Hari Om.

Thank you for joining ont he Journey Home, today. Today I have been contemplating on how much energy we are putting into "healing". It seems that we are finding more ways to be anywhere but here, anytime but now. I am curious about this in myself. What do I need to become? What have I become that I need to avoid? How can I be present and in love?

Be Well,

Michael

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Hari Om.

Good morning friends. How often do we get to recognize that all of our compartmentalization is simply the layers of the same experience? There is one common demoninator in all of the roles, the costumes, the personas, the masks that we wear throughout our days: me. We are always the same I Am no matter the casting credits we attribute to ourselves. The idea that we can compartmentalize these things is an illness, I believe, and leads to more and more illnesses. Good thing we have a practice for that...

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All in Love,

Michael

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Hari Om.

Good morning. The seasons are in shift, and I feel invited in to the remembering that I, too, am a part of the constance of change. Everything I think I am, everything I think You are, and everything I have ever seen is going away. When I am healed, and whole, I am aware of this and it flows. When I am forgetful of my nature, I am stubborn, obstinate, and suffering the inability to be who I think I am in any moment. I enjoy this season the most.

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Hari Om.

Today we have a contemplation on how kindness is an act of connection, of abundance, and may be the cure for many of the crises we have today. This is a challenge to bring kindness into our day today, and to grow it tomorrow, and again, again. Even if we are not feeling connected, kindness can be the balm for that wound. Try it.

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Be Kind,

Michael

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Hari Om.

Hello friends. Today we explore what it might mean to heal the relationships we have with the various expressions of our self. How do I relate to happiness? To pain? To lonliness? Sadness? and how do I relate to who I truly am through these expressions?

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All In Love,

Michael

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Haribol! Happy Krishnashtami! The birthing day of Krishna!

Today I go into what it is to feel a different expression of spirit than what you think you should be feeling. How can I show for love if I suppress the expression of spirit that is being co-created with my body? I am not sure I truly can, and this block leads me to feel symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other-ness. Let's breathe and open these blocks.

Thanks for joining on the Journey Home today. Please reach out to: [email protected] with any comments, questions, or concerns. I would love to hear from you.

All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om.

Hello Friends. Today I share a bit about the feeling of finding stillness within the rapid shifts as well as the boredom of a calm moment. Finding stillness can be confused for dissociation, but may be the very antidote for it. Finding who we truly are allows a presence that can weather any storm, or lack there-of. We are not the cup, but the tea.

Thanks for joining us today on the Journey Home.

Please reach out with any comments or questions; participation really helps this experience to deepen.

All in Love,

Michael

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The Meditation Bell - Morning Sit for August 21, 2023
Om.
We are meeting, today, in our family's evacuation home camp and future home of Journey Home Meditation and Journey Home Support Services. We were evacuated Saturday morning by the growing wildfires of Northen California. This has brought up a lot of emotions, triggered and activated some trauma expressions, and is generally a challenging albeit gracious experience. This frustration IS the meditation bell, ringing out my call into my practice.
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This is a morning practice made specifically with southern Oregon in my thoughts, and it can apply to most any situation that we find ourselves triggered into returning to the traumas. This return can be your liberation from the cycle, with awareness and practice, and love.

Be Well,

Michael

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Hari Om.

Layers and Layers and Layers, Then You.

We read from Ram Dass' Be Here Now, page 57. And talk through what it is to sit in the practice and not the outcome.

Thanks for listening, sharing, and commenting, it really helps more people to find us as well.

I appreciate you.

In Love,

Michael

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