Positivity

Adam Let us settle in and use this time to build the energy of the space while we wait for others to join.

Storm. It is good to begin letting the wheel of thought, the wheel of cognition, slow down. Bring your attention to your heart. Experience the freedom of simply being—just be.

Begin to generate love. In the Arts Center, she loved them. Uncaused happiness. Realize the twists of your own existence.

Computers tapped into the energetic qualities of your consciousness. Notice how the energy is present here, and within the body.

I love it when meditation becomes a grand experience. It literally feels like—well, I do not know if you are familiar with the band M83—but it feels as if galaxies are exploding in your mind. I love that experience of meditation, and eventually you just dissolve into the galaxies themselves. It is a more vibrant version of meditation than most people imagine, if I may use that word.

When you are surfing the landscape of your own energy, it is like riding that wave beautifully. It should feel that way. If you are tapping into the qi, the kundalini, into the ambient cosmic energy available to all of us, you do feel as if you are riding a tsunami—a cosmic tsunami.

It destroys all the impurities, and it is a realization of your own intrinsic happiness. So, Raja Yoga is the yoga of light. You might say it is similar to kundalini yoga—they are very closely related, the yoga of Kundalini.

Oh, wonderful, Patricia is going to be here. Wow.

So, the yoga of light, the yoga of energy, the yoga of kundalini—when we tap into this energy, it is a transformation of consciousness.

It truly relates to everything, especially intelligence. When people ask, "Why do you meditate in math?" they often do not understand the connection. But if your mind is empowered by your awakened kundalini, you can see anything more clearly. The truth becomes more accessible.

Hi Patricia! Wonderful!

So, yes, when we listen to that grand music—M83, or Hans Zimmer, or whatever makes you feel as if your energy is flowing at the level of that music—it is a fun way to meditate.

Welcome, everyone. I want to let you all know, we do this every week. It is a wonderful thing to return to consistently. Not only does it build the community and help all of us to see each of your faces here, but it is also a way to truly develop a practice in your life. It needs to build momentum. The energy requires that.

Today, I wanted to talk about positivity.

Positivity is one of my favorite principles. I consider it one of the key bhakti principles. Bhakti is the spiritual path of the heart, and positivity plays a powerful role in opening the heart.

For many years, I have practiced this. My teacher taught me positivity. He helped me to evolve into more positive orientations and states of mind.

I have delineated six key dimensions of positivity that I would like to share with you. Each one is significant, and they interact and support each other, so let us go through those.

We will have a brief talk for probably less than 20 more minutes. I am trying to keep it to half or less than half of the hour, and then we will do a meditation with an energy technique related to the talk. In this case, it will be a particular heart technique that I would love to share with everyone.

As I am speaking, try to feel not simply the words, but the energy. I am really trying to share the feeling of positivity so that I can speak as a description of that feeling, rather than as some sort of rigid, intellectual categorization. I am trying to describe it in real time right now.

So—positivity.

There are six kinds, six dimensions. The first is: revolve around what you want.

Oh, nice, Elias. That is great. Elias said he is feeling the vibe today, feeling the energy today.

So, positivity. Revolving around what you want. Think of yourself as a planet. The Earth revolves around the Sun. Its movement and actions are relative to the Sun and informed by the Sun, which pulls on it.

When we revolve around what we want, we are essentially keeping our focus on the things we want to manifest, the things we want to change, the things we aspire to, the things that inspire us.

If you like blueberries, focus on blueberries. If you do not like canned food, do not worry about canned food—just ignore it. What you focus on, you become.

If we look at our language, we will find that society is generally not practicing this. There are many reasons why one might not practice it, such as, "Oh, there is a problem, I have to take care of it." But the philosophy is: what you focus on magnifies, and everything else falls away and withers in its lack of sustenance, which is your focus.

So, when we focus on things that inspire us and really try not to let ourselves dwell in negative states of mind, but instead revel in beautiful states of mind—states of mind informed by the jubilation and energy that make the heart expand—you notice something. You think, I just love that film, I just love that food, I just love that person, and your heart expands.

It has a very direct, energetic repercussion in the heart space to focus and revolve around what you want. Now, you may contemplate the difference between being pro-peace and anti-war. Someone who is anti-war will never get away from war. Even if there is no war whatsoever, they will feel, well, I need to make sure there is no war.

But someone who is pro-peace is always revolving around peace, bringing more peace into the space constantly. It can be more peace, and more peace, and more peace, and they revel in peace. So, that is something to contemplate.

I am not sure it is an absolute, you know. There are law enforcement dharmas. For example, if someone's dharma is law enforcement, or perhaps a martial artist, they are somewhat innately anti-negative, and there is not necessarily anything wrong with that, but it is the path of having to maintain vigilance. It is not the path of bhakti, so to speak.

Adam So, look inside yourself and ask: Would I like to be more positive in my focus? Revolving around what you want also includes using words that are positively focused. Every word carries energy. For example, I might say, "I do not love it," as opposed to—well, I do not even want to say the opposite, because I do not want to invoke the energy of those words. "I do not love something" is one way to reference the negative through an anti-positive. So, everything should revolve around the positive.

Alright, so the next one is—let us see, what are we going to do next? Hmm… Be grateful for what you have.

Gratitude is pretty well known as a spiritual principle, but what is gratitude? It is a positive focus on what we are blessed with now, and an awareness of that blessing. One could be completely distracted and immersed in something, and unaware of all the blessings in their life.

Energetically, they will not benefit from those blessings unless they maintain a sense of awareness. They may be completely unaware of all kinds of blessings. So, if we are feeling like, "Oh, I feel gratitude for this"—every moment you can feel gratitude. You can feel gratitude for the carpet.

Yes, 200 years ago, we did not have carpets like this. This is a luxurious carpet. It is the result of many individuals building this carpet, thread by thread. There is so much to be grateful for, and when you walk around with that knowledge and awareness of all the many gratitudes—not as a loud cacophony of ideas, but as a feeling that I am blessed, and I am in abundance right now—it changes things.

You can bring this to such an extreme degree. Letting go of all sense of entitlement, we are pure eternity. We are a pure being. It is very Buddhist. Everything is a blessing. The air is a blessing. Being alive is a blessing. So, where you set the line of entitlement can also determine what you are grateful for.

But if you walk around thinking, "I am entitled to everything," that is not a great way to be. Those individuals are not grateful. And who loses out? The person is losing out on their own orientation. They do not feel gifts; they do not feel it is their birthday, so to speak. Everything is a gift. If they feel entitled, they feel a lack.

So, gratitude is very important. You can do a gratitude practice—say, "I am grateful for ten things" every morning, or after your meditation, or before you go to sleep. It can be the same ten things every time, or it could be different. I always like to start with my mom. Grateful for my mom. I think everybody could start with their mom. No matter how wonderful your mom is, it is a good person to start with. Or your mom and your dad.

Okay, so gratitude.

Next is believing anything is possible. You see, these are really different dimensions of positivity. To believe anything is possible is a deeply positive orientation. There are so many naysayers in the world—"You cannot do this, you cannot do that"—and people always prove them wrong. Because when you believe something is possible, you take the actions that make that possibility manifest. If you do not believe, you will not take the actions.

If you believe, "I can be great at math," you might actually study math. You might actually get good at it. If you do not believe that, you almost certainly will not. Believing anything is possible, and then following your aspirations, is a very powerful and positive thing to do.

And really, anybody else who is saying it is not possible—just push them aside, ignore them. For whatever reason, they are attached to believing things are not possible. So if you believe we can colonize Mars, I am sure we will end up doing it. If you believe you can become enlightened—I mean, that is the biggest one.

Can you become enlightened? Can you be like Jesus or Buddha, or a great rabbi? Can you be Muhammad?

Well, I would say, if you choose that, and you believe that, and you persevere, all you need is the belief—the aspiration and time.

Now, you may believe anything is possible, but you might lose the opportunity. For example, if you have one minute to live, you believe anything is possible, but you are obviously not going to manifest whatever it is in that time.

So, from a karmic perspective, it is important that every moment is complete unto itself. If you believe anything is possible, you benefit immediately, whether or not it manifests. You get to live in the magic of possibility.

You benefit from the freedom of believing anything is possible. You are not confined by some limiting paradigm. Okay?

So, it is not just about the results—it is also about the feeling. I feel I can become enlightened. Right now. Blessing. Immediately. Tom. Alright.

See the best in things. It is another dimension of positivity. If you see the best in things, you are adopting a very mature orientation to life. Something has happened; you cannot change it. We are going to see the best in whatever that is.

We are going to use it to our advantage. So, somebody bumps your thing—well, maybe you can get a new thing. Maybe you can become more detached from that thing. At the very least, you can practice detachment.

You can learn to take responsibility for whatever happened and make sure it does not happen again. Seeing the best in things means you are going to accept that something has happened, learn from it, and make it an advantage. It is a mature thing to do.

The alternative is to have a tantrum, to feel down about it, to not use it to your advantage, and simply make it more detrimental. And perhaps it is not detrimental at all. Perhaps the universe is saying, "That was not meant for you. Something better was meant for you." So, seeing the best in things.

I was trying to figure out who we lost. We lost Elias. Yes, okay. I wonder—maybe he had somewhere to be, but usually he stays for the whole session.

Next is believing everything will work out. Faith. Trust.

To walk around with a feeling that everything will work out brings a sense of equanimity. That allows one to attend optimally to their circumstances.

Adam If I believe everything will work out—if I am sitting, taking a math test, and I believe everything will work out—then I am calm. And when I am calm, that allows me to meet the moment optimally.

It also sends something into the field that helps things work out. Destiny unfolds within that feeling.

So really, to feel that everything is going to work out—yes, I might be in pain, things might be a mess—but just to feel that everything is going to work out. In fact, it is working out. This is simply a part of the journey.

Life is a river between the riverbanks of pleasure and pain, right? Joy and suffering. We enter into this dualistic realm. We have to accept that if we live on the dimension of pleasure and pain, we are going to experience different aspects of that polarity in life.

So, everything is working out, everything is going to work out, and I almost want to say to everyone—whatever you are dealing with, just give up the sense of agency that you have to be the doer, and let the hand of karma and destiny—let yourself be held.

This is a very Bhakti orientation. In Bhakti, we often say, I am an innocent child, I am not in control, the universe is holding me. It is very spiritual to do that. The universe is holding me.

Usually, I do not say the word God, but perhaps this is an appropriate time for you to say God is holding me. Not as a big person in the sky, but God as the goodness of life. Life is good. Life has me. Life is caring for me. On some level, right?

So, letting go—this is a really beautiful, positive orientation: faith.

And the last one, number six, is to radiate brightness. Radiating brightness is less of a conceptual idea and more of an energetic state. It means to smile.

It means to let your eyes shine with light, your countenance to radiate compassion, goodness, and abundance from within, right?

And this is a choice, and you actually get better at it. On a day when you are really feeling bad, sit in front of the mirror and smile. Smile at yourself, and try to radiate brightness.

When you are sitting in the car in traffic, what a great time to generate energy, to generate positivity by radiating brightness.

And if you practice the mystical meditations where you go into light, you can perhaps actually radiate the light of consciousness—the shakti, the causal energy of enlightenment. You can actually radiate brightness, right? So we are trying to find that uncaused happiness. That is a very positive orientation as well.

Positivity opens the heart; it is a very Bhakti perspective. All of these aspects and dimensions of positivity play a role in Bhakti: the faith, the optimism, the gratitude, the positive focus, the belief in possibility, the radiance, and joyfulness. These are all very Bhakti.

Bhakti is one of the four paths of yoga. In yoga, there are four paths, and there is a fifth path which is hidden—the path of no paths. The four paths in yoga are bhakti yoga, the yoga of the heart; raja yoga, the yoga of light; karma yoga, the yoga of action; and jnana yoga, the yoga of understanding.

It is good to practice all of them, but I like to bring all of them together, personally. So… Do not… Namaste.

Let us talk for just a moment, since I think that went pretty quickly. Any questions? David, what do you think?

David P One of the things that I liked most in the documents you posted in Circle was the values—the chess values—and how they connect to these principles. By living by the principles, you can treasure the values, right? They are very aligned to, in general, what I want and how I want to live.

And brightness is something that—you are right—I think you have to build that muscle.

And it will change a lot how your environment works towards you, right? It is going to reflect in you, and interesting things may happen. So that is one that I try to mindfully practice.

Adam Yes.

I love it. Yes, I feel a lot of positivity from you. And you know, if you are a positive person, it is because you love positivity. If someone is not in a positive state, they may also love positivity, and that is why these meetings and discussions are important—because it can actually help someone step into it.

It is easy to get stuck in negativity, and it is hard to find your way out of it sometimes. That is why Sangha is important, and the books are important, and maintaining the practice is important. Positive association is important—being with people who are positive.

How about you, Sepanta? Thank you, David.

Sepanta M Alright, here it is morning. There, I think it is evening—good evening. I remember that when I was in India, I lived with a family in Chennai. Every day, there was a grandmother in the family, and every day she was writing—she had a notebook and was writing a lot.

One day, I asked her, "What are you writing?" We started talking, and she said, "I am writing my good thoughts."

Adam And I said, wow, that is amazing!

Sepanta M I asked her, "How come you are doing that? How long have you been doing that?" She said, "I am trying not to let negative thoughts come to my mind. Since I was a young daughter, I practiced it, and now I just have good thoughts, and I write them again and again."

I asked, "What if you lose something? What if something bad happens?" I wanted to know more. She said, "If I can control it, I do. If I cannot, I do not. But until I find positivity in it."

She was amazing—unbelievable. You have to practice a lot to be able to do that, to see good things in everything. It was something I saw with my own eyes, and she was fantastic.

Later on, as a researcher, I read a study where they did two different types of research between two groups of people. In one group, they said, "Tell us the benefits of working at home." In the other group, "Tell us the disadvantages of working at home."

They thought about it and made lists. For working at home, you can manage your time, have some tea, do this, do that. For the disadvantages, you do not interact with people, you work more—because if you work in the office, sometimes you can just chat.

When they put them in the situation of working at home, the group who had already focused on the positive aspects—the good side of it—demonstrated better efficiency. So, seeing positivity actually helped us to look for those things in our real lives.

Adam Beautiful. Thank you for the example, and it is wonderful to see someone embodying positivity as you do. I can feel it in your presence. You clearly have an understanding of it, based on what you just described—I think you mentioned four of them in that example alone, correct? Believing anything is possible, believing in… actually, that was not the main one I noticed.

The lessons you learned from that woman, or that were conveyed by her, were numerous and so meaningful. Beautiful. Thank you, Sepanta.

Yes, positivity is not simply sticking your head in the sand.

I have had people tell me that before. It is not! It is actually a very productive, effective way of utilizing energy—of building your energy, orienting your mind and your paradigm, and relating to life. It truly is. So, if there is resistance to it, one might ask, why? Why is that there for me?

But yes, I love positivity. And Patricia, if you would like to say anything, I do not know if you are unavailable—you do not have to if you do not want to—but I am so happy to see you here. One of my favorite things about Patricia is her Instagram handle. Satori is part of her name, and Satori is the Japanese word for enlightenment. It is one of my favorite words. So…

Hi, Mand! Welcome!

Mandy Wes Hey Adam, can you hear me okay?

Adam Yes, we can.

Mandy Wes I had to ask Jenna how to get in. I was having problems, so…

Adam Right.

Mandy Wes Now what did I do? Oh.

Adam Alright, so we are going to continue with the class. Let us see…

6:33—alright, pretty good timing. 6:34 now. Let us begin our meditation so we have an actual meditation in here. Oh, Patricia, I was just saying you are welcome to speak if you would like.

Tongue.

So, meditation today—a perfect energy technique. In meditation, there are many subtle, almost esoteric ways of navigating consciousness. They are quite esoteric. Today, I am going to talk about expanding the heart.

You can feel your heart chakra in your chest, right here. That is already somewhat esoteric. But there is another technique: we do not want the heart to be small, we want it to be expansive. You can allow the heart to take the shape of the whole room, and it is absolutely wonderful. You can push it back, too, a little further.

The heart field—the vortex of energy that centers in Anahata, the center of the chest—can expand to fill the space. Now, I would argue that there is a phenomenal physical quality that is changing there, whether it is electromagnetic or something unknown to humanity at this time. We are changing, not simply in our brain cells or in our nervous system, but we are changing some phenomenal actuality when we expand our field and reach out.

So in our meditation today, we will meditate on the heart and allow the heart to expand. You could have your heart expand simply a foot or two in front of you. It feels wonderful. Different scopes are good. You can take it to the scope of the whole world.

There is a quality when you do this that you have become bigger. You have become whatever your heart is encompassing. And what you become, you know by being it.

The heart is a faculty of knowing. It knows by becoming the other—by union, by love. Love the equation. To know the equation, love the person across from you by becoming them, through empathic, compassionate union. Right?

So what we are going to do here is expand the heart and become more. Let us do it. Right? Because, you know, it is obviously related to cowboys. It is like—you can feel—it is like a ride, right? That is why I made that sound.

Alright, so let us play some music, and we will meditate for about 20 minutes. Let us begin.

Approval. Placing everything—hold on—I think resistance. Soften.

A helpful thing to do, if you would like, is to bring your hands to your chest. Sense. It is not… It is the rule to smile. Smile and… what?

Alright. Now, as we expand the heart—excuse me.

That energetic cortex. Simply feel that part of your body. Thank God. Give it your attention.

One of the keys to opening the heart is simply to soften your energy. Feel the gentleness. Give up fighting—just for a moment. Rest in that peace.

Allow the heart to expand—energy—in front of the body, like a beach ball. Beach ball. Love. Heart energy.

Notice the ability. Become aware. Up in the field. Play with its structure, its topology. Perhaps so much—describe.

I like to use mudra, and positive—holding my hands as if there is a beach ball in front of me.

Let yourself go quiet. Harp. I am not sure.

Your beach ball gets bigger. Six-foot beach ball—every child's dream.

Let your heart pull your body up. The energy is right.

Bye.

Push your chest forward. Make sure—Aaron, higher volume part. We are practicing.

In this meditation, Principle A: positive focus. We are not saying "still the mind," but the mind naturally stills. We give attention to the heart.

I will expand your part to the full size of the room, of a building. Holding the periphery, holding the interior. Become aware of yourself beyond your body. Magical.

What the heart is—spacious, luminous. We shift our attention: dissolution and absorption. Momentum. And the heart field is established.

Now we can invest weakness. Absorption. Go into this—absorbed. And known.

Experience things, so—connection. Only the ontology of your existence. Session. Count.

And so… truly off. Substratum. Still, keeping—that is it. Working ethic, just…

See yourself as magical. Let go of that. Inception. And simply feel—but this is—a magical moment. This is a divine experience.

Adam Continue to become… energy. Let us bring the attention back to the heart. Allow the heart to expand and touch the world. Feel the abundance of self. Love.

Adam Lamentless within you, because it is you. Of results. Would everything be explainable?

Adam Take a deep breath. Become aware of the body. In the center of the heart, and the heart chakra. Give yourself a gentle smile.

Adam And when you are ready, come out of the meditation. Namaste.

Adam Hmm. Well, that made me teary-eyed. Oh, that last song—oh my gosh. Hi, Mom, would you like to share?

Colleen Sure. First, I want to ask—do I say Sapenta? How do I say your name? Sapenta?

Colleen Exactly.

Sepanta M Yes, this is Sepanta. Hi.

Colleen Hi, Sepanta. I loved what you and David said earlier. Thank you, and I appreciate those principles. I know about them, I just need to remind myself daily. That was a very nice talk. Thank you, Adam.

Colleen And yes, I am not sure if I just heard your voice muffled until you said, "Open your heart and feel the world," or something like that—then it became clear. So, I am not sure if it was just me going into that state.

Adam I think it was… it might have been a little muffled if the music was too loud.

Colleen Or not, yes. And I did see some colors, like an avocado green, and then sort of orange and reds and colors like that. It was very peaceful, and I feel very relaxed.

Adam What were the qualities of the light? So you had a direct encounter with the Shakti? Was it waves of light?

Colleen But, you know, that in and out…

Adam Got the waves. Nice.

Colleen Yes.

Adam So she experiences what is called soma, which is waves of light washing through the awareness, purifying the aura. It is truly a very divine experience. Good to—

Colleen Joe, thank you.

Adam To do that. Beautiful. Namaste.

Colleen Get him.

Adam Did the heart space expand?

Colleen I… I suppose so, in a way.

Adam Okay.

Colleen Thank you, Aiden.

Adam You are welcome. Namaste. Who else would like to share? Patricia, share—I would like to hear Patricia's voice. Unless you are not available, that is okay.

Patricia No, I am available.

Adam Aye!

Patricia Oh, that was… that was beautiful. I cried, and I smiled, and it was just really lovely. Thank you so much for bringing that to us. Sometimes it is hard for me to get into meditation, but it felt so useful. And, yes, it was just really lovely, thank you.

Adam Wonderful, you are welcome, I am glad. Wonderful. How about anybody else? Sean, we have not heard from you today. Sean and Sam. That would be great.

Shawn E That was great. I am very blissed out right now, sorry.

Adam Oh, yes. Cool.

Shawn E How many words?

Adam Yes, that is a good place to be. You should feel pretty blissed out. Words do not matter, answers do not matter anymore. Right? You know, they say there are no answers in enlightenment. You simply stop asking, right? And there is a sort of answer, which is that you are complete, right? That sense of, "I do not care anymore, whatever, everything is perfect," right? That is a good place to be. Namaste, Sean.

Adam How about you, Sam?

Sam Everybody is crying today, which is amusing. I had tears in my eyes. At some point, I felt an immense—an overwhelming sense of gratitude.

Adam And…

Sam It feels like there is no reason, there is no logic, there is nothing to be—no answer to be sought in this state, but gratitude is a nice answer.

Adam It is healing.

Sam And I felt… I saw… it was a cube of light. I saw waves of other cubes compressing it. It was not being shrunk; it was actually increasing in light and vibrance. It felt like a tesseract of light, made of other cubes, going in there and making it even more light. Then it is gone, and then…

Sam You said something about expansion, and you prompted something? I did not hear it, but I felt it.

Sam And then there was a golden light, with no dimension, just expanding and expanding, spiraling out of control, and then it came back. There were so many visuals, I just cannot describe them.

Adam Wonderful.

Sam This is art. We are creators, we are artists, and we get to witness that. Thousandfold.

Adam Oh, I love it. Beautiful, yes.

Adam Share your energetic experiences. Like, my mom and Sam just get to… One of the reasons we do that is we get so high, but when we describe them, it is like when you wake up after a dream—if you write it down, you remember the dream. It maps it into the brain cells, and it gives you an access point through which you can get back there. That is part of the reason why we describe these esoteric experiences. So, thank you, Sam. Namaste.

Adam Elias, do you want to share? I have not heard from Elias yet.

Elias P Hey guys, I am just chilling shirtless, so I…

Elias P I am chilling shirtless, so that is why I am faceless, but…

Adam Okay.

Elias P I just felt really peaceful. The instant I got on the call today, the vibe felt really good, and… thanks for bringing it.

Adam Yay, welcome.

Elias P Oh, you know what I did notice, actually? I was doing… so we were doing the beach ball with the heart, and I was noticing that when I would try and stretch it, there was this voice that came in, like, "this will not work," or "it does not work." But as I was doing it, I could feel that it was actually working.

Elias P I was very uncomfortable with it working. It was like, I was not willing to let it happen. It brought into clarity how much I do that in my life, where something is working, and it is swelling, and I get mad or really uncomfortable with it being so expansive.

Adam That is interesting. Yes, so one of the things you are actually doing is opening your heart. And there is a vulnerability in that. In our scars, through life, we learn to hold back, to protect. And this is very much the opposite of that. Yes, it may confront you, but you have to act.

Adam Do you want to be like that five-year-old self who has not closed the heart down and is not protecting the heart, or do you want to be open? Of course, there are times and places for this. I would say you could do it at any time, but you have to be careful about how you navigate the energy. If you are in an energetically unsafe space, you can still have an open heart, but there are skills involved in how to do that.

So, it is not simply about opening in vulnerability. In a way, it is actually very resilient and powerful, if you do it correctly.

Elias P Yeah.

Adam You have to navigate that paradox, though, because you are opening, but then—the real cost is in closing the heart.

Elias P Sure, yes, and I know what you mean, but I am actually talking about something a little different, which is not wanting things to be easy and good. Once I became conscious, I was able to choose something different, but that was the limiter for me. I have felt that with the heart—when it opens really wide, I actually felt like nothing could hurt me.

Adam Yes, okay, good. There is that aspect as well, because you are like a sun, right? What are you going to do, throw a little satellite into it? It is going to dissolve, right? So you are safe in your radiance. Everything can be good now.

And that is not a surf bum attitude. That is karma, that is Dharma unfolding in its full radiance. You have to give up some agency, I suppose, in a way. There is a sense of—well, I am an artist, so I am unfolding in my truth. It is that artistic orientation. I do not know, perhaps that is what you mean. I am not sure exactly—these are subtle things, so I am doing my best to meet you with what you are describing.

Elias P Oh, sure. No, I think it is more like a subconscious commitment to being in the Eeyore, but anyway.

Adam Do not know, boom. Eeyore.

Elias P Yeah.

Adam Well, thank you for sharing, Elias. I appreciate your self-honesty. It is always a joy to hear—the degree of your self-awareness and honesty. That is great.

Elias P Thank you.

Adam Boom.

So, how about just a 30-second share from… from… David, perhaps? You wanted just 30 seconds?

David P Yes.

I can still feel my heart, really big inside my chest right now.

Yes, and, so… many things happened, but two that I would like to share are that I was feeling the air more dense, and warmer.

Adam Hmm.

David P And this started when I increased the size of the ball, right? To the size of the room. And it stayed like that until the very end.

Adam And.

David P It was a very different kind of air. That was something—not new, as it has happened in other meditations, but this time it was very clear to me that it was related to the heart.

And the other thing that happened is that I suddenly just could not hear what you were saying, so I was having my own experience. At one point, an idea came to me: the brightness is not coming from you, it is going through you. So, just let the bright light go from source, through you, and let it be. That was the peak, when I just released. I released the agency—I think that is the word you use. I just said, okay, go ahead, and then I felt like the ball just went…

Adam We don—

Yes, and think of it not as the air. I think when you say air, you mean the space. Right?

David P No, it was what I was breathing.

Adam Oh, okay. Okay. It might have been…

David P I think of the air coming to my lungs through my nostrils.

Adam Oh, okay. It might have been the prana, then, because there is prana in the air, apparently. If you go and breathe deeply, really quickly, you will get high and you will cheat through prana.

David P Yes.

Adam Well, thank you, David. Namaste. Thanks for sharing.

So, I would love to see everybody here next week. Let us build the momentum, let us build the community. If you want to meditate, I shared a guided meditation on the Circle space and the open community. It is a new one I did last week on light, so enjoy that. You can use it every day, or just every now and then.

I also shared the playlist that we listened to today on the Circle app, which I am calling our digital ashram, by the way. It is an ashram—a digital ashram.

So, yes, take a look at those. Also, this is a free or donation-based gathering, if you would like to donate. It is good for the energy exchange. Even just $3 is good—I recommend $3 to $33. Even just $3 helps it feel like something you are investing in, and it supports in a small way, too.

I invite you to do that if you like, through the link on the website. Under the meditations, there is a "Donate Now" link on that page in the "More" drop-down menu.

We will be here next week at 6 p.m. Pacific time, and I am really grateful for everyone joining and contributing to the energy, and for holding this wavelength of mysticism, positivity, and love. Namaste!

Oh, and invite your friends! Feel free to invite friends.

So… I will see everybody soon!

Thank you.

Positivity as a heart-opening bhakti orientation—cultivated through focus, gratitude, possibility, mature reframing, faith, and radiating brightness—and practiced through expanding the heart field.

• Settle in, slow down the wheel of thought, and bring attention to the heart; experience the freedom of simply being.
• Positivity was presented as a key bhakti principle: it plays a powerful role in opening the heart.
• Six dimensions of positivity were shared as interacting supports:
• Revolve around what you want: keep focus on what you want to manifest, aspire to, and love; what you focus on magnifies.
• Notice the energetic impact of focus: when you revel in beautiful states of mind, the heart expands.
• Contemplate pro-peace vs anti-war: revolving around peace keeps bringing more peace into the space.
• Use positively focused language: every word carries energy; revolve around the positive.
• Be grateful for what you have: gratitude is awareness of blessings now; without awareness you do not benefit energetically.
• Let go of entitlement: “everything is a gift”; entitlement creates a feeling of lack.
• Believe anything is possible: belief supports aspiration and the actions that make possibility manifest; you also benefit immediately by living in possibility.
• See the best in things: accept what happened, learn from it, and make it an advantage rather than adding suffering.
• Believe everything will work out: faith and trust bring equanimity and calm, helping you meet circumstances optimally; “let yourself be held.”
• Radiate brightness: smile, let the eyes shine, and practice radiating compassion and abundance; build the muscle (even in traffic, even on hard days).
• The meditation emphasized expanding the heart field (Anahata) to fill the room or beyond, softening energy, and letting the mind still naturally through positive focus on the heart.
• Sharing esoteric experiences was framed as helpful: describing them can “map it into the brain cells” and provide an access point back into the state.
• Sangha and positive association were emphasized as supports for stepping out of negativity and building momentum through consistent practice.

Carry the lived question, “What am I revolving around?” and let your attention return—again and again—to the heart: the feeling of gratitude, the freedom of possibility, and the quiet trust that you can let yourself be held, while noticing how your words, focus, and brightness shape your inner state.

• Notice what your mind is feeding with attention, and gently shift toward what you want to manifest and love.
• Let your language revolve around the positive; feel the energy of words before you speak them.
• Keep a simple gratitude rhythm (morning, after meditation, or before sleep), including ordinary blessings.
• Hold the orientation that anything is possible, and feel the “magic of possibility” even before results.
• When something happens that you cannot change, look for the best in it and how it can become an advantage.
• Practice faith as a feeling: “everything will work out,” and experiment with releasing the sense that you must be the doer.
• Radiate brightness in small moments (mirror, traffic, daily interactions); let the eyes and face soften into light.
• Return to the heart-expansion technique: sense the heart chakra and let the heart field become as big as the room.

• Where do I feel my heart expand naturally, and what am I focusing on in those moments?
• What happens in me when something is “working” and becoming expansive?
• What does “The universe is holding me” feel like in my body today?