Awakened Conscious Conversations
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Many of our guests have overcome significant obstacles and transformed their lives.
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Awakened Conscious Conversations
When Nature Pauses You, Listen!
A simple walk through Kew Gardens became a doorway to wonder. Wandering past Victorian glasshouses and autumn leaves, I stumbled into a rare moment of stillness: a young deer foraging in the quiet. That encounter wasn’t just beautiful—it reshaped how one can think about courage, grace, and the way the unexpected can interrupt a tired routine and hand us back our attention.
That poise inspired a guided meditation that carries you into a moonlit forest: crystalline trees, a humming river, silver light, and a warm blanket of belonging. The imagery isn’t fluff—it’s a map for calm. Each sensory detail helps the nervous system shift from urgency to steadiness, and the breath becomes the bridge that makes it stick.
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Welcome to today's show. I was on a day trip in the wonderful Kew Gardens. If you've never been and you ever get to come to London, I highly recommend it. It dates back to the 16th century. It houses some of the biggest collection of plant life in the world. And it is so beautiful. Like there's these really old, like Victorian green houses there, and it is beautiful. And you kind of can imagine like Henry VIII kind of going through there. So it's got a lot of history there, but it's stunning, beautiful, magical. And I really enjoyed my day trip. I had this wonderful experience where I was in a bit because the thing is with Q, it's so big there can be parts where you walk around for a bit and you don't really see anybody. And I was kind of in one of those bits, autumnal leaves everywhere, and I spotted a little creature, and I knew it couldn't be a dog because people don't bring dogs into Q. And I was just thinking, well, oh, it's a deer, and it was an adolescent deer. And it that this adolescent deer was being really resourceful. It was kind of collecting bits of nuts and things from the ground, foraging and stuff, but also being aware of it's around is obviously not well enough because it didn't spot me, or maybe it did, and I just realized I wasn't kind of gonna hurt it. Who knows? I can't get inside the mind of a of an adolescent deer, but it was it was really beautiful to behold, and it felt such a gift because it made me well, I I felt compelled to s to pause. Obviously, now in the UK we don't have wolves, but in one point this deer would have been kind of looking for its life. It was in it was in a safe place, it was in inside a giant s estate that is kind of walled off, so there wasn't much danger of cars coming past, which is tends to be the biggest killer, unfortunately, of deers these days. It was being very resourceful now and collecting what it needed to eat, and it just it just what it gave me was it reminded me that of the unexpected that we can have. You know, we think life can be a bit kind of boring and samey samey, and then every once in a while something pops up like that and makes everything a bit more fun and a bit more different. So it was it was a real grace to to see that. And I always think of deer when I see deer, it makes me think of grace and that wonderful faith. And this deer I felt had faith in nature and its surroundings, and also a sign of power and peace, so it's powerful, beautiful, but also peaceful. And I always think deers are very spiritual creatures, they have a beautiful mythology about they almost feel like they're kind of like messages from from the realm of of nature. Seeing a deer alive and beautiful like that is a real blessing. There's something very saintly about them, graceful, and and reminds me to kind of allow myself to be more me in life. Seeing this deer was a blessing, and in the sense that it was a it feels like it's a pinnacle point in what I'm trying to do next. I think it's best I'll share more once I feel that I'm kind of at that bit, but I can feel the the kind of swing swinging the way that it feels like I want it to, rather than this uphill kind of struggle that it has been for a while. So watch this space, dear listeners. And here is a deer-inspired meditation. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back, always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, or that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching. And if you're doing something that requires little concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, that's vegan. So as you close your eyes, you find yourself in a mystical forest. This forest is ancient, and the trees are so old that they glisten with mystical crystals capturing times that are even older than this old mystical forest. And there's a gentle frost and snow. But the moon has lit up the place to see, and you find the most warmest blanket to wrap around you as you sit softly on the bottom of a forest. In the background you can hear the water of a river that crosses the middle of the forest. And in front of you, in the distance, you can smell the smoke of a fire of a cottage fire that's drifted in the wind into this wonderful mystical forest. So though that this is co this is a cold night, this blanket you found keeps you ever comforted as this moon casts slivery, beautiful silver light everywhere, and within this forest floor you see some winter flowers like snow drops, etc managing to be despite the chilly temperatures. A soft damp leaf falls from a nearby tree and you watch as it cascades down to the floor. All the time there's the hum of the water and the smell of this beautiful old cottage somewhere in the distance. But you are here in this moment and you're reminded that this place is like the courage that you have inside you, but so often forget. You are strong, you are amazing, and this courage is here for you whenever you need to. As you sit there, a family of deers come past you. The stag's breath is magnificent as a silhouette against the moonlit light. The doll and their baby forage a bit against the hardened, slightly crispy ground of the forest. And just for a moment, all three of you capture each other's eyes. So you have a moment where you stare at them and they stare at you, but both of you sense that not none of you want to harm one another. There's just this moment where time feels like it's kind of stopped. The mystical significance of this, the strength that you can always turn on, the unexpected beauty if only you open your eyes, and the power in the pose, just to be for when we are still, that is when miracles can happen and come to us. So as you start to inhale in and out through the nostrils, calming long deep breaths, you slowly now come back into the moment, come back into the room, knowing that your mystical dear self you can connect with whenever you feel you need to know where you're going in life or need a bit of courage. So, thank you for listening, dear listeners. If you would like a personalized meditation, then just go to shamanichealings.earth for more information.
