Breaking Free From The System: The Path To Save Humanity

Some people may wonder why I started this website on a donation basis for sharing my meditations. It was inspired by my friend Evan. Evan is a visionary; he knows the difference between fiat currency and value currency. Many conversations were discussed about the state of humanity and the direction we are heading over scrambled eggs and pancakes. Evan started a community based acupuncture practice making self-care affordable for everyone. I was always impressed with his practice -- like I said ahead of his time. Back then, people were caught up in the “me” of it all and themselves, and they couldn’t understand how groundbreaking this was, until now.

The system has broken us; it kept feeding us for years with scenarios like “if you just work harder,” you will be successful. That right there is the problem. Success was defined by the patriarchy creating a system of worker bees while. slowly devaluing us. Leaving us trying to figure out what is real, what is fake, what works, and what doesn’t. Systems are crumbling, ecosystems are being destroyed, and people are living in a post pandemic world like fucking zombies who somehow are still isolating themselves. We are collectively feeling the stressors of the system that started all this bullshit in the first place. Not knowing where we fit in, shifting perspectives, and wondering if maybe this system isn’t working after all. Maybe it’s time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid, and then it happened. The SHIFT started the movement, an awakening of sorts. We started to trust our inner knowing -- longing to break free from the system.

Love and compassion are necessities. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

So this leads me back to “my why” in starting my website. As I said in my about story, meditation has always been deeply personal to me. I practice it, and I study other practitioners as well. My aha moment sparked when I decided to try it one day when my students were a little more restless than usual. In an attempt to quiet the restlessness, I said to them, “We are all going to meditate.” The responses were “What’s that?” To which I explained what it is, how to breathe, and let’s give it a try. To my surprise (actually astonishment), they sat quietly and meditated for 15 minutes with no giggling, no asking to go to the restroom, and no complaints. They were calm and serene. Afterwards, they went back to their tables and finished their work. My colleague and I were awestruck. I knew right then, in that moment, I wanted to share this, so I created Classroom OM, the first of my meditation series. The next day, my students asked if we could do it again, and we developed a daily practice of meditating before starting our work. Stay with me, I digressed for a reason...

I wanted to create my own meditations, meditations that fit a contemporary lifestyle, but I wasn’t sure how to share them; there are so many recordings and apps out there. The essential question that kept going on in my mind was how I would make it affordable and accessible for everyone? Especially now, because I feel we need it more than ever. I’m not interested in being an influencer or developing a brand, and I am not a fan of the over-influx of constant marketing techniques used to clickbait people. A second aha moment struck; I’m bringing it back full circle. I thought of community and making it available on a donation basis, just as Evan did with his acupuncture practice. The donations support our community -- value currency. No gimmicks, no dog and pony show -- authentic. Building a circle supporting each other, which leads to the most important reason of all -- it breaks us free from the system. Let that sink in...it breaks us free from the system!

We are building community, integrity, and we are not giving our hard-earned money to some conglomerate that really doesn’t give a shit about our well-being. WE, the collective community cares about each other, about humanity. When WE take care of ourselves, practice self-care, laugh, joy, and find gratitude -- those are radical acts of rebellion against the system that wants to perpetually make us believe that we are not worthy. The system that does everything in their souless power to do so. But what they lack is empathy, community, and connection. The very precious attributes of the WE. The WE that looks out for each other regardless of your politics, your gender, your status. The WE that knows we are here to serve and support each other and Mother Earth. The WE that continues to break free from the system by performing small acts of love and kindness to help each other for the highest good of all of us. The WE that will forge a path to save Humanity.

That is why Going OM is donation-based; it’s just a little part, but I know, just like Evan does, that it is all about the WE.

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