The stormy politics of the time are enough to cause
chaos in the nervous system.
It’s so challenging with all that we encounter visually
thru news reels, social media, advertising campaigns.
Frankly, it doesn’t seem like we are close to reaching
the critical mass of destruction that our
collective is capable of seeing.
With friends, I watched Guardians of the Galaxy
over Labor Day weekend.
And fell in love with this epic story.
Like the classic epic stories of our tradition,
the Ramayana and the Mahabharata,
destruction and chaos goes on for years and years.
Don’t mean to be a buzz kill…
this world is going to observe so much more
than we already have observed.
So hang on to your family, friends, drs., teachers and associates.
There are things we can do and we all know them so well.
Stay off social media sites.
Go out to see art, theater, concerts. Read a book.
Be with creative cultural individuals.
Go for weekends away and tune into nature.
Take a bike ride. Clean out your garden.
Take a dance class, a ceramics class, a weaving class.
Look at networks that build the creation operator in you.
This past weekend FIFTH FLOOR MEDITATION
hosted a rounding retreat on Fire Island
with a wonderful Ayurvedic Chef, Mary Whitlock.
We all Rounded together.
A Round consists of asanas, breathing and meditation,
which gives the body and mind an opportunity to release
deep-seated stresses while stirring our natural inclination
toward bliss.
The asanas prepare the body for releasing
before meditation, so one can achieve a deeper state of rest during
our Vedic Meditation eyes-closed practice.
On the other side of stress release
is expansion and bliss,
which will carry on well beyond the weekend retreat setting.
It’s a turbo load of stress release in a 4-5 day retreat.
Give yourself a timeout from the chaos in the world.
Reach out if you have questions about rounding or meditation.
And recognize what you need, to soothe your nervous system.
09.14.2025 Deck Talk available upon request info@fifthfloormeditation.com