Posts Tagged ‘meditation’

I embrace my passion and I imagine and feel my passion embracing me. We dance, sing and create the life we love. My passion is in partnership with my heart. Together they are powerful. Beauty springs up before us as we share what we love with the world. All aspects of myself come into harmony.

I just certified in the Instructor Course part 1 and 2 for the Arthritis Foundation Tai Chi Program with instructor Troyce Thome. This is a modified version of the Sun style as taught by Dr. Paul Lam. Troyce is a great instructor. We covered a lot of material compacted in 4 days. I left feeling accomplished and satisfied. Now to get ready to share it with you.

I expect to start teaching a beginner level course after the holidays.

Stay posted for a meditation class.

Sometimes it helps to change your focus to see the world a little different and get a fresh perspective. It can open up new worlds and possibilities.

In Joy,
Susan

Astrology Update

The astrology link above is an update for this weekend with Tom Lescher.  I find his interpretations to be fitting and in alignment with my experiences.

With that said the energy is one of uneasiness with what is.  Wanting to be “through it.”  Through what?  The transformation.  The discomfort.  I’ve found myself in that place of “I just want the change NOW.”  You know the place when you want to do something to make the change happen.

The message I get is to keep coming back to myself.  Take some quiet time.  Go within.  There’s no rushing anything.  Find the joy in the moment.  Take the time to meditate and be quiet.  It’s not all about being quiet, but that is helpful when you find yourself on the hamster wheel going around and around in your head trying to get out of your present circumstance.  Get in the habit or re-new your habit of being still.  Yep, that’s another way of saying meditate.

Why?  Meditation takes you within yourself to listen to the inner wisdom.  It calms the nerves, quiets the mind.  Keeps you from jumping off the cliff.  Meditation will help you allow the change to happen within.  Once the change happens within, you will find the change happening outside yourself.

More on meditation soon.

 

 

Some things you’re not letting happen right now because the timing isn’t
perfect for you. Some you’re not letting happen because you are very aware
of where you are. But all things, as they are happening, are happening in
perfect order. And if you will relax and begin saying, “Everything in its
perfect time. Everything is unfolding. And I’m enjoying where I am now, in
relationship to where I’m going. Content where I am, and eager for more,”
that is the perfect vibrational stance.
— Abraham

This is a good reminder to be in the now and know that everything is falling into place.  When anxiety creeps in as we know it does remember to breath.  Use the breath as a bridge to bring you back to this moment and remind yourself all is well.  I also like to do chanting meditations.  The sound current gives me something to feel and helps me to shift out of fear and distrust.  The sound raises your vibration out of fear and uncertainty.

The law of attraction is based on vibration and feeling.  What makes you feel good?  What helps you feel safe?  Sometimes it’s helpful to reach out to another person.  We all need a hand and support.  I’m offering one free long distance healing session a day for the month of August.  That’s one free per person.  Leave me a comment here on how to reach you to set up your appointment.

In Love,

Susan

I have been getting my yard in shape.  You know the typical trimming bushes, weeding, planting, and mulching.  It’s great therapy vs “work” if gardening is your thing.  Don’t ask me to cut the grass though.  I’ve done it plenty of times.  That feels like work to me.

Gardening is a form of meditation for me.  Most of the time it’s easy to still my mind and open up to the universe.  Yesterday was not one of those quiet mind days.  Fresh from a hurt with my ex-boy friend my mind kept wanting to replay and focus on the hurt.  Can you relate?

We all try to run from the pain.  What we need to remember is it’s all energy.  The energy wants to move.  The sooner we allow it to move the sooner we will come out the other side.   We have to allow ourselves to move through it.  Feel it without getting caught up in the stories, blame, victim hood, etc.

Yea, right.  Well, I didn’t say it was easy or that you will do it perfectly.  NO WAY.  Sometimes you get hit with something that hurts and you react.

So in my garden yesterday I just kept trying to observe the feelings.  When my head would start ranting I starting chanting.  I love chanting meditations for several reasons.  They give my mind something to focus on.  Most of the time that works, but from a lot of experience I can tell you sometimes the mind still works it’s way around the chanting.

Yesterday was a heavy hitter day and I worked my way through 1/2 dozen chants, along with focusing on my breathing, and being present in the moment.  I focused on feeling present in my body as I moved.  This will take you deeper into your feelings.  This is generally what most people try to avoid by finding distractions or things to numb.

I recommend you deal with it sooner than later.  You can block and bury the emotions for awhile, but they will come out eventually.  How?  It’s blocked energy.  You will create illness, you will lash out at the wrong person at the wrong time, you can project it onto to others and get it mirrored back at yourself.  You will eventually have to deal with it in one form or another.

Another reason to chant, the vibration.  You are sending a positive vibration through your body and energy field.  It isn’t just about the words.  It’s not about being in your head.  Don’t chant from your mind.  You bring the sound current down through your body and feel it.

It’s not a magic bullet, but it does feel good.  Through my pain I kept coming back to the positive vibrations of chanting.  It gave me a relief from the pain without being destructive.  It sent a healing wave through me, helping me get to the dawn of a new day.

I have attached a video with a meditation using the mantra “Sat Nam.”  It is Sanskrit and means to identify the truth within.  Enjoy.

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In the garden, I get out of my mind instead of “going out of my mind.” The physical work becomes a moving meditation when I notice my breath and allow thoughts to drift away. Without working at it the work becomes soothing. Pulling weeds, trimming bushes, laying mulch. It sounds like work. It feels good not to have to think or make decisions for a time. Just being. In the garden. At peace.

Like any other meditation thoughts can come in. I hear the neighbors talking. I hear life going on around me in the neighborhood. I just notice. I breath and feel this moment. I do have to make a choice. I can let those things draw me out of this moment or sink deeper within myself and just notice them. Just notice them and stay with myself. Notice what’s here right now, in the garden, within myself.

I haven’t used this meditation for years.  It popped up tonight as I was walking.  I was trying to make a shift and started asking myself some questions.  Then I got bombarded by questions to a point of frenzy.  I wasn’t in the space or energy for questions to be effective.  Instead the universe reminded me of this meditation.  It wasn’t time for questions.  It was a time for me to get centered and peaceful.

Be still and know that I am god.

As I walked I allowed myself to get quiet and release the need for answers.  I wasn’t receptive to answers.  I was feeling to frantic and upset.  I allowed the phrase to gently repeat in my head.  I started to feel calmer.  After a short time a much clearer level of contemplation was able to come through.  I was able to come home and start writing again.

Breath.

Be still and know that I am god.

Allow it to wash over you.

In Love

I was just reminded that Mercury Retrograde starts tomorrow, Friday, August 20 and lasts for 3 weeks.  This is always a good time to take some extra time for yourself.  Take time to journal, self reflect, slow down a bit.  It’s not a time to rush forward into anything.  It is a time when issues and old patterns surface.  Take the time now to reflect on them.  Don’t push.

This is a wonderful time for healing work.  I have time available for new healing clients.

I am grateful for every breath.  Each breath is a new opportunity.