“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” Tao Te Ching
This Week: You are being invited to examine your character. Identify strengths of your character and where you jagged little edges are ready to smooth out. Ultimately, you will harness the importance of how your character serves your gifts and others.
As inspired, take a moment to balance your inner landscape, creating space to nourish yourself while harmonizing your inner and outer worlds.
Questions: How would you define your character?
How would another define your character?
How does your way of being benefit your present and future self?
Weekly talks are an offering to assist you in diving deeper into a spiritual practice, exploring your inner landscape, and cultivating inner peace.
Time Stamps: Dharma 0:00 | Meditation 19:00 | Sound 44:00 | Outro 1:22:00
Heart + Mind Food
Spring and Fall seasons follow their migration patterns (sometimes called pole shifts), guided by nature and our celestial bodies. Across many global traditions, we are led through these seasonal changes with cultural practices, theological observances, and agricultural sowing. In both seasons—Spring and Fall—it’s an opportune time to cleanse, anchor, and observe what’s ready to move into action or repose, depending on your location in the world.
In the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, there are many ways to notice where your mind and heart need clearing. A troubled mind often disturbs the heart, and vice versa. Ideally, your heart and mind should remain calm and clear. With natural and celestial shifts, you’re likely feeling energetic changes in your heart and mind first, which then create feedback loops in your physical body. Your soul, the ever-present silent observer, offers subtle, understated guidance. If inspired, this is a perfect time to cleanse your inner landscape—mind and heart—leading you back to the outer world with clearer vision, words, and actions.
A Simple Practice:
Meet your silence daily. This can be in nature, your place of worship, your home, or a sacred space. Embrace simple silence (no devices—if you need to track time, set a gentle alarm and put your phone on airplane mode). Sit down—bum to the cushion. Practicing twice daily, at sunrise and sunset, is even better (5, 8, 13, or 21 minutes per sit).
Observe your thoughts and words. Without judgment, notice your language. Is your speech peaceful, kind, and compassionate, or is it violent or filled with harmful emotional qualities?
Redirect. If you notice your mind and/or heart veering to a dark, destructive place, metaphorically stand on your head and shift your thoughts, words, and emotions to ones that are peaceful, kind, and compassionate. You’ll notice both internal and external dips and valleys. This practice helps cleanse your mind and heart. Yes, your emotions are valid—they inform your inner landscape and preferences. In nature, animals remain calm; though they have emotions, they harmonize more proficiently with their surroundings.
As inspired, practice for at least three weeks during Spring or Fall. See what’s revealed and where you’re ready to shift. Focus on yourself in this process, not others.
Body Food
Seasonal Cleansing, Reboot, and Nourishing
Spring and Fall are two historically supportive times to “cleanse” your mind, body, heart, and soul. During other times of the year, it’s beneficial to nourish the body with nutrient-dense seasonal foods. Most of humanity, especially women, is malnourished, making it essential to give yourself space to transition into each season, adapt, and evaluate the nutrition you’re taking in.
Conducting a cleanse and reboot between seasonal transitions will help you maintain well-being. For over a decade and a half, I’ve been guiding others in this tradition, blending Chinese and Ayurvedic sciences with sound and psycho-spiritual treatments. The beauty lies in witnessing clients return annually or multiple times a year. It provides them a safe container—held and supported daily during the cleansing process.
The Spring Cleanse is a mild version of the traditional “Panchakarma” cleanse and can be safely performed at home with minimal guidance. Suitable for all body types, it’s adaptable to individual needs. This cleanse involves a mono-diet of classic Ayurvedic dishes and custom recipes tailored to your constitution, allowing your digestive system a much-needed break. This renews its vitality and flushes out toxins. You’ll also receive custom tea and juice blends to support your journey. I make myself available during the cleanse, offering sound therapy and check-ins at the start and end. Additionally, I encourage you to become self-aware of where you’re ready to heal, transform, and take action in your life.
Spring and Fall Sound Healing
In Spring and Fall, sound healing and certain traditional practices link instruments to organs based on their frequency, timbre, or energetic qualities:
Liver: In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the liver is tied to the Wood element, symbolizing growth, flexibility, and the sound of shouting. The flute, especially a wooden or bamboo one, is said to resonate with the liver. Its clear, flowing tones mimic the liver’s energy of movement and renewal, vibrating at frequencies (around 300-500 Hz for mid-range notes) that may stimulate this organ’s energetic field. Learning to play the flute can also cultivate patience and focus, supporting both your liver and lungs.
Lungs: In TCM, the lungs align with the Metal element, connected to clarity, release, and the sound of weeping. The singing bowl (especially a metal one) or a bell is thought to resonate most with the lungs. Their deep, sustained tones (often 200-400 Hz for mid-sized bowls) penetrate deeply, aiding breath and emotional release—key to the lungs’ role in respiration and grief processing. These metal instruments can also help dispel spiritual energies that feel closer in Fall and Winter.
These associations stem from vibrational healing traditions, where sound frequencies are believed to influence organ health. For instance, lower frequencies (like those from a flute or bowl) may penetrate tissue, potentially supporting the liver’s detox processes or the lungs’ breathing rhythm. While this knowledge is valuable, the true medicine of sound lies in the practitioner’s skill, discipline, and ethics. If you’re inspired to ring a bell, make a bowl sing, or play a flute, it might be your inner landscape calling for vibrational support for your lungs and/or liver.
