We continue with week 3 in the final 100 days of the year of becoming fully alive.
This week’s meditation focuses on the body of desire. It calls forth our creature – our tender animal both fierce and wise. Herein lies our gut instinct for what’s nourishing and what’s not as well as our knowing beyond knowing of what’s dangerous and what’s not.
Keep listening day by day. You may hear things differently on subsequent listens. We recommend listening right when you wake up for greatest potency. As you are in the hypnagogic transition from sleep to wakefulness your subconscious is at its most absorbent and pliable for deep neural reprogramming.
The transcript follows at the end of this email.
sane and silly
[music] Sylvan Esso graces NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert stage. She gently cajoles the audience to sway a little bit by saying “Just imagine you’re the seaweed in Ursula’s cave.” What a heartthrob.
[art] Beauty does my heart good on this heavy week. Photos by Jean-Paul Bourdier.
[film] The cult filmmaker Godfrey Reggio of returns with Once Within a Time. David and I had the pleasure of seeing it pre-release at the Dent Conference earlier this month and getting to ask questions of him after. He describes the film as “an attempt to be linear and non-linear at the same time.” He’s my kinda dude, I tell you what.
[film] While you’re waiting for his new film to be streamable, here’s Godfrey’s seminal film, Koyaanisquatsi, scored by Philip Glass. Consciousness-altering medicines pair well with this selection.
[music] Need a Friday afternoon chill groove to take you out on a vibe? CloZee brings it.
transcript of meditation
I call my soft animal home I call myself back home I allow myself to run as I run I allow myself to sense as I sense breathe as I breathe need as I need I hunger for what I hunger for I thirst as I thirst I drink as deeply as drinking be necessary I tend to the soft animal of my body I get to know the creature I am and always have been I call my soft animal home I call myself back home I am moved by the creature I inhabit the creature more fully with every breath with every step I rest when the soft animal needs rest so that my wings may beat swiftly at appointed times I silence the noise so that I may hear the wisdom of deeper instinct I allow myself to roar as I roar rooted from that place of protection a roar rooted in a devotion to peace a roar of purity My deep instinct says yes to what nourishes My deep instinct says no to what does not My deep instinct aligns to life My deep instinct knows what action to take that benefits both self and other I call my soft animal home I call my creature home I call myself home I call myself home Doing all that it takes for the true requirements Giving all that I am Serving as the requirement Serving as I am Giving as the requirement Giving all that I am Aligning as the requirement Aligning all that I am I call myself home I call myself home I call myself home