Come To The Table

Table of Welcome

Welcome to the Table of Welcome. This series is designed to support you in integrating your heart, mind, soul, body, and relationships as you navigate the world around you. It draws inspiration from the work of Dr. Dan Siegel and the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) particularly his river of integration and nine domains of integration, as well as his wheel of awareness practice, which serves as a key rhythm in this process.

The Wheel of Awareness

Interpersonal Neurobiology

Welcoming Prayer - Father Thomas Keating

The word “welcome” captures the energy and healing power of integration. It is about welcoming what is different and making connection with it.  It’s about welcoming all that comes to us each day—both within and beyond ourselves.

These nine domains of integration can be summarized as follows:

  1. Welcoming Our Story
    Embracing our personal narrative, memories, and our sense of time.
  2. Welcoming Our Head and Body
    Bringing awareness to the connection between our mind and body.
  3. Welcoming Our Mind
    Integrating the left and right hemispheres of the brain, recognizing their unique roles in how we perceive and engage with the world.
  4. Welcoming Our Relational World
    Acknowledging the importance of relationships and connection in our journey.
  5. Welcoming Our Attention
    Perhaps the most crucial aspect of integration. Attention is central to every part of this process. What we focus on and how we focus matters deeply. As we direct our attention, we are invited to welcome whatever we notice.

As Iain McGilchrist wrote, “Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. The practice of attention shapes our experience—it can make a peaceful place sacred or turn it into a resource to exploit, depending on who is paying attention. Attention has consequences.”

A special thanks to Tony Anderson and the gift of his music for being part of this. His artistry has been and continues to be a gift to me. https://www.tonyandersonmusic.com/

Thanks to Bayley Boecker for the sound engineering. Thanks for using your gift to bring beauty and goodness to the world!

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These meditations are designed to help you slow down and truly pay attention—to your heart, mind, body, relationships, and the stories that unfold within them. Some aspects will be easy to welcome, while others may be more difficult—the unwanted or uninvited, but still necessary for our healing.

The Places of Welcome

  • Welcoming my body—senses and sensations.
  • Welcoming my emotions—what’s been surfacing today.
  • Welcoming my desires—what am I clinging to? What have I been numbing myself to?
  • Welcoming my grief—what grief is present today?
  • Welcoming all the different parts of me.

Table of Welcome - Audio

Dreams & Visions and Finding your Heart contain the same meditation with different sound tracks.

Table of Welcome - Finding Your Heart

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Table of Welcome - Finding Your Heart Short

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Table of Welcome - Dreams & Visions

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Table of Welcome - Dream & Visions Short

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Welcome Places & People Meditation

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome

What are the images that come to mind when you hear the word welcome?

Who are the people that come to mind when you hear the word welcome?

  • Take a moment to notice their faces
  • Notices the words or their presence with you
  • Notice how their presences feels in your body
  • These are God’s Emissaries of welcome to you

What are the places that come to mind when you hear the word welcome?

  • Take a moment to drop into one of those places of welcome
  • what do you notice?
  • What do you sense with your senses?
  • Notice how that place feels in your body
  • This is place of memory for your body to drop into so as to remember the felt sense of welcome

What are the sights, smells, sounds, tastes, and touch’s that come to mind when you think of the word welcome?

  • What are the sights of welcome? A garden, a waterfall, a lake, a table set
  • What are the smells of welcome? Flowers, cut grass, baked bread, smell of an old familiar home
  • What are the sounds of welcome? Water running in a creek, waves gently crashing, birds singing, children playing
  • What are the tastes of welcome - a special food, drink, dessert, or specially treat
  • What are the things that have a special sensation of touch? Another’s hand, a soft sheet, a familiar chair, comfortable clothes

Welcome - Heading Home

This is a mediation to help you head home - transition from the day of work -welcoming all that is there but also welcoming both what you are needing as you go home but how you want to show up as you get to home.

Heading Home - Dreams & Visions

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Heading Home - Finding Your Heart

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Welcome of Desire

Welcoming Desire - Dreams & Visions

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Welcoming Desire - Finding Your Heart

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Welcoming Blessings

Welcoming Blessings - Dreams & Visions

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Welcoming Blessings - Finding Your Heart

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Welcoming Rest

Welcoming Rest - Dreams & Visions

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Welcoming Rest - Finding Your Heart

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Welcoming Waiting

Welcoming Waiting - Dreams & Visions

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Welcoming Waiting - Finding Your Heart

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Welcoming Weakness

Welcoming Weakness - Dreams & Visions

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Welcoming Weakness - Finding Your Heart

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