Linda Marsanico, the host of today's TalkRadio.NYC broadcast, writes and blogs about love, compassion, playfulness, visualization, meditation, and stillness as a road to a joy-filled life. She encourages clients to develop the muscle of meditation and mantra as a support for a disciplined mind.
She is a spiritual coach who considers the mind body & spirit of a person. Linda sees
herself as a healer, employing Reiki, Vortex (R) and Integrated Energy (R) modalities.
In her recently published book, The A Train to Sedona, she describes her journey toward
love, compassion, and enlightenment. She writes to have her voice be heard, and to inspire others “on their way” by sharing vignettes and strategies, her successes, and failures. The book is funny, serious, and always informative!
Linda is available for keynote speaking. She addresses clubs, organizations, and events.
Her topics are mental health and wellbeing, which can be customized for any audience.
Linda Marsanico will read from her favorite blog posts. There are over 200 essays on her
website LindaMarsanico.com. Some are funny. Most are insightful and playful...
She will also read from her memoir, "The A Train to Sedona," sharing her wisdom, her failures and successes, wishing to inspire you in your journey.
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In this soul-nourishing opening to The A Train to Sedona, Linda Marsanico shares her personal journey toward love, compassion, and spiritual awakening, inviting listeners to embark on their own path to self-discovery and alignment with divine consciousness. Drawing from her memoir and a pivotal moment of oneness she experienced, Linda explores how affirmations, meditation, and inner stillness awaken our awareness of being one with Creator and the universe. She reminds us that true transformation begins with radical self-love, personal responsibility, and the power to co-create our lives through intention and connection to our higher selves.
In this heartfelt segment of The A Train to Sedona, Linda Marsanico shares personal stories that illuminate the spiritual practice of choosing love over fear in everyday life. Through moments of both compassion and frustration—with neighbors, drivers, and strangers—she reveals how unconscious emotions shape our reactions and how intentional practices like mantra, prayer, and surrender can transform our energy and relationships. Her story of a divinely guided connection with a woman channeling Kuan Yin reminds us that when we open to grace and align with love, healing and spiritual connection can unfold in the most unexpected and beautiful ways.
In this segment, Linda Marsanico reflects on blog posts from 2013 that explore practical spirituality through everyday experiences, reminding listeners that even a few mindful minutes—what she calls a “power meditation”—can strengthen our connection to higher dimensions and inner peace. She emphasizes the sacredness of imagination, creative play, and compassion, offering personal stories where love and presence transformed irritation into meaningful human connection. Whether through springtime renewal, navigating noise with grace, or responding from the heart instead of the ego, Linda encourages us to choose love in action, honoring our shared divinity and the infinite web of consciousness that unites us all.
In this final segment of The A Train to Sedona, Linda Marsanico celebrates the energetic legacy of Brian Wilson and the healing power of vibration, reminding us that our unique frequencies—our spiritual signatures—are felt and shared through music, presence, and intention. She highlights the soul-level resonance of humor and lightheartedness, sharing a joyful story of a transit mishap that transformed into a day of spontaneous adventure, compassion, and laughter. Linda closes by inviting listeners to explore more on her website and continue nurturing love, connection, and high-vibration living in their daily lives.
00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:57.640 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone! Welcome to the A. Train to Sedona.
00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:59.840 Linda Marsanico: I'm Linda Marcannico.
00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:05.750 Linda Marsanico: The A. Train to Sedona is also the name of a memoir. I wrote
00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.250 Linda Marsanico: about my journey to love and compassion.
00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:16.649 Linda Marsanico: I share my failings, my successes, in the hope that my journey will inspire yours.
00:01:17.900 --> 00:01:31.750 Linda Marsanico: You can get a signed copy on my website@lindamarsenico.com. By the book page you can get an unsigned copy at Amazon, Barnes and Noble Walmart and bookstores.
00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:44.230 Linda Marsanico: I have a free gift for you. I call it the cheat sheet for high vibration, living 7 exercises designed to help you keep your energy
00:01:44.810 --> 00:01:54.190 Linda Marsanico: high in vibration, and in the present moment there are 7 exercises, and the one I'm sharing today has to do with affirmation and mantra.
00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:02.579 Linda Marsanico: I love the I am so we can say something like, I am calm. I am competent. I am working on this.
00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:04.750 Linda Marsanico: I am loved.
00:02:05.650 --> 00:02:10.679 Linda Marsanico: When we say I am, we get an electromagnetic charge to our being.
00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:13.399 Linda Marsanico: You can download a free copy
00:02:13.990 --> 00:02:16.929 Linda Marsanico: on my website@lindamarsenico.com.
00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:30.840 Linda Marsanico: I have 2 disclaimers, one, that this broadcast does not establish a professional relationship, and 2, that
00:02:30.950 --> 00:02:37.940 Linda Marsanico: the opinions expressed on this broadcast do not necessarily represent talk radio, new York City.
00:02:39.490 --> 00:02:41.850 Linda Marsanico: Today I'm solo.
00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:50.040 Linda Marsanico: And I want to say that my guest is my memoir, the a train to Sedona, and then later in the show.
00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:53.410 Linda Marsanico: my blog posts from 2,013,
00:02:53.970 --> 00:03:17.949 Linda Marsanico: I have a lot to share with you. I wrote this book when I was in Sedona. I had a home there for 13 years, and I would go 2 times, 3 times, sometimes 4 times a year, and I wrote in the energy of those red rocks and the altitude of 4,000 feet up from sea level, a most wonderful, inspiring experience.
00:03:18.070 --> 00:03:19.979 Linda Marsanico: So I'm going to start reading
00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:28.219 Linda Marsanico: my journey on the A. Train began on the local track.
00:03:28.830 --> 00:03:35.519 Linda Marsanico: where it meandered for years. It took time for me to figure out what I needed and who could help.
00:03:36.030 --> 00:03:38.609 Linda Marsanico: There was also a lot of work to do.
00:03:39.110 --> 00:03:45.430 Linda Marsanico: so I want to help you disembark from the local train to hop on the express. A.
00:03:45.620 --> 00:03:46.800 Linda Marsanico: Let's go.
00:03:48.440 --> 00:03:50.820 Linda Marsanico: So I'm going to now read some
00:03:51.190 --> 00:03:54.789 Linda Marsanico: promotional material for the a-train memoir
00:03:55.640 --> 00:03:59.380 Linda Marsanico: embark on the most important journey of your life.
00:03:59.990 --> 00:04:07.910 Linda Marsanico: The a train to Sedona takes you along on my search for awareness and connection to God and consciousness.
00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:14.709 Linda Marsanico: You are with me as I work to develop an intuitive, heartfelt language
00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:24.469 Linda Marsanico: as I let go of ideas that don't serve me as I move into multi-dimensional thinking and the channeling of magic.
00:04:24.820 --> 00:04:33.910 Linda Marsanico: Travel with me firsthand, as I recount my journey toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-love.
00:04:35.060 --> 00:04:40.029 Linda Marsanico: and I will guide you as we go. You will not only hear my story.
00:04:40.180 --> 00:04:52.510 Linda Marsanico: The a train to Sedona is also a map for you to follow as you move toward your own practice of genuine self-love that reflects outward into the world.
00:04:53.200 --> 00:05:00.350 Linda Marsanico: move with me toward robust health by harnessing the power of love to heal.
00:05:00.650 --> 00:05:03.759 Linda Marsanico: Join me as I embrace stillness.
00:05:03.900 --> 00:05:11.449 Linda Marsanico: quiet spiritual energy and prayer to balance my mind, body, and spirit.
00:05:12.930 --> 00:05:16.129 Linda Marsanico: accompany me as I choose. Love over fear.
00:05:16.230 --> 00:05:21.590 Linda Marsanico: transforming negativity into the adventure of the spiritual path.
00:05:22.760 --> 00:05:27.940 Linda Marsanico: embrace the thrilling discovery that you can learn by looking inward
00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.889 Linda Marsanico: for your connection to your highest wisdom.
00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:33.969 Linda Marsanico: You can remember how powerful you are.
00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:38.170 Linda Marsanico: Learn to co-create your constructive desires.
00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.270 Linda Marsanico: harness your energy, and create the life you choose.
00:05:44.540 --> 00:05:45.939 Linda Marsanico: Partner with God.
00:05:46.410 --> 00:05:54.660 Linda Marsanico: What's more powerful than that essentially choose to live in love. Love is awesome love opens doors.
00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:01.180 Linda Marsanico: I am passionate about my long and winding journey as life has unfolded.
00:06:01.880 --> 00:06:07.029 Linda Marsanico: My hope is that my passage will inspire and enable yours.
00:06:10.170 --> 00:06:12.390 Linda Marsanico: I'm going to Chapter one
00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:25.790 Linda Marsanico: which I entitle, turning on the light, looking for your inner self.
00:06:27.850 --> 00:06:38.089 Linda Marsanico: One sunny, quiet afternoon in Brooklyn, I was sitting on the wood floor of my living room, reading a yoga book my sister had recommended to me.
00:06:38.570 --> 00:06:40.500 Linda Marsanico: I closed my eyes.
00:06:41.100 --> 00:06:46.009 Linda Marsanico: In an instant I was seized with an overpowering awareness.
00:06:46.580 --> 00:06:57.970 Linda Marsanico: For the 1st time I truly knew that I was part of universe, and that universe was part of me, that I was part of all things, and that all things were part of me.
00:06:58.490 --> 00:07:02.589 Linda Marsanico: There was an expansion from me to all. That is.
00:07:04.550 --> 00:07:08.089 Linda Marsanico: why did this realization come over me then and there
00:07:09.460 --> 00:07:11.919 Linda Marsanico: it seemed to strike from out of the blue.
00:07:12.620 --> 00:07:14.040 Linda Marsanico: But did it really.
00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:24.480 Linda Marsanico: as I look back upon that moment, I understand that because I had undertaken a journey to connect to the spiritual side of my life.
00:07:24.730 --> 00:07:29.770 Linda Marsanico: I was finally ready for a new way of thinking and being.
00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.359 Linda Marsanico: though I didn't realize it then
00:07:34.210 --> 00:07:45.619 Linda Marsanico: I had reached into my original home to become a changed woman, a being who is supported by a consciousness so vast that it's beyond my thinking and imagination.
00:07:46.290 --> 00:08:01.380 Linda Marsanico: In seconds I acknowledged my spiritual nature, and became even more curious about the mysteries beyond this dimension. The 3rd dimension, the linear world we all know in our everyday existence
00:08:03.230 --> 00:08:11.830 Linda Marsanico: the galaxies were apparent and present, for there are no boundaries or limitations in the stillness that I glimpsed.
00:08:12.770 --> 00:08:16.169 Linda Marsanico: In a flash I contemplated my existence.
00:08:16.950 --> 00:08:18.759 Linda Marsanico: Yes, we all won.
00:08:19.510 --> 00:08:27.310 Linda Marsanico: There was no separation. Rather I sensed the merging nature of existence and my essential status.
00:08:27.740 --> 00:08:31.319 Linda Marsanico: You and I and everyone are essential.
00:08:32.740 --> 00:08:37.699 Linda Marsanico: This is an amazing body, this alliance of all of us with Creator.
00:08:38.090 --> 00:08:43.600 Linda Marsanico: We are members of an all-inclusive, universal camaraderie.
00:08:44.950 --> 00:08:49.219 Linda Marsanico: I felt like Dorothy in the movie version of the Wizard of Oz.
00:08:49.530 --> 00:08:54.199 Linda Marsanico: She made a transition from her world of black and white into technicolor.
00:08:55.390 --> 00:09:05.379 Linda Marsanico: Her understanding shifted from gray to become complex, interesting, multidimensional, and bright.
00:09:06.890 --> 00:09:13.090 Linda Marsanico: Hers was a transformational moment. You might say that, like Dorothy, I was in the darkness.
00:09:13.230 --> 00:09:21.870 Linda Marsanico: unaware of the light, until I took the opportunity to understand and embrace my infinite connection to Creator.
00:09:22.290 --> 00:09:28.129 Linda Marsanico: to consciousness that I am in Creator and Creator is in me.
00:09:29.370 --> 00:09:39.500 Linda Marsanico: What glorious knowledge is this! Not only am I not alone, but Creator and I are one where each part of everyone of everything
00:09:39.680 --> 00:09:41.680 Linda Marsanico: we are the universe.
00:09:42.050 --> 00:09:43.619 Linda Marsanico: Isn't this awesome?
00:09:44.410 --> 00:09:49.260 Linda Marsanico: I came in from the darkness, and now I am in the warmth of the light.
00:09:51.160 --> 00:09:56.240 Linda Marsanico: Yes, I turned on the light the most glorious light imaginable.
00:09:56.940 --> 00:10:01.109 Linda Marsanico: It is superbly warm in this glow. Do you get the picture?
00:10:01.470 --> 00:10:08.280 Linda Marsanico: Imagine I thought, I am the universe, and the universe is around in, through and interwoven within me.
00:10:09.880 --> 00:10:18.390 Linda Marsanico: Now these thoughts were not entirely new to me. Deeply embedded in my unconscious, I had always held this glorious knowledge.
00:10:18.850 --> 00:10:25.680 Linda Marsanico: I often said that from our dreams we create goals to form a most wonderful path.
00:10:26.510 --> 00:10:37.519 Linda Marsanico: Vaguely I knew this before, although that knowledge of connection and union was tucked away until I was ready to explore my spirituality.
00:10:38.460 --> 00:10:41.629 Linda Marsanico: But this overwhelming moment of illumination
00:10:42.180 --> 00:10:46.869 Linda Marsanico: was the beginning of my conscious spiritual journey.
00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:49.789 Linda Marsanico: I was ready to blossom.
00:10:50.680 --> 00:10:56.259 Linda Marsanico: A most beautiful and essential seed was ready to flower in the light of Creator.
00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:05.229 Linda Marsanico: Once realized, there was no turning back, and I am in the light now. Out of the darkness and into the light I came.
00:11:05.450 --> 00:11:07.410 Linda Marsanico: Imagine, in an instant.
00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:13.709 Linda Marsanico: Now I know that I am a powerful being connected to the power of Creator.
00:11:16.180 --> 00:11:22.420 Linda Marsanico: The next section is understanding your true power and responsibility.
00:11:23.550 --> 00:11:33.089 Linda Marsanico: Meditation is an amazing activity which takes us out of our logical brain, allowing us to explore the mind's adaptable capacity.
00:11:33.490 --> 00:11:41.300 Linda Marsanico: This allows us to explore love and compassion as we reach for our true nature, which is divine.
00:11:41.910 --> 00:11:45.219 Linda Marsanico: This steady practice develops what I call the muscle.
00:11:45.450 --> 00:11:48.190 Linda Marsanico: The discipline of shifting into technicolor.
00:11:50.340 --> 00:11:56.540 Linda Marsanico: In recent years I have learned to place myself at the center of an awakening discipline.
00:11:56.750 --> 00:12:02.790 Linda Marsanico: You, too, can take responsibility for yourself in the journey toward transformation.
00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:06.450 Linda Marsanico: which is internal rather than external.
00:12:07.290 --> 00:12:13.290 Linda Marsanico: Your heart is the center of this evolution of your internal relationship.
00:12:13.490 --> 00:12:18.700 Linda Marsanico: as it has access to your higher self, your highest wisdom.
00:12:19.750 --> 00:12:25.639 Linda Marsanico: developing love of self will be the transformational aspect of your journey.
00:12:25.950 --> 00:12:34.130 Linda Marsanico: Love is the sister to compassion, and this energy flows from you to others, and from others to you
00:12:34.590 --> 00:12:42.320 Linda Marsanico: only when you truly love yourself, are you able to experience and demonstrate true compassion.
00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:52.819 Linda Marsanico: When you love yourself, you affect yourself as well as the connected consciousness through the flow of compassion in both directions.
00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:57.859 Linda Marsanico: This is your greatest spiritual challenge, because your nature is love.
00:12:59.590 --> 00:13:07.070 Linda Marsanico: We have forgotten this, and the task of your journey is to find that love within your inner self.
00:13:07.310 --> 00:13:09.560 Linda Marsanico: your most important relationship.
00:13:09.710 --> 00:13:14.829 Linda Marsanico: So this is a journey to find your true nature, which is part of Creator.
00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:28.980 Linda Marsanico: and only you can understand your true nature and full power, and only you can decide to become the best possible version of yourself. Of course the best possible version of yourself is a quote from Neil Donald Walsh.
00:13:30.250 --> 00:13:32.520 Linda Marsanico: No one else can do this for you
00:13:32.850 --> 00:13:40.420 Linda Marsanico: in the absence of full responsibility, you give up your power to others resulting in self-doubt, which throws you off balance.
00:13:41.270 --> 00:13:46.080 Linda Marsanico: Buddha gently urges, don't attempt, just do.
00:13:46.500 --> 00:13:49.109 Linda Marsanico: And we thought Nike coined that phrase
00:13:50.810 --> 00:13:59.819 Linda Marsanico: only recently, through the work I've done to reach clarity in my heart. Do I understand the difference in the energy I create when I attempt
00:13:59.930 --> 00:14:06.950 Linda Marsanico: rather than do when you attempt, you move forward cautiously, with self-doubt.
00:14:07.380 --> 00:14:14.820 Linda Marsanico: when you do, you harness energy, powerfully active, positive energy like a laser.
00:14:17.110 --> 00:14:20.540 Linda Marsanico: The focused, loving mind is like a laser.
00:14:21.270 --> 00:14:36.890 Linda Marsanico: and this reminds me of Merlin's description of the magical wand where he urges us to use that wand skillfully to create our loving desires, and we use this wand by intending to create our constructive desires.
00:14:37.910 --> 00:14:42.010 Linda Marsanico: Now we're getting ready for break, and when we come back.
00:14:42.470 --> 00:14:51.610 Linda Marsanico: I want to share 2 situations, one where I was compassionate and one where I failed to be compassionate.
00:14:52.170 --> 00:14:53.759 Linda Marsanico: We'll take a break now.
00:16:39.790 --> 00:16:48.530 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the A. Train to Sedona broadcast, where I'm celebrating the A. Train to Sedona
00:16:48.870 --> 00:16:49.810 Linda Marsanico: Memoir.
00:16:50.850 --> 00:16:57.409 Linda Marsanico: So I'm reading from chapter one. In a section called Choosing Love over Fear, an example.
00:16:57.650 --> 00:17:00.310 Linda Marsanico: We depend upon each other daily.
00:17:01.810 --> 00:17:12.809 Linda Marsanico: We can accomplish this with grace and ease, with which feels so much better than strife and conflict. Truly, compassion is an everyday experience.
00:17:13.589 --> 00:17:17.559 Linda Marsanico: I want to tell you a story where I failed to be compassionate.
00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.900 Linda Marsanico: Some years ago I lived in a condo with 3 floors.
00:17:23.310 --> 00:17:27.339 Linda Marsanico: 3 families. Above me was a family with a new baby.
00:17:27.730 --> 00:17:31.679 Linda Marsanico: One day I found their stroller parked by my door.
00:17:31.980 --> 00:17:41.829 Linda Marsanico: I asked them to place the stroller in the outer vestibule, or 6 steps up in the building, on a landing out of the range of my doorway.
00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:43.920 Linda Marsanico: They refused.
00:17:44.990 --> 00:17:51.340 Linda Marsanico: For months we went back and forth, exchanging conflictual words. I spoke with the father
00:17:51.530 --> 00:17:57.210 Linda Marsanico: and the mother, who didn't wish to discuss this, of course, she was busy being a new parent.
00:17:57.660 --> 00:18:04.690 Linda Marsanico: The tension in the building was thick, and the energy was heavy, with no resolution in sight.
00:18:05.980 --> 00:18:13.209 Linda Marsanico: This went on for a while, and I was very unhappy, and I'm sure they were unhappy, too.
00:18:13.590 --> 00:18:23.309 Linda Marsanico: When I think back on it I could have volunteered to fold and move the stroller myself, but in my rigidity, regrettably, I didn't offer.
00:18:25.380 --> 00:18:30.850 Linda Marsanico: I think an angel must have whispered in my ear to be compassionate.
00:18:31.960 --> 00:18:34.390 Linda Marsanico: I found myself reciting
00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:44.050 Linda Marsanico: a mantra. I am a Bodhisattva, and a Bodhisattva is someone who's on the path to enlightenment awakening.
00:18:44.730 --> 00:18:47.870 Linda Marsanico: So here I am working to create this sensibility.
00:18:48.810 --> 00:19:05.799 Linda Marsanico: When I left my apartment I would see the carriage, and I would say, I am a Bodhisattva. When I came into the building from my office, I would say, I am a Bodhisattva. I am a Bodhisattva. I am a Bodhisattva. Again and again and again
00:19:06.120 --> 00:19:11.369 Linda Marsanico: I held love rather than anger around this impasse.
00:19:11.890 --> 00:19:15.749 Linda Marsanico: One day I came home, and the stroller was gone.
00:19:16.670 --> 00:19:22.440 Linda Marsanico: It had been moved, and the baby buggy was never again placed in front of my doorway.
00:19:23.510 --> 00:19:31.920 Linda Marsanico: My interpretation is the power of love is unmistakable, and my love vibration was communicated to Mary.
00:19:33.060 --> 00:19:38.119 Linda Marsanico: Eventually we each forgave the other and became friends until she moved.
00:19:41.470 --> 00:19:51.310 Linda Marsanico: Now I'd like to read to about 2 other situations where I at 1 point was compassionate.
00:19:52.230 --> 00:19:56.670 Linda Marsanico: and then at another point, lacked compassion completely.
00:19:57.410 --> 00:20:13.509 Linda Marsanico: So driving has been a source of adventure and challenge over the years. At this time I rented a garage space that serviced rather 12 vehicles because of a narrow entry. I had to back into the space.
00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:22.259 Linda Marsanico: One summer night after 10 PMA large private garbage truck followed me as I turned the corner onto my street.
00:20:22.850 --> 00:20:27.170 Linda Marsanico: So I'll read from the edited version of the blog post that I wrote
00:20:27.590 --> 00:20:31.059 Linda Marsanico: on June 24, 2,019.
00:20:32.290 --> 00:20:37.299 Linda Marsanico: I stopped on the left as I planned and opened the garage door.
00:20:38.590 --> 00:20:46.710 Linda Marsanico: The garage, rather. The garbage truck stopped, too, right behind me, only as I backed up.
00:20:46.820 --> 00:20:50.279 Linda Marsanico: the driver wouldn't budge to allow me the space I needed.
00:20:50.820 --> 00:20:53.469 Linda Marsanico: I tried once more, with the same result
00:20:54.500 --> 00:21:00.160 Linda Marsanico: on some level. I was afraid because of the late hour, and because the driver could not be seen.
00:21:00.670 --> 00:21:08.020 Linda Marsanico: Intimidated as I was, it was necessary for me to get out of my car on the dark, quiet street.
00:21:08.260 --> 00:21:10.800 Linda Marsanico: I needed to ask for the driver's help.
00:21:12.020 --> 00:21:18.370 Linda Marsanico: I reached past fear into my heart, smiled, and motioned to him
00:21:18.840 --> 00:21:23.639 Linda Marsanico: through my speaking and gesturing. He understood what I needed to do, and he backed up.
00:21:23.790 --> 00:21:25.919 Linda Marsanico: giving me the required space.
00:21:26.710 --> 00:21:29.079 Linda Marsanico: I felt such a relief
00:21:29.780 --> 00:21:35.269 Linda Marsanico: as he drove off. We waved goodbye like friends who had just completed a task
00:21:35.650 --> 00:21:51.409 Linda Marsanico: I felt grateful for his cooperation, which reminded me that we had the ability to make space for the other. Negotiating the many situations we encounter, we can make life easier, stretching to communicate and accommodate.
00:21:51.910 --> 00:21:59.660 Linda Marsanico: As the driver and I demonstrated that evening he became more flexible, and I more compassionate
00:22:00.020 --> 00:22:02.700 Linda Marsanico: a most pragmatic transition.
00:22:04.750 --> 00:22:09.990 Linda Marsanico: My next example at the same garage had the opposite effect.
00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:23.489 Linda Marsanico: Before getting to the garage, I had attended a dinner party where one guest aggressively to win a point, maintained a position that denied a personal stance of mine.
00:22:23.810 --> 00:22:36.939 Linda Marsanico: I gently gave this person examples of ways in which I've balanced my values in a nuanced way. Yet this person was unrelenting and wouldn't acknowledge these subtleties.
00:22:37.790 --> 00:22:48.020 Linda Marsanico: I hadn't realized how blocked I felt about this disregard for my sensibility until I got to the same garage at around the same time of night.
00:22:48.170 --> 00:22:52.860 Linda Marsanico: where a car was parked directly in front of the entrance.
00:22:54.320 --> 00:22:56.780 Linda Marsanico: I pulled up alongside of his car.
00:22:57.080 --> 00:23:03.960 Linda Marsanico: The driver, a middle aged man, was slow to advance. Once I gestured that I needed him to move.
00:23:04.380 --> 00:23:08.750 Linda Marsanico: He pulled up, and I didn't think he left me enough room to back up.
00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:15.269 Linda Marsanico: I flicked my low beam lights repeatedly in the effort to have him pull up further.
00:23:15.800 --> 00:23:18.199 Linda Marsanico: My anger was palpable.
00:23:18.870 --> 00:23:24.950 Linda Marsanico: He didn't budge or say anything. As I continued to flick my lights in anger.
00:23:25.170 --> 00:23:27.030 Linda Marsanico: he put on his hazards.
00:23:27.620 --> 00:23:37.830 Linda Marsanico: I felt the anger with each depress of my light lever, I finally caught myself, took a breath.
00:23:37.930 --> 00:23:42.520 Linda Marsanico: reevaluated the distance I needed to back into my garage.
00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:46.000 Linda Marsanico: and successfully drove into my stall
00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:52.759 Linda Marsanico: I had felt blocked by this dinner guest as well as the driver.
00:23:53.010 --> 00:23:58.229 Linda Marsanico: This burst of negativity surprised me, and seemed to come out of nowhere.
00:23:58.660 --> 00:24:02.500 Linda Marsanico: There it had been lurking in my unconscious.
00:24:03.390 --> 00:24:09.150 Linda Marsanico: Each cell in my body was charged with anger, and my energy radiated negativity.
00:24:10.340 --> 00:24:16.219 Linda Marsanico: Once I understood my feelings, I was able to breathe and calm myself.
00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:26.940 Linda Marsanico: I acted differently in these 2 similar situations. I was calm and resilient in my response to the driver in the private garbage truck.
00:24:27.280 --> 00:24:32.179 Linda Marsanico: Not so in the interaction with the man whose car blocked my entrance.
00:24:32.410 --> 00:24:33.490 Linda Marsanico: Why.
00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:49.140 Linda Marsanico: in this, in this instance, this situation, lurking in my unconscious, was the anger I hadn't consciously recognized, and this unknowingness sabotaged my ability to be compassionate with this driver.
00:24:50.350 --> 00:25:01.850 Linda Marsanico: This example demonstrates the power of the unconscious mind to motivate our behavior and the importance of bringing the unconscious mind into conscious thinking.
00:25:02.410 --> 00:25:07.120 Linda Marsanico: I failed to be compassionate in this situation, but there was a gift.
00:25:08.320 --> 00:25:13.120 Linda Marsanico: and this was the understanding of the power of the unconscious.
00:25:19.430 --> 00:25:22.610 Linda Marsanico: Now I'm going to read from another section.
00:25:24.070 --> 00:25:31.219 Linda Marsanico: I'll start, and we will have a break in in about 4 or 5 min. But let me continue.
00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:34.999 Linda Marsanico: It's called interacting with others.
00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:44.540 Linda Marsanico: Action, love and compassion need to be demonstrated. This is the road love is that simple and that complex.
00:25:45.230 --> 00:25:50.210 Linda Marsanico: After all, there is but one race under God, and that is the human race.
00:25:50.650 --> 00:26:00.789 Linda Marsanico: Interacting is part of your connectedness. Once you realize we are all connected in a oneness which is part of Creator. You are motivated to work for the common good.
00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:06.999 Linda Marsanico: You take on this responsibility because the common good benefits each of us.
00:26:07.320 --> 00:26:12.370 Linda Marsanico: We remember that the purpose of these relationships is to grow spiritually.
00:26:12.620 --> 00:26:17.300 Linda Marsanico: to raise our vibration and the vibration of the energy on Earth
00:26:18.340 --> 00:26:24.640 Linda Marsanico: working together is paradoxically a singular and a group experience.
00:26:25.050 --> 00:26:28.660 Linda Marsanico: It is singular, because our path is all about ourselves.
00:26:29.150 --> 00:26:32.689 Linda Marsanico: and yet we are a group because we are all connected
00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:35.970 Linda Marsanico: and our actions affect the totality.
00:26:38.060 --> 00:26:43.570 Linda Marsanico: Let me share 2 examples. If we have time, I'll share one now
00:26:43.730 --> 00:26:46.430 Linda Marsanico: of interactions from a trip to Sedona
00:26:46.760 --> 00:27:07.819 Linda Marsanico: before I left for Sidone I prayed, forming an intention to receive all the healing I needed while there. For 9 days I didn't know any details about the situation. I surrendered this to Creator. On New Year's Eve my friend Rochelle and I attended a vegetarian dinner and dance program given by a local group.
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.220 Linda Marsanico: I agreed.
00:27:10.540 --> 00:27:14.380 Linda Marsanico: A woman with long blonde hair sat to my right, but we didn't speak.
00:27:14.510 --> 00:27:21.290 Linda Marsanico: She focused on a family sitting across from her while I talked with the person on my left Rochelle.
00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:32.910 Linda Marsanico: Several days later, after seeing a film, Rochelle and I discussed where to have coffee, even though I preferred another cafe. I agreed to the chocolate tree.
00:27:33.230 --> 00:27:37.669 Linda Marsanico: Rochelle noticed the same blonde woman from New Year's Eve sitting behind me.
00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:39.760 Linda Marsanico: I turned and we spoke.
00:27:40.430 --> 00:27:45.519 Linda Marsanico: The woman's name was Laura and the movie we talked about the movie we had just seen.
00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:59.999 Linda Marsanico: A few minutes later Laura moved her seat closer and made eye contact, she said, there's something we need to talk about. At that moment I thought she was interested in renting my house, and I invited her to to come to our table.
00:28:00.170 --> 00:28:04.910 Linda Marsanico: learning that she channels Kuan Yin, the Buddhist Mother of mercy and compassion.
00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:07.930 Linda Marsanico: who advised her to sit next to me at the dinner
00:28:08.410 --> 00:28:17.250 Linda Marsanico: Laura and I exchanged contact information. Later I scheduled an amazing 2 h session, during which she channeled Guan Yen.
00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:23.489 Linda Marsanico: The healing raised my vibration to an amazing place, and I was filled with gratitude.
00:28:24.060 --> 00:28:31.940 Linda Marsanico: Laura and I interacted so that my prayer for healing could be answered. Creator, decided Quan Yen would provide it.
00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:34.549 Linda Marsanico: and we have been close ever since.
00:28:36.270 --> 00:28:41.380 Linda Marsanico: Need to stop here because we are ready for a break.
00:28:41.970 --> 00:28:45.110 Linda Marsanico: and when we come back I'm going to change it up a bit
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:50.479 Linda Marsanico: and read from my blog posts. So stay tuned listeners.
00:30:40.150 --> 00:30:53.150 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the A. Train to Sedona broadcast. I'm Linda Marsamigo, celebrating the A. Train to Sedona Memoir. And now my blog posts.
00:30:54.220 --> 00:31:05.219 Linda Marsanico: I began to develop the website in 2,013, just a little bit earlier than that when I was getting my book ready to be published, and I knew I wanted the book.
00:31:05.340 --> 00:31:16.359 Linda Marsanico: rather the website to be focused on love and compassion. The book is certainly focused on love and compassion. But for the website. I didn't know from what perspective I would
00:31:16.850 --> 00:31:24.810 Linda Marsanico: take it. It took me about 6 months, and I realized it was going to be, of course, a spiritual website
00:31:25.080 --> 00:31:31.130 Linda Marsanico: about love and compassion, because love and compassion bring in a very beautiful energy.
00:31:32.470 --> 00:31:38.129 Linda Marsanico: My 1st blog that I'm going to share with you is from March 8, th 2,013.
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.579 Linda Marsanico: The title is 3 to 5 min.
00:31:42.790 --> 00:31:45.579 Linda Marsanico: 3 to 5 min. Whiz by quickly.
00:31:46.120 --> 00:31:53.789 Linda Marsanico: In this short bit of time I can text, check phone messages, read an article in the New York Times.
00:31:54.130 --> 00:31:56.509 Linda Marsanico: or I can choose to meditate
00:31:56.720 --> 00:32:03.949 Linda Marsanico: to find myself on the road to different dimensions and to build what I call the muscle of meditating
00:32:04.450 --> 00:32:06.090 Linda Marsanico: once developed.
00:32:06.420 --> 00:32:15.189 Linda Marsanico: this muscle allows me to get into the zone of mystical experience more quickly and into my higher dimensional bodies more deeply
00:32:15.740 --> 00:32:22.300 Linda Marsanico: at the beginning of developing a practice, the 3 to 5 min can be restorative like a power nap
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.750 Linda Marsanico: or an oasis in a desert.
00:32:24.990 --> 00:32:34.350 Linda Marsanico: The prize is getting into the zone beyond thinking, being in the moment and visiting my spiritual self.
00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:47.410 Linda Marsanico: This 3 to 5 min segment emerged with my clients as a kind of let's try it out. Sampling a beneficial, free, and relaxing activity we can take anywhere.
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:51.469 Linda Marsanico: Meditation is more manageable in this short segment.
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.320 Linda Marsanico: while it can seem overwhelming in long periods.
00:32:55.590 --> 00:32:58.809 Linda Marsanico: Let's call this short segment a power meditation.
00:32:59.010 --> 00:33:02.750 Linda Marsanico: I develop muscle as I sit on the train
00:33:03.020 --> 00:33:05.720 Linda Marsanico: in a waiting room at my desk.
00:33:06.550 --> 00:33:10.449 Linda Marsanico: As a beginning. All it takes is 3 to 5 min.
00:33:12.800 --> 00:33:20.370 Linda Marsanico: Since then I've developed meditation of about 1520 min each day.
00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:25.879 Linda Marsanico: not every day, but certainly prayer and meditation happen at least every day.
00:33:27.990 --> 00:33:34.089 Linda Marsanico: My next blog post is August, 19 2,013.
00:33:35.170 --> 00:33:38.830 Linda Marsanico: The title is the infinite web of consciousness.
00:33:41.170 --> 00:33:51.480 Linda Marsanico: I'm quoting from Sixto Rodriguez, from his climb upon my music record, from the coming from Reality Album
00:33:51.690 --> 00:33:56.229 Linda Marsanico: 1971, and then done again in 2,009,
00:33:56.920 --> 00:34:02.199 Linda Marsanico: he says. Climb upon my music, and my words will set you free.
00:34:02.430 --> 00:34:03.930 Linda Marsanico: Jump off with me
00:34:05.210 --> 00:34:16.409 Linda Marsanico: if ever there was an invitation to play. This is a fine example to use imagination to soar beyond the 3rd dimension into the clouds of fantasy.
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:23.919 Linda Marsanico: I'm reminded of childhood friends coming to my front door to ask if I would like to play
00:34:24.060 --> 00:34:28.469 Linda Marsanico: on my front stoop on bicycles or in my room.
00:34:29.260 --> 00:34:35.029 Linda Marsanico: It was an invitation to leave the world of adults to enter the realm of children.
00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:44.820 Linda Marsanico: The mind of a child is that of a genius unencumbered by rules, obstacles of movement or possibility.
00:34:46.030 --> 00:34:51.009 Linda Marsanico: Play involves beauty, fantasy, creativity, and energy flow.
00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:58.650 Linda Marsanico: Adults often forget how to laugh, which uses fewer facial muscles than does frowning.
00:35:00.690 --> 00:35:02.980 Linda Marsanico: and adults forget how to play
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:10.540 Linda Marsanico: Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Once she enters her dream, moves into the world of technicola
00:35:10.970 --> 00:35:13.800 Linda Marsanico: and dances forward on the yellow brick road.
00:35:14.040 --> 00:35:21.270 Linda Marsanico: So do Michael Jackson and Diana Ross in the whiz, Gene Kelly tap dancers
00:35:21.700 --> 00:35:24.040 Linda Marsanico: in the rain and singing in the rain.
00:35:24.720 --> 00:35:28.649 Linda Marsanico: Julie Andrews sings, the hills are alive with the sound of music.
00:35:29.730 --> 00:35:44.049 Linda Marsanico: Stephen Tyler, from his Dream on record on the debut album Aerosmith, in 1973 sings dream on, dream on dream, until your dreams come true
00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:53.319 Linda Marsanico: creative play which utilizes other abilities, allows us to tap into our higher mind.
00:35:53.700 --> 00:36:00.669 Linda Marsanico: We explore more of ourselves when we are willing to take what I would call a leap of faith
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:07.340 Linda Marsanico: into the unknown, of our being, our potential, our birthright.
00:36:07.820 --> 00:36:09.959 Linda Marsanico: because we are each of us
00:36:10.900 --> 00:36:13.499 Linda Marsanico: a cell in the fabric of our Creator.
00:36:14.460 --> 00:36:16.980 Linda Marsanico: This is quite a heritage, don't you think?
00:36:17.630 --> 00:36:33.789 Linda Marsanico: To explore this spiritual, metaphysical, evolutionary line brings us to a technicolor which is physical, emotional, mental, as well as multi dimensional, electromagnetic, outright.
00:36:33.930 --> 00:36:34.840 Linda Marsanico: magical.
00:36:36.290 --> 00:36:43.329 Linda Marsanico: As I sit here right now, right here right now, as Quan Yin loves to utter, or in the now.
00:36:43.390 --> 00:36:54.980 Linda Marsanico: as Eckhart Tolle professes these musing are not just my imagination. That's from the temptation. Sky's the limit, album from Motown in 1971,
00:36:55.020 --> 00:37:15.360 Linda Marsanico: but within the scope of my imagination, which, Einstein says encircles the world. I say that the imagination spills out into and travels the galaxies as we co-create, we access the infinite web of consciousness, jumping off with our Creator into the vastness of possibilities.
00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:20.790 Linda Marsanico: I love the playfulness of this blog post.
00:37:24.690 --> 00:37:29.769 Linda Marsanico: Now I'm jumping around in the months in 2,013, and this one is
00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:38.649 Linda Marsanico: spring, but any other name is still spring. Now, remember, I'm writing this on March 25, in 2013. Bear with me.
00:37:39.450 --> 00:37:41.520 Linda Marsanico: I have always liked spring.
00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:44.410 Linda Marsanico: It arrives after the coldness of winter.
00:37:45.140 --> 00:37:48.500 Linda Marsanico: bringing longer days where we bask in the light.
00:37:49.250 --> 00:37:54.399 Linda Marsanico: 2 weekends ago we were asked to spring forward in time to put our clocks 1 h ahead.
00:37:54.540 --> 00:38:00.840 Linda Marsanico: I felt tired with this shift, but it is in the service of having brighter days which I prefer.
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:12.429 Linda Marsanico: Last Wednesday was the 1st official day of spring. The weather will soon catch up, and we will be launched into tempered days with chirping birds and budding flowers and trees.
00:38:12.550 --> 00:38:20.889 Linda Marsanico: The flora and fauna come alive, the air will brush our skin gently while the sun nourishes us.
00:38:22.030 --> 00:38:30.329 Linda Marsanico: Let's look at this metaphor as the days expand in my emotional spiritual spring, what will I plant?
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.279 Linda Marsanico: What do I want in my garden with love as a context?
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:42.860 Linda Marsanico: I want to develop relationships and be authentic in my interactions to reach out in social arenas.
00:38:45.370 --> 00:38:49.379 Linda Marsanico: Now, I'd like to share an example of my challenge to plant compassion.
00:38:49.910 --> 00:38:52.670 Linda Marsanico: Now, at this time, in 2,013,
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:59.089 Linda Marsanico: my favorite office was on 41st Street, just below 6th Avenue.
00:38:59.340 --> 00:39:06.689 Linda Marsanico: It was a townhouse where an Italian family lived, and they imported tiles from Italy.
00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:13.230 Linda Marsanico: So on Wednesday, in my office, workmen were drilling on the building's facade.
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:20.139 Linda Marsanico: I could see them on the scaffolding where they could look into my office and see me and my clients backs.
00:39:21.810 --> 00:39:30.810 Linda Marsanico: Late afternoon, during 2 sessions the drilling periodically was so loud I had to yell, to be heard.
00:39:31.070 --> 00:39:32.519 Linda Marsanico: I'm not exaggerating.
00:39:33.370 --> 00:39:46.019 Linda Marsanico: At certain moments I felt flashes of anger because the noise seemed like an assault, an intrusion into my an intrusion into my usually very quiet space.
00:39:46.250 --> 00:39:53.400 Linda Marsanico: When the anger flashed, I said to myself, They're doing their job, and the anger left me.
00:39:54.650 --> 00:39:58.139 Linda Marsanico: I repeated this mantra. Every time anger flashed.
00:39:58.490 --> 00:40:00.709 Linda Marsanico: and I was able to keep
00:40:01.090 --> 00:40:04.320 Linda Marsanico: from feeling or feeding the anger.
00:40:05.610 --> 00:40:12.600 Linda Marsanico: I replace the anger with a reality for which I feel compassion that people are doing their work.
00:40:13.270 --> 00:40:19.990 Linda Marsanico: and this reality worked better than anger because it kept me where I want to be, and compassion.
00:40:20.890 --> 00:40:27.610 Linda Marsanico: as I was packing up to leave the office. One of the workmen looked up from the scaffolding
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:31.609 Linda Marsanico: into my window and warmly smiled at me.
00:40:32.530 --> 00:40:33.970 Linda Marsanico: I smiled back.
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:40.500 Linda Marsanico: I want to tell you that this was a joyful and loving moment that touched my heart.
00:40:41.660 --> 00:40:47.119 Linda Marsanico: Had I been huffing and puffing about the drilling, I do believe he would have felt the negativity.
00:40:47.490 --> 00:40:53.140 Linda Marsanico: His smile confirmed to me that I stayed positive and shared loving energy.
00:40:54.080 --> 00:41:01.300 Linda Marsanico: On this 1st day of spring, in 2013 there was an opportunity to show compassion and fertilize it.
00:41:01.790 --> 00:41:04.920 Linda Marsanico: There will be many opportunities to share it again.
00:41:05.170 --> 00:41:15.650 Linda Marsanico: I want my garden to be peppered with love, compassion, connectedness and expanded vision to nourish and feed me, and connected others.
00:41:16.710 --> 00:41:19.399 Linda Marsanico: I do remember that smile from a welcome.
00:41:19.850 --> 00:41:21.489 Linda Marsanico: It was very special.
00:41:24.500 --> 00:41:25.690 Linda Marsanico: Now this.
00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:29.750 Linda Marsanico: There's a very long
00:41:32.970 --> 00:41:36.820 Linda Marsanico: blog posts which I'll start and see where we go.
00:41:37.730 --> 00:41:44.670 Linda Marsanico: May 6, th 2,013. A journey from my primitive brain to the evolved brain.
00:41:45.430 --> 00:41:50.439 Linda Marsanico: to the best of my recollection. Now I'm writing this in 2,013, so bear with me
00:41:50.700 --> 00:41:59.610 Linda Marsanico: to the best of my recollection. It was during the warm months of 2,003 I was driving around a traffic circle. Remember, there they go like this.
00:41:59.830 --> 00:42:09.730 Linda Marsanico: I was driving around a traffic circle in park slope with my daughter. My desire was to enter the gas station, which was at the top end. A 2 o'clock position.
00:42:09.980 --> 00:42:22.250 Linda Marsanico: but a man in a car blocked the entrance. A red light stopped him, even though he had room to move up closer to the signal to, and that would allow me to get through.
00:42:22.550 --> 00:42:27.850 Linda Marsanico: My car windows were open. As I gestured without speaking like this.
00:42:30.150 --> 00:42:36.299 Linda Marsanico: with my shoulders and arms to ask him if he could move up in his line so that I could enter the station.
00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:39.489 Linda Marsanico: The man yelled and cursed at me
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:48.739 Linda Marsanico: with such aggression. It shocked me that a mildly frustrated request from me could produce such a hateful response
00:42:49.080 --> 00:42:56.459 Linda Marsanico: is negative energy carried by the warm summer air slammed into my body.
00:42:57.820 --> 00:43:04.669 Linda Marsanico: I felt hurt, I felt misunderstood. It was not my intention to spark rage in this man?
00:43:05.150 --> 00:43:08.900 Linda Marsanico: Rather, I wish to share lovingness, not angriness.
00:43:09.670 --> 00:43:16.250 Linda Marsanico: What became crystal clear to me is that we have an effect on others. Of course they have an effect
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:17.669 Linda Marsanico: on us, too.
00:43:18.090 --> 00:43:24.160 Linda Marsanico: You know we're all connected, and there is the ripple which moves the collective consciousness like a pebble
00:43:24.580 --> 00:43:26.180 Linda Marsanico: dropped into the water.
00:43:27.900 --> 00:43:31.770 Linda Marsanico: Of course time has passed, and
00:43:31.940 --> 00:43:38.539 Linda Marsanico: it's 2,013, not 2,003. I've done considerable soul searching and emotional work
00:43:38.780 --> 00:43:56.649 Linda Marsanico: 2 weeks ago I, with others, sat with my laptop on a high computer in a coffee shop. No tables were available. The manager pushed, pushed rather a covered cookie plate onto the counter into the space of my computer and said, This is important.
00:43:56.800 --> 00:44:02.129 Linda Marsanico: I had to move my beloved device toward me out of the path of the moving cookies.
00:44:02.850 --> 00:44:10.639 Linda Marsanico: My! I said nothing mildly. Angry feelings sprang up, and my 1st thought was, and I'm not important.
00:44:11.350 --> 00:44:16.240 Linda Marsanico: My next internal prompt became, Linda, you are important.
00:44:16.380 --> 00:44:35.210 Linda Marsanico: and with that I let go of my negative perception of this interaction. Her statement did not shift my reality. That I love myself. I had no hurt or angry feelings, because the resiliency of my self-love withstood my initial perception of this interaction.
00:44:35.770 --> 00:44:49.350 Linda Marsanico: the process of moving from my hurt self to my loving self was a journey from my primitive brain to my evolved brain. From my childhood ego to my heart, ego! I acted from my heart, ego.
00:44:50.170 --> 00:44:52.190 Linda Marsanico: and this is where I'd like to stay.
00:44:53.370 --> 00:44:57.669 Linda Marsanico: We're ready now to take a break, and coming back.
00:44:57.890 --> 00:45:06.689 Linda Marsanico: I'm going to share a blog to honor Brian Wilson, of the Beach boys who just passed a few months ago
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.789 Linda Marsanico: come back and listen to it.
00:46:51.550 --> 00:46:53.170 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone!
00:46:54.310 --> 00:46:57.109 Linda Marsanico: Welcome back to the A. Train to Sedona.
00:46:57.550 --> 00:47:03.560 Linda Marsanico: I'm Linda Mar Sanico, celebrating my memoir, the a train to Sedona.
00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:10.640 Linda Marsanico: and now my blog posts, which are part of my website@lindamarsenico.com.
00:47:11.410 --> 00:47:14.120 Linda Marsanico: As many of us know, Brian Wilson.
00:47:14.330 --> 00:47:19.959 Linda Marsanico: the head, the lead singer, the creative force behind the beach. Boys passed
00:47:20.370 --> 00:47:23.250 Linda Marsanico: about a month or 2 ago.
00:47:23.470 --> 00:47:30.550 Linda Marsanico: and I wrote this in May on the 20, th in 2,013 good vibrations.
00:47:30.690 --> 00:47:33.480 Linda Marsanico: The Beach boys from the sixties.
00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:40.049 Linda Marsanico: My former hairdresser, who is clairvoyant, commented on my vibration.
00:47:40.500 --> 00:47:51.470 Linda Marsanico: He said. Something like you're really feeling good today. I hear your Chakras. He was referring to 7 cone shaped, spinning, energetic portals
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:58.270 Linda Marsanico: which extend down the middle of the body interdimensionally outward.
00:47:58.470 --> 00:48:06.489 Linda Marsanico: Isn't it incredible that we inherently possess a musical scale from a through G, the 7 sounds of the chakras.
00:48:06.750 --> 00:48:14.040 Linda Marsanico: and that it is heard clearly by clairvoyance, and felt subliminally, subliminally by all of us.
00:48:14.870 --> 00:48:20.300 Linda Marsanico: These sounds are vibrations, our vibe, which goes where we go.
00:48:21.820 --> 00:48:27.030 Linda Marsanico: This becomes part of our connection to the collective consciousness.
00:48:27.580 --> 00:48:35.820 Linda Marsanico: Perhaps this is one reason why music is a universal language. We feel the music and the lyrics have an energy, too.
00:48:35.950 --> 00:48:55.660 Linda Marsanico: The black community knew about Vibe Miles before I understood this level of communication. My elementary school, located near to where Malcolm X. Once lived, was racially integrated, and so I must have heard about Vibe from my classmates and friends. I understood it only superficially. Then
00:48:56.050 --> 00:49:09.080 Linda Marsanico: the sound and beef vibration of positive music balances the chakras, making us feel good. Moreover, the vibe is beneficially felt by the water. In each of our cells
00:49:10.460 --> 00:49:17.960 Linda Marsanico: vibe associated with soul, is exemplified by many musical artists. From mid-century
00:49:18.150 --> 00:49:22.890 Linda Marsanico: to the present Otis Redding, the Isley Brothers stand out
00:49:23.110 --> 00:49:35.079 Linda Marsanico: later, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson sang, Share the beat of love. Sixto Rodriguez asks us to climb upon my music, and my songs will set you free.
00:49:36.150 --> 00:49:42.899 Linda Marsanico: Vibe is an example of our multidimensional voice distinctively held by each of us.
00:49:43.240 --> 00:49:48.740 Linda Marsanico: Of course, we are all unique, and we have our vibrational tonalities.
00:49:48.940 --> 00:49:51.270 Linda Marsanico: That's a quote from Michael Beckwith.
00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:54.819 Linda Marsanico: who, in 2,007 was on the Oprah, show.
00:49:55.410 --> 00:50:00.380 Linda Marsanico: These vibrational tonalities represent our spiritual signature.
00:50:00.660 --> 00:50:05.120 Linda Marsanico: I want to call them a particulate of our spiritual expression.
00:50:05.660 --> 00:50:11.479 Linda Marsanico: I'm yeah. I just said that vibration is our interpersonal calling card
00:50:11.700 --> 00:50:21.279 Linda Marsanico: representing our state of being right here right now, here we are broadcast journalists.
00:50:21.690 --> 00:50:25.379 Linda Marsanico: Whether people hear or sense our message.
00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:30.810 Linda Marsanico: we can become attracted to or put off by others because of their vibe.
00:50:31.190 --> 00:50:33.369 Linda Marsanico: Others do the same with us.
00:50:34.060 --> 00:50:41.570 Linda Marsanico: As for me, I'm attracted to the love beat, and I gotta keep those love and feeling good vibrations happening.
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.910 Linda Marsanico: as Brian Wilson stated, for all to hear or sense
00:50:48.570 --> 00:50:55.410 Linda Marsanico: in the metaphor as well as literally. It's a song and a dance, and I'm loving it.
00:51:00.830 --> 00:51:07.089 Linda Marsanico: This is a blog I wrote on November 25 again, 2,013.
00:51:08.930 --> 00:51:11.259 Linda Marsanico: It's called a sense of humor.
00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:13.220 Linda Marsanico: Don't leave home without it.
00:51:16.500 --> 00:51:21.270 Linda Marsanico: With a sense of freedom that a day without commitments can bring.
00:51:21.420 --> 00:51:26.159 Linda Marsanico: I set out to do a number of errands in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
00:51:26.280 --> 00:51:27.620 Linda Marsanico: On a Wednesday.
00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:38.949 Linda Marsanico: Off I went to my bank on 5th Avenue and 21st Street to make a deposit, planning to take the F train at the Bartell Pritchard Square on 15th Street.
00:51:39.190 --> 00:51:40.999 Linda Marsanico: the station into Manhattan.
00:51:41.390 --> 00:51:46.659 Linda Marsanico: Now it's rare that I leave from the station, and I'm not familiar with its layout.
00:51:46.760 --> 00:51:48.899 Linda Marsanico: I swiped my metrocard.
00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:54.020 Linda Marsanico: I don't know where my conscious mind went to Sedona. Maybe
00:51:54.130 --> 00:51:58.100 Linda Marsanico: before I knew it. Before I could say Abracadabra.
00:51:58.510 --> 00:52:01.330 Linda Marsanico: I had exited the paid for the train area.
00:52:02.030 --> 00:52:12.600 Linda Marsanico: I realized this quickly as I surveyed what looked like a maze of steel gates, which prevented me from going down the stairs to take my train.
00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:16.509 Linda Marsanico: I swiped my Metrocard once again to get back in
00:52:16.680 --> 00:52:19.570 Linda Marsanico: just used, appeared on the turnstile prompt.
00:52:19.820 --> 00:52:24.899 Linda Marsanico: I swiped at several different turnstiles. I was locked out.
00:52:25.370 --> 00:52:28.159 Linda Marsanico: What is a spiritual traveler to do?
00:52:28.560 --> 00:52:35.010 Linda Marsanico: Luckily I had time to spare. Trains came in and left without me.
00:52:37.250 --> 00:52:39.030 Linda Marsanico: I spied an intercom
00:52:46.310 --> 00:52:52.560 Linda Marsanico: I spied in intercom for lost travelers like me, and press the button.
00:52:53.180 --> 00:53:01.770 Linda Marsanico: After the sounds of digital dialing projected from the wall loud enough to reach Australia. A crackling disembody's voice
00:53:02.650 --> 00:53:03.710 Linda Marsanico: could be heard.
00:53:04.240 --> 00:53:11.349 Linda Marsanico: If I could find the person in the booth they would help me override the 18 min. Hold
00:53:12.240 --> 00:53:15.130 Linda Marsanico: on further traveling and send me off.
00:53:15.380 --> 00:53:19.139 Linda Marsanico: I'd be on my way now. I'm not kidding.
00:53:19.430 --> 00:53:28.689 Linda Marsanico: I climbed upstairs to the ground level at the Square, Bartle Pritchard Square, where there are no less than 4 separate entrances.
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:34.690 Linda Marsanico: I asked 2 people if they knew where the main entrance was with a real person.
00:53:35.590 --> 00:53:37.149 Linda Marsanico: no one was sure.
00:53:37.430 --> 00:53:42.700 Linda Marsanico: Well, I got plenty of gym-like exercise without a stairmaster.
00:53:42.900 --> 00:53:48.210 Linda Marsanico: Up and down I went, and it finally occurred to me that I had
00:53:48.520 --> 00:53:57.670 Linda Marsanico: too simple, regular, very desirable, even golden, full fair Metro cards in my wallet.
00:53:59.030 --> 00:54:02.020 Linda Marsanico: I prayed one of them had enough money on it.
00:54:03.310 --> 00:54:07.539 Linda Marsanico: The 1st swipe brought up insufficient fare.
00:54:08.430 --> 00:54:16.129 Linda Marsanico: Though the thought occurred to me, I could always have a cup of tea to wait out the remainder of the 18 min hold on my travel.
00:54:16.350 --> 00:54:19.610 Linda Marsanico: and this nurturing thought was a saving grace.
00:54:21.600 --> 00:54:26.550 Linda Marsanico: As I swiped the second simple metro plastic
00:54:26.670 --> 00:54:29.970 Linda Marsanico: 2 50 was registered, and that was the fare at the time.
00:54:31.820 --> 00:54:37.489 Linda Marsanico: and I was in like Flynn, off to Canal Street
00:54:37.640 --> 00:54:43.070 Linda Marsanico: and design within reach to look at some really cool Flatware.
00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:48.920 Linda Marsanico: I had salivated over 7 11 Canal Street. Here I come.
00:54:49.370 --> 00:55:04.709 Linda Marsanico: easily accessed from the East Broadway. Stop. I made my way on canal when I noticed that the numbers 40, 50, etc. Were very low, and that 7, 11 was quite far from where I was.
00:55:05.340 --> 00:55:11.650 Linda Marsanico: Luckily the store catalog was in my purse, and so I called the 1 800 number to get the lowdown.
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:16.260 Linda Marsanico: And so, oh, my God!
00:55:17.050 --> 00:55:24.650 Linda Marsanico: 7, 11. Canal Street was located in Stanford, Connecticut, not Manhattan.
00:55:25.420 --> 00:55:30.920 Linda Marsanico: I internally giggled at myself to realize the colossal era
00:55:31.260 --> 00:55:38.990 Linda Marsanico: with my New York City myopia. I never looked past 7 11 Canal to see the out-of-state address.
00:55:39.550 --> 00:55:44.180 Linda Marsanico: Now, at lunchtime Canal Street was bustling with people.
00:55:44.490 --> 00:55:48.670 Linda Marsanico: and I didn't want to make a spectacle of myself. Had I been with a friend
00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:53.079 Linda Marsanico: I would have doubled over and cried and laughed.
00:55:56.380 --> 00:56:01.100 Linda Marsanico: I checked the design within reach. Store locations to find one
00:56:01.320 --> 00:56:05.990 Linda Marsanico: at 76 Montague Street, one of my favorite roads in Brooklyn.
00:56:06.520 --> 00:56:16.650 Linda Marsanico: What does a lost traveler like me to do? Well, I decided to visit a jewelry shop on Bowery which runs sort of perpendicular to to canal to chill out
00:56:17.130 --> 00:56:18.820 Linda Marsanico: all was not lost.
00:56:19.060 --> 00:56:25.609 Linda Marsanico: From Bowery I made my way back on Canal and embarked from the East Broadway Station to Borough Hall.
00:56:25.740 --> 00:56:28.960 Linda Marsanico: from Montague Street and design within reach.
00:56:29.530 --> 00:56:33.019 Linda Marsanico: looked at the flatware, salivating some more.
00:56:33.190 --> 00:56:35.820 Linda Marsanico: The staff treated me so nicely.
00:56:36.080 --> 00:56:38.820 Linda Marsanico: allowing me to take a place. Setting home.
00:56:39.410 --> 00:56:45.189 Linda Marsanico: I could decide without time pressure whether I wanted to order additional settings.
00:56:46.580 --> 00:56:51.580 Linda Marsanico: There was enough time to take the R. Train to Park Slope for my last errand.
00:56:53.020 --> 00:56:56.010 Linda Marsanico: The shop closed. It was 5, 45,
00:56:56.180 --> 00:57:02.279 Linda Marsanico: and I completed my last transaction of the day. The shop closed at 7 PM.
00:57:03.980 --> 00:57:06.369 Linda Marsanico: I felt very satisfied.
00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:08.840 Linda Marsanico: All had been accomplished.
00:57:09.270 --> 00:57:12.450 Linda Marsanico: I had even gotten quite a bit of aerobics
00:57:12.710 --> 00:57:19.259 Linda Marsanico: as I looked, as I rather took the stairs in and out of the train stations, walked to the shops.
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:23.379 Linda Marsanico: Now at home, I realized I'm relaxed.
00:57:23.540 --> 00:57:28.100 Linda Marsanico: and I felt well traveled and exercised for one afternoon
00:57:28.590 --> 00:57:35.390 Linda Marsanico: with compassion for myself, coupled with an expanded sense of going with the flow.
00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:49.789 Linda Marsanico: I turned a challenging afternoon into an adventure mission accomplished with hilarity and ease.
00:57:50.230 --> 00:57:56.069 Linda Marsanico: I couldn't help but think Chris rock might develop a very funny routine from this material.
00:57:56.320 --> 00:57:59.040 Linda Marsanico: My saving grace was my sense of humor.
00:57:59.480 --> 00:58:01.349 Linda Marsanico: Don't leave home without it.
00:58:02.160 --> 00:58:05.150 Linda Marsanico: This is one of my very favorite blogs.
00:58:05.730 --> 00:58:10.980 Linda Marsanico: Sense of humor helps so often, and of course it changes the brain chemistry.
00:58:11.600 --> 00:58:15.460 Linda Marsanico: So I think that we're about ready to close for now
00:58:16.310 --> 00:58:19.749 Linda Marsanico: I want to thank you for listening in.
00:58:21.990 --> 00:58:26.870 Linda Marsanico: You know you can check out my website, lindamarsenico.com
00:58:27.200 --> 00:58:34.540 Linda Marsanico: and see my cheat sheet for high vibration living. You can purchase a signed copy of my book
00:58:34.690 --> 00:58:40.500 Linda Marsanico: on the by the book page. You could also go to Walmart and
00:58:40.660 --> 00:58:46.140 Linda Marsanico: Barnes and Noble. They're right there. You can click from my website, see all the reviews that I got.
00:58:48.460 --> 00:58:52.359 Linda Marsanico: and thank you so much for again for joining me.
00:58:52.650 --> 00:58:54.249 Linda Marsanico: and I'll see you next week.
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