To awaken is to be. Be still to awaken. Awaken and be.
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Unconditional love envelops you like the warmth of the sun. It manifests in acts of loving-kindness to yourself or to another. Unconditional love occurs between the space where one person truly sees another. Includes loving-kindness meditation
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Guided Meditation, Explorations and Healings. Loving kindness meditation focuses on the level of the mind that has numbed the heart. Use these readings and guided meditations for your healing and growth.
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Sitting with our own pain and softening to the sensations arising is a teacher. It educates us on how to be with the unpleasant. What do we do when the unpleasant arises and we cannot run from it? There is nothing to do but sit with it, soften to it, and listen. This is giving space to our pain and trusting the process.
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The urge to succumb to self-defeating thoughts is strong and creates resistance to what is happening. In learning to soften and accept the unexpected trials that come our way is to trust that there is a reason to the life-altering events that are happening. Trusting the process and finding gratitude were pivotal in moving through an otherwise challenge filled year.
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Softening to resistance does not mean non-action. As Mahatma Gandhi said when asked about the “passive resistance” he was teaching all over India, “There is nothing passive in my resistance. It is just non-violent.”
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Intense emotional states are avoided like the door to the panic room. Its understandable why. Allowing ourselves to feel grief, shame, sadness and relive the stories underneath is terrifying. What is the motivation for letting these feelings in? It frees you from their power over you.
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What motivates you to sit with your own mind? A desire? A desire to feel better? A desire to get better? A desire to be the best? Ask yourself, what is it that you want? What is your heart’s deepest desire?
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Forgiveness is the greatest gift of loving kindness we can give ourselves and others. Forgiveness is not judging the rightness or wrongness of actions but accepting things, people, ourselves - as is - while meeting emotions with loving kindness.
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Meditation is a means of training the mind to be responsive rather than reactive. Our intention with meditation is to encourage a responsive, unwavering mind. By sitting in meditation and processing what is coming up, we lessen the effect that outside stimulus has on the mind.
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One of the most effective practices to calm the mind is to be kind. Currently, our world is practicing the most gigantic effort towards kindness. We are staying home. We are putting off our ‘to do’s’ ‘wants’ and anything nonessential for the benefit of the world population. I have never seen a greater act of united compassion. This is a wondrous time of global transformation.
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As you embark on your journey of mind training and self-healing with the use of guided meditations, you will find opportunities to practice on and off of the mat. Everything that arises for us can be looked at, not as good or bad but, as an opportunity for growth. Guided meditation is a useful tool to train a reactive mind into a responsive mind.
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Begin your meditation practice by simply sitting in stillness with curiosity. Start your meditation practice in the same way you you would implement any action you would like to become a habit. Set a plan and get going! Repeated action creates a habit and daily repetition reinforces that habit.
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