The Work of Max Richter is a COVID-19 toolkit must. The intention for my sound meditations are to help us STAY AWAKE yet still open hearted in order to continue to show up in the world, which needs us to do so... but sound can also help us sleep. As I started researching how sound might help us do this, I came across an artist whose work has gracefully delved into "What kind of music would I want if I am sleeping?" (LINK to it here) Max Richter sees music as an extension of natures balance and symmetry...for growth. Max Richter' sleep music for your Covid-19 coping kit.  Max Richter does music compositions for sleep - One lasts 8 hours - this link is called SLEEP 2 & lasts 2 minutes... As a hospice chaplain, I support many in the scariest places they have ever journeyed: to the edge of life. It is the edge of our known world. My intention in my own work is to walk with people to enough ease...to support people in staying awake...while actively giving care in the world. Because insomnia is rampant here...on the edge of the known world...and we need "a place to rest".  Max Richter walking in a Los Angeles outdoor venue with an interviewer...before the concert there in 2018 And he made music (and a film) for SLEEPING PEOPLE..."to help us navigate our way through the chaos that we live in..."  Max Richer at the Sydney Opera House...performing sleep Max Richter Composes with the symmetry of nature... Max Richter composed a piece of music that lasts 8 hours and is derived from the symmetry of nature. He has, before COVID-19 restrictions, performed it to sleeping audiences...on cots in symphony halls and outside in amphitheatres for eight hours. It is lovely. I would like to recommend it and many other sleep pieces for your COVID-19 coping tool kit We need to find harmony and growth. Max Richter sees it in fibonacci numbers and the symmetry of nature... May it help you too this holiday season. 
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(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
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: |
Now is the time | 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’.) |
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?)
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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.
| I am having a conflict with a business associate…It troubles my world. My responses to date have not healed it. Compromise does not work. I experience this someone as a bully, which makes me want to fight him…not literally… but to prove I am right so I can be safe. BUT I DON”T have to fight to be safe. Safety is in my control by declaring Divine order...(This is not a beginner spiritual lesson... it's for the seasoned.) |  You don’t have to fight to be safe... |
I declare divine order and know all is well. It is the first and last affirmation for a prayer…My job is to pray and trust that the highest and best good of all concerned is manifesting in an orderly fashion…the answers will come in perfect timing…
Spirit is within me and within everyone…Divine order is present in every person and in all situations.
I am at peace with what is…and what will be; Divine order is unfolding.
I affirm the unfolding…even when the world looks like it is not…
| Affirming Divine order lays the critical ground of PERSPECTIVE AND perspective allows me to stand in my authenticity (or truth) BUT at…a higher perspective… I can 'reside at the center of the circle" at my center…and listen. |
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No. 30 Feed Me Feedback
We are not made to do this alone.
We need our fellow passengers, our time-traveling shipmates, to help us refine the implementations of our dreams...
It is the basis of all innovation—and what makes the Golden State gold (and the Pacific Northwest green) because we don’t do great things alone. We need each other.
It’s about being willing to try again, to grow and be better—from information received.
Just because I listen to advice doesn’t mean I take it, (or that they are right…)
but it could be the key to discovering something wonderful. Feedback is easier to accept if it is tactful—but even if unskillful, if it lands on the fertile, adult soil of willingness … it can be course correcting.
You can pivot. Changing how a dream looks (or starting again from scratch) may be the quickest and best way to get to where you want to be. It is the difference between persistence and stubbornness (which can be look-a-likes).
I lost a lot… not receiving feedback well.
– A Hospice Chaplain's Field Guide to Caregiving–Finding Resilience on the Frontlines of Love
| What is the value of human kindness? Do a ‘random act of kindness’ in this moment, on yourself. Choose now… to see it all with kindness… Maybe…just maybe you and others are doing the best they can. Be kind. Let kindness rain down. |  “..Be the ground that drinks up |
“Bring forth your own joyous world of love, friendship, beauty and plenty… There is within you the God-given intelligence to. Build such a (joyous) world.”. | These kindnesses are sweet small steps that heal me…and I can supercharge the healing by focusing on them… and dwelling there. |
Can I just choose a better, happier moment on which to focus?
So to shift to some more interesting story—or something more worth doing?
..Be ground that drinks up the rain… Hebrews 6:7
Let kindness rain. Choose
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BEST PRACTICE: the ONE thing
What is the ONE THING that you can do in kindness for yourself today?
• Make it doable...a sweet small thing
• Make it an adjacent possible.
• Make it yours.
Or use A KNUCKLE HEAD SUPERPOWER.
Maybe it is that ONE THING that you need to forgive yourself about...and let it go. (Really...quit picking at the wound and let it heal.)
It's not so shameful or scary to forgive yourself when using the word "knucklehead".
Try it on.
It is a little funny, and lighthearted. But most importantly it has a collective quality. Hey, we are all knuckleheads at one time or another. like, join the human club and get over yourself. We ALL make mistakes. Admit them and stop suffering.
It's not only efficient. It's compassionate.
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| Every day we start again. But what to weed and what to feed? This COVID-19 world is the pressure cooker du jour but when were we not immersed in it and confused by it? (It being life's changes...) Hey, it's the human journey. But, using our Higher vision (that of the Higher self, our spiritual Self) we can see beyond the appearance of things...It orients us to what DOES NOT CHANGE (the Eternal & evergreen) and gives us clarity. "The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. |  Shift the story... How about shifting to some more interesting story? See with spiritual vision and celebrate the simple blessings right in front of you. If we are aware of what stories we are living, we can use them to grow a better now. But if we are not, they may use us and grow a life that is not ours. Marcel Proust says that the ONLY fountain of youth is to see with new (other) eyes...to see through the eyes of another. How much in our world would be harmonized if we did that story? |
BEST PRACTICE:
Stop. Take a breath. Set a timer for 2 minutes. (You can spare that, right?)
Start. Imagine a calm place mentally in your head. Breathe it in. With every breath, start over. Breathing in the calm of that place ...slowly and supercharging it with gratitude. Think of what you are grateful for and breathe that in with the calm. Repeat with each breath. Repeat until the time dings. Feel better?
Easy.
You have the power. but what good is it if you don't use it?
| Each moment is a choice…an unfolding…to see deeper and more kindly. Start again. We are travelers on this journey. Each moment we are being offered a choice. How do we see the knuckle heads – out there? How do we see our own foibles and knuckeheaded moments? With spiritual vision… we see deeper. | Daily word – |
"Do we dare to re-remember? To retell and rewrite?
What if we just woke up and translated the old stories into a different language in which we understand that all people act to their level of skill. They do the best they can in the moment—with what they have. Why not reinterpret my stories in the light of my current more-adult understandings? Then my history changes. It sets me up to cascade forward. Who I am changes. There is nothing to forgive. I am free.
…Then I can shift to some more interesting story—or something more worth doing?"
- No. 20 Live Backwards, Remember Better – A Hospice Chaplain's Field Guide Book to Caregiving- Finding Resilience on the Frontlines of live
 | It's KINSHIP: love yourself, your cells, your body, and even your fears… persistently and with focus. |
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“In the beginning Love arose,
Which was the primal germ cell of the mind.” - The Rigveda
| WE ARE BEINGS of LOVE says Rev. Paul John Roach. He reminds us to look at ourselves with the eyes of love, as beings of love…then Love ACTIVATES US. In these times...(in any times) we need that. Love is a superpower which arises to enliven, to energize and to order our lives… | When I feel I've lost my way, |
"Love creates us and sustains us when we remember who and whose we are… shift your mind from fear to love and germinate that in the fruitful soil of our willingness. " – Rev. Paul John Roach
| Stories of Jesus are about showing compassion by demonstration awareness of the needs and feelings of others–friends and strangers alike….(and I would add the shadow parts of ourselves which we reject…) Jesus did not turn away from any social outcasts; he welcomed them in, healed them, and shared meals with them. His compassion fed multitudes…it still does. Those stories can also be about our inner struggles…do you turn away from your shadow social outcasts? Those part of your that need some help? That are experiencing illness? Or do you want to slap them into compliance when they need some extra rest. All your life your body has been waging a campaign of love…and health for you. | "“Ring the bells that still can ring |
| No. 31- One Story – Human beings are powered by stories – a love story There is a war. It is the war we wage each day…Love vs. fear. It's the war of caring for ourselves and our loved ones…and the world. | Ah the wars they will |
“The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.”
–Leonard Cohen
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.”
–Leonard Cohen
Ending Prayer:
May all that you say
and all that you do
be in harmony with thee.
God within me…
God beyond me …
MAKER OF THE TREES.
- Chinook Liturgy,
a Pacific Northwest Native American Tribe
| We all have uncertainty in our pandemic ridden world…in my personal world …where I am employed… things are changing with my several hospices. Oddly they seem to all be changing at the same time. It is triggering me, what I was thinking was diversified risk spread over many sources of income was secure…right? Life is AGAIN asking me to touch my story of fear…Mine is called “not enough” and it seems to be woven into my DNA… but it is not. | “Faith is the assurance of things hoped for And the conviction of things unseen.” “The most important question anyone can ask… says Einstein (probably) the answer will either contract your life in fear or open you up with options: “Is the Universe a friendly place?’” Joyous wager… An inherent believe in the goodness of the unseen is a bet worth placing. – No. 27 |
God is in me not like a raisin is in a bun…God is in me like an ocean is in a wave.
–Eric Butterworth
“Trust the steady, simple thing over the complex, clever thing. Bet on the good in people.” – Seth Godin
“The most important question anyone can ask is ‘Is the Universe a friendly place?’” – Albert Einstein
| 1) Seth Godin – a metaphysical marketer and blogger 2) The bible – Hebrews 11:1 3) Einstein – probably said it… 4) My book Rule no. 27 Joyous Wager. | I Got Kin Plant. So that your own heart. Will grow Love, so God will think, aHHHH, I got kin in that body! … Sing. Because this is a food. Our starving world Needs. Laugh Because that is the purest Sound. – by Hafiz – 13th century Sufi poet |
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