Free Range Meditation

June 6, 2011

admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:24:28 +0000

Most of what we engage in keeps us out of balance. So when you are there, use it for your advantage. Without practice you default to that which got in your way. Keep all of the passages open.

June 1, 2011

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:43:23 +0000

Are you in the habit of controlling, contriving, adjusting and directing your life?

Just try this: Breathe.

You can’t control, contrive, adjust or direct that. It just is. Talk about being. Make sure to take some time today to just breathe. You may be amazed as to just where it carries you.

May 26, 2011

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:45:56 +0000

Your heart is where you get your bearings,. It’s always heading in the right direction. You are never separate from your heart. It’s always in the moment. When you can relax, guess where you go: to your heart.

May 25, 2011

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:47:42 +0000

You can only feel that you are being supported if you are in the moment. If you are here. So if you have issues, then you are carrying around stuff that you are holding on to. This only happens when we are not being supported. Let what is not supporting you go and see what happens. Now you can let go of lack and embrace abundance.

May 20, 2011

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:49:13 +0000

Very often when you start to look from neutral at the things around you it becomes much easier to not take them personally. And when you are not taking things personally, it is easier to simply respond rather than respond. You can actually stay in the heart rather than in the head.

May 18, 2011

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:50:32 +0000

Where are you getting your bearings from? Are you finding them in your head? If you insist on this, the only thing you will have is misperception. Don’t allow the filters of your mind to color your perception. Be courageous, be daring to abandon these learned strategies. This could be the meditation that changes you forever.

May 17, 2011

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:51:33 +0000

Imagine yourself as a light and allow yourself to be a light, as light as you dare. What does light do for you? When you do what you are designed to do, you are no longer being. Shift what you see by changing the light. Clarity comes from light.

May 13, 2011

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:52:52 +0000

What feels good? Check in with what feels good. The head often will protest that if you do only what feels good, then everything will fall apart. But all that will really fall apart are the things you are trying to hold together. Let them. Because if they do, you will be doing less, maintaining less and as you are holding less, you will start to uncover being.

May 12, 2011

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:53:50 +0000

As you make something matter, you literally give it weight. You give it matter, thereby bringing it into fruition. You are the one that makes it real. By our learned capacity to judge, we give more weight to one thing over another.

Can you shift your allegiance from your head to your heart? Your heart discerns, your head judges. Right now is the time to change that.

May 11, 2011

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:58:06 +0000

What keeps you from your light? What keeps you from being your brightest? What is it that constitutes the clouds in your mind? Let this be a time for you to dare to let your light shine.

May 4, 2011

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:48:14 +0000

What part of you is present? What part is busy? Is it the head and the heart? Or is it the other way around? Can both be the same? Who delivers the bearings? Who sets you on your daily course? Support yourself in every way by connecting with your heart and find your path.

May 3, 2011

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:47:05 +0000

It’s as if we, like children do around Halloween, put on a costume and then we don’t take it off. We have been wearing it long enough that we have grown accustomed to it, identify with it and over the years changed parts of it. However, the idea now at this moment is to discard this, that has kept us “safe”. Because are we really safe by staying hidden behind the mask? Let your light out!

May 2, 2011

admin — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:05:56 +0000

Can you call yourself forth from somewhere else? Do you actually show up? Have you found the ocean of you? Have you dis-covered you? We are like children around Halloween? We put on our costume, it’s just that we never take ours off. Today, take the first steps towards taking it off and unveiling the real you.

April 29, 2011

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:56:23 +0000

When you are looking for a place to start, finding familiar is often the best place. Notice your habit of spreading ourselves out and our attention everywhere but right here.

We could be engaged in thinking, in memory or even in the future. Don’t give these things so much weight. Just be happy that you are noticing them. Be happy that they are coming into your consciousness. Don’t ignore them, don’t engage them, instead, set it aside. Just like you take your shoes off when you enter your home. Set it all aside.

April 27, 2011

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:01:23 +0000

Settle into familiar without settling for familiar. Why weren’t we doing this from the start? You aren’t ignoring what is ahead of you. It’s focusing on the you and where you are right now.

April 26, 2011

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:50:38 +0000

The point of coming here is not so you can do the same thing you did yesterday. It’s so you can feel comfortable in looking for something deeper. You can gain more clarity through this meditation. You can unmuddle the muddled.

As long as you can continue doing, continue moving forward, you can remove yourself from the box that you have created for yourself.

April 25, 2011

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:39:08 +0000

Why do what you always do? Stay away from automatic. Resist the temptation to simply make it a drill. You are a part of it and it is a part of you, but that doesn’t mean you should just wear it day after day. We are talking about life. We are talking about you. We are talking about habits.

April 22, 2011

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:03:01 +0000

Everything that you are holding on to is something that you learned upstream. So by definition, it’s not relevant, it’s not pertinent to you. So let it go. Move on. Continue downstream. Relinquish whatever it is that you have become aware of that you are holding on to.

Don’t stifle it, ignore it or take the bait. Why debate with yourself about this? You can choose to set it all aside. That is the right choice. Lighten your load.

April 21, 2011

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:59:37 +0000

Have you thought about your perspective lately? You know the earth orbits the sun, and you know that Mercury orbits the Sun as well. But from our perspective, there are times when it appears that Mercury is going in reverse, in retrograde. Is it really going in reverse? No. It is still moving forward, but from or perspective, it looks like it is going in reverse.

So think about this. How are you seeing things? Are you seeing things from your perspective or that of others? Just because you see something and it appears a certain way, doesn’t mean it is the way you are seeing it. It all depends upon your perspective.

Free Range Meditation – April 20, 2011

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:54:44 +0000

The earth orbits around the Sun. So does Mercury. However from our perspective, it appears as though Mercury is moving in the other direction. Is Mercury changing directions? No. It’s continuing on its path.

It looks like it is moving backwards but that doesn’t mean that it is. It’s all depends on your perspective. What path are you on? What does it feel like? Are you moving backward? You may be in retrograde like Mercury but you can never move backward. You are always moving forward in the river of life.

April 11th, 2011

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:41:49 +0000

Do not ignore the problems. Instead shift your focus to the answers. Persisting to focus on the problem will only obscure the answers. Focusing on the answer brings the answer into fruition; focusing on the answer is the beginning of the answer. Learn what it feels like to let go of what you believe, what you think you know, and be free.

April 8th, 2011

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:01:37 +0000

Where do you feel your self holding? Holding is resistance. It is happening now because you don’t feel your self supported. If you don’t feel your self supported then you get the urge to hold your self up. Holding deprives you of the experience of support that is all around you. Tuning in provides support. Learning how to tune in doesn’t take time but it does take practice.

April 7th, 2011

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:18:35 +0000

Be aware. Be engaged in strategy. Do not postpone experiencing your birthright. Let us be more aligned with purpose and our divine design. Let us move away from our habituation. It is more than short term gains.

Mach 31st, 2011

admin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:53:59 +0000

If you are not doing anything are you doing nothing? If you are doing many things are you succeeding? Shift your allegiance from doing and doing nothing, which are most similar, to being. Look at this society around us. Look at the technology around this society that has aided us, as people, to do, do, do. Cars, ipods, computers – everything that makes life quicker, faster, more effective. But when you’re at work are you just working, or are you surfing the internet, checking email, updating facebook, and playing online scrabble? When you are driving are you just driving, or are you tuning the radio, settling the kids, petting your dog, and talking on the cell phone? This is the nation of doers that we have created in this society, and these, to be fair are extreme examples. Rarely do we focus on one thing, and when we do focus on that one thing it is a particular time a day that we’ve set aside to do just that. Perhaps our weekly yoga time. This is not what this practice is for. This practice is to change our selves from doers to those who know how to most effectively be. This practice is to break out of the mold that society has sculpted us into, and to be free of everything, to be light, to be simply and purely our selves. It does not take time, but it does take practice. Be here.

March 30th, 2011

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:17:15 +0000

A gentle persistence is required. Notice what you are choosing. When one chooses to wear their light it makes the entire space more bright. Light lifts everybody up. Stay with the feeling of being supported.

March 29th, 2011

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:30:02 +0000

As you practice coming together to take this journey you’ll notice a few things. First, we always take a different route, every time. Despite how many times we come together for this journey of discovery every one will be different. Second, you’ll notice every one is reaching into their backpack, taking things out, and leaving these things along the path, throughout the journey.

March 28th, 2011

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:03:27 +0000

We’re not engaged in this practice to make our lives better by saving time, taking short cuts, or learning how to manage our lives. That’s not the point. The point is to be curious enough to discontinue framing life through the eyes of time, to discontinue perpetuating perception of time. Be open for miracles. Miracles are shifts of perception. Your head wants to make things happen, it wants to do, it wants action, but you are here for far more than just doing.

March 25th, 2011

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:20:38 +0000

While you’re here practice relinquishing and setting aside everything you are caring with you. Moment to moment we make choices to decided what matters. The things you make matter become real. These things are only real because you are giving it weight, you are giving it meaning. So, let that decision, let that choice of your heart and mind be light, be balanced. Instead of giving weight to a problem let your focus be on the answer. The answer is light and free. Let go of the speed and relentlessness of society around us and immerse your self into this practice of opening up, becoming light, and being free.

March 24th, 2011

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:11:52 +0000

Notice if you are following habit. Notice if you are taking the same approach here for this meditation. It is so easy to stay with familiar and do what comes automatically and naturally. When you’re on automatic you cannot be in the moment. Remember: it’s not about following a protocol or recipe. We can’t think our way into this. The only thing required is your presence. Maintaining a curiosity about your own presence will keep you in the moment and out of automatic.

March 23rd, 2011

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:54:36 +0000

Give your self a rest. Let it be simple. Another way into the moment could be zeroing in and tuning your self to that which is supporting you. What does it feel like being supported? Typically, when we are supported we aren’t asking our selves where we feel supported. When you are happy, when you are out with friends having a good time you are not asking your self where you feel supported. So, we typically ask our selves where we feel supported when we are doing or busy or down on our selves. That is when we start asking our selves, “Why do I feel so bad right now? Where do I need to be supported?” You can only feel your self being supported in the moment. Next time you feel elated, light, and free ask your self how you got there. Find where that support emanates from and find where you are tuned in. Be there.

March 22nd, 2011

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:13:42 +0000

You share the same heart with older wiser you. Learn what it feels like to go beyond conversing with the heart and instead actually deferring to the heart. Be with and in and of the heart. Be willing to immerse your self into your heart and embody your divine design. Dare to abandon your memory and your beliefs. These things you are holding onto are disrupting the life and the feeling emanating from your heart.

March 21st, 2011

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:15:51 +0000

Let it be simple. Let it be easy. Come back to what is supporting you. Relax into it, fall into it, be absorbed by it. Find the sweet spot where you feel your self most buoyantly, most abundantly supported and go there. Stay there. You don’t need to be here meditating to be tuned in. You can find your spot and be there all the time. You don’t need to do anything to be in that spot. You only need to tune in.

March 18th, 2011

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:18:53 +0000

The things you are holding onto are filters through which you see the world. Gender, race, religion, politics, time – these are all things we use to filter the world. Let go of everything. Start with the simple things. By starting with the simple things you will begin to see how much more you can see by letting go of the bigger things, things that you truly believe. It is hard to let go of these things. They have been programmed into us through our civilization for years and years. Feel free to let go. Nothing is holding you back. There is so much more to gain from opening your self and tuning in.

March 17th, 2011

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:51:40 +0000

The sky is an answer happening, and it all depends on your perspective. Your attitude is your alignment. Set aside the weight, set aside what you are holding onto. Experience reality without filtering reality. Dare to let go.

March 8th, 2011

admin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:51:09 +0000

Bring your attention to where you feel yourself being supported. Soften those places just a little bit with help from Todd Williamson of Free Range Meditation. This is the place where you can center the rest of your day to ensure a smooth, uninterrupted journey no matter what curve balls this day may bring. You are ready for anything.

March 7th, 2011

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:50:14 +0000

Do not focus on the words them selves. Focus on what resonates within you. Focus on what you find around you and inside of you. If you find your self going to a habitual place interrupt it. The mind is all over the place, but your heart is always in the moment. Defer to your heart. Abide with your heart, look through the eyes of your heart. Let it be a practice of discovery.

March 4th, 2011

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:11:34 +0000

Woven into the fabric of your being are antenna. It is part of your being. These antenna exist in every cell of your body. Science calls it DNA. Science is also trying to recreate this antenna through fractal technology, but the antenna you have been given are far more complex and deeper than anything that can be recreated. One strand of DNA can be made into a chain about six feet long. You have millions upon millions of these little six foot antennas roaming around every part of you. Chose to tune in. Chose to let your self absorb all the world has to offer.

March 3rd, 2011

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:31:10 +0000

There is a change taking place with Free Range Meditation. We are going from mono to stereo for a fuller sound. This theme aligns beautifully with our meditation because change is a big part of this meditation. We are making changes in our lives from moment to moment, and we are here, at this practice, to be curious about tuning in to this change. Every mind will process this change, and all changes, differently. This practice is for every mind to submerse into that change whatever it may be, and then to let go of it. Every mind is whatever you make it. What is important is what is happening in the moment when you are engaged with it. Even a shared moment is different for every body. We generously invite you to listen to this meditation to consider what it means for you.

March 2nd, 2011

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:10:04 +0000

What are you doing right now? Where is your attention? Whatever has your attention as a life, you are giving it a life by putting your time and energy into whatever this might be. Pay notice and be curious about what you are giving weight to, what you are making matter.

March 1st, 2011

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:26:45 +0000

Take a moment to get here. Getting here only takes a moment, but it might take a little bit of energy to practice getting into the moment, to really step out of time. That is the practice. The practice is learning what it feels like to step out of time without losing rhythm. Interrupt the habit of framing everything through the construct of time where there appears to be a past, present, and future. As long as you insist on continuing to see through the image of time that is what you will get. When you dare to be here in the moment, stepping out of time, suddenly things change. These are just words we are using to convey the meaning of enlightenment found in this meditation, but it is far more than words. The words can give you an idea, they can help guide you. To truly find the path it doesn’t take time but it does take practice.

February 28th, 2011

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:01:28 +0000

Do something different. Shifting attention and being curious will help to keep you in balance and feeling supported. Actions based on habit and repetition don’t reside in the moment. Being in the moment involves realizing the differences between every little thing; realizing the way things shift and change out of time and from moment to moment. Every cell, every breath, every wave is different despite how similar they may appear.

February 25th, 2011

admin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:46:06 +0000

Are you ready to feel supported? Are you ready to feel balanced? Are you ready to have abundance? Because there is no where you can be where the transmission does not reach. You are a part of it and one with it. Wherever you are is the right place. The only reason you may not be receiving the transmission is because you are choosing not to. What is the transmission? What is this that we tune into? It is truth, it is the answer, it is the place where you feel most supported. The only thing you need to be completely supported is your self.

February 24th, 2011

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:11:14 +0000

When you come across a holding place let it be a gentle reminder that there is always more to accept, always less to resist. You can experience your self not being supported by insisting on resisting. Think of your breath. Your breath exemplifies abundance. The breath is abundantly available just like everything else. You can willingly except everything just as you willingly except your breath. Why not? Only you can convict your self. Let your self receive as easily as you breathe.

February 23rd, 2011

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:50:35 +0000

Fully commit to the answer. Be curious about your being. Start. Now. Be. Here. Feel into what these words are conveying. Beyond these words there is an essence. As you move through the day allowing your heart to lead the way it is as though you are walking on a mirror because each and every step you take is as if there is another foot coming up to meet you, to support you. When you are completely buoyantly supported you can hardly feel the ground beneath your feet. It is the lightest feeling there is. It is the brightest light to feel.

February 22nd, 2011

admin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:33:45 +0000

Find a way to feel full of radiating light. Relax the eyes, the face, the jaw. Allow the breath to move in and out on its own. It is perfect all on its own. The breath is abundant, but you won’t experience the abundance if you tamper with it. You don’t have to be anywhere else to catch your breath or be inspired, it can only happen where you are, right here, right now. Feel the space you are immersed in, the space around you. Feel how different it is than when you first walked in. This change is a consequence of allowing your self to be moved. Imagine your self as a light, like the sun coming up over the horizon. Allow your self to be as bright, brighter than the sun. We are typically in the habit of diminishing our light for a multitude of reasons. Do not let anything hold back your light and feel what happens.

February 21st, 2011

admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:53:44 +0000

Suspend your beliefs while you are here. Your beliefs are a strategy to keep you focused and committed. We commit to the beliefs we hold on to. Remember: anything you are holding on to weighs you down. Anything you hold on to keeps you out of integrity, out of balance, disoriented, at odds with the natural flow of the river of life. Your beliefs keep you separated from the moment. So, when you start this practice take a few moments to place your self out of time by being in the moment.

February 18th, 2011

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:33:17 +0000

Be curious to notice what it means to begin. What are you stopping? What are you interrupting? This is a big deal – it’s a simple thing, but it’s a very important thing because most of us most of the time are practicing things that keep us stuck in time, out of the moment, away from balance, away from feeling supported. If you’re not feeling supported it’s easy to believe you’re in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing. If you believe you’re in the wrong place you will try to get somewhere else, do other things, fix, adjust, overcome. That is how we keep our selves busy. All the business does is keep us busy. It’s not about doing anything better, or more, it’s not about enduring. It is about learning what it feels like to be in the moment right where you are, to feel supported right where you are. You are not in the wrong place. You never have been.

February 17th, 2011

admin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:30:15 +0000

A shift of thought, a shift of allegiance is not a new idea for this practice. It is an idea that has shaped history to bring peace and unity to the world. Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. are only two of the many, many people that have influenced a growth of pure faith in man kind. There is still a place to be to continue this shift of allegiance that these brilliant men and women have begun, and that place is right here, right now. There are some tools to help you on this journey. This journey is not a difficult one, but it does require your beautiful light and your endless energy. Infinite patients brings immediate results. It doesn’t take time, but it does take practice.

February 16th, 2011

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:17:47 +0000

One of the great things about this practice is that anyone can do it. This practice does not discriminate because it is about finding the most of you. This practice is here to guide you through the process of removing the things from your life that are not you, and letting the most of you, the best of you, be perfectly light. The transition is designed to be fluid. One thing moves into the next with a smooth motion like the river. It may seem daunting to end habituation and the automation that consumes day to day lives. As you begin to let go of habit and accept the support that life and light emit you will feel weightless. You will feel freed. You will be awed by the ease of letting go.

February 15th, 2011

admin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:21:46 +0000

There is no over there. There is no grass on the other side because there is no other side. There is only here. We have a desire to be in another place when things don’t seem to be working the way we expected. The thought is that you need to some how change where you are to improve your situation, whatever fault there may be. The answer is not in another place. It is simple to say. It is clear when some one explains that it is just a frame of mind. But to be where you are all the time and let go of everything else – that is enlightenment.

February 14th, 2011

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:49:06 +0000

Experience transformation through the changing of the tides or the movement of the clouds. See how the river constantly changes yet is always the same. Learn from these things and go to that place. These movements that exist in nature have a life, they are filled with energy. Nothing is telling the clouds or river to do what they do, no one is teaching the waves how to roll. They just do. Be with the waves long enough and you will begin to share that transformation.
[powerpess]

February 8th, 2011

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:15:11 +0000

Woven into the fabric of your being are these antennas. They are the same in every cell of your body and they are unique to you. Every cell of your body has DNA, your DNA. There is not one cell of you body without your DNA, and there is not one cell of your body without your antenna; millions of cells, cells you cannot see with your physical eye. Yet, in each one you have DNA. If you were to unravel the helix of DNA it would be about six feet long, two strings that are each about six feet long. Two antennas in every cell tuning in. If you were to link all of your DNA together they would extend far out into space, or wrap around the earth several times. You have been given the materials necessary to tune into everything, to receive everything. The more you tune in the more you will be aligned with the living, breathing, life-giving force of earth and everything she has to give us!

February 7th, 2011

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:03:57 +0000

Any holding you’re engaged in will keep you at odds with what is supporting you. Light is one thing that supports you immensely. Thus, holding keeps you from light, holding keeps you in darkness. By changing your alignment with the world you can receive more light. You are plugged into the world and it wants to give you so much light and energy. Simply flick the switch, and pick up all the light that the world wants to give you.

February 4th, 2011

admin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:09:57 +0000

Most of us have our favorite preset stations in our cars on the radio. Most of us have our favorite stations, mostly listening to one or two. Now we’ve got the newer radios where we can have upwards of eighteen to twenty preset stations. The goal when we come here to practice is not to stay tuned in to our favorites, not to stay with what is familiar. What you perceive, what you know to be true, is filtered through the things you are holding onto, your stations. Be here to practice curiosity. Be here to practice tuning into something deeper, something beyond what can be known, something aligning. There is only one place to tune into that will feel like this, and that is how you know you’ve found it. This transmission is ongoing everywhere no matter where you are. The only reason you may not receive this transmission is because you are choosing to ignore it.

February 3rd, 2011

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:53:48 +0000

What you see is determined by your perspective, how you are choosing to see. Part of what you see is determined by your attitude. These filters are none other than your beliefs, definitions, and concepts of how the world is or should be. The river of life, the river that everything floats on through this world, does not have these filters. The river does not have any beliefs, definitions, or concepts of the way the world should be. This river flows through life finding the most simple path and and being there. Everything is in the river of life. Your ideas and beliefs are a submerged tree branch, pushing against the river, but the river doesn’t mind. The river does not avoid your twig, instead is moves gently around. The tree branch, your beliefs, is the thing that is stuck. Let go of your beliefs and feel your self flow with the river of life. Let the river of life take you and be one with it. The river knows exactly where it is going.
[powerpess]

February 2nd, 2011

admin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:37:33 +0000

Where you feel a lack of support there is an answer. We have stubborn habits where our attention is brought to the places where one doesn’t feel ones self supported. The habit is to perceive this lack of support as a problem that needs fixed some how, but there is no problem. The problem is the idea brought to life by you believing in the problem. In the same place where you don’t feel supported, the same place you perceive a problem, there is an answer. Go there to the answer and you will find support. It is not something you need to change, fix, or tweak to find an answer. The answer is there regardless of any fiddling you might engage in. Be the answer.

February 1st, 2011

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:07:22 +0000

Tune in without holding on. This is yogaing. This is the primary practice. Imagine the waves on the ocean. The waves are in a perfect rhythm as one after another they roll up onto the beach. As the rhythm of the waves continuously rolls up onto the beach notice how every wave is different despite how repetitive it may seem. As you tune in, as you yoga, you will see every breath you take is different just like the waves. That is your rhythm. That is your light. Be there.

January 31st, 2011

admin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:08:54 +0000

Feel your bright light filling up space without having to take space. Trust the times you’ve felt most bright and go there, let that be the whole practice today. Let light be something that you feel completely supported by. The brighter your light feels to you the more you’ll feel all light supporting you. Everything has a light. A rock, another person, your computer, the freeway – everything emits some form of light and energy. Some lights are hard to see or trust, but if you can find where other objects and people have the most light you will receive more light. The space for light is as endless as the universe.

January 28th, 2011

admin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:06:10 +0000

It is difficult to relinquish and set aside all of the things we are holding all the time. Remember that it doesn’t take time to let go all the time, even when you are not meditating, but it does take practice. While you are here you may go through a kind of cleansing and you may release all those things that you’ve learned need to be dropped. But when you walk through that door again you may pick some of those things back up. More and more as you continue to place your self in this spot where you feel fully supported you will find how unnecessary it is to pick up all of those things again. It doesn’t happen all at once. It takes practice. And it is worth it!

January 27th, 2011

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:07:09 +0000

You experience the world you see. What part of your body is getting that attention? It is like a knock at the door. Maybe your knee, back, head, or shoulder. If there is a knock at the door you go and answer the knock, but you feel interrupted. You feel as though you were working on fixing the problem when something came along and distracted you from focusing on the problem. The answer is to stop focusing on the problem. The solution has been knocking on the door this whole time. Be focused on the solution.

January 26th, 2011

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:39:49 +0000

Let your practice be fruitful for you today. Learn to discern mind from body, and neglect your habit of judgment which is indicative of being in the head. Be in the heart. Be curious about what you are giving weight to. Generally, the things you give weight to you perceive as problematic. In the world we live in, society around us, tells us how to deal with problems with defense mechanisms and items, things that should make our lives easier. That is exactly what these things do – they deal the problem. But these things do nothing to solve the problem, or drop the problem, or even to remove focus on the problem and see what it is that truly matters: the answer. Computers, belongings, things – they do not have answers. The answer is inside of you. The answer is you. Feel supported.

January 25th, 2011

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:22:40 +0000

Where can you find the very nature of your self? Begin by finding what is supporting you. Where does the path of understanding begin and end? It begins by knowing there is little to achieve through hard work and dedication to a few ideas. To fully grasp an understanding of allegiance to the self you must be one with the river of life. If you have your head down, working hard swimming laps back and forth across the river, you are chopping wood. You may feel your self getting stronger, doing these laps and chopping the wood. You may feel you’re are doing mental push-ups to be more prepared, but in this practice doing will leave you right where you began. And intelligence has nothing to do with having a complete understanding of self. The path to understanding begins with letting go, letting your self be with the river instead of just in it. The path ends with older wiser you.

January 24th, 2011

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:16:36 +0000

Be comfortable. Be comfortable being where you are. As you get comfortable being here you will begin to let go of all the things that you’ve brought here with you but don’t define you. All the things you feel you need to fix or have, or all the things you use to keep your self busy, this is the time to set those things aside and feel your self grow. Be comfortable as you.

January 21st, 2011

admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:41:49 +0000

What is on your plate? Give your self permission to set aside and divest your self of all the things you’re making matter. The things you bring into your life and hold onto are filtering reality and distorting what you experience. The world you see is defined and interpreted by the things you believe in and the convictions you have held throughout your life. Morals, values – these are mechanisms you use to understand and determine the reality that you live and breathe. Morals and values – these may sound like positive tools to guide you through the world, but they only serve to prevent you from seeing the world as it truly is. Begin to let go. As you drop all of this weight you will begin to see the world as it is. First, you will see the world as your self – one and the same. Then you will see the world through the eyes of everyone else. Finally, you will see the world in everything – every face, every rock every tree, every ant – in the same moment existing outside of time. This is enlightenment, and you can be it simply by letting go.

January 20th, 2011

admin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:05:20 +0000

Abide in the space without holding your self in space. Allow the space to give you the feeling of experience. In this way fill the space without taking space. Imagine letting go so much that you simply float away. Don’t keep your self from having anything that is being given. Why not just receive it? Why not dare to embody it? Bring it into fruition, bring it into expression, bring heaven to earth through you as you. You be the light. Your gift is your presence to you and everyone around you. That is your purpose. That is why you are here.

January 19th, 2011

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:49:55 +0000

Feel the space around this room. Feel the space you’re immersed in. You are in the same spot but it feels different because you are allowing your self to be moved. You are allowing your body to fill up with the self. It doesn’t take time, but it does take practice. It is not a doing, but a being. Stay tuned in to the best of your capacity and let that mean more than anything else. Let your mind be more focused on the being than anything you do. Look at your surroundings and know you are a part of everything you see.

January 18th, 2011

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:07:56 +0000

Bring your attention to your breath and imagine your self at a beach. Let it be an ideal beach, perfect temperature, and there is no one else, just you. Bring your attention to the movement of the waves, washing up the beach and receding back into the ocean. You may envision your self sitting on the beach or laying on the beach. Or perhaps today you are floating along with the natural rhythm of the waves. The natural rhythm of the movement of the waves is about 12 hertz, and, not coincidentally, the natural rhythm of the breath is about 12 hertz. Feel all the connections you share with your beach, all the relationships you have with the earth. Breathe it all in and breathe it all out.

January 17th, 2011

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:47:57 +0000

The practice is to relax and relinquish your convictions. We tend to give allegiance to our beliefs with such conviction that our grasp on these things is taut and stress filled. As you let go of everything you’re holding onto you’ll find your self beginning to move with the river as opposed to moving in the river, against the river. Everything you’re holding onto you’ve acquired from upstream whether it’s from ten miles upstream or ten centimeters. You must let go of everything to move with the river. Let go of whatever is preventing you from being with the river of life.

January 14th, 2010

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:04:44 +0000

Imagine a bottle of wine with a label. Most the time the label is pretty, and the label frequently has a story or some explanation of the type of wine, how its made, or who made the wine. We can stay busy figuring out how to make the perfect label, but no matter what you put on the label the wine will remain the essence that it is. This practice has nothing to do with the label, the story, the picture. What’s underneath the label is where we practice. Don’t let labels stand between you and the wine. Don’t let stories and excuses stand between you and older wiser you. It doesn’t take time, but it does take practice.

January 13th, 2010

admin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:50:43 +0000

Feel for an alignment. Attune your self. Where do you feel aligned? Where do you feel your tuning in happening? Ask your self, “Where am I?” There is only one place you can be – in the moment, which is not in time. Feel into where you are and the way is made clear because you’ve stepped outside of your convictions and beliefs. This is where peace bubbles up into your being. Keep it as simple as you can. Just feel your self being supported for a few moments.

January 12th, 2011

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:32:43 +0000

Allow your self to feel the support and the embrace of Earth. You will recognize that there is no need to feel seized or braced by whatever you might be holding onto. Relax into what is supporting you. As we move through this practice let your focus be more oriented to what is supporting you.

January 11th, 2011

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:56:39 +0000

Your true strength is in your willingness to connect with and to be a part of, rather than insisting on resisting. Relax the belly and invite a natural breath to move into and through your body with this most gentle breath.

January 10th, 2011

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:57:50 +0000

If you were to have a meditative practice remember that how you begin is important. Get comfortable, drop into the moment, and lay aside whatever is weighing you down. What is equally important is the way you end the practice. Some days are busier than others, some days the mind is busier than others. Some times it can be hard to get loose depending on the accounts of your day. Even if that is the case, at the very end of the practice just a hand full of breaths can be sufficient for you to gain much benefit from the practice. It will shift your allegiance, it will reorient you to some degree. The same thing holds true for larger cycles. You might see this year as a cycle as well. Find a natural pause place where you can let your breathing reorient your self. Just a few well placed breaths, thoughtfully immersed in nothing else but your breath, can give you a years worth of calm.

January 7th, 2011

admin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:17:13 +0000

There is a pause between breaths. There is a pause between thoughts. The pause is part of the rhythm, part of a cycle. We are all immersed in and a part of a large rhythm. The days get shorter like an exhale going out until the bottom of the exhale, the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. As you’re feeling the rhythm of breathing there’s a natural pause place at the bottom of the breath; there is a natural pause place at this time of the year as well – a pause before the next cycle begins. Immerse your self into this pause to feel miracles and a shift of perception. But this shift can only come with your willingness to be completely in the pause.

January 6th, 2010

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:39:46 +0000

As you wiggle the fingers and toes, saying hello to your body, remind your self, let it be clear: you are the one deciding moment to moment what to give your allegiance to, what to pay attention to, what to make matter, what to give weight to. Whatever you make matter you are bringing into fruition. Suspend your habits while you are here. Practice giving more of your allegiance to older wiser you, that divine design.

January 5th, 2010

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:27:41 +0000

Give your self permission to simply begin to immerse your self more in the feeling of pause. This is attuning your self to the feeling. It is the most natural thing you can do because it’s what you are designed for. This is yogaing. This is the primary practice. Let this be your primary practice and let everything else be secondary at best. The confusion arises when you make something else more important than the yogaing and the tuning in. Stay tuned into the answers and problems don’t appear. When you bring your attention to perceived problems that is what you are going to experience.

January 4th, 2010

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:48:00 +0000

Daring to relinquish all that keeps you disoriented and out of integrity. Everything that keeps you at odds with the river of life. Dare to relinquish every last thing that is keeping you at odds with everything around you. You might for no apparent reason, for no other reason than by design, suddenly find your self embracing, experiencing, and having the experience of your divine design. This is the practice we are engaged in here. The practice of the most radical shift of allegiance.

January 3rd, 2011

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:40:36 +0000

Keep in mind this morning as you practice that the eclipse happens all on its own. Your breath happens all on its own. The eclipse happens all the time. You can see an eclipse from time to time based on your perspective, but most times your view is blocked by the turning of the earth or objects blocking a clear view – clouds, trees, buildings. A simple shift of perspective allows you to see more clearly. Be curious in your practice to allow for a shift of perspective.

December 31st, 2010

admin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:32:51 +0000

Use the time today to practice dropping in, relaxing into the more of you, uncovering more of your light and wearing it. It happens naturally as you tune in. It happens naturally as you dare to relinquish what you have previously been giving your allegiance to. It requires this simple, fundamental, yet radical, shift of allegiance away from a habituated way of doing things and into the most natural way of being.

This is the time of year to share presents.

December 30th, 2010

admin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:28:33 +0000

Let your breath be the waves of the ocean – building, flowing, moving in and gliding across the shore, and then receding back into the ocean. Every atom of air is like every drop of water. With your mind content with every breath it begins to let go. As you are being like the wave perhaps you bump into something – a seashell turning over in the waters, take note of it. Be curious about it. Then let it go as the next wave, the next breath, glides over the soft sand.

December 29th, 2010

admin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:25:22 +0000

Let your breath touch every cell of your body. This is the time of year to feel the deepness of the breath, especially the exhale. Feel your self let it all go. Feel your self immersed in this ocean of space. Notice how freely your breath exists – never wanting, always in the moment. Only you can hold your breath. You determine your attitude, nobody else.

December 28th, 2010

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:58:28 +0000

If you were to consider the breath, just a natural breath – the inhale and exhale, you can see that pattern around the waves on the beach. You can see similarities in the light of day. The inhale reaches the zenith of the summer solstice, and the long exhale is the winter solstice we find our selves in right now. It is good to remember the exhale is the active part, the willingness to relinquish that which is no longer needed. We are habituated, acculturated, conditioned to hold on to everything, to consume, to have. This incessant holding weighs us down and distorts our experience. The breath can guide you into the moment because it always happens in the moment – you can’t breathe for tomorrow, you can’t breathe for yesterday. So use your breath to bring you right here right now.

December 27th, 2010

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:49:02 +0000

Now that the holidays are over, it’s time to regain our composure, our peace, our balance. It’s really not that hard. Take a few extra minutes with Todd and you will find yourself right where you want to be.

December 24th, 2010

admin — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:35:31 +0000

There is only one choice for truth, and the good news is you know the difference. It’s not something to think your way into. It’s something to simply relax into, to allow for because as you get out of your way and allow your divine design to come into focus the most natural thing you can do is what you are designed to be. As soon as you engage your antenna it’s something that your being engages in. This unconscious effort of receiving requires only your divine design.

December 23rd, 2010

admin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:21:33 +0000

Shift your awareness to be more curious about what practice you’re actually engaged in. Use this time while you’re here to keep it really simple. Bring your attention to where you feel supported as you go through the movements and poses. Where you feel your self supported lean into it, give it commitment. Make that support matter more than anything else, more than any perceived problem, more than anything ascetic. And see what happens.

December 22nd, 2010

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:54:45 +0000

Instead of engaging the river of life with commitment, with effort, with discipline use time to practice something new. Use this time while your here to practice interrupting these habits. Use this time to practice neglecting these habits and abandoning these beliefs. We don’t like to associate our selves with these negative words, but until you dare to use these tools you will be continuously swimming upstream and resisting the river of life.

December 21st, 2010

admin — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:29:55 +0000

Be more curious today. You have spent time being curious about the things you hold on to and let go. Today be curious about your deeper, older, wiser self. You are not separate from your self. Feel the alignment of all the cells in your body; feel all your cells align with your heart. Feel your self immersed and supported by the river of life. Let the river relax your being. Throughout this whole process be curious about where your attention takes you. If you find your mind drifting to the things you hold on to feel blessed to recognize how your mind is flowing. If you find your mind absorbed by the river of life be blessed to feel supported.

December 20th, 2010

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:04:43 +0000

Lets begin by listening to what is calling you. You share the same heart with older wiser you. Lets start with your heart. Start with being aware of all the things you hear around you with your eyes closed, but let your attention move to the ears of your heart. This is only a starting point. Continue on to be out of time; chose to let go of the weight of time. Be curious about what comes into focus, what manifests out of time. This is the divine design.

December 17th, 2010

admin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:00:20 +0000

When you dare to feel gratitude you’ll find your self being in the moment. You’ll find your self realigning with older wiser you. Your alignment is literally your attitude. We don’t usually use the definition of attitude that way, but your attitude is your alignment . You will find your self aligned automatically with the divine design of old wiser you as you dare to wear gratitude.

December 16th, 2010

admin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:26:35 +0000

Mostly we meditate with the mind, but today let us be curious about our whole body. We frequently do sounds; also be curious about the way your body moves around. Notice when you might stand or sit or stretch in a particular way that allows you to let go of the things you hold on to. Experimenting with movement allows you to open up different windows in your body so you may see through your self and be open and free.

December 15th, 2010

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:41:26 +0000

Wind in some traditions is known as the keeper of secrets. When it is windy it stirs things up and cleans the aura and energetic space; it whisks things away. Resisting this process might leave you with a restless feeling. Practice considering your leaves fall – your secrets, the things you hold – give these things to the wind and lighten your load. The more you relinquish the more you can receive.

December 14th, 2010

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:29:16 +0000

Today, Todd guides us through the feeling of the breath, shifting our awareness and focus. Breathing through the nose is one strong method to use in conscious breathing. Feel the difference in every breath you take. Examine all the different ways to take air in and out of your body. Todd will show us effective and simple ways to enhance the body’s reaction to every breath. Methods that can even help you avoid the common cold.

December 13th, 2010

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:10:54 +0000

Today, find your self in a natural, sustainable physiology by playing with sounds. Todd guides us up through the body with deep long breaths inviting you to issue those sounds from older, wiser you. Let these sounds align with your heart and fill your body. Let your voice be your guide.

December 10th, 2010

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:25:59 +0000

Use the time while you’re here to practice something that is, by design, different from all the habituated things you typically practice. Time, this mental construct, this linear thinking where there appears to be a past and a future, is a practice. Time is something that your are doing. Be curious as to how you spend your time instead of trying to fix it or make it better.

December 9th, 2010

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:15:56 +0000

In today’s meditation see there is only you and your older wiser self. Dare to immerse your self fully in older wiser you. Embody older wiser you. Nothing more, nothing less. Each cell in your body, the millions of cells shifting into alignment, more perfectly embody the downstream orientation that older wiser you experiences.

December 8th, 2010

admin — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:34:59 +0000

Just as each wave is not separate from the ocean each cell of your body is comprised of earth from the Earth. The physical, tangible you comes from the earth. Say hello to this earth of which you are comprised. See and feel all the ways that you are related and connected. There is an unavoidable, direct connection between your heart and the earth.

December 7th, 2010

admin — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:11:20 +0000

Invite your breath to move like the waves on the ocean. So, envision your self on a beach, your own private beach. You might chose to envision your self floating – feeling the rise and the fall of the movement of the waves on the ocean. Bring your attention to the movement of the waves. Notice how no two waves are the same. As you bring your attention to the movement of the waves notice how your breath begins to match this rhythm of the ocean, no two of your breaths are the same.

December 6th, 2010

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:42:47 +0000

If you’ve ever used an Etch-a-Sketch maybe you spent a long time making something, but then as soon as you shake it just a bit it all disappears. It is the practice of engaging in creating something beautiful. Putting all your thought and energy into the moment. And then letting it go. The whole point is to support your self in this most natural, yet most radical, shift of allegiance.

December 3rd, 2010

admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:30:46 +0000

The attitude of gratitude brings you into the moment, when you dare to wear it, when you dare to feel it. So, be curious about all the things your eyes behold. Be curious to feel what all those things mean. In this practice you will find numerous things to be grateful for.

December 2nd, 2010

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:58:22 +0000

Shift your allegiance away from your head which does not have the capacity to discern between what is Real and what you make real. Defer instead to the heart. The heart needs not judge because the heart is clear, the heart is in light. The heart doesn’t need to be right. In the heart there is knowing, and the heart easily discerns, naturally discerns, Real from everything else. See truth with your heart.