What a year! What. A. Decade! (As I’m thinking about all that happened for me this decade, I gotta pause and do some Ujjayi breath or something… Ok, that’s better.)
I feel as if I lived at least 3 different lifetimes in the past decade. For me, though I love the idea, the jury is still out on the idea of reincarnation. However, I can assure you that I’ve lived several lives within this life. I feel like I was someone very different a decade ago.
Do you ever feel like this, that you were someone very different at the beginning of this decade?
If my past decade were a playlist, it might read like this:
Wanna be Startin’ Somethin by Michael Jackson
Money for Nothin’ by the Dire Straights
She Works Hard for The Money by Donna Summers
Girlfriend In A Coma by The Smiths
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Neil Sedaka
Cry Me a River by Billie Holiday
Losing My Religion by REM
I Can See Clearly Now by Otis Redding
I Got My Mojo Workin’ by Jimmy Smith
One Bourbon, Once Scotch, and One Beer by John Lee Hooker
Anthem by Leonard Cohen
You Are The Best Thing by Ray LaMontagne
This Must Be The Place by The Talking Heads
Into The Mystic by Van Morrison
Beautiful Boy by John Lennon
The Lion The Beast and the Beat by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Don’t Fear The Reaper (More Cowbell!) by Blue Öyster Cult
Feelin’ Good by Nina Simone
Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman
New York, New York by Frank Sinatra
New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down by LDC Soundsystem
Afternoon in Paris by John Lewis
La Vie En Rose by Édith Piaf
Timeless by John Abercrombie
Suddhosi Buddhosi by Shimshai
Clare de Lune by Claude Debussy
All You Need is Love by The Beatles
What’s on your playlist for the past decade?
Does it ever feel like your decade playlist is playing too quickly or too slowly? One thing I’ve noticed is that when I’m really present, time doesn’t seem to move either fast or slow. When I’m not paying attention, it seems like life is moving at mach speeds. So, before another decade blazes by and all we feel is the wind blowing our hair as it passes, let’s start this year and decade by practicing presence.
Also, starting a new year and decade gives us a very unique opportunity to forge our path forward very mindfully and deliberately, charting the course toward our best decade EVER. There’s a saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”
For all these reasons I want to invite you to join me as we start this decade with a simple dedication to mindfulness. I invite you to meditate with me every day during the month of January for at least 15 minutes a day with my 31-Day Meditation challenge. Truly, this challenge has the ability to start this next chapter of your life with power and presence.
The 31-Day Meditation Challenge is simple: meditate every day during the month of January for 15 minutes or more. That’s it. Choose whatever style of meditation works best for you. I’ll be supporting you every step of the way with emails filled with information and encouragement. I’ll also provide a resources page on my website with several links to guided meditations, explanations about different meditation styles, and links to poetry, blogs, and articles about meditation. For those new to meditation, this will lead you step by step through creating a simple yet effective meditation practice that may become a life practice. For those of you who are experienced meditators, this challenge gives you the opportunity to be doing your regular meditation in tandem with hundreds of other people, thus creating a cyber sangha. I believe that people meditating together can change the world. Let’s do it together!
This challenge costs $31 because in my experience, when there’s a buy-in, there’s a tendency to be more committed. I would even encourage you to enroll friends and family and create for yourself a mediation tribe for more accountability, support, and camaraderie. And, I’m so committed to your success that as an incentive to complete the challenge, everyone who finishes has the option to receive a 100% refund on their tuition. Boom, no joke.
To register CLICK HERE or the button below. It will take you to the registration on my website. Simply and fill out the form and pay your tuition. Then, forward this email or that page to anybody you’d love to have do this challenge with you. When you register, you’ll get a welcome email right away with all the details and you can start meditating today—why wait until the first of January? The official challenge begins January 1 and will last through the entire month. We will even have the opportunity to do some live meditations together via Zoom, an online meeting platform. If you've done this meditation challenge in the past, I'm offering all new content for the emails.
At only $31 there’s not much to lose but there’s so much to gain. Please consider joining me to start your year and decade off perfectly with regular mindfulness.
For those of you who purchased my book, Practical Yoga Nidra or my latest offering, Essential Yoga Nidra with Scott Moore: Volume 1, you could literally put on your favorite Yoga Nidra recording every day and feel your life open up before your eyes through this gentle but expansive practice.
As we go into this next decade it is my prayer that we do so from a grounded place of mindfulness and love. May we access the miraculous place of our hearts that gives us true and essential sight and may this heart-vision illuminate the best in others and ourselves. And may we allow this essential clarity to guide our lives in all our endeavors.
Thank you for being an important part of this last decade with me. I love you. It is my honest and sincere desire is that the playlist that presents itself for you over this next decade opens your heart, gives you pure delight, and makes you dance your ass off.
