5:55

Grounded Depths, Dive Deeper To Raw Bed Rock, If You Dare

 

How Old Is Silence

delve deeper 

if you gently dare, 

may you

free dive to The Still

Point, for there The Dance Is, 

to the foundational still of a rock 

solid flowing, steam rises fissures fracture

lava heat magma gushes, New Earth New Heat

creates land creates islands of nascent 

silence; stir, stir from next slumber a thunder, a rumble

dive not on the silt, stir up more mud, pent up released

let settle, let rest, let it be; 

pause more before rise, 

pause liminal in lush lucid dreams

dive deep each breath 

this sharp subtle edge 

unforced, un held, my fierce paradox wanton

and yet held, held tender in true self 

softly raging creates safe inner space to reveal

to release with real eyes, two sea to be

True Nature, 

My Truth, 

My naked cored raw absolute, 

no more mud, until there is, 

no more weighty waiting or wanting, until there is, 

The Totality 

One Creature In Creation 

now, held ever so lightly

now, held ever so gently, 

each repeated pause, or more, or less, 

to hold, to feel, to flow and ask simply, 

post compete, post prove, post not enough, 

Reel, too many Minions and Love Lacking Reels 

Really raw now 

really allowing, really accepting 

an ever gentle 

untethered unforced aware fully breath

revealed recurring returning

My Own One True Nature

Is Life Blood of My Own Fire Cyclic Breath

exposed, air water earth, now all so sated, 

stripped, raw, post curious, 

bare moment, naked, One Only, 

Who Am I? 

No frills no need to know no terms & conditions

Really full really empty

concurrent co creates and sits simply 

with no fucking clue and no answer

How Old Is Silence?

(and that to is OK) 

Simple - clear - concise - when ready to really receive - Your Own True Nature

Viveka

"Yoga happens when there are no frills.⁠
⁠
‘Complicated practices distracted and separated me from the oneness of yoga.’⁠
⁠
What this means:⁠
⁠
2. योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः⁠
yoga chitta vritti nirodhah⁠
⁠
When your experience of yourself is yoga itself it’s 'raw and naked'.⁠
⁠
Knowing the Truth of yourself, no longer bound and bothered by anything least of all yourself everything is NIRODHA.⁠
⁠
3. तदा दृष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम्⁠
tadha drasthu svarupe avastanam⁠
⁠
Having dropped all the frills, knowing yourself as the oneness itself yoga itself - no longer looking for identity (raw and naked) you see and abide in the Truth that is yourself."

ISHTAM - @YOGACO John Weddepohl

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice.
Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”

Roy T. Bennett, 

The Light in the Heart

Choose Refined, Choose Subtle, Choose A Finely Felt Nuanced. How Old is Silence?

"Most problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence." - Tabrizi

"The Volume of Silence" - embrace the ever flowing creative multitudes of paradox

"We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions." - Tabrizi

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Volume Tickets on sale: Tuesday 18 July, 10am (pre-sale) Wednesday 19 July, 10am (general sales)
Full music, performance and film program to be announced in August. A Date of Limitless Create.

Clear : Direct : Pure & Simply From Love, Not For Love.

Do you celebrate your birth day? 

Who was born in that One moment? 

Who Am I? Really...

Do you celebrate That Felt Energy of Who YOU have always been?

Do YOU celebrate your somatic, genetic, grounded WHOLE reality? 

That One Momentous Moment YOU Came To Exist? 

Or do you THINK (and blindly agree with and to) accepted societal conventions? 

You THINK your hatching day was The Birth? 

You have been told and sold and conditioned that The Entry Day (your cocoon exit day) was Your Birth Day? 

That great coming out day, the mechanical entry of a soul already 41 weeks conscious, 

entering The Conditioned Society?  

Is that what you somatically, cellularly, feel To Be The Day YOU were born? 

Of course you untethering and hopefully easily sliding down The YouTube, 

You poking your precious head out for the first time, 

you being (possibly) slapped around on yo ass, made to cry, clear that fluid, wake up and breath, 

maybe slapped by strangers in white coats and green scrubs under bright white lights

born, birthed, entry To Country

but had not you already been conceived, been breathing, being consciousness for a while by now? 

Or a fiction, a layering and hiding of a post cellular collision conditioning? 

The day YOU were The Universal Big Bang? 

Do you feel your birth energy?

Feel your Birthday? 

Discernment 🙏 Listen To Silence of Infinite Spaces.

P U R P O S E - P A S S I O N - P E R S P E C T I V E

Know Who You Are - Know What You Don't Want - Know What You Deserve
AND
Never Settle For Less
#integrity #viveka #discernment #noshitsherlock

Thank You Gracious, Grounded, Humble Human
The One Who Knows,
The One Who Has Always Been Enough, 
The One Who Is Still Rising Higher,
Whole, Holy & Now Re-Integrated. 

 

#IYD2023

Earth Spinning, Sun Still, 

The Light Now Gets Longer

Solstice Today As Winter Starts.

 

Enjoy Those Wholesome Choices (no rhyme nor reason ever needed)

Enjoy All The Winter Heat & Nourishment A Body Craves (unconditional, I'm Sure)

Enjoy The Freedom To Choose Your Absolutely BEST Life, from moment to moment. 

Discover Yet Another New Season Vesper To Park In The Garage

For Fresh Lilly's, Fresh Decks and Sucking In That Fine Fresh Icy Cold Winter Air

Keep That Fine Feline Primed and Purring 

Keep Those Seeds Coming, Well Planted, Well Sated and Well Rooted, 

Be Grounded and Gracious as You Tend To The Winding Winter Weeds

Rest, Restore and Humbly Hibernate 

as Deep Waters Now Patiently Well Rooted, Rise.  

Keep That Beaming Light House Shining, 

The Mudra A Major Player, A Lovely Lotus, A Petal,

Gifts You All That Your Soul Desires. 

 

 Happy #IYD2023 as ShiFt Happens...🙏Ȝ욗

The time of the year when..
Yoga takes the global centre stage

This year is special. Prime Minister @narendramodi 🇮🇳 is leading the #IDY2023 celebrations @UN

P.S: Old pic best epitomizes the glow that Yoga spreads across @UN premises in New York & globally on 21 June -Yoga Day pic.twitter.com/5MvR8vYFFE

— Syed Akbaruddin (@AkbaruddinIndia) June 20, 2023

Refined, Aligned and Ever So Kind.

Embrace Paradox. 

Know Who You Are

The innate strength of a direct grounded gentle

The refusal to entertain harmful choices

The priority choice of loving kindness in self care 

The single pointed discernment of aligned and kind, gentle boundaries 

The letting go of all that does not support my unique highest good 

The connection with something greater than me 

To Be (or not to be...)

From love, not for love.

Know What You Don’t Want

Patterns of imprudent impatience and excessive unconscious projection

The bully buffoons, the loud outa tunes

The game players and sly manifesting seducers 

The lush lost in living addictive narrow one tracks 

The obviously un listening, disinterested or arrogant entitled 

mean n nasty assholes 

Know What You Deserve 

Standards are not expectations 

Clear kind concise, 

open gently potent 

A life long learner with funky fail forward Lived experience 

An authentic full spectrum reintegrated wholeness NOT perfection. 

Music and fun and joy and wild spontaneous adventures 

Dance ones arse off as a start middle end 

Cosy and cuddling and care in those quiet silent nights in

A Subtle well nuanced of multiple intelligences

 

It is all ok 

as an inner spacious and grounded gracious presence is felt and created by choice not chance 

An equal who chooses and co creates consciously shared grounded sleepers 

The co created parallel universes of self knowledgeable sovereign beings who are gently boundaried 

Those who take no shit, kindly, respectfully and willingly engage in open conflict resolutions. 

Notice The Subtle 

Attention to detail 

Learn The Big Picture Patterns  

Zooms easily in and out (and shakes it all about!!!!) 

responsive to felt nuanced mystery 

Trusts that whatever my choices lead to

I can handle 

Gives it all up to those connections who know without a care or a doubt 

(and of course, you got it, shakes it ALL about, also without a care or a doubt!!!) 

Silent when need be and obviously a 101 presence 

Beginners mind with so much more to learn as we Self realise, 

we really don't know that much at all.

the more we expand and learn 

the more we realise 

how little we really know 

Humility and Grace and Infinite Inner Space 

To hold multitudes 

To co create 

To support each other and commune in community 

And How fucking awesome is that? 

Choice choice choice 

Absolutely humane and being, 

Human 

With many more simple supple strong bows 

to the barbs, slings and arrows. 

Why so serious? 

Unless it is… 

And only you get to be 

the captain of your own ship! 

So Navigate well, 

Be Supremely balanced whilst on rolling decks, 

Remain The Calm in the storm, 

For that shit will pass

You are the Sky, all else is weather, 

You are the trenchant ocean, not one mere crashing wave, 

So mudda duckers quack quacking (not slacking)

Beware The mutinous minions 

Beware The vapid voyeurs 

Beware The loose leaky gossips 

The rats who’ll gnaw and bitingly infect you 

The jealous sad sacks who refuse to unstick their stuck up

The people pleasing perfectionists who think

100% reasonably ALL the mofo time, 

There is NEVER a reason once we vibrate as Love & Peace

So choose your crew wisely fellow pirates, 

My fine fellow scurvies 

parrot shit on each shoulder 

One wood bored peg leg 

One thick short plank 

One skull n crossed bone 

So where’s ya buccaneers? 

(On my buckin’ head!) 

Why so Siri ass? 

Srsly 

Life’s too short for bad coffee (or bad vibes) 

For Fika’s Sake! 

Only

One One One For 10 Years Plus Now

AND I Only Wish You Many 

More

Let Your Rising Light Shine 

It's As Easy As ABC 123. When You Get Outa Your Own Way... That Is.

your body rejects those who you are not meant to spend time with. all you have to do is listen. do you feel uneasy? do you feel safe? your aura picks up on energies faster than your logical mind. listen.

— 𝓂𝒶𝓃𝑒𝑒𝓈𝒽𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝓂 (@mane3sha) June 18, 2023

Those who actually possess energetic integrity easily entertain ideas contrary to their own. 

Do you have an open mind?

Is Your Own Energy Clear and Present?

Are You Spacious and Ready To Receive?

More Awe & Wonder... 

The New? The Different? 

Open Up, Expand, Listen & Learn, 

Don't Be Afraid, 

Reveal Your Self Imposed Limitations

Reveal Your Insecurities,

Reveal and Laugh At The Gaps...

Get Out of The Way of Attachments and Self Imposed Labelled Identities

Get Out of A Limited Controlling Ego

Get Out of A Gilded Expert Ivory Tower,

It's more than OK NOT To Know...

Life long learning is NOT a cliche

Life Long Learning is NOT You Don't Know 

So You Assume or Guess or Make Shit Up...

Life Long Learning is NOT 

"My Way or The Highway"

Life Long Learning Is NOT

"That's The Way We've Always Done It"

Stop Being Such Narrow Minded, 

Poorly Educated, Controlling Prissies...

Instead, Relax, Nothing is Under Control,

Instead, Relax, Why Worry or Hurry or Stress,

Instead, Relax, Surrender, Feel It All,

Let This One Moment Be Exactly As It is...

Really Connect With Each Breath

Really Connect & Feel The Pause, More

Relax, Go Do Yoga, or sumfink, FFS...

Go On I Dare Ewe...

Can You Even Go There...?

Or "it", the REAL answer to Who Am I?

 all just too challenging...

C'mon, Surrender To Self

C'mon, This Real Shit Ain't Difficult

C'mon, Grow Up and Be.

You! The Real You,

Already Here, Already Whole, Always Present

Possibly Still Just Hiding and Seeking...

Instead as ABC Taught Me, 

"open wide, come inside, it's Play School..."

Surrender To Uncertainty 

Be Ok With Not Knowing

Listen, Learn & Ask Better Questions FFS

Be more open 

Feel It All, Let It In and Let It Be, 

A Life Worth Living That is...

Smile Gently, Cry Readily, Laugh Loudly

less lush losing and whine & opine...

Come Inside & Play

Open Wide...

it's not like your brains gunna fall out...

"The Shape of Water"

"Unable to perceive the shape of you, 

I find you all around me. 

Your presence fills my eyes with your love. 

It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere."

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The Lens of Perception. .

True Nature - Explore More - See More - Feel More - Broader Horizons 

 

Simple, Listen, Observe; Knowledge is NOT Free, You Need To Pay Attention. Firstly, To Your Own True Nature.

Who Am I? 

Really? 

At My Most Raw and Real Fundamental Core?

When All Expectations are Removed?

When All Conditioning Is Removed?

When All Labels Are Removed? 

When All Intergenerational BS Is Removed? 

When I Have Returned To Wholeness?

When I Am Vulnerable, Surrendered To Self and Uncertain about A God Damned Thing? 

Yeah Baby, Just Who TF Am I...? 

Feel, Reveal and Heal

Be Joy, Be Grounded, Be Raw & Real

Smile Gently, Cry Freely, Laugh Loudly

It Is ALL OK!

Why So Serious...? Unless It Is...

From Love, NOT For Love

From Totally Enough, NOT a Leaky Deficit

From Wholeness, NOT Perfection.

Simple, See?

Then Walk Hand In Hand, 

Sensual Sleepers, Parallel Rails, Never Merging

With An Equal.

@atmavidya

 

"Those persons are yogis, who before giving up the body are able to check the forces of desire and anger; and they alone are happy."

BG 5.23 ✨ pic.twitter.com/FS1q7eN0BE

— Bhagavad Gita  (@GitaShlokas) June 8, 2023

Day 2 Day

"Tapas is a commitment to making a conscious choice 

in thoughts, action and word that 

lead you to your truest self."

Yvette Lalonde

Green Hills & Supple Limbs

 

Parenting Age Appropriate, Of Course. Yours and Theirs...

Invest Time. 

Be There. Support & Listen. 

Let Them Fail Forward. 

Let Them Own Their Choices. 

Be There. 

Invest Time. 

Let Them Be Bored and Struggle. 

Let Them Take Responsibility, 

Let Them Feel Accountable, 

Do not create entitled, disrespectful, wounded humans. 

Invest Time. Listen. 

Really Listen to Any Unmet Need Behind The (sometimes challenging) Behavior Choices. 

Yours and Theirs. 

Be There. 

Let Them Figure Tough Stuff Out As They Grow Into Their True Self. 

Be There. 

Hold Onto Your Kids, 

Gift Them Their Own Inner Safe Place as Your Co-Regulating Presence. 

Be There. 

Mentor, Model and Set Boundaries. 

Self First. Listen. 

Children Reflect All That Is Still Unresolved In The Unlived Life of a Parent. 

Still, Calm, Reflect, 

Re Parent and Parent, Be There, unconditionally. 

Be There 

Even when it is hard To Stay Open and Continue To Love Choices of Behavior. 

Yours or theirs. 

Be There, assertive and accountable and direct and simple. 

Let Them See How You Deal with Your Flaws. 

No Parent is Perfect... how boring... how inhumane... 

Never Yell (until you do...) 

Be There. Invest Time. Invest Time. Invest Time. 

Be The Kind of Love You Want Them To Be. 

Children Absorb who you are at your fundamental core, NOT what you say. 

Children have NEVER been very good at Listening. 

But they are always watching and somatically absorbing your priorities and choices.

Especially how you cope under pressure. 

And How The Grown Ass Adult Relates in Relationships. 

Be There. Listen. Be interested and interesting. 

Have Fun. Be Joyful. 

Patient Parent first, Control Your Own Behavior, Choose Your Responses, wisely, discerningly. 

You Are NOT there to be their best friend. Their job is to test you. Give them The Best Job. 

Be There. Invest Time. Know Them, Learn Their Nuances. Learn Their Patterns. 

Don't sweat The Little Stuff. 

Set A Standard of Grace, Not Perfection. 

Morals and Ethics and Core Values matter most. Be There. Show Up. Mentor and Model. 

Children become WHO and WHAT parents are. 

Not what your tell them. 

Set the tone, lead, you are The Adult whether you believe it or not. 

Be There. Time and Presence not money and presents. 

Observe and Stay silent on all that does NOT really matter. 

Let discerning Selective deafness Be Your Allie. 

Let Children Be and Grow and Fail Forward

But DO NOT enable any harmful or disrespectful or entitled arrogant choices to continue. 

You are The Adult who mentors and models. 

Be There. Be Present. Be Calm. Be Real and Raw. 

Always realize and remember why you chose To Create Them In The First Place.

From Love NOT For Love.

Be That. 

"The 12 Principles of a Self Led Man"

"Mantalks"  

by Conner Beaton

"Suck It Up. Stuff It Down. 

Pour A Bottle Of Whiskey Over The Top. 

Rinse And Repeat Until Sufficiently Numbed."

This was the method I used for years as I tried to deal with the obstacles and hardship in my life. I dealt with the stress, overwhelm, heartbreak, and lack of direction in my career by turning to my favorite coping mechanism (porn, drugs, booze, etc). 

But what does this do? 

It feeds the insecurities, doubts, and anxiety while adding more stress and confusion to the mix.

Let me be clear. It didn’t work. And it likely hasn’t for you or the men you know.

The truth is that too many men have traded their sovereignty, self-determination, and masculinity for comfort and validation.

So how do we, as men, get the most from ourselves and lead ourselves effectively?

What I’ve learned about men is that we want to live with a deep sense of purpose, have integrity, and love the people around us, but haven’t been taught how to do this. We want to be competent and confident but often feel stuck and directionless.

That’s what Men’s Work is all about. 

It gives you a guide to leading yourself. To lead in your relationships, health, family, purpose, and finances in a way that feels meaningful, rewarding and fulfilling.

And, it does one very important thing that other books don’t: 

it gives you clear direction, tools and exercises to deal with the pain, harsh self-talk, and relentless sabotage that shows up in your past or present, so that you can build yourself into a man you respect.

This book is not about telling you how you should live as a man or about defining masculinity for you; however, it will help you refine and define your own versions of this as a result of doing the work." 

The 12 Principles of a Self Led Man
Man Talks & Men's Work

Krishnamurti Knows

 

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Seven Exceptional Mentors Ready To Help

The Hatch Web3 Accelerator for Hedera Bootcamp has brought on board seven exceptional mentors ready to help 20 outstanding startups scale in the Web3 space. With the support of the HBAR Foundation, these startups are benefitting from knowledge transfers, workshops and office hours to help the 20 teams strengthen their startups on both, the tech front and the business front.

Without further adieu, let's meet the mentors!

Web3 will expand on these earlier foundations by allowing internet users to read, write and own their data, moving power away from centralized entities and toward individual users. This new vision of the internet puts privacy, decentralization and ownership at the forefront and focuses on restoring choice and agency. Yet, many of these ideals have been stifled by messy execution and stubborn power structures that continue to manage our digital behaviors. And as developers and users strive for an open shared, decentralized, immersive digital realm – questions about proprietorship and interoperability remain.

Priorities, Discernment & Viveka in life choices.

"Those persons are yogis, who before giving up the body are able to check the forces of desire and anger; and they alone are happy."

BG 5.23 ✨ pic.twitter.com/FS1q7eN0BE

— Bhagavad Gita  (@GitaShlokas) June 8, 2023

Yung Pueblo

"With proximity comes the possibility for connection. If we are in close contact with someone there is the potential for an intuitive alignment to flourish. After spending a bit of time with people, we can tell who we want to spend more time with and who are simply momentarily crossing paths with.

As the connection between people deepens, the volition within each individual grows stronger to treat the other well, we go from initially being strangers to becoming known supporters of each other’s happiness – the depth of our connection gives birth to the voluntary commitments that support harmony in any relationship.

Even within families and friendships, the bond we experience is built on connection. Connection is based in the mind’s innate ability to love. The mind also contains a strong drive to crave, which ends up conditioning our perceptions of what we encounter and our reactions to what we feel.

Craving itself gives birth to attachments. This dense form of clinging to what we crave not only causes much mental struggle, tension and dissatisfaction but it also clouds our ability to objectively observe what is happening within us and around us.

The deep connections that we feel toward our loved ones are often wrapped and mixed in with attachments. Not because we wish to make things difficult, but because the mind has a strong tendency to crave and control. Attachments cloud the true love that deep connections emanate. Attachments create much friction in relationships because they stand in the way of individual freedom.

There is nothing wrong with wanting certain things in a relationship, but we have to be clear to not force others to do things the way we see fit, instead we should build strong pathways of honest and calm communication so that both people can feel clearly understood – it is through this mutually shared understanding that new voluntary commitments can arise from each individual to better support the harmony of the relationship.

Attachments are an attempt at control that are marked by deep inner tension; voluntary commitments are an attempt at supporting happiness and harmony that are marked by the willingness to love." 🙏🏽🌎 #yungpueblo

Breathe: Repeat As often As Necessary...

 

360°: Que Sera Sera, just Breathe. #Barringtoncoast #yoga #ssy #atmavidyahttps://t.co/KsdExC0qtzhttps://t.co/JQYNJqrKAu pic.twitter.com/ErGKyX7VJB

— Tony Searl (@TonySearl) June 14, 2023

Merci

 

Hippy Hippy Shake Shake!

Yep Those Extra Special Sweet Training Tips...

STILL make me laugh,

#MFAO

🏃🙏⚽

Put THAT ball in the back of the net, 

NOW baby! 

goooooaaaaalllll!!

scooooore...!!!

Give IT Uppppp!!!!

What a cracker of a long range shot unloaded!!!!!

#eurovision #song #contest #merci

No Blocks kneeded on THAT Fine Shot 😂

PABATAI

 #Dadirri

Que Sera Sera

Realize For Your Self,
When Ready.
Enough IS Enough and
There is Enough as YOU Already ARE
Enough!
So Don't Be a Try Hard...
Relax, Rest, Restore, Rise and Repeat, 
Surrender To Self
Then Surrender To Self Even More, 
and Simply Ask
(as often as may be needed)
Who Am I...?

Leave All That Falls Naturally 

In Your Wake. 

Let it be, wise silence 

Whispers 

Momentum of Forward Progress is 

Cyclic, like seasons,

 as true nature. 

Your own fullness is not selfish 

Be Sovereign beings 

Remain whole not perfect 

Self care 

Sovereign beings 

Remain in your own lane 

Self care 

Sovereign beings 

Know who you are atma vidya 

Commune in community 

Know what you don’t want

all that low vibe chaos & BS & lush loose gossip

Be From wholeness of the totality 

Know what you deserve 

A sensual Discernment & full acceptance 

Never settle for less! 

Wholeness, self first, 

Does not mean agreement 

Or selfish 

I may love you life

(And I SINCERELY Do) 

But I must always love my true self more.

 

Non negotiable really know the “I” 

One, means not two 

Non dual there is no other 

One universe so simple One totality 

Unmanifested already whole and holy 

Get simple, get naked, get bare each moment to moment 

Why argue? Why stress? Why worry? 

If honest

No one knows a god damned thing 

In this One Infinite Present Moment

For Only This One Moment Only, 

Really Exists

So Be Front & Be Centred, 

Not Then or Next or waaaaay back then exists

So give it all up 

and simply Be Hear Now... 

Accept you already are This Presence 

Accept you already are whole, and never broken 

Accept you already are enough, 

so stop trying so hard 

To be somewhere or something or someone 

else… 

Return to your already whole calm centre, right now, 

Return to the spacious the gracious the simplicity, right now, 

The in breath

Then More Pause 

The out breath 

Pause more 

Get the fuck in touch with this simple cyclic reality 

free that mofo flow that mofo don't hold that mofo

One Breath One Moment One Creator In Creation

equal to all no hurry or worry

So Feel and heel and reveal 

and create more fresh inner space 

to hold The Multitudes of Who You Already are, 

Be more spacious, more gracious, 

cry readily, laugh loudly, smile gently, 

It is all included and every little thing is already ok, 

You and we and us are already 

divine &

holy &

One Unique Creature

included 

whole and totally Ok as

One creature in creation.

 

Direct and simple and ever so flowing 

Life love as this re integrated wholeness, 

burn all that is NOT the Truth of you away

burn all the inherited labels

burn all the societal BS

burn all the self imposed limits and losses and lush loose lipped losers

and what remains?

The Whole Truth

(and no thing but The Truth...) 

All creatures great and small, 

included, 

In the one perfection of creators 

own true nature, 

Smile gently, laugh loudly, nap more, 

self care first You Awesome Beings

It is all ok. 

SELF LOVE SELF CARE SELF ACCEPTANCE SELF AWARENESS SELF DISCIPLINE

Freediving 

Create The Space in Breath Awareness To Take That Deeper Dive Into You.

Then Let Us All Dive Deeply Together as One

 

In Truth Listening is Key to Success as a Leader.

"Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It"

Mary Oliver

All Relationships, Personal or Work, Start and End With Deep Listening. 

One of the biggest predictors of whether an employee will be engaged at work is the extent to which they feel like their boss listens to them. But sadly, we’ve all had (or are having) the experience of a boss who doesn’t listen to us. And I’m not talking about really blatant situations (e.g. they literally turn away from us or roll their eyes), but rather those situations in which the boss acts like they’re listening but hears nothing we say.

Is the boss listening? 

To all staff? 

Do you feel heard? 

Or just constantly dismissed by the boss not paying attention? 

It can be very frustrating if your boss doesn’t listen to you. You may feel like they don’t hear you or that your voice doesn’t matter. This can damage your career and lead to unhappiness in the workplace. However, there are things you can do to get your boss to hear you. Before we start down the path of how to get heard, we need to assess the situation. How bad is it and is it the boss that’s the problem or is it you? 

Consider the following signs:

Signs Your Boss May Not Be Listening

Consider the following telltale signs that your boss is a poor listener. 

Any of these signs by themselves are indicative of poor listening habits, however in combination the results could be disastrous. 

Note how many behaviors you see from the #bossbabe regularly; (male OR female #bossbabes BTW)

• Your #bossbabe never asks your opinion
• You meet with your #bossbabe less than once a month
• Your #bossbabe never does what he / she agrees to doing in your conversations
• When your #bossbabe paraphrases what you said to her, she almost always get it wrong
• When your #bossbabe asks you a question and you answer it, they ask it again as if your answer never happened
• When you talk, your #bossbabe does any of the following: stares at you blankly, types, checks their phone, simply gets up and walk away, no response to what you have shared, 
• Your #bossbabe talks and talks and talks… at you

Signs You Don’t Feel Heard

Equally important is how you experience this behavior. 

To what degree is this behavior affecting you, your performance and potentially your career? 

Note the following “costs” of having a #bossbabe that is a poor listener. 

The more statements you answer “yes” to, the more likely your mild frustration will turn to feelings of not being valued, cared for or seen. Then see if a possibly also insecure #bossbabe plays staff favourites and maybe even has that one special member she lavishes extra attention and rewards on because they enable her non listening.  Deep stuff for certain.

Note the following “costs” of having a #bossbabe that is a poor listener. 

• Your ideas go unrecognized or unacknowledged
• Your are only seen a certain way in the organization (your job / role… not what you are capable of)
• Your career progression has stalled
• You don’t think your boss cares about you
• Staff who people please and comply, are rewarded. 

Why does listening matter?

From a leadership or management perspective listening matters for a whole host of reasons.

You get better engagement

If people know that their contributions are appreciated and valued, they are much more likely to engage.

For many organisations and a lack of engagement is a significant issue.

You get more respect

Who would you give more respect to?

The manager or leader who thinks they know it all and don’t need your perspective on things or the manager or leader who is self aware and knows they come up with better solutions if they listen to others?

You get better results

Individuals can deliver so much.

Ultimately any significant success comes through listening to and utilising the full benefits of team working.

The real consequences of not listening

• You increase the risk of disengaging people.
• You miss out on great ideas and insights.
• You lose the respect of others.
• You struggle to make change or improvement.
• You waste time, energy and effort.

In truth listening is key to success as a leader or manager.

So ask yourself what one action are you going to take to be an even better listener?

Listening well is important not just because it’s a key to keeping employees inspired and engaged. It’s also the key to spotting problems, picking up on trends, and basically get you the data and insight you need to succeed. If talented staff don't feel heard over time, they will move on. And an un listening boss can choose to reflect on those lessons if experienced and talented staff are constantly leaving, for whatever reason. That's if the effective leader, or the "bossy boss" or possibly by now in the eyes of those not heard, a "bully boss of my way or the highway" control.

Is this person even self aware and capable of listening to Them Self? That begs another question and is for another post. 

What are the consequences when your boss doesn’t listen to you?

If your boss doesn’t listen to you, it can have severe consequences for your career. When your boss doesn’t listen, you feel invisible and unimportant. This can lead to frustration and unhappiness in the workplace. As a result, your performance will suffer. Additionally, if your boss is constantly shooting down your ideas without considering them, you begin to feel like your opinion doesn’t matter. This can damage your motivation and productivity. It causes you to stop contributing and ultimately hurts your career. If you feel that your boss is not listening to you, it is vital to take action and make yourself heard. We’ve covered the signs of a boss who doesn’t listen and some techniques to address them and get them to listen to you. When your attempts to coach your boss to listen and pay attention fail, it is time to find a new boss or new job. Move on and learn the listening lesson. 

And great listening starts in The Home. Thank you to those parents who listen to their children well. 

"From Love NOT For Love"

Simply Witness Those Who Stay

Why? 

What's The Common Pattern?

They Feel Seen and Heard and Held.

By an Authentic Loving Kindness,

 Which starts with a Deep Silence, 

A Listening to True Nature.

Your Own, first. 

#dadirri #atmavidya

Why Worry? No Hurry! In Forster or Tuncurry...

 

And Yes... Why Wouldn't You Wanna ShiFt Energy? And Create More FUN!!!! Whilst Learning?

Dance - everywhere anywhere anyway anytime anystyle … It’s kinesthetic-spatial intelligence;relationships and cultural understanding; a learning pathway ⁦@jeaninepcollins⁩ ⁦@irasocol⁩ ⁦@RamboTeacher⁩ ⁦@Tandylott⁩ https://t.co/ZOLfHbS070

— pammoran (@pammoran) June 6, 2023

True Nature

 

"For those whose ignorance is destroyed by divine knowledge, the Supreme Entity is revealed, just as the sun illumines everything when it rises."

BG 5.16 🌸 pic.twitter.com/EgpRxXMAQW

— Bhagavad Gita  (@GitaShlokas) June 6, 2023

Beyond Any Limits Of Inherited Intergenerational Conditioning and Labels

Maya Luna ~ Pattern Disrupt is Wholeness

Understanding Deconstruction 

(or returning to The Wholeness of who you have always been) 

Donna Farhi expresses it beautifully in her book ‘Bringing Yoga To Life’ when she says:

“When we’re witnessing from this neutral, non-presumptive place, the “me” is absent – the me being whatever collection of things I have stockpiled to make up my identity (which itself is created through another subset of assumptions). This assumed identity consists of opinions, judgments, likes, dislikes, narcissistic imaginings, and largely unconscious conditioning.

The process we call Yoga is one of deconstruction – removing these assumed identities. More accurately, the assumed identities cease to operate. Because the “me” that is usually the culprit in creating this mess in the first place is being deconstructed through the practice of Yoga, over time, the superimposed identities fall away of their own accord.”

It has often been said that Yoga is not just the practice of postures or asanas. 

It is a multi-layered practice taking in not only asana but the other limbs of Patanjali’s codified sutras. This holistic approach to Yoga allows the ‘deconstruction’ process described by Donna Farhi, which will peel away the layers of conditioning to reveal the true you. The always present, eternal and fresh from moment to moment True Nature of your own Being. 

This is akin to the dusty mirror that reflects a distorted view. The clear reflective mirror has always been there but has been covered with the dust of conditioning. Sometimes over many years. With Yoga, we wipe clean the mirror, and the true you or self is reflected. So however YOU choose to remove any remaining labels, drop remaining false hoods of inherited conditioning and "to CHOOSE to do The Inner Work" on an ever deepening, more subtle and nuanced de layering in your return journey back to your innate free birth rite, which is the consciousness of wholeness. 

Human
Human Holiness is Wholeness, Not Perfection