Upon Awakening with Avalon Kalin

Breathe of Life

Each of us is perfectly designed to be a master at something. Our genius appears as an innate Enthusiasm. Feeling the presence of life in one’s chest – in one’s body – is our natural born state. When did we lose the enthusiasm to live fully in this moment? The beauty is, we can enjoy our gifts in service to life, in forms, arts, systems, fields, skillsets, situations that meet real needs. I am here to tell you that the thing that lights you up and draws your skills in the now, in the flow, is your Life’s Work. Only when we use our gifts without aligning with our values, or without serving a real need, do we experience the shadow of our gift in the form of Indifference to our work, to even our talents. By being present in the breathe we can unlock the door to our gifts: doing the dance of being objective about whether we are meeting a need, knowing and informing others where our energy needs to go, assessing what is realistic, and reassessing what is moving us forward towards fulfilling needs and answering our inspiration in the first place. Listen for two techniques to get your body and breathe aligned, six meditations for presencing your natural and masterful Enthusiasm, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe [https://uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Your Voice in the Now

Unlock the potency of your voice. Your awareness is sacred. Attune to this moment. Observe how thoughts and feelings come and go, like waves on the ocean. This witnessing awareness, when established in the voice, becomes alchemical. Like Orpheus, you sing spirit into stones, and all types of “animals” are enchanted into their own harmony and awareness through the sound of attunement. The key is to honor your attention. Your attention is sacred. Your words are sacred. So, let your voice be a prayer to the divine. Yes, you can use this voice to manifest. But it not for narrow ends. Its power is in its depth; an endless wellspring of truth, beauty and love. This is very simple yet profound; it comes from your simple Presence. No agenda, just knowing. Listen for blissful and grounding meditations, and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe [https://uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Experiencing Radical Authenticity

No-one told us our unique contribution was perfectly designed in us as our natural gifts. Your unique Contribution wants so much to shine and to be expressed in the most natural and effortless ways. No self-sacrifice is needed, only letting go of the stuff that is not really us. In order to be ourselves we must know ourselves. From here the natural courage to be oneself comes. It is established in the body. Seated in the body, moment to moment. Through our blessings, we each stand up in our own way. Encouraging each path’s awakening creates new harmonies yet undreamed of. Listen for how to create space for your whole self, and meditations for presencing Radical Authenticity. Watch the 3 min clip I mention in this episode: Quicksilver (X-Men) lives in his Contribution as service (in this case saving everyone after stumbling upon a disaster) with spontaneous alignment, resolve, and even playful joy. Oh yeah, and no one else even saw it happen. ;-) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe [https://uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

Experiencing Simplicity

Our simple awareness can do so much for us, when we let it. We have fear of being fully present, and victim patterns which outsource our power. When we touch this world – with our hands, feel, smell, taste, and love – we enter into the most powerful experience of uniqueness and diversity of life. In reality we are touching from this simple awareness of the essence of things. It is the natural way of relating, through body and soul. Listen for meditations on presencing your gift of Simplicity in the flow and more. Upon Awakening is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please become a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe [https://uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

I Have Listened

In this episode I talk about Divine Receptivity – how listening and receiving transforms situations and life, unlocks magic, generates opportunity, and allows abundance. You can speak with your ears. Let the truth come through in all the different ways by being Receptive. Stop and listen. Receive with joy, gratitude, and interest to what the universe is speaking through people, places, and things. Receive guidance from life itself… from your own life. Where do we go? What do we do? What do we like? What do we really want? What really lights me up? What a thing to discover. To feel. We have many ways of listening. What ways are you listening? What ways of listening feel most natural? Gut, Yummy more please? Clear decisive gut instinct, mind, sounding board convos? Walking, Nature, meditation? Is it a quiet voice inside, or is it literally loudly being blasted like a booming stereo in a car with subwoofers? Is it in signs of birds flying above, coyotes crossing the road? The synchronicity of things, or opportunities coming one foot in front of you? If we set a true goal, we see how things come together before us, like stones being set into the path. This is really about Unity. I talk about the shadow of Dislocation and the experience of Unity. And, the secret to experiencing Unity. Listen for Meditations and more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe [https://uponawakening.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]