This week's Monday Meditation is live.
This week I look at what it means to surrender to things as they are and let go of attachment to outcome.
Enjoy.
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@alexisohanian What is your favorite thing about having a garden and growing your own food? And do you think soil literacy and cultivation 101 should be included in elementary school curriculum?
@alexisohanian Amazing. Love it! Still hoping to hear about some magical results with Soil Love! Just humics, fish and kelp. So pure. So potent. Microbes love it and your rows will pop. Do a side by side and you will see the difference. The biology doesn’t lie.
The crux of this post: “Let the identity that's attached to the old level dissolve.” The crux of the work—of the inner work—the dissolution. The question is simply this: what are the rituals and routines that comprise the practice for the old self to dissolve and allow the unified field to emerge. It is a practice like any other. And it begins with exactly this: awareness. Thanks you @evolvee33 for the reminder. Always appreciate your perspective. Always.
Tonglen is a Tibetan meditation practice.
You breathe in suffering — visualizing it as a dark, heavy cloud.
You transform it with compassion.
You breathe out golden light.
It taught me that even the heaviest energy can be metabolized into something good.
If you're in a hard season right now and looking for a daily practice to help carry it — GroundworkOS is what I built for exactly this. Link in bio.
When we had a light malfunction in one of our cultivation rooms — a single light flickering on during the dark cycle — the plants began shifting hormonally within days.
One interruption to the sleep cycle. Significant biochemical stress.
We are no different.
The body runs its maintenance cycle at night. Protect the dark hours. They are doing more than you think.
The harsh critic that was quick to judge and shame becomes the parent who is endlessly supportive and encouraging.
The alcoholic father becomes the soulfully sober parent in the next generation.
We can and we must find ways to transform ourselves.
We all have the ability to leverage the crap of our close ancestors and transform it into something useful and generative.
The spring equinox is the moment when light and dark stand in perfect balance.
And then the light begins to win.
The shift is real long before the full bloom arrives.
From dormant brown twigs and cold earth, the first signs of bright green are already everywhere.
That is a mirror I cannot get enough of.
The big wave surfers don't experience panic on a 100-foot wave.
Studies show their amygdala — the brain's fear center — is wired differently.
Instead of fear they feel flow. Focus. Presence.
The pursuit that would paralyze most people is the one that brings them fully alive.
What is the wave that brings you fully alive?