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Meditation Resolution 7/365 Kalpavriksha Wish Fulfilling Tree with Mary Reilly Nicholls . I have been contemplating the power of language recently. By the time words form and are uttered, to myself or others, the intention/feelings/sensations have been experienced and words consolidate it. . This meditation is a profound embodiment of this and that I am creating my inner experiences. . Thank you so much, Mary. .  @embodiedphilosophy   @oneikamays  @susannaharwoodrubin @nataraj.chaitanya  @sacredstream @bexnaj.yoga @loramccarville  @shawnj_moore @illuminatinghearts  @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish @nalandainstitute  #meditationresolution Photo of Anna @anna.sco in 2017 (at Dharawal Country) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnJIvHmPJ-0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Meditation Resolution 6/365 . Guided Tonglen Meditation with @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish . Wishing someone well when their behaviour is challenging at times, when practicing metta. . Doing tonglen meditation with Abha and saying to myself, “it would be amazing to take away your suffering” and sending out love from my heart .. I thought this was going to be tough.😑 . During the silence, in the space between, I had a glimpse of change that may be wrought when someone was free of binding of limited thinking. . How this shift into expansion and spaciousness may ripple positively out. . Then my intention went from being a little dubious 😬to heartfelt and sincere. . In doing so, I felt more peace. The ripple effect had began. . For everyone. . 🙏🏼  @embodiedphilosophy   @oneikamays  @susannaharwoodrubin @nataraj.chaitanya  @sacredstream @bexnaj.yoga @loramccarville  @shawnj_moore @illuminatinghearts  @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish @nalandainstitute  #meditationresolution Photo @rayoflight000 group 2025 at Woodstock hotel, Chennai. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHHfB-Pah5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Meditation Resolution 5/365 . Cellular Breathing Soma Nidra with @bexnaj.yoga . Meditation on breath is a practice that significantly affects me and made a profound difference in my health. . Not only the physicality of the breath but the mind following the breath changes my state at all levels. . This is the first time that I was guided to cellular level and contemplating the individual and collective systems expanding and contracting. . I feel a sense of wonder at the intricacy of bodies, the effortlessness of the cells’ functioning and awe of breath’s potency felt during practice.  @embodiedphilosophy   @oneikamays  @susannaharwoodrubin @nataraj.chaitanya  @sacredstream @bexnaj.yoga @loramccarville  @shawnj_moore @illuminatinghearts  @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish @nalandainstitute  #meditationresolution Photo by @kelly_ryan_creative (at The Pantha Way) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnDW165v0vV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Meditation Resolution 2 Discovering your True Essence: A Somatic Exploration with @loramccarville  . Is your mind your brain? my meditation asked a while ago. John Stirk said something similar recently in regard to I and the way we refer to “I have a body”. . Moving through the meditation, “I am the body” arose several times. . I am every sensation, emotion, experience arising and dissolving. I am Source present in every cell. I am That. . Hari Om Tat Sat. .  @embodiedphilosophy   @oneikamays  @susannaharwoodrubin @nataraj.chaitanya  @sacredstream @bexnaj.yoga @loramccarville  @shawnj_moore @illuminatinghearts  @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish @nalandainstitute  #meditationresolution . Photo penny and Bec @greendalelane_cactus_chic from a few years ago (at Dharawal Country) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm-pkjcv4VN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Meditation Resolution 1/10 . Always Enough: Metta as a Visualization . Practicing metta as a visualisation gave me an aha moment. . Moving from a practice on the “mat” to showing me how I can embody it in approach and action during my day. . The intention of offering compassion followed through with action in the moment with a glass of water. In some ways a small action and yet, so significant. Whether it is offering of work (job/chore) for someone. Offering of time - “walking” (we just sit really my elderly dog. Offering of presence by holding space with curiosity and silence to listen deeply.. for others and myself. . Photo of Daniel and Macie. .  @embodiedphilosophy   @oneikamays  @susannaharwoodrubin @nataraj.chaitanya  @sacredstream @bexnaj.yoga @loramccarville  @shawnj_moore @illuminatinghearts  @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish @nalandainstitute  #meditationresolution (at Dharawal Country) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm-l4l6vmBi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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@embodiedphilosophy MEDITATION RESOLUTION #meditationresolution Day 10 - “Recognising our Divinity” with @kushridevi . Journal: What does it mean to recognise yourself as an aspect of Divine? . 🌕 Manastvam Vyoma tvam Marudasi Marutsarathirasi, Tvamapastvam Bhumistvayi parinatayam nahi param, Tvameva Svatmanam parinamayitum visvavapusha Chidanandakaram haramahishi-bhavena bibhrushe. . "O Devi! Thou art the mind, the sky, the air, the fire, the water, and the earth. Nothing is outside Thee on Thy transformation. Thou hast become Siva's consecrated queen to alter Thy own blissful conscious Form in the shape of the world". . From Shakti Realm of the Devine Mother. By @vanamalikrishna . 🌝 “Unlike physicists, however, yogic seers experienced this energy not simply as an abstract vibration, but as the expression of the divine feminine power, called Shakti. Reality, the tradition says, is Shakti’s dance, which takes form as our body, our thoughts, our perceptions, and also as the physical world.” @sallykemptonofficial . To recognise myself as Divine is to be present to Her. This body-mind. Outside this body-mind Deep within the fabric of All. . 🌝 @danaslampyoga , @drhillgroove , @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish , @thenycyogini , @kushridevi , @wanderingvayu , @nataraj.chaitanya, @milesneale , @oneikamays @nalandainstitute @susannaharwoodrubin #meditationresolution⁣ . Imagines: Kundalini Devi (unknown) https://www.instagram.com/penny2901/p/CYlaAXVvwOE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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@embodiedphilosophy MEDITATION RESOLUTION #meditationresolution . ♥️ Day 9 - “Altruism and Self Love - The Buddhist Bodhisattva vow”with @oneikamays . Journal: how do I balance self care with care for others? . ♥️ To walk this path is to move towards the experience of deepest love of MA . The sacred essence within all. “By really taking care of ourselves and attuning our mind and body with our heart we make a declaration that we are deeply worthy…..when you feel good, you have so much more to give.” Michael King @kingsmeditationandmentoring . To care for all others means to care for myself. . Meditation. Being in the spaciousness of quietness. Floating in the ocean. Immersed in sun rise. Listening at dusk. . As I align, I can serve with compassion, clarity and discernment. . ♥️ @danaslampyoga , @drhillgroove , @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish , @thenycyogini , @kushridevi , @wanderingvayu , @nataraj.chaitanya, @milesneale , @oneikamays @nalandainstitute @susannaharwoodrubin #meditationresolution⁣ Read about Tripura Sundari in Gifts of the Goddess edited by Michael M.Bowden. . Image: Lalita Maha Tripura Sundari. Mandi, style of Sajnu, circa 1810 . Tripura Sundari 1 - Kaiua Monastery . Tripura 1800 - Johnson Museum of Art https://www.instagram.com/p/CYi5F7pPwVX/?utm_medium=tumblr

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@embodiedphilosophy MEDITATION RESOLUTION #meditationresolution Day 8 - “Spirituality in Action” with @wanderingvayu . Journal: what is the relationship between my personal spiritual & contemplative practice & my public life? . My studentship and path as devotee of MA underpins daily life. How can it not? . Yet so easy to forget the path when in the thick of the external world. . 🌞 Which for me is why embodied wisdom is essential to moving towards oneness both internally and externally. . 🌱 Being in Bhuvaneshvari’s spaciousness. Honouring Her in quietness. Simplicity. Stillness. Gives pause to remember Life’s gift of the possibility of deep joy and peace within my centre. As I move into this place so it fills my heart with gratitude and spills out to the world around me. . ✨ Gratitude is the bridge between my internal and external worlds. . 🍃 Of the day. Of universal cycles and rhythms that inform my own. Of the magnificence of every breath. Every sun rise and sunset. The wheeling of the Moon and coolness of the Ocean’s salt water. The scent of frangipani in summer. Of abundance of safety, food and water. Of family and friends. Bowtie’s gentle snore beside me. Work. Of the challenges and lessons set before me. . 🌕 As I offer gratitude through saying it, feeling it and chanting it, I shift from what is the point of this to experiencing the sacredness even in the most mundane. . 🌝 @danaslampyoga , @drhillgroove , @neuro.namaste.nature.nourish , @thenycyogini , @kushridevi , @wanderingvayu , @nataraj.chaitanya, @milesneale , @oneikamays @nalandainstitute @susannaharwoodrubin #meditationresolution⁣ Read about Bhuvaneshvari in @ekabhumi.Ellk shakti colouring book . Image of Bhuvaneshvari from: Jean-Louis NOU Devi as Bhuvaneshvari / Ind. Min./ C17th Indian miniature, Mughal school, 1st quarter of 17th cent. Chandigarh, Museum . Ekabhumi Charles Ellik’s Shakti colouring book. @ekabhumi_ellik . Bhuvaneshvari - Nepalese School, 18th Century. TWO PATAS OF SHIVA AND BHUVANESHVARI 18TH CENTURY https://www.instagram.com/p/CYgHZQoPy2U/?utm_medium=tumblr