Quick Reading Habit to Develop Insight | Lectio Divina For Everyone | Day 7

Can an ancient practice help you uncover new depths of inner peace and freedom? Andrea Mai guides you through the super-simple contemplative reading and listening practice of Lectio Divina, using a specially selected passage from her book, "The Calm Way"

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Chapters

• 0:01 Exploring Lectio Divina Practice Together
• 12:45 Embarking on Daily Meditation Practices

Transcript

Andrea mai: 0:01

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Andrea mai: 0:07

And now let's get into today's presence session. Good morning and welcome to our presence session today for Pure Light Project Podcast. My name is Andrea Mai and I'm so very glad you're here. My name is Andrea Mai and I'm so very glad you're here. The thing I'd like to explore today with you is this ancient practice called Lectio Divina, and Lectio Divina is simply hearing a passage, listening to a passage passage and opening yourself to. Maybe it's a word or a syllable or a sentence inside of that passage of material that just starts to tickle you, unravel inside of you, and yesterday we did a reading from the Calm Way and I realized that I didn't really express about Lectio Divina. Now, we don't have to give it any name, it's simply a contemplative practice. The beauty is that we don't need to add commentary to it, we don't have to logically think about it, and that is more of what I'm referring to when I say Lectio Divina. It's what arises beyond the sort of the thinking brain or the logical mind, what, what word or phrase pings you like, what rattles you in some way energetically and starts to open, and so we don't have to attach any kind of story to it. So today we're going to do another reading from the Calm Way, which is my newest book. We're going to do another reading from the Calm Way, which is my newest book. Again, the Calm Way 365-day journey out of the weeds and into the wilds of true inner freedom. And this is from day 174. So I invite you, as we begin this, to take that good posture as if you were doing seated meditation. You might even pause this and grab a notebook or something to write with so that you can write through whatever is unfolding, but first just let it feel its way through you. First just let it feel its way through you. I'm only going to read a couple of short paragraphs for you, and that's one of the ways that it can work really well, this practice. So this is from day 174. Consciousness desires to know itself and its capacity. There is no posturing, just curiosity and energy. Poise arises whenever you trust you are good, no matter how things turn out. Be you, let go of outcomes. What's in the way of pure, flowing consciousness? It's the old information we hang on to, like boxes of index cards heaped in a vast, dusty library. If you choose to flow, that old stuff has to go. And so I'm gonna read this one more time and again this isn't about the logical mind, the thinking brain, it's simply what word pings you. So relax, open to it and then let it just continue to sort of ripple through you. So relax, open to it and then let it just continue to sort of ripple through you. And if you have a pen and paper or something to write with, you might just write the word or the phrase down for further reflection. Consciousness desires to know itself and its capacity. There is no posturing, just curiosity and energy. Poise arises whenever you trust you are good, no matter how things turn out. Be you, let go of outcomes. What's in the way of pure, flowing consciousness? What's in the way of pure, flowing consciousness? It's the old information we hang on to, like boxes of index cards heaped in a vast dusty library. If you choose to flow, that old stuff has to go. And so now we're going to sit for a few minutes and just explore that, and by explore, like I said, let it unfold, and then, when we come back in about four minutes, I invite you to write about it. Notice what comes up in that unfolding no-transcript. And let's take two minutes to just jot down some reflections about the word or phrase that really popped up for you. Okay, okay, take about 30 more seconds. Beautiful, alright, I hope that you found some value in that experience. I'll be doing two or three of these each week so that you can approach. Approach, so that you can find new ways into the depths of you, into the depths of what is, and beyond that, I'm excited to roll out. In July. I will be rolling out the Pure Light Portal, where we will have a chance to practice together in a deeper way. To practice together in a deeper way. I'll be offering twice-monthly longer group practices where we'll gather together on a video call. They'll take you from these initial phases of meditation into a deeper place. If you're seeking to go into the depths, what I've always found and I still find it to be very true meet all these layers of ourself that come up to meet boredom when we're sitting, to meet restlessness, to meet lethargy, to get under the noise of our life experience, so that we can explore what really is, and I'm excited to share this with you. For now, let's let's begin by just establishing these daily practices and or regular, as consistent as as you choose, these practices building up the habit, and then we move into a little bit more with these longer group sits and walking meditations, and I have a lot of things that I'm excited to share with you that are really going to take it to the next level, if that's what you choose. So have a beautiful day and I will see you tomorrow. Come over to purelightbookshoppe. com and check out my newest book, T he Calm Way: 365-Day J ourney O ut of the Weeds and I nto the Wilds of True I nner F reedom.