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Let It Be—A Meditation

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Let It Be—A Meditation

 

We partner with this thing called Reality. Life happens as it does. We interface. We act. We react. The interplay of will and surrender is a relationship that follows us, moment after moment, throughout our days.

As we say in 12 Steps, Life on life’s terms. Reality runs the show, and she is relentless. Yet we are partners. How do we do it?

Here is a 7-minute meditation/tiny podcast. From my heart to yours:

Listen Here

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I remember when this song came out in 1970. I pondered, trying to figure out the meaning. I finally gave up trying to “understand it”. The melody soothed me.

Here is the remarkable, the Queen of Folk:

 

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Friends,

Blessings and love.

Prayers and love.

From here to there.

From me to you,

May all beings benefit from our time together,

Aruni

 

 

 

 

A Meditation on Self-Compassion

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A Meditation on Self-Compassion

Friends,

Are you hard on yourself?
Clearly, I am.
Well, I would say,
I’m recovering from my own intensity.

Why is it that I expect so much from myself?
Why is it that we expect the-practically-almost-impossible from ourselves?

If I allow myself,
If I considered it…

Weighing all the practices I have done,
The hours and decades of hours
Of meetings,
Of therapy,
Of self-help,
Of yoga, 
Of meditation
Of
Healing
Processes…

I surely might have ascended by now!

HAAAAAA.

Okay.
I know,
FULL WELL
That accepting myself
As I am
Is the answer
To all
My
Problems
Today.

Accepting myself
As I am
Is the answer.

It surely is the doorway
To change.

We can’t change
Through judgment 
And shame
And force.

I truly do believe this.
And I practice it.

Oh, so imperfectly.  
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In Twelve Steps we say,
Progress not perfection.

No kidding.

I believe in the power 
Of willingness.

The power of willingness,
To fuel our practices.

The power of willingness,
To keep coming back
To gentleness.

By not making the efforting wrong,
By not pushing away the perfectionism.

To bless it.
To honor it.
And to 
Keep coming back.

To a generosity of gentleness 
To bestow upon
Ourselves.

A generosity
Of
Gentleness.

Here’s Swami Kripalu,
Such an eloquent fella:

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“My beloved child, break your own heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.
You stop feeding on the love, which is the wellspring of your vitality.
The time has come.
Your time.
To live.
To celebrate.
And to see the goodness that you are…
Do not fight the dark.  Just turn on the light.
Let go and breathe into the goodness that you are.”

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My Beloved Child!  What a great line.
Break your own heart no longer.
Kindness to ourselves—ahhhh.
The balm of generosity.
The solace of self-compassion.

Kripalu Yoga on and off the mat guides us into relationship with our own humanity.
It is the human dilemma, our human moment that is the doorway to that which is Beyond.
It is the human struggle that offers us the entryway to the Divine.
Through acceptance.
Through acceptance.
Through
Acceptance
0f what is.
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Friends, 

Here’s a five-minute-ish guided meditation for you.
I aimed for simple and short, to support you in whatever you are doing—
Walking, driving, resting, sitting.
From my heart to yours.
Here is A Meditation on Self-Compassion.

Listen Here 

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Dear Friends,

The world continues to spin.
Things seem to devolve.
Yet we continue.

Right here.
Right now.

To practice.

Right here.
Right now.

To practice
Becoming who we 
Really are.

Right here.
Right now.

Give us the courage and the willingness
To be gentle,
To be kind,
To be compassionate
With ourselves.

And from ourselves, 
May all people
Be touched by kindness.

Stay blessed,
Aruni
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Announcements

The Blog-a-Log exists!

An indexing of the past two years of my weekly blogs lives, waiting for you.
Please go to my website www.coacharuni.com/blog.
At the right-hand side of the page, you see the title—New! Aruni’s Blogs are Categorized.
Below that, you can utilize the drop-down menu to select a topic.
What interests you?
All the blogs written in the past two years about that topic will be available for your perusal. 
It’s magic.  No, it’s technology.
Thank you, Jason, our Mr. Tech-Dude.
Thank you all.
Please enjoy.

Program Reminders
Please help me get some energy moving, to support these two programs.  Pass on the info to your folks, share on your social media.  Consider coming—truly—to a wonderful Kripalu experience.

Inner Quest Intensive (which rocks)                                              June 27-30

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The Yoga of Recovery (solid and clear)                                         July 5-7

Information Here

 

Perfect Companions—Dr. King and the Sea Otters

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Perfect Companions—Dr. King and the Sea Otters

Otters.

Did you know?

Sea otters 
Hold hands
While sleeping.

Good idea!

Clearly 
They have much
To teach us.

 

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Martin Luther King says this:

“All I’m saying is simply this:
That all mankind is tied together;
All life is interrelated,
And we are all caught in an
Inescapable network of mutuality,
Tied in a single garment of identity.
Whatever affects one directly,
Affects us all indirectly.”

Obviously 
The otters
Already
Know 
This
To
Be
True.
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Metta Meditation, Meditation on Loving-Kindness—

We are connected.
We are all one breath,
Shared amongst us.
We are connected.
Swami Kripalu called it—

THE WHOLE WORLD IS ONE FAMILY.

Loving kindness offers unconditional regard, 
Unconditional prayerfulness to all.

Here is my meditation on
Loving-Kindness.

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Dear Friends,

May you
And yours
Be wrapped
In
Loving-kindness.

May you
And yours
Be
Safe
And
Well.

All blessings,
Aruni

Letting It Be

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Letting It Be

This blog post is also available on my Facebook page to make sharing it with friends and family easy for you to do.

 

Dear Friends, hello.

Too many dancing words inside my head demanding my attention—too much bickering between the words to win the lottery, a slot on this blank slate.  Too much unfolding in my family, too much unraveling in my belly.  

Time to breathe and relax.

I know!

Time for a meditation.  

Time for a tiny podcast.

Time to sit and breathe.

Time to walk and breathe.

Time to consider, from inside, out.

From outside, in.

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Here, dear friends, is a guided meditation on Letting It Be.  Whatever the It is, whatever way reality is revealing herself to us, trying to force a solution obstructs the flow state.  Interrupting the natural unraveling of things literally impacts the brilliance of life.

And I do it all the time.

Do you?

I do because it’s painful to be on the road, and not know where we are going!

I do—because it’s a squirmy experience, to hold the posture, to just be there.

Here is a meditation for your heart, for your mind, for your body.

Rest and relax—from my heart to yours:

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Folks, how do you force solutions?

What’s your favorite modus operandi?

I am a fan of plotting, planning, pushing, and perplexing the heck out of myself at 3:20 a.m.

Sometimes.

Not always.

The practice?

The solution?

Accepting our humanity.

Breathing and relaxing at our 3:21.

And 3:22.

And maybe even,

3:23.

And 

Practicing.

Practicing letting go. 

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How do you practice taking action and letting go of the outcome?

How do you practice letting go?

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Here is a classic.

Word has it that Paul McCartney wrote this for his mother, Mary, who died when he was fourteen years old.  Others say, nope, John Lennon wrote this song.

Whatever.  It is a precious thing.

To the Mother of all of Us.

Biological.

Energetic.

Cosmic.

Here’s Aretha.

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Dear Friends,

May the work we do
Alone and together
Benefit all beings.

May the highest unfold
For all.

May we practice
With ease,
With
Gentleness,
With
Love.

Stay blessed,
Aruni

A Relaxation Meditation

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A Relaxation Meditation


This blog post is also available on my Facebook page to make sharing it with friends and family easy for you to do.

 

May this 
Holiday
Season
Unfold,

No matter 
What 
Is happening,

With

Rest,
Renewal,
And
Relaxation,

Inevitably
And 
Eventually.

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To support you in the process of relaxing and renewing,

Here is a guided meditation.  Please receive this as a time to stop, to let go, to snuggle closer with yourself.

Savoring the moment…

A Relaxation Meditation

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May the work
Of 
Wholeness
That
We do,

Both
Alone
And
Together,

Benefit
All
Beings—

Here
And
There
And
Everywhere.

May the highest
Unfold
For all,

Inevitably
And 
Eventually

May this 
Holiday season
Bring light
Into the world,

That we all
Might
Be blessed.

With gratitude,
Aruni

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