Echos from the Circle

Joy is often misunderstood as something we need to create —a mood to summon, a state to chase, a reward for getting life “right.” But what continues to ripple through the field lately is something much simpler, and much more liberating: Joy is life force flowing. Joy isn’t manufactured. It ’s revealed. Joy is what’s happening right now, minus our opinions about it. Minus the worry, the fear, the running internal commentary about what should  be different. So much of our suffe

This week’s circle explored harmony as thoughts and actions that honor and cultivate wholeness, rather than those that fracture our relationship with ourselves and others—not as something to achieve, but something to notice. Many of us recognized how easily our inner world fragments: thoughts racing ahead of the body, inner voices competing, language that divides rather than includes. Rather than trying to fix or silence any of that, we explored what happens when we allow all

Unity begins in the nervous system. It’s the recognition of shared beingness — the felt understanding that our nervous systems affect, and are affected by, the nervous systems around us. We are not separate fields of energy; we participate in one shared energetic grid. The practice of metta  (loving-kindness meditation) offers both refuge and resonance. It supports our own nervous system while gently influencing the field around us. Using the phrases: May I be happy. May I be