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You can do a lot of things to help your community. Its just I do yoga," said 9-year-old Michael Thompson.

CEDAR HILL, Texas It is tough being a sibling, but the Thompson brothers manage it well.

Were Black boys and we meditate, said 9-year-old Michael Thompson.

For more than a year, Michael and his younger brothers, 7-year-old Jordan and 4-year-old Jalen, have been coming to their mothers yoga studio in Cedar Hill.

I wanted them to not only see what mom was doing and learn the practices so that they can learn how to regulate their emotions but for them to feel empowered as leaders and create something, said Helsa Thompson,The Aura House.

Me and my brothers help kids feel strong and happy through yoga, meditation, managing our emotions and using positive affirmations, said Michael.

It really focuses on making mindfulness accessible to underserved communities, said Helsa Thompson. I want to make sure that we are able to touch as many kids as possible because theyre dealing with so much right now like social media, the messages that theyre getting, unfortunately suicide rates, depression, anxiety. Those things are increasing, so the younger we can teach kids tools of how to deal with the stressors of just everyday life, its going to help with their mental health.

They use exercises such as their Coloring Calm coloring book and their Affirmation Alphabet. They also teach yoga to adults and other kids.

Each brother does his part, but Saturday, Michael will be stretching out on his own.

He will be recognized during the Kids Choice Awards, which is really awesome because I grew up watching Nickelodeon, said Helsa Thompson.

Michael will be honored for creating Black Boys Meditate. He received a bronze medal for his impact in the community. He's hoping to achieve the gold medal in September.

When I knew about it, I was like, How does a little group in the southwest area get to do stuff with Nickelodeon? said Michael.

The answer is by simply making an impact.

You can do a lot of things to help your community. Its just I do yoga, said Michael.

It is a skill that not only keeps them grounded but helps their community become mentally balanced.

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Looking for good vibrations, brighter auras, in a dark time? Want to refocus from the demented verbiage of contemporary politics? Maybe youre ready for the City of Love Meditation Event on July 17.

Meditate Milwaukee is offering the free, one-hour online event, designed for first timers as well as seasoned meditators. Co-organizer Traci Schwartz says that the idea for the virtual session was inspired by the example of their real time event at the Riverside Theater on New Years Day, 2023. It was meditation with music, a celebration about reconnecting after Covid, she explained.By doing this virtually wed like to reach even more people than we had at the Riverside Theatre, she adds.

Likewise, the City of Love Meditation Event, scheduled for RNC week, is about communitygetting our energy to align, a chance to shift away from the feelings of negativity in our city. Organizers are hoping that the online session will draw participants from across the nation into a more thoughtful mode of thinking. In the City of Loves press release, co-organizer Kaita Bliffert stressed the importance of investing in ourselves in order to invest in each other. We see a real need for people to come together now to create a sense of compassion and understanding.

The City of Love Meditation Event will be live from 6-7 p.m., Wednesday July 17. To register, visit meditatemilwaukee.com.

David Luhrssen lectured at UWM and the MIAD. He is author of The Vietnam War on Film, Encyclopedia of Classic Rock, and Hammer of the Gods: Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism.

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Maybe a sense of calm comes with a walk in the woods surrounded by birdsong or during the quiet of your morning meditation or evening prayer. Maybe the rhythm of knitting or the earthy smell of gardening clears your head.

Science backs up what we know intuitively: Time we spend in nature or on calming practices or hobbies can benefit our mental and physical health. These activities rejuvenate us, right down to our bodys living building blocks: our cells.

A UC San Francisco-based team led byAlexandra Crosswell, PhD, andElissa Epel, PhD, has woven together their own research and studies by others in various fields to connect the experience of, say, painting or practicing yoga to shifts in the nervous system and, subsequently, within our cells. To make this transition, our bodies and minds require certain conditions. But once these are met, the result, they say, isdeep rest.

This truly restorative state one never described before confers benefits unattainable through routine rest and relaxation. In putting forward this concept, the team highlights the regenerative biological processes that protect us as we age.

Deep rest is something our bodies need and deserve, says Epel, a professor of psychiatry and vice chair of psychology. With it, we improve our chances for healthy longevity.

To understand the benefits of deep rest, we must confront its counterpoint: stress. Surveys by the American Psychological Association suggest Americans experience plenty of this stomach-churning state. Almost half of adults who responded to a 2023 survey agreed at least somewhat with the statement My stress makes going to work [or] school increasingly difficult.

Stress, though it can interfere with our ability to function, originated in physiological mechanisms to help us meet challenges whether escaping a pack of wolves or facing fallout from a major work mistake. Just like the fear of being eaten, the threat of losing your colleagues respect can put your body on high alert, triggering a cascade of responses.

Your nervous system hands over control of unconscious processes like breathing and digestion to its in-house crisis response coordinator: the sympathetic nervous system. This shift kicks off a series of energy-demanding changes that prime your body and mind for action. Your heart beats faster. Blood flow increases to your skeletal muscles, which tense up. Your production of hormones, such as cortisol and other energizing chemical messengers, surges. Your alertness intensifies.

Together, these and other shifts help ready you to fight or flee even if youre just anxiously awaiting a reply to your apologetic email while imagining dire scenarios.

A certain degree of stress is inevitable in life, Crosswell points out. After years of studying stress, it became clear to us that we have to stop trying to get rid of it, she says. Stressful events are often outside our control, and our bodies response to them is natural and helpful.

Too much stress, however, can cause harm. She and her colleagues argue that many Americans spend most of their waking hours in a moderately stressed-out state, driven by feelings of uncertainty about the future and lack of control. While no surprise to many of us, the idea the team explores that we experience continual stress represents a new direction in scientific thinking, which has traditionally considered relaxation the default human state.

Ideally, a stress-inducing crisis comes to a quick, clear ending. Maybe your apology at work is accepted, the mistake quickly forgotten. But problems in modern life often dont come to quick, complete conclusions. Your boss may repeatedly deny requests for remote work. You and a loved one may frequently argue. You may struggle financially for years. Under such circumstances, stress can attenuate to a more moderate level, but it doesnt stop.

While less taxing, residual stress still drains you. Maintaining an elevated heart rate or pumping out more cortisol than usual requires extra energy. This energy takes the form of molecules known as ATP, or adenosine triphosphate. Cellular organelles called mitochondria make ATP by using oxygen from the air we breathe to harvest energy from fats, proteins, and glucose derived from food we eat.

Mitochondria are the source of the vital force that brings a cell to life and ultimately gives us our conscious mind, our emotions, saysMartin Picard, PhD, director of the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Group at Columbia University and one of Epel and Crosswells collaborators.

Everything we experience is powered by the energy flow inside our cells, he says, and that flow takes place in mitochondria.

While a single cell can contain hundreds of mitochondria, the organelles can generate only so much ATP for reasons that remain unclear. So when your body goes on alert, a cell diverts its limited ATP supply to carry out the urgent functions the stress response demands, such as contracting the heart or synthesizing hormones. This robs it of energy for more routine but necessary tasks.

Whats more, studies have linked diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and neurodegenerative disorders, with poor mitochondrial health. Picard suspects psychological stress has a similar effect, with mitochondria sustaining damage and becoming less productive when someone is under chronic strain.

Some prior studies and his own research with mothers caring for children on the autism spectrum, a source of chronic stress, support this idea. In a study led by Epel and described inBiological Psychiatry, Picard and others found that mitochondria in the mothers white blood cells had a reduced ability to transform energy into ATP. Cells face another potential consequence of damaged mitochondria: increased production of a potentially toxic byproduct of making ATP chemicals known as reactive oxygen species (ROS). If not neutralized, ROS can harm our cells.

The effects of chronic stress extend to our genetic material as well. At the tips of chromosomes, repeating segments of DNA form telomeres. With assistance from proteins, telomere caps protect the integrity of these packets of genetic code for as long as they can.

Each time a cell copies its genetic material so it can replicate, its telomeres lose a little DNA and shorten. Research started 20 years ago by Epel, with UCSF colleagues Nobel laureateElizabeth Blackburn, PhD, andJue Lin, PhD, shows that chronic psychological stress further shortens telomeres. This loss is a consequence of exposure to ROS, the release of hormones like cortisol, and inflammation. Molecular studies of cells substantiate this connection: By mimicking long-term exposure to the stress hormone cortisol, Picard has shown that cells respond by revving up their metabolisms, which shortens telomeres and hastens cell death.

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Carol Raleigh, Jim LaViolet, Shelly Vanness, Ann Murphy, Diane Widi and Anne Tennis participate in a tai chi event. Tai chi is a meditation exercise form of low-impact movements that originated in 13th-century China as a form of martial arts handed down from generation to generation. Eva Westein photo

Once an ancient form of martial arts, tai chi becomes local wellness activity

By Eva Westein

Contributing Writer

GREEN BAY On Wednesday mornings at Voyageur Park, members of the Brown County Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) can be found under the shade of the trees practicing the slow, serene movements of tai chi while being serenaded by chirping birds and meditative music.

At the head of the group is Shelly Vanness, a retired occupational therapist who now volunteers her skills and passion for the practice of tai chi at the ADRC as a beginner-level instructor.

Vanness first had the opportunity to learn about tai chi back in 2000 when she received a mailing about tai chi training for therapists.

Initially, she had just set the mailing aside and forgot about it, but she picked it up again a few months later and decided to look into it.

She then took several workshops for about a year and a half.

After training at the Tai Chi Center of Madison, she eventually decided to teach it herself.

Vanness later got certified to teach tai chi and has voluntarily taught it to others for 22 years, eight of which have been at the ADRC.

I feel like it was a gift that I received in my life, so I like to share it with other people, she stated.

Tai chi is a meditation exercise form of low-impact movements that originated in 13th-century China as a form of martial arts handed down from generation to generation.

It is now practiced as an art form, meditation technique, or mind, body and spirit exercise that is becoming increasingly popular across the United States.

It is an especially convenient method of exercise because it can be practiced alone or in a group setting and does not require specialized equipment or clothing.

Tai chi can be practiced by anyone.

Many seniors are interested in it. It is very meditative and works on concentration and balance too, which is good for us all, says Jean Huxtable-Hamersky, a community member who has been taking Shellys tai chi class at the ADRC in downtown Green Bay for several months now.

Tai chi also boasts many other health benefits such as improved posture, body awareness, blood pressure control, flexibility, cardiovascular and respiratory function, pain relief, emotional wellness and more.

In fact, the National Institute of Health has introduced grants to be used by organizations such as the ADRC to create opportunities for community members to practice tai chi and other similar exercises in an effort to reduce balance-related falls in the elderly.

While the practice of tai chi is accessible to anyone, Shelly warns that it can be a long process.

Be very patient with yourself because it takes a good long while, I would say if youre really interested it takes about 9-12 months before you feel like you can really do one of the forms well, Vanness explained.

For beginners, she also recommends finding something online that you can follow along with at home, even if its just 15 minutes a day.

If you are interested in participating in a local in-person tai chi session, check out the following offerings: call 920-448-4300 for the Aging and Disability Resource Center in Green Bays sessions with Shelly on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m.; contact Eric Peters at 920-366-0899 for beginner, intermediate and advanced sessions held on Tuesdays from 9-10 a.m. at GBASO on 2351 Holmgren Way, Suite 102; and call the YWCA of Green Bay at 920-432-5581 for tai chi sessions in the water on Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. and tai chi sessions in the classroom on Thursdays at 10 a.m.

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Scientists have found a way to achieve higher levels of concentration when practicing mindfulness through applying non-invasive ultrasound technology to the brain.

Derived from a significant practice in Hindu and Buddhist tradition, mindfulness is recognized by the American Psychological Association as a pathway to stress reduction, improved memory, and greater cognitive flexibility.

Using a technique called transcranial-focused ultrasound (TFUS), a form of low-intensity ultrasound technology, researchers at the University of Arizona were able to modify the brain's default mode network (DMN). The DMN is a network of interconnected brain regions that are particularly active during restful and introspective activities such as daydreaming.

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The impetus of the study came from the hypothesis that more people would engage in mindfulness if their brains were less distracted.

"The best part is you are using a minimal amount of energy to alter brain activity. You are just giving a gentle push to the brain with low-intensity ultrasound," said lead study author Brian Lord, a Cognition & Neural systems researcher, in a statement.

The experiment included 30 participants who received TFUS under supervision. Each person had their brain activity monitored and was interviewed about their mental state afterwards.

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Unlike other non-invasive brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial electrical stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation, TFUS has the ability to penetrate beneath the cortexthe brain's outermost layerwith pinpoint precision.

In this case, the study targeted a region that contributes to high-level functions such as focus, emotional regulation and self-referential processing. Broadly speaking, it is active during anything that involves reflection or introspection.

Researchers employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor changes in brain activity. During functional scans, subjects were instructed to stare at a fixation cross and allow their thoughts to flow naturally. Scans were produced five minutes and 25 minutes after fMRI application.

Participants were also asked to report their feelings and experiences both before and after the TFUS treatment. Those who had received the real treatment reported an increase in state mindfulness as measured by the Toronto Mindfulness Scale, a questionnaire commonly used in research of this kind.

Stimulating the part of the brain used for activities such as daydreaming, recalling memories and envisioning the future using this method showed meaningful effects in DMN performance in just five minutes. It could make engagement in activities like meditation easier to do, without the mind straying into rumination.

Dysregulation in the DMN can lead to several mental issuesdepression, anxiety, and schizophrenia have all been linked to abnormal DMN activity. The results of this study show a promising pathway to ultrasound-focused treatment techniques to aid brain regulation. By demonstrating the potential of TFUS to alter brain networks, the SEMA Lab is innovating in order to connect our thoughts and feelings with a greater sense of ease and calm.

"We are the first to show that the default mode network can be directly targeted and noninvasively modulated," Lord said.

"Unlike neuroimaging techniques where you can only make correlations with brain activity, noninvasive stimulation tools like TFUS allow you to probe the brain and develop causal models. That's a really powerful thing for the whole field of neuroscience."

This study was published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

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The work done by Canadian singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards has been consistently exemplary, even if her career trajectory has been a bit atypical. We could reach into her catalog and find any number of stellar songs worthy of a deep dive, but Asking for Flowers, the title track of her outstanding 2008 album, feels like a particularly dizzying high point.

What is the song about? And what inspired Edwards to write it? Lets take a look back at the meaning and story of Kathleen Edwards Asking for Flowers.

Go through music history and youll find many examples of an artist or a band hitting a peak on their third album. Its not to say Kathleen Edwards first two albums (Failer in 2003 and Back to Me in 2005) were slouches. But Asking for Flowers found her on the improve in just about every way, which is why you can put it on the short list of best albums in both the singer/songwriter and alt-country genres of the past quarter-century or so.

Working with producer Jim Ross, Edwards delivered a rich and varied set of songs. She could be rollicking and funny, as on Ill Make the Dough, You Get the Glory. But she could also tackle the most serious of subjects, as on the true-life tale of Alicia Ross.

At the emotional center of it is Asking for Flowers, a mid-tempo meditation that touches on relationship angst and depression with striking accuracy and heartfelt empathy. Edwards explained to the blog Aquarium Drunkard what inspired the song:

Asking for Flowers was a song I wrote for one of my really close friends. She actually, during this time off I had, was going through a really tough time and has struggled for years with physical and emotional problems. I went to see her at probably one of her hardest times and she told me that her life had been like asking for flowers with some of the judgments and feelings of inadequacy that she had lived with all these years. That the idea of giving somebody compassion and giving them their time without judgment, living a life of asking for flowers. I asked her what that meant and she said being with somebody who just wants to bring them to you and you shouldnt have to ask for them. Someone should want to just bring them to you.

While the song and album should have been a springboard for Edwards, she only released one more LP before going on a hiatus where she contemplated quitting music. Luckily for fans, she returned in 2020 after an eight-year break with the album Total Freedom, which showed he had lost nothing off her fastball.

While Asking for Flowers may have been inspired by the struggles of a friend, Edwards gets deep inside the character like only the best songwriters can do. The first line, Its complicated, seems simple enough, but it sets an important tone. It establishes the difficulty the narrator has in explaining her feelings, and perhaps even some reticence to open up like shes about to do.

Edwards doesnt treat this characters plight lightly. Thats the right move, because its a message that we should never take these situations with a grain of salt when we encounter them in our own lives. Its like a noose around my life, the protagonist complains about the departure of the person who was supposed to be her biggest confidant. Its a devastating betrayal.

In the throes of her sadness, she starts to lose her connection to anything that might properly orient her: Now Im trying to remember / All the names of the faces I loved. She also carries around some blame, perhaps misplaced, for her role in all this, calling herself A walking declaration / Of everything I couldnt get right.

The refrains are reserved for the narrator running down the list of all the efforts shes made to meet the person shes addressing halfway: Every pill I took in vain / Every meal for you I made / Every penny I put away. In the final chorus, she adds a few more items: Every card I signed my name / Every time I poured my heart out. She repeats the last item, which highlights the disparity in the relationship, for emphasis: Every cruel word you let just slip out.

By this point, Edwards voice is quivering with anger, but she returns to a more restrained mode to deliver her final argument: Dont tell me youre too tired / Ten years Ive been working nights. That last phrase is likely both literal, in terms of an actual occupation, and figurative, in that shes worked so hard in vain for so little in return.

So many songs attempt to highlight the resilience of a character, and thats surely admirable. With Asking for Flowers, Kathleen Edwards details that point in someones life when even resilience might not be enough, when suffering is unavoidable, and the help of others is required. How brave of her to take us into that head and heart space.

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Death Is Not The End's 333 series is back with another dig into the catalogue of the NYC-based Flames label on this reissue of a highly coveted Revolutionaries LP, Meditation in Dub.

One of reggae music's most famed session bands, The Revolutionaries were an often r/evolving cast of some of the finest session musicians on the island during the roots and early dancehall periods of the mid/late 1970s and early 1980s. These would include Earl 'Wire' Lindo, Radcliffe 'Dougie' Bryan, Ansell Collins, Bobby Kalphat, Lloyd Parks, Uziah 'Sticky' Thompson, Bongo Herman, Stanley Bryan, Bo Peep, Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont, Errol 'Tarzan' Nelson, Skully Simms, Robbie Lyn, Mikey 'Mao' Chung amongst many others. The enduring core of the group, however, was undoubtedly in the coming together of the legendary rhythm section of drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare - with the formation of The Revolutionaries marking the first time that this often unparalleled duo worked together.

The group laid down these rhythm tracks at their base at the storied Channel One recording studio, Maxfield Avenue, Kingston sometime in the mid 1970s - under the arrangement of one of reggae music's great undersung figures, Ossie Hibbert. Early in 1975 Ossie was to move to Maxfield Avenue just as Jo Jo & Ernest Hookim's studio was starting up. A well-respected session musician himself through the late 1960s and early 70s (he played keys for Bunny 'Striker' Lee and Keith Hudson and would also form part of another foundational session band, The Soul Syndicate) he was initially summoned by Jo Jo to be a band member for The Revolutationaries but quickly assumed the role of producer, engineer and talent scout for the studio, responsible for selecting the artists to bring into the studio.

These tracks were recorded by Hibbert around this time for Winston Jones, the original singer and composer of Stop That Train (later made world-famous by Keith & Tex's version) with his Spanishtonians for Prince Buster's label in the early 1960s. Jones had moved from JA to NYC in the early 1970s where he established and ran the Flames label. The imprint would go on to form a core part of Brooklyn's reggae scene from the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, though Jones often employed the use of Channel One, Hibbert and The Revolutionaries back home in the recording of rhythm tracks for his productions. Thus the Meditation in Dub LP is essentially formed of stellar dub versions to many of the early Flames labels 45s, produced and released by Jones throughout the mid to late 1970s, including crucial takes on a great many popular rhythms of that period. One of any self-respecting dub LP collectors' holy grails, with originals going for up to 400, it is issued here under license from the now Texas-based Jones with the kind assistance of RB at DKR in sourcing the audio for this new cut.

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When was the last time you tried to build a fire? There is a lot that goes into the success of such a project. Whatever is used for kindling must be flammable, dry, and the right size. You need a protected space in which to build the fire, that will allow it to catch and then grow. Oxygen is necessary, but the quantity has to be proportionate. In order for a baby fire to become a strong blaze, capable of producing heat and light, it needs to be carefully attended until it is well established. If you are trying to build your fire on a damp, misty day, you will discover that flames are sensitive to the quality of the surrounding air. That was what I found out last year.

In my enthusiasm to provide our small girls camp with meals cooked over a firepit, I didnt put a lot of thought into a contingency plan, in the event of rainy weather. And, sure enough, we had rainy weather actually, it was only drizzly and wet, no full-blown rain drops, for the most part. It was just tolerable enough for me to pursue my goal of campfire cooking, which, thankfully, didnt end up being impossible only really challenging.

Thursday I spent most of the day trying to get the baby flame to eat its food so that it could grow to be big and strong. The little flicker was not eager to cooperate. It wanted the kindling to be chopped up into very small pieces before trying to eat it (with zero concern for my lack of an ax). Even then, the heavy moisture in the air that day was such a problem that I practically had to build a shelter over the small flame before it could concentrate on consuming fuel. Hours were spent on this kindling project, but eventually, with patience and perseverance (and after a couple of close shaves with asphyxiation from smoke), the fire began to burn in earnest, and I was able to cook dinner over it. That was Thursday.

On Friday morning, the weather did not look too much better. But, before rolling up my sleeves to tackle the breakfast fire, we took the girls to Mass for the feast of the Sacred Heart. As I was preparing myself for the Holy Sacrifice, reading through the antiphons of First Vespers, I was surprised by these words at the Magnificat: I am come to cast fire upon earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled? Our Lord seemed to be speaking directly to me. Naturally, after the ordeal with kindling a fire the day before, I was perfectly primed to take this message to heart. Two questions presented themselves, front and center: What was the fire that Our Lord was referring to? And how does one go about kindling it?

Regarding the first question, the use of the above mentioned antiphon for the feast of the Sacred Heart suggested to me that Our Lord was talking about the fire of His love. When the theological virtue of charity is infused at Baptism, it elevates the heart of man to a whole new order of love, making him capable of loving God (and then his neighbor for Gods sake) with Gods own love. And it makes perfect sense for Our Lord to call this love fire: I am come to cast fire upon earth. His sanctifying love gives light and heat, consumes all things, and spreads as fire does. He wants the fire of His love to burn in us. It is not something merely to be studied objectively or acknowledged logically; we are meant to feel it and be moved by it. Dom Gueranger puts it this way: The heart of a Christian is not made to be cold or indifferent; it must be affectionate and devoted; otherwise it can never attain the perfection for which God, who is love, has graciously created it. (The Liturgical Year, vol. IX, pg. 356)

The second question was actually a whole series of questions relating back to the previous days firepit adventure. How does Dear Jesus want me to kindle the fire of His love? What things will feed this precious fire of charity? What does it need to be sheltered from and sheltered by? Is there any dampness present, working against the growth of this flame?

The rest of Friday was spend meditating on these things as I went about kindling the material fire in front of me. There were thoughts on how knowledge fuels love, and how in order to love God more, we must get to know Him better (at which I point I distinctly heard Deborah Kerrs voice in my head singing, Getting to know you, getting to know all about you. . .). Certainly, I had many ideas on how to learn more about God, how to dispose myself to His gift of faith: reading the lives of saints, studying in the school of nature, watching Him in the Gospels and mysteries of the rosary, to name only a few. Then, too, I saw how a love of temporal things can draw our hearts away from eternal things. Worldly treasures, honors, comforts, and conveniences can be so many mists, threatening to extinguish the fires of charity. And yet it is not the world that is the problem, but the love of the world, when that love is out of right order. Our affections and delights can and must be directed. It is not enough for us to deprive ourselves of worldly pleasures as we look after them with longing. We must strive to enkindle a desire for the infinitely greater goods of eternity with energy and determination.

At the same time, its essential to remember that it is God alone Who actually has the wisdom and power to inflame our hearts. Enkindle in us the fire of Thy love! He invites us to participate in this work, in the same way a mother might allow a toddler to help her make dinner.

All these were merely my considerations. But there is so much more to be gained from your own meditation on the subject. Particular lights that God wants to give you, specifically. I highly recommend taking a little time to build a fire, if the local burning regulations allow it. Ask Our Lord to come and join you as you consider His words: I am come to cast a fire upon earth, and what will I, but that it be kindled? You can have the meditation be as structured or spontaneous as you like. Some might find it helpful to use all of the who, what, where, when, why and how questions to jumpstart the conversation with Our Lord, others may not. The real point is to ask Dear Jesus to grant you a deeper appreciation and understanding of His holy love, to show you the connections between feeding natural flames and fostering supernatural charity. What better way to delight and repair the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so wounded by coldness? What better way to dispose ourselves to receive the rich treasures of His tender Heart, which He so dearly wants to give us?

Heart of Jesus, glowing furnace of charity, have mercy on us!

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Feeding the Fire: A June Meditation - Catholicism.org