I was volunteering at a silent retreat this week. Working in the kitchen allowed for some conversation but also a lot of silence and peaceful contemplation. At brunch today the retreat ended and silence was lifted. It took less than an hour for me to become so overstimulated that I had to retreat myself! I'd been getting up at 4am to prepare breakfast & coffee and lying down for a nap at 10am after clean up was done. Brunch was served at 9 so my schedule was off as was everyone else's on the kitchen team. I'm sure that contributed. After I went back to nap a friend wanted to talk about her retreat experience. This helped me to realize once I am overstimulated by sound I cannot carry on a conversation until I have rested and reset. What makes you overstimulated the fastest? How do you overcome it and reset?

I'm a great cook if I do say so myself. I'm not much of a recipe follower. I mostly cook by smell. Yesterday I decided to boil an egg. I put it in a pot of water & turned on the stove. The phone rang so I took the call. Then after a couple of minutes I got off the phone and started surfing skool. I decided to work on my summit stuff so I went upstairs. Then I smelled something burning. Damm! I forgot my egg. Figuring the pot boiled dry I rushed down the stairs. The house was full of smoke. Wtf? The egg wasn't on that long! I get into the kitchen and discovered the egg wasn't on at all. I turned on the wrong burner. Yup cooking with ADHD can be lots of fun. As long as the phone doesn't ring.

I'm not "supposed" to eat spices. Apparently I have the wrong body composition for heat. I totally do not know what that means. It seems like it's no different than the wrong brain composition for math. I love spice & I love math. So the supposed to do things are not right for me. What is the "You're Not Supposed to Do"...that you love and do anyway? Please don't say drugs 😜

If you could add one thing to the classroom, what would it be?

I woke up this morning with the deepest feeling of being loved. Nothing special had happened. It was no different than any other morning. In fact, I’ve been sick with long covid for over a week. I wasn’t excited for the day. It wasn’t romantic love. It was deep agape love, the kind that feels ancient and steady and everywhere at once. That feeling didn’t come from my mind. It came from my heart field shifting into coherence. When the heart becomes coherent, the toroidal field around the body stabilizes and expands. It becomes smooth instead of jagged, open instead of guarded. The whole field begins to broadcast a frequency that other people can feel, even before words are spoken. Heart coherence increases connection because it aligns your emotional energy with your true nature. It softens the static. It clears the noise. It lets your presence be felt in a way that is unmistakable. People respond to you differently. Conversations flow more easily. You feel held by something larger than your circumstances. This morning reminded me that connection doesn’t always come from doing. Sometimes it comes from allowing the heart to settle into its natural rhythm. When the heart is coherent, the field becomes a bridge. And through that bridge, love moves freely. What happens in your body when your heart field expands?