The Key to Your Spiritual Practice
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Greetings from Learning To Flow!
Meditation is the last spiritual practice we will discuss in this series. It is the most difficult for me as I have a very active mind. Yet the more I allow myself to just spend time in silence, the peaceful my life becomes.
So in the spirit of silence and simplicity this week, I will keep everything as simple as possible…including my intro. J
Namaste
Jeff
Meditation: The Key to Your Spiritual Practice
Meditation is the place where all of my other spiritual practices come together. In taking the deep cleansing breaths, I am detoxifying my body. I am letting go of that which does not serve me by bringing my focus to my moment of now, feeling my repressed feelings and surrendering these toxic energies to the Universe.
Sometimes I use my meditations to focus on what I intend to create and project the vibration of my intended creations out to bring me the essence of what I am feeling.
It is when I meditate that I realize how much value my mind places on “doing.” My mind tells me all of the things I NEED to be doing, all the things I haven’t done and all the things others have not done for me. My mind places great value on action and little on allowing. And yet what my mind has not fully accepted is that it does not matter how much I do…if I have not aligned my vibrational frequency to what I desire…by simply allowing myself to attune to it, then it cannot come to me.
When I close my eyes, place my attention in the center of my chest and use my awareness to find the stillness waiting on me there and simply breathe into it, the chattering of my mind stops. Spending just 15-20 minutes a day in this stillness allows all that I desire to flow to me…instead of me trying to make it come to me.
I have found that it doesn’t matter how my legs are folded, what chair I sit in, if I have incense burning or not…as long as I am in a space where I can be quiet and comfortable, I can reach the stillness. Quite often I don’t want to leave when my meditation timer goes off. Sometimes I just reset the timer to go another 20 minutes.
When I first started to meditate, I couldn’t say that the practice brought peace to my life. Rather what I experienced was a lack of drama.
But the more I practice silence, I am finding subtle feelings of peace and even joy in my practice.
I encourage you to implement this valuable practice into your life.
Peace be unto you.
Namaste
Jeff
This Week’s Quotes:
“MEDITATION…is the key to your spiritual practice. If you have the right key in your hand, no matter how tightly the lock is closed, when you take the key and turn it, the lock falls open. If you use your MEDITATION KEY you’ll open intuitive heart to your hearts desires” – Ajahn Chah
“Meditation is not at all a way of making your mind quiet, rather it’s entering the quiet that’s already there buried under the 50,000 or so thoughts an average person thinks each day.” – Deepak Chopra
Spiritual Application
Close your eyes. Take in 3 deep breaths. Visualize the light of a candle in your 3rd eye. (between the eyebrows). Watch this candle flame. Notice that the flame flickers with every thought that enters your mind. The more thoughts that flow in and out of your mind the more the candle dances in front of you.
Focus on the flame of this candle. See the light dancing and flickering as if someone has turned the ceiling fan to the highest setting. Now focus on stilling the flame. If a stray thought enters bring your attention back to the flame. Bring the flame back to a place of calm and stillness. Take in a deep breath. Reconnect to the place in your heart that is still and quiet.
The more you practice meditation the fewer and farther between your thoughts will come. When they do interrupt, do not judge them or analyze them or follow them to their conclusion. Just refocus on the light of the candle in your third eye and continue to watch it burn slowly.
- Created by Pratima Scholl
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