Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living

186. Blessing: May you frequently throw your head back in sheer delight.

A blessing a wish from my heart to yours! Blessing backstory:⁠ A while ago I decided to find uplifting images, ones that made me smile and lifted my spirit. And to send them together with a blessing, a personal wish, to my immediate family. Over time it’s become a ‘daily-ish’ morning practice via WhatsApp to a slowly growing recipient list. Recently I’ve started to share these blessings and images on social media too, with a prayer that they brighten the world of those who receive them. And most recently I've started recording an audio version (started on 25Jan22). Invitation: Let them wash over and through you...may something resonate, soothe or remind...so much love always! Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery! 👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️) Blessings also shared on IG (@aliveloren) & Medium (aliveloren.medium.com)

185. Blessing: May you find beauty in the contrasts, in the juxtaposition of opposites.

A blessing a wish from my heart to yours! Blessing backstory:⁠ A while ago I decided to find uplifting images, ones that made me smile and lifted my spirit. And to send them together with a blessing, a personal wish, to my immediate family. Over time it’s become a ‘daily-ish’ morning practice via WhatsApp to a slowly growing recipient list. Recently I’ve started to share these blessings and images on social media too, with a prayer that they 5brighten the world of those who receive them. And most recently I've started recording an audio version (started on 25Jan22). Invitation: Let them wash over and through you...may something resonate, soothe or remind...so much love always! Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery! 👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️) Blessings also shared on IG (@aliveloren) & Medium (aliveloren.medium.com)

184. Day 37 of 49: Be humble continued.

Context: In January 2018 I committed to a 40-day day fast and to write a post daily documenting the experience. The greatest gift was living more presently, more mindfully. Here on the Alive Loren podcast, you can find this series read aloud as an AUDIO BLOG. May you be inspired to live more presently and connect to more magical moments. For more context to this AUDIO BLOG series listen to '117: Important Updates'. The reading starts from '118. Day 0: OMG did I really commit to a 40 day fast?' You can easily identify these episodes as they start with the word 'Day....' ENJOY! 👉 To read the original blog post for this episode, head over to aliveloren.medium.com and search 'Day 37 of 49: Be humble continued' 👉 Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living.

182. Good bad who know? Plus honouring the call to express what’s alive in you.

The parable of the widowed farmer, 'Good, bad who know?' and honouring what's alive in you, what's nudging, sometimes nagging, pleading, begging to be expressed through you, regardless of whether the outside world gets it, laughs at it, loves it, ridicules it, celebrates and/or condemns it. Regardless! Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living and embracing mystery! 👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️)

183. Day 36 of 49: Be humble continued.

Context: In January 2018 I committed to a 40-day day fast and to write a post daily documenting the experience. The greatest gift was living more presently, more mindfully. Here on the Alive Loren podcast, you can find this series read aloud as an AUDIO BLOG. May you be inspired to live more presently and connect to more magical moments. For more context to this AUDIO BLOG series listen to '117: Important Updates'. The reading starts from '118. Day 0: OMG did I really commit to a 40 day fast?' You can easily identify these episodes as they start with the word 'Day....' ENJOY! 👉 To read the original blog post for this episode, head over to aliveloren.medium.com and search 'Day 36 of 49: Be humble continued' 👉 Alive Loren Podcast: Celebrating soulful conscious living.

181. What is it that you really really want?

Have you ever really thought about the ONE thing you really, really want? What if a magical genie popped up in front of you right now, but there was only ONE THING you could ask for.... What would it be? A thing? An experience? A state of being? I recently signed up for Ann Wilson's free 30 days Money Makeover Challenge (@thewealthchef). On one of the first few days, she has a deep dive exercise into fleshing out a super-comprehensive list of all you'd like to be, do, have, experience and create. I'm just finding myself in a place where 'things' out there are not having such an appeal. Because I take ME to any future 'dream destination'. Nothing 'out there' is really going to bring me a lasting, genuine sense of joy, presence and fulfilment....so I started unpacking what I want, what I really, really want. What do you really want? Really really want? If there was just ONE THING? Hmmm...some personal sharing on episode 181. What is it that you really really want? After all is said and done, at the core, the very centre....I think to be happy, genuine deeply happy... How about you? IG: @aliveloren Medium: @aliveloren

180. Exploring an invitation to accept, receive and enjoy the bitter, sour parts of life.

So have you flipped it? Isn't it amazing how the lines on the page don't change, but what you see changes because you're willing to change perspective because you're open to another point of view, another possibility? And that's what this blessing and backstory are about. Intro to the backstory: One of my Taiwanese students shared she will soon be celebrating the Chinese New Year and that there are many traditional foods eaten, including some that are bitter and sour. She said the ancestors included these to teach about receiving and even enjoying these flavours, that they symbolize the inevitable bitter and sour experiences of life and that growing the capacity to receive and enjoy these flavours will increase the enjoyment of life itself. As a child she absolutely disliked these foods, which she now as an adult enjoys and looks forward to. I wanted to hear her story, her journey.... The Blessing: May you respectfully witness your resistance to the possibility of enjoying the sour, bitter experiences of life, May you playfully hold space for the ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’, the ‘arguments’ and ‘judgements’, allowing their expression without being drawn in, And in the meantime, may you be open to this possibility of increasing your capacity to receive pleasure and joy from more of life, even the bitter and sour parts, May you try this possibility on for size to see if it adds value to your quality and experience of life! So may it be. Because what if…. Just what if… life wishes nothing more than for us to experience and receive the love from it ALL. What if it’s not about life-changing, but about us growing our capacity to receive. What if that’s the work of our lifetime? Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living 👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️)

179. Cold shower anyone?

I've been playing with cold showers the last couple of years, and have had so many wonderful takeaways on this rollercoaster ride. This simple practice has been and continues to be a powerful one! I recently tracked down the Wim Hof video he created for those who would begin the cold shower journey. I so love his gentle conscious approach and message of 'not forcing'. I needed this! Especially since there have been times I've been pretty stern and quite the disciplinarian with myself around my cold shower routine. I'm also resonating with the idea of finding joy and pleasure from what I may originally label as 'unpleasant, unwanted, painful'. A theme that's sounding loud and proud from the work of Carolyn Elliot, in her book Existential Kick. More sharing in today's episode. Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living 👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️)

178. The happiest country, wine making, trauma release and countries leading for woman in politics

When I tutor adults online, I'm often also the student, learning delicious things from my students. I was grateful for three new discoveries and one reminder as four of them shared details about the happiest country, the artistry of winemaking, women in politics and the trauma and tension release practice that is TRE. May you too find some value and inspiration! Alive Loren: celebrating soulful joyous living 👍 Get Inspired. Join the Movement (IG📷+Podcast🎙️)

177. BITE SOCIETY: A zero profit vegan chocolate snacks brand that’s also a food activism project.

Bite Society is a whirlwind of inspiration. This funky brand of super affordable price competitive vegan uber crunchy core milky chocolate balls is a zero profit model food activism project. If this sounds like a mouthful, it is! There's a TON going on with this brand, founded by Simon Newstead, who you just have to check out on Linkedin, to see the cool list of exciting projects and businesses he is involved in. The Bite Society podcast 'Vegan Startup' is also a wonderful source of possibility thinking in action with conversations with plant and cell-based startups from around the globe. IG: @aliveloren Medium: @aliveloren Alive Loren Podcast Get inspired. Join the movement.