“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. You should be awakened by your own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music—to a higher life than that from which you fell asleep”.

Hark!

Can you hear that divine music, to which only the most sensitive ears of morning are attuned? This early symphony fills the air, if only you’ll listen...

Listen to this episode, and transform into a "morning person" at once!

"If a man should stand by a limpid pure spring, and curse it, the spring never ceases sending up potable water; and if he should cast clay into it or filth, it will speedily disperse them and wash them out, and will not be at all polluted. How then shalt thou possess a perpetual fountain?" How will you be pure of mind, wholesome of spirit, unblemished by nonsense, and cleansed of the corruptions by which your equanimity is stained? You must look within, and dig your own fountain.

Immerse thyself in mindfulness as you soak up the glories of a shower.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way”. If your attitude is such that it never consents to be bothered, unbothered you shall be.

“Nor ever fold our wings,

And cease from wanderings,

Nor steep our brows in slumber’s holy balm;

Nor harken what the inner spirit sings,

‘There is no joy but calm!’"

Remember well, there is no joy, but calm.

Few are the certainties in life on which you can absolutely depend: that death will greet you, that taxes will bleed you, and that you will fail from time to time. Let's focus on how to respond to failure, the third of these ineluctable things.

Begin your day with this brief, energized, insightful practice--a session by which your level of arousal will be raised, and your temperament steadied.

'Tis true--we never repent of having eaten too little. Of having eaten too much, we cannot but feel ashamed. A moratorium seems to have been placed on our moderation, and we indulged on bubbly drinks and savory delights! Worry not. Let us meditate our way back to a healthier state of body and mind.

A restful body scan with which to ease your descent into sleep.

How much of our lives we spend thoughtlessly behind the wheel! Join me in this episode, and we'll make every mile meditative and rewarding.