Mindfully Rooted Meals & Movement

04/10/2026

This is the mindset:

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04/10/2026

This is the same mindset to feel into what's real, from what you eat and how you move:

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04/09/2026

Our body is taking different poses all day and all night long. Isn't that amazing? When you understand this, the whole concept of setting aside separate time to exercise becomes unnecessary. When you reconnect with your breath, and practice full, diaphragmatic breathing, muscles you weren't using wake up, and those you were overusing get into balance. When you finally realize that breath leads, movement follows, and practice this, your movement aligns with your breath instead of fighting it. Grace and ease return. Mindfulness returns. When you start being barefoot again, your entire kinetic chain realigns and deep internal stabilizing muscles wake up. Your feet wake up, toes wake up, your knees, hips and low back stop hurting. Your movement isn't so hard, the joints are balanced and supportive.
In repose, your mindfulness realizes that this is Yin time, long-held, mindful poses with longer, deeper breaths, signaling to switch into your parasympathetic nervous system for rest, digest, recovery.
All day,all night, the natural breath, posture and movement of your human body already does so much. When you're finally listening and giving it what it needs, the inner peace, stability and ease are incredible. You naturally will move in more dynamic ways, like spontaneous play or dance, when the energy flows.
Waking up like a cat or a dog does, eating, bathing, playing, resting, getting food, cleaning, etc. Simple changes can bring immense improvements. Sitting on the floor, switching positions as needed. Stop preventing the impulse to move. You don't need to schedule movement in. Move now. Wiggle, sway, bounce, squat, spin, etc. Your body will thank you.

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04/08/2026

Music can be sound therapy 💓

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04/08/2026

Music can truly be sound therapy. Find yours, and make it a part of your everyday life 💖💓
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04/08/2026

What we call food, is truly a miraculous conversation with Life, between our internal ecosystem and our perception of the external "world". The properties of plants are fascinating. Everything results in a chemical reaction within your body, setting off a series of more reactions, being transformed from different states to become part of something else. Isn't that amazing?
When you sit down and select food, become curious about why you choose what you choose.
Some plants are grounding, soothing, calming; some are uplifting, energizing; some offer a quick response, others provide long-term, steady energetic flow. Getting to know how plants work, and the combinations, you can become attuned to what you truly need. Pay attention. Listen.
Absolutely everything has a cascade effect in your internal ecosystem. Don't try to overlay it with what you've been told should intellectually work. Pay attention. Listen. Get curious.
Mindfulness, not mindlessness. Align body and mind. They will begin to naturally when you stop suppressing the intelligence of your body.

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04/08/2026

We are asking whether man can end suffering.
There are various explanations: how to go beyond it, how to rationalize it, how to suppress it, how to escape from it. Now we are asking something entirely different: not to suppress it, not to evade it, nor rationalize it, but when there is that suffering to remain totally with it, without any movement of thought, which is the movement of time and measure.

One suffers: one loses one's son, or wife, or she runs away with somebody else; and the things that you are attached to, the house, the name, the form, all the accumulated conclusions, they seem to fade away, and you suffer. Can one look at that suffering without the observer? We went into that question of what the observer is. We said the observer is the past, the accumulated memory, experience and knowledge. And with that knowledge, experience, memory, one observes the suffering, so one dissociates oneself from suffering: one is different from suffering and therefore one can do something about it. Whereas the observer is the observed.

This requires a little care and attention, the statement that, "the observer is the observed". We don't accept it. We say the observer is entirely different; and the observed is something out there separate from the observer. Now if one looks very closely at that question, at that statement that the observer is the observed, it seems so obvious. When you say you are angry, you are not different from anger, you are that thing which you call anger. When you are jealous, you are that jealousy. The word separates; that is, through the word we recognise the feeling and the recognition is in the past; so we look at that feeling through the word, through the screen of the past, and so separate it. Therefore there is a division between the observer and the observed.

So we are saying that when there is this suffering, either momentary, or a continuous endless series of causes that bring about suffering, to look at it without the observer. You are that suffering; not, you are separate from suffering. Totally remain with that suffering. Then you will notice, if you go that far, if you are willing to observe so closely, that something totally different takes place: a mutation. That is, out of that suffering comes great passion. If you have done it, tested it out, you will find it. It is not the passion of a belief, passion for some cause, passion for some idiotic conclusion. It is totally different from the passion of desire. It is something which is of a totally different kind of energy; not the movement of thought, which is mechanical.

04/08/2026

Ashtavakra on peace: why trying harder takes you further away

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In the Ashtavakra Gita, peace is not something you achieve.

And this is the difficulty.

Because the mind only understands effort.

Try more.
Control more.
Discipline more.
Fix yourself.

But every effort carries a hidden message:

“I am not at peace… yet.”

And so the search continues.

Ashtavakra points to a radical shift:

Peace is not created.
It is uncovered.

It is already there—
beneath the effort,
beneath the struggle,
beneath the need to become something.

The moment effort drops…
not out of laziness, but out of clear seeing…

what remains is not emptiness.

It is peace—
without cause,
without practice,
without achievement.

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Original Source:
Inspired by the Ashtavakra Gita — teachings of Sage Ashtavakra (interpretative rendering)

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04/08/2026

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