 by Shepherd Hoodwin. Problems do not limit your aliveness or happiness. They are simply challenges that give you opportunities to make choices and grow. As you increasingly open to yourself, happiness wells up from deep inside you. Feel it. Remember a happy feeling from the past, or imagine one now.
If you like, tie it to a scene or image. Feel the feeling. Be in the middle of
it. Let the happiness of that feeling fill you full and overflow beyond you,
filling the room.
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by Gertrud Hirschi. Meditation, as I understand and practice it, has become an indispensable aid in my life. I recharge my inner batteries and solve my problems, make decisions, get advice and comfort, refine my character traits, mobilize my immune forces, develop visions for the future -- and seek my connection with the Divine. We can use meditation for everything.
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by Robert Landau. Exhaustive research conducted over the last couple of
years has shown that meditation is an excellent antidote against stress,
hyperactivity, and fear related themes. It has been found to increase your
energy, as well as lower blood pressure and heart rate. Meditation can also be
used as a successful tool to accompany many medical, psychological and
alternative healing therapies. Last, but certainly not least, for centuries,
people like you and me have been using the art of meditation to control the
mind-chatter that so often interferes with our connection to inner peace...
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by Ron Scolastico, Ph.D. You do not come into earth to meditate. You come into earth to think, feel, act, and do. Thus, the primary impulse from your soul is not to meditate, but to love, to create harmony and goodness, and to heal. Now, the forces of God will love you no matter
what you do, whether you meditate or not, whether you fulfill your purposes or
not, whether you are loving or selfish. Your soul will also love you in all of
those cases.
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by Doriel Hall.
Meditation does work. Millions of learned and
loving people have practiced it throughout the ages, because it clears the mind
and opens the heart. The current interest in meditation has
inspired many modern teachers to simplify the ancient techniques...
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by Iris J. Stewart.
Dance as liturgy or ritual has always been a way to honor the sacred, the mystery, turning into the spiral of life and the universal, the ever-present flow of the Divine force. It has profound implications for healing, psychotherapy, spiritual growth, and the full unfolding of human potential.
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by Ernest Wood. Relaxation and muscle balance are necessary to the practices of concentration and meditation so that (1) the body may not be injured by the mental efforts and (2) the mental work may not be spoiled by bodily discomfort. Third, we have to remember that bodily attitudes are associated with states of
feeling, such as lying down with sleep, and kneeling with prayer.
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by Olivia H. Miller. Co-meditation is based on the principle that a certain mode
of respiration evokes a particular state of mind and vice-versa. The power of
the breath and the breath-mind relationship has been recognized for centuries by
many cultures and religious traditions. Like other forms of meditation, the deep
abdominal breathing produced by co-meditation affects the hypothalamus gland,
which controls the autonomic nervous system, reducing heart rate, respiration,
temperature, blood pressure, anxiety, and stress. It may also lessen
pain.
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by Catherine Sutton.
Breathing is synonymous with being alive. If we stop breathing we stop living, and if we breathe well we can increase our vitality and stability.
Most meditation practices, yoga, and the martial arts encourage
breathing from the...
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by Shepherd Hoodwin.
Problems do not limit your aliveness or happiness. They are simply challenges that give you opportunities to make choices and grow. As you increasingly open to yourself, happiness wells up from deep inside you. Feel it. Find yourself being completely
peaceful. Feel well-being coming from the deepest part of
you, filling your entire being...
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by Catherine Sutton.
The purpose of meditation is to slow down so that we can see clearly into the nature of the mind, making it possible for us to become fully present in each moment, to gain understanding of the way things truly are. It can give rise to the deep sense of calm that comes from really knowing something for yourself.
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by Steve Rother.
Take a moment now and find the
very center of your energy. Let your focus soften as you become one with your
surroundings for the next few moments as we travel together. Ask permission to join with the Earth and for
her to be a part of your circle at this time. Breathe deeply and feel the energy
shift in the room...
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