Beyond The Feeling, There Are Feelings - Morning Sit September 2nd

Hari Om and good morning. Happy Friday!

Today we move into what began as "a short sit this morning" and became a full opening into gratitude, trauma, healing, and shadow work. Just sort of snuck up on me. Join us today in exploring these places of gratitude and how they help us grow into a big huge beast of love!

Thank you for joining me on this Journey Home Meditation. Please feel encouraged to give us a voice message with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns by going to https://anchor.fm/journeyhomemeditation/message and following the brief couple of steps to reach out. It really does make my day to get to hear your voice, and it greatly enriches our morning sits to be able to have your participation.

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All In Love,
Michael

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Hari Om and good morning. Happy Wednesday to us all.

Today we find our way into our meditation posture, seeking balance in body, balance in the emotions, and balance in the mind. In seeking this balance, we are already entering into meditation.

As we breathe, we are receiving breath from outside of the body, but we are also receiving information from within. Is your breath short, shallow, blocked? Are you feeling held back in your exhalation? Are you feeling ease with long, slow breathing? This is all subtle voices of our attachments. THrough awareness and deep listening, we can come to understand our self, our motivations, and our needs in a more full and whole way.

I talk a bit about how to tell if I am on my path, or trying to be on another's path. When we find ourselves feeling frustrated with the actions or inactions of another, when we feel them moving too slow, or "just not getting it", we are on their path, and getting stuck in the traffic of our own judgements. It is this awareness that offers to us the way out of their path and into ours. The way out, is in.

Thanks for joining me on this Journey Home Meditation. Please reach out with any questions or comments by using this link to access a voice messaging system! This really deepens the dynamic of our sessions, and I just love getting your questions and comments. https://anchor.fm/journeyhomemeditation/message

All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om and good morning, friends.

Today we take a brief moment to be present for and with ourselves, and in doing so, become presence for everything. From the dust of the ground to the water of the clouds as they circle the Earth; our breath is maintaining our connection to every thing. "not every being, but every THING" says Ram Dass. So we breathe in, and receive; we breathe out, and release. This and this and this, over and again, until we are gone from our bodies, and return. Bringing our awareness to this connects our physical body to our thought body, and to our emotional body. Our sensations, our thoughts, and our feelings become aligned. This is meditation.

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All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om and good morning.

Today, we give ourselves permission to love...everything. In this Monday Metta Prayer, we come together and surrender to what is already here: Wholeness, Health, Security, Compassion, and Love.

Of note this morning is how we find judgement, rejection, and separation from "others". How the rejection we feel is from the shadow cast over their light, and the realization that that shadow is MY shadow that I am casting. The act of loving our "enemies" is, in fact, shadow work. 

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All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om and good EVENING!

It is Sutra Saturday and we are coming in at night instead of morning today. The new schedule will be panned out over the next couple of weeks, so bear with me, and support when you can by enjoying the new content when it arrives on Spotify and Audible by subscribing or following the pages there. Today for our sutrawe are at sutra 9 in book three of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali:

Vyutthāna nirodha saṁskārayor abhibhava prādurbhāvau

nirodha kṣaṇa cittānvayo nirodha pariṇāmḥ.

Vyutthāna = rising up, awakening; nirodha = suppressive,

checked;

saṁskārayoḥ = of the two impressions;

abhibhava = disappear; prāduḥ = arising;

bhāvau = appear; nirodha = suppression, checked;

kṣaṇa = moment; citta = mind; anvayḥ = conjunction;

nirodha = suppression, checked;

pariṇāmḥ = transformation, development.

The impressions which normally arise are made to

disappear by the appearance of suppressive efforts, which in

turn create new mental modifications. The moment of

conjunction of mind and new modifications is nirodha

pariṇāmḥ.

The discussiion within leads us to the reptition of the notion that Practice makes perfection of itself, whatever that practice may be. We are always in an ongoing gravitation towards perfection, and we must then make effort to release ourselves fromt he limitations we build in our practices of thinking and feeling in certain ways. As we come into the practice of meditation, we are coming to the practice of conscious acceptance and receiving, as well as conscious releasing and surrendering. This is breath. From there, we are open to become.

Thank you for joining me, and sticking with me, on this Journey Home Meditation through all of the changes. I appreciate you.

All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om. 

Today we spend time in the Metta Prayer meditation. This is a simple, and profound practice. The act of giving is one that most of us are very familiar with, and most of us find it to be quite enjoyable and warming to give to another;especially giving what is needed that provides the other with loving feelings. What if there were no other? What can we give if we don't know we already have? This is the practice of the metta, to give to ourself and from there, to the world. Being the source of what you need is an amazing understanding that goes far in our life experience. Knowing you ahve thelove, the safety, the care, the compassion, the patience, whateer you may see that is needed, already within is empowering and enriching. 

May I Be Happiness. May I be Love, May I Be Joy. May I Be Patience. May I Be Peace. May I Be Understanding, May i Be Grace. And we could go on and on. From this awareness we can give to all. 

May You Be Love. May All Beings Be Love.

Thanks for listening and for participating in this practice today. It is important. 

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All In Love,

Michael

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हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण , कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे |

हरे राम हरे राम , राम राम हरे हरे ||

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hari om, and good Krishna Janmastami to us all! 

Today we celebrate the arrival of Krsna, and it is a joyous celebration of that which turns us towards Love. Our practice is that which we use to bring us into more full awareness of what we wish to become. When we focus on that which angers us, we are moved into the direction of anger. When we focus on that which brings us into fear, we are afraid. When we focus on that which incites us into love, we generate Love. Today, let us focus on our love.

Thank you for joining me on this Journey Home Meditation. And thank you to Bhakti Marga for the snippet of the Mahamantra in the beginning and the end and to Wavesource for their lovely meditative music thtoughout our practice today.

All In Love,

Michael

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Practing Love - Morning Sit for August 18



Hari Om. Good thursday to us all.



Today we begin in meditation posture, seeking balance. We then follow the breath into our awareness of the body, and form the body, we begin to find the seat where our spirit will rest. It is this place of practice that we begin to aquiant ourself with experiencing What Is, and cultivate a sense of wonder and awe for anything, anytime. The unveiling begins in "I Don't Know", and so far, I cannot find the end of it. I just know that, for now, I am sitting with Love.



Thank you for join gme on this Journey Home Meditation. You can find these daily sits in much higher quality audio over at Spotify, Audible, and Anchor.fm by searching for Journey Home Meditation. Please like, follow, review, and share any content that helped you today. If we shared the things we love more than the articles of that which we fear, hate, or oppose, what world would we create?



All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om, and good morning to all. 

Today we go deep into the breath, exploring the full capacity of the lungs, and allow to open whatever we may find here. It is said that grieving lives in the lungs, so for many of us, this may be what we find. We spend our time today allowing ourselves to feel what needs to be felt, without rationalizing, judging, or even naming the feeling. From this allowence, comes an acceptance of and an opening to our pain, which is the clothing of our love. We touch on fear of loss, the associattion of our pain of loss to the fear of losing the memory, and how we hold onto our pain as the last bit of feeling we may have with a person whom has died, or an animal friend, a job, a relationship, whatever it may be that we are grieving. 

Thank you for joing me on this Journey Home Meditation. Please be easy with yourself and whomever you meet today. We are all grieving in some way, and may need a bit more space to allow our love to bloom from the soil of the hurt it is resting in.

All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om, and good Tuesday to us all. 

Today's sit begins in meditaiton posture and folows the breath inward for an exploration of the body, it's sensations, the mind, and it's tangents, and ends witha  longer sit in the psychic field of the Third Eye. I always appreciate the times I can give more full awareness to this plain of existence, weaving in and out of the conscious and subconscious minds, painting pictures of what the wind that drives the sails would look like, feel like, and what it is to be with them. Wonder. Pure wonder. 

Thanks for joining me on this Journey Home. Please find us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/journeyhomemeditation to provide material support for the ongoing project. We have, just this past 5 months, created over 80 hours of guided meditations for free on online, sat with many people in one-on-one sessions, are moving forward with development and implementation of a Meditation Fitness program at the largest fitness center in Southern Oregon, and I want to keep moving forward with this practice! Thanks for bing a part of it all.

All In Love,

Michael

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Michael@ journeyhomemeditation.com

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