| The benefits of guided meditation were brought | | | | plan to read multiple times as there is just so |
| home to me very powerfully the other day. I | | | | much to grasp in there. |
| was working on some technical stuff for my | | | | If we are truly living in the moment, we have no |
| website and things were NOT going well. I was | | | | problems, we have no worries. |
| becoming very stressed out. Following the law of | | | | The only reasons we ever worry is because our |
| attraction perfectly my mind threw up a whole | | | | minds are time based and use our past |
| number of other things for me to think about | | | | experiences to project into an imaginary future. If |
| that would bring me more stress. | | | | we can live fully in the now, we can experience |
| Very soon, I was in quite a state of panic, | | | | our true state, which is joy, peace, love, |
| imagining all sorts of dreadful things happening in | | | | compassion, gratitude, all the time. |
| my future if things went along in some highly | | | | It is only ever from projecting our consciousness |
| negative illusory way. I knew I needed to raise | | | | into the past or the future that we make |
| my vibration, but I was not doing very well with | | | | ourselves unhappy, and that unhappiness is simply |
| trying to access better feeling thoughts. | | | | resistance to who we really are, our true selves. |
| So, I put everything down, put on a guided | | | | The incredible feeling I had during my meditation |
| meditation CD called The Daily Dose by Kathy | | | | yesterday was simply my connection with who I |
| Freston and went and lay down on my bed. I | | | | really am. I was for that moment, FULLY IN THE |
| knew that there was no way I would be able to | | | | MOMENT, and was able to experience that |
| completely clear my mind, I was too muddled, | | | | incredible joy of being. I want that feeling back! I |
| too panicked. I thought that a guided meditation | | | | want that feeling always. I generally feel pretty |
| where I could keep bringing my attention back to | | | | good, pretty happy, but that was just spectacular. |
| a voice on a CD and do some positive | | | | If you have struggled with meditation or just |
| visualizations would be the best thing. | | | | need some easy meditation techniques, then try |
| I was in such a state that I could barely hear | | | | a guided meditation CD, I love Kathy Freston's |
| Kathy's voice at first. I started doing very deep | | | | guided meditation CD's. I also really enjoy Kelly |
| breathing. Breathing in through my nose and out | | | | Howell's CD's. Kelly Howell has some guided |
| through my mouth loudly. The sound of my | | | | meditation CD's as well as just some meditation |
| breath filled the room and drowned out the guided | | | | music. Just having the music in the background |
| meditation CD in the background. I had my hands | | | | also provides something to focus on, so it is |
| over my stomach, doing deep tummy breaths | | | | easier to stay present. |
| and feeling the rise and fall of my stomach. Within | | | | Easy Meditation Techniques - Higher Self |
| the first few breaths the most amazing thing | | | | Meditation |
| happened. | | | | I did a meditation this morning where I went and |
| I felt suffused with love and wellbeing! | | | | had a chat with my higher self. This is an easy |
| It was so powerful and the relief was so great, in | | | | meditation technique based on one from Erin |
| comparison to how I was feeling before, that my | | | | Pavlina's blog. This is what I do. |
| eyes just gushed tears. For a few moments it | | | | I imagine myself getting into an elevator. I go up |
| was as if I was so much more than just me. I | | | | to the 21st floor. I watch the elevator screen light |
| felt such a wonderful feeling of oneness with spirit | | | | up with each number as I pass each floor, so I'm |
| and the sense of joy and gratitude throughout | | | | counting up all the way to 21. I come out of the |
| my being was immense. | | | | elevator and I see a flight of stairs. I climb up 21 |
| Unfortunately, I immediately brought myself down | | | | stairs. |
| by thinking 'wow this is so cool, I must do this | | | | This leads me to a long corridor, like a long hotel |
| again, I need to schedule meditations on a daily | | | | corridor. All along the one side of the corridor are |
| basis, why haven't I been doing this every day? | | | | room numbers starting at 1. I walk past each |
| When am I going to fit them in, in the mornings | | | | room number until I reach room 21. I open the |
| or the evenings?' And of course, that focus back | | | | door. |
| into time and mind 'problems' brought me out of | | | | And then my imagination throws up whatever it |
| that state of immense wellbeing. | | | | wants to throw up. The first time I visited this |
| I let those thoughts go and brought my attention | | | | room it was very businesslike, just like a lawyers |
| back to my breath and though the feeling had | | | | office. And there was my higher self complete |
| lessened in intensity it remained with me. Tears | | | | with business suit and....clipboard (who knows?). |
| continued to leak out of my eyes for the duration | | | | This room has massive windows overlooking the |
| of the meditation but I also could barely stop | | | | ocean and it is beautiful and tranquil. When I went |
| smiling. I released all scheduling, planning, worry | | | | there this morning the room was very |
| type thoughts as soon as they came to me by | | | | comfortably furnished with big comfortable |
| bringing my attention back to my breathing and | | | | armchairs with very soft cream fabric and |
| also to Kathy's voice and did the visualizations she | | | | enormous cushions. |
| described. | | | | And this time my higher self had flowers in her |
| At the end of the 20 minute guided meditation I | | | | hair and a long loose caftan in cream with red |
| felt like a new woman! | | | | flowers painted on it. She was all hippy and |
| I went out for a 30 minute bike ride and was | | | | flowery this time (no clipboards in sight). |
| singing along at the top of my lungs to Snow | | | | Whenever I have visited one thing is constant, |
| Patrol's 'Chasing Cars' on my ipod, much to the | | | | she is always wonderful to me. She encourages |
| bemused stares of all the construction workers I | | | | me, tells me how wonderfully well I'm doing, gives |
| passed who were waiting for their buses home. I | | | | me some solid advice and encouragement about |
| realized that for the past couple of months, I | | | | what to do next, and tells me how much I am |
| have not been making time for meditations. It | | | | loved. |
| doesn't take a lot of time! Yet, I just hadn't been | | | | There is never any hint of criticism, any hint of |
| making it a priority! | | | | reproach, it is pure positive loving energy. Once |
| I realized yesterday how much I need it. The | | | | I'm done chatting with my higher self, she gives |
| benefits of meditation are enormous. Sometimes | | | | me a big hug and then I'm off, counting down the |
| it is the only time of the day where we actually | | | | rooms as I pass, from 21 down to 1, down the |
| get out of our own heads, let go of the incessant | | | | 21 steps, into the lift and down the 21 floors, and |
| thoughts and just BE! | | | | then I'm done. Refreshed, revitalized, energized |
| I have been reading Eckhart Tolle's The Power of | | | | and full of inspired ideas. |
| Now and this book is amazing. It is a book that I | | | | |