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Meditative Story

Trust the world to show its goodness, by Shea Hembrey

Meditative Story

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Meditation, Mindfulness, Society And Culture, Personal Stories, Mental Health, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Storytelling, Society & Culture

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Shea Hembrey is 5 years old, walking along the road to his farmhouse on the edge of the Mississippi River Delta, where the floodplains meet the Ozark Mountain foothills. The undulating hills surrounded by dense rows of oak, sassafras, sugarberry, and persimmon trees. He spots a pale, smooth-polished fleck: an egg! “This is a baby bird,” he tells his parents. “And I’m going to hatch it.” From that point forward, his willingness to be patient – to let what is already there reveal itself – opens up the world to show its goodness. We all possess this kind of wonderful intuition, but you must pay attention to that knowing feeling and start to trust it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, it's Rohan. For Mental Health Awareness Month, we're partnering with a few other

0:05.3

shows to bring you some resources that might support your own mental health journey.

0:10.5

This week, I want to share a little bit about a slight change of plans. It's a wonderful

0:15.9

podcast hosted by one of our previous meditative story guests, Dr. Maya Shankar. On a slight change

0:23.4

of plans, Maya blends compassionate storytelling with the science of human behaviour to explore

0:30.0

who we are and who we become in the face of big changes. Much like on meditative story,

0:37.4

you're here incredible life changing stories and timeless wisdom that can help you live a better

0:44.1

life. A slight change of plans is one of my favourite podcasts and I really think you'll love

0:50.4

it as well. So give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

1:07.7

On a high hill in the center of the farm, this is my grandparents' white wooden farmhouse.

1:13.5

Nessled beneath the Talpacan and La Blale pine trees, the humid air smells alive year-round.

1:24.4

With constant notes of green and soil floating on the breeze,

1:30.1

bird song is also constantly around. Its insensity is quadruple on warm nights with frogs,

1:38.8

cicadas and crickets joining in.

1:43.5

It's a very life place. Digging the soil anywhere and you'll find something.

1:59.8

Shay Hembury is a conceptual artist and tells speaker and when I watched his Ted talk

2:04.6

from a few years ago, I was in no way ready for it. In the talk, Shay starts by speaking about

2:10.4

the art by an eel he organises called Seek, showing the work of a hundred different artists.

2:16.5

But the twist is he isn't the curator, he is everything. Each of the artists at creation of

2:22.4

his imagination and the hundred radically different pieces, his. The audacity of this blows my mind.

2:31.2

The meditative stories Shay shares here is from an earlier time. A time when Shay learns the power

2:36.8

of observation and how care for looking when combined with patience can really open up the world.

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