Go Gently - Meditation and Insight For Daily Life Christina Elizabeth Smith

What if this way of being was your SUPERPOWER?

So much of guru culture and capitalist society tells us that there is something wrong with us, something that needs to be tamped down or fixed about our emotional life...but what if what you shunned about yourself was actually the door to your superpower?

Learn to integrate the emotions you perceive as "bad" and become truly powerful!

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Happy magic portal day! On this special and rare day of 2/22/22 I wanted to welcome you to your new self! Today is the day to take this meditation journey, journal, and step into the skin of the person you truly are inside and stop holding yourself back.
In this episode I talk about the incredible power of our energy and take you on a journey to speak to your future self.
Come back to this meditation any time you need grounding and a reminder that you already are everything you want to be.
Quote reference:
Joseph Campbell, "Pathways to Bliss"
"We keep hearing about the revolution around us all the time: the revolution, the revolution, the revolution. Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out. That is what's given to you-_one life to live. Marx teaches us to blame the society for our frailties; Freud teaches us to blame our parents for our frailties; astrology teaches us to blame the universe. The only place to look for blame is within: you didn't have the guts... live the life that was your potential."
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As we get into the holiday season, so much can trigger our stress responses, whether that is travel, family dynamics, fear of the new year, money, etc. This is a journey to bring you back into your body and remember that the greatest gift you can give yourself and your loved ones is your presence. This journey meditation can be done seated or walking. Come back to it anytime you need to release tension.
Quote:
From On Being Human pp. 79-82.
"Based on his own battle with cancer, Dr. Selye offered three ways to build a constructive life:
1) turn feelings of resentment and anger, which lower resistance to stress, into respect and sympathy
2) set goals for yourself; and
3) live for the benefit of others, for in so doing, you yourself will benefit,
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Welcome to Fall Season!
Fall can be an incredible time of celebration, but also a time of deep reflection as we look back on the year and see what we have accomplished, lost, gained, and what we still dream of moving towards.
Maybe you are feeling a little more contemplative this time of year, this podcast episode is a great one to come to to get grounded and hear your inner voice. Also, to realize you are exactly where you need to be no matter what emotions are coming up.
Quote:
"The Courage To Create"
by Rollo May
"...courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country...courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair."
"The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning "heart". Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue."

This week I discuss the Carl Jung "Red Book" and how everyone has secret parts of themselves that they want to keep hidden. Where are you not accepting yourself and how can you free these limiting thoughts? This podcast is a reminder that you can alchemize these parts of yourself and use them as gifts that only you can bring to the world.
Quote:
"A Joseph Campbell Companion"
The great problem is bringing life
back into the wasteland
where people live inauthentically"
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Welcome to the Aries Full Moon for October! This is a great episode and meditation for cord clearing for negative, toxic, or blocked relationships. This meditation is great to come back to often to shift negative blocks. Also a Joseph Campbell reading to remember that in our darkest moments we are breaking through not breaking down.
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Quotes:
Book: The Joseph Campbell Companion
"Hell is the concretization of your life experiences, a place where you're stuck, the wasteland. In hell, you are so bound to yourself that grace cannot enter."
...
"The problem with hell
is that the fire doesn't consume you.
The fires of transformation do."
...
"Find a place where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain."