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The manipulative ego mind will want you to be distracted as you sit in meditation. When it does this for just a few minutes each time it is okay, but after three minutes, the mind will usually find something else to focus on because the mind is threatened by stillness. This is because on some …
Meditation creates both an emotional resilience and a sense of inner strength, that becomes obvious with time, but only if you are practicing meditation in the correct way. If you are sitting in meditation, hoping things will change, and letting your mind drift into whichever addictive state it takes you to, then you are not …
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Now is a wonderful time to come back to this space of inner stillness. As you breathe in and breathe out, trust consciousness, or as some would say trust the Divine, or trust God. Some might use the term trust the higher aspect of oneself, but whichever words you use, it is beneficial to trust …
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Your experience in life is the real teacher. You cannot pretend that the real teacher is not speaking the language that you know to be true and pretend that language away by imagining another language. You are human, you are here present to what is going on. To be more and more present means to …
Very often we will connect very deeply in our meditation, just like in sleep, when we connect to dreams or begin to open up to REM sleep. When this happens in our meditation, we will not only begin to connect to dreams, but also to the intelligence, the wisdom that is present in this moment. …
Whenever meditation was taught in the past, there were certain levels, and rituals that celebrated those levels, of understanding meditation that were vital as part of the initiation into what meditation really means. This doesn't always come naturally, because what does come naturally is a mind that is easily distracted by external situations than anything …
A deep state of consciousness, which is what meditation is, is the same as the deep state of sleep that we experience every night when we fall asleep. There is a sense of healing that happens in the body, due to the natural detoxification that occurs as we sleep. Not only does the brain begin …