Tag Archives: meditation

The slowness of awareness

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

How much quicker it would be to run through my life numb! How much time it takes to be alive! © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, meditation, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged addiction, alive, awareness, consciousness, help, help me, meditation, numb, numbness | Leave a comment

When the world stops spinning

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

When the world stops spinningand you and I meet at lastI, in deficit, without shoes and starvingYou, abundant:Finally, in stillness,I accept what you’ve been trying to give © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, meditation, Poetry, Rumi-esque, Scripture riff, writing | Tagged acceptance, chaos, contemplation, emptiness, help, help me, meditation, poverty, stillness, surrender | Leave a comment

The chains of fear fell off

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

The chains of fear fell off and the soul lifted, freed © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, anxiety, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged anxiety, awareness, contemplation, fear, help, help me, meditation, rawness | Leave a comment

Tending to the light

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

The depths of darkness make of utmost importance how I tend to the light © Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged awareness, darkness, light, meditation, mindfulness, tending | Leave a comment

Glowing with sun

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

After three days of rain the grasses glow with sun and astonished, we look up © Meisaan Chan

Posted in Earth poetry, Haiku/haiku-esque poetry, Poetry, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged astonishment, contemplation, joy, meditation, Michigan, rain, spirituality, sun, surprise, union | Leave a comment

The anchor

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

In your deepest prayer, there am I! In your weakest prayer, there am I! In no prayer, there am I! Do not anchor to the prayer, but to me © Meisaan Chan

Posted in God speaks poetry, meditation, Poetry, Recovery and healing, Scripture riff, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged anchor, contemplation, help, help me, meditation, prayer, wandering | Leave a comment

The not-listening

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Meisaan Chan

Posted in addiction, Food addiction, Poetry, PTSD, Recovery and healing, Spiritual poetry, writing | Tagged attentiveness, awareness, contemplation, help, help me, listening, meditation | Leave a comment