Seeming to do nothing can also be doing everything
Service, reprogramming the nervous system, and getting in touch with the subtle inner foundation
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Greetings beloveds,
I hope this finds you well and in deep connection with people, places, and things that nourish you and feed the roots of the center of your being. I have been quiet as I have been joyfully called to serve more deeply at the end of May into this warmer June month. At the end of May I was heartened to be with my family to support my dad post-surgery (he’s doing so well!). I came back for a day, and then went straight to Cape Cod where I facilitated a customized book co-writing retreat for a small client group that I had been coaching for some months. Both immense privileges and opportunities to serve, I got a nice taste of what crafting a life filled with more movement and travel feels like, and also the balance of rooting and cleansing needed to restore.
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What are you feeling into as we approach this powerful, light-filled Summer solstice season?
After coming back from the Cape, I spent the next day at the law offices of Todd & Weld LLP delivering mindfulness sessions to support staff in honor of Mental Health Awareness month. Someone surfaced such a necessary, important question about adopting the practice of meditation:
What do you tell someone who feels guilty or can’t fathom sitting [in meditation], seeming to do nothing when they have so much to do?
I responded that contrary to what we have been conditioned to believe about hard work and efforting to achieve any result, meditation is not doing nothing. When we sit in meditation we are actually reprogramming the nervous system, as it downregulates the sympathetic nervous system (fight-flight-freeze-fawn responses) and upregulates the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest responses). At this point, growing research has shown that meditation practice is associated with neuroplasticity, changing neural pathways for decreasing age-related brain degeneration, improved cognition and memory, as well as improving emotional regulation and wellbeing. Perhaps what seems to be doing nothing is actually doing everything. This is what I witnessed when my dad was recovering - a return of his internal physiology to the seamless dance of effort and rest, with a gradual decrease of his sensation of the inner workings and need to make effort to recover.
Today as I meditated on consciousness, my senses opened up to the information in the infinite field of intelligence that exists for us all. I could hear the voices of monks that chanted the same mantra across time and space, and see the expansion and growth of tall trees in the forest. I could feel my body moving from full of “my self” to no self. No self is not nothing, it is everything. In quantum physics, this everything is called the quantum field, the field of consciousness that pervades all space-time. This is the journey of the expansion of consciousness that moves me so deeply and moves me endlessly toward the subtle center of the “self” where Spirit resides. As we move deeper inward, the peace, calm, love, beauty, joy, stillness, and harmony foundational to our nature arises in our awareness, whispering their secrets to us through the subtlety of our inner senses. You have this amazing power and to build on this foundation is a skillful choice.
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