Calming Compassion Meditation
Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker
English - March 02, 2022 02:51 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness Science Natural Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Feel the calm wash over you through this guided compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Recipe for Joy", by Mort Cohn.
Recipe for Joy, by Mort Cohn
-for Jonah
Begin by waking up
next, move to the beat of your heart
then stir lightly outside sniff the air
look up at the sky
at a clous passing by
Magritte baguette
a mushroom omelet
open wide your eyes
see the world anew
In the fertile mind’s eye
then turn around and tune your ear
to the hum of a hummingbird
that just flew into your garden
to drink the honey
from a trumpet flower
hum along
with the ruby throated dancer
ecstatic,
rink on pollen
bird and flower
suspended in air
and if you feel the beat
spread your wings
join the dance
and if not too dizzy
spin ‘round and ‘round
and sing
(don’t worry if a little off key)
it’s only a vibration that you hear
from the inner chamber of your ear
that echoes outward like ripples on a pond
warbling to the edge of the morning.
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