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Many people cannot sleep at night. They try wearing socks, drink relaxing herbal teas or take tryptophan or melatonin, read a book, keep a stress journal, and try all sorts of other expedients to help them fall asleep and get a good nights rest. What if I were to tell you that you could use this downtime as a chance to practice meditation?
Blessings,
Mary
The Meditation Society of Australia is one of my favorite meditation sites. They offer a free online mediation course, and you can subscribe to get daily meditations and words of wisdom emailed to you every day.
Here’s an excerpt about the online course:
Our free online course features a step-by-step guide for people learning to meditate, complete with guided meditation exercises with meditation music that you can download and play. Each free class includes a discussion on a particular spiritual topic and a guided meditation exercise. For members (membership is free) the discussion and exercise are also provided as free radio quality audio mp3 downloads – just click on the link within the classes. Each class is set up for one week, structured for you to meditate and work upon the ideas brought up in the class in your daily meditation. But you can access them all at once if you are on the move and in a hurry to download to your ipod etc.
I encourage you to visit their site, and check out the course, and come back here for more guided meditations, naturally! I’ll be posting some new ones soon!
Blessings,
Mary
I had an aha! moment the other night as I was writing in my journal. I’m feeling the need to go to another personal development conference or workshop.
I’ve been to several really amazing ones in the past year, and I always come home feeling on top of the world and soaring with energy. The last one I went to was The Peaceful Woman in August. While I am blessed to participate in weekly phone calls with a group of Peaceful Women, and even more blessed to have an in-depth check in with one woman in particular, it’s not quite the same as being in the same space with others of like mind.
Why is that?
The conclusion I came to is that regularly going to conferences or workshops and being in a group of self-aware or high vibration people is like going to the chiropractor. My body gets so used to being out of alignment, that it becomes the norm. If I don’t have an adjustment for a while, then I need to go several times to get my body used to being in alignment. With regular maintenance, being in alignment becomes the norm.
The same can be said for my energy body. A year ago I went to three weekend intensives in three months. I was pumped, excited, and it set a really good precedence for the year. Then, I couldn’t keep up with the expense and the time away from work, so I didn’t go for a while, and my energy lagged. This summer, I went to a few more, but now it has been three months and I am feeling the need for re-alignment.
The phone calls are kind of like the chiropractor just adjusting my lower back, or just my neck, but not my whole spine. It helps, but it’s not as good as the full meal deal. I’m working to manifest a couple of trips in the next couple of months to help get me back into full spiritual alignment, alignment with my soul’s purpose. In the mean time, I’m continuing my meditation and journal writing practices for my mind and spirit, like my yoga practice for my body.
Because I now appreciate the value of regular adjustments, physically, mentally and spiritually.
Blessings,
Mary
Here’s an article from the Beginning Meditation Guide about Guided Meditation:
Guided meditations are usually experienced with the help of a meditation teacher, or by listening to a guided meditation recording…a guided meditation can be an experience that is not only relaxing, but one that enhances your sense of self, that transforms your perspective in positive ways, and that inspires you to live your life to the fullest. It’s an effortless and very enjoyable experience that results in deep relaxation, elimination of stress and a heightened appreciation of life.
Well said! Remember, you can download a free guided meditation right here, right now, and experience the peace for yourself.
Blessings,
Mary
From Angels on Your Shoulder by Susan Gregg
The only way you can meditate improperly is by not giving yourself the gift of meditating regularly. A very simple way to meditate is to sit or lay comfortably in a quiet location. Start by taking a long, slow, deep breath. Gently focus your attention on your breathing; if your mind wanders, just bring your attention back to your breathing.
Blessings,
Mary
It’s been a whole week since I posted anything. Not for lack of inspiration, or being away from my computer, or being lucky enough to be on vacation.
Last week, on Monday, I nuked my blog.
It was pretty scary, let me tell you. Mushroom clouds and everything!
OK, no mushroom cloud. But I think my heart stopped for several seconds. Remarkably, I was pretty calm, after the initial shock had worn off. That’s thanks in no small part to Enlightened Warrior Training Camp and The Peaceful Woman.
It had been suggested to me that I could run my whole website through WordPress, and not have to struggle with making my website look the same as my blog. And it’s a pretty great idea! Only, I didn’t have quite enough information, and I jumped ahead of myself, and poof! No access to the blog.
Thankfully, all of the information was still there. Essentially I changed the lock, and then left the key inside. So everything was safe and sound, even from me!
I have to say a huge thanks to Mike Browne, who helped calm me down, helped write the support ticket for me, and also wrote me the best step-by-step directions for how to move the blog without the bomb going off. I don’t know how I would have managed with out him! (Seriously, if you need help with your page, talk to him!) And thanks as well to the support people at lunarpages, who unlocked the site, and handed me back the key.
It was all fixed almost a week ago, however, I waited until today to do the move. I wanted to make sure I had time to troubleshoot any problems, just in case I didn’t follow the directions quite thoroughly. Everything went smoothly, though, so…
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming!
Blessings,
Mary
There are so many advantages to meditation. When I first originally thought of this post, I indeed wanted to make it 100 benefits long (think big right!), however, I wasn’t sure I could find more than perhaps 20-25 benefits. Well, I made it happen! Meditation is as powerful as I thought it would be. Here is the definitive list of benefits that meditation can provide you with:
It’s definitely worth a look. Thank you, Frederic, for compiling such a great list!
Blessings,
Mary
Each of us has been given gifts to share with the world. Sometimes these gifts are obvious, like a young person who hears a piece of music and can then play it back, or the person who can perform complicated math calculations in their head.
Sometimes our gifts take some investigation to uncover. We may go through a process of trial and error, learning new skills and deciding whether we like them or have a particular talent at this or that.
And sometimes, other people recognize our gifts long before we do ourselves. Like when several people I met at a business forum said, “You’re a coach, right?”
This has been the case with me recently. I have been in transition for a while. I’m good at my job. It provides me with opportunities to learn and grow, and to be with people. But I am not passionate about my job.
I am passionate about my spirituality. I love learning and growing, and helping others to do the same. This must be one of my gifts, right? Yes! So I have been giving it away. While I am happy to give my gift away, I also wonder how I can bring my gifts into alignment with my work.
You’ve probably heard the saying, “Do what you love and the money will follow.” I’ve been doing what I love for nearly nine years, and I have yet to earn any real income from it. So, while I have been doing what I love, and what I am passionate about, I’ve only been playing at it. Dabbling if you will.
Now my task is to put those gifts and talents into service. I am committing to my mission: to play with the Divine and to help others discover the Divine spark within themselves. To put my gifts into service means bringing all aspects of my life into alignment with that mission, including my financial house. To have my gifts in service means they are part of the flow for me financially as well as spiritually, mentally and emotionally.
I have been using my gifts to serve others, and now I am putting my gifts into service for myself, so I can continue to serve others. It’s a fine line of distinction, and I am not sure I’ve made it clear. So I would love your comments to see how you understand the difference between “in service” and “of service”.
Blessings,
Mary
Try “Monotations“.
Spencer Burke has created a series of one image, one word reflections. His purpose, in his own words, “is to encourage people to take a moment each day to reflect, center and meditate – using a simple image with one word to evoke understanding, love, self-refection, creativity, celebration, integration…”
I love it! Thank you, Spencer!
Blessings,
Mary
From 1000 Day Vow:
Starting a meditation practice can sometimes seem intimidating. A lot of people I talk with think you have to go for hours a day, and you have to somehow be qualified to meditate, and that it’s possible to “meditate wrong.” None of those are true. Too much baggage, and specialness, has been attached to what amounts to the ultimate in simple practices. From a certain view there is really nothing to it.
It really is a lot simpler than you think!
Blessings,
Mary
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