Wholistic Healing And Health With Magic Barclay

Magic Barclay is not an ultrastar hybrid NBA player combining the rebounding acumen of Charles Barkley and the MVP assists of Magic Johnson. She is however a very keen and intrepid wholistic practitioner of the health and healing arts and sciences. On August 19, 2023 we got pretty deep into exploring:

  • relief and/vs root of ill health
  • the PNEI of trauma
  • kids health and independence
  • pesticides and gluten
  • why there may be so many autoimmune diseases now
  • various levels of the immune system
  • living in fear and toxicity
  • child rearing and parental wisdom
  • home gardening
  • mold toxicity, causes and best practices
  • briefing on lymphatic system health
  • the importance of what we do now going forward outweighing the past

Biography

Magic has been a single mother of two for the past 10 years. In that time, stress and the roller coaster of life has seen her face her mortality a number of times. A cancer, Lyme disease, stroke, Diabetes, Heart attack and hypoxia survivor Magic has seen how treating root cause of any illness gives you the tools to acquire a level of health you only dreamed possible. Magic is a Mould Toxicity Master Practitioner, an expert in the PNEI (Psycho Neuro Endo Immunology) of Trauma, an Advanced Immune Practitioner and an Advanced Practitioner in Innate Immunity and Functional Health Solutions. Magic is also a practitioner of Lymphatic Mojo and CMLD (Complex Manual Lymphatic Drainage)


Root Cause Analysis

Health Assessment Form

This intake form allows me to help find root cause of a client’s illness. Once the form is sent through to my team, I evaluate it, rabbit hole anything I need to and then jump on a complimentary call with the client. They leave this 45 minute session with more health answers than they even have had before and an outline of a suggested treatment plan. I often hear during this call “why doesn’t my doctor know this” or “why didn’t my doctor ever tell me that”.

Magic Barclay

https://www.wholisticnaturalhealth.com.au/health-assessment-form/


Magic’s Website: https://www.wholisticnaturalhealth.com.au

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A Magical Life Podcast: https://www.wholisticnaturalhealth.com.au/podcast


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Upcoming Insight Timer Live Events

Times are for Central European Summer Time zone — for those that may not see this in other places:

Wed Sep 6 – 05:00 pm

Open Wisdom Wednesdays

Irregular Wisdom Office Hours. I ask unplanned general & specific questions for your wisdom & you ask me. In the meantime we share openly — likely from whatever is currently happening — to get at our wisdom

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Thu Sep 14 – 03:00 pm

Silent Standing Meditation

Silent meaning me not talking. Come stand together in meditation, virtually, for 15 minutes. I suggest choosing a comfortable, stable standing stance and meditating on one object. Suggestions: contact at the feet; body posture; or the breathing body.

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Wed Nov 22 – 06:00 pm

Open Wisdom Wednesdays

Irregular Wisdom Office Hours. I ask unplanned general & specific questions for your wisdom & you ask me. In the meantime we share openly — likely from whatever is currently happening — to get at our wisdom

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Conveying Contemplativeness And Practical Mysticism With Keith Kristich

On August 23, 2023, Keith Kristich and I talked about slowing down, practical mysticism, practices, opening to what is, truth, the divine, emptiness, nothingness, somethingness, form and formlessness, space between thought and sound, buzzing in ears from too much caffeine before meditation, silence, listening to inner sound of silence, sky as metaphor for our true nature, awareness practices, Rupert Spira, essentialness, ego, conceit, integration, contemplative prayer, letting go, objectless awareness, monasticism, words/language, famous Christian mystics like Father Thomas Keating, Thomas Murton, Anthony de Mello, Meister Eckhart, Jakob Böhme


The September 23, 2023 Summit mentioned: https://contemplativeprayersummit.com

Find Keith at: https://closerthanbreath.com


It was not mentioned but I was reminded of the following prayer I including parts I wonder about as well as all the beautiful bits:

May all beings everywhere
Plagued by sufferings of body and mind
Obtain an ocean of happiness and joy
By virtue of my merits.

May no living creature suffer,
Commit evil, or ever fall ill.
May no one be afraid or belittled,
With a mind weighed down by depression.

May the blind see forms
And the deaf hear sounds,
May those whose bodies are worn with toil
Be restored on finding repose.

May the naked find clothing,
The hungry find food;
May the thirsty find water
And delicious drinks.

May the poor find wealth,
Those weak with sorrow find joy;
May the forlorn find hope,
Constant happiness, and prosperity.

May there be timely rains
And bountiful harvests;
May all medicines be effective
And wholesome prayers bear fruit.

May all who are sick and ill
Quickly be freed from their ailments.
Whatever diseases there are in the world,
May they never occur again.

May the frightened cease to be afraid
And those bound be freed;
May the powerless find power,
And may people think of benefiting each other.

For as long as space remains,
For as long as sentient beings remain,
Until then may I too remain
To dispel the miseries of the world.

By Shantideva

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World Wide Wise Speech Part 2: Gender | August 31, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #12


Last time we talked about wise speech in various modes and contexts but didn’t get around to mentioning much about our always on worldwide internet society. In this twelfth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we return to wise speech this time in light of today’s instantaneously interconnected and increasingly globalist world. We also address frivolous and abusive speech as well as wise speech when it comes to women, men, men and women together, and other gender related stuff including pronouns, confusion and addressing beings from the heart. And how do we practice and work with this in a meditative context?



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Background

Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.

For a few months thereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.

Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”



Past chats with Wendy:



Related Integrating Presence post: Gender (Confusion?)


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Anchoring Awakeness With Swami Nityananda

On August 2, 2023, Spiritual Teacher, Author, and Professor Swami Nityananda and I spoke to/about non-dual awareness, joy, grace, everyday life, her teacher Swami Shankarananda and her lineage which includes Kriya Yoga and the Venerable Yogananda, presence, energy, inspiration, light, the infinite, perceptions of limitation, being in a body, identity, awareness, vastness, balance, experience, purpose, being grounded, how to move through psychic attack and existential crisis, wisdom, (unconditional) love, being of service, the highest good, calm, generosity, integration, unfoldment, illusion of separateness, expansion, absence of conflict, community, relationship, kindness, purification, responsiveness, entry and connection points to continually living in awakeness, inspiration and moving in the energy of all this.

Find Swami Nityananda online:


Swami Nityananda is the spiritual teacher of the Awake Yoga Meditation community. She was consecrated by Swami Shankarananda as a Swami in 2014. Her teachings helps listeners and readers connect with the reality of love, wisdom, liberation, joy, harmony, and kindness. People who meditate with her find Swami Nityananda practices a selfless way of living in the world that asks, “How may I be of service?” and models through open-hearted, generous, and effervescent guidance, a path for us all to recognize our own inherent divine qualities, and to see the same in everyone.

As Juniper Ellis, she is Professor of English at Loyola University, where she teaches American Literature and World Literature Written in English. She earned her PhD at Vanderbilt University. She has held Fulbright grants in New Zealand and Germany, and other national awards including an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and an NEH grant. Her book Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin was published by Columbia University Press. Her scholarly articles have appeared in respected journals in many English-speaking countries.

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Initiating Mindfulness To The Fore As The Foremost Meditation Instruction

What the heck does “parimukhaṁ” mean? It’s mentioned in classic Buddhist meditation instructions and is often translated as something like “bring mindfulness to the fore.” Some other translations of this Pali word “parimukhaṁ” — found in the essential Satipaṭṭhāna and Ānāpānasati Suttas — are:


mukha

neuter

  1. mouth; face; entrance; opening; front. (adjective), foremost


More on this topic from different angles later but first various translations of sutta selections where mukha appears to get an idea of how it works in the suttas.

The various translations below are from the following Pali portion of the Satipatthana Sutta — Discourse on Applications of Mindfulness:

Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā nisīdati, pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā, ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya, parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.


It’s when a mendicant—gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut—sits down cross-legged, with their body straight, and focuses their mindfulness right there. Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.

Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato
Middle Discourses 10
Mindfulness Meditation

Monks, a monk who has gone to the forest, to the base of a tree, or to an empty building sits down, crosses his legs, sets his body upright, and establishes mindfulness as foremost. One breathes in mindfully, one breathes out mindfully.

Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta—Suddhāso Bhikkhu
10. Great Discourse on the Establishment of Mindfulness
Suddhāso Bhikkhu, (2018)

And how, monks, does a monk fare along contemplating the body in the body? Herein, monks, a monk who is forest-gone or gone to the root of a tree or gone to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, holding his back erect, arousing mindfulness in front of him.

Majjhima Nikāya–I.B. Horner
The Middle Length Sayings
Satipaṭṭhāna Suttaṁ
10. Discourse on the Applications of Mindfulness

Here, O bhikkhus, a bhikkhu, gone to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down, bends in his legs crosswise on his lap, keeps his body erect, and arouses mindfulness in the object of meditation, namely, the breath which is in front of him.

MN 10 PTS: M i 55
Satipatthana Sutta: The Discourse on the Arousing of Mindfulness
translated from the Pali by Soma Thera

Herein, monks, a monk, having gone to the forest, to the foot of a tree or to an empty place, sits down with his legs crossed, keeps his body erect and his mindfulness alert.3 [3] Literally, “setting up mindfulness in front.”]

MN 10 PTS: M i 55
Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundations of Mindfulness
translated from the Pali by Nyanasatta Thera

“And how does a monk remain focused on the body in & of itself?

“There is the case where a monk—having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building—sits down folding his legs crosswise, holding his body erect and establishing mindfulness to the fore [lit: the front of the chest].6 Always mindful, he breathes in; mindful he breathes out.

Note(s):

6. To the fore (parimukhaṁ): An Abhidhamma text, Vibhaṅga 12:1, defines this term as meaning “the tip of the nose or the sign of the mouth.” However, the term appears as part of a stock phrase describing a person engaged in meditation, even for themes that have nothing to do with the body at all, such as sublime-attitude (brahma-vihāra) meditation (AN 3:64). Thus it seems more likely that the term is used in an idiomatic sense, indicating either that mindfulness is placed face-to-face with its object, or that it is made prominent, which is how I have translated it here.

Selection (mix) from The Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta  (MN 10)
–Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu


The same selection of Pali appearing above also appears in the Ānāpānasati Sutta — (often translated as Mindfulness of Breathing):

“There is the case where a monk, having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building, sits down folding his legs crosswise, holding his body erect, and establishing mindfulness to the fore.1

Same Note:

1. To the fore (parimukhaṁ): An Abhidhamma text, Vibhaṅga 12:1, defines this term as meaning “the tip of the nose or the sign of the mouth.” However, the term appears as part of a stock phrase describing a person engaged in meditation, even for themes that have nothing to do with the body at all, such as sublime-attitude (brahma-vihāra) meditation (AN 3:64). Thus it seems more likely that the term is used in an idiomatic sense, indicating either that mindfulness is placed face-to-face with its object, or that it is made prominent, which is how I have translated it here.

Selection from Mindfulness of Breathing
Ānāpānasati Sutta  (MN 118)

Here a bhikkhu, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty hut, sits down; having folded his legs crosswise, set his body erect, and established mindfulness in front of him, ever mindful he breathes in, mindful he breathes out.

Selection from Majjhima Nikāya–—Bhikkhu Bodhi
118. Mindfulness of Breathing

It’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut. They sit down cross-legged, with their body straight, and establish mindfulness right there. Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.

[Or, it looks like there’s slight editing tweak since I first started working on this article:] It’s when a mendicant—gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut—sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and establishes mindfulness in front of them.

Selection from Middle Discourses 118—Bhikkhu Sujato
Mindfulness of Breathing


I’ve kind of wondered for awhile how exactly one “establishes mindfulness to the fore.” And in the suttas this seems more a prerequisite than an end goal as in one ought actually to establish mindfulness first before getting into the training. This may be in contrast to the perception of training the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and Ānāpānasati to result in (greater) mindfulness. (Although, granted, it seems likely a meditator both uses whatever degree of mindfulness is available from the get-go as well as training to cultivate mindfulness.)

I was reminded of this instruction of establishing mindfulness to the fore — as well as learned a new caveat I explore in just a bit — all from a brief mention made in Gradual Training on the Buddhist Path with Leigh Brasington Part 2 of 2 [which I also did a related blog post on this event called Questions And Points Put To Leigh Brasington On “Psychic Powers” In The Suttas where Leigh answers some of my questions]:

. . . Just above this, we had one sits down cross legged, holds one’s body erect, and sets up mindfulness before oneself. I would say yeah, if you can sit cross legged, great. But we have these evil things called chairs. And they’ve screwed up our ability to sit cross legged. So sit in a chair, be on a bench, lie down if necessary. If you lie down to meditate, pull your knees up, so your feet are flat on the bed or floor or whatever you’re lying on. And your knees are up making a little triangle bear with your feet and your point where your knees touch each other. Okay. And then one sets up mindfulness before oneself, so literal translation, one sets up mindfulness at the mukha. Mukha means mouth, but I think it’s like the mouth of a cave, the opening, and I’m assuming that’s the opening at the nostrils.

Leigh Brasington from Gradual Training on the Buddhist Path with Leigh Brasington Part 2 of 2

As far as I know the Buddha never explicitly says to do the particular samatha technique (sometimes taught) of paying attention to the breath on just the edges of the nostrils and upper lip, or the “Ānāpāna spot.” Could this samatha technique originate, or partially originate from the word mukha or parimukhaṁ [as mentioned briefly in the aforementioned Leigh Brasington event] sometimes translated as mouth; face; entrance; opening; or front?

And could this mukha, this front entrance (also be extrapolated to) mean the opening(s) of/at the sense gates — body, nose, taste, sight, sound, and mind — the threshold where contact happens (and/or the noticing of phenomena arising and perishing wherever and however that happens and is sensed)?

If so, in meditation practice, how about taking it a step further by bringing attention and awareness to (certain) skillful and unskillful phenomena at the sense gates? And in particular paying attention to sense phenomena in the most conducive way(s) to further approach realizing full awakening as well as vice versa: what not to attend to in what way(s) in order to eradicate any and all sabotaging of eventual Nibbana?

What about it meaning mindfulness before thought / language / verbal intimations (happen)?

So are there diplomatic compromises to all these different thoughts, ideas and translations especially in the context of mediation practice? How about something like practicing with the breath’s foremost (important) place? Perhaps, at least from time to time, this constitutes a physical association with the body and breath. Perhaps at other times it’s an energetic association with the body and breath. Maybe it’s some other association. And maybe it’s a combination. Can this include the”Ānāpāna spot” at times as well as the entire body as a whole? Why or why not is this legit?

Other stuff coming to mind around the word parimukhaṁ:

  • If it’s like the opening of a cave could this include (all) the passageways in the head like the nasal passages, ear openings and tubes, throat spaces, mouth and what the difference of this more external, upper beginning and end point breath energy when compared to the breath energy of air passages deeper (down) in the body?
  • If I’m getting this right, “pari-” is a prefix used with the connotation of around, about, all over, or that of completeness. Could this be like parinibbāna where “pari” means something like ultimate or complete or best overall then mixing with “mukhaṁ” as mouth, opening, entrance and/or any of the other mentioned interpretations for “mukhaṁ“?
  • There’s also the similar prefix “para”:

Definitions:

1. Beside; near; alongside: parathyroid.

2. Beyond: paranormal.

3. Incorrect; abnormal: paresthesia.

4. Similar to; resembling: paratyphoid fever.

5. Subsidiary; assistant: paraprofessional.

6. Isomeric; polymeric: paraldehyde.

Etymology:

para- (1)

before vowels, par-, word-forming element of Greek origin, “alongside, beyond; altered; contrary; irregular, abnormal,” from Greek para- from para (prep.) “beside, near; issuing from; against, contrary to” (from PIE *prea, from root *per- (1) “forward,” hence “toward, near; against”).

It is cognate with Old English for- “off, away.” Originally in English in Greek-derived words; it has been active in English mostly in scientific and technical words, but until recently was not usually regarded as a naturalized formative element in English.

para- (2)

before vowels par-, word-forming element of Latin origin meaning “defense, protection against; that which protects from,” from Italian para, imperative of parare “to ward off,” from Latin parare “make ready” (from PIE root *pere- (1) “to produce, procure”). It figures in parachute, parasol, parapet, etc.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/para- and https://www.etymonline.com/word/para-
  • Take and apply “para” in this meditative context. Perhaps this lends to more a vagueness and non-conventionality to what regularly experiences in worldly life, beyond what things seem on the surface. “Para” also brings to my mind “two” as in “pair.” In terms of breathing and mediation, there are plenty of pairs. In and out being the biggest. The in and out breath, two pauses between them, a start and an end to the in-breath, a start and an end to the out-breath, two nostrils and two lungs, an area preceding the nostrils and areas inside the body outside of the lungs.
    • The etymological “that which protects from” and “to ward off” seems reminiscent of the mindfulness instructions to guard the sense doors. Where, how and what is being allowed to go into and out of the body, senses, mind, etc. or going in and out without being allowed? How is the protection and friendliness?
    • This somehow reminded me of the Freemasonic notion of the Middle Chamber and the Buddha’s enlightenment poem which you’ll have to look both these up on your own and do your own contemplation on this if you feel there’s any relevance and/or helpfulness to come from it
    • Also reminded of the article “Is Ānāpānasati Breath Meditation?” which is a must read for its many important points not mentioned much in Buddhist meditation circles around the fundamental meditation practice of Ānāpānasati https://puredhamma.net/bhavana-meditation/anapanasati-not-breath-meditation/
  • It’s a stretch but could there kind of be the English words “muck” and “ham” in mukhaṁ and parimukhaṁ?
    • To be in the muck means to be in the thick of something one wouldn’t likely like to be in. Dirt. Challenging topics. Underbellies and the like. Or a muckraker is someone reporting on topics of the like.
    • The Chinook Jargon muckamuck means food and muckamuck, sometimes derogatory means a person in a position of power or authority
    • A “ham” is someone who is the center of attention and acting in a way to be so. Obviously, ham is also a particular choice part of meat from a pig.
  • The “Dharmāloka-Mukhaṁ” (text) is translated as “Entrance into the Light of the Dharma”

Śraddhā Mārṣā Dharmāloka-mukham-
Sirs, the faith entrance into the light of the Dharma

abhedy-āśayatāyai saṁvartate,
opens the way to unbroken intention,

The first of the one hundred and eight constituents of the Entrance into the Light of the Dharma
  • Thanissaro Bhikkhu mentions parimukhaṁ literally means “the front of the chest.” A few more modern sayings perhaps seem relavant to relating to parimukhaṁ in this way:
    • “that old chestnut”
    • “get that off my chest”
    • “hold _______ close to the heart”
    • “keep/hold your cards close (to your chest)”

So after examination and contemplation, how might be some other ways to approach (all) this in practice?


Placing All This Into Practice Possibilities

When examining, contemplating and playing with the words and notions for the translations of mukha and/or parimukhaṁ perhaps consider the following practice concepts in light of the corresponding instruction laid out in the Ānāpānasati and Satipatthana Suttas ‘Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā nisīdati, pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā, ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya, parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā‘ :

  • How about as a contemplation / meditation object sitting with: what does this “bring awareness to the fore” really mean and how ought it be implemented?
  • How about attention itself as a meditation object? Noticing the where/location, how and quality of attention from moment to moment?
  • And these, a mix of interpretation, perception and (meta-like, overarching) practice instructions:
    • Open up to the practice of [mindfulness]
    • Open/create a/the mindful(ness) space for [mindfulness practice]
    • Hold the/one’s intent [of cultivating mindfulness] close to the heart
    • Enter into (formal) mindfulness practice
    • Establishes a set, setting and utmost priority [for mindfulness (practice)]
    • One recalls, is aware of and realizes the distinction between inner and outer, interior and exterior of the body [for mindfulness cultivation]
  • Or maybe establishing mindfulness to the fore is an overall summation and preview of what one will be doing and/or what one does when practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and Ānāpānasati?


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Fearlessly Rediscovering Humanity With Colin Kingsmill

On August 17, 2023, Strategic Advisor, entrepreneur, coach and reformed “seeker of success” and ambition Colin Kingsmill and I conversed about cultural cohesion, work-life balance, direction, knowing thyself, antiquated performance reviews, toolkits, integrity, burnout, core values, goals, men/guys (not) expressing needs, nourishment, progressing, living with intention, jettisoning unhelpful conditioning, being free, changing narratives, trauma, awareness, media diets, media as big business, self-kindness, health, reconnecting and rediscovering collective humanity and ourselves, healing in a toxic culture, fear, fearlessness, listening to the body, daily rituals, therapy, resiliency, and addressing psychological suffering by reaching out

Biography

Colin Kingsmill is an entrepreneur, coach and Founding Partner at Whole Human Coaching and a Strategic Advisor to Kaylo. He is currently authoring a book entitled “Fear Less: Crossing the Bridge from Fear to Bliss.”

When people get stuck at critical transition points in their lives, he assists them in deconstructing the stories in their heads, overcoming fear, and reconstructing a new narrative to move forward, live their authentic selves and thrive. He has an acute ability to sense-make in this complex world.

His ability to fast-track clarity of mind with insight and humour guides people of all ages through relationship dynamics, confidence building, self-improvement, overcoming challenges and achieving desired results.

He believes that we have lost touch with our shared humanity and have become distracted by division, identity politics, negative news cycles, corporate and special interest greed and other forces that crush our souls.

He is on a mission to help people rediscover their humanity, be fearless and free, and remember who they are and who they will be to change the world.


About Colin by Colin:

I was born in Canada and raised between the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and the Swiss Alps. I have lived and worked (fallen and gotten back up again) globally, from Bora Bora and Beverly Hills to Montenegro & Serbia, London, Tuscany, the Indian Ocean, Thailand and everywhere in between.

The first part of my career was in Swiss banking. I did it for 10 years; co-founding an investment firm, until I broke in 2001 after having ticked all the boxes of “success”: MBA in Finance and Marketing, marriage, entrepreneurship. Christmas in St. Moritz and Easter in St. Tropez kind of stuff. You get the picture. In 2001 I gave everything I owned away (Buddha style) and moved back to Vancouver to start fresh. Literally, I began to redesign everything from scratch.

I have spend the last 20 years in international sales & marketing, branding and communications. I have really seen it all, from flying in private jets, sailing on super yachts, and mingling with industry titans; meeting Hillary Clinton and Elton John and hanging out in George Clooney’s villa on Lake Como when it was owned by the Heinz family. On the flip side of all the shiny stuff, I have also suffered the hardships of divorce and personal bankruptcy, depression and crippling anxiety.

My whole adult life I have said “yes” to opportunities without knowing what was coming next or what the consequences might be. Now I am writing Fear Less: Crossing the Bridge from Fear to Bliss, 8 steps to fearless living bringing this tapestry of life experiences to serve others.

Thanks to this vast collage of experiences, I have become an expert in helping people fearlessly pivot and make meaningful shifts in their lives when they find themselves stuck or at a daunting intersection professionally or personally.

After spending the last twelve years living and working in Europe, now I reside in the peaceful seaside town of Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada connected to nature where I can best serve my high-performing clients.

https://colinkingsmill.com

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World Wide Wise Speech | August 17, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #11


In this eleventh installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we chat about how complex speaking wisely can be. We get into the confusion of words spoken amongst various social and cultural contexts and situations; guidelines; kindness; authenticity; perceptions, intent; responsibility; non-harm; assumptions; dogmatic ideas; entitlement; empowerment; being of service; infringement; and various polarities like callousness and oversensitivity, saying something despite knowing better and not speaking up when you know you need to, and differences amongst and between genders

See also: https://buddhistuniversity.net/tags/communication



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Background

Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.

For a few months thereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.

Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”



Past chats with Wendy:



Audio: World Wide Wise Speech | August 17, 2023 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #11

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Insight Timer Premium Tracks: Energy Work, Still Point, Somatic Subtlety, Breath Awareness Course Bonus

Wholeness! Insight Timer recently launched “MemberPlus tracks” — audio only available with a “MemberPlus” active subscription, currently consisting of a 7 Day Free Trial then US$ 59.99/year

Below, please listen to some of my MemberPlus tracks to support my work as Insight Timer shares a very small amount of all the MemberPlus subscription funds with teachers based on listens and listener engagement

If for any reason you want to listen and can’t afford a MemberPlus subscription that helps support the oodles and oodles of free material and services on/from Insight Timer, reach out and I’ll see what I can do


Step-by-step High-level Energy Work 1 of 2

I introduce Randi Green’s sequences of various processes of unparalleled and incomparable energy work and processes as happening in real-time including Soul tones / light languages Sound, light, and consciousness fields Past / present life connections Some language origins White Sirian elder races & Pleiadian connections Journeys in vision Cube, spheres, and holographic teaching system tech Working with symbols, genetics, spheres, existences, consciousness, awareness, perception, light, vibration, the radiation center in the middle of the head leading into graduate for existence Brain field rings 2) Holographic code transfer involving entering a pillar and sphere of light; light body transformation and biofield integration 3) Transfiguring Sirian female coding 4) Light, meta consciousness, progressive races 5) Knowledge from the ultimate outcome for template and Heartfield integration Heartfelt exploration of non-existence, beingness, silence, recreation, & infusing positive qualities.


Step-by-step High-level Energy Work 2 Of 2

I introduce part 2 of Randi Green’s incomparable energy work and processes as related in real-time. Repeating the previous day’s sequence from vertical position she adds a third component to two newly generated fields and spheres to arrive at a new organic tone of well-being and gratitude. She enters the Sirian library through the merging of 33 buddhas into a light pillar where crystal discs turn into light coding for integration into being a living library keeper perhaps to its finalization. Randi then activates the Aditi layer to access deva realms and limitlessness; explores various realms of Buddhist cosmology; encounters the Lord of the Yakkhas; disentangles from forces like greed, unfairness, and envy; masters the womb; confronts craving for mastery; and explains polarity, primordial Buddha, some of the thunderbolt and Bodhisattva paths, right attitudes for rebirth via the void, still point transformations, and goes in-depth with sexuality as the unification of opposites


Working With The Still Point

I introduce my fiancée Randi Green’s teachings and instructions about the Still Point for meditation and energy work. This recording includes silence, stillness, calm, quiet, cessation, gaps between thoughts, how to better see rising/ceasing, the receiving and perceiving of energy, working with pleasant/unpleasant, how to work with body challenges including right relationship and kindness as preliminaries; vertical sitting position; central nervous system; mental > mind > radiation fields; balancing the emotional system; neither going too far in nor out; contents of the mental fields; identifying what we want to connect to, work with and clear; working with various layers and levels of golden energy around the head and the golden center; receiving and working with other levels of energy from our existence and the exercise of observing the center of the brain for the still point.


Progressive Breath Awareness Booster – New Bonus Mini Course

This bonus of sorts to my Progressive Breath Awareness Booster course is actually a type of micro-course in and of itself with all new material. To really get the proper instructions on how to work with what you’re about to hear, please check out the first two recordings in my Progressive Breath Awareness Booster course, the brief “Introduction,” as well as “Day 1.” Both of these are free on Insight Timer. Like the main course, there are the questions and practice suggestion sections, but this recording lacks the perceptions section. The intent with such new, unique and sometimes very minutely detailed questions and practice suggestions is to challenge us to access and cultivate awareness of breath on deeper and more expansive levels. This serves to develop greater overall breath awareness mastery in order to simply maintain a more continuous bare awareness of breath on and off the meditation cushion.


Sensing Somatic Subtlety

This guided practice implements identifying and knowing sensations and energy dynamics on the micro, macro and wholistic scales in order to access somatic subtlety or take current access to the next level. We dive deep into somatically experiencing and knowing the origins of arising bodily energy and sensation; their flavors and types; how energy and sensation can seem to persist, move, change and desist. We also open to phenomena in and around the physical body as well as the general field of awareness by using a predominate locus of attention in the physical body then expand to the entire body, beyond the body finally bouncing back to just body.

On The Future Mission Statements With Randi Green

. . . most of us have been pushed into other timelines where they have literally worn down our Energy System in whatever projects they have found fruitful for them so they could continue their “progression Sciences,” their continued developmental programs because one of the things that are important in the mission statements from the future was that we had Gene codes to recalibrate and restore genes. And that’s a huge bomb. That’s why we’ve been targeted so hard and pushed into so many negative programs because they’re literally trying to extract that code from our Energy System so they can apply to their own. They have used many of the future human civilizations that have come back — traveled back in time — to be the Breeders within their programs. We didn’t know that when we came here.

Randi invites me to talk and ask questions about “good” and “evil.” Much is in the context of our previous talk New Inner Domain Races and New Intervention Protocol. Mostly she goes on to include:

  • What does “good” and “evil”, right and wrong even mean
  • In what context is it used
  • One’s perceptions of this
  • What’s helpful to oneself
  • Expanded awareness
  • For self, other and reality
  • Highest progression for all
  • Polarity (of high energy)
  • In the long-term
  • Harm and ill-will
  • Being the lighthouse so not to fall into darkness
  • Artificial 4D and 5D cloaking after Atlantis reseeding
  • Individual energy systems and genetics
  • A type of future holographic network technology:

it’s meant to literally combine the different levels of genetic and Consciousness potentials that are represented in the council members and from that connect to the different past / present / future timelines from where it can process the most optimal outcome of what is seen and perceived when it scans this reality compared to what they offer in the councils

Some advice for clearing and inner work:

  • Know thyself
  • Meditation
  • Contemplation
  • Processing information systems
  • Inner realm work
  • Inner narratives
  • Food
  • Feelings
  • What do I want? Where do I want to go? How?
  • Trusting internal guidance and testing it
  • Administer one’s heart and energy
  • Cultivate resilience
  • Checking if one is on the right track

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Audio: On The Future Mission Statements With Randi Green

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