Satori Moments

Joni Kirby

Description

Anecdotes and wisdom intended to inspire anyone interested in finding their way back to their true selves and the I-ness within.
Our lives are full of satori moments—powerful snippets of time that, when recognized, invite us to awaken, become aware, be present, and find enlightenment.
Through inspiring personal stories and wisdom acquired over time, Joni Kirby teaches us that we do not need to be trained to be. Instead, she encourages us to live as Rylan did—awakened, dancing, and celebrating life in the moment. As she leads others on the satori journey of reawakening, also known as Rylan’s untrainings, she reminds us of who we are deep inside, to love, live, and learn in the moment, to laugh often, to remember that all is well because we are one, to embrace the joy that is always within, to breathe in the space of stillness between thoughts, and to intentionally plant our life’s garden—all while embracing the beauty of life.
Satori Moments shares anecdotes and wisdom intended to inspire anyone interested in finding their way back to their true selves and the I-ness within.

Sujets

• Vie de famille
• Relations familiales
• Famille
• Cancer
• Death
• Family
• Hospice
• Relationship
• Self-help
• Awakening
• Relationships

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 17 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765235072
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

SATORI MOMENTS


Awakening Life & Guiding Fearlessly from Fight to Flight & Beyond





JONI KIRBY
All Proceeds Donated to Dr. Loh’s Childhood Cancer Research in Honor of Smilin Rylan









Copyright © 2022 Joni Kirby.

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-3506-5 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3508-9 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3507-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022917972

Balboa Press rev. date: 10/17/2022



Contents
Introduction: Always Begin Within, and Life Flows

Chapter 1 Remember Who You Are
Chapter 2 You Are Energy
Chapter 3 Love the Moment, Live the Moment, Learn from the Moment, and Laugh Often
Chapter 4 All Is Well: All Are One
Chapter 5 Nothing Can Still Your Joy
Chapter 6 Breathe in the Space of Stillness between Thoughts
Chapter 7 Seeds of Intentions: Plant Your Life’s Garden

Conclusion: Bringing New Beginnings



Introduction
Always Begin Within, and Life Flows
Happy New Year 2021. Happy new now. May each moment be in love.
I choose to start writing my soul-full words of love on this first day of a new year and a new beginning. Every moment is a new beginning, so as I wrote that statement, a nudge of Om warmed my heart.
Moving to this tiny home in Cambria, California, on December 23, leaving Hanford, the home we had for many years, I begin my life after the third of my three (two men, one Smilin’ Rylan) heartstrings took flight on July 16 of last year. What an amazing year 2020 was and continues to be as our energy at times remains stuck there.

What if we had an agenda we came into this beautiful play of life to accomplish?
What if being brave or being a hero didn’t play into our decisions? If fear weren’t even a knowingness but rather a dreamlike state of mind made up to bring contrast to the desire of moving forward?
What if we just had an inner knowing, a desire to help extend the humanity of humankind, bringing more kindness into this play of life?
I’m going to be sharing some acts of bravery, all stemming from the choice to love and choose life, through to flight and beyond.
I felt an inner calling to begin this writing at this present moment and then go to a nowhereland that is no longer real but that has left me with the realization of the preciousness of this moment—this present moment as I begin sharing with love not only for myself but also for any people who have felt cancer was taking their lives as spouses, family members, friends, or caregivers, or for whom cancer has been a part, an intimate part, of life.
I had never been close to anyone going through cancer, so as I was turning fifty, I had the next ten years (and more) caring and loving “cancer” as my husband, dad, and heartstring grandson, Smilin’ Rylan, began their adventure (and therefore mine, as I was a companion) toward flight and beyond.
I will write of how I believe my life’s dress rehearsals, and all the many characters performing in the different acts, the parts of my life’s play, helped me to return to the I Am that I am, delivering me back to my whole self. Not that I believe I was ever not whole—what I believe is that who I really am became covered up with layers of, yes, s——. I would often use the example of lugging around suitcases full of manure that we collect from our choices in each present moment, and before we realize it, we are exhausted from the loads we carry and the accompanying smell.
Through my words, you will understand that as I write, I experience an overwhelming sense of fluttering, warming butterflies throughout my body, often beginning in my heart and spreading from there.
Having moved from my home of forty-five years, Hanford, California, to a beautiful coastal town, Cambria, after the last of my two men and super Rylan had taken flight, I was now ready to begin again by the sound and feel of the ocean. Back to where I was born, close to the waves. And as I watch the waves, I am reminded that we all will return to the one. I have heard that even as we rest our heads on our pillows at night and drift off to sleep, we return to the oneness, and there we continue learning and growing. Or not—our choice, ultimately.
I just knew it was time; moving from a beautifully spacious home of 2,700 square feet to a magical, simple, less-than-1,200-square-foot manufactured home was and is just perfect. It is January 1, 2021, and I am stepping out from my tiny home in Cambria, looking at all the green trees and seeing a stream forming right below my porch. I am thinking of all the little yogis and of my baby sister by another mother, Naomi.

The year 2020 was definitely a life changer for (I believe) all of us. The New Year celebration of 2020 was filled with anticipation of hopes and dreams.
Especially with all the children of Smilin’ Rylan Kids Yoga. They really missed coming to class and learning to be (I should say remain ) in each moment.
My husband was an optometrist, and I managed the office for more than thirty years. I enjoyed every moment! I was sincerely excited every day I walked into the office to serve others. A gift.
After my husband’s second diagnosis of prostate cancer and subsequent selling of the practice, I began teaching kids (as well as adults) yoga in honor of Rylan, my grandson, who had barely taken his flight from the physical .
Reflecting back one year ago, on enjoying coming together, embracing each class while beginning our lives on the mat, and allowing stillness and silence to be present.
Now I am presently bringing them to my heart’s space energetically, through energy of love, all the while remembering their spirits and feeling their love.
This past week has been an emotional roller coaster for me. I’ve lived enough in my present life to know deep in my heart that this, too, shall pass. This is true for the joys and heartwarming moments as well as the challenges. I am reassured, blessed, and filled with gratitude with the knowingness that moments come and fade. What is real is this moment now—leaving the past and believing the now is magical and just perfect.
Believing the now is a blessing. I release any expectations or judgment. It’s my life in this moment. For me, I choose love. The most challenging for me is to let go of the moments and memories, avoiding the comparison ritual.
Not so difficult for me is allowing the bad or harder moments to dissolve, evaporate as mist. More challenging are the beautifully loving memories. So as not to become stuck, I try to avoid comparing past memories with the present.
When I am aware, I understand how important it is to live in the now, in this amazing present moment, allowing the space required to enjoy the memories but not becoming stuck in them, not allowing them to take up residence.
As 2021 becomes the year of new realities, giving birth to new ways to both show and accept what is, may we all feel the blessings that are real in the presence of now. As we are living the moment with whoever, whatever, is present with us, may we choose to share love and appreciation for life. Finding peace with the knowingness that challenging times have unforeseen rainbows of blessings and miracles, may we choose to feel the fear during times it attempts to take over and allow our awareness to bring us back into the now, moving through the mist as best we can. Remembering we are the cause of the feeling, and have the choice of focus, of love or fear, which are you willing to choose? Who are you willing to live in this moment with? Perhaps you may be called to choose to bring peace within the frustrations of this moment and give yourself the love that heals.

Nicolas, one of the amazing Smilin’ Rylan little yogis, with a kindness note for the delivery service during lockdown.
Choose to remember to live the moment. Truly, what other time do you have?



Satori Moments: A Sort of Brain Surgery, Awakening to a New Paradigm—One of Love and Acceptance

Darrell and Satori.
I debated using satori in the title. Over more than twenty years, I have met only a handful of people, at most, who know and understand what that word symbolizes. I encourage you