Greetings Conscious Community!
Welcome to your issue of the Meditation Times! Below you will find the following good medicine:
1.) July's Intention: One good breath.
2.) It Takes a Child to Raise a Village
3.) Inspired Affirmation
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July's Intention:
One Good Breath
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One good, deep breath can be a meditation. That’s it. Just one present breath.
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I invite you, community, to see how many wonderful one-breath meditations you can have this summer.
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Let's take one now, together. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
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It Takes a Child to Raise a Village
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I'm reporting to you all from the trenches of summer camp. It has been wild, sweaty, joy-filled, and surprising... and it is far from over. We have 6 more weeks left. We still have aloha day, and carnival day, olympic day, and more. We have gallons of ice cream still waiting to be consumed, dozens of popsicles to be distributed (you get what you get and you don't get upset), and a few more band-aids, ice packs, and phone calls home to be had. I was planning on all that. What I wasn't planning on was to become a wide-eyed student to 150 wise children, ages 4-12.
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Lesson #1
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It's 3:15. Most kids have been picked up, save for a rowdy gang of 20 left-overs. Extended care has begun. The children run and scream, fueled by a day's consumption of sugar and that sense of adventure that comes when you don't have to share a ball with 129 other kids. It's chaotic at best.
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It is part of my job to wrangle the kids into a circle and check attendance for extended care. The meditation teacher side of me decides to have them OM for a bit to calm down their crazed energy. I first ask if anyone knows what OM means. After a few heartfelt definitions by the older kids, I offer up my basic take on this word.
"OM is the sound of the Universe. So when we chant OM we are connecting to pretty much everything, everywhere. It's how we can plug in to the entire Universe."
Blank stares.
"So, if we are going to plug in to the Universe, do we want to put good vibes out there, or bad vibes?"
"Good vibes!" They respond rather quickly.
"Awesome!" I respond. "Now why would we want to put good vibes out into the Universe?"
Little Michael (almost 5) responds, "Because if aliens are about to fight other aliens, then maybe they will hear our light and decide to be friends instead."
I clutch my heart and almost pass out. Thank you, Michael, for giving me the most incredible reason yet to OM with a good intention and a loving heart.
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Affirmative thought of the week:
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I now allow the good vibrations of peace and love to flow through me to all beings everywhere.
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Beloved Community- Stay tuned for more reports from summer camp. Don't forget to take your one deep, present breath.
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Until next week... be good and take your good medicine!!!
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Peace and Mucho Love,
JZ
