Daily Devotional July 21, 2026- When Meditation Doesn't Work

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Daily Devotional: Why Meditation Stopped Working for Me (And What Replaced It)

Good morning. God morning to you.

There’s a whole conversation going on over in the forum about diet, health, and supplement regimens. If you want to check it out, I’ll link it in the show notes. I share about the celery juice I drink on an empty stomach first thing in the morning and the smoothie, the very comprehensive smoothie I have after that, because I needed to cover basically all of the bases nutritionally for the rest of the day.

Just for bandwidth, I don’t like to have to think about what I need to eat, like Jesus told me, or what I need to wear. That’s why I’m back in uniform. It’s just easier. It’s much easier. So check that out if you are curious or looking to kind of streamline your diet too, so you can put more focus on just being.

Also, I received a question not too long ago about the inability to sit for meditation, the inability for them to do what they used to do, to practice the way they used to practice. And I experienced that too, towards the end there. Whereas I could sit to meditate for hours, sit and do the different types of meditations, the types of chants, the types of mantras, and the Rosary for hours at a time, it got to a point to where I couldn’t sit anymore.

At first, I thought it was a failure on my part, a failure as if I was moving backwards. But when you reach a certain point, you realize that oftentimes your practice is a transaction. It’s transactional. So you’re sitting in order to create a certain result. You sit and chant because you’re hoping that you’ll get something out of it at the end, if you’re truthful, if you’re honest, if you can really look at it through that lens.

I believe that even sometimes, if you’re not aware of it consciously, you become subconsciously aware of it. Sitting in that way can no longer even happen. Your ego is dying. That part of you that would sit in order to obtain clarity, to hear the voice of God, or to get something from God is gone.

And so, no, it does not mean that you have regressed or that you’ve gone backwards. I believe it means you’ve graduated to this nonstop, constant Awareness of God that is not a transaction, where, yes, you Love comfort, and you would go more towards being comforted than being uncomfortable, than having abundance and being in lack. But there’s been a fundamental change in your approach to your spirituality where it’s just like breathing now. It’s just like your heart beating. It’s just another process that is unfolding naturally, and you don’t control it.

Just like it appears that you control your breath: You can control your breath, you can insert your will and make it stretch, or you can hold it, but it goes back to doing what it does. The same with your heart rate, and the same with this process. You know, the teachers say you can’t rip open a rosebud. It has to blossom, to bloom on its own. You have to ripen on your own.

And the ripening process here, and I’ve closed my eyes just so that I can do my best to describe it, does not feel like a shrill, sitting-on-the-edge-of-my-chair, anticipating-awesomeness energy. It’s like a gravity. Like a black hole. I’ve described it as a melting, an opening of your root chakra, a magnetism. It’s a magnetism. It’s not a performance. It’s a sitting back into your chair, or relaxing back down out of expectation of any kind, because you know only Love is here.

So there’s nothing you’re resisting or hoping for, because only Love is here. And if you can remember, only Love is here, you stop all that reaching. That’s when the meditation almost… it’s like it becomes obsolete. At least the meditation in the way that you were practicing it becomes obsolete. The praying in the way that you were practicing it becomes obsolete.

You recognize that He is already always giving you your daily bread, your daily smoothie. And you receive it with an open heart, a thankful heart. But again, it’s not a thankfulness that you are trying to feel or generate or stir. It’s here.

As soon as you stop trying, like right now, refuse to try. Refuse to try to feel good, refuse to try to manifest, refuse to try to bring something awesome into your life this instant or this day. Just let this instant, this day, be enough. Let this Love be enough, because that’s what this day, this instant, is: Love.

And it’s ordinary. It’s so ordinary. That’s the reason why we will pick up the next book. I picked up my book today, Wake Up to Love, like I do sometimes, just to flip to any page because I’ve got such great quotes in there and such great lines that God fed me to share with you on the podcast, but also in these pages.

This comes from page 224. It says, hold on, I need a Light. You know, I record these in the dark. It says:

“What’s the sound of one hand clapping? That’s the sound of success. If you want more of it, more success, you have to hear more of this: more of the silence. You have to hear the silence beyond the world clapping, beyond the desire you hold of hearing the world clapping for you. You have to hear God clapping. He already is. Love’s always been clapping. You keep bowing. Feel Love saying that thorn in your side, that job, that illness, that person, is to bring you closer to Me, to lock you inside of Me, inside of My Love, inside of My healing, inside of My will, so that you’ll stop leaving. Don’t let the appearance of this world make you forget that you’re in Me, that I’m all you. Just listen. When the noise becomes too much, listen for Me. When you listen to sound, the very listening is Me. The silence and sound are not separate. The formless and form are not separate. I am not separate from you. Surrender. Soften. Relax into Me, the fulfillment of your greatest desire.”

You don’t want to be excited; you want to be calm. You want to feel sure. You want to be confident, God-fident. You want to be bold in your actions, in your faith.

This is how: Wherever you are right now, whether you’re sitting or standing, feel the weight of God where you are. Be the weight of God, the anchor. For that moment, they say sorrow looks back, worry looks around and ahead, but faith looks in.

I’m looking out. If you were sitting here across from me, like this microphone is, you would think that I was looking at you, and yes, I would see you, I would register you. But there’s a two-way seeing happening. It’s like I’m looking in, through, and out the back of this head, and it does not make sense to put into words. I often question myself, even as the words are leaving this mouth, because this mouth has no filter anymore.

Do you hear what I’m saying? I’m looking forward and I see this microphone, a lamp that I’m turning back off now, a wall, and a bag of walnuts that has been sitting here for three months, sealed completely because I don’t like them, I eat cashews. Simultaneously, I’m looking in back, as if that Awareness, even though it’s impossible for these eyeballs to turn around on themselves, the attention is in and back, as if it’s going through the head, between the ears, and out the back of the head. I can’t see behind this head, but I can feel what’s back there.

The Presence is everywhere. If it helps, feel it to the right of that body. Feel into the space that’s to the left of that body, wherever it’s easiest for you to access it. Feel it above that body’s head. Feel it where that body’s heart appears to be. Feel it in its feet like Eckhart Tolle. Feel it. Feel it. Feel it.

And then you are that feeling. You identify as that instead of the body, the mind, or the ego trying to feel something. You are the Presence. The present. The moment. We call it different things. We call it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. We call it morning, evening. We call it yesterday, tomorrow. But if you strip it of every word, of every meaning, of every concept, refuse to think right now. Refuse every thought. That’s how you refuse lack. That’s how you refuse failure. That’s how you refuse to lose.

The silence is your power. Everything tries to rob you of it. You try to rob you of it, that’s the biggest hurdle. It was a huge hurdle here, and it continues to be at times. We run from it. We run from ourselves.

But there we are. There you are.

Check out the site today, the forum. Chime in on what vitamins and supplements you’re taking, on what longevity beverages you’re partaking in. Let’s do it together. I Love you.