Finding Balance Day 8

Busy lives and competing demands can distract us from what matters most, causing imbalance and tension in the relationships we have with ourselves, family, friends, and the world. In this month-long series, Jay guides you towards creating and reintegrating harmony in your life.

Transcript

Being with Nature Not long ago,

Nature was our clock.

It told us when to sow and when to reap.

The movements of the planets and the stars guided our movements here on the earth.

Now,

We busy ourselves in our towns and cities,

Expanding our concrete memorials to sophistication and driving around in our increasingly expensive turbocharged machines.

When the stress of this becomes too great,

We flee to the countryside on weekends to reconnect with nature and the therapy of its gentle pace and pure vibrations.

We don't notice the slight irony that as we walk across rolling hills amidst a chorus of songbird,

Just over the next hill we are knocking down and digging up nature's creation.

Once converted into energy,

We use it to power the modern metropolis in which we live for the other five days of the week.

So our love affair with the speediness of our machines,

Cars,

Planes,

Boats,

Etc.

And the noise that they make severs our connection with the natural world.

We have forgotten that the natural speed of the world is the speed of a cow.

Now for a few moments,

Become completely still and drop into your being.

Resist any urge for doing and just be.

Notice as you spend time with yourself,

You naturally align with the pace of nature.

The connection with the universe is gently being reestablished.

Just by being.

You harmonize with nature by slowing the speed of thinking.

In our discussion today,

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Reviews

I don’t remember most of what teachers say in meditations. I will never forget that the speed of nature is the speed of a cow. I love this series!

Six stars really

I love this beautiful reminder to appreciate nature. I love nature and relish in it often. 💖🙏🏻thank you Jay!

Today is day 8 on 8/04/20 I practice this daily every month since I discovered this. Namaste 🙏 I highly recommend this as a practice specially now during these very challenging times on a global level. Stay safe 🌾💛

This felt like more talking than the previous in this series, but still space to be still, I like the construct of town business and nature at the pace of a cow! Thank you for sharing! 😊

This perspective on nature and speed and priorities of what we value- it's so true... This one ought to say "best listened to outside" for it truly brings you home.

I imagined a seed, at it's speed, cracking out of it's"shell", sprouting roots, sprouting a shoot, then another little shoot, spreading roots all the while with the communicative bacteria (micchorizae) spreading before it, sensing in the soil for proper nutrients and moving in that direction... Like we have lost touch of how to sense our proper nutrients and move in that direction. I believe if we do exercises like this enough we can find it...re-center.

My favorite so far,I love nature this meditation means so much, I’m taking this one through out my days. Thank you so much Jay you area Gift 🙏see you tomorrow!!

Your thoughts and insights are simple, yet thought provoking and engaging. Your background music is well chosen and really helps to open the space to delve deeper, be curious about, and accept what is. This is a brilliant series. Thank you 🙏🏼