Hari Om.

This morning sit is a simple practice to release, and in releasing go deeper. I am just now finding time available to me to post these past morning sits. I offer them to you, now, for health and joy.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and Good Day.

Awakening into the day already fully ensnared by my mental and emotional pulls can be quite a trip. There are many nights, as a person in recovery from a long-term addiction, that I dream of using, which I then awaken in a panicked state of mind, frantically going through my inventory and self regulating with breathing and reassurance that "this is only a dream"; this is to say that I am familiar with this drill. However, only when I learned of the practice of Tonglen was I able to bring connection instead of isolation to this reality trip. 

Now, I awaken every morning with the knowledge that "this is only a dream" and maintain that perspective as long as possible, each day! 

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. 

Good morning friends. This is the morning sit for Septeber 13, 2022. I am playing a bit of catch-up on loading these morning sessions. Thank you for your patience.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om Tat Sat.

Good mroning all, wherever you may be right now. Today we allow ourselves to come into our meditation by noticing our body, our breath, our emotional body, and our thought body, and making any adjustments needed to move towards balance, just in this moment. We cannto think about fixing our lives without focusing on being broken, and where we focus, we empower. So, just for today, just for right now, let's focus not on where we think we are broken, but simply on where we are sitting, what it feels like right here, and how to optimize our sit by making the slightest of shifts. It is from here that we can begin to be with now, and allow the worry of what was or what will be to subside. This is balance. 

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good day.

Today we focus on what it is to find balance in our body, mind, and emotion. Through the breath, we can invite stillness and silence, where the subtle voice of our motivations can be heard. The awareness of the slightest discomforts, the slightest resentments, can really influence our behavior, and eventually our entire identity. Knowing WHO you are, can allow us to know WHO we think we are, and how they differ. Then we can allow ourselves to be who we are born to be, part of th eoneness, and in LOVE.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good day.

Today we go a bit out of our mind. Removing the stress of always being in your mind (which can be a great technique we use regularly called mind-ful-ness) can be a beneficial way to experience other perspectives and gain understanding that we are not the body, we are not the mind. Today, we bring our awareness from our thought of breath, into an expereince of non-thought awareness from the heart-space. It can be just a few moments, but isn't that we have, only moments, from moment to moment, strung together like so many lights on a string.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good morning to you.

Today we sit in the knowing that each moment is in perfect relationship to here, and to now. This place and time are conspiring to provide, and any moment, balance. This balance, this being with what is true, is perfection. No matter what we may be carrying, what stories we are hoarding in our busy minds, just under them is a place of Being, not doing. So, let's come together, and just for a moment, let us be.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good morning.

Today we bring our focus to the equanimity of just being. The being, not the doing, rquires of us to release the chase, and relieve ourselves of the running away. It is all No Big Deal.

When we can sit, even just for a moment, in this space, we can experience rest, ease, and calm. Too often, we can turn our practice into a witch-hunt, searching for all of the places "we are broken", feeling the high of healing, and forgetting that we were never truly broken at all. We had practiced habitual ways of grasping, and gotten really good at it. That is all. No Big Deal. So, today, we release.

Chasing the high, and avoiding the fall are the same; it is all a cycle of clinging.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good day, today.

This morning's session is an exploration of the temple of self. We practice the understanding that each "thing" is a threshold. Our thoughts are the threshold to our emotions, which ar ethe threshold into our body feelings, which are the threshold into our memories...and so on. As we begin to walk the path to the temple stairs, we don't stop there, but we continue to go deeper into what we are here to do, to fall at the feet of the beloved, and to be with love. Anything can take us there, as everything is scattered about around the self, and around the center, which is, itself, Love. 

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good day to you.

Today we take our sweet time with Sutra Saturday, a trend I am hoping continues as we shorten our morning sits through the week. This session we begin exploring the sutras of Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass. First, though, we sit in our meditation for sometime, allowing ourselves the space to really explore the inner worlds, followed by a breif pranayama practice to bring balance back into our perspective before opening the book.

This book is available all over the internet, and you can probably find many sites with free pdfs to puruse. If you'd care to support the Love, Serve, Remember Foundation, whom Ram Dass gave 100% of the profits of of this best selling book to, you can purchase it from them directly. They are a fantastic organization, and I support them regularly with purchases and donations as I can. 

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All In Love,

Michael