The Meditation Resolution

Adam Wes Namaste, everybody! Welcome! Celebration, graduation, how fun is this?

You guys have succeeded in transforming the world by transforming yourselves, because we are society. Society is not something outside of us. It's a collection of human beings. It's like a tribe. Imagine a tribe in ancient days that had 100 people, right? Each of those people is 1%. So how do we transform the world? Well, we have to tend the soil of the self and bring abundance, wholeness, and that benevolence that comes from knowing your true self, being with your true self.

This is how we bring to the world substance, something of substance that brings peace, that brings love, that brings joy and happiness, and all those things, like David's hearts right now.

So, you have followed through with probably, mostly, 31 days of meditation. It was an idea. It was an aspiration, and you willed it into existence. You willed it into your life. You made a decision.

That's how this works, how we transform. We make a decision. A lot of people say, "Oh, I should meditate. I'll do it one day." You did it! You actually did it! And I've gotten so many beautiful messages from people.

Good job, Roshna! Good job, Praveen! You guys did such a great... Wait, we're missing Aman! We have to have Aman here. Well, he'll arrive soon. Aman and Debbie will miss this part.

So, good job, everybody else. It's really, really wonderful.

The whole idea behind the meditation resolution is to begin, right? It's kind of hard to begin sometimes. We have to be trailblazers in our own selves, building that trail where, in the forest, there's no trail. But if we walk it enough times, there's a trail, and we'll walk it from then on.

Today we'll talk a little bit about how to maintain this practice and what you can do. Think of this as the beginning of perhaps many years of meditation and spiritual practice. Now, you could obviously do it with us and the group, but you can also do it by yourself. This is not meant to be promotional, although you can always participate in supportive programs. It is meant to set you in a state of independence where you can continue this and make the most of this decision that you've made with the resolution here.

I've gotten some beautiful messages from people about how this is helping them.

Harrison, are you ready? Everything is still except for you, Harrison.

All right. One of the things I'd like to make everybody aware of is that meditation is a momentum. What is momentum? Momentum is the tendency to move in a particular direction. You could take a big thing and move it, and once it gets moving, it keeps moving. But you have to keep applying force to this thing to increase its momentum. If you've taken Newtonian physics, you perhaps know about this. The more you keep applying force, applying force, applying force, it gains momentum. Eventually, you have this thing that's moving, and it doesn't stop unless you apply the same force in reverse, actually.

Meditation and spirituality are very much a meditative momentum, an inner momentum that we create. It starts to present itself in a number of ways. You may have just gotten the initial tastes of, "Oh, this anxiety has lifted. Oh, this benevolence has increased. Oh, this intelligence has refined." All of these things happen with continued practice.

You've done just one month. After a year, how creative might you be, Kira? I know you've been doing this for a long time, but look how creative you are. You just keep going, right?

After a year, David, how aligned with integrity will your business endeavors be? And your magic and your dantian power, right?

After a year, Roshna, how deep will your freedom be? Your sense of freedom in yourself to do whatever your heart wishes and stand in equanimity, in peace.

Cole, after a year, how clear and poised will you be in the boardroom when you're talking to all those interesting finance people that you'll be working with?

This touches all of our lives. And Ariella, how well will you be able to speak to the unborn children that are incarnating, right?

You have to build this, so be aware of all the many blessings that come out of becoming whole and becoming your bliss. The bliss of being is within us. More practice, more consistency. Keep it going.

Oh, here's Debbie. Excuse me. Does anybody have Aman's number? I really wish Aman were here.

Harrison M I'll text him. I'll text him.

Adam Wes Oh, wonderful, wonderful. He actually showed up at 5:30 when we were originally going to start.

Debbie, we were just talking about how this practice builds momentum, and the more you do it, the more the momentum accumulates.

Looking forward, 15 minutes a day is a good baseline, but it's hard to really dive in at 15 minutes unless you're really good, actually. It's really for advanced people to do just 15 minutes. Beginners should do a long meditation, clear their space, and then have a nice five minutes at the end, right?

It's very true. If you want to see how far you can go, spend three hours doing nothing in your own neurotic mind, then spend an hour trying to meditate, and then spend 10 minutes really meditating. That'll be great, right? You can take a whole Saturday to do this.

I've outlined a process for the rest of the year that you may want to pursue. For the first three months, do 15 minutes a day. You can keep doing the 15 minutes until it's just so deeply part of your life. Then you're going to get a little bored with that. It'll be your new baseline and your new normality. You'll have normalized that in your life.

Then do 15 minutes twice a day. This is a very organic flowering. Think of yourself as a beautiful rose just flowering. The petals come open very naturally and slowly. Don't force them. It'll be 15 minutes twice a day for the next three months.

Then you can increase one of them to 30 minutes. Perhaps your morning meditation is a good 30 minutes, unless you are more aligned with a longer evening meditation. That's fine too.

Then, for the last three months, 30 minutes twice a day, which is really not that big of a deal. Yes, you'll probably do it and meditate more than anybody you know, but that's because we live in an illiterate society. Imagine 300 years ago, when people couldn't read and write. We're in a society that doesn't really understand this yet, so we don't want to be a product of our society. We want to be what we want to be, truly.

After those next three months, you'll have an hour a day stabilized. You can stop there and do that for the rest of your life, or as long as you want. If you want to, bring it up to two hours a day. Two hours a day is a very devoted duration, but it's also quite optimal for the path to enlightenment.

Do two hours a day, then live in excellence for the other 22 hours a day. Your dreaming should be still. Your eating should be mindful. Your work should be inspired. Everything, right? You start refining everything. Your whole life comes into beautiful focus.

So that's the plan ahead.

The practice room is available. Whether or not you continue with any programs or anything, you can just log on to the website and see the practice room. You can see the book of the month, the quote of the day, when the full moons and new moons are, and any new sermons I make. You can go there. I'm planning to keep it really nice and beautiful and expand upon it. So there's the practice room for you.

Did anybody have any questions, by the way? All righty.

Colleen Well, I just want to congratulate everybody who did this. You're an inspiration, and if it happens again, I'm going to go for it.

Adam Wes Wonderful. Thanks, Mom. Colleen, my mom, was going to join, actually, but she was traveling in South Africa, and the times were all off. She's going to join the next one.

Thank you for pointing that out. The plan is to hold this every three months. If you want to do the meditation resolution again in April, you can do it again and restart it. If you have any friends who maybe want to do it, it's kind of like an initiation that I'm holding for one month every three months. I think that's a nice frequency.

There'll also be an evergreen version of the recordings. I'm going to make that available if anybody wants to do it with the evergreen version.

I have something very special to share with everybody. It's half a personal announcement and half a very relevant announcement to what's going on here.

One of the challenges I've faced over the years was integrating mathematics and meditation, mathematics and spirituality. People didn't really get it. You're probably thinking, "Oh, it's still kind of hard to get," because our society says math is like this, and it's not interesting or spiritual at all, the way you learn it in school, right?

I've created a context that will help everybody see a few things. One, how you can integrate those and how it may make sense for you. Andrea, remember we were talking about this in December? You were like, "Well, help me make sense of it." You're about to see it!

I've worked really hard on this, guys. In fact, I need to have a good night's sleep tonight, now that I've finally got everything up and ready to be shown.

It also holds a greater context. If you do want to participate and be supported in your practice moving forward, there's a whole beautiful context for you to step into, of your own interest and at your own time. So here it is!

This is 10 years in the making. Nobody knows about this yet except for my mom, whom I told a couple of hours ago. You guys are the first ones to know, and I'm really excited to share it with you. Then I'll tell everybody else soon.

I've kind of got butterflies. All right.

Cole P Very excited to see this.

Adam Wes Oh, Cole, yes. Think about all the years. I've known Cole for nine years. So, Cole, this is what I've been creating for nine years, essentially, since you met me.

The School of Futuristic Intelligence.

I've created a school here. Maybe you're going to have to read through this in your own time because it's quite a bit, but it's essentially cultivating essence, abstraction, and form.

It describes the futuristic human being, which is really what it's all about. It's not about being a super math geek or being a super deep spiritual person. It's about being a holistically cultivated human being who is refined in all of these futuristic ways. Basically, the potential of a human being.

I guess I'm going to let you read it, but this is what it is. You can pull it up on your page. It's at theheartofmathematics.com. It's the new homepage now.

It includes coding, and if you're interested in exploring enrollment, there's a form here. You can explore the different ways that you might be interested in enrolling. It's a three-part form. I'd love to see how you guys fill that out and what your interests and focus are.

If I look at the top here, we've got spirituality, love, light, sangha, practice hall, the mathematics programs, and the coding programs. I've also got private mentorship.

That's the whole thing. All of it is mixed together in the form of a school.

Kira, what do you think? Are you there?

Kira I was making a lot of long hand motions.

Adam Wes Oh.

Kira This is so exciting! Oh my gosh.

Adam Wes Kira has been seeing me work on this for a long time.

If you read "What Is a Futuristic World?" In fact, maybe I'll read this, and then we'll get on because we've got to do a 30-minute meditation here together today.

"A futuristic world includes all the marvels of technology and our capacity to realize our every material wish. It also includes the subjective capacity to be present with those blessings in bliss and love, in the highest spiritual consciousness.

"Without that state of mind and spirit, we miss the opportunity to truly revel in form.

"Furthermore, it includes the wisdom to guide and direct these powers honorably, with love and service to all, and the comprehension and ingenuity to build our technology so that we may command the material world.

"Ultimately, we aspire to the fullest expression of life in form and the deepest capacity of consciousness and spirit, so that we may share in the most profound beauty and most magical moments together in love."

This is what I dream of, for us to be able to have beautiful moments together out there on the Bolivian salt flats under the stars, meditating with samadhi and consciousness, supported in our lives by technology and adventure, and cared for by the power of technology.

The program is to cultivate mind, body, spirit, and heart, all of it, really, but I haven't included the body part as much yet.

Basically, it's a cohesive school for all the programs, and you can see how they fit together. It's been very inevitable. This has really been what has been going on, but now I've made it very explicit.

I like this little module here, if you want to take a look at it another time: Full Spectrum Multidimensional Intelligence. Intellectual, mathematical, scientific, interpersonal, self-command, stillness, psychic, wisdom, cleanliness. All of these different aspects of cultivation form a basis, and that's a math term, a basis for excellence and awakening.

So there you go. If you have any questions about this, let me know.

I want to read these comments here. Thank you, Harrison. Thank you, David.

You're the first ones who got to see it. Thanks, Kira.

SFI, School of Futuristic Intelligence.

One more thing. I want to give you a little nugget. It probably would have been fun to buy these for you guys, but they're actually quite cheap, and so I want you to buy these yourselves.

To support you on your spiritual journey, you'll need a few special keys. It's like Lord of the Rings. Go off and be supported with a little bit of magic. So here's some magic for you.

First of all, selenite. I don't know what I would do without my selenite.

You've got it already, Andrea? Nice.

Honestly, I need this stuff. I use it to pull on my chakras. Just holding it is quite affordable. This big piece right here is, I don't know, $10?

It's purification. When you go into the world, you pick up all kinds of astral energies. This purifies you. It protects you through purification. Think of it as an astral shower. It washes you clean.

I highly recommend that you get even just a little piece. This is a big piece, actually. These are my giant pieces that I always keep with me. Look how big they are. They're amazing, and I know how to use them to protect myself.

The next thing I recommend is like selenite's cousin: black tourmaline.

This protects you in a different way. It absorbs negativity. Yeah, exactly, lightsabers. This absorbs negativity. When you hold it, it almost feels like it's sucking all the negativity into it. The black absorbs, right? You can feel that. It's very different from the selenite.

It's a little more expensive, but you don't need a big piece like this. You guys can get a tiny piece of any of these.

Part of the reason I wanted to share this with you is that you can take the tiny piece and let it remind you of our time together, right? Let it be memorabilia so that you can say, "Oh, I meditated for 31 days," and this reminds you. You put it on your counter. If you have a week when you don't get to it, which hopefully will never happen, then you can remember. It's a little physical reminder.

The third one could be a number of things, but I felt like the most important is this: pink quartz. Rose quartz.

Rose quartz is a gentle hug. It's love, gentleness, and support. In a harsh world, maybe you'll be alone without sangha, or maybe you'll have sangha and you'll be out there alone for a moment. Either way, rose quartz soothes. It's a heart-centered stone.

I recommend you go to a crystal shop. They'll have little cheap ones, or you can go all out. You can get a giant one of these. They're pretty cool. Or get a giant rose quartz and have it be the centerpiece in your beautiful house.

Do you guys like those crystals? Nice.

David P Can you name them again?

Adam Wes This is selenite, with an S.

David P Selenite?

Adam Wes This is black tourmaline.

David P Black tourmaline.

Adam Wes And this is rose quartz. Cool.

AriellaShira L What do you do with them, Adam?

Adam Wes There are a number of things you can do. One, you can just look at it, but don't just look with your eyes. Feel its presence. Feel its structure. Feel its nature. Feel its knowledge.

This is a possibility of manifestation. It is an embodied possibility. When you focus on it, what you focus on, you become. You will feel more like it.

If you were to go and look at a palm tree for five hours, you'd start to feel like a palm tree, right? If you look at it at just a glance, and you're good at empathic connection, you'll feel like a palm tree immediately. So when you focus on it, you'll feel that.

Another thing you can do is feel your qi into it. Put your kundalini into it. One thing that I like to do is pull from my heart chakra, clearing around it. You can play around with your own intuitive way of connecting it with your astral body.

With all three of them, you essentially can do that, although selenite is a little bit better for the swinging. But I do that with all kinds of things. You could take this one and move it around, put it on your head, put it on your body, put it on your heart, or put it on your third eye.

You have to learn. You develop a relationship with it. These guys, I know them quite well. They're my friends.

Look what Kira has. Look at that thing. Quartz is a great one as well. That's a very expensive piece right there. That's probably $500, maybe more. Kira, move it around.

If it's really big like that, you can sleep with them. I've seen people literally sleep on a bed of crystals, all over their sheets. There are all kinds of things you can do.

Or you could just keep a couple in your pocket when you go out to an event where there are a lot of random energies. Keep them in your pocket, and it's a little bit of a protector. It holds your inner state in attunement.

Superman had crystals. This even looks like Superman crystals, right? Watch this.

My brother likes selenite too, and he made a selenite lamp. Isn't that cool? It's fiber-optic.

Ariella's going to have selenite lamps all over her place. Her husband's going to be like, "What's going on with this hippie?"

All right. I like that Mom left.

Let's have a meditation today. Nice, Kira. Oh, that's black tourmaline? Nice.

By the way, there are so many crystals out there. I've got this wonderful book. This is an incredible book. It literally goes through every crystal and describes the energy of it. It's very accurate. It's an excellent book, one of my favorite books.

The Book of Stones by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian.

All right, let's do a meditation! It's 6:31. We can do a 35-minute, or maybe even 40-minute, meditation. Then we'll be done at 7:15, and I will say farewell. I'll see some of you again soon, and some of you whenever.

Any requests for the meditation we do today? Any favorites? Harrison?

Harrison M I was about to say, the last one we did was superb.

Adam Wes I was feeling that you guys felt that. All right, yes. Let's do an absorption.

How do we do absorption? Let me just remind everybody. There's a sense that you're not the doer. You're letting go. You're letting the universe carry you away, dissolve you.

It's not controlling my mind. It's not channeling my energy. You're letting the inner power, an ambient power inside of us that kind of wants to destroy. It feels like it breaks apart so it can be renewed in every moment.

A better way to say it is that you feel absorbed in spirit. Become absorbed. Be absorbed in the spirit. Be absorbed in the essence.

Let me pick a nice song for this. I will DJ. I'm a meditation DJ, just so you guys know. I need to figure out a way to change it without using my hands because I feel, in each moment, what the next song should be.

Meditation DJ, TM.

Kira? Never mind.

Oh, Cole, you're going to have to head out?

Cole P Yeah, I do, but thank you so much, Adam. Really great.

Adam Wes It's been wonderful having you, Cole. Good job. Thanks for being here. Everybody say bye to Cole. Bye, Cole!

Wait, Cole, before you go, can we do a quick photo of everybody?

Cole P Oh, yeah.

Adam Wes Is that okay? Quick photo. This time, come up. We all did something awkward last time, so let's do something better.

Let me put the timer on.

Kira Can you say when you're going to take the photo?

Adam Wes Yeah, okay. Get ready.

Kira Five, four...

Adam Wes Three, two, one. All right, let's do one more. Do something else.

Nice smile, Ariella. I like that. That's a nice smile.

Four, three, two. Okay. Wonderful. That was so sweet!

All right, Cole, thank you. Good job!

Cole P Bye! Have a good meditation, guys.

Adam Wes Thank you.

All right, let's get started. Can you hear the music? Yeah.

Start to bring attention to your body. Bring vitality to your whole form. We have to build that energy that's going to be our absorption.

A few preliminary steps for absorption: start to turn your attention to existence, to the now, to what is.

Bring your whole body into light. Feel the vitality throughout the whole physical form, the luminosity. Invoke it.

Begin to soften. Soften yourself in any ways that you're resisting. The nervous system and the aura subtly recoil. Let those resistances go.

Now, with the heart radiating and full, you can really step into being absorbed. Allow yourself to be carried away into the unknown.

Be absorbed.

There's an ambient power within us. Become that power. Become the dissolution inherent in that power. Allow yourself to be carried by it.

Bring attention to the moment, the expanse of the now, the everlasting, eternal transformations.

Bring attention to your heart, feeling gratitude.

Namaste.

All right. Let's have a really quick share. Praveen, would you like to share?

Colleen Me?

Adam Wes Praveen.

Praveen S Adam, thank you, first of all. Over the past month, we have been meditating, and what I've realized is that I'm still far away from the ideal that I would like to achieve. I need to put in more discipline and bring more focus.

I really appreciate your work in creating this space where we are able to meditate. There's something very different about joining the group rather than doing the meditation alone.

Thanks for that, and thanks for your encouragement, support, and inspiration. It's been a privilege for me.

Adam Wes It's been so wonderful having you here. Thank you for bringing all the beautiful sincerity, your energy, and who you are. It's really been great, and your consistency.

Praveen S Thank you.

Adam Wes Namaste, Praveen. Wonderful. How about you, David? Yay, David!

David P I want to tell Praveen that you look happier one month later.

Adam Wes Yeah, he does.

Praveen S Thank you, David.

David P I think that something happened.

Adam Wes Behold, it works.

David P Yeah, DJ Adam. I would like to know the tracks because today was awesome.

Adam Wes Oh, thanks for that feedback.

David P I traveled here, there, heart, light, absorption. I went everywhere, and the music was really part of it.

Adam Wes I was just flowing with it.

David P If you could share it, I would love it.

Adam Wes I will. It'll be in the practice room. The playlist is on the practice room, but I'll add this exact sequence from tonight at the end of it.

David P One last comment. When you said, "Merge into the light," I did it. I was able to, without much further thinking. This is the first time that I could connect. Then I realized that I connected, so I disconnected. But I really connected with it.

Adam Wes Sometimes when we see the light, we get excited. You've got to play it cool, man, because if you're not playing it cool, the light's going to get all egoic and walk away from you.

You're wonderful, David. Thank you for sharing.

David and I have had so much great time together since the beginning of summer, so it's been awesome spending time with you. Thank you.

David P Thank you.

Adam Wes How about you, Mom?

Colleen I agree, the music was perfect. I also was in different places while this was happening.

Something interesting happened today. The light usually goes like this for me, almost like breath, usually two colors. Today it did that, but it also had a red shape, almost like your black stick. Pick it up. Almost like that, in front of me, but raised.

Adam Wes Going up, going down, or both?

Colleen Spiraled.

Adam Wes Oh, cool! Nice.

Colleen I really enjoyed it. Thank you.

Adam Wes And your colors?

Colleen Purple and green, and a sort of deep pink. But then there's red.

Adam Wes Oh, wonderful. You see so much color. It's amazing.

Colleen I don't get this.

Adam Wes I don't get much variety. I always look in the gold. I want to see colors more. That's wonderful.

You're welcome, Mom. Namaste. Thank you for being here.

How about you, Ariella? Then we'll wrap up very shortly.

AriellaShira L Thank you for tonight. I mean, thank you for the whole month.

Adam Wes Good job. You did it!

AriellaShira L Yes! I've never done this before, meditating every day, so this has been such a blessing. Thank you.

Adam Wes You can keep it at 15 minutes. That's totally fine if that feels right for you, but you might get bored. You might want to go longer.

AriellaShira L What I've been doing in the morning is, as the sun rises, I close my eyes, but I merge with the sun. Then I go from the sun of our solar system to the sun of our galaxy to the great central sun of our universe, in this incredibly expansive way. Beautiful.

Tonight, when you said, "Merge with the light," I was able to have that experience again.

Adam Wes Wonderful.

AriellaShira L Without the sun being there.

Adam Wes That's a good technique, the expanding scopes, all the way to that size.

AriellaShira L Yes.

Adam Wes Very good. Wonderful. I love that you do that. Namaste. Good job this month. Yay, 31 days!

How about you, Andrea? Andrea!

Andrea P I had an interesting experience.

Adam Wes Yeah?

Andrea P I felt like all my cells were expanding. It was weird. I felt it all over my body, but I really felt it tingly in my feet and my hands, like that.

Adam Wes Wonderful. You got the charge going, the kundalini all over. Remember in the beginning when I said, "Bring your whole body into vitality"? That's what you're talking about.

Andrea P Yeah, I felt that. I didn't know what I was feeling, but now that you said it, yes, it was that.

Adam Wes Now that you can feel your hands like that, you'll get really used to it, and you can try to keep your body like this all the time. Feel your hands. They're nice and charged. You can feel it there. It's very different. They're charged hands.

Then you're like, "Okay, well, my heart needs to be charged most of all." Then you charge your third eye. "Oh, I need my crown charged. If my crown's not charged, I feel short." You have to be eight feet tall with your crown.

Then feel your root chakra, your navel center, all of them, and your feet, especially your hands and feet. Very, very good.

Andrea P It was weird. But thank you for the 31-day resolution. I think it was the perfect way to start the year.

Adam Wes Wonderful. Thank you for the idea. Just so everybody knows, Andrea suggested it! Yay, Andrea!

Did I do a good version of what you initially envisioned? She knows somebody who's done it before.

Andrea P Yes. Perfect. Like Praveen said, it's so much easier to... I will miss you! I will miss every day. Oh, my internet is terrible.

Adam Wes Now we're losing her. I asked how it was and whether I did a good job, and then it cut out.

Andrea P Sorry, my internet's really bad. It was perfect. It was really good, and I was saying that I will miss this.

Adam Wes Yes, it's going to be weird tomorrow. Keep doing your 5:30s, unless you want to change the time.

Consistency is key. It's like, "Whoa, it's 5:30." If you're not doing it, it's like you're not eating dinner. It's like you're not going to sleep. It's part of your life, so you can change it mindfully.

Andrea, thank you. Good job. Namaste.

How about you, Harrison? I love the energy Harrison brings. It's so great. It's positive, inspired, and creative. That's a cool necklace too.

Harrison M Thank you, thank you. Firstly, I just want to say thank you to everyone for being part of this journey, and particularly thank you to Adam.

I'm sure everyone feels it, but I feel beyond grateful to be here and to fully appreciate the power of the mind. I believe that our mind is the gold, and this kind of wisdom has the absolute potential to not only change your life, but it all starts with us, as Adam has said.

I highly recommend anyone read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle if they haven't already. I know it's on the list.

Adam Wes Good book.

Harrison M It's a great book, and it does talk about this. I feel this deep within me. As an artist, this is priceless because this directly correlates to my practice. Everything for this past month has directly fed straight into my work, which I hope to use on my mission of spreading love, trust, and respect around the world.

What I went through just then was, again, so beautiful. I can't really put it into words, but I'm grateful to be able to take this gift and put it into an art form to help communicate this to other people.

I'm sincerely grateful, and I'm looking forward to more time with you, Adam.

Adam Wes As with you, Harrison. It's been so amazing having you here. Thank you.

I'm just remembering your beautiful poem. Can I post that somewhere?

Harrison M Absolutely.

Adam Wes He wrote an amazing poem. It was so beautiful. Namaste, Harrison. Thank you for being here.

Harrison M Namaste.

Adam Wes Roshna, thanks for waiting! Then Kira, and then we'll go.

Rachna S Today was much better than the other days, I would say. It was very light. I did not have control of myself. That is what I felt. Often, I had to come back.

Today was the first time I saw multiple colors. It was not only white. It was multiple colors of pink and green. Fantastic. It was really good, and there was energy throughout the body.

I'm actually practicing it in the morning also, around 7:00 a.m., for 15 minutes again, since we started. I don't think I missed even a single day, morning or evening.

Adam Wes Perfect.

Rachna S I hope I continue this. I will really miss it because, as I said, I want to continue this practice. It's really helped me reduce my anxiety and have a bit of control over my claustrophobia.

I have felt relaxed. Even during my work time, if there were certain times when it felt really loaded, really heavy, I used to take a bit of time off and listen to the playlist that you shared. Things have calmed down.

I'm trying to use all these things that you have shared this month. Hopefully, it'll help me better myself. I'm already experiencing it, so thank you. Thanks for having this session, and thanks to everybody for being here every day.

As everyone said, I will really miss it. So tomorrow evening at 8:30, I'll have to be by myself, and I'll do so.

Adam Wes Wonderful. Good job! Thank you.

It's a big deal to see the light. It's a big deal.

Rachna S Yes. I felt it today.

Adam Wes Beautiful. Pink and green are both heart-centered light. Green is heart-centered, and pink is love too. If you look at the color wheel, pink and green are opposites, so they go together.

Rachna S Yeah.

Adam Wes Just like blue and gold. Wonderful, wonderful. Good job!

It's been so wonderful having you here. I'm just so glad you found this and we found you. Thank you for everything. You've brought your sincerity.

Remember, we do Tuesday night every week.

Rachna S Yes, definitely. We'll see you next week.

Adam Wes Namaste.

Rachna S Yeah.

Adam Wes Kira, last but not least.

Kira Wow, Adam, thank you so much for putting so much love, wisdom, and intentionality into gathering all of us. This is really special. I feel close to all of you.

Adam Wes Aw.

Kira It's just really sweet. We're all in different places, but coming here every day and being with all of you has been so, so special. I'm a little in tears.

Adam Wes Oh, that's so sweet.

Kira I'm so grateful for everybody and for you, Adam.

Adam Wes Thank you. I'm grateful for you. Did you have a good meditation?

Kira Oh, yeah. If I look at it overall, I feel a lot freer than when we first started.

Adam Wes Wonderful.

Kira There's just something that has lifted.

Adam Wes Yeah. I actually sense something. You're deepening.

Kira Something that may be limiting, or something like that.

Adam Wes Wonderful. And you're doing more creative work too?

Kira Definitely. My creativity has increased for sure this past month, and that could be very correlated.

Adam Wes I love it. You and Harrison should connect. You guys should all connect. If anybody wants to reach out to anybody, just let me know, and I'll be the matchmaker, the DJ, and the computer programmer. Web developer.

Good job, Kira. Wonderful. Thank you for being here, and thank you, everybody. I'm just so grateful for all of you.

For those of you who want to continue, we're building something. Andrea said something fun. She said, "Let's have 100 people by the end of the year."

The bigger the community gets, the more friends we have, and the more I can really have a lot more peace and space to give more, and not be distracted by money or a limited ability to advertise, and have more of my own practice.

I'd love to sit and meditate for five hours a day. Then I can bring all of that to our hour-and-a-half session at the end of the day, or hour and 15 minutes. As we grow, we can do that and refine it.

Take a look at the school's website. Please go and look at the school and let me know what you think. I worked so hard on that. It's crazy.

Kira What has this been like for you?

Adam Wes Aw. This has been really special. Holding something with such consistency has really strengthened my will and my impeccability. Being with sangha has been really special. I don't feel as isolated in my practice and in my community. I've got more spiritual friends, and being there for each of you is really special.

In Bhakti, one of the gifts in life is to make it about others, to make others a center, to get over yourself and focus on somebody else for a minute. This is a really great way to overcome all the challenges of being a human being, to make it about another, to make another the center.

That's part of my practice. And Kira, you're so sweet.

I got to formally practice caring about you, Roshna, caring about you, Praveen, caring about you, Andrea, caring about you, Harrison. That's one of the wonderful things about being a teacher. You get to give, and it gets to be my job to give. Then I get to feel warmth, love, and heart, and be free from my own self-centeredness to a better degree.

So thank you, everybody. Thanks for joining and participating and seeing what I've offered. Most of all, thank you to my mom.

Yay, Colleen, the best mom ever! I'm so glad you were here, Mom. Thank you for being here to watch this session and be part of it.

All right, guys. Namaste, everybody. I'll see you soon. Feel free to write me an email, or I'll see you next week or something. Bye!

Harrison M Adam?

Adam Wes You're welcome. Bye. See you.

David P Anyways, ciao.

Transformation begins by tending the soil of the self and sustaining meditative momentum through decision, consistency, and letting go.

• Society is a collection of human beings, so transforming the world begins with transforming ourselves.
• Meditation begins with a decision and gains momentum through continued practice.
• Walking the same inner trail consistently allows meditation to become a stable part of life.
• A daily baseline can flower organically into longer and more frequent periods of meditation.
• Consistency refines anxiety, benevolence, intelligence, creativity, integrity, freedom, equanimity, clarity, and poise.
• Holistic cultivation includes intellectual, scientific, interpersonal, spiritual, and practical capacities, along with self-command, stillness, wisdom, and cleanliness.
• Absorption is not about controlling the mind. It involves softening resistance, bringing attention to the body and the now, and allowing oneself to be carried into the unknown.
• Sangha can lessen isolation and strengthen will, impeccability, and spiritual friendship.
• Bhakti includes making others a center, giving, and becoming freer from self-centeredness.

Continue the meditation that has begun, allowing consistency to deepen it into a natural part of life. Let the practice grow without force, and notice how meditative momentum begins to refine the rest of daily living.

• A consistent daily meditation baseline, with 15 minutes as a place to continue.
• The natural rhythm and duration that allow meditation to become part of daily life.
• Moments of softening resistance and letting go during meditation.
• Attention to the body, vitality, existence, the present moment, the heart, and gratitude.
• Mindfulness in dreaming, eating, working, and other parts of life.
• The support of sangha and the opportunity to make another person a center through giving.

• Where do you notice meditative momentum in your life?
• What becomes possible when you soften resistance?
• How does making another person a center affect the heart?