Happy Solstice

Touch the light.

IMAGINE

I’m just getting started here on Substack. It’s a lot. It feels like everything lately is a lot here in the USA. If like me, you are doing a little too much doom-scrolling, remember today to connect to the light. Inside you. In our communities. In our nation. In our world.

People say what you focus on expands. I wonder what would happen if we all intentionally focused on the light? I’m not into spiritual bypassing and I don’t want to be blind to the suffering in the world. We have to be able to hold the hurt and the wonder of being alive on this earth at the same time. Still, I wonder. What if we all just did a massive Summer Solstice meditation together?

BELIEVE

Does anyone remember that study they did on the effects of meditation? It was the one where the violence went down drastically because people meditated together with intention. What a beautiful, easy action to take to help our planet. I say let’s do it. It doesn’t cost anything and if the research is true and we can impact the collective? Freaking right on.

The Metta Prayer

May all beings have fresh clean water to drink and food to eat.

May all beings have a home and someone to share love with.

May all beings know their true purpose, be well and happy and free from suffering.

Today I will do what I can to make this so.

DISCOVER

If you have never meditated before I highly recommend Insight Timer, a free meditation app with thousands of recordings. (I especially like the “Just for Today” series by Tom Evans.)

Sending all of us love, light and hope. Say a prayer. Do a mediation. Touch the light.