![[Guided Meditation] Grounding Yourself – Connecting To Your Time, Attention And Spaces](https://kathryncolleen.com/studio/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/img_0639-1080x675.jpg)
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of honoring your own time and purpose, using a heart-centered practice to internalize that finding and sharing your gift is sacred and worth protecting each day.
An audience-question answer explaining that maintaining connection to the divine depends on first maintaining every other layer of connection — to experience, body, mind, needs, others, ideology, questioning, and purpose — sustained through daily habits of sleep, exercise, nutrition, meditation, and service.
A Stage Two exercise in identifying and honoring personal needs across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven categories, with guidance on examining unhealthy needs and revising the list as life and self evolve.
A personal reflection sparked by a seven-week kitchen renovation on how physical chaos pushes us into survival mode, and why a place of peace and order is essential for growth, creativity, and self-development.
A teaching on how numerous simultaneous commitments crowd our limited attention, explaining why related efforts share mental space while unrelated ones fragment it, and suggesting we prune the types of things we take on.
A teaching on treating time and attention as our only nonrenewable resources, making activities and people compete for them, and using an 80/20 analysis to reclaim space for self-development and purpose.
A reflective essay on cultivating boredom, arguing that unstructured, phone-free quiet time creates the mental space for creativity, big questions, and self-understanding that constant digital stimulation crowds out.
A real-time journal entry written while the author’s aunt was dying in hospice and her son underwent brain surgery, exploring grief, separateness, transcendence, and the spiritual idea of dissolving the self to rejoin oneness.
A digital art piece exploring networks, multiple universes and the possible connections between them — some empty, some full of amazing things, some linked to others and some holding connections of their own.
A reflective personal essay on the search for purpose — wrestling with free will versus destiny and with the distinction between feeling ‘alive’ through music and art and feeling ‘useful’ through business — and concluding that purpose combines both at once.