Divine Connections
Julie’s Reflection Pause for this chapter is set out below in full, in her words. 7 questions to sit with, and a journal is all they ask for.
Reflection Pause: Divine Connections Within and Beyond
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Please move gently through these questions:
- What did you notice during the meditation in your body, emotions, or awareness?
- What felt most meaningful or real to you?
- Where in your life do you sense connection to yourself, to others, to nature, to loved ones that have passed, or to something greater than you?
- If someone came to mind during the meditation: What did you feel in remembering them?
What love continues between you, even now? - What part of you feels unchanged or enduring?
- Living and Dying Awake invites us to carry awareness into daily life.
How might remembering this connection influence how you live, love, or move forward?
- Complete this sentence: I carry forward ______________________________.
Closing Integration
Place your hand over your heart and take one slow breath. Connection does not end.
It lives through us, as us, and beyond us.
I am connected.
I am held.
I carry love forward
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