Introducing the MBMS Pathways
Three words to describe what’s happening now – What a trip!!
Three more words – Where’s the pathway?!!
Never, and I mean never, have I been more thankful for having access to guidance, support, teachings, and community than I am right here, right now. The circumstances of Life on Earth 2022 may be the biggest mindfulness bell of all time.
Thank goodness we’re on this journey together.
Thank goodness we have different perspectives, experiences, and skills to bring to this rodeo.
Thank goodness there are different ways to get wherever we’re going.
Enter (and just in time): The Monterey Bay Meditation Studio Pathways.
Starting with Mindfulness, diving into Self-Discovery, connecting through Relationships, re-membering in the Outdoors, lifting our vision through Spirituality, expanding through Evolution of Consciousness, and continuing to another level with Mindfulness, we find our way along this spiraling journey called Life … not just any Life, mind you, but an Examined Life, one that catalyzes and cultivates healing, growth, and transformation.
Wherever you are on this journey, there is a pathway calling you. As you travel, you might have a sense of entanglement – that the Pathways intersect, weave together, and sometimes lie in parallel lines touching the same scenery from different perspectives.
For example, as we deepen our Mindfulness practice, we discover that we are embedded in a sea of Relationships, with ourselves, each other and all beings. When we go further into Self-discovery, we begin to see the sacred in ourselves and all beings as we cultivate a knowing, a Spirituality, that we are not alone, and we begin to embody reverence and reciprocity with all beings. When we engage Mindfulness Outdoors, we enter a field of Self-Discovery and Relationships in which we “get over ourselves,” expanding our awareness into new ways of being, into a whole new arena – Evolution of Consciousness.
The experience of the journey is not just where we go, what we do, who we’re with and when we get there. The experience of the journey is really about how we travel – how we are in relationship with what arises along the way, how we engage ourselves in the journey itself. The vehicle for an enlivened and enlivening journey is mindful awareness; the fuel for this journey is mindful awareness; the ever-expanding destination of this journey is mindful awareness.
We evolve together, each of us having an impact on everything – some loud, some soft; some harsh, some soothing. We are embedded in a vast ecosystem that is traversed by a myriad of Pathways, each one ready to meet us where we are and lead us to a new way of being in the world. In the Monterey Bay Meditation Studio community, the intention of all the journeying is about “Being aware” and “Being kind.
Which Pathway is calling you right now? When you read the descriptions here, notice when you feel energized – that’s your green light. Follow green lights and Voila! you’ll find yourself where you are supposed to be right now. Ta-da!
And then listen again … Your Pathway will rise to meet you.
Marianne
