0:27

Take a deep breath in

0:30

through your nose. Hold

0:33

it.

0:36

Now release slowly

0:43

again deep

0:46

in helle hold

0:55

release, repeating

1:02

internally to yourself as

1:04

you connect to my voice.

1:08

I am deeply, deeply

1:10

well. I

1:15

I am deeply

1:17

well.

1:22

I am

1:24

deeply well.

1:30

I'm Debbie Brown and

1:32

this is the Deeply Well Podcast.

1:43

Welcome to the first episode

1:46

of twenty twenty four.

1:49

Welcome to the Deeply Well Podcast.

1:51

It's Debbie Brown. I am so happy

1:54

to be back with you. Took a little winter

1:56

break, hibernated a little,

1:58

got refreshed, and now

2:00

I'm back for the new year.

2:02

And wow.

2:04

First, I want to recapitulate a little

2:06

bit about some observations,

2:08

some deep knowings and connections

2:11

that I've been having since we last connected

2:13

on this podcast. And then

2:15

this episode, I'm going to lead you in

2:18

a New Year meditation.

2:21

So before we really even get going,

2:23

depending on where you're listening to this, I

2:25

want to just invite you to get

2:28

anything comfortable that you may need for a little

2:30

later in this episode, if that's a pillow,

2:32

a little incense so

2:34

that we can really kind of sync into that meditation

2:37

together, and also

2:39

grab a journal, piece of

2:41

paper pen you can of course use

2:43

your notes in your phone, but something

2:45

might pop out, especially when we get towards

2:48

our intention setting and that meditation,

2:50

so those might be the tools

2:53

that can really aid you in this episode.

2:55

But wherever you are and however you're listening

2:57

to this, it is absolutely perfect.

3:00

I'm just glad you're here this

3:04

time of year. So right now we're

3:06

a couple of days into the new year, and

3:09

I'm actually where I always am right

3:11

around this time. I am in Los

3:13

Cabos, Mexico, or the

3:15

Baja Peninsula, that last

3:18

little tale of what

3:20

used to be California or Baja California,

3:22

Sir, And oh

3:26

God, being here jazz fills

3:30

my soul in

3:32

a way that language cannot convey.

3:35

This is one of my absolute favorite

3:38

places on Earth, and

3:40

it's always fun for me to think of. And I share

3:42

this like maybe two seasons ago, but

3:46

a while back when I had gotten my

3:48

astrology topography

3:51

done, which is

3:53

where you map your astrology chart,

3:55

but it's mapped on the actual

3:57

planet of Earth, so it lets you

3:59

know you know where your places of power

4:02

are, what areas of the world

4:04

might be really meaningful or

4:07

powerful or important to you, and

4:09

what parts of the world maybe have some negative

4:12

charge or are not most aligned

4:14

for your travels. So I got that done

4:16

a really long time ago, and I

4:18

had shared this on a previous episode, but it

4:21

was funny you because you know, I have some

4:23

pretty good energy almost everywhere. Definitely

4:25

a few places with that I should stay away

4:28

from. But two

4:30

places specifically are

4:33

shown as my most

4:36

kind of aligned placements,

4:38

like two places in the entire

4:41

world, based on my astrology

4:43

chart are exactly where I should be spending

4:45

time. And those two places happen

4:48

to be where I spend the most time, of course.

4:50

The first is Los Angeles, where I was born

4:52

and raised and lived now, and the

4:55

second is the

4:58

Baja Cabo San Lucas, And

5:01

it was really cool to see that because in both

5:03

of those places I feel absolutely

5:06

my highest, deepest, most connected

5:09

self. But many years

5:11

ago, when I first started visiting

5:13

Cabo, I fell in love

5:15

with this time of year because it

5:18

is when the blue and

5:20

humpback whales come

5:22

over from I believe Antarctica

5:25

area or you know, maybe Alaska,

5:27

where it's very cold, and

5:29

they make their way to the warm waters

5:31

of the Baja to have their

5:33

babies and to also teach their

5:35

babies and make babies and

5:39

so usually this time of year. I

5:41

mean, my God, it is just it

5:47

is just the most breath

5:50

taking experience for me. I'm

5:52

definitely a solar powered girl. I've

5:54

always said that my

5:57

soul thrives in the sun, and I love

5:59

the feeling of sun

6:02

rays and warmth and sunshine on

6:04

my skin, and I love staring

6:06

at the sun and seeing it in my eyes. But

6:08

I'm also really deeply connected

6:10

to the ocean, and I'm such

6:13

a devotee of all

6:15

bodies of water. I find

6:17

them to be just one of the

6:19

most obviously

6:21

powerful elements, but one

6:24

of the most powerful spiritual

6:26

experiences for me. They

6:28

always help me release, detox,

6:31

purify, and just feel

6:33

even more connected to God, myself

6:35

and my meditation practice. So the

6:37

ocean is huge for me, and

6:40

the sand and all the things, and here

6:43

this time of year, being

6:46

able to have that heat, that

6:48

warmth, that glory of the sun,

6:50

and the just exquisite

6:53

Sea of Cortes and it meets

6:55

the Pacific here and to

6:58

see these magnificent

7:02

creatures breach the water

7:04

and jump out and

7:07

play and splash. It's just

7:10

it is such a medicine

7:14

for me. And it is also such a profoundly

7:17

pleasurable experience for me. It

7:20

grounds me, it opens me. And

7:23

I have an episode that I actually recorded this time

7:25

last year, which it was really cool

7:27

to find out. Whenever I'm kind of out

7:29

and about and I have

7:32

the beautiful opportunity to connect with

7:34

those that listen to the show, I

7:36

have found that this last year, the episode

7:39

everyone talks about the most of me is

7:41

actually my whale episode

7:44

that I did around New Year's last year.

7:48

I had this profound experience

7:50

of watching two whales

7:53

breach.

7:53

The water.

7:55

Over seventy five times in a row,

7:58

like it went over the course of an hour, and

8:00

we got it on video, and I was with some of my friends

8:02

and we were just kind of like sitting on

8:05

the edge of this cliff looking

8:07

out at the ocean, and

8:10

these two whales started playing together

8:12

and just jumping out of the water

8:15

over and over and over again.

8:18

And I don't even mean like just like a little flap

8:21

of like the tail or the fin or good

8:26

Lord, give me the languish, not the arms.

8:28

I know, it's the sea mammal, y'all

8:30

know what I'm saying. But

8:34

seeing them like like full

8:37

free willie breach like you are up out

8:39

that thing tail all the way out

8:41

and you are backflipping. It

8:44

was so special, my God. So

8:46

that experience happened last year, and

8:49

it's been really interesting because this is

8:52

the very first and I do this

8:54

every single year for the last several

8:56

years. This is how I kind of embark

8:59

on my New Year, spending time with

9:01

the whales in the ocean and my little

9:03

one, my sweet boy Quest. And

9:06

so this

9:08

year that I've been here, there

9:10

are a lot of whales out, but

9:13

I haven't seen any, not

9:16

a single one. I've seen

9:18

a couple tales, but I've seen no breaches

9:20

this trip. And I was

9:22

thinking about that, you know, and of course my

9:25

mind is like, well, what does that mean, and what's

9:27

the symbolism? And

9:30

I remembered my message from last year

9:32

when I saw that really extraordinary sight,

9:34

And last year what that brought forward

9:37

to me was a message

9:39

that God was sharing, which was that miraculous

9:42

will now become ordinary. You will

9:45

see so much

9:47

that takes your breath away, or that invokes

9:49

you, or that seems

9:53

so on inspiring, even

9:56

bizarre miraculous, that it

9:58

will become ordinary. You

10:00

will be used to it in the best way. And

10:03

this year, the word that has

10:06

been coming forward for me in my life is

10:09

simply presence. My intention is

10:11

to be in deep presence with

10:14

my life, with love, with

10:20

the experience of being alive. And

10:24

that really rings true. You know,

10:27

this is not necessarily the year I

10:29

need to have some big, grand

10:33

experience to bring

10:36

me in with enthusiasm. I currently

10:38

feel so incredibly

10:41

full of a

10:43

gorgeously grounded excitement,

10:46

a gorgeously grounded enthusiasm,

10:48

and a deep trust

10:51

in life and in truth and in divine

10:53

timing and divine order.

10:54

And so.

10:56

I've just seen a few way of tales,

10:59

but some that I have been seen connected

11:01

to nature a lot. This trip has been

11:06

so many close encounters with

11:08

large birds. There's

11:11

this huge species

11:13

of bird here and I'm not sure if it's part of

11:15

the pelican species. It

11:18

looks very much like a pelican from the beak,

11:21

but it has a little bit more of like a brown

11:24

feathering and body. But

11:26

anyway, where I am there are like hundreds

11:29

of them, and I've never seen them here before, but

11:31

all of a sudden they're here, and every single

11:33

day they're hunting in the water, they're

11:35

feeding in the water, and it's been

11:37

really cool to watch them in these like huge

11:40

clusters, like a hundred at a time. And

11:43

I was taking this long walk on the

11:45

beach near me that I always meditate

11:47

on because it's always empty

11:50

and the waters are a little too rough to swim,

11:52

but you can kind of get in

11:54

it as much as you can stand. So

11:57

I usually walk the beach

11:59

and it's probably about a mile stretch

12:01

each way I walk

12:03

in and I meditate it on

12:05

it, and I pray there every

12:08

day on my trip. And so

12:11

I was taking that walk, and there

12:14

was about a hundred birds, which might

12:18

seem scary actually because they're pretty

12:20

huge and their hunters,

12:24

but I walked and I was just so close

12:26

to them that I felt like I was in like

12:29

a National geographic

12:31

documentary, you know, Like I felt

12:33

like I was one of those people that goes out

12:36

and just kind of lurks and silence

12:38

behind a bush and captures all this footage.

12:41

And I just got to stand there and

12:44

stare at them and

12:46

watch them, you know, kind of go really

12:48

high up in the air, and then they do this like really

12:51

extreme and steep beak

12:54

dive straight into the water to get their

12:57

fish or you know, whatever little creature

13:00

that they feast on. And

13:02

they were just doing it over and over and over

13:04

again, and I was watching them glide

13:06

through the air and fly and

13:10

it was just special. I just really appreciated

13:12

it, and I felt like it

13:15

was so resonant with the calling that's on my

13:18

heart for this new year. The leading language

13:21

that comes forward for me for myself, and

13:23

I offer it to you if it fits, is

13:26

that what God has for me is

13:28

enough. That's

13:30

a quote from my friend Jazz

13:33

Fly Rest in Peace that

13:37

she used to say. And

13:39

every year it seems to connect

13:42

with me more and more in a deeper way

13:44

whenever I think of it. But that

13:46

is really the calling of my heart

13:48

for this entire year,

13:51

what God has for me is enough.

13:53

I feel so full in my life

13:57

that it's

14:01

just enough. Nothing

14:04

has to be better, more grander.

14:07

This like I feel

14:09

present, I feel in purpose. I

14:12

feel ready

14:14

to continue doing the work of my life,

14:16

ready to continue loving my son

14:19

to my highest capabilities, loving myself

14:21

to my highest capabilities. And

14:24

I'm just ready to

14:26

continue to move through

14:29

the world and through my life and through

14:31

my community and my connections with

14:34

the deep integration of

14:38

what in who I've become in this moment in time,

14:40

this current version. So yeah,

14:44

I'm resting in God at the moment. My

14:47

friend Sheila, actually that's a quote of hers that

14:49

I really love. I'm resting in God,

14:51

I'm resting in my life. I'm resting

14:54

in my truth. I'm resting

14:56

in peace, resting, and enthusiasm.

15:00

But it feels really good. And this

15:02

is a year that I am

15:05

deeply focused on the

15:08

truth of my life and what is present

15:11

in my life. I feel

15:13

highly focused on the friendships,

15:15

the connections, the love in my life

15:17

that is present, that is active,

15:20

that is open, that's available, that's

15:22

reciprocal, and

15:24

that's it. So yeah,

15:26

that feels good for me. That's some of what I've come into

15:28

and my experiences with nature

15:32

while I'm here in Cabo, and

15:34

also this time of year is really special. I

15:36

always love to pepper it really

15:39

through the whole month of January.

15:41

I usually start at the end of October

15:45

thinking about the new year and

15:47

recapitulating over the last year and

15:49

really taking stock of and looking

15:51

at and observing what's true,

15:54

what isn't. Where did I

15:56

focus my energy and how

15:58

did that pay off or not, you

16:01

know, but just kind of taking it in information.

16:04

How did my connection with this person

16:06

manifest or not, you know, and

16:09

just noticing and just kind

16:11

of releasing any stagnant energy,

16:14

releasing anything that

16:16

needs to go, and making room

16:19

for anything that is coming,

16:21

and making room for the things that are staying

16:24

to be able to expand

16:27

in whatever ways that they're meant to. So

16:30

when I usually get down here around

16:32

Christmas time, I

16:35

start my process of thinking

16:38

about the joy, thinking about

16:40

the challenge, thinking about the grief, thinking

16:42

about the intention, but

16:45

not getting too definitive about any of it,

16:47

Journaling a little, meditating, praying,

16:50

and then when New Year's Day kicks

16:52

in, I usually spend almost

16:54

all of New Year's Day meditating,

16:58

praying, walking, kind

17:00

of isolating a little, being in nature,

17:02

and journaling quite a bit. And

17:05

so that's what I did this year. And yeah,

17:09

the meditations were potent. It felt

17:11

so good. So my New Year's

17:14

Eve was pretty incredible.

17:16

Actually, I went to a party here

17:18

in Cabo. It was on the beach

17:20

and it was it was kind of super random, but it

17:23

was amazing the performers that I got

17:25

to see. I saw my

17:27

friend Yvonne came down with me. Von

17:29

Orgy, who of course I know many

17:31

know from her amazing, amazing work

17:34

in the world and all of the

17:36

powerful, beautiful ways she shows up

17:38

in life.

17:40

And we came down and we

17:43

were spending time together and celebrating the New Year

17:45

together. So she and I went

17:47

to this party and

17:50

the Jonas Brothers were performing, and

17:53

so did Robin Thick, and

17:55

it was so fun. First of I didn't know

17:58

like how many hits they had, and I was like,

18:00

what, I know this song, and

18:02

then to just kind of like hear Robin Thick

18:04

hit that lost without show

18:07

and then just look over into the water. It

18:10

was awesome. Music

18:13

was playing. We danced all night,

18:16

ran into some new friends, caught

18:20

up with a couple old friends that I ran into,

18:22

So it was a lot of fun. It

18:24

was a lot of celebratory energy. My

18:27

son had his own New Year's party, but his countdown

18:29

was at like eight o'clock, so I was like, ah, it's

18:32

midnight, Go to sleep, little boy.

18:35

So that was really fun. And then the

18:37

next day I had a chance

18:39

with just an incredibly

18:43

dear friend, deep friend

18:45

and personal Sheiro. She and I

18:47

kind of went out on a walk on the beach and prayed

18:50

and meditated together and it was just

18:52

the absolute perfect kickoff

18:55

to this New year. Year

18:57

year deeply, well,

19:01

so we're in twenty twenty four, and

19:04

numerologically speaking, this

19:07

is an eight year and so

19:09

in terms of like the astrology that

19:12

is present for this year, the transits,

19:15

and in terms of numerology, it's

19:17

really supposed to be a

19:22

year of new beginnings, a breakthrough

19:24

year of peace for many. And

19:27

I was looking back at some old journals of mine,

19:29

and I am like a prolific journaler.

19:32

I journal a lot,

19:34

and I take really extensive

19:37

notes on my life in my calendar.

19:39

I'm very detailed about kind

19:41

of everyone I talk to, everything I do, every

19:44

meeting, I have, every place that I go, and

19:47

I also journal throughout the year and date it. So

19:49

at the end of the year, I like to look over a lot of that

19:51

too, And I was looking

19:54

over many journals and I

19:56

found this journal from twenty twenty and

19:59

for those that were part of Karma Gang in twenty

20:01

twenty, which was a cohort that I ran and

20:03

taught meditation. And I

20:07

remember the question I posed everyone,

20:09

and I had done

20:11

this challenge right when the pandemic started,

20:14

where.

20:19

I really.

20:22

Kind of shared with

20:26

people in my audience at that time that

20:29

I believed that the pandemic was

20:31

going to be the greatest gift of their lives

20:33

and of our lives, and that everyone

20:36

should consider using the time. And

20:38

at the time that I said this, we thought we only had

20:41

two weeks of lockdown in LA But

20:43

at the time that I said this, it

20:47

was at the very beginning of the pandemic. Like

20:49

the very first start, we had no idea

20:51

we were going to be in the house for a year or two years.

20:54

We thought it would be a couple of weeks. But

20:56

I remember I shared with everyone,

20:59

I said, this time is truly

21:01

an opportunity to know

21:03

who you are and to work on yourself

21:05

and to become who you've wanted to be. Do

21:08

not waste this opportunity to

21:10

be still and to be disconnected. Do

21:13

your work. And a prompt

21:15

that I gave everyone to start working with four

21:17

years ago was who

21:19

are you being called to become? Who

21:22

are you being called to become? And

21:24

a statement I shared a prayer that I shared

21:27

was God, please show me the

21:29

truth of my life.

21:35

Looking back now

21:37

that we've come forward and it's

21:39

been four years, I

21:41

was looking through some of the things I wrote in

21:44

my journal for myself, and

21:46

I was kind of embarking on a

21:49

lot at that time, and

21:52

one of the things that I wrote down was that

21:54

I knew that

21:57

life was going to be really challenging

22:00

twenty twenty four. For

22:03

whatever reasons, God gave me this

22:05

exact year in twenty

22:07

twenty, and I had no way to any

22:10

idea know what was going to come, what

22:12

was going to happen, how crazy the world was

22:14

going to get, how textured

22:19

and interesting my own life.

22:20

Was going to get.

22:26

That I felt then really

22:29

strongly that I was in perhaps

22:31

a four year cycle of deep,

22:34

profound learning in every

22:36

facet of my life.

22:39

Four years are It's

22:41

a really interesting span of time

22:43

to me because I always think

22:45

about our school system, and I think

22:48

about high school and college, and I think about,

22:50

you know, four years being a real milestone

22:54

of education and learning

22:56

and personal

22:58

advancement in our development

23:01

as growing humans and

23:03

going from adolescent into adult and adult

23:05

to you know, kind of young

23:07

adult moving in the world. And so I

23:10

really sense that that's what I was

23:12

settling into in my own life in twenty

23:14

twenty. And so now that we're

23:17

at twenty twenty four, I've really been looking

23:19

back on who I've become and what I've

23:21

healed, and you know what

23:23

shifts in perspective I've had. And

23:28

I am incredibly grateful

23:31

that I spent the last four years

23:33

being massively

23:37

present with my work and being

23:41

diligent and consistent about

23:44

my self work and the work that I was

23:47

sharing in the world. And so yeah,

23:50

when I look at twenty twenty four, it

23:53

was pretty cool to see the astrological

23:57

and numerological kind

23:59

of we're casting around it. But yeah,

24:02

it feels good. I'm ready for new beginnings

24:04

in a bunch of ways. And I'm also

24:07

present and deeply

24:09

steeped into the

24:11

beauty and the truth of

24:14

my current life and the life

24:16

I've created and all the creations that

24:18

will come. So I say

24:20

all that to say, I hope that

24:22

you are sinking into this year with

24:25

a reverence for yourself and

24:28

all that you have done

24:31

and also all that you have not done right,

24:33

like the things that you may have taken off your plate,

24:35

the ways you may have rested over

24:37

this last year.

24:39

All of it, all of it, all

24:41

of it is gold. It's needed,

24:44

it's beautiful. So

24:48

if you haven't done this yet, but I'm sure you

24:50

have because you listen to this show, take

24:52

a little extra time to journal and

24:55

for this year, you know,

24:57

and this advice may fit or it may not,

24:59

But if you are feeling connected

25:01

to my frequency and my timeline, then

25:04

I would say

25:06

this year, when you start to dream,

25:09

when you start to think, really

25:14

connect your desires with the ways

25:16

that you want to feel, and

25:18

let the universe surprise you

25:21

with the road it takes you to get there

25:23

and the experiences that

25:26

it gives you to get there. This

25:29

feels like a year of.

25:33

Surprise and delight, especially

25:37

for those that have done their work,

25:40

that have cleared the path, that have created

25:42

the space inside to

25:44

receive and to hold

25:49

love and healing and happiness

25:52

and peace. And if you're listening

25:55

to things that I'm sharing, and if

25:57

any way it feels charged or triggering, because

25:59

that's not your experience right now,

26:02

I really want to invite you to know that everything

26:05

happens in seasons. And if you happen

26:07

to be in a season of confusion

26:09

or disappointment, or at

26:12

the very beginning and it feels like you're

26:15

looking up at the mountain and

26:18

cannot understand how you'll scale

26:20

it in climate, you

26:23

can and you

26:25

will. And these seasons

26:28

of grief and of confusion

26:31

are incredibly powerful

26:34

and beautiful and

26:37

miraculous.

26:40

Two.

26:42

So, wherever you happen to be on your journey,

26:44

trust and accept that it is by divine

26:46

design, and really invite

26:48

yourself to not have all the answers

26:51

and to surrender to the mystery

26:53

of it, to

26:56

the unknown.

26:57

Quality of all of it.

26:59

And focus

27:01

on regulating your nervous

27:03

system. Focus on nourishing

27:07

your heart, your physical body, your

27:09

mind, your soul. This year,

27:12

focus on building your tolerance

27:14

for joy and your capacity to experience

27:17

it. And know

27:20

that you will graduate from this moment

27:22

too, and enjoy the journey

27:24

while you're there. As

27:27

strange as that may feel, especially if

27:29

you're in a moment that you don't necessarily like

27:31

or love or want to be connected to. These

27:37

beautiful moments are

27:39

what create the space for

27:42

the ease, for the grace, for the joy,

27:44

for the.

27:44

Beauty of it all.

27:46

And you will have it all, and you deserve

27:48

to have it all, and you're worthy of

27:51

having all of those feelings. And

27:53

when I say have it all, I

27:55

don't necessarily mean things of the

27:57

world. Whatever's in your path will come to

27:59

you from wherever it happens to be,

28:03

but I mean having

28:06

it all in sense of having access

28:08

to all of your parts, having

28:10

access to all of your crevices,

28:13

having access to all of your

28:15

own gifts and beauty.

28:21

I don't want to have

28:23

it all in terms of the world.

28:27

I want to have what's mine, and

28:30

I want to be a

28:33

tremendous shepherd and

28:36

steward of what's mine.

28:39

I don't need to have quote unquote

28:41

it all. I have enough,

28:45

and I want to get even more masterful and

28:47

refined and loving with

28:49

what's mine and creative with

28:51

what's mine

28:52

mine deeply.

28:55

Well, let's

28:58

get into this meditation. Everyone,

29:02

as you're able. I want you to get

29:04

nice and comfortable in a seated position.

29:07

Allow your spine

29:10

to be straight, your

29:13

stomach to be soft,

29:18

your body to be at

29:21

ease, and

29:25

just settle in right here.

29:29

Gently close your eyes, receive

29:37

a few deep breaths,

29:43

and allow your body to relax

29:47

as you simply breathe in

29:51

and out. And

29:55

as your eyes are closed and

29:57

your body is strong

30:00

yet soft and

30:02

you're connecting to these breaths,

30:06

I want you to really with

30:08

each inhale and exhale,

30:11

stretch your capacity to both

30:13

take the breath in and

30:17

release the breath slowly

30:20

and in full and

30:24

at some parts

30:27

of this pace

30:29

of breath that you're creating, you

30:32

may notice restriction, and

30:34

I want you to just release it and continue

30:36

to breathe into it and stretch

30:39

your ability to take in full,

30:41

nourishing breaths and

30:43

to release them with ease. And

30:47

as you're doing your inhales in

30:49

through your nose, allow

30:52

the breath to fill your belly

30:55

up first, and then

30:57

move slowly like an

30:59

elevator, up from your belly

31:02

into your chest, and

31:06

hold that breath for just a few

31:08

seconds there, and

31:13

then take the breath

31:17

and allow it to slowly

31:19

exhale through your nostrils like

31:23

a slow elevator, taking

31:25

a ride back down your

31:27

body to the base of

31:29

your belly until it's empty.

31:37

Continue to do this breath

31:40

throughout the meditation, deep

31:45

inhale,

31:50

hold it and

31:56

release slow and full.

32:02

Softly. Observe the breath.

32:04

As it flows in and out,

32:07

the rise and the fall of your belly

32:09

and your chest. And

32:12

notice how your body feels and

32:15

whether you are holding on to any

32:18

tension anywhere in your body.

32:22

Notice and release your jaw, Notice

32:27

and release your shoulders, release

32:33

your stomach, release

32:38

any tension that you may

32:41

be holding in your heart.

32:50

Essayist and poet Ralph Waldo

32:53

Emerson said, this

32:55

new day is too dear,

32:59

with its hope, hoops and invitations

33:04

to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

33:09

Oftentimes we allow the challenges

33:11

of yesterday to carry

33:14

over into a new day. We

33:18

bear the same burdens, we

33:21

tell ourselves the same stories,

33:26

and we recreate the same

33:28

emotions.

33:36

Yet each new year is like a clean

33:38

sheet of paper in the book of your

33:40

life.

33:43

Nothing has been written on it. You

33:48

alone get to decide how this

33:50

day will be recorded. Transformation

33:57

exists throughout all

33:59

of nature, Yet

34:02

conscious transformation, which

34:04

is sometimes referred to as

34:06

self directed evolution, is

34:10

a unique opportunity available

34:13

to us as humans. Self

34:17

directed transformation begins

34:20

with intention, the

34:22

deeply held intentions

34:25

of our heart. These

34:29

deeply held intentions, from

34:32

the deepest core

34:35

parts of our being trigger

34:38

changes in both mind

34:41

and body. Without

34:44

intention, personal

34:46

transformation remains at

34:49

the hidden level. In

34:54

what ways are you being

34:56

led to transform in

34:59

order to align with your highest

35:01

potential?

35:02

This year?

35:07

Conscious transformation invites

35:09

us to destroy the layers of habit,

35:12

ego, and illusion that

35:15

may have obscured our true self. When

35:22

we let go of everything, we

35:24

don't need. We

35:27

are left with our own

35:29

brilliant light.

35:35

I choose to bring joy into this

35:37

year. I

35:42

control what I can and

35:45

I let go of the rest.

35:52

I face all challenges

35:56

with calmness and

35:59

poise. I

36:05

look for the good in

36:07

everything and everyone.

36:16

Settling into your meditation practice

36:18

here, return

36:21

to noticing your breath for the

36:23

next few moments. I'll

36:31

watch the time. U

41:58

It has been said where

42:00

intention goes, energy

42:02

flows. What

42:06

is the intention you have for

42:08

your life this year? What

42:13

is the intention you

42:15

have for your heart this year?

42:22

What is the intention? Notice

42:35

what comes up without trying to control

42:38

the words, without

42:40

crafting them or contorting them or changing

42:43

them. Notice the

42:45

first few feelings that emerged

42:47

in your body as

42:51

I asked those questions. Notice

42:55

the words, the phrases, the

42:59

peace people that

43:02

may have come into your awareness. Trust

43:19

that what emerged within

43:21

you and around you as I asked those

43:23

questions.

43:26

Is in fact.

43:29

Your intuition, giving you the

43:32

intended path for this year. The

43:43

great Sufi poet Roomy has written,

43:46

if light is in your heart, you

43:48

will find your way home today

43:53

this year, Remember

43:56

that behind the mask of body

43:58

and mind, your meal

44:00

nature is infinite, unbounded

44:04

spirit. Take

44:07

another deep breath in here and

44:09

through your nose, and

44:14

as you excel, release it

44:16

with a sigh.

44:26

When you think about this next year, I

44:32

want you to push yourself past

44:36

the thoughts of what you may want to acquire,

44:39

what you may wish to accomplish

44:41

in the world in terms of

44:44

success, and

44:46

I want you to also think of what

44:51

would you like to heal this year, really

44:57

giving yourself the next force reasons

45:00

to explore it. What

45:03

would you like to heal this year and

45:17

what would you like to experience and

45:19

love this year. I

46:07

hope you'll spend some time revisiting

46:09

this meditation, come back to it anytime

46:11

you need to, and really

46:14

take some time to write

46:17

down and

46:20

hold in your awareness any

46:22

intentions that are coming forward. You

46:25

don't have to have it all wrapped up and complete

46:27

by the time this episode ends, or

46:29

even by the end of this month, but

46:35

really consider what's intended for your life.

46:43

Some final soul work I want to leave you for this

46:45

episode, something I'd like you to think

46:47

about all year long, but definitely

46:49

this week. Ask

46:54

yourself this question allowed,

47:02

how does God use me? How

47:07

does God use me? How

47:13

does God use me in

47:15

this world? With others

47:18

in my connections in my work, in

47:22

myself, how does God

47:24

use me? And

47:26

then give yourself the space and the

47:28

time and the devoted

47:31

effort to explore

47:33

the answer to that over this next

47:35

year, to really study

47:38

it, to get clear on it, not

47:41

in a way that's to be boastful or necessarily

47:43

talked about or shared with others, but

47:46

a way that you can

47:49

understand it so you can use

47:51

it in life, so you

47:53

can be it, so you

47:55

can do it. Have

47:59

you new year, everyone, Thank you for listening

48:01

to this show. Consider sharing

48:03

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48:05

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48:08

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48:19

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48:21

this new year, and we

48:23

will reconnect next

48:25

episode.

48:27

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