Positivity

Adam Wes Let's just settle in. Use this time to build the energy of the space while we wait for some other people to join.

It's good to start to let the wheel of thought, the wheel of cognition, slow down. Bring attention to your heart. Freedom of being. Just be. Begin to generate love. Uncaused happiness. Realize the richness of your own existence. Feel the energy in here and in the body.

I love it when meditation is a grand experience. It literally feels like, I don't know if you know the band M83, but it just feels like galaxies are blowing up in your mind, right? I love that experience of meditation. Eventually, you just dissolve into the galaxies themselves. It's a sexier version of meditation than I think most people think, if I am bold enough to use that word.

When you're surfing the landscape of your own energy, it's like riding that wave beautifully. It feels that way. It should feel that way. If you're tapping into the qi, the kundalini, and the ambient cosmic energy that's available to all of us, you do feel like you're riding a tsunami, a cosmic tsunami. It's destroying all the impurities, and it's a realization of your own intrinsic happiness.

Raja yoga is the yoga of light. I guess you might say it's like kundalini yoga. They're very closely related.

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

So, the yoga of light, the yoga of energy, the yoga of kundalini. When we tap into the energy, it's a transformation of consciousness. It really relates to everything, specifically intelligence. When people are like, "Why do you meditate in math?" they don't understand the connection. Well, if you've got your mind empowered by your awakened kundalini, you can see anything more clearly. The truth is more apprehendable.

Hi, Patricia! Yay!

When we listen to that grand music, M83 or Hans Zimmer or whatever makes you feel like your energy is flowing at the level of that music, it's a fun way to meditate.

Welcome, everybody. I just want to let everybody know that we do this every week. It's a great thing to come back and do consistently. Not only does it build the community and help all of us to see each of your faces here, but it's also a way to actually develop a practice in your life. It has to build momentum. The energy requires that.

Today, I wanted to talk about positivity. Oh, positivity. Positivity is one of my favorite principles. It's what I would consider one of the key bhakti principles. Bhakti is the spiritual path of the heart, and positivity really plays a powerful role in opening the heart.

For many years, I've practiced this. My teacher taught me positivity. He helped me to evolve into more positive orientations and states of mind. I've delineated six key dimensions of positivity that I'd like to share with you. Each one is significant. They interact and support each other, so let's go through those.

We'll do a little sermon for probably less than 20 more minutes. I'm trying to keep it to half or less than half of the hour. Then we'll do a meditation with an energy technique that's related to the sermon. In this case, it's going to be a particular heart technique that I'd love to share with everybody.

As I'm talking, try to feel not simply the words, but the energy. I'm really trying to share the feeling of positivity so that I can speak as a description of that feeling, instead of some sort of calcified intellectual categorization of the feeling. I'm trying to describe it in real time right now.

Boom. Positivity.

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

Oh, nice, Elias. Cool, man. Elias said he's feeling the vibe today, feeling the energy today.

Think of yourself as a planet. The Earth revolves around the sun, right? Its movement and its actions are relative to the sun and informed by the sun pulling on it.

When we revolve around what we want, we're essentially keeping our focus on the things that we want to manifest, the things we want to change, the things that we aspire to, and the things that inspire us. If you like blueberries, focus on blueberries. If you don't like canned food, don't worry about canned food. Just ignore it.

What you focus on, you become. If we look at our language, we'll find that society is generally not practicing this. There's a whole list of reasons why one might not practice it, like, "Oh, there's a problem. I have to take care of it." But the philosophy is that what you focus on magnifies, and everything else falls away and withers in its lack of sustenance, which is your focus on it.

When we focus on things that inspire us and really try not to let ourselves dwell in negative states of mind, but rather revel in beautiful states of mind, states of mind informed by the jubilation and the energy that makes the heart expand, you think, "Oh, 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 pro-peace and anti-war. One who's anti-war will never get away from war. Even if there's no war whatsoever, they'll feel, "Well, I need to make sure there's no war," right? Pro-peace people are always revolving around peace and bringing more peace into the space constantly. It can be more peace and more peace and more peace, and they revel in peace. That's something to contemplate.

I'm not sure it's an absolute. There are law enforcement dharmas. Say one's dharma is law enforcement, or perhaps one is a martial artist. They are a little bit innately anti-negative, and there's not necessarily something wrong with that, but it's the path of having to maintain vigilance. It's not the path of bhakti, so to speak.

Look inside yourself and say, "Would I like to be more positive in my focus?" Revolve around what you want. That also includes using words that are positively focused. Every word has energy. I might say, "I don't love it," versus, I don't even want to say the opposite, because I don't want to say the energy of the other words. "I don't love something" is one way to reference the negative through an anti-positive. Everything revolves around the positive.

The next one is: be grateful for what you have.

Gratitude is pretty well known to be a spiritual principle, but what is gratitude? It's a positive focus on what it is that 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.

Every moment, you can feel gratitude. You can feel gratitude for the carpet. Two hundred years ago, we didn't have carpets like this. This is a luxurious carpet. It's worth many, many individuals building this carpet thread by thread. There's so much to be grateful for. 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," you can bring this to such extreme degrees.

Letting go of all sense of entitlement, we are pure eternity. We are pure being. That was very Buddhist.

Everything is a blessing. The air is a blessing. Being alive is a blessing. Where you set the line of entitlement can also determine what you're grateful for.

If you think of somebody saying, "I'm entitled to everything," it's kind of a jerk thing to be. They're not grateful. And who's the loser? The person is losing out on their own orientation. They don't feel gifts. They don't feel it's their birthday. Everything's a gift, right? They feel entitled, and they feel a lack.

Gratitude is very important. You can do a gratitude practice and say, "I'm grateful for..." ten things every morning, 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. I'm grateful for my mom. I think everybody could start with their mom. No matter how wonderful your mom is, it's a good person to start with. Or your mom and your dad.

The next one is: believe 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 can't do this. You can't do that." People always prove them wrong, because when you believe something's possible, you take the actions that make that possibility manifest. If you don't believe, you won't 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 don't believe that, you almost certainly won't.

Believing anything is possible and then following your aspirations is a very powerful and positive thing to do. Anybody else who's saying it's not possible, just push them aside. Ignore them. For whatever reason, they're attached to believing things aren't possible.

If you believe we can colonize Mars, I'm sure we'll end up doing it. If you believe you can become enlightened, that's the biggest one. Can you become enlightened? Can you be like Jesus or Buddha, or a great rabbi? Can you be Muhammad? I would say that if you choose that, believe that, and persevere, all you need is the belief, the aspiration, and time.

You may believe anything's possible, and you may lose the opportunity. You might have one minute to live. You believe anything's possible, but you're obviously not going to manifest whatever it is. From a karmic perspective, it's important that every moment is complete unto itself.

If you believe anything's 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're not confined by some limiting paradigm.

It's not just about the results. It's also about the feeling. "I feel I can become enlightened right now." Blessing. Immediately. Boom.

The next one is: see the best in things.

It's another dimension of positivity. If you see the best in things, you are having a very mature orientation to life. Something's happened, and you can't change it. We're going to see the best in whatever that is. We're going to use it to our advantage.

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 doesn't happen again.

Seeing the best in things means you're going to accept that something has happened, learn from that thing, and make it an advantage. It's 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.

Perhaps it isn't detrimental at all. Perhaps the universe is saying, "That wasn't meant for you. It really wasn't. Something better was meant for you." So, see the best in things.

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

The next one is: believe 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.

If I believe everything will work out and I'm sitting taking a math test, then I'm chill. Being chill allows me to meet the moment optimally. It also sends something into the field that makes things work out, and destiny unfolds within that feeling.

Really feel that everything's going to work out. I might be in pain. Things might be a mess. But just feel that everything's going to work out. In fact, it is working out. This is just a part of the journey.

Life is a river between the riverbanks of pleasure and pain, 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're going to experience different aspects of that polarity in life.

Everything's working out. Everything's going to work out. I almost want to say to everybody, whatever you're dealing with, just give up the sense of agency that you have to be the doer. Let the hand of karma and destiny hold you. Let yourself be held.

This is a very bhakti orientation. In bhakti, we kind of say, "I am an innocent child. I am not in control. The universe is holding me." It's very, very spiritual to do that. The universe is holding me.

Usually, I don't say the word God, but maybe this is an appropriate time for you to say, "God is holding me." Not 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.

Letting go is a really beautiful, positive orientation. Faith.

The last one, number six, is: 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, and your countenance radiate compassion, goodness, and abundance from within.

This is a choice, and you actually get better at it. On a day you're really feeling bad, sit in the mirror and smile. Smile at yourself and try to radiate brightness.

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

We're trying to find that uncaused happiness. That's a very positive orientation as well.

Positivity opens the heart. It's a very bhakti perspective. All of these aspects and dimensions of positivity play a role in bhakti: faith, optimism, gratitude, positive focus, belief in possibility, 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's 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's good to practice all of them, but I like to bring all of them together, personally.

Namaste.

Let's 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 that 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. They are very aligned with how I want to live.

Brightness is something that, you're right, I think you have to build that muscle.

Adam Wes Yes.

David P It will change a lot of how your environment works toward you. It's going to reflect in you, and cool things may happen. That's one that I try to mindfully practice.

Adam Wes I love it. I feel a lot of positivity from you. If you are a positive person, it's because you love positivity.

If somebody's not in a positive state, they may also love positivity. That's why these meetings and discussions are important, because they can actually help somebody step into it. It's easy to get stuck in negativity, and it's hard to find your way out of it sometimes.

That's one reason why sangha is important, the books are important, maintaining the practice is important, and positive association with people who are positive is important.

How about you, Sepanta? Thanks, David.

Sepanta M All right. Here it is morning. There, I think it's going to be evening, so good evening.

I remember that when I was in India, I lived with a family in Chennai. There was a grandma in the family, and every day she was writing a lot in a notebook. One day I asked her, "What are you writing?"

She said, "I'm writing my good thoughts."

I said, "Wow, that's amazing! How come you're doing that? How long have you been doing that?"

She said, "I'm trying not to let negative thoughts come to my mind. Since I was a young daughter, I practiced it. Now I just have good thoughts, and I write them again and again."

I said, "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 don't, until I find positivity in it."

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

Later on, as a researcher, I read about research they were doing between two groups of people. They said to one group, "Tell us the benefits of working at home."

They told another group, "Tell us the negativity, the bad side, or the disadvantages of working at home."

They thought about it and made lists. When working at home, you can manage your time, you can have some tea, you can do this, and you can do that. The disadvantages were that you don't interact with people and you work more, because if you work in an office, sometimes you can just chit-chat.

When they put them in the situation of working at home, the group of people who had already thought about the positivity of working at home and the good side of it had better efficiency. Seeing positivity helped us to actually look for those things in our real life.

Adam Wes Beautiful. Thanks for the example. It's so great to see somebody living positivity like you do. I can feel it in your field. You clearly have an understanding of it. You just outlined, I think, four of them in that example right there.

The woman and the lessons you learned from her, or that were conveyed by her, included many of them. Wonderful. Beautiful. Thank you, Sepanta.

Positivity is not simply sticking your head in the sand. I've had people tell me that before. It's not. It's a real, productive, effective way of utilizing energy, building your energy, orienting your mind and your paradigm, and relating to life. It really is.

If there's a resistance to it, one might say, "Why? Why is that there for me?"

I love positivity.

Patricia, if you want to say anything, I don't know if you're unavailable. You don't have to if you don't want to, but I'm so happy to see you here.

One of my favorite things about Patricia is that her Instagram handle has Satori as part of her name. Satori is the Japanese word for enlightenment, and it's one of my favorite words.

Hi, Mandy! Welcome!

Mandy W Hey, Adam. Can you hear me okay?

Adam Wes Yep, we can.

Mandy W I had to ask Jenna how to get in. I was having problems.

Adam Wes All right, we're going to keep going with the class. It's 6:34. Pretty good timing. Let's begin our meditation so we get an actual meditation here.

Patricia, I was just saying you're welcome to talk if you like.

Today, we're going to use a perfect energy technique. In meditation, there are many subtle, almost esoteric ways of navigating consciousness. They're quite esoteric. Today, I'm going to talk about expanding the heart.

You can feel your heart chakra in your chest. You can feel it right here. That's esoteric already. But there's another technique. We don't want the heart to be small. We want it to be expansive.

You can make the heart take the shape of the whole room, and it's absolutely wonderful. You can push it back too, which is a little harder. But the heart field, that is, the vortex of energy that centers in anahata, the center of the chest, can expand to fill the space.

I would argue that there's a phenomenal, physical quality that is changing there, whether it's electromagnetic or something unknown to humanity at this time. We are changing not simply our brain cells or our nervous system, but some phenomenal actuality when we expand our field and reach out.

In our meditation today, we'll meditate on the heart and allow the heart to expand. You could have the 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's a quality when you do this that you have become bigger. You have become whatever your heart is encompassing. 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.

What we're going to do here is expand the heart and become more. Yee-haw! Let's do it. Obviously, it's got to do with cowboys, because you can feel it's like a ride. That's why I made that funny noise.

Let's play some music. We'll meditate for about 20 minutes. Let's go.

Soften.

If you'd like, bring your hands to your chest. Smile.

We expand the heart. Simply feel that part of your body. Give it your attention.

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

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

Notice the ability to become aware of the field. Play with its structure, its topology.

I like to use a mudra, holding my hands as if there's a beach ball in front of me.

Let your beach ball get bigger. A six-foot beach ball, every kid's dream.

Let your heart pull your body up. Push your chest forward.

We're practicing, in this meditation, the principle of positive focus. We're not saying, "Still the mind," but the mind naturally stills when we give attention to the heart.

Expand your heart to the full size of the room, of a building, holding the periphery, holding the interior.

Become aware of yourself beyond your body. Magical. That's what the heart is. Spacious. Luminous.

We shift our attention into dissolution and absorption. The heart field is established.

See yourself as magical. Let go of that conception and simply feel. This is a magical moment. This is a divine experience.

Continue to become energy.

Let's bring the attention back to the heart. Let the heart expand and touch the world.

Feel the abundance of self. Love, limitless within you because it is you.

Taking a deep breath, becoming aware of the body and the center of the heart, the heart chakra. Give yourself a nice smile.

When you're ready, come out of the meditation.

Namaste.

Well, that made me teary-eyed. That last song, oh my gosh.

Hi, Mom. Would you like to share?

Colleen Sure. First, I want to say, do I say Sepanta? How do I say your name? Sepanta?

Sepanta M Yeah, this is Sepanta. Hi.

Colleen Hi, Sepanta. I love what you and David said earlier. Thank you. I like those principles, and I know about them. I just need to remind myself daily.

That was a very nice talk. Thank you, Adam.

I don't know if I just heard your voice muffled until you said, "Open your heart and feel the world," or something, but then it became clear. I'm not sure if it was just me going into that state.

Adam Wes It might have been a little muffled if the music was too loud.

Colleen 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 Wes What were the qualities of the light? You had a direct encounter with the shakti. Was it waves of light?

Colleen You know, in and out.

Adam Wes You got the waves. Nice.

She experienced what's called soma, which is waves of light washing through the awareness, purifying the aura. It's truly a very divine experience. Beautiful. Namaste.

Did the heart space expand?

Colleen I suppose so, in a way. Thank you, Adam.

Adam Wes You're welcome. Namaste.

Who else would like to share? Patricia, share. I want to hear Patricia's voice, unless you're not available. That's okay.

Patricia No, I'm available.

Adam Wes Yay!

Patricia 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's hard for me to get into meditation, but it felt so useful. It was just really lovely. Thank you.

Adam Wes Wonderful. You're welcome. I'm glad.

Anybody else? Shawn, we haven't heard from you today. Shawn and Sam, it would be great.

Shawn E That was great. I'm very blissed out right now, sorry. I don't have any words.

Adam Wes Oh, yeah, man. Cool. That's a good place to be. You should feel pretty blissed out.

Words don't matter. Answers don't matter anymore. They say there are no answers in enlightenment. You simply stop asking. There's a sort of answer, which is that you are complete. That sort of, "I don't care anymore. Whatever. Everything is perfect." That's a good place to be.

Namaste, Shawn. How about you, Sam?

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

It feels like there is no reason, there is no logic, there is no answer to be sought in this state, but gratitude is a nice answer.

Adam Wes It's healing.

Sam I saw a cube of light. Then I saw waves of other cubes compressing it. It was not being shrunk. It was increasing in light and vibrance. It felt like a tesseract of light, of other cubes going in there and making it lighter.

Then it was gone. You said something about expansion, and you prompted something. I didn't hear it, but I felt it. Then there was a golden light with no dimension. It just kept expanding and expanding and expanding, and spiraling out of control, and then it came back. There were so many visuals. I just can't describe it.

Adam Wes Wonderful.

Sam This is art. We're creators. We're artists, and we get to witness that thousandfold.

Adam Wes I love it. Beautiful.

Share your energetic experiences, like my mom and Sam just did. One of the reasons we do that is that we get so high, but when we describe them, it's 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's part of the reason why we describe these esoteric experiences. Thank you, Sam. Namaste.

Elias, do you want to share? I haven't heard from Elias yet.

Elias P Hey, guys. I'm just chilling shirtless, so that's why I'm faceless.

Adam Wes Okay.

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

Adam Wes Yay, welcome.

Elias P You know what I did notice? We were doing the beach ball with the heart, and I noticed that I would try to stretch it. Then there was this voice that came in, like, "This won't work," or, "It doesn't work."

But as I was doing it, I could feel that it was actually working, and that I was very uncomfortable with it working. It brought into clarity how much I do that in my life. It was working, and it was swelling, and I was mad or really uncomfortable with it being so expansive and working.

Adam Wes That's interesting. One of the things you're actually doing is opening your heart, and there's a vulnerability in that. Through our scars in life, we learn to hold back and protect. This is very much the opposite of that. It may confront you.

You have to ask, do you want to be like that five-year-old self that hasn't closed the heart down and is not protecting the heart, or do you want to be open?

Obviously, there are times and places to do it. I would say you could do it anytime, but you have to be careful how you navigate the energy. If you're in an energetically unsafe space, you can have an open heart, but there are skills as to how to do that.

It's not simply opening it in vulnerability. In a way, it's actually very resilient and powerful if you do it right. You have to navigate that paradox, because you're opening it, but the real cost is the closing of the heart.

Elias P Sure, I know what you mean, but I'm actually talking about something a little different. It's like not wanting things to be easy and good. Once I became conscious, I got to choose something different, but that was the limiter for me.

I've felt that with the heart. When it opens really wide, I've felt like nothing could hurt me.

Adam Wes Yeah, okay, good. There's that aspect of it as well, because you're like a sun. What are you going to do, throw a little satellite into it? It's going to dissolve. You're safe in your radiance.

But, yeah, everything can be good now. That's not a surf bum attitude. That's dharma unfolding in its full radiance.

You have to give up some agency, I suppose, in a way. There's a sense of, "I'm an artist, so I'm unfolding in my truth." It's that sort of artistic orientation. Perhaps that's what you mean. I'm not sure exactly. These are subtle things, so I'm doing my best to meet you with what you're describing.

Elias P Sure. I think it's more like a subconscious commitment to being Eeyore, but anyway.

Adam Wes Boom. Eeyore.

Well, thank you for sharing, Elias. I love your self-honesty. It's always a joy to hear the degree to which you're self-aware and honest. It's cool, man.

Elias P Thank you.

Adam Wes Boom.

How about just a 30-second share from David? You wanted just 30 seconds?

David P Yeah. I can still feel my heart really big inside my chest right now.

Many things happened, but there are two that I would like to share. I was feeling the air more dense and warm. This started when I increased the size of the ball to the room, and it stayed like that until the very end.

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

The other thing that happened is that suddenly I couldn't hear what you were saying, so I was having my own thing going on. At one point, an idea came to me. It was like, "The brightness is not coming from you. It's going through you. Just let the brightness go from source through you, and let it be."

That was the peak, when I just released the agency, I think that's the word you used. I just said, "Okay, just go ahead." Then I felt like the ball just went...

Adam Wes 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 Wes Oh, okay.

David P I was thinking of the air coming into my lungs through my nostrils.

Adam Wes It might have been the prana, then, because there's prana in the air, apparently. If you breathe deeply really quickly, you'll get high from the prana.

David P Yeah.

Adam Wes Thank you, David. Namaste. Thanks for sharing.

I'd love to see everybody here next week. Let's build the momentum. Let's build the community.

If you want to meditate, I shared a guided meditation in the Circle space and the open community. It's a new one I did last week on light, so enjoy that. You can use it every day or every now and then.

I also shared the playlist that we listened to today on the Circle app, which I'm calling our digital ashram, by the way. It's an ashram, man. It's a digital ashram. Take a look at those.

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We'll be here next week at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time. I'm really grateful for everybody joining, contributing to the energy, and holding this wavelength of mysticism, positivity, and love.

Namaste!

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

I'll see everybody soon. Thank you.

Positivity opens the heart, transforms consciousness, and supports an expansive way of meeting life through love, gratitude, faith, and energetic awareness.

• Let the wheel of thought and cognition slow down. Bring attention to the heart, feel the energy in the body, and rest in uncaused happiness.
• Positivity is a key bhakti principle. It plays a powerful role in opening the heart.
• Revolve around what you want. What you focus on magnifies, and what you focus on, you become.
• Be grateful for what you have. Gratitude is awareness of the blessings that are present now.
• Believe anything is possible. Belief allows aspiration and action, while also bringing the immediate freedom of possibility.
• See the best in things. Accept what has happened, learn from it, and make it an advantage.
• Believe everything will work out. Faith and trust bring equanimity and allow one to meet circumstances optimally.
• Radiate brightness through the eyes, the smile, and the countenance. Let compassion, goodness, and abundance shine from within.
• Sangha, practice, books, and positive association can support a return to positivity when negativity feels difficult to leave.
• The heart can expand beyond the body and fill the room. The mind naturally stills when attention is given to the heart.
• Opening the heart includes vulnerability, but an open heart can also be resilient, powerful, and safe in its radiance.
• Describing or writing down energetic experiences can provide an access point for remembering and returning to them.

Spend time giving attention to the center of the heart. Soften the energy, give up fighting for a moment, and allow the heart to expand beyond the body. Let it fill the surrounding space with love, spaciousness, luminosity, and positive focus.

• Awareness of what receives focus, and whether it causes the heart to expand.
• Gratitude for the ordinary blessings that are already present.
• The feeling that possibility is open, regardless of immediate results.
• Seeing the best in circumstances that cannot be changed.
• Faith that everything is working out and that life is holding you.
• Moments of smiling and radiating brightness, including while waiting or sitting in traffic.
• Softening the energy and allowing attention to rest in the heart.
• Writing down energetic experiences while they are still fresh.
• Positive association through sangha and continued practice.

• What does the heart naturally expand toward?
• Where is gratitude present right now?
• What is it like to feel that life is holding you?