Hey @matthew-lazar-9606 I am interested in the book club you mentioned. Can you share some info?

Hi all! I would love to start a thread where everyone can share their recommendations for books, podcasts, apps, etc. I am currently reading The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, which was recommended by @Chris Grieder in a session and I love it. I also just watched the full video of David Bayer that Chris posted and it turns out he has a podcast which I am excited to listen to called a Changed Mind. I would love any and all of your recommendations as well and I think we can all benefit from having one thread to find them 😃 📚

Howdy y'all... it's been a month (I know, crazy, right?). I wanted to see if we could check in and share what's been working, what we've been struggling with, and maybe see who is planning on jumping into this next workshop. Personally, I would like to be doing some things better, but I am... ahem.. "learning to allow" 😁 myself the space to be right where I am and being grateful. I've been reading quite a bit and doing a bunch of other training for work -- I actually did this grief recovery training that was amazing and I can't wait to start doing those classes with folks who really need them. Anyway, as far as practices go, I'm intermittent with my gratitude practice, sparsely doing meditation, and writing/journaling here and there what's going through my mind and what my vision is for this life. I struggle a bit with thinking I'm supposed to be somewhere else or doing "better" right now. This is a pattern I've noticed that has been present most my life. So... My real practice right now is having compassion for myself. I really am learning to allow myself to not be perfect, or to have to "do it all" right now. I have a level of awareness of what's happening. I have a plethora of tools and resources. I just need to allow myself the space to figure it out when I figure it out. And to realize there isn't a single moment that I'm not right where I need to be... discomfort included. How's everyone else doin?

So I’ve been in a bit of an avoidant pattern with my feelings lately, hiding behind food and doom scrolling social media. I know this is just my body giving me the signal to listen to it, but I’ve been fearful to confront it. I’m finally sitting with myself at the moment and this question came to mind and I was curious as to how others answer this question. If you met someone and they asked, “who are you?”, what would you say? Maybe your name, but if they ask again, then what is your next response? Just meditating on this at the moment and wondering what others come up with when the question comes to mind. Hope everyone is enjoying their day/weekend ❤️

I had heard of Ho'oponopono years ago but never really gave it a true shot. Maybe it didn’t resonate with me at the time, but after the call last week I thought I might implement it. I’ve done it twice in the past two weeks and some interesting things have happened. The first time I did it with little expectation. I wasn’t thinking of anything I wanted to heal per se, but I kinda just kept repeating and images of people/places would show up and I would keep repeating. Eventually my voice kept getting louder and louder, having different tones, there was some crying and I just kept going. Eventually my arms just started to raise on their own (for reference things like this tend to happen to me when I meditate, I’ll be humming or talking, just kinda letting things happen, but it feels as though it is not me but also me at the same time…a little hard to explain lol) anyways my hands found their way to my heart as I said these words. Then my arms raised to the sky. Eventually I kinda just tapered off of it until the prayer went back down to a whisper. About 4/5 days later I tried it again. This time I was only saying it in my mind because I’ve had a pretty bad sore throat all week. It wasn’t anything crazy, but enough to make my day to day a little more inconvenient. As I repeated the prayer in my mind the pain in my throat subsided a little and so I started to speak. Again, my arms were doing kinda weird things, my right hand was tapping my right knee and again my hands found their way to my heart. The next day I woke up with no sore throat. Coincidence ? I don’t think ;) thought it would be an interesting share! Thanks for reading ❤️