Meditation is Spiritual Food: Podcast
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October 17, 2008
October 13, 2008
Meditation is Spiritual Food
Recently someone wrote me the following question about staying in balance. So, I thought I would share my response.
Yanni,
I really want to invest in what matters. I no longer want to be side-tracked by thoughts, projects, or people who are not on my path. I am a unique soul with a very unique focus and I really want to explore my interests to the fullest. How can we live in the 5th dimension or higher right here and now?
Meditation helps me to stay calm and peaceful and feel connected to God and others. When days pass and I have not had the chance to meditate I find my self rushing and getting crazy and upset with how fast life is moving and with how much there is to do.
Mary
My response:
You've answered your own question, Mary. Just as fish can not live out of water and a physical body can not live without air, a spirit (which is what you and I are in essence) cannot live without meditating or connecting with our Source on a consistent, regular basis. This connection or communion with our Source is our spirit's food or air. Without it, we literally starve or die of asphyxiation. Yet many are living or should I say dieing in this way.
As well, by staying connected, you will find answers to all your questions regarding what to do next, where to do it, when to do it and with whom. By staying connected you act from a place of inspiration and newness rather than from your old place of stagnant default patterns. When you are in a place of connection, you open to allowing new thoughts, people and experiences into your life that are truly for your highest good.
Life can be new, fresh and joy filled moment to moment and day to day, if you keep yourself in a place of connection! So, do your best to slow down each day, take a few deep breaths and no matter what is going on get in touch with your Self. Then you will have found the key to living the "Good Life," staying in balance, and making choices in all aspects of your life that are for your highest good.
Hope this helps! Blessings! Peace be with you!
Yanni
September 26, 2008
Believing the Impossible! A Meditation: Podcast
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September 22, 2008
Believing the Impossible! A Meditation
"One can't believe impossible things," Alice said.
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.
"When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day.Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Alice in Wonderland
What is possible? Whatever you believe to be possible is what is possible! The impossible is impossible because you believe it to be so.
We create our reality by virtue of what we believe. Within each one of us is enormous potential, but often we do not manifest it or even realize it is there. In Latin the root for the word "potential" is the same as the root for the word "potency."
Within each of us is such great potency or power or potential to create, but because we think small, we create and experience small. The Universe/God is infinite potential waiting to be actualized. And, we, through our thoughts and feelings, can draw in this infinite potential and make it manifest. This drawing in of that infinite potential via our thoughts is precisely what qualifies us to be co-creators made in his/her Image.
But if your thoughts and beliefs about what is possible for you are small, you will never dream or create or experience "big." Why not get out of the old box and dream and think big, since you dream and think all the time anyhow? Think big, not small and all things are possible.
Take a few minutes each day in meditation to observe how big or small your thoughts and dreams are and then adjust in whatever way feels right.
You can have anything you want, if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
Albert Einstein
August 25, 2008
What is Life? A Meditation
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
Thomas Merton
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Kat Cathey
Most of us habitually try to control all aspects of our lives: our relationships, our work environments, our health, our finances, etc, but usually we don't succeed. We do this to feel safe and secure. We do this so that we can be happy. But the irony is that in tenaciously holding on so hard, we waste most of our precious energy in trying to control things. We exhaust ourselves trying to anticipate what may happen and we squeeze all the joy, creativity and spontaneity out of life.
By spending so much energy trying to make sure that everything and everyone follows a specific script that we have in mind, we miss a myriad of opportunities to really enjoy and experience Life. We never allow for Life to simply come to us! We are constantly trying to force it to "go our way." We leave no room for wonder and magic.
We always want to know what is going to happen next, but by doing so we limit the boundless possibilities that are available to us. Life isn't a script to be followed word by word, but a new, fresh potential waiting to be expressed or actualized, moment to moment.
It is only when we allow for the unexpected and unknown to happen that "magic" or "real Life" can happen. All that is new, fresh and joy filled can only be found in the "unknown." The "known" is stagnant, old and calcified.
Embrace the "unknown" and there you will find Life! Tenaciously hold on to the "known" and there you will find stagnation!
Allow for the mysteries of life to delight you! Learn to live in the moment and be free! Learn to trust that it is all there for you! Each moment will take care of it self! Become a Master of the mysteries of Life.
Cease trying to work things out with your mind,
it will get you nowhere.
Let your whole life be led by Intuition and Inspiration
Let your whole life be a Revelation.
Eileen Cady
In order to allow yourself to be in the moment, to experience the mystery and magic of it all, experiment with the following. Whenever you can, just stop; take a couple of deep breaths; then become aware of your body by doing a brief body scan from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. This will bring you into the present.
Then allow your attention to be simply in the present only focused on the rise and fall of your abdomen as you breathe in and out. Suspend all thought and then just feel. Don't think! Feel! And ask and allow for an insight or an inspiration to reveal itself to you! And then sit back, with your mind disengaged and then absorb and enJoy whatever insight or inspiration you receive! It may come as a thought, an impression, an image or a feeling.
In this way you can live in the moment and allow the mystery and magic of Life to enter your experiences. In this way you can live Life to the fullest and be a Master of your Life and no longer a slave of circumstances.
If you haven't already, feel free to join my membership area and get a free audio talk on meditation and a free 6 minute guided meditation. As well, my meditation CDs go into greater depth regarding how to make this connection with the core of your Being and with your Self. If you have interest, my CDs can be found at: http://www.learnmastery.com/AudioTapesByYanni.htm
Also, my book and audio package, Magical Keys to Self-Mastery: Creating Miracles in Your Life, is a primer on Meditation and Intuition: http://www.MagicalKeystoSelfMastery.com