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Meditation:Pathway to Well Being
Four aspects:
•Physical
•Mental
•Emotional
•Spiritual
• Increases energy• Relieves stress• Reduces fatigue• Relieves insomnia• Reduces blood pressure and cholesterol• Reduces anxiety• Balances hormones• Improves self-confidence
• Emptying or concentration of the mind• Focusing• Mindfulness• All spiritual traditions have some
connection with the practice of meditation
• Stress Managemento Decrease in cortisolso Increase in endorphins
• Decreases Self-Judgment • Diminishes Judgments of Others • Increases Self-Esteem• Creates Inner Peace• Changes Your Environment
Doubt Joy TrustFear Kindness BeliefSelf-loathing Love CriticismRage Encouragement Serenity
What are some of your own mental habits?
• Bodyo Alert, erecto Relaxed
• Breath: connects the soul to Higher Consciousness
• Mindo Resists stillnesso Natural state is peaceo Ego wants us to think
Body Breath MindNon-Judgment
One of the keys to happiness is to stop the habit of self-judgment and self-hatred.
When we stop judging ourselves we will stop judging others.
Where there is no judgment, there is peace.
We go into meditation with a commitment
• That the body will remain still • That the breath will be calm• That the mind will be at peace, in spite of its habits• THAT WE WILL NOT JUDGE OURSELVES…NO
MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
Both sides of the brain are always active.
•The left brain is the language and analysis side.•The right brain in the side of art and feeling…of euphoria and bliss.
“Close the language door, Open the love window…”
~Rumi
The clear sky is always there.Clouds come and cover the sky.But wind can blow them away.Clear sky remains.
Clear mind, the mind at peace, is always present.Thoughts come and obscure the peace of clear mind.Mindfulness practice can blow the thoughts away, gently, with ease, and without judgment.
Peace remains.
• To still the language side of the brain so that the right brain can be heard and felt.
• A mind at peace, filled with joy, is our natural state.
• Beta – Normal state; multi-tasking• Alpha - Focused mind; waking up• Theta – Dream state of sleep; creative;
deep meditation• Delta – Dreamless sleep; unified
consciousness; oneness; rest and rejuvenation
• A worldwide 40-day spiritual practice period for all people
• January 15 – February 23 each year since 2008
• Thousands of participants
“What nine months does for the embryoForty early morning
Will do for your growing awareness.” ~ Jelalludin Rumi
Guided meditations online:• Christian Contemplative Prayer• Tibetan Buddhist Meditation• Sufi Universal Meditation• Mindfulness/Vipassana Meditation• Interdenominational Meditation• Children (four minutes of stillness for world peace)• Mindfulness Practice for Teens• Meditations in non-English languages
• for yourself• for your family• for the planet
“The world will never be at peace until peace lives in the heart of each and every person on the planet.”
~Pope John XXIII (1963)
