Inspired by what happens in the spaces between the moments, Life Doula Nichola Maa shares stories, wisdom, and musings to illustrate the potential and beauty of the embodied form. Uploaded are over 100 episodes, excerpts from the Saturday morning "The Fragrance of JOY" sangha. If you wish to join our online women's sangha, check out https://www.sharedwisdom.org. EnJOY as you take a PAUSE!
How much influence do I have in the ultimate unfolding of my life?
A vital spiritual practice in these times-practicing non attachment.
Be inspired to find our super powers of community, compassion and integrity.
Integrating all forms of aliveness, vitality and consciousness into our life.
How can we see fire as a transformative element in our lives?
What are we called, as women, to offer into humanity in our post-menopause years?
A short practice to cultivate the Heart Brain connection.
Our clarity, equanimity and Peace rises in proportion to our Heart Brain Coherence. See why!
Consider the difference between a Gratitude list and a Gratitude Relationship.
Where can we step into guardianship of our life and where do we call upon the greater cosmos for support?
Bring the Metta Meditation into your life to enhance your peace, gratitude and wellbeing.
Discernment: the most effective personal wellbeing tool we can use everyday.
We are in the beginnings of a Saturn retrograde. There are many opportunities to capture the Saturn essence and use it to our benefit.
Is it possible that Transcendence can be our everyday mode?
The aliveness of life is kept in the willingness to see each moment anew.
How do we dull our experience of life by parsing out our exuberance based on our judgements, fears and control?
Practicing Right Speech can be experienced to ourselves or out into the world. We must tend both avenues.
The mind always makes you interested in things far away, out there, so that you can be led away from here.
We offer love through our actions, and support; we also offer love through our presence.
Learning to see ourselves a BOTH spirit and human in all things dissolves the barrier of body centric or spirit centric. Are a woven tapestry of the finite and the infinite, the concrete and the subtle.
In the chaos of the world, it can be difficult to align our inner and outer life experience. While we each commit time and discipline to maintaining our inner life stability, the outer world is unpredictable. The aim becomes to balance our inner and outer life through intention and awareness.
The world needs loving kindness more now than ever. Use this recording to practice the Maitri meditation so that you might experience loving kindness and offer it to all sentient beings.
“Fearlessness" is the underlying request we make each and every time we sit on our meditation cushion, begin our spiritual sadhana or muse about our spiritual journey. Fearlessness=Expansion. Why else do we endeavor to navigate a spiritual life if not to cultivate our confidence to face and handle life as it comes to us?
Commitment comes in many forms. As we develop along our spiritual journey we move towards a deeper attitude and behavior of commitment to consciousness and compassion.
Weaving together the tangible and intangible aspects of our spiritual journey.
Presence is more than bringing the sum of our senses into the moment.
We are highjacked by our opinions and ideas when we bring our past experiences into our present experience.
How does the brain develop different levels of negativity and how to offset this in your daily life.
What happens to our soul when we encounter a trauma, a disappointment or a series of emotional moments? We may fragment-lose touch with pieces of our essence. How to call back these pieces.
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