Stream Health

Miracles everywhere. When you slow and eventually stop (even if juuuuuust for a half second) the mental overlay of narration in your head, you directly experience and connect with the magic in and around you.

You are magic, this planet is magic 🌞

Sometimes I’m all contemplative and thinking mysteriously about each and every historical, present and future occurrence that occurs on planet Earth at every milisecond to each one of us and all the rest of the strangers that we’ll never meet and what it all means and how I could possibly make it better for myself and others and then sometimes I’m just a little pea in the sunshine with not many thoughts at all.

Being a pea feels more productive because I’m just there in it, in the appreciation of my aliveness and not calculating how to better be alive.

I just hope everyone has this vivid sense that they’re alive and how good that is despite the rough edges and giant gashes life fires at us - even reading an Instagram post can bring that 🌞🧡

Meditation. There are many ways to peel a banana, many ways to meditate. Your uniqueness may be more receptive to sound, more receptive to vision, more receptive to mantra, more receptive to bodily sensation.

Hands down the best thing I ever started doing. Not saying it’s for everyone or that it’s the only way up the mountain but by golly do I believe it would help any human who gave it a decent shot. Who pushed through that niggly bit at the start where the mind won’t have a bar of this “sitting and doing nothing”. Lemme tell ya right now, your mind is a liar 😂

I dabbled when I was 22, kept dabbling, not really thinking I was doing it right or that it was helping and here (and in many other sits) in this image I sit on my grandparents floor and it hits me.

My own attention to my own attention is what brought me to this moment - to wanting to meditate, to wanting to know myself intimately, to wanting to understand the mysteries of the universe and of myself.

I look forward to this practise as I see it deep into everything I do beyond my sitting time.

Meditation has taken me to places my weathered hiking feet couldn’t have.

Meditation has given me tools the finest engineers couldn’t craft.

Meditation has given me the gift of understanding that everything is a gift.

It helps me wake up properly to my day and fall asleep lovingly to my nights.

Meditation, bro, I love you. 🙏

Focus that anger, tension, frustration into transforming yourself, what is stories of the mind are building those emotions?

Deconstruct them. It'll hurt, but it'll work. Ask them what they are and what they need.

Then you can focus creatively and peacefully on solutions and ideas for a New Earth.