Hari Om and a good Monday to us all.



Today we explore "The always widening rings of being" to quote Rumi. Rumi brings us nto our meditation today as we read the poem A Community Of The Spirit. We breathe deeply and enter into the layers of layers of layers of self. Go in, and enjoy yourself!



We then contemplate the notion of a "mind body" or "thought body" as it is thought of in the metaphor of the physical body. We work on how to move through stuck injuries in the thought body the way we would heal an injured part of our physicial body, and why this could be so important to do.



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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and a Happy Sutra Saturday to us all!

Sutra Saturday is a favorite time of mine. A time to gather and go through teachings and apply them to our lives. The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali have been a large part of the focus of these sessions, and we begin book three today.

Dharana and Dhyana are concentration and meditation. When we focus our awareness and attention to a singular place, thing, or idea, we then begin to meditatie upon it. This meditation is a stream of cognition to the place of our concentration. This can be done intentionally or without awareness. It is always better to be aware of where we are placing our concentration, lest we find ourselves stewed into a place of negative and harmful thought that will only have negative or harmful outcomes in the end.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om, and good Friday to us all!



Today we receive a message from a member of the sangha. Caller asks about the physical symptoms of blocked and unblocked chakras, inspiring todays practice of moving up the spine, giving care, and affirmations to each of seven of our chakras, inviting an openness to experience what we may have been holding tight to.



Thanks, Annie, for your question, I hope this was a satisfying experience for your query.



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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good morning. this is our morning sit for Thursday, August 11.



Why do we so often view a state of happiness or contentedness as a reward instead of a natural state of being? I thought about this notion this morning as I stretched my body and shook off the dreams of last night.

What if gratitude is the invitation to receiving and not the response? I feel this is truth. So today, we begin in gratitude.



Opening ourselves to receive is gratitude. To understand that beginning here softens and prepares me to accept what comes and know that I am cared for, loved, and this is for my benefit. Whatever it may be.  as you can see, gratitude is the basis for our meditation today.



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All in love (from gratitude),

Michael

Hari Om and good day to you, friends. 

Today we begin with gratitude. This is a fruitious way to begin, well, anything. But, the reality we know now is: this is not always easy. This is a practice, not an innate characteristic; and if it were innate, we would have silenced it so long ago that it requires practice to get back to it. So, we practice. We find our balance, our meditation posture, and our breath. This can be enough. Truly. From here, we can feel gratitude in our body, even if we don't hear it in our thought boday, or sense it in our emotional body, our physical body grows around our breath, and this growth is receiving, and receiving begets gratitude. That is really all it takes to water the seed.

We go onto find that which we may feel is in our way, and it is nearly always, if not always, a part of our experience that we simply need to hear, see, and engage with. The best way I have found to engage with a stubborn feeling or an absolute thought, is to simply ask: Is That So? And, just as surely as it rises, it begins to settle. See, these feelings were ALWAYS coming and going, it was only our insistance that they remain that keeps them here for so long. So, we acknowledge and we receive, and we say thank you, and then it is already gone. Just like that. Is That So?

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All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om and good Tuesday to us all.

Today we begin by moving our physical body a bit. Just some light stretching to increase blood flow, open and loosen joints, and allow for energy to move more freely. This really helps with stuck emotions, persistent thoughts, and body aches or pains. Movement, even the subtle movement, is change.

From the breath we move into our meditation, but first I recount the story of the King who could not find relief from his pendulum of emotions. He found it in four words: This Too Shall Pass.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good morning.

Today we ask, what role am I playing? What need am I filling? And, most prevalently, what does love require of me, right now?



It is in the practice that we can begin to abandon the unecesarry modes of judgement, punishment, and defensiveness, and embrace what is coming up in the moment as what truly needs to be experienced, at any moment! We can intellectualize and play games with this all day long, justifying our jaded bitterness, and our "healhty skepticism", but what if it really were about the present? What would that do for our well crafted self hatred? It's a valuable question, if we value love.



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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. Hello, friends. 

Today, we sit in our meditation posture, inviting the silence and welcoming the subtle voices that come up to be heard. It is in the moments of pain, suffering, and facing obstacles that we so often find ourselves in deep judgement. We judge ourselves and justify the pain as punishment for our own failures. We, then, have precedent to judge others for their perceived failures when they express pain, or openly suffer. It is in allowing for the subtle voices to come through, and to communicate with them, instead of dismissively silencing them with punishment, that we can make necesarry adjustments in our lives to create the clarity for a forward path towards becoming who we need to become. This is always available to us,a nd there is no road too far traveled to turn a new path.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good Friday.

Today we begin in meditation posture. We utilize a couple of different breathing techniques, beginning with 7-8-9 breathing, where-in we inhale for a count of 7, hold for a count of 8, and release for a count of 9. This is an excellent practice to bring harmony in your breath with your heart beat, your mental processes, and your emotional body. This slows us down and brings intention into our breathing practice, quite quickly.

From there we practice Sitali Pranayama, or 'soothing" breath is a cooling breath technique. Perfect for this hot season, as well as to cool or soothe the activated or aggrivated self.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om and good Thursday to us all.



Today, we seemlessly move into our meditationthrough the breath. This is one of the easiest ways I have found to go into awareness of the internal spaces. Following the breath is following the body, the mind, and the emotions all at once.



We bring our focus of attention to the solar plexus. This is center of body, the space where all things go to transform. This is agreat place to begin a digestion of what we bring in into what we are becoming. Food digestion is a key factor in our physical, emotional, and mental health, and likewise, our mental, emotional, and physical health promotes healthy digestion. We can ask where the metaphor is.



Digestion is the breaking down of what you have brought into your body and making it into usable nutrients. This is so vital to processing our emotional intake as well. This is not simply expulsion, or rejection, rather this is integration. Integration is healing. This health feeds our ability to see ourselves with unconditonal love, and the loving kindness of our own embrace.



Take your time with the affirmations, really breathing deeply and fully. No one is in your body but you, and you can extend this session and this companioning breath work and affirmations as deeply as you need. Fill yourself with receiving nourishment in your life. Be grateful as a way to digest.



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All In Love,

Michael