the Heart of Now

Mind the Time

"And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions And for a hundred visions and revisions Before the taking of a toast and tea."
- T.S. Eliot
How do we deal with the interval between when the important events in our lives happen? What is presence when moving through a scheduled world? What happens when we wait for our lives to happen?
Join Gavain U'Prichard and kaseja Wilder in this episode, as they discuss being in time, but not of it.

Healing Childhood Trauma

In this episode, Heart of Now facilitator kaseja Wilder discusses healing as an adult with childhood trauma, using the power of being present to profoundly change the perceptual distortions, particularly concerning fear for personal safety, that occur with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Speaking from personal experience, she shows how to choose to exist, rather than disappear, in the face of remembering trauma.

Episode 2: The Nature of Grief

In this Episode of the Heart of Now podcast, we take a look at Grief and other strong emotions to which we may have personally or culturally generated aversion. We discuss how to entertain these feelings as internal guests while remaining strong and centered. We address the paradox of being trapped in an emotional state that can occur when we avoid feeling.
The Guest House
Jelaluddin Rumi
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness
comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Episode 1: One Minute Presence

kaseja wilder, a facilitator with the Heart of Now, a personal growth program based in Oregon, inaugurates our podcast with an exercise for becoming present to your experience of this moment, so you can make active choices about the rest of your day, and your life.