April 04, 2025

Living will take the life right out of you.
If you live with your eyes open, taking things in,
seeing what you look at,
knowing what you know.

If you pay attention,
you are going to need
a place to recover,
regain your balance,
restore your harmony,
seek consolation and courage
for the future.

Emptiness, stillness and silence
are my very present help in time of trouble.

Emptiness is the emptiness between breaths.

Inhale for a count of five,
exhale for a count of five,
for a round of five,
on the sixth exhale,
hold your breath for a count of ten.

The emptiness you seek is what you experience
counting to ten.

Repeating this exercise several times a day
will send you into emptiness
simply by breathing in for a count of ten
after a day or two.

I call this "Dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence."
Stay there for ten to twenty minutes, 
two or three times a day
and you will be able to drop into emptiness, etc.
whenever you need to wherever you are.

You can use the silence as an opportunity to 
open yourself to clarity about what is called for
with the gifts of your original nature,
your innate virtues (What you do best and enjoy doing most),
your inherent imagination,
and your intrinsic intuition,
in rising to do what is called for in the here, now at hand, 
and meeting life head on with the best you have to offer
from here on out.