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💬 Quote of the Week

Anyone else think Ram Dass overshot his estimation here? Haven’t we all witnessed our inner peace crumble somewhere between morning coffee on day two and that evening’s dessert?

Sure, it’s easy to feel blissful when life flows according to our plan, our schedule, our rules—but family time? That’s a whole different game.

More on all this below.

📚 Knowledge Sesh: Letting Go

This poem is one that I come back to again and again. It reminds me of the effortlessness I began to feel after learning Vedic Meditation and the easiness of how things that I once struggled with began to drop away naturally and with great ease.

Meditation by meditation, I just let it all go. I hope you enjoy this poem as much as I do. 💫

She Let Go
​by Safire Rose

She let go.
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons.
Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t ask anyone for advice.
She didn’t read a book on how to let go.
She didn’t search the scriptures.
She just let go.
She let go of all of the memories that held her back.
She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn’t promise to let go.
She didn’t journal about it.
She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer.
She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.
She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.
She didn’t analyze whether she should let go.
She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn’t call the prayer line.
She didn’t utter one word.
She just let go.
No one was around when it happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing.
Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort.
There was no struggle.
It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be.
A small smile came over her face.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the moon shone forevermore…

💫The Vedic Spin: Thriving Through The Holidays

How did last week go for you? You know, your Thanksgiving dress rehearsal for the December Holiday Stress Olympics?

Here’s the thing about family dynamics that Ram Dass so brilliantly nailed: our families basically installed our buttons, so of course, they know exactly how to push them.

When I walk into potentially challenging gatherings, I pack this perspective in my cosmic carry-on: the beauty isn’t in achieving picture-perfect harmony. It’s in the continued commitment to showing up—despite the drama, despite Uncle Steve’s political rants, despite everything.

(Pro Tip: This all feels way easier when you’ve gotten your meditations in before the festivities begin.)

Sure, practicing Vedic Meditation helps smooth out our emotional wrinkles and stress-induced tendencies to lose it. But let’s be real—meditation is not some magic wand that makes everyone behave better. It doesn’t make them match our newfound zen or higher state of awareness.

What meditation does give us is the capacity to stay centered and choose the higher path—even when everyone else seems perfectly content rolling around in the mud.

Meditation builds your adaptation energy and perspective, so you can stay kind and level-headed—whether Cousin Sally corners you with unsolicited life advice or the company holiday party devolves into a tension convention.

And those buttons? Meditation gradually deactivates them, until one day, you realize you’re truly un-triggerable.

So lean into your practice and be open to whatever comes. Who knows? Things might even unfold with ease. When we choose to dance with what shows up, we expand and stabilize our consciousness container.

And that’s what enlightenment is all about.

And if the holidays feel like a lot for any reason, just hit reply. Let’s connect. ❤️