Live and Die Awake
Opening Meditation

Live and Die Awake: Rising from the Ashes

The meditation that opens Live and Die Awake, read by Julie. It asks nothing of you except a few quiet minutes and your attention.

8:51Read by Julie

Listen

Julie asks for your email before she reads to you, so she knows who is sitting with her. One address opens this recording and the rest of the Companionship Suite, and you will not be asked again on this device.

Julie Wright Halbert with her hands held together at her heart

How to sit with it

At the beginning of a day, or at the end of a hard one. Sit somewhere you can stay put for nine minutes. Headphones help, but they are not required.

From the book

Reflective Pause: Meeting Yourself Where You Are

Julie prints this at the front of the book, before the first chapter. It is here in her words, unedited. Sit with it after you listen.

Please remember to start with a journal to capture your reflections after each meditation, to answer questions in the exercises either in writing or in an app, such as Otter, to transcribe orally your thoughts and reflections that you may later download into a file and folder to compile your entire journey of healing through Live and Die Awake.

This pause continues into the Living and Dying Awake Framework, which has a page of its own.

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