediate family. Over time it’s become a ‘daily-ish’ morning practice via WhatsApp to a slowly growing recipient list. Recently I’ve started to share these blessings and images on social media too, with a prayer that they brighten the world of those who receive them. And most recently I've started recording an audio version (started on 25Jan22).

Invitation: Let them wash over and through you...may something resonate, soothe or remind...so much love always!

Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery!

👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️)

Blessings also shared on IG (@aliveloren) & Medium (aliveloren.medium.com)

A blessing a wish from my heart to yours!

Blessing backstory:⁠

A while ago I decided to find uplifting images, ones that made me smile and lifted my spirit. And to send them together with a blessing, a personal wish, to my immediate family. Over time it’s become a ‘daily-ish’ morning practice via WhatsApp to a slowly growing recipient list. Recently I’ve started to share these blessings and images on social media too, with a prayer that they 5brighten the world of those who receive them. And most recently I've started recording an audio version (started on 25Jan22).

Invitation: Let them wash over and through you...may something resonate, soothe or remind...so much love always!

Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery!

👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️)

Blessings also shared on IG (@aliveloren) & Medium (aliveloren.medium.com)

Context: In January 2018 I committed to a 40-day day fast and to write a post daily documenting the experience. The greatest gift was living more presently, more mindfully. Here on the Alive Loren podcast, you can find this series read aloud as an AUDIO BLOG.

May you be inspired to live more presently and connect to more magical moments.

For more context to this AUDIO BLOG series listen to '117: Important Updates'. The reading starts from '118. Day 0: OMG did I really commit to a 40 day fast?' You can easily identify these episodes as they start with the word 'Day....' ENJOY!

👉 To read the original blog post for this episode, head over to aliveloren.medium.com and search 'Day 37 of 49: Be humble continued'

👉 Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living.

The parable of the widowed farmer, 'Good, bad who know?' and honouring what's alive in you, what's nudging, sometimes nagging, pleading, begging to be expressed through you, regardless of whether the outside world gets it, laughs at it, loves it, ridicules it, celebrates and/or condemns it. Regardless!

Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery!

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Context: In January 2018 I committed to a 40-day day fast and to write a post daily documenting the experience. The greatest gift was living more presently, more mindfully. Here on the Alive Loren podcast, you can find this series read aloud as an AUDIO BLOG.

May you be inspired to live more presently and connect to more magical moments.

For more context to this AUDIO BLOG series listen to '117: Important Updates'. The reading starts from '118. Day 0: OMG did I really commit to a 40 day fast?' You can easily identify these episodes as they start with the word 'Day....' ENJOY!

👉 To read the original blog post for this episode, head over to aliveloren.medium.com and search 'Day 36 of 49: Be humble continued'

👉 Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living.

Have you ever really thought about the ONE thing you really, really want?

What if a magical genie popped up in front of you right now, but there was only ONE THING you could ask for....

What would it be? A thing? An experience? A state of being?

I recently signed up for Ann Wilson's free 30 days Money Makeover Challenge (@thewealthchef).

On one of the first few days, she has a deep dive exercise into fleshing out a super-comprehensive list of all you'd like to be, do, have, experience and create. I'm just finding myself in a place where 'things' out there are not having such an appeal. Because I take ME to any future 'dream destination'. Nothing 'out there' is really going to bring me a lasting, genuine sense of joy, presence and fulfilment....so I started unpacking what I want, what I really, really want.

What do you really want? Really really want? If there was just ONE THING?

Hmmm...some personal sharing on episode 181. What is it that you really really want?

After all is said and done, at the core, the very centre....I think to be happy, genuine deeply happy...

How about you?

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So have you flipped it? Isn't it amazing how the lines on the page don't change, but what you see changes because you're willing to change perspective because you're open to another point of view, another possibility?

And that's what this blessing and backstory are about.

Intro to the backstory:

One of my Taiwanese students shared she will soon be celebrating the Chinese New Year and that there are many traditional foods eaten, including some that are bitter and sour. She said the ancestors included these to teach about receiving and even enjoying these flavours, that they symbolize the inevitable bitter and sour experiences of life and that growing the capacity to receive and enjoy these flavours will increase the enjoyment of life itself.

As a child she absolutely disliked these foods, which she now as an adult enjoys and looks forward to. I wanted to hear her story, her journey....

The Blessing:

May you respectfully witness your resistance to the possibility of enjoying the sour, bitter experiences of life,

May you playfully hold space for the ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’, the ‘arguments’ and ‘judgements’, allowing their expression without being drawn in,

And in the meantime, may you be open to this possibility of increasing your capacity to receive pleasure and joy from more of life, even the bitter and sour parts,

May you try this possibility on for size to see if it adds value to your quality and experience of life!

So may it be. Because what if…. Just what if… life wishes nothing more than for us to experience and receive the love from it ALL. What if it’s not about life-changing, but about us growing our capacity to receive. What if that’s the work of our lifetime?

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