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Meditation 101
Why should you meditate? I feel like the people around me frequently ask why I meditate and what it even does, or they ask how they can get into it. Meditating at first can feel intimidating. There are also multiple types of meditation and it may take a few tries to figure out what resonates with you at this point in your life.
By Anna Wesselman6 years ago in Longevity
Being Spiritual in a Distracted World
What's up New Age Thinkers! It has been a while since I've posted. Just to give you an update on my life, I finally graduated from my university, with two degrees, I was able to find a position in my field and now I'm establishing my self in my mundane career. I've been finding that, although I am extremely spiritual, my way of life is being attacked by the everyday distractions of our world. As the title states, this blog is going to talk about the ways we can incorporate some basic and introductory spiritual practices in your life so that you can either start, continue, or get back on the bandwagon of spiritual life!
By New Age Thoughts Chicago6 years ago in Longevity
Cord Cutting Meditation
Cord Cutting Meditation Victoria LaPointe Mirror Dragon The purpose of this exercise is to get you to a place where you can recognize what you feel like withOUT the woven energy of others we carry with us and interact with all the time. Once you recognize what your Self feels like, you can tell which feelings, emotions, and physical pain is yours, and which is not. Empathic people have a tendency to own energy that doesn’t belong to them. I think it’s important to be able to tell the difference.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Mirror Dragon Tarot (Part 4)
Meditation: Snowy Evening Begin by settling in to your meditation position. Get comfortable, breathe in feelings of calm and begin to release any tensions on the outgoing breath. Breathe in deeply, filling your lungs. Feel your diaphragm expand with brilliant, healing light. See your stress, frustration, exhaustion or confusion pulling together and combining into the light. Then see it flow out with your exhale bursting into tiny, flashing sparks as it dissipates into the atmosphere. Feel the air around you clearing and healing with this transformation. Stay with this clearing process until you feel ready to bring your consciousness into your sacred space.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
3 Easy Steps to Get You Started with Meditation
The M word: meditation. We have all heard of it before. Maybe you heard Dr. Phil or an internet guru talking about its benefits and how it could change your life. Maybe you have had some interest in it but no time to invest into learning about it and grabbing the “gear.” Welp I have been there and resonate with your pain. Like you, I thought meditation was some holistic skill I wasn’t capable of doing. I was this way for a very long time until I discovered a YouTube video that quite honestly changed my life. This video gave me the insight I needed to start meditation. This led me to take the leap into the rabbit hole we call “Self-Care.” I learned a lot in that rabbit hole, but this blog is not about the rabbit hole, but actually about how to prep yourself for that jump in. These 3 easy steps I have listed below are what personally helped me and millions to get started in their meditation journey to a healthier lifestyle.
By TitTalksTV6 years ago in Longevity
Your Wealth & Building Energetic Shields
The concept is you create a shield around yourself and other people's/ place's influence/energy just can’t permeate, so you essentially walk through unscathed, unaffected.
By Outer Inner Space6 years ago in Longevity
Meditation
The point with this exercise is to begin set up an atmosphere of acceptance and communication between what you experience (typical right-brain information gathering) and the way in which you then fit that experience into the format of language and expression (typical left-brain, intellectual structure).
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Maximum Meditation
The world that we live in is a stream of projected five sense information that is observed by consciousness. We call it a world of sense-perception, but only intellectual perception, nonetheless. In maximum meditation, the goal is to get consciousness off the current information stream while still remaining conscious of your present personage. You want to abandon the information stream and be in personage as you explore other options. The information stream that is used to produce the illusion of a material self and world is a hard read. What I mean by “hard read” is that it is chock-full of information and streaming at an incredible speed. The analysis, combination, and projection of the information are so demanding that the observer (you) is practically locked into place like an astronaut under G-forces in a rocket to the Moon. Sleep is necessary to get consciousness offline for a break from the hard read. In maximum meditation, we want to get offline but we don’t want to lose self-consciousness. In order to kick start the process, we reduce as much of the information we’re processing as possible. This reduction starts to eliminate the projection of the illusion and frees up the consciousness to observe other things that the mind is doing, call up things from memory to relive, or to just be in the solitude of being without any mind play being observed at all.
By One Iam6 years ago in Longevity
Meditation Space
Meditation can be used for many reasons. The ability to step out of our everyday, demanding or stressful or regulated environment allows us to disconnect from the frustration and confusion they can inspire. There are many studies showing the benefits of meditation to relieve stress and improve our physical health as well as our mental clarity. Creativity, empathy and greater spiritual connection are some of the other side benefits of including some form of meditation in our routines. Creating a specially designated space where we have the peace to really relax goes a long way in facilitating the addition of a meditation routine into our busy lives.
By Victoria LaPointe6 years ago in Longevity
Meditation Course—Week 5 of 5
Origin Although it's not called a religion, RaJ Yoga does have its roots in Hinduism and the meditation is a way of empowering yourself spiritually. It started with one man who channelled words of enlightenment, every day he would speak to the group that would congregate together for uplifting spiritual direction and this was recorded each day, until he died in 18th January 1969, which gave the group five years worth of material which they could reuse on a daily basis. Now every day the Murli is read by groups all over the world, every morning. It is run predominantly by women who get up at 4:30 every morning to read through the Murli and then again at 6:30.
By GARY DEAN6 years ago in Longevity
The Ultimate Vacation
Traditionally speaking, meditation is a practice used to relax the body and calm the mind. The benefits of meditation through scientific research are numerous. I could get into discussing those benefits, but I want to talk to you about something else related to meditation.
By One Iam6 years ago in Longevity
Top 3 Benefits of Relaxation and Meditation
It’s Monday and you’re ready to take on the world… until that stereotypical Monday-thing happens. Maybe you spilled coffee on your favorite t-shirt or your car won’t start, or some other event that truly does seem to happen on “those days.” Whether you’re simply having a stressful day, managing with physical and mental health ailments, or just struggling to be positive and expel negativity, mindfulness and meditation are great tools for relaxing your mind, spirit, and even body.
By Kari Oakley6 years ago in Longevity