The Daily Transmissions Podcast

Look Up: Why the Sky Has More to Teach Us Than Our Phones

Yelena Mogilev

From the serene base of a snow-covered mountain in Whistler, Canada, this meditative episode offers a moment of calm reflection during turbulent times. After taking necessary space for personal healing, I return with insights from this ethereal landscape where snow falls freely and mist embraces mountaintops like "a hug from the heavens."

The natural world becomes our guide to navigating life's complexities. We witness how clouds swallow mountain peaks only to part moments later, revealing crisp blue skies—a perfect metaphor for the impermanence of our heaviest emotions. This visual reminder serves as an invitation to trust life's cycles and recognize that nothing, not even our deepest grief, remains forever.

Looking upward becomes both literal practice and spiritual metaphor in this episode. Whether you're walking through concrete jungles or forest paths, the simple act of shifting your gaze from downward to skyward can transform your experience. When we view the world "through eyes of innocence," appreciating its fragility and magic, we participate in creating the change we wish to see. As discord and heaviness surround us globally, we're reminded of our power to "soften the air" through deliberate acts of kindness and love. The episode concludes with a guided forest meditation, inviting listeners to experience calm, ease, and trust wherever they find themselves.

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Speaker 1:

hello, hello, hello, dear ones, you're so, so lovely to be back with you. I know it's been a minute or five. Um, I have been a bit silent for no reason other than it's been a very full full time and I have been moving to 5 000 different spaces, so there's so much juiciness to come, I promise you, as a result of stepping through these portals, and I needed that time for myself To feel and be and grieve and cry and scream at the top of my lungs and be numb and be all the things that I'm modeling and attempting to model what it means to be human for you by doing it first. And I have a really special conversation for you today, likely very short and sweet, just as we all have enough capacity for. So currently I am sitting at the base of a gorgeous, ethereal mountain in Whistler, right outside of Vancouver, canada, a truly, truly, truly ethereal, magic, magic place where the snow magic place, where the snow falls so freely, you, where I personally, am reminded that, amidst the chaos, that is the magic and it is up to us to pay attention. As I look out, I see all the luscious treetops dusted with this beautiful white, like a Bob Ross painting, but yet it is real and exquisite. And the sky is above, swallow up the top of the mountain in its mist, embracing it with a hug from the heavens at the top, whiting out all that is all. That is period, because it can. And then in the next moment, the clouds part and the sun shines, and the skies are blue. They are so lusciously crisp and clear and the sun seems to wink at you, or at least that's the game I'm playing. And it is exquisite. It is a pocket, a portal of calm and grace and magic and warmth from the people, the kindness, the love, a portal back in time to when things in some ways were much less complicated. And it is really truly such an honor to be here in this moment in time, and I share it with you because things have been heavy and now I'm not alone in feeling this and in engaging in so many different conversations, navigating the confusion and uncertainty and discord and frustration and anger and ire, and feeling everything from rage, everything from rage to downright guttural grief, to deflation, and then in the next moment, I see a friend smile and all that melts away for that moment. So I'm here to remind you, wherever you are, wherever you find yourself, to look up, whether you are in a concrete jungle. I know in New York it was.

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One of my favorite things to do is to when I worked for years in real estate is to remind my clients to look up, to not walk with their eyes turned downward, but instead to turn them skyward, to look up, up, up and about, because there's so much to take in, to view the world through the eyes of innocence whenever we can, because it is fragile and each next moment is not guaranteed. Because it is fragile and each next moment is not guaranteed. So, my loves, don't spend your life bitching and in discord. Look for the magic. I promise you it is right there, waiting for you and in the words of the cheesiest that is out there, we get to be the change we want to see in the world. If we want to see a kinder, more welcoming world, it starts with us, in our little corner, wherever that may be.

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I don't know about you, but that is my plan to love everyone I meet, to treat them with love and grace and kindness and to soften the air around me and us both, because it gets heavy on its own.

Speaker 1:

To soften the air around me and us both, because it gets heavy on its own, and that too will pass. And as I sit here a few moments in this conversation, the skies have yet to part, but they are reminding me of how cyclical everything is. I love you. I hope you feel this as an embrace wherever you are, a moment of calm and quiet, if you can. Taking these moments to imagine yourself walking among these evergreen trees, hearing the sounds of running water as a creek makes itself known to your right, covered in snow, and all the rocks melting away at just the edges, where the snow comes back to its liquid form, becoming one with all that is as it always was. Taking these moments to walk through this forest of calm, of ease, of trust, where you are held, where you are safe, where you are loved, where you are loved and where everything you dream is yours. I love you and, as always, stay delicious, because you already are.