Rise & Shine, Summer solstice is Coming

Change is in the Air, it's the Way it is

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Rise and shine. Rise and shine. Rise and shine. Good morning. Rise and shine. The sun is bright and cheery as it's up at 5: 45 this morning as it's streaming towards its summer solstice location. The Earth tilted on its axis, making its way around our sun. Beautiful thing. At the equator, there's not too much of a difference between the times of the year and the movement of where we feel our sunrise and sunsets are. And at the polar regions, then there are periods even where there is no sunset or no sunrise. It's all sun or all darkness. Just on our world. There is this variety of events in different moments of our years, different times, different months, different weeks. This is the concept of time, this movement of our planet in an elliptical orbit around our sun. The Sun's photons, energy, is traveling at the speed of light, the distance covered in Eight minutes and twenty seconds from the surface of the sun to the surface of our earth. For the photon to actually reach the surface of the sun to begin its journey of eight minutes and twenty seconds. It takes anywhere from a hundred thousand to a million years for the photon, from the result of fusion at the core of the sun, to reach its surface. Be in awe of what we know. Without our sun, there would be no life. It is that precious, that important. And yet I'm sure more than one person was thinking, why is he talking about this? I'm talking about mindful meditation, and he's talking about our planet's orbit around the sun. What do these have to do with each other? Everything. It is perspective that is mindful meditation. It is an ability to perceive and hold in one's mind, reflecting upon one's experience, on what one has learned, to become this next moment of realization, illumination, revelation, awe, flowing. Our best means of getting from one point to another, flowing through time and space. It has been said this way in various languages and in various, you know, ways that an individual expresses oneself for thousands of years. Our appreciation of the sun's allowing us to have life has also been appreciated for thousands of years. And so too, today we share these thoughts through time, through the changing nature of space, of mountains being ground down by wind and rain, by time, and built back up again by forces like gravity, the interplanetary forces at hand, including our sun. We are part of a vast experience of life begun on this planet billions of years ago. There It is again, what does this have to do with mindful meditation? Everything. Because we are what we think, and we think what we have a perspective to be aware of, to be receptive to, to allow ourselves to take a moment to reflect, and do so in a more positive manner, as a witness rather than as an adversary or as a critic, to be understanding, compassionate, kind, nice. Now you're understanding what we're talking about. Being here now is a bundle of miracles. It's what we are. We can share this assumption by just looking down at one's hands. If you like, put your fingertips together and one's thumbs, and press them ever so gently together. In fact, so gently they are oscillating between touching and not, playing games, being curious, satisfying one's curiosity in changing this around to one's own individual expression of what we're doing. And gradually pressing more firmly, the connection becomes more solid. You're actually pressing into each digit easily, gently, enough to feel the warmth from the other side, from the other fingertip. Please doing this now. And becoming aware of the warmth. This is found to be emanating between our hands, between our fingertips. And if we press a little more sensitively, again, just sensitively, not this with force, but with sensitivity, we can feel a pulse in these fingertips. The cadence of life itself. Ninety thousand times does one's heart beat every day. This electric pulse. Being here now, being aware of these things and more. Being aware of one's breathing, one's respiratory apparatus, breathing in oxygen to mix with one's cell's glucose to create energy so as to feed ourselves. Mitochondria. This is what's happening in every moment of our days. Being here now. This is what science does. It brings us more details, clarity, in-depth understanding. It gives us a greater perspective to understand what and whom we are, why, how. Being curious, finding answers. Seek and yea shall find. What do you want? This is the truth. It is why this saying remains famous. Ask and it shall be given unto you. It's the same thing being said in a different way, as seek and yea shall find. Be curious and question, and "you" will find. One need pay attention to whatever they're interested in, and whatever we want to learn about or become or be attention. Energy follows attention. One is creating energy by initiating the attention in the first place. This is why this famous saying also, energy follows attention, has been around for so long. We have an opportunity in every day, eighty-six thousand four hundred times, to be in this moment flowing in this way. I ask you, as I ask myself, being here now, we are bundles of miracles, humbled by the immensity of creation, we have a sense of thankful, thankful, to be able to express ourselves in the ways that we do each day, each moment of time, allowing and letting it be a reflection of one's virtuosity, one's practice, one's consistency, one's place where one spends time and attention to creating the energy of self-improvement. The music continues for another minute, please.