Guided Meditations from The Heart of Men.
These are meditations that have arisen in our Men’s Circle Spaces, re-recorded for this library. May these serve you and your journey into wholeness.
Guided Meditation: Letting Ourselves be Porous (17 minutes)
This morning after some conflict with my wife, I noticed how tense my body was. Often, when I’m feeling lots of charge, frustration, or anger, there's a tendency to tighten—or “lock down” my body— as my armor comes online. Without much space to move, the feelings then become like a roaring fire in a tiny room—so hot that I cannot actually be with them. …
Meditation: Guiding us Goodnight in Gratitude and in Grace (11 minutes)
This is a shorter, more receptive meditation. We’re helping—or simply allowing— our bodies to resonate in a frequency of gratitude and grace that is uncommon in most of our day-to-day lives. In doing so, we’re replenishing our cells, our nervous system, our orientation to the night’s rest and the next day. I’d recommend laying down, and if you have this…
Guided Meditation: Putting Down the Burden (21 minutes)
We often work with burden in our men’s spaces. Brothers come into the circle holding the responsibility for an entire village. Late-stage-capitalism meets the nuclear family structure meets social isolation meets aging parents meets planetary collapse—and we have the recipe for an enormous weight we could never possibly carry. Under the pressure of all …
Guided Meditation: Slowing Down to the Pace of Knowing (13 minutes)
We live so much of our lives at a pace that puts our nervous systems in fight or flight. From this place, we’re making decisions from survival--fFrom our most deeply-rooted patterns. Our future will look like our past if our “operating system” is coming from this conditioned place. When we slow down, especially around a specific circumstance or pattern …