Greetings! Welcome to Season Five of Miriam’s Meditations. Thank you for downloading and listening over the summer while I was on hiatus. I also appreciate all the lovely comments and support for the podcast. This week, I invite my dear friend Maggie Kalas of SoulLightCoach.com to join us. She shares a reading from her practice using cards that speak to our deeper wisdom. She calls this reading: Expect the Best. I hope you enjoy her sharing. I’ll be back next week with our usual breath and meditation podcast.
Enjoy!

'Guardian Angels' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Aloha everyone. This episode is a special sharing of spiritual Light for the island of Maui, her people and all those affected by the fires of August 8, 2023. The guides have called this episode Circles of Light. In Hawaii, there is a word for family and it is Ohana. OHana can be pictured as a circle of light. You can have an ohana that is your family, your neighborhood can be your ohana, or your work friends. Ohana is flexible and inclusive.

In this powerful meditation, we start with our breath, breathing as one. We engage with the spiritual light of our own practice, calling forward our connection to the spiritual realms and breathing that light into our being. Harmony, compassion, beauty, love. Recognizing our light, we reach out to for a pattern of lighted spiritual nourishment with all those participating in our meditation. Recognizing the ancient banyan tree that is the symbol of Hope in Lahaina, we offer our pattern of light that it might help clear the ash, cleanse the wounds, salve the hearts, and uplift all into the light of love. 

Hope is a radical act of braving the future and daring to imagine the highest and best coming into being. We offer this light of hope that it may become food and sustenance and a future that is filled with love and blessing. Thank you for participating and being part of this journey. 

-Miriam

Here are some resources to which you can give funds. I know all these personally and can vouch that they are real people doing real work. From the deepest place in my heart, Mahalo.

•  Maui United Way  https://mauiunitedway.org/
• University of Hawaii Foundation https://www.uhfoundation.org/give/giving-opportunity/help-maui
• Hawaii Community Foundation https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
• Maui Humane Society https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/donate-olx/
• Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

'Guardian Angels' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

This episode marks the end of Season Four of Miriam’s Meditations. I will be on hiatus for the summer. I hope you’ve enjoyed breathing and meditating along with us as we learned together about practice, how breath brings great light into our bodies, our minds and our emotions. It has been a great joy to bring this podcast to life and I thank everyone who listens, downloads and shares this amazing work we’ve been doing together. Have a blessed and beautiful summer. 

If you’d like to listen in to a great conversation about breath and meditation, I did another podcast interview with The Yegi Project. Here’s a link to the podcast and the YouTube channel:

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yegi-project/id1515603422?i=1000615179154
YouTube: https://youtu.be/R9K_UCWb0Pw

'Strands of Light' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice.

Hi everyone, I’m away from recording meditation class this week. Getting some early summer fun and travel.
 
In the meantime, if you’d like something to listen to, I was a guest on Untapped Power podcast with Amanda Strojny.  Amanda is a registered Yoga Teacher and Financial Coach working to redefine success and helping others gain confidence in their business and life. In our interview, we dived deep into Breath Practice, Meditation, Living your highest life in these powerful changing times. I know you’ll get a lot our of listening to our exchange. Lots of great info about our practice and some useful tips and insights.
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untapped-power-insights-and-wisdom-for-collective/id1524314998?i=1000611823259

When we are in a state of not knowing, we open to the vastness of our consciousness and the flows of reality. When we are busily directing and checking things off our lists, we by necessity shut out a lot of input. As they say, to everything there is a season. A season of list-doing and a season of flowing with what is. When we are in a place of truly not knowing we can simply be, following the flows of what we connect to in the moment. Standing in the unknown, ready to embrace what is to come, we surrender to the beauty and power of beingness.
 
We return to the fullness of our breath practice today. We also close with a few words from The Dear Ones: These are not my words but those of a friend and regular meditator on this podcast. She transcribes for those that call themselves The Dear Ones.  ”Let us walk together, arm in arm, open to the beauty around us, seeing/hearing/smelling the magnificence that surrounds us. Understand that you are an equally magnificent part of what is around us. Enjoy the experience and relax, trust the help that is sent to you, that is on its way, that you have already received, that have put things into motion for the highest good and your own benefit. Trust it so that you do not have to worry about outcomes--call upon us to help smooth your way. Notice your feelings; acknowledge them, and continue practicing faith so that you can connect strongly and closely to those with you. Just be. Be who you are, allow others to be who they are, see them, acknowledge the difference they want to make. Listening and connecting is a tremendous gift that you offer. Many people go through the day without ever feeling understood. Welcome each person, each opportunity, all the energy sent toward you, all the love. When you feel anxiety or worry, come to the present moment--breathe deeply. Open yourself to newness and a fresh start--it is there every moment and is the gift of the present. Be aware of your movements and all that you express. Move gently, with kindness, respect, and dignity. These qualities will bless you as well as those around you. Allow yourself to slow down to the present, breathe deeply of the universe and love coming toward you, and of the wonders that surround you. You are equally wondrous. Be a gift to those you encounter.”
If you’d like to read the messages of the Dear Ones, you can find them on FaceBook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2564202650537050

'Ascent to Heaven' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

Listen in to a new conversation with Amanda Strojny on her Untapped Power podcast. Amanda talks with thought leaders on topics centering around money and worthiness, your untapped power to be who you truly are. https://amandastrojny.com/podcast

We had a wonderful, deep conversation about how breath practice and regular meditation can bring your focus into a higher alignment with your true nature and express that into your life with greater ease and flow.
Also, I read an article this week about breath practice and reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s in HuffPost. A recent unique study showed that a simple 5:5 breath pattern practiced 20 minutes a day, twice a day for 4 weeks increased heart rate variability, which tends to drop as we age and is an important factor in overall fitness, and decreased amyloid-beta peptides in there blood stream. These peptides are connected to Alzheimer’s and may be the main cause of the disease. https://apple.news/A0JWYDBCtRt60ULqcfeBi6g  The Breathing Technique that could reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s.

We practice this 5:5 breath pattern in this episode along with our usual breath practice. We also do some practice on finding things as energy, using the natural world as our canvas. We use our imagination as a sense to find a single flower, which we study deeply with our mind’s eye. We see if we can discern an interior geometry to the flower, an inner patterning that is the flower’s vast, deep beingness. We extend that sensing to the natural world around us, noticing connections between trees, plants, any animals in our vicinity. We recognize the natural world as the ground of our being. We send gratitude for our lives that are supported so freely by the earth herself.

'Angels of Beauty' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

Returning from my 6-day Light Body Meditation, I am filled with exuberance at the high frequencies of illuminated light we experienced with our Light Body Group (OrinDaben.com). Even with my own dedication to my spiritual practice and many consecutive days of meditating, I still find the modern world can be physically, mentally and emotionally noisy. This can cause a kind of underlying anxiety that we all feel from time to time (maybe all the time).

Since our hands occupy a large area of the cerebral cortex, we can use a relaxation of the hands to bring a calm and peace to our inner realm. We start with this Hands of Light meditation, which we use to quiet the mind and bring liquid light into the hands, arms, head and above. Then we explore our own cocoon of light, surrounded by a whisper of rainbow light. Exploring further, we engage with the high pure frequencies of Love, Peace, Joy, Beauty, Harmony and more, not only as emotions we recognize in our human capacity, but as eternal abundance flows of spiritual energy that we can use, amplify and share. We extend that sharing out to the natural world around us, participating in calling a new world into being.
https://www.orindaben.com/

'Ever Unfolding Expansion' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

Encore presentation of previous episode:
I’m away at my Light Body Retreat. I will be sending much Light from the inner realms to each of you. Enjoy this encore presentation!

'Clockwork of Light' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

Sometimes we need a reset, a return to an easy peaceful practice. Life can be difficult, even as we wish for and strive for comfort and safety. We are influenced by so many things we cannot control. In recent days and months, I have been on a journey of changes in my own life. Many have been very difficult, unexpected. Asking from me a kind of fluidity and adaptability that I sometimes didn’t know I could enfold. And yet, since I have many years of spiritual practice with breath and meditation, reading and study, I have been able to move through this painful time and come out on the other side with new understandings, new relationships and a fresh appreciation for the gift that is a spiritual practice.

This week we return to a balanced breath practice where we learn to gentle the in-breath with a visualization technique of bringing the breath in from between the legs. We balance that with a strong out-breath, using a short quick puff at the end of the exhale. From there we unite body, mind and emotions, lifting up into a spiritual domain of light, harmony and beauty. Joy abounds.

An interesting link to a short video about the effects of meditation on brain waves:

https://bigthink.com/the-well/high-level-meditators/

'Angels of Love' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

Spring is upon us! And with that we learn about the Spring of the breath, the inhalation of life and life force. All around us life is awakening and stirring. We walk together into a garden of beauty and color and scents and all the life forms, busy with Spring energy. These life form--the birds and bunnies, the flower and insects, the Elementals, fairies and gnomes--all create from the materials of the Earth, a beautiful world that we all enjoy and share. They know instinctively how to come together to turn the raw elements into food and homes. They even move around the water and earth itself, creating patterns and interlocking systems that share food and resources with each other. With our appreciation and recognition, we come into the higher frequencies of Light and draw these into our own sacred patterns. We become the conduit of Light into all levels and arenas of our lives.

For more on gardening with Nature as our partner, visit Perelandra Nature Research Center
https://www.perelandra-ltd.com/

'Illumination' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice.