CONNECTED & a Perfecting Moment

I  begin by reminding myself, (and you) about the FIRE HOSE of power in the moment. 

EVERYTHING can change in a moment but when we make the moment a practice...it perfects us.

(Ahem, that would be THIS one.) No... wait we missed it.  Don't worry here it is again... because the quantum scientists and the ancient mystics say that we only have ONE: i.e. This one moment. 

Practicing the PERFECTing Moment

We began this sound meditation with a ONE MINUTE meditation.  I call it PRACTICING the PERFECTING MOMENT: It is a Pause button which may be pushed any time.  We always have a minute.  This one was to the Indian singing bell with an "In & Out' mantra.

Daily Word today that day spoke about getting to a "calm certainty…in connection…" (that would be a great 1 minute mantra...) or simply Let your breath be your in and out mantra….

Here: it's simple:

1. Align – your spine …you should get a little spark of energy when you sit up straight or stand in a mindfully balanced way….( a frisson of flow)

2. Allow the breath to breathe you – to the sound of the singing bell.

3. Repeat for ONE minute.

    I am called to a sacred connection to all life.

    Our interconnectedness of everything with me …is my conscious powerhouse of energy.
    
    I am called to connect with my full, and confident expression of myself and engage the circumstances of life with poise and tenacity.  
    
    I see A calm certainty  of CONNECTION  When I look at nature.

    I notice how the trees provide a nesting place for birds and how rainfall nourishes all living creatures. My observations remind me that I am connected to all things through Spirit.
    
    I remember and honor my connection to all living beings as sacred by

•    expressing respect to animals, the environment, and all people.
•    Giving thanks for how nature provides & sustain my life.
•    improving my interpersonal skills so that I may connect with authenticity and compassion.
•    growing from life’s wisdom  
This wisdom informs my mind and directs my steps. I am a conscious agent for beneficial change.
I connect to my full, and confident expression of myself and engage the circumstances of life with poise and tenacity.

    - Daily word  – Believe

An Embodied PAUSE BUTTON...

This is a PAUSE BUTTON in your day…making a better day by making the next moment better. IT REMINDs us in a deep embodied way…that we have all the time we need right now for a good life…well lived.

I teach this to my teams in hospice, (if they are willing).  There are many ways to pause but using meditation techniques allow quick access the deep medicine of CONNECTION, (to  the Holy SPIRIT or our Higher Power ) in THE NEXT moment.

BECAUSE…pausing can mean that we respond instead of react …and that matters in my world, in your world, and in everyone else’s. Is the world today not reactive ENOUGH?

CONNECTED: 
Listen to the meditation here.

No time...not to.

Now is the time
for the world to know
That every thought and action
is sacred

This is the time
For you to deeply compute
the impossibility

That there is anything
But Grace…. 

      –Hafiz, The Gift
        Translation Daniel Ladinsky

Because playfully …and in truth…there is no time.  This is both quantum and eternal truth that time does not exist. 

We are spiritual beings having a human experience…and we are… only now. (i.e. that would be that same moment I mentioned earlier...)

FOR a single minute, you can
• Drop into ‘NO TIME’…(and in no time you can find a moment of ‘no-time’.)

• Take a moment (Say...this ONE) to know time because "NOW is the time" to Know Time… because we don’t need 20 minutes to be calm. We can, with practice, put it all aside..for 60 seconds, drop down, touch down, and BEGIN AGAIN.

No. 1  The In & Out Mantra...

In this first exercise, the "In & Out" Mantra, let's make the mantra short but EXPANSIVE. It can be a word, a principle, an image, a color, an idea, or it could be an experience.

The feeling of opening would be a great mantra for this one minute practice. Whatever you choose take it from your 'happy list'.  You don't have a HAPPY LIST...Make one. It's important to your happiness to know the things that make your heart sing.

BEST PRACTICE: the list of happy.
What are your happy symbols, words, images to carry with you?. 
ere's my list:

•  puppy energy,
• color orange,
•  a crackling fire,
•  a walk in nature,
• Deco architecture
• laugh lines
•screened porches
• Hafiz etc.

What MAKES YOU HAPPY?)

Choose Happy...(Why not?)

Whatever mantra you choose for the in breath, use it for the out-breath, too. REPEAT &  Start again. Do this for one minute.  It can be intense but it is easy... Let's take 'EASE" as an example:

Breathe in - THINK: ease
Hold it for a count of 4 - think of that image, sound, meaning as filling you up

Breathe out fully & slowly: THINK: ease (flowing out into the world)
BECAUSE, if you are connected to LOVE (insert you word for God/SOURCE here) you are connected to a fire hose of refreshment and YOU (little old you) have more than enough to spread around. What you are and do matters.

RIGHT?  If you are not fully convinced that you have to put in hours on the cushion (to earn) your peace, prove it to yourself.  TRY this one a day.  Like our AA friends say, it works if you work it.

HOW to DO a Perfecting Moment?

1) Go APART – (find a quiet place...where no one can find you...it's only a minute...)
       a. Put it all aside for just 60 seconds.
       b. Decide on what you want your mantra to be for the next 60 seconds
       c. Set timer & go.

2) Align spine …You should get a little spark of energy when you sit
up straight or stand in a mindfully balanced way….

3) Allow the breath to breathe you – BEGIN the minute: breathe in, pause, and out repeating your mantra of the moment.

DO this once a day – or once an hour and you will grow a better life.

ATTRIBUTIONS TODAY:

Daily Word July 29 & 30, 2020:  Connection & Believe

THANK YOUs

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1) My thanks to Mary Oliver for her  line from THE SUMMER DAY. – my one wild and precious life…

2) MY thanks to  SF unity for the invitation to practice as my highest self.   I invite you to do that today.  We need your voice.   


Blessings….on your day.