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5 quick things ~
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Hey, gorgeous!

If you, like me, want some fresh music when the days heat up, you might dig the free, collaborative summer playlist I've been making along with the members of the EFF This! Meditation community. Give it a listen here. (And add any songs that you've been digging!)

I've been feeling pretty hot in other ways, too. I wrote an Insta post complaining about how a kundalini yoga teacher posted a video of me without my consent, and it got over 100 comments. . . seems I touched a nerve! And that got me motivated enough to finally write a post I've been meaning to write for years, about the scientific reasons that phones don't belong in yoga or meditation studios, like, at all.

I'm still down in Miami these days, where it's been reaching 100 degrees with the humidity. 💦 Maybe that's why I'm so heated? Or maybe it's passion.

Okay, on to your 5 quick things!

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1. you are beautiful 💌

For years, I've been buying these stickers in bulk from You Are Beautiful and attaching them to money to give to homeless people and others who ask for money on the streets. For me, it's a way of just doing a teeny bit more than giving cash. 

And I love that there is a company whose entire product line is based around saying nice things to strangers. (Through yard signs! and hard hats!)

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MY KICK ASS FRIEND
2. Fish or Die!

My rad cousin Thad (aka Fish Hippie) has a show on Animal Planet where he and his friends travel the globe to try to be the first to fly fish in remote areas of the planet. I was worried that the show would perpetuate colonialistic idealogy (American guys visiting foreign cultures) but it actually does a good job of being respectful to both the indigenous cultures and to the planet.

My fave part is that Thad kisses each fish before he releases it. 😘🐟

Watch Fish or Die! on Thursday nights at 9 pm ET/PT! (Or stream it on Animal Planet.)

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NOW READING
3. The Awakening Body

I believe that meditation is a physical experience; emotions are energy and our inherent wisdom (which happens to be all of the wisdom of the universe) lives inside our bodies.

Something that's often missing in meditation instruction is hot to work with the body; to open up to our felt experiences in a visceral way. This book is a fantastic overview of precisely how to do that.

THE AWAKENING BODY by REGINALD RAY

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PRACTICE TIP OF THE WEEK
4. go outside (but no, really do it).

If there was a pill that, with no side-effects, could lower our heart rate, relax our muscles, give us more energy, vitality, and vigor, act as a potent anti-inflammatory, increase cancer-fighting abilities, and decrease depression, fatigue, and anxiety . . . we would obviously all start taking it immediately. There is no such pill, but there is a practice: spending time in nature.

Try to spend some time outside this weekend, eh? 🍃

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5. nicely done, dad. 🤣

If you haven't already seen this short video that's burning up the internet, it's well worth the watch. It's a dad talking to his son. That's all I'm going to say about it, except to add that it's a great way to spent one minute of your day.

WATCH

Wishing you a beautiful weekend where you are, at least once, able to touch the present moment.

Love,

MEANWHILE, ON SOCIAL MEDIA . . . 

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