“I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light
Of your own Being!”
― Hafez
This Week: You are being invited to let go. Allow your waters from within to flow into this magnificent moment that is calling each and every one of us to serve and flow with change.
As inspired, take a moment to balance your inner landscape.
Create space to nourish yourself while harmonizing your inner and outer worlds.
Questions:
Where are you ready to let go?
Where are you ready to flow?
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: 19:30 |Sound: 46:00 | Outro: 1:33:00
Heart + Mind Food
Emotional Intelligence + Objective Awareness
Humanity is being invited to become self aware, transform (heal) and embody love (kindness), compassion, empathy and peace. Which intern invites you to practice these efforts too. First, you can ask yourself this simple question, Are you sincerely motivated from within to know thy self? Ultimately meaning, you want to acquire and hold a deeper motivation to be an instrument of peace, love (kindness), compassion and empathy. All of which will require you to practice patience with self and others as you learn how to retain ‘awareness’. If the answer is YES. Then, you are ready to practice the following efforts daily. These practices will cultivate Objective and Emotional Awareness.
How?
Observe yourself daily. Observe that which is in an around your daily life from waking into sleep/dream states. Observe without attachment and/or judgement. This practice will assist you in preparing for your meditation practice and live in objective reality. It will also give you a deeper look into your relationship with self and the world around you. These observations will awaken your additional senses that will naturally guide you back to states of calm, peace and love. These states of being are what will assist you in retaining objective awareness.
Emotional Intelligence. Daily check in with all your emotions as they naturally rise, shift and retract during the day. Make the commitment to utilize your emotions as a unique way finding device from within and to the outside world. As you observe your emotions, you will start to have a deeper connection to your and others unresolved and resolved ‘stuff’. With this emotional information you can become an active steward for peace by simply offering love, compassion and empathy for yourself and others as the response to every situation. When you practice retaining objective and emotional awareness you will start to unlock the power you hold within you.
As inspired, Retain Awareness.
Body Food
Sweat Therapy, Svedana, the sauna provides an ideal setting for heat therapy. When you sweat, you will release toxins (Ama) and increase feel good chemicals. The heat in the sauna will increase your body temperature and blood flow to areas of the body that have been predominately cold and/or stagnate. Heat therapy can be enjoyed daily, if your constitution will benefit.
Who benefits from heat therapy? You will benefit, if you have, cold conditions, stiffness, dry conditions, numbness, congestion, constipation, stagnation, depression, anxiety, worry, cognitive delay and/or swelling. In Ayurveda the heat would benefit a person with a Vata (a wet sauna) and/or Kapha (a dry sauna) constitution. The word constitution is a reference to your physical, mental and emotional body. The doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, refer to the area of your constitution that is historically where you display an elemental imbalance or balance with nature. For example, if your skin is historically dry this could suggest that you are depleted of water and your circulation is slow or stagnate. Alternatively, you could have excess of Space + Air from a busy mind and body. The result dry skin from speeding up your electromagnetic field and creating restriction in your entire being. Imagine a bird flapping its wings so fast that it stops all forward motion. This would create excess and depletion of certain element(s) in your system resulting in an imbalance. The wet sauna (in this example) will bring in the moisture and heat to improve your circulation coupled with the balancing of your skin, muscles and fascia.
Doshas: Ether (Space) + Air→ Vata ~ Fire + Water→ Pitta ~ Water + Earth→ Kapha
Contraindications: Exist if you tend to physically run hot and/or have a lot of fire in your emotional body, Pitta. The sauna could aggravate your system. If you tend to be fiery and still want to sit in a sauna, shorten the duration. Use a wet sauna vs a dry one.
Possible Benefits: improve circulation, improve digestion, relax muscles and fascia, improve fluid motion, clear/soften skin, reduces cortisol, calms the nervous system and reduces swelling.
Spiritual Benefits: the sauna like the sweat lodge is a perfect place to meditate, pray and/or welcome cleansing in all aspects of self: spiritual, mental, physical and emotional being.
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”― Lao Tzu, Te-Tao Ching
