May you be healthy

May you find joy

May you be safe

May you live your life with ease

One of the gifts Cheryl Hutto gave me during my coaching sessions in 2024 was this Meta meditation

The line that took me to my knees was about living with ease

I could feel it, taste it, but it was out of my reach

When I say taste, what comes to me is the taste of the water at Lake Gaston

This is an embedded, sacred, special taste

A taste of home, safety, ease

That will always be my taste of ease, home, happiness

During the hardest days of 2024, I used this meditation alot

I painted rocks with key words to remind me of it in my garden

As time went by, it faded into the shadows

I pull the meditation out now, see again in it’s power

The version Cheryl used will always be my version

This was truly a gift given, recieved

There are many versions of this, all generally the same, using slightly different words

“May you find joy” is so powerful

It profoundly helped me

During the hardest days, the only thing that kept me going was the hunt for joy

Finding joy in some daily living thing

Discovering what my joy making things were

Protecting them so they could bring joy, protecting them from Uncle Lewy

In the early days, that battle over protecting my joy happened alot

This disease causes Matt to be more insecure than he was before

His language of love was helping others

So if I was finding joy, enjoying myself, like in cooking or grilling, he would want to help

Because his cognitive function was mis-firing, his attempt to help ended up destroying my joy

It became a loose, loose situation

Identifying what brought me joy, protecting it, became a survival thing

This meditation helped me understand that

This meditation is so short, yet so very powerful

As you read this, know I am meditating, radiating this meditation not only for myself, but for you too.