Embracing Calm | Day 1

Experience the shift from turbulence to tranquility through Andrea Mai's candid reflections and practical wisdom.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Welcome to the Calm Way Daily. My name is Andrea Mai and today I'm going to share with you a reading from the Calm Way 365 day journey out of the weeds and into the wilds of true inner freedom. Day one what starts as an experiment can turn into a fresh new way of living, looking and perceiving. It can become part of your devotion to unlocking and celebrating the mysteries within your inner temple. The experiment can feel pretty bumpy, like an old northern highway riddled with frost heave.

Speaker 1: 0:40

As I wrote this book, I sometimes felt angry just by hearing or saying the word calm, and that frustrated me. There was immense discomfort at points as calm expressed its frequency within me. It kept running into these pockets of resistance. Oh how I wanted to hang on to these last shreds and oh how I wanted to let them go. It took a year to read this book. I often grew weary.

Speaker 1: 1:11

I wondered why it was necessary, after decades of devotion to this path, for me to go even deeper. The calm way was so deep-rooted in me. People would find their way to me because they felt it in me. They told me all the time. So why was what I knew in my bones, blood and spirit going through a deconstruction.

Speaker 1: 1:35

The last bits of resistance to my gentleness a quality I couldn't even name yet had to be set free. Before I write any book, I go through a portal and meet the deepest layers of its message, know it, live it, embody it, share it. But this called me further than I've ever gone. It took me out of calm and then it moved me beyond, into a state of such grace and gentleness. I feel the shift more every day Gentleness, grace, comfort, sheer wildness and rapture.

Speaker 1: 2:13

And to get here, to the very edge of it, to the place where gentleness began to unlock within me, I had to stay open. I let it move through me. Had I known that wild and gentle were waiting for me, I might have been less resistant. And now I'm sharing this with you. So you know, your only actual experiment is to stay open. What have you experienced of gentleness? Would you like to know it better? Invite it in. Of gentleness, would you like to know it better? Invite it in. And if you'd like to pick up a copy of the Calm Way or schedule a private session with me and to experience the Calm Way at a greater level the links for both of those are in the description have a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful day.