Waking Joy at a Wake The wake today was an experience unlike any other. Of course they all are; every moment is, because this moment has never happened before. Yet old mind habitual response can make things seem the same. Today, approaching the closed casket, and looking into the bright, sparking, and kind eyes in the photo of my deceased friend, for a moment joy began to arise, then I watched as it was quickly shut-down by a thought like, “yeah but you can’t feel that, that’s not her, she’s not here,” and I felt a familiar old suffering mind try to rise. The impulse was to look away and move away, however I stayed; stayed looking into those eyes …
When We Suffer, We Can’t Know Truth
When We Suffer, We Can’t Know Truth “What you fear appears,” is a powerful truth. I have seen someone I love suffer about something they believed, which could not be more untrue; it was in fact in opposition to reality. At the peak of their suffering, even when provided with the truth and evidence against their belief, they still could not stop suffering. At first my old self-centric habit was to react with hurt and pain at the false judgments. However this gift was a wide-eye-opener, a direct seeing of delusion and suffering. There was such incongruency with reality, that it just did not make any sense, and that helped me to drop the self and my suffering, and to …
Joy in Sickness
Joy in Sickness Last night, for the first time since learning how to awaken joy, I felt physically sick, and the phenomena was fascinating. It may have been the orange juice and iron pill that triggered the “pained feeling” in my stomach, which became an overall feeling of sickness so quickly that I did not notice the switch–until I began the practice. As I went inside to seek a better feeling, it was almost like the stomach pain separated from the sickness feeling. As the good feeling grew, the sickness feeling faded, disappeared, and then even the stomach pain felt far away. When I stopped practicing, the sickness feeling returned! So I continued feeling good (while noticing the distant “pain”), …
Love, Peace, and Joy in Death
Love, Peace, and Joy in Death This morning, I received the news that someone close to me has passed away. This is the first death in my experience since The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ came to me. We first met at her son’s funeral (he is listed on my Gratitude page), and her steady presence, surprising humour, and positive outlook at the funeral impacted me; I was almost shocked to learn she was his mother. We became fast friends, taking each other out to lunches and dinners. I considered her family. The news came via email… and my first response was a surprised “Oh,” and I waited to see what would arise next, watching for sadness and preparing to …
Ecstatic Errand-Running Mind
Ecstatic Errand-Running Mind I had an errand to run today, and the far-away echo of an old mind was noticed, “Do I have to go all the way there…!?” and I chuckled, just before going into my body and reaching for joy. Feeling my breath and the whole of my body simultaneously, immediately I felt expansion as a smile grew across my face. Going outside and feeling the pleasure of the wind on my skin and the energy of the sun, my senses came alive to every touch, site, and sound. I noticed the sun rays beaming down to earth and then thoughts of howbeautiful the world is were followed by a tingling down my body. As I approached the …
We don’t want things, people or events. We want the feeling we mistake them for.
We don’t want things, people or events. We want the feeling we mistake them for. –and you can have it any time. That was a key message offered and received at the The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ talk held in Ottawa in August 2009. We cause how we feel, and we can choose and cause how we want to feel no matter what is going-on around us, if we practice The Alchemy of Love and Joy™. If you use suffering to point you toward joy, to consciously seek joy in the face of adversity, you can blow-out the belief that has held you captive all your life; the belief that outside things can hurt you or make you …
You cannot feel someones love
You cannot feel someone’s love This morning I woke with a dream in memory, and noticed a feeling that is not my norm, not joyful. I dreamt of someone who I’d like in my life giving attention to someone else. Immediately I began The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ practice… 1) “What do I want?” Hmmm… this took a moment or two as the dream fog cleared…and then it came: “I wanted to feel that person’s love.” 2) “How does that person’s love feel?” As I reached for the feeling, wonderful images, smiles, and loving memories flashed, and a warm, tingly sensation began to flow through my body. 3) “Is this what I prefer to feel?” Yessssssss hehe. 4) “Feeling …
Tweetering on Joy
Tweetering on Joy My heart has been swelling….OMG! I have been playing with Twitter, and how marvelous is the massive numbers of loving, aligned, positively amazing people there are out there—what a gracious gift to be able to connect with them!!! Sitting here not just my computer is twittering and tweeting, my whole body is tingling in waves, which happens when I experience expansion of being, or when I hear, experience, or notice a thought that is in alignment with who we are. I love you all 🙂
Feel Fantastic in the Face of Adversity, and Nothing Can Ever Hurt You Again
Feel fantastic in the face of adversity, and nothing can ever hurt you again When you come face-to-face with feeling joy at the same time as seeing, hearing, or knowing something “bad” outside you, and if you refuse to deny that you are in fact feeling joy, and you accept it as true in your experience, then it will profoundly change your life forever. It will disconnect you from the belief that you need anything in order to feel good. It disconnects you from the belief that anything can make you feel bad. It disconnects you from the attachment to these thoughts. You will then know without doubt that how you feel has nothing to do with what is going-on …
Fire the Grid 2009
Fire the Grid 2009 RIGHT NOW THIS AUDIO FILE DOES NOT APPEAR IN INTERNET EXPLORER. PLEASE USE FIREFOX OR SOME OTHER BROWSER. Condensed audio track (20 minutes of an hour-long meditation) July 28, 2009 — It was my great pleasure and privilege to sit in meditation with hundreds of people in Ottawa, and millions of people around the world for the global “Fire the Grid” event tonight. It was a positive, mass co-creative event, with everyone’s hearts and minds focused on a new world vision. The one-hour meditation included singing by Melinda Urban, crystal bowls with Jeremy Sills, flute by organizer Daniel Mauro, and vocal toning, chanting, and positive thought offered by all present. A lovely and inspiring visual interpretation of the event, …