The OM Collective: Find Your Calm
Slow down. Breathe. Become present. Listen to meditations, sleep stories, mindfulness activities and soulful conversions. Written and hosted by Claire Charters, the sole purpose of this show is to provide digital nourishment that has been curated with the intention to steep the soul and connect.
Episodes
Sometimes the spiritual journey asks us to seek. And sometimes… it asks us to stop seeking.
After eight years of sharing my voice, my spiritual journey, meditations, reflections and teachings here, I have felt a quiet but unmistakable invitation to put down the microphone.
I didn't expect 81 Days of Tao to end at Door 30.
I thought we would walk through all eighty-one doors together...
Welcome to Day Twenty-Nine of 81 Days of Tao.
Today we're exploring something that sounds incredibly simple…but can be one of the hardest things we are ever asked to do. Let go of control. And this verse arrived for me on a morning when I found myself wishing I could go backwards. Back to the life I had before my awakening. Before so much of what I believed about myself, love, happiness and the direction of my life began to ...
Today's verse feels particularly personal to me…
because long before I understood what the Tao was teaching about opposites…
I was experiencing it within my own body and within my own life.
My spiritual awakening began with a powerful activation of life-force energy…
an experience that opened me to an energetic world I hadn't understood before.
And what followed wasn't simply peace and light.
It was a dismantli...
Verse 27 of the Tao Te Ching offers us a beautiful and challenging teaching:
Every human is exactly where they need to be.
We are all somewhere on the path.
Some people meet us through love and openness. Others meet us through their conditioning, fears, wounds, defences and the level of awareness available to them at that point in their lives.
And sometimes… those encounters hurt.
B...
In this episode, we explore Verse 26 of the Tao Te Ching—a profound teaching on inner stability, emotional resilience, and finding peace that isn't dependent on what is happening around you.
Life will always bring change.
Unexpected conversations. Disappointment. Conflict. Loss. Moments that shake the ground beneath our feet.
The Tao doesn't promise a life without storms.
It teaches us how to become deeply rooted so the storm...
Day 25 of 81 Days of Tao — You Belong to Something Greater
In this episode, we explore Verse 25 of the Tao Te Ching—a beautiful reminder that we are part of something far greater than our fears, our timelines, and our need to control what comes next.
Sometimes life feels uncertain.
We wonder if we're behind… if we've missed our chance… or if the things we're hoping for will ever find their way to us.
But t...
Have you ever felt like you had already done years of healing... only for life to suddenly break you open all over again?
In this deeply personal episode, I share why I stepped away from my Tao Te Ching series and the profound lessons that unfolded during one of the most challenging seasons of my life.
Over the past six weeks I experienced grief, illness, un...
Just a small moment or interlude....will be back to the Tao soon
Claire xx
Day 24 of 81 Days of Tao — The Exhaustion of Proving Yourself
In this episode, we explore Verse 24 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply relevant teaching on validation, ego, comparison, and the emotional exhaustion that comes from constantly trying to prove your worth.
So many people today are quietly exhausted…
Trying to be enough. Trying to be seen. Trying to appear successful, healed, spiritual, impressive, or worthy ...
Day 23 of 81 Days of Tao — Stop Forcing What Is Meant to Flow
In this episode, we explore Verse 23 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply calming teaching on surrender, trust, and the exhaustion that comes from constantly forcing life forward.
Nature does not force itself endlessly.
Storms pass. Rain falls… then clears. The wind rises… then becomes still.
And yet so many of us live in constant tension— trying ...
Day 22 of 81 Days of Tao — The Power of Softness
In this episode, we explore Verse 22 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply healing teaching on softness, humility, emotional resilience, and becoming whole through surrender rather than force.
We live in a world that teaches us to appear strong at all times.
To push harder. To hide vulnerability. To hold everything together perfectly.
But the Tao offers a different kind of wisdom.
...Day 21 of 81 Days of Tao — Trusting the Unseen
In this episode, we explore Verse 21 of the Tao Te Ching—a mystical and deeply grounding teaching on intuition, inner knowing, and the unseen intelligence moving through life.
Some of the most important things in life… cannot be fully explained.
Love. Presence. Intuition. The quiet feeling that something within you already knows.
In a world that constantly asks for p...
Day 20 of 81 Days of Tao — When You No Longer Fit the World Around You
In this episode, we explore Verse 20 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply tender teaching for those who feel different, sensitive, disconnected from modern life, or quietly out of rhythm with the world around them.
There are moments in life when the things that once mattered… no longer feel meaningful.
The constant striving. The noise. The performance...
Day 19 of 81 Days of Tao — Return to What Is Real
In this episode, we explore Verse 19 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply relevant teaching on simplicity, overwhelm, and returning to what truly matters.
Maybe you are not overwhelmed because you are broken. Maybe life has simply become too complicated.
Too much noise. Too much pressure. Too many expectations about who you should be.
This verse gently reminds us that peace is n...
Day 18 of 81 Days of Tao — Who Are You Beneath the Performance?
In this episode, we explore Verse 18 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply relevant teaching on authenticity, performance, and what happens when we lose connection to our natural self.
When we are deeply connected to the Tao… love is natural. Kindness is natural. Integrity is natural.
But when we lose connection to our deeper nature… life can become pe...
Day 17 of 81 Days of Tao — The Quiet Leader
In this episode, we explore Verse 17 of the Tao Te Ching—a gentle yet powerful teaching on leadership, trust, and influence without force.
The Tao reminds us that the greatest leaders are often barely noticed.
They do not dominate… control… or constantly seek recognition.
Instead, they create space. They listen deeply. They trust life… and they trust peopl...
Day 16 of 81 Days of Tao — Returning to the Root
In this episode, we explore Verse 16 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply calming teaching on stillness, surrender, and trusting the natural cycles of life.
Everything in nature moves in rhythms. The tides rise and fall. The seasons change. Flowers bloom… and return to the earth.
Yet so much of our suffering comes from resisting these cycles— holding on to what is ch...
Day 15 of 81 Days of Tao — The Way of the Ancient Ones
In this episode, we explore Verse 15 of the Tao Te Ching—a gentle reflection on what it looks like to live in alignment with the Tao.
This verse doesn’t teach through instruction… it shows us through presence.
It describes people who moved through life with awareness, softness, and quiet strength— not rushing, not forcing, not needing to have ever...
Day 14 of 81 Days of Tao — The Unseen Essence
In this episode, we explore Verse 14 of the Tao Te Ching—a deeply mystical teaching on the nature of the Tao as something beyond sight, sound, and form.
Look for it… and you cannot see it. Listen for it… and you cannot hear it. Reach for it… and you cannot grasp it.
This verse gently reminds us that what we are searching for in life— clarity, truth...
Day 13 of 81 Days of Tao — Beyond Praise and Blame
In this episode, we explore Verse 13 of the Tao Te Ching—a profound teaching on identity, belonging, and the way we are shaped by praise, judgement, and the need to be seen.
Why do we feel lifted when we are praised… and shaken when we are criticised?
Because we have learned to attach our sense of self to how we are perceived.
This verse gently reveals how this a...
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