Tag: light and dark

The Crap That Happens For a Reason – Pre-Session

This episode was originally broadcast July 21, 2017 You will have to listen to this week’s Pre-Session chat with Celina Tonkin to find out what prompted Celina to say “Naomi and Stephen, you really mucked it up!” And we did. Boy, did we. But we learned from it and that’s what matters. Which is what, ultimately, this chat was all about. As Celina put it, to quote her again (because she’s so darn quotable!), “The biggest gifts in life come in very ugly packages”. And Steve and I agree. No matter how bad something was, there was always a gift of some kind in it – and hardly ever any indication from the ugly wrapping that ANYTHING good could come out of it, let alone a life-shift. Of course, with Tapper Celina in the Guest chair this month, we talk about how to use EFT to unwrap that package so the blessings inside can be revealed… About our Pre-Sessions: Every week, for 15 minutes or so before we began our group meditation broadcast, we opened the mics so that our members tuning in for the session could listen in while we talked about what was going on for us personallyThe Crap That Happens For a Reason – Pre-Session

Big “L” Love – Pre-Session

This episode was originally broadcast June 30, 2017 Gotta admit it felt a bit lonely in the OML studio today with just Steve and myself at the mic. Being a “leap month” as we have nicknamed the months where there are 5 broadcast weeks instead of four, we find ourselves with a guest-guideless week and therefore a chance for Stephen Fearnley to finally grab the mic and run with it. He’s pretty excited about his turn leading a meditation. He’s only been hanging out to do it for – oh – three years! And he knows he’s going to do a love meditation so guess what we discussed in the pre-session! You got it… About our Pre-Sessions: Every week, for 15 minutes or so before we began our group meditation broadcast, we opened the mics so that our members tuning in for the session could listen in while we talked about what was going on for us personally and spiritually, and what trends we were noticing. It was a fun way to get everyone settled and prepared for the journey to come, as well as a way to connect with us energetically. To listen to the One Mind Live meditationBig “L” Love – Pre-Session

A Meditation In D Minor – by Stephen Fearnley

We are so overstimulated by our technologies that we are not getting enough deep thinking time A lot of people associate minor music with sadness and they’d be right. But the tempo of a minor tune if raised, can sound happy like REM’s “Losing My Religion” – the structure and lyrics are sad but you dance along all the same. Its when you bring the tempo down and stretch the notes and repeat interlocking phrases with instruments such as strings and doleful angelic-voices and guitars that you get a weaving of sounds that can deliver what seems clearly more soul-searching and even melancholic. I like the word melancholy. I’ve never associated it with real sadness. It’s like what Victor Hugo says about it: Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. Its the pleasure and soothing quality of slow or minor key music that creates a deeper expansive place for contemplation. Of course the last thing I want to do is plop our One Mind Live members into a nose dive of misery !  I hope in this case “ Meditation in D minor ” I have the mix right… The repeating guitar riff is always climbing – so thats theA Meditation In D Minor – by Stephen Fearnley

The Illusion Of Balance – Pre-Session

This episode was originally broadcast Aug 28, 2015 We all strive for balance – and that place of peace we’re promised when we achieve it – even though most of us, most of the time, have trouble “finding that balance”. If that describes you, you might be relieved to hear of another way to look at the whole issue. In this pre-session chat we explore the idea that perhaps the journey itself – back and forth between the opposites of light and dark, masculine and feminine, happy and sad to which we are all so accustomed – can get us to exactly the same place. Listen to find out how… About our Pre-Sessions: Every week, for 15 minutes or so before we began our group meditation broadcast, we opened the mics so that our members tuning in for the session could listen in while we talked about what was going on for us personally and spiritually, and what trends we were noticing. It was a fun way to get everyone settled and prepared for the journey to come, as well as a way to connect with us energetically. To listen to the One Mind Live meditation that followed, go toThe Illusion Of Balance – Pre-Session