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July 20, 2020
Why Meditate? 5 Great Reasons
To reduce stress and loneliness
To invite “in” health and healing benefits
To bypass the mind’s constant chatter
To make direct contact with the Divine
To welcome our Soul’s participation in our lives
Have you ever wondered why people meditate? This post will discuss each of these reasons in detail and will outline the various forms of meditation that can be used.
1. Meditate To Reduce Stress and Loneliness
Buddha famously said that “Life is suffering”, referring to the difficulties we all face on Planet Earth, a beautiful place, while living in an amazingly complicated biomechanical vehicle that has to be fed, clothed, housed and cared for. We all do our best to try and manipulate our world to create the best conditions for ourselves, given our circumstances. Which include having to deal with other humans (and all of their faults), working, sitting in traffic, caring for our kids if we have them, laughing, crying and breathing.
Most of us have multiple mental, physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual issues which almost nobody else can really understand but which requires our attention. Therefore, to some degree we worry and have concerns over some or all of these things.
It’s no wonder we frequently feel stressed out and end up running on a lot of adrenaline, which produces inflammation, the source of many body ailments. Sometimes the stress seems overwhelming, and it sometimes makes us sick. Add to that the feeling that over 50% of our fellow humans’ reports feeling these days, lonely and unhappy, and the whole mixture makes for a life of suffering. Meditation helps.
2. Meditate to invite “In” the Health and Healing Benefits Science Says Exists
Meditation has been studied extensively in recent years by the scientific community, and the research shows that meditation can be beneficial. In a way that, according to Wikipedia, positively effects over 3000 conditions and ailments, including stress and loneliness, heart disease and high blood pressure. In my new book, The Many Benefits of Meditation, I summarize a number of the amazing findings, including links to a number of studies of a number of conditions and diseases.
Of course, to take advantages of these benefits we have to meditate, and according to one study, the more the better. Just like eating your vegetables. In addition to summarizing the findings, I offer my conclusions about why meditation works the way it does. One reason is that meditating not only stops the mind from making its usual rounds (and around and around) but stops, or at least helps to slow, the loop effect of a disease.
Often when a disease begins to take hold, it causes other symptoms, causes stress, and builds momentum toward a worse outcome. Meditation, regularly applied, interrupts this loop. Not to say that meditation is a miracle cure, but, according to the science, when done in conjunction with other more traditional treatments meditation can enhance the traditional treatment’s effects.
In addition, meditation can raise the vibratory rate of the person struck by a dis-ease. Thereby improving the body’s immune response to a human condition. And can return the body to its normal tendency toward good health.
I was amazed when I looked at the research. Not only because of the substantial number of high-quality studies that have been done, especially by noted researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn, but also because of the breadth and depth of the benefits uncovered. It would appear that a prescription for a regimen of meditation might be a good one for almost every traditional treatment given for an ailment.
That it is helpful in so many cases would lend itself to common use. Doing so invites “in” the health and healing benefits that meditation often brings.
3. Meditate to Bypass the Mind’s Constant Chatter
Thoughts just seem to flow in from who knows where and flow out again. A constant stream of commentary on the ever changing concerns we all have. And ruminations on the past as well as attempts to divine the future, so as to shape it to our liking. In addition, our minds creates observations and speculations about the immediate moment and what things mean all dominate the mind’s thoughts.
One of the benefits of meditation is to quieten the mind in order to find a Place of Peace that the restless mind seldom allows to happen.
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, the one most people think of as the Buddha, in his first sermon, after his famous evening under a Bodhi tree, said “This (understanding of cosmic law and order, Enlightenment) that I have attained is profound, hard to see and hard to understand, peaceful and sublime, unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise.
He found a way to be peaceful and sublime through meditation, bypassing the mind’s constant chatter.
4. Meditate to Make Direct Contact with the Divine
One of the key teachings from our Master Teachers is that there is an intelligent, unifying force in the Universe (Spirit, God, Divine Intelligence). And that this force resides inside of us. Meditation is one of the ways used by many spiritual traditions to get in touch that force that lies within and is one way to have direct contact with the Divine.
‘Spirit Within’ has been taught for thousands of years, well before there was a system for writing the teachings down, and continues to be taught today. Here are a few examples. For millennia Hindus have acknowledged each other with the greeting “Namaste”, meaning “The Divine in Me Salutes the Divine in You!”. One commentator expanded upon in this way “I honor the Spirit in you, which is also in me. I salute the God within you.”
Lau Tzu, or Laozi, in the first lines of the Tao Te Ching, states that the Tao, God, Spirit which we all have access to is nameless, goes beyond distinctions, and transcends language: The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
Responding to a question from the Pharisees about when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus of Nazareth said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.
Carl Jung said it this way, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
5. Meditate to Welcome Spirit’s Participation in Our Lives
One answer to the question, “Why meditate?” then, is that meditation can be used to get in touch with this “One Spirit”mentioned above and grow, and evolve us into beings of Higher Consciousness–making it possible for us to live from a state of greater awareness, of Oneness. Then we can live as the Master Teachers did, with magnificence, as bearers of unconditional love and wisdom, illumined with the Light of the Spirit of the All, and worthy of receiving “all that will be added” to us.
Spirit awaits at all times for us to turn our attention toward it. Unfortunately, we are all so inundated with external circumstances and chatter of our minds that we are unable to experience a quiet state of mind that allows Spirit to flow in. Meditation helps because it facilitates the development of that quiet state of mind, if only for a moment at first, but with increasing frequency and duration the more we do it.
Our individualized Spirit, our Soul or personal Higher Consciousness, wants the best for us and will encourage us, if we let it, to grow and evolve. And will even help us elevate our vibratory rate to attract good things, people, and circumstances into our lives.
I became most familiar with my own Higher Consciousness, my “HiC” as I affectionately refer to that part of myself, when I was fired from a responsible leadership position for shedding light on the mismanagement of my agency by my supervisor. I dove deep into my meditation practice and found myself, as I wrote for therapeutic reasons, sensing a Presence surrounding me, encouraging to pursue this healing activity. Together “we” have written my books and launched my new career as an author.
What Kind of Meditation?
This is where it gets interesting to me. Fundamentally there are two types of meditation. The first type is “Sit down” meditation in which the meditator sits in a chair or on the floor and follows a process that, when done properly and over a long enough period of time that our minds begin to relinquish some of its tight grip on our persona.
The other type is “mindfulness meditation” (see Chapter 1 in my soon to be released book entitled Six Second Mindfulness Meditation in which the user takes only a short period of time to follow a process that might only take a minute, but interrupts our mind’s momentum, and creates a moment of peace.
There are many types of “sit down” meditation processes, whether they be self-managed or guided, done silently or using a chant, that have, as the end goal, mind training. The assumption being that the mind is a bit of a wild horse that needs to be tamed. This can be a somewhat difficult and lengthy process since the mind usually does not want to be trained and resists the notion of giving up its central role in the human personality to nothing. Or the moment of no thing, no thinking,
Years of such training is often required, although some the benefit can begin to be realized pretty quickly by a diligent practitioner using a skillful process. From my perspective, that doesn’t have to be. My own sit-down meditation process (see Chapter 5 in my new book) has as its goal not mind training, but going directly to the state of mind that is most beneficial—Illumination. The Illumination of the state of Mind of the practitioner by following this simple new process called Higher Consciousness Meditation.
This is what my new book (Higher Consciousness Meditation available at Amazon Kindle) is about: a simple but effective 5 minute “sit down” meditation technique, as well as some new “mindfulness meditations” along with a few of the traditional tried and true ones. All for the purpose of Illumination. This is method is easier and requires much less time to get to that State of Awareness where the benefits of meditation can be realized.
What do you think? Do these benefits seem attainable? Have you been using such techniques? Can you share your experience below in the Comments section?
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June 19, 2020
Stressed? Meditation Helps. 11 Ways to Relax
Are you feeling stressed out? Let’s face it these are stressful times. Here are 11 ways you can relax.
1. Ask the question, “How am I feeling?”
2. Make some bread or work in the garden.
3. Become more Aware; use mindfulness techniques
4. Meditate and develop peace of mind
5. Use the Law of Attraction/Vibration to unfold your life.
6. See the true essence of the people around you
7. Offer thanks to everything around you, all the time
8. Bless all things (and circumstances, and people, and moments)
9. Choose well what happens to you
10. Turn everything over to Spirit
11. “Release the Endorphins”
This is a crazy time. A world pandemic. Millions out of work. A difficult president (in the USA). Increasing climate change problems. And our personal stress caused by money, job, relationships, traffic, not having enough toilet paper. Let me offer a handful of ways to help you lessen stress and feel better as a result–Stress Relief 101.
Strategies and Techniques to “De-Stress”
Stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Its a type of type of psychological pain. Here are some techniques to the answer to lessen the pain. Let’s consider them. These will make the next moment, and your life in general, “better”:
1. Ask the question, “How am I feeling?”
Not an easy question, to be sure. Often the answer is not clear. Partially because this moment can be a bit complicated and have multiple feelings at work. Sometimes contradictory. “Right now my kids are causing me stress through the roof. But I love my kids. I wish I could lessen the stress and just have fun with them. “
The overriding feeling is strain and pressure. If we can pause and be strategic about the situation we might come up with a way to correct the situation and and relieve the stress. Like taking them to the park on a sunny day. We might even ask the question, “How would I like to feel?” And come up with some way to get to that spot in our consciousness.
2. Make some bread or work in the garden
There’s nothing more grounding than the primal act of making bread or working in the garden to improve our state of mind and state of being. It’s important that we do this with as much awareness and good feeling as we can muster, so as to not bake distractedness, anger, or fear into the bread. And stay in the moment with the activity we have undertaken, minimizing the mind chatter by losing ourselves in our work/play. Let the next moment arise out of nowhere. This where mindfulness techniques can help (see next point).
3. Become more Aware; use mindfulness techniques
Much of the time in our day is focused on what seems to be going on in our environment and, much more frequently, the thoughts and feelings that are going on inside our heads. It is estimated that each of us has 60,000 thoughts dancing through our minds every day. It’s no wonder we are distracted and stressed out.
Pause for a moment and take a deep breath. Say to yourself, “Peace, be still”. Take another breath and feel the effect of doing this. You have just done a mindfulness meditation exercise.
When I do this it puts me right in touch with my Soul, or Higher Consciousness, which many of us are not very well acquainted. Yet, I contend, this is where well-being and the spiritual qualities of love, joy, peace, contentment, compassion, healing, abundance (and more) reside—Within.
In traffic, you can say “peace, be still” rather than “I hate you, faceless other driver” or “I hate being stuck in traffic” or “I hate my circumstances that puts me in this situation” or “Damn, I’m going to be late” or….. whatever you say that sets up an angry, upset state of mind reaction to your circumstances.
My book Six Second Mindfulness Meditations: Exercises to Transform any Moment offers many of these mindfulness exercises for us in a variety of circumstances, along with a full explanation of what Mindfulness is and why it works. Click here to get a copy.
4. Meditate and develop peace of mind
There is nothing more valuable in life than developing peace of mind. Not that it’s easy to do, given the crazy world we live in. And the best way to develop peace of mind and to reduce stress is to meditate.
Meditation, or silent prayer, can be done as simply as sitting down for a few minutes, taking some deep breaths, observing the comings and goings of thoughts for a moment or so, and then imagine yourself being at your most favorite place in the whole world for a bit. Your heart rate will slow down, as will your breathing and your thoughts. You might even feel a moment of joy and peace.
For those of you who might be interested I have developed a meditation technique that I describe in my book Higher Consciousness Meditation which is intended to put you in touch with your Higher Self, the Soul part of you, and really get some peace of mind as well as a heightened sense of Awareness going. It’s a simple yet powerful process for beginners and experts that only takes about 5 minutes, but will get you in the right mood to take on your day.
5. Use the Law of Attraction/Vibration to unfold your life.
I have found that in my life I have to “trust my process”. I never know how things are going to turn out, what I will encounter, what obstacles or opportunities will present themselves, what problems will need to be solved. Trusting my process means trusting that all will be well and that I will be up to any challenge that comes along.
The Law of Vibration is operational here. “The higher your personal vibration the better your outcomes—people, places, things, circumstances” is how I see it. Better input, better output applies metaphysically. In addition, ability and willingness to adapt to change, stay centered and use Higher Consciousness tools (meditation, Sacred Breathing, mindfulness techniques, and so forth) will result in better outcomes.
This takes a certain amount of trust and courage. But, when partnering with Spirit in everyday life, no matter what the situation, trust, and courage come more easily. The more I turn to my Higher Consciousness, I have found, the better my interaction with three-dimensional reality, and the better the results.
The Law of Vibration works better with better outcomes if you focus on higher vibrational outcomes. Enlisting your Higher Self to participate in your process will do just that. Our Higher Selves know what we need, are ever with us and available, and respond best when we bring to our aspirations a sense of Receptivity rather than asking.
Presence rather than preference as Buddhists like to say. In other words, work on your state of mind, your Awareness, which will serve you eternally, rather than focusing so much on your desires, which change day today. And let the Universe provide that which is best “for all concerned”, including you.
6. See the true essence of the people around you
This is a big one for me. My human mind has a strong proclivity to be judge, jury, and executioner. Not so very long ago I slowed down long enough to recognize how pervasive is my need, desire, compulsion to judge everyone I meet. I still catch my body/mind/personality making up stories about everyone and everything I see.
Instead, learn to see the true essence in others. Here’s the technique: Take a deep breath. Squint a little and soften your eyes. Look to see if you can see the Spirit of the person in front of you. Even for just a flash. I call this Sacred Seeing.
One of the best places to practice this technique is at the grocery store. Lots of people there and none of them know or are paying attention to you. When I am successful, I see them from a loving perspective, am in a gentle state, acknowledge them with a smile, and the whole store seems to light up. Try this with your friends, significant other and kids. It makes a huge difference, if only in how you see them.
7. Offer thanks to everything around you, all the time.
Over the years I’ve come to recognize the benefit of the act of offering thanks and gratitude. For everything around me. All the time. The many things surround us every day. Things we have placed in your vicinity and things that show up in our vicinity. Atoms cells and electrons arranged in such a way as to serve some need that we have and serves that need well.
Today, for example, when I opened my Toshiba laptop it went through a 20-minute routine of informing me that there was trouble when I last closed it down, and did a preliminary diagnostic and fix, then an update, a disc repair, and finally a reboot. Back to good as before the problem. “Good computer” I said, like I say “good girl” to my dog Sasha. And I meant it. My computer is a workhorse and a friend. It helped me write this piece.
Or my car, whose steering wheel I pat periodically and say, “Good car”! This is the older BMW that began to fall apart in sorrow when I took it off the road for a while since we didn’t need two cars. The mechanic said that this car doesn’t do well when not driven. And it even has a “smart car” system that adapts itself to my driving habits. (Which I found out when they had to reboot the system because of prolonged disuse.) I felt like I had jilted my formerly well-used transportation mode when I was working full time.
All of my surroundings have, in a way showed up for my benefit, and stand ready to serve me. They are part of the world reality that I occupy. Today I threw away a razor and thanked it for its usefulness to me in my shaving endears. Make it a point to praise all things useful.
If you do, more stuff will want to be with you. This is also true of more/better circumstance and more/better people wanting to hang out with you. To be liked by you. I know that sounds strange, but it isn’t from a spiritual perspective. From that perspective “stuff” is a metaphor, an idea that somebody had, thought through, and many had a hand in shaping that thing for my use. It could be a lamp or a bowl or a telephone or a plant.
I have a great mobile that hangs above me in our living room. Some creative, artistic person dreamed up, had a picture in her head of what a bit of copper could turn into. Sketched it out. Took the sketch and developed a 3d drawing. Gathered some materials and formed them into something striking. And offered it up for manufacture, and marketing, and purchase, and shipping, and receiving, and getting hung up in my house. For my pleasure, which it does give me.
As I open my heart more and more by experiencing my heart center getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger and more and more loving, I see that my thanking the people, the happenings, the furnishings are for my benefit. It’s way to be more loving, and heartfelt, and compassionate. And a way to raise my Awareness. To experience Higher Consciousness more frequently and deeply.
All of these things help put me in a state where “All is well with My Universe”. The Universe I occupy, I coalesce, I create around me to support my personal existence on Planet Earth. the Universe’s natural inclination is to “be well”.
8. Bless all things (and circumstances, and people, and moments, and, and……….)
Not only thanking but blessing all things. Wishing them well, holding them in high regard, allowing your Higher Consciousness to flow out, and surround, and caress.
Not too long ago, soon after my 3rd grandchild was born, I was holding him, looking at him, and began blessing him. “Welcome to Planet Earth. And to a renewed relationship with your parents. And to Lynne and me, your grandparents. I sense that I have known you before. Your Grandma and I will be acting, no matter what your named godparents will be doing, as your godparents, also. We will have your well-being and spiritual development as our highest priority for you. For as long as we are around. I also sense your Eternal Beingness inside this little, awkward body you are occupying and will constantly shift my perception to see this about you. Blessed be.”
A few days later, our wacky neighbor acted really weirdly in an interaction I had with her. Unfortunately for her, she’s emotionally challenged, so strange interactions are not unusual. All I could say to myself, and to her, was “Bless you, my dear” and shift my attention to her Eternal Beingness.
Now, I didn’t mean that in the Southern way that I grew up with when people made allowances for those difficult to deal with by remarking, “Bless her little heart” in order not to say something “ugly” (also Southern phraseology). But as a way of internally offering my higher vibration to the moment and letting it go.
Blessing another in a special moment or in a difficult moment essentially has the same effect–an offering of Higher Consciousness to the other and raising the level of my own awareness.
Doing a project or cooking a meal or driving the car are also opportunities to bless what is or has just been going on. Infusing the salmon that I just cooked to near perfection with a blessing for it and the folks who are about to consume my offering of sustenance, adds an elevated quality to my food preparation.
Blessing your physical form for its coalescence to house your consciousness, from time to time, and acknowledging the intricacy of its inner workings will go a long way toward encouraging your body to be well. Such acknowledgment is like the rider’s praise for the horse. The horse wants to please, to continue to please, and to enjoy the ride as much as the rider himself/herself.
The body wants to be well. This is its natural state. It has many self-correcting systems and processes to be well, stay well, and correct itself in a time of illness. Its natural inclination is to repair a cut inflicted upon it. To fight a dis-ease that passes through it. To mend a bone that is broken. Blessing it at these times of distress and at times of wellness will set the stage for this highly complex vehicle to run properly for many a year.
9. Choose well
We all experience that “stuff happens” in life. Sometimes unfortunate, awkward experiences seem to just come out of the blue, from who knows where. I am one of the first to argue that each of us creates our own reality, and that very little just comes “out of the blue” without being attracted on some level by us.
You’ve heard it said that it’s not what happens, though, that we can control–it’s our reaction to what happens that we can control. We do have control over whether to curse or bless the person who has just cut us off in traffic. Whether we react one way or the other that reaction is a decision made and a reaction undertaken.
Then we react–to people, circumstances, and stimuli hundreds, perhaps thousands of times a day. The knitting together of these decisions is the pattern of our lives. The quality of the arc of our lives. Fundamentally, we constantly make a choice between a higher level, or octave, or a lower level one. Between a Higher Consciousness or human consciousness.
The answer is right there. In the synergy between the action and in the reaction, there is room to react from ego/mind or to react from Spirit Mind. To react with from fear or from love. To devolve or evolve.
And one decision is built on the last one and adds to the next one. Before long momentum is built and a pattern emerges—growing incrementally, decision by decision. A good decision moves us forward. A bad decision moves us back. Decisions that are from our Higher Consciousness lead to the next and the next and the next.
What’s a good decision? What’s a bad one? What’s neutral? How to make the better decision? The beauty of this understanding is the realization that a life is knit together by good and bad decisions. The better we become at making good decisions, the better our lives become. Day by day we advance or retreat. Moment by moment the future is being built. And most decisions can be reversed or redone if they are not in the “good” category. A decision made out of fear, for example, can be recognized and remade or repaired.
If we don’t like the direction our lives are taking about most anything, we can simply take them into our Holy of Holies, examine them with the clarity of Divine Judgment, and use our Higher Consciousness to execute a makeover, favoring growth and evolution over false gains and empty outcomes. (See Book 2 Higher Consciousness Meditation for details about the use of your Holy of Holies for doing healing work) . Change the filter, change the throughput. Change the throughput, change the outcome. Change the outcome, change the World.
10. Turn Everything over to Spirit
One way to make better decisions, to have better results in your life, to begin to relax your grip a bit on trying to control everything, is to turn the outcomes over to Spirit. To ask Spirit, God, the Universe, or whatever you consider to be the Source of All to take these things and unfold the outcomes in a way that is “in the best interest of everyone and everything involved”. This may sound a bit wonky and passive, but it is not.
Our Universe is a growing, expanding, evolving place. It grows and expands and evolves in the most efficient and effective way possible by “ the lowering of entropy” or chaos, according to physicist Tom Campbell’s terminology. Entropy happens when the Universe, and our lives by implication, becomes more conscious. This leads to increasingly expanded states, on micro and macro levels. Therefore, inviting Spirit to take the best decision you can come up with and have it turn out for the best sets up a vibration that encourages the best outcome.
Furthermore, if you turn to your Soul or Higher Consciousness, your individualized Spirit, for the guidance you are bringing this concept down to your particular slice of the Universe. Give it a try. Can’t hurt. And you can always change your mind if you get a nudge from your Soul that a change is needed.
11. “Release the Endorphins”
Deepak Chopra, physician and mystic, who wrote that when we are having a good day and feeling happy, our body is producing happy chemicals that protect us against cancer. When we are happy, we release dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins associated with joy, the same chemicals that are associated with healing of all types, including stimulation of the immune system.
On the other hand, if we are feeling angry or stressed out our body will receive those toxic signals and release adrenaline throughout your body. Anger and stress, more than anything else, cause inflammatory disorders like heart disease.
In response to being exposed to this teaching I decided to explore this healing modality. I considered that it might be possible to consciously “release the endorphins”, shorthand for endorphins and other healing body chemicals. I took this idea into my meditation sessions for a week or so.
One morning, the thought came flowing in, “If I can just find that ‘spot’ in my consciousness where there is endorphin release”, that might do the trick. Sure enough, it did. Now I can just say to myself, if I wake up with body aches, “Release the endorphins, release the happy, healing chemicals” and I can feel the beneficial chemicals enlivening my body.
Bonus: “Illuminate, Elevate”
One of my favorite mindfulness phrases is “Illuminate, Elevate”. This is a phrase I use over and over to remind myself to shift my awareness into Higher Consciousness. I say “Illuminate” to remember to go Within where my Soul resides and is constantly luminous, and then say “Elevate” to raise my awareness into a higher rate of vibration and stress disappears. Never fails to lift my spirit and brighten the moment.
Great Bunch of Tools
These are great tools because they can help you create the atmosphere around that sings with the exquisiteness of your raised vibration. In addition, the movement of Spirit in and through these moments will have impact in Eternity that is hard to understand fully. Tools, the use of which will take you to the place where you will have that blessed experience of “all is well in my Universe”. Quite the opposite of stress.
Conclusion
We all want our lives to be better; it’s a natural human desire. Seldom are things perfectly calm and peaceful. There are a handful of tactics we can choose to make them better, all of which work to help us de-stress. Meditation and mindfulness exercises are two of the best, closely followed by giving thanks (appreciation) and blessing circumstances and people.
If you were to choose one method, from the list above, to make a difficult circumstance in your life better, which one would it be? Why?
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Stressed? Meditation Helps. 11 Ways to Relax
Are you feeling stressed out? Let’s face it these are stressful times. Here are 11 ways you can relax.
1. Ask the question, “How am I feeling?”
2. Make some bread or work in the garden.
3. Become more Aware; use mindfulness techniques
4. Meditate and develop peace of mind
5. Use the Law of Attraction/Vibration to unfold your life.
6. See the true essence of the people around you
7. Offer thanks to everything around you, all the time
8. Bless all things (and circumstances, and people, and moments)
9. Choose well what happens to you
10. Turn everything over to Spirit
11. “Release the Endorphins”
This is a crazy time. A world pandemic. Millions out of work. A difficult president (in the USA). Increasing climate change problems. And our personal stress caused by money, job, relationships, traffic, not having enough toilet paper. Let me offer a handful of ways to help you lessen stress and feel better as a result–Stress Relief 101.
Strategies and Techniques to “De-Stress”
Stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Its a type of type of psychological pain. Here are some techniques to the answer to lessen the pain. Let’s consider them. These will make the next moment, and your life in general, “better”:
1. Ask the question, “How am I feeling?”
Not an easy question, to be sure. Often the answer is not clear. Partially because this moment can be a bit complicated and have multiple feelings at work. Sometimes contradictory. “Right now my kids are causing me stress through the roof. But I love my kids. I wish I could lessen the stress and just have fun with them. “
The overriding feeling is strain and pressure. If we can pause and be strategic about the situation we might come up with a way to correct the situation and and relieve the stress. Like taking them to the park on a sunny day. We might even ask the question, “How would I like to feel?” And come up with some way to get to that spot in our consciousness.
2. Make some bread or work in the garden
There’s nothing more grounding than the primal act of making bread or working in the garden to improve our state of mind and state of being. It’s important that we do this with as much awareness and good feeling as we can muster, so as to not bake distractedness, anger, or fear into the bread. And stay in the moment with the activity we have undertaken, minimizing the mind chatter by losing ourselves in our work/play. Let the next moment arise out of nowhere. This where mindfulness techniques can help (see next point).
3. Become more Aware; use mindfulness techniques
Much of the time in our day is focused on what seems to be going on in our environment and, much more frequently, the thoughts and feelings that are going on inside our heads. It is estimated that each of us has 60,000 thoughts dancing through our minds every day. It’s no wonder we are distracted and stressed out.
Pause for a moment and take a deep breath. Say to yourself, “Peace, be still”. Take another breath and feel the effect of doing this. You have just done a mindfulness meditation exercise.
When I do this it puts me right in touch with my Soul, or Higher Consciousness, which many of us are not very well acquainted. Yet, I contend, this is where well-being and the spiritual qualities of love, joy, peace, contentment, compassion, healing, abundance (and more) reside—Within.
In traffic, you can say “peace, be still” rather than “I hate you, faceless other driver” or “I hate being stuck in traffic” or “I hate my circumstances that puts me in this situation” or “Damn, I’m going to be late” or….. whatever you say that sets up an angry, upset state of mind reaction to your circumstances.
My book Six Second Mindfulness Meditations: Exercises to Transform any Moment offers many of these mindfulness exercises for us in a variety of circumstances, along with a full explanation of what Mindfulness is and why it works. Click here to get a copy.
4. Meditate and develop peace of mind
There is nothing more valuable in life than developing peace of mind. Not that it’s easy to do, given the crazy world we live in. And the best way to develop peace of mind and to reduce stress is to meditate.
Meditation, or silent prayer, can be done as simply as sitting down for a few minutes, taking some deep breaths, observing the comings and goings of thoughts for a moment or so, and then imagine yourself being at your most favorite place in the whole world for a bit. Your heart rate will slow down, as will your breathing and your thoughts. You might even feel a moment of joy and peace.
For those of you who might be interested I have developed a meditation technique that I describe in my book Higher Consciousness Meditation which is intended to put you in touch with your Higher Self, the Soul part of you, and really get some peace of mind as well as a heightened sense of Awareness going. It’s a simple yet powerful process for beginners and experts that only takes about 5 minutes, but will get you in the right mood to take on your day.
5. Use the Law of Attraction/Vibration to unfold your life.
I have found that in my life I have to “trust my process”. I never know how things are going to turn out, what I will encounter, what obstacles or opportunities will present themselves, what problems will need to be solved. Trusting my process means trusting that all will be well and that I will be up to any challenge that comes along.
The Law of Vibration is operational here. “The higher your personal vibration the better your outcomes—people, places, things, circumstances” is how I see it. Better input, better output applies metaphysically. In addition, ability and willingness to adapt to change, stay centered and use Higher Consciousness tools (meditation, Sacred Breathing, mindfulness techniques, and so forth) will result in better outcomes.
This takes a certain amount of trust and courage. But, when partnering with Spirit in everyday life, no matter what the situation, trust, and courage come more easily. The more I turn to my Higher Consciousness, I have found, the better my interaction with three-dimensional reality, and the better the results.
The Law of Vibration works better with better outcomes if you focus on higher vibrational outcomes. Enlisting your Higher Self to participate in your process will do just that. Our Higher Selves know what we need, are ever with us and available, and respond best when we bring to our aspirations a sense of Receptivity rather than asking.
Presence rather than preference as Buddhists like to say. In other words, work on your state of mind, your Awareness, which will serve you eternally, rather than focusing so much on your desires, which change day today. And let the Universe provide that which is best “for all concerned”, including you.
6. See the true essence of the people around you
This is a big one for me. My human mind has a strong proclivity to be judge, jury, and executioner. Not so very long ago I slowed down long enough to recognize how pervasive is my need, desire, compulsion to judge everyone I meet. I still catch my body/mind/personality making up stories about everyone and everything I see.
Instead, learn to see the true essence in others. Here’s the technique: Take a deep breath. Squint a little and soften your eyes. Look to see if you can see the Spirit of the person in front of you. Even for just a flash. I call this Sacred Seeing.
One of the best places to practice this technique is at the grocery store. Lots of people there and none of them know or are paying attention to you. When I am successful, I see them from a loving perspective, am in a gentle state, acknowledge them with a smile, and the whole store seems to light up. Try this with your friends, significant other and kids. It makes a huge difference, if only in how you see them.
7. Offer thanks to everything around you, all the time.
Over the years I’ve come to recognize the benefit of the act of offering thanks and gratitude. For everything around me. All the time. The many things surround us every day. Things we have placed in your vicinity and things that show up in our vicinity. Atoms cells and electrons arranged in such a way as to serve some need that we have and serves that need well.
Today, for example, when I opened my Toshiba laptop it went through a 20-minute routine of informing me that there was trouble when I last closed it down, and did a preliminary diagnostic and fix, then an update, a disc repair, and finally a reboot. Back to good as before the problem. “Good computer” I said, like I say “good girl” to my dog Sasha. And I meant it. My computer is a workhorse and a friend. It helped me write this piece.
Or my car, whose steering wheel I pat periodically and say, “Good car”! This is the older BMW that began to fall apart in sorrow when I took it off the road for a while since we didn’t need two cars. The mechanic said that this car doesn’t do well when not driven. And it even has a “smart car” system that adapts itself to my driving habits. (Which I found out when they had to reboot the system because of prolonged disuse.) I felt like I had jilted my formerly well-used transportation mode when I was working full time.
All of my surroundings have, in a way showed up for my benefit, and stand ready to serve me. They are part of the world reality that I occupy. Today I threw away a razor and thanked it for its usefulness to me in my shaving endears. Make it a point to praise all things useful.
If you do, more stuff will want to be with you. This is also true of more/better circumstance and more/better people wanting to hang out with you. To be liked by you. I know that sounds strange, but it isn’t from a spiritual perspective. From that perspective “stuff” is a metaphor, an idea that somebody had, thought through, and many had a hand in shaping that thing for my use. It could be a lamp or a bowl or a telephone or a plant.
I have a great mobile that hangs above me in our living room. Some creative, artistic person dreamed up, had a picture in her head of what a bit of copper could turn into. Sketched it out. Took the sketch and developed a 3d drawing. Gathered some materials and formed them into something striking. And offered it up for manufacture, and marketing, and purchase, and shipping, and receiving, and getting hung up in my house. For my pleasure, which it does give me.
As I open my heart more and more by experiencing my heart center getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger and more and more loving, I see that my thanking the people, the happenings, the furnishings are for my benefit. It’s way to be more loving, and heartfelt, and compassionate. And a way to raise my Awareness. To experience Higher Consciousness more frequently and deeply.
All of these things help put me in a state where “All is well with My Universe”. The Universe I occupy, I coalesce, I create around me to support my personal existence on Planet Earth. the Universe’s natural inclination is to “be well”.
8. Bless all things (and circumstances, and people, and moments, and, and……….)
Not only thanking but blessing all things. Wishing them well, holding them in high regard, allowing your Higher Consciousness to flow out, and surround, and caress.
Not too long ago, soon after my 3rd grandchild was born, I was holding him, looking at him, and began blessing him. “Welcome to Planet Earth. And to a renewed relationship with your parents. And to Lynne and me, your grandparents. I sense that I have known you before. Your Grandma and I will be acting, no matter what your named godparents will be doing, as your godparents, also. We will have your well-being and spiritual development as our highest priority for you. For as long as we are around. I also sense your Eternal Beingness inside this little, awkward body you are occupying and will constantly shift my perception to see this about you. Blessed be.”
A few days later, our wacky neighbor acted really weirdly in an interaction I had with her. Unfortunately for her, she’s emotionally challenged, so strange interactions are not unusual. All I could say to myself, and to her, was “Bless you, my dear” and shift my attention to her Eternal Beingness.
Now, I didn’t mean that in the Southern way that I grew up with when people made allowances for those difficult to deal with by remarking, “Bless her little heart” in order not to say something “ugly” (also Southern phraseology). But as a way of internally offering my higher vibration to the moment and letting it go.
Blessing another in a special moment or in a difficult moment essentially has the same effect–an offering of Higher Consciousness to the other and raising the level of my own awareness.
Doing a project or cooking a meal or driving the car are also opportunities to bless what is or has just been going on. Infusing the salmon that I just cooked to near perfection with a blessing for it and the folks who are about to consume my offering of sustenance, adds an elevated quality to my food preparation.
Blessing your physical form for its coalescence to house your consciousness, from time to time, and acknowledging the intricacy of its inner workings will go a long way toward encouraging your body to be well. Such acknowledgment is like the rider’s praise for the horse. The horse wants to please, to continue to please, and to enjoy the ride as much as the rider himself/herself.
The body wants to be well. This is its natural state. It has many self-correcting systems and processes to be well, stay well, and correct itself in a time of illness. Its natural inclination is to repair a cut inflicted upon it. To fight a dis-ease that passes through it. To mend a bone that is broken. Blessing it at these times of distress and at times of wellness will set the stage for this highly complex vehicle to run properly for many a year.
9. Choose well
We all experience that “stuff happens” in life. Sometimes unfortunate, awkward experiences seem to just come out of the blue, from who knows where. I am one of the first to argue that each of us creates our own reality, and that very little just comes “out of the blue” without being attracted on some level by us.
You’ve heard it said that it’s not what happens, though, that we can control–it’s our reaction to what happens that we can control. We do have control over whether to curse or bless the person who has just cut us off in traffic. Whether we react one way or the other that reaction is a decision made and a reaction undertaken.
Then we react–to people, circumstances, and stimuli hundreds, perhaps thousands of times a day. The knitting together of these decisions is the pattern of our lives. The quality of the arc of our lives. Fundamentally, we constantly make a choice between a higher level, or octave, or a lower level one. Between a Higher Consciousness or human consciousness.
The answer is right there. In the synergy between the action and in the reaction, there is room to react from ego/mind or to react from Spirit Mind. To react with from fear or from love. To devolve or evolve.
And one decision is built on the last one and adds to the next one. Before long momentum is built and a pattern emerges—growing incrementally, decision by decision. A good decision moves us forward. A bad decision moves us back. Decisions that are from our Higher Consciousness lead to the next and the next and the next.
What’s a good decision? What’s a bad one? What’s neutral? How to make the better decision? The beauty of this understanding is the realization that a life is knit together by good and bad decisions. The better we become at making good decisions, the better our lives become. Day by day we advance or retreat. Moment by moment the future is being built. And most decisions can be reversed or redone if they are not in the “good” category. A decision made out of fear, for example, can be recognized and remade or repaired.
If we don’t like the direction our lives are taking about most anything, we can simply take them into our Holy of Holies, examine them with the clarity of Divine Judgment, and use our Higher Consciousness to execute a makeover, favoring growth and evolution over false gains and empty outcomes. (See Book 2 Higher Consciousness Meditation for details about the use of your Holy of Holies for doing healing work) . Change the filter, change the throughput. Change the throughput, change the outcome. Change the outcome, change the World.
10. Turn Everything over to Spirit
One way to make better decisions, to have better results in your life, to begin to relax your grip a bit on trying to control everything, is to turn the outcomes over to Spirit. To ask Spirit, God, the Universe, or whatever you consider to be the Source of All to take these things and unfold the outcomes in a way that is “in the best interest of everyone and everything involved”. This may sound a bit wonky and passive, but it is not.
Our Universe is a growing, expanding, evolving place. It grows and expands and evolves in the most efficient and effective way possible by “ the lowering of entropy” or chaos, according to physicist Tom Campbell’s terminology. Entropy happens when the Universe, and our lives by implication, becomes more conscious. This leads to increasingly expanded states, on micro and macro levels. Therefore, inviting Spirit to take the best decision you can come up with and have it turn out for the best sets up a vibration that encourages the best outcome.
Furthermore, if you turn to your Soul or Higher Consciousness, your individualized Spirit, for the guidance you are bringing this concept down to your particular slice of the Universe. Give it a try. Can’t hurt. And you can always change your mind if you get a nudge from your Soul that a change is needed.
11. “Release the Endorphins”
Deepak Chopra, physician and mystic, who wrote that when we are having a good day and feeling happy, our body is producing happy chemicals that protect us against cancer. When we are happy, we release dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins associated with joy, the same chemicals that are associated with healing of all types, including stimulation of the immune system.
On the other hand, if we are feeling angry or stressed out our body will receive those toxic signals and release adrenaline throughout your body. Anger and stress, more than anything else, cause inflammatory disorders like heart disease.
In response to being exposed to this teaching I decided to explore this healing modality. I considered that it might be possible to consciously “release the endorphins”, shorthand for endorphins and other healing body chemicals. I took this idea into my meditation sessions for a week or so.
One morning, the thought came flowing in, “If I can just find that ‘spot’ in my consciousness where there is endorphin release”, that might do the trick. Sure enough, it did. Now I can just say to myself, if I wake up with body aches, “Release the endorphins, release the happy, healing chemicals” and I can feel the beneficial chemicals enlivening my body.
Bonus: “Illuminate, Elevate”
One of my favorite mindfulness phrases is “Illuminate, Elevate”. This is a phrase I use over and over to remind myself to shift my awareness into Higher Consciousness. I say “Illuminate” to remember to go Within where my Soul resides and is constantly luminous, and then say “Elevate” to raise my awareness into a higher rate of vibration and stress disappears. Never fails to lift my spirit and brighten the moment.
Great Bunch of Tools
These are great tools because they can help you create the atmosphere around that sings with the exquisiteness of your raised vibration. In addition, the movement of Spirit in and through these moments will have impact in Eternity that is hard to understand fully. Tools, the use of which will take you to the place where you will have that blessed experience of “all is well in my Universe”. Quite the opposite of stress.
Conclusion
We all want our lives to be better; it’s a natural human desire. Seldom are things perfectly calm and peaceful. There are a handful of tactics we can choose to make them better, all of which work to help us de-stress. Meditation and mindfulness exercises are two of the best, closely followed by giving thanks (appreciation) and blessing circumstances and people.
If you were to choose one method, from the list above, to make a difficult circumstance in your life better, which one would it be? Why?
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June 11, 2020
Attaining Abundance: Use the Law of Attraction and Vibration
Abundance comes through cultivating a receptive mode and by using the Law of Attraction and its parent, the Law of Vibration. Meditation is the best way to get There. To get to that Place where we are in a peaceful, contented, appreciative State of Mind, and all we need flows in our direction.
All of a Sudden It “Flashed” On Me
As I ran with Sasha dog recently, I was struck by a series of thoughts about abundance. More accurately, about being receptive mode, the precursor to abundance. It was a flash of understanding from Spirit. From my Higher Self. Let me share these flashes with you.
I have written about and had experiences of receiving such flashes before. In fact, much of my work is based on such flashes of inspiration, creativity, the words flowing through my hands onto the computer screen. And guidance of which direction to go in a moment of hesitation.
Turning to Spirit in a moment of decision about anything, including what type of toothpaste to buy, turns that moment into a Sacred Moment. When this happens my attention shifts from my human mind to my Eternal Mind. And the atmosphere around me vibes up. This the most important aspect of such an experience. Connection with Source. Whatever comes after that, including nothing, is just that which should be in 5 Dimensional Reality (the next reality up from 3rd /4th dimensional reality of our daily lives).
Abundance, Attraction of Abundance, is About Vibration
Vibing up our State of Being, which creates a State of Grace, is That out of which abundance flows. This State is a sense that all is right with the world, including you; that you can breathe. And it’s the inspiration, the creativity, that comes from that State, that answers the immediate need. And all of our needs, really.
A word or two about abundance. First, what is abundance, really?
An excess of matter at our disposal—many “things”?
Lots of good circumstances and people?
A great feeling about the things, circumstances, people we do have (appreciation)?
Enough of everything we need to survive?
A State of Mind in which what we need most comes to us as needed?
When I use the word abundance, I use it the broadest sense. Abundance, in my view, is not just the presence of a lot of material possessions in our lives, but abundance in many things.
I’m abundant in many things. The prolific blossoms that our two avocado trees bring forth almost all year, a number of computers and other devices in our household, love from my wife and partner Lynne, sons Ivan and Justin, daughters in law Timmy and Christina, grandsons Silas, Archer and Griffy, dog Sasha, cats Annie and Cleo. Lots of cool business consulting clients. Vests, vests, an overabundance of vests to the point that we will have to give some away soon. Great views in all directions as I travel throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Abundance can and should begin with whatever is within us and in our immediate surroundings.
My broadest take on abundance that it is being in a state of awareness of The ALL (my phrase for “God”), alight with a glow. Ego and its wants are out of the way. Being Present. Not thinking. In a meditative frame of mind. Being in a receptive State of Mind. Abundance and receptivity are recognized as being the same thing.
What’s the Benefit of this View About Law of Attraction?
No benefit, really. It, this State, is benefit enough. It is the pearl of great price that is its own reward. As an ancillary benefit, though, the whole world is mine (how this State feels) because the whole world is mine. In these moments I am one with the world, with the whole of Eternity, and the world is one with me.
Eternity and my Higher Self know that have need of things and the things I need are attracted to me. My health, reducing stress, the things I need to survive and thrive, the inspiration I need to create something out of nothing—a poem, news ideas about my work, the people I need to interact with somehow are.
Law of Manifestation, Law of Attraction and Law of Vibration
Some of you may have perked up when I said, “the things I need are attracted to me”. Especially if you are familiar with one or the other schools of prosperity which promise that you can have the things you want. One of the one’s I have taken a look at over the years has been spawned by the movie and book, The Secret— a compilation of things that have been said about how to create prosperity for centuries plus Rhonda Byrne’s creative spin on the subject.
A fundamental precept of The Secret is that you can have anything you want if you can “Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it. Believe it’s possible for you,” according to author Rhonda Byrne. This fundamental precept is generalized as the Law of Attraction. Some even claim that it is possible to manifest a new BMW in your driveway tomorrow if you can get into the proper state of mind or of receptivity. It might come by having an idea that makes you the money for the car. Or that it just appears.
It’s my contention, though, that manifesting things and the Law of Attraction is down stream of, or ruled by, the Law of Vibration. Which states that “like begets like” or “like is attracted to like”. Not like a magnet, exactly, but more that like things like to hang out together. My wife and I like to hang out together, partially because we vibrate at a similar frequency. When I am in a higher State of Consciousness, people seem to smile around me more, the air feels lighter, things just seem to “happen” that reflect my State.
A Personal Experience
I think this true, also, about the material things we have. I have stood in my living room, looked around, and realized that each thing in my living room wants to be there with me. And from that state of awareness in which I am experiencing Oneness with the Universe, all of these things, in strange way, are Me. Capital “Me”, Spiritualized Me, appreciates them having come into my life to be with me.
Before you think “This guy is a bit looney”, let me say that others far smarter than me have said the same things. Hermes Trismegistus, in Ancient Egypt, said “Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause”. In other words, nothing ever happens by chance. If something happens to you, you caused (attracted) it.
Judaism has long held the belief that “What we think is what we get”. Similarly, Gautama Buddha said “All that we are is the result of what we have thought”. In the Christian texts Jesus says, “Thy Father in Heaven, He knowest you have need of these things. And it is His good pleasure to give them to you”. Lau Tzu, author of the I Ching, says “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
I now know more about what they meant than I used to when I took their sayings literally. The Father Jesus was talking about, God, is not a being on a throne somewhere, that will reward us with our fondest wishes if we just pray or beg in just right way, or be a “good” person. I think he was talking about The ALL which spawned the intelligent Universe that we are currently living in. The ALL knows you have need of these “things” because you are one of the things the Universe outpictured and your human self and your Higher Self each have desires. Desires for physical food and Spiritual Food.
Abundance Comes Naturally
Ask and these things will be given you. You will naturally have the oxygen you need to breathe. We don’t even have to ask for that. Naturally we will have oxygen, to satisfy the rules of Planet Earth, figure out some way to feed and clothe yourself.
Where ever we end up in life, whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, our human self will always want more of something that we feel we don’t have. A better coat, a better airplane. Most of these things are given us. I would say these “things” are attracted to us and we attract them. “Like is attracted to like.”
Most importantly, though, are the Spiritual Things we can have: peace, love, joy, well-beingness, compassion, a moment of inspiration, a fabulous meditation, amazing companions in life, an awareness of our own Higher Consciousness and even awareness of The ALL. “Ask, and these things will be given you. Seek and you shall find.” Seek peace, find a way to get There, and it will be yours. Get into a Receptive Mode and they all can be yours.
How? That is the Question
How to get into that Receptive Mode? How to get into that State of Mind where both Spiritual and material Things come to you? To get to the place where the Law of Vibration works for you. Where you become the Law of Vibration.
Before addressing the “how”, there is one more thing to discuss. The ego. Your ego. My ego. That ego/mind/body that is your human tool to survive. To wish for more and to seek it out. To “make it happen”. That tool that is the two-edged sword of love/hate, good/bad, light/dark. A creative force for good and a creative force for evil.
First, A Word About Ego
Let’s face it, this ego has an insatiable appetite for more, more, more. It is driven by a desire to survive and dominate or control our circumstances. And this desire body wants what it wants, whatever that is. Each of us has our own individual “desire body”, full to overflowing with all the things it wants that will make it happy, or at least comfortable. And will stop at nothing unless reined in by our conscience or values.
What ego wants can be a bit embarrassing to admit to. Certainly, with our conscience or values, or in spite of them, there many things that we do to each other as human beings each day, and throughout our history as a species, that are horrible, mean, hurtful, ugly.
This mind/body/personality can and will take this sort of information and try to turn it into a tool to try to get more stuff and a tool to use against others. Try to use the Law of Manifestation to cause a new BMW to appear in the driveway or rule the world.
It is unfortunate for the ego that tries to do this. Because even if the human appears to succeed in getting that which is wanted/gotta have, it is never enough. The thing manifested is put aside for the next thing and the next thing. Satisfaction and appreciation, if achieved, are fleeting, not ongoing states of mind. More, more, more. Better, better, better. Our desire body has to be constantly “fed”.
The Law of Attraction and Vibration will not work as a tool of the ego. Why? Because if we are in a state of ego desire, we are in a lower state of vibration. That which comes to us is not ever fully appreciated. It will lose it’s luster or will backfire on us. In a lower state of vibration, we will inevitably attract “things” (matter, people, experiences) that will be consistent with this lower state. It will only bring heartache and karmic repercussions.
It’s important to understand this and work, instead, on the Spiritual Manifestations. The Law of Vibration works better, with better outcomes, if desires are focused on higher vibrational outcomes. Enlisting our Higher Selves to participate in our process will do just that. Our Higher Selves know what we need, are ever with us, are always available, and respond best when we bring to our aspirations a sense of Receptivity rather than of wanting. “Presence rather than preference” as Buddhists like to say.
Find that Sweet Spot from Which All Good Things Come
Here is a list, and some references:
Learn to meditate . Meditation is one of the best ways to shift into a higher vibrational state of peaceful mind. Receptivity can come if we quieten down long enough to allow it to bubble up. Learn mindfulness (see Six Second Mindfulness Meditations, see book 3 in my series)
Higher Consciousness and Receptivity go hand in hand. A Spiritualized Mind, which is one of the goals of my Higher Consciousness Meditation process, shifts us from preference to Presence. (See Higher Consciousness Meditation, Book 2 in my series.)
If you don’t like what you have or see, change your vibration. Lower level vibratory rates, ego driven aspirations, gross personal desires, accompanied by greed, intention to harm, hidden agendas, etc. attract, or are congruent with, lower vibratory people, places and outcomes. Higher vibratory rates attract higher vibratory people, places and outcomes. A change of vibration comes with a change of mind, from human mind to Spirit Mind.
Conclusion One
The interesting thing about abundance is that nobody knows the absolute formula for it. If they did, and they shared it, everybody would abundant. The attempts at a formula run from:
Visualizing that something will appear in your life
Summoning what you want; asking or demanding something from the Universe.
Asking God for things, or circumstances, or deliverance from…..,, And even bargaining—“If you do this (God), I’ll do that” or the reverse, “If I do this, I’m hoping you’ll do that”.
Using a combination of words and feelings and/or adding “eye of newt” (also known as mustard seed) to a potion to create some outcome. Magic.
Trying to turn gold into lead–alchemy
Believing in only one healing tradition: Western medicine, holistic medicine, psychic healing, fasting.
Trying to “work” the law of attraction and manifestation—attempting to pull the levers or create a state of mind that yields a certain result
Or, my favorite, getting as close to my most elevated state of Higher Consciousness as possible and trusting that Spirit will provide. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” (Christian Bible). Presence rather than preference. Realize that The ALL, Omnipresence, of which you are made, has your best interest at heart. This is because your best interest is in the Universe’s best interest. It causes growth and evolution, that which the Universe is constantly naturally doing.
Want to Take This to Another Level?
Share from your abundance. Gautama Buddah said, “If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.” Paraphrased by Jack Kornfeld, ““If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”
Share Spirit from Within–that is Infinitely Abundant. It’s sharing from our Illumined Mind. The Father Within says to us, “Son, All that I Have is Thine, so that you might have Life (Light, Spirit), and have It More Abundantly”. The ALL offers Itself, Its ALLness, to supply us with all we need and to share with others, with the World around us. In this State we don’t give in order to get, we give from our expansiveness, radiating as a natural function of being in this State. And our Cup “runneth over”, literally and metaphorically.
Illumined Mind is that Mind through which love, joy, healing, abundance, and the rest can occur as Spirit flows in through that Mind into our world. That is the blessing of that state of mind. Grace comes with being in that state of Awareness. These things are attracted to an Illumined Mind. The icing on the cake, if you will. Not the cake itself, but the icing, the extra that comes with the package.
These techniques are explored in detail in book 4 in my meditation series, The Laws of Attraction and Vibration: Creating an Abundance Mindset.
Conclusion Two
We all want to be abundant in our lives. The concept of abundance is usually taken to be a state where we have lots of stuff. And, when we are dissatisfied with how much we do have, the desire which leads to undertaking ways to get more. Some of us have tried ways offered by spiritual teachers to use spiritual techniques to get more. My suggestion is to relax, meditate, and allow what you need more of to come to you. Using the Laws of Vibration and Sharing.
How do these ideas strike you? What have you used that works? Please comment below.
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Attaining Abundance: Use the Law of Attraction and Vibration
Abundance comes through cultivating a receptive mode and by using the Law of Attraction and its parent, the Law of Vibration. Meditation is the best way to get There. To get to that Place where we are in a peaceful, contented, appreciative State of Mind, and all we need flows in our direction.
All of a Sudden It “Flashed” On Me
As I ran with Sasha dog recently, I was struck by a series of thoughts about abundance. More accurately, about being receptive mode, the precursor to abundance. It was a flash of understanding from Spirit. From my Higher Self. Let me share these flashes with you.
I have written about and had experiences of receiving such flashes before. In fact, much of my work is based on such flashes of inspiration, creativity, the words flowing through my hands onto the computer screen. And guidance of which direction to go in a moment of hesitation.
Turning to Spirit in a moment of decision about anything, including what type of toothpaste to buy, turns that moment into a Sacred Moment. When this happens my attention shifts from my human mind to my Eternal Mind. And the atmosphere around me vibes up. This the most important aspect of such an experience. Connection with Source. Whatever comes after that, including nothing, is just that which should be in 5 Dimensional Reality (the next reality up from 3rd /4th dimensional reality of our daily lives).
Abundance, Attraction of Abundance, is About Vibration
Vibing up our State of Being, which creates a State of Grace, is That out of which abundance flows. This State is a sense that all is right with the world, including you; that you can breathe. And it’s the inspiration, the creativity, that comes from that State, that answers the immediate need. And all of our needs, really.
A word or two about abundance. First, what is abundance, really?
An excess of matter at our disposal—many “things”?
Lots of good circumstances and people?
A great feeling about the things, circumstances, people we do have (appreciation)?
Enough of everything we need to survive?
A State of Mind in which what we need most comes to us as needed?
When I use the word abundance, I use it the broadest sense. Abundance, in my view, is not just the presence of a lot of material possessions in our lives, but abundance in many things.
I’m abundant in many things. The prolific blossoms that our two avocado trees bring forth almost all year, a number of computers and other devices in our household, love from my wife and partner Lynne, sons Ivan and Justin, daughters in law Timmy and Christina, grandsons Silas, Archer and Griffy, dog Sasha, cats Annie and Cleo. Lots of cool business consulting clients. Vests, vests, an overabundance of vests to the point that we will have to give some away soon. Great views in all directions as I travel throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Abundance can and should begin with whatever is within us and in our immediate surroundings.
My broadest take on abundance that it is being in a state of awareness of The ALL (my phrase for “God”), alight with a glow. Ego and its wants are out of the way. Being Present. Not thinking. In a meditative frame of mind. Being in a receptive State of Mind. Abundance and receptivity are recognized as being the same thing.
What’s the Benefit of this View About Law of Attraction?
No benefit, really. It, this State, is benefit enough. It is the pearl of great price that is its own reward. As an ancillary benefit, though, the whole world is mine (how this State feels) because the whole world is mine. In these moments I am one with the world, with the whole of Eternity, and the world is one with me.
Eternity and my Higher Self know that have need of things and the things I need are attracted to me. My health, reducing stress, the things I need to survive and thrive, the inspiration I need to create something out of nothing—a poem, news ideas about my work, the people I need to interact with somehow are.
Law of Manifestation, Law of Attraction and Law of Vibration
Some of you may have perked up when I said, “the things I need are attracted to me”. Especially if you are familiar with one or the other schools of prosperity which promise that you can have the things you want. One of the one’s I have taken a look at over the years has been spawned by the movie and book, The Secret— a compilation of things that have been said about how to create prosperity for centuries plus Rhonda Byrne’s creative spin on the subject.
A fundamental precept of The Secret is that you can have anything you want if you can “Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it. Believe it’s possible for you,” according to author Rhonda Byrne. This fundamental precept is generalized as the Law of Attraction. Some even claim that it is possible to manifest a new BMW in your driveway tomorrow if you can get into the proper state of mind or of receptivity. It might come by having an idea that makes you the money for the car. Or that it just appears.
It’s my contention, though, that manifesting things and the Law of Attraction is down stream of, or ruled by, the Law of Vibration. Which states that “like begets like” or “like is attracted to like”. Not like a magnet, exactly, but more that like things like to hang out together. My wife and I like to hang out together, partially because we vibrate at a similar frequency. When I am in a higher State of Consciousness, people seem to smile around me more, the air feels lighter, things just seem to “happen” that reflect my State.
A Personal Experience
I think this true, also, about the material things we have. I have stood in my living room, looked around, and realized that each thing in my living room wants to be there with me. And from that state of awareness in which I am experiencing Oneness with the Universe, all of these things, in strange way, are Me. Capital “Me”, Spiritualized Me, appreciates them having come into my life to be with me.
Before you think “This guy is a bit looney”, let me say that others far smarter than me have said the same things. Hermes Trismegistus, in Ancient Egypt, said “Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause”. In other words, nothing ever happens by chance. If something happens to you, you caused (attracted) it.
Judaism has long held the belief that “What we think is what we get”. Similarly, Gautama Buddha said “All that we are is the result of what we have thought”. In the Christian texts Jesus says, “Thy Father in Heaven, He knowest you have need of these things. And it is His good pleasure to give them to you”. Lau Tzu, author of the I Ching, says “To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
I now know more about what they meant than I used to when I took their sayings literally. The Father Jesus was talking about, God, is not a being on a throne somewhere, that will reward us with our fondest wishes if we just pray or beg in just right way, or be a “good” person. I think he was talking about The ALL which spawned the intelligent Universe that we are currently living in. The ALL knows you have need of these “things” because you are one of the things the Universe outpictured and your human self and your Higher Self each have desires. Desires for physical food and Spiritual Food.
Abundance Comes Naturally
Ask and these things will be given you. You will naturally have the oxygen you need to breathe. We don’t even have to ask for that. Naturally we will have oxygen, to satisfy the rules of Planet Earth, figure out some way to feed and clothe yourself.
Where ever we end up in life, whatever circumstances we find ourselves in, our human self will always want more of something that we feel we don’t have. A better coat, a better airplane. Most of these things are given us. I would say these “things” are attracted to us and we attract them. “Like is attracted to like.”
Most importantly, though, are the Spiritual Things we can have: peace, love, joy, well-beingness, compassion, a moment of inspiration, a fabulous meditation, amazing companions in life, an awareness of our own Higher Consciousness and even awareness of The ALL. “Ask, and these things will be given you. Seek and you shall find.” Seek peace, find a way to get There, and it will be yours. Get into a Receptive Mode and they all can be yours.
How? That is the Question
How to get into that Receptive Mode? How to get into that State of Mind where both Spiritual and material Things come to you? To get to the place where the Law of Vibration works for you. Where you become the Law of Vibration.
Before addressing the “how”, there is one more thing to discuss. The ego. Your ego. My ego. That ego/mind/body that is your human tool to survive. To wish for more and to seek it out. To “make it happen”. That tool that is the two-edged sword of love/hate, good/bad, light/dark. A creative force for good and a creative force for evil.
First, A Word About Ego
Let’s face it, this ego has an insatiable appetite for more, more, more. It is driven by a desire to survive and dominate or control our circumstances. And this desire body wants what it wants, whatever that is. Each of us has our own individual “desire body”, full to overflowing with all the things it wants that will make it happy, or at least comfortable. And will stop at nothing unless reined in by our conscience or values.
What ego wants can be a bit embarrassing to admit to. Certainly, with our conscience or values, or in spite of them, there many things that we do to each other as human beings each day, and throughout our history as a species, that are horrible, mean, hurtful, ugly.
This mind/body/personality can and will take this sort of information and try to turn it into a tool to try to get more stuff and a tool to use against others. Try to use the Law of Manifestation to cause a new BMW to appear in the driveway or rule the world.
It is unfortunate for the ego that tries to do this. Because even if the human appears to succeed in getting that which is wanted/gotta have, it is never enough. The thing manifested is put aside for the next thing and the next thing. Satisfaction and appreciation, if achieved, are fleeting, not ongoing states of mind. More, more, more. Better, better, better. Our desire body has to be constantly “fed”.
The Law of Attraction and Vibration will not work as a tool of the ego. Why? Because if we are in a state of ego desire, we are in a lower state of vibration. That which comes to us is not ever fully appreciated. It will lose it’s luster or will backfire on us. In a lower state of vibration, we will inevitably attract “things” (matter, people, experiences) that will be consistent with this lower state. It will only bring heartache and karmic repercussions.
It’s important to understand this and work, instead, on the Spiritual Manifestations. The Law of Vibration works better, with better outcomes, if desires are focused on higher vibrational outcomes. Enlisting our Higher Selves to participate in our process will do just that. Our Higher Selves know what we need, are ever with us, are always available, and respond best when we bring to our aspirations a sense of Receptivity rather than of wanting. “Presence rather than preference” as Buddhists like to say.
Find that Sweet Spot from Which All Good Things Come
Here is a list, and some references:
Learn to meditate . Meditation is one of the best ways to shift into a higher vibrational state of peaceful mind. Receptivity can come if we quieten down long enough to allow it to bubble up. Learn mindfulness (see Six Second Mindfulness Meditations, see book 3 in my series)
Higher Consciousness and Receptivity go hand in hand. A Spiritualized Mind, which is one of the goals of my Higher Consciousness Meditation process, shifts us from preference to Presence. (See Higher Consciousness Meditation, Book 2 in my series.)
If you don’t like what you have or see, change your vibration. Lower level vibratory rates, ego driven aspirations, gross personal desires, accompanied by greed, intention to harm, hidden agendas, etc. attract, or are congruent with, lower vibratory people, places and outcomes. Higher vibratory rates attract higher vibratory people, places and outcomes. A change of vibration comes with a change of mind, from human mind to Spirit Mind.
Conclusion One
The interesting thing about abundance is that nobody knows the absolute formula for it. If they did, and they shared it, everybody would abundant. The attempts at a formula run from:
Visualizing that something will appear in your life
Summoning what you want; asking or demanding something from the Universe.
Asking God for things, or circumstances, or deliverance from…..,, And even bargaining—“If you do this (God), I’ll do that” or the reverse, “If I do this, I’m hoping you’ll do that”.
Using a combination of words and feelings and/or adding “eye of newt” (also known as mustard seed) to a potion to create some outcome. Magic.
Trying to turn gold into lead–alchemy
Believing in only one healing tradition: Western medicine, holistic medicine, psychic healing, fasting.
Trying to “work” the law of attraction and manifestation—attempting to pull the levers or create a state of mind that yields a certain result
Or, my favorite, getting as close to my most elevated state of Higher Consciousness as possible and trusting that Spirit will provide. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” (Christian Bible). Presence rather than preference. Realize that The ALL, Omnipresence, of which you are made, has your best interest at heart. This is because your best interest is in the Universe’s best interest. It causes growth and evolution, that which the Universe is constantly naturally doing.
Want to Take This to Another Level?
Share from your abundance. Gautama Buddah said, “If beings knew, as I know, the results of giving & sharing, they would not eat without having given.” Paraphrased by Jack Kornfeld, ““If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”
Share Spirit from Within–that is Infinitely Abundant. It’s sharing from our Illumined Mind. The Father Within says to us, “Son, All that I Have is Thine, so that you might have Life (Light, Spirit), and have It More Abundantly”. The ALL offers Itself, Its ALLness, to supply us with all we need and to share with others, with the World around us. In this State we don’t give in order to get, we give from our expansiveness, radiating as a natural function of being in this State. And our Cup “runneth over”, literally and metaphorically.
Illumined Mind is that Mind through which love, joy, healing, abundance, and the rest can occur as Spirit flows in through that Mind into our world. That is the blessing of that state of mind. Grace comes with being in that state of Awareness. These things are attracted to an Illumined Mind. The icing on the cake, if you will. Not the cake itself, but the icing, the extra that comes with the package.
These techniques are explored in detail in book 4 in my meditation series, The Laws of Attraction and Vibration: Creating an Abundance Mindset.
Conclusion Two
We all want to be abundant in our lives. The concept of abundance is usually taken to be a state where we have lots of stuff. And, when we are dissatisfied with how much we do have, the desire which leads to undertaking ways to get more. Some of us have tried ways offered by spiritual teachers to use spiritual techniques to get more. My suggestion is to relax, meditate, and allow what you need more of to come to you. Using the Laws of Vibration and Sharing.
How do these ideas strike you? What have you used that works? Please comment below.
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June 4, 2020
Mindfulness Breathing; Using New “Sacred Breathing” Techniques
Sacred Breathing may be the most powerful mindfulness meditation tool available to you if you know about it and learn to use it properly. Let’s explore mindfulness Sacred Breathing: what it it is, how it works, why do it.
What is Sacred Breathing?
Mindfulness meditation techniques have been used for centuries by Buddhists and scientifically studied as well as popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts. His mindfulness meditation research has proven that such techniques can impact your health and healing in a number of ways, including positively impacting the effects of stress and a variety of diseases.
My new book The Many Benefits of Meditation book explores the broad range of benefits, and offers some new techniques that are particularly useful. It just takes a brief moment for us to pause and take a Breath that has a particular purpose determined by our intent: Sacred Breaths, Christ Breaths, Transcendent Breaths, Healing Breaths, Love Breaths, Forgiveness Breaths, to name a few.
Sacred Breaths are certainly a way to raise our consciousness, the vibration of our Being. In summary, a Sacred Breath works by expanding the Spirit that lies within all of us into on the in-breath, pausing for a second to let Spirit pool up, and then radiating Spirit out into your world on the out-breath. Doing so illumines ourselves and the world around us.
Value of Sacred Breathing
Part of the value of Sacred Breathing is that it is a tool to be used repeatedly to soothe our body/mind/personality and help us develop a “new normal” of Spirit/Mind being in charge, and our systems operating at a higher vibration. I remember when this experience of higher vibration was new to me, intriguing, and a bit scary to my mind as I observed my mind’s reaction to the new experience.
I liken this to our 8-year-old cat’s reaction to the new kitten that recently appeared in our lives. Annie Cat acted intimidated and intimidating with 5-week-old Cleo. She did not like the change and acted very territorial with the little one; hissing and growling and puffing up.
There was no justification for this except that it was Annie’s natural reaction to change, much like our human mind when something new is introduced into its system. Slowly Annie learned that there was no threat; that this new creature was harmless. Perhaps, as my wife Lynne speculated, on some level she knew that this was a baby feline, worthy of mothering. Annie got used to the baby kitty and, before long, when we went on a 3-day trip she had company and didn’t miss us as much.
Sacred Breathing’s Many Uses
These are just a few uses of Sacred Breathing, as outlined in more detail in Six Second Mindfulness Meditations, the third book in this series :
As a quick trigger to raise our vibration any time we use it. Simply say the following phrase, “Peace, be still” and take a long, slow breath. This immediately put us into a different state of mind. It can be used anytime, anywhere. Nobody else needs to know. I have used this exercise in many different situations. For example, I will take a Sacred Breath just before just about any task: starting a meeting, beginning a difficult conversation, serving a tennis ball. It enriches the moment and puts me into a better frame of mind to accomplish the task.
As a consciousness shifter while doing a repetitious, frightening, or physical task–digging a ditch, having teeth drilled, or cooking some food. I think my fish always tastes better and has more love cooked into it when I practice Sacred Breathing.
Subconscious mind breathing. We each have a subconscious or unconscious mind–a concept popularized by Sigmund Freud. Since its introduction, empirical evidence suggests that subconscious mind phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, automatic reactions, and, possibly, complexes, hidden phobias and desires, and repressed memories of painful incidents. Take a moment when “stuff comes up” to breathe a Sacred Breath into it.
A few personal stories.
Story 1. I have found it helpful to breathe into that part of myself that has been agitated by something in my interior or exterior environment. Recently, for example, I woke up with a feeling in the pit of my stomach. I didn’t recognize it at first, thinking it might be indigestion (which I never get). I spent 15 minutes in bed working on dissolving the fear, reaching for some good feelings, using my meditation techniques. Nothing much worked.
I got up, did my usual yoga routine, and spent about twenty minutes in an intense meditation–really Breathing into the pit of my stomach. The fear began to subside and the “aha” moment came. I had gone to bed without meditating the night before, and after listening to a webinar that ended with the usual “scarcity” scenario; “If you don’t buy this product before midnight you will lose out”. I wasn’t even that interested in the product, a software solution to a problem I didn’t have. My subconscious mind, however, had been hooked by the message.
A few more Sacred Breaths and my consciousness began to move in the direction of Awareness. My vibratory rate rose. The fear subsided and was replaced by an eagerness for the day, by a sense of feeling good, by a feeling of lightness. It was with this that I was able to begin the day. Lynne and I went shopping and found some great plants for the yard. I worked in my office for a while and some pieces of a project fell into place. All in all, it was a good day.
I learned long ago to avoid watching scary movies, or anything else that is fear-based, before I go to bed—such input lodges in my subconscious mind and my dreams are often troubled when I do.
Story 2. Lynne recently pointed out to me that I was speaking to another person in our Tai Chi class in the same overbearing way my father used to use. It never worked for him very well, but I think I learned it from him, and it sometimes comes out in inappropriate ways. That evening I spent a while breathing in a sacred way into that part of me where the behavior was lodged. Since then I have been able to catch myself before launching into such undesirable behavior.
Story 3. Last week, during a longer sit-down meditation, I was inspired. “Breathe me”, I said to my Higher Consciousness. “Breathe me and through me. Breathe me and be me. Fill my very lungs with Spirit.” I felt the intake of Spirit and the exhale of Spirit, into my world and into Eternity. I thought, “All I have to do is do this and I am filled with Light.” It was this incident that led me to include Sacred Breathing as a key part of the Higher Consciousness Meditation process I developed that you will love.
Other Quick Exercises to Try
Take a Sacred Breath anytime you happen to think about it. This intentional act is one of the best ways to increase your vibratory rate and to “charge” the atmosphere around you.
Pause as you go through a door and take a Sacred Breath as you make that transition. We all go in and out of doors frequently. The idea is to make an association between one activity (going through a door) and another (taking a Sacred Breath).
Observant Jews take this one step further. Inside a little rectangular case, mounted on the inside front door frame, they hang a Mezuzah– two chapters from the Torah written on a rolled-up scroll. The first verse is “Hear oh Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One.” When leaving the house, they touch the Mezuzah and remember that God is One. We can borrow from this tradition and put whatever we want on the door frame to touch as a reminder to elevate our consciousness as we leave to go out into the world.
Prime yourself for good dreams before you go to sleep. Take a series of Sacred Breaths as you snuggle down until you fall asleep. Not only will it be easier to go to sleep, but your dreams will be better. Write them down when you wake up. If you have a bad dream take the opportunity to breathe Sacred Breaths into your subconscious mind to discover what might be learned. Rejoice in the higher vibration dreams you experience.
Conclusion
The mindfulness meditation methods mentioned above are ways to breathe your way to Illumination. They will elevate your vibratory rate, heighten your awareness, and so easy to use. Adopt one of them and use it regularly and you will see what I mean. It will cause you to light up and Breathe Your Way to Illumination.
Have you used or even developed such practices yourself and what did you find? I’d love to hear your comments below.
For a more complete discussion of the many benefits of mindfulness meditation pick up a free e-copy of my first book, The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation: Living the Life You’ve Always Wanted to Live, and purchase an e-copy of Book 2 Higher Consciousness Meditation: Living a Life of Inner Richness and Mastery.
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Mindfulness Breathing; Using New “Sacred Breathing” Techniques
Sacred Breathing may be the most powerful mindfulness meditation tool available to you if you know about it and learn to use it properly. Let’s explore mindfulness Sacred Breathing: what it it is, how it works, why do it.
What is Sacred Breathing?
Mindfulness meditation techniques have been used for centuries by Buddhists and scientifically studied as well as popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts. His mindfulness meditation research has proven that such techniques can impact your health and healing in a number of ways, including positively impacting the effects of stress and a variety of diseases.
My new book The Many Benefits of Meditation book explores the broad range of benefits, and offers some new techniques that are particularly useful. It just takes a brief moment for us to pause and take a Breath that has a particular purpose determined by our intent: Sacred Breaths, Christ Breaths, Transcendent Breaths, Healing Breaths, Love Breaths, Forgiveness Breaths, to name a few.
Sacred Breaths are certainly a way to raise our consciousness, the vibration of our Being. In summary, a Sacred Breath works by expanding the Spirit that lies within all of us into on the in-breath, pausing for a second to let Spirit pool up, and then radiating Spirit out into your world on the out-breath. Doing so illumines ourselves and the world around us.
Value of Sacred Breathing
Part of the value of Sacred Breathing is that it is a tool to be used repeatedly to soothe our body/mind/personality and help us develop a “new normal” of Spirit/Mind being in charge, and our systems operating at a higher vibration. I remember when this experience of higher vibration was new to me, intriguing, and a bit scary to my mind as I observed my mind’s reaction to the new experience.
I liken this to our 8-year-old cat’s reaction to the new kitten that recently appeared in our lives. Annie Cat acted intimidated and intimidating with 5-week-old Cleo. She did not like the change and acted very territorial with the little one; hissing and growling and puffing up.
There was no justification for this except that it was Annie’s natural reaction to change, much like our human mind when something new is introduced into its system. Slowly Annie learned that there was no threat; that this new creature was harmless. Perhaps, as my wife Lynne speculated, on some level she knew that this was a baby feline, worthy of mothering. Annie got used to the baby kitty and, before long, when we went on a 3-day trip she had company and didn’t miss us as much.
Sacred Breathing’s Many Uses
These are just a few uses of Sacred Breathing, as outlined in more detail in Six Second Mindfulness Meditations, the third book in this series :
As a quick trigger to raise our vibration any time we use it. Simply say the following phrase, “Peace, be still” and take a long, slow breath. This immediately put us into a different state of mind. It can be used anytime, anywhere. Nobody else needs to know. I have used this exercise in many different situations. For example, I will take a Sacred Breath just before just about any task: starting a meeting, beginning a difficult conversation, serving a tennis ball. It enriches the moment and puts me into a better frame of mind to accomplish the task.
As a consciousness shifter while doing a repetitious, frightening, or physical task–digging a ditch, having teeth drilled, or cooking some food. I think my fish always tastes better and has more love cooked into it when I practice Sacred Breathing.
Subconscious mind breathing. We each have a subconscious or unconscious mind–a concept popularized by Sigmund Freud. Since its introduction, empirical evidence suggests that subconscious mind phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, thoughts, habits, automatic reactions, and, possibly, complexes, hidden phobias and desires, and repressed memories of painful incidents. Take a moment when “stuff comes up” to breathe a Sacred Breath into it.
A few personal stories.
Story 1. I have found it helpful to breathe into that part of myself that has been agitated by something in my interior or exterior environment. Recently, for example, I woke up with a feeling in the pit of my stomach. I didn’t recognize it at first, thinking it might be indigestion (which I never get). I spent 15 minutes in bed working on dissolving the fear, reaching for some good feelings, using my meditation techniques. Nothing much worked.
I got up, did my usual yoga routine, and spent about twenty minutes in an intense meditation–really Breathing into the pit of my stomach. The fear began to subside and the “aha” moment came. I had gone to bed without meditating the night before, and after listening to a webinar that ended with the usual “scarcity” scenario; “If you don’t buy this product before midnight you will lose out”. I wasn’t even that interested in the product, a software solution to a problem I didn’t have. My subconscious mind, however, had been hooked by the message.
A few more Sacred Breaths and my consciousness began to move in the direction of Awareness. My vibratory rate rose. The fear subsided and was replaced by an eagerness for the day, by a sense of feeling good, by a feeling of lightness. It was with this that I was able to begin the day. Lynne and I went shopping and found some great plants for the yard. I worked in my office for a while and some pieces of a project fell into place. All in all, it was a good day.
I learned long ago to avoid watching scary movies, or anything else that is fear-based, before I go to bed—such input lodges in my subconscious mind and my dreams are often troubled when I do.
Story 2. Lynne recently pointed out to me that I was speaking to another person in our Tai Chi class in the same overbearing way my father used to use. It never worked for him very well, but I think I learned it from him, and it sometimes comes out in inappropriate ways. That evening I spent a while breathing in a sacred way into that part of me where the behavior was lodged. Since then I have been able to catch myself before launching into such undesirable behavior.
Story 3. Last week, during a longer sit-down meditation, I was inspired. “Breathe me”, I said to my Higher Consciousness. “Breathe me and through me. Breathe me and be me. Fill my very lungs with Spirit.” I felt the intake of Spirit and the exhale of Spirit, into my world and into Eternity. I thought, “All I have to do is do this and I am filled with Light.” It was this incident that led me to include Sacred Breathing as a key part of the Higher Consciousness Meditation process I developed that you will love.
Other Quick Exercises to Try
Take a Sacred Breath anytime you happen to think about it. This intentional act is one of the best ways to increase your vibratory rate and to “charge” the atmosphere around you.
Pause as you go through a door and take a Sacred Breath as you make that transition. We all go in and out of doors frequently. The idea is to make an association between one activity (going through a door) and another (taking a Sacred Breath).
Observant Jews take this one step further. Inside a little rectangular case, mounted on the inside front door frame, they hang a Mezuzah– two chapters from the Torah written on a rolled-up scroll. The first verse is “Hear oh Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One.” When leaving the house, they touch the Mezuzah and remember that God is One. We can borrow from this tradition and put whatever we want on the door frame to touch as a reminder to elevate our consciousness as we leave to go out into the world.
Prime yourself for good dreams before you go to sleep. Take a series of Sacred Breaths as you snuggle down until you fall asleep. Not only will it be easier to go to sleep, but your dreams will be better. Write them down when you wake up. If you have a bad dream take the opportunity to breathe Sacred Breaths into your subconscious mind to discover what might be learned. Rejoice in the higher vibration dreams you experience.
Conclusion
The mindfulness meditation methods mentioned above are ways to breathe your way to Illumination. They will elevate your vibratory rate, heighten your awareness, and so easy to use. Adopt one of them and use it regularly and you will see what I mean. It will cause you to light up and Breathe Your Way to Illumination.
Have you used or even developed such practices yourself and what did you find? I’d love to hear your comments below.
For a more complete discussion of the many benefits of mindfulness meditation pick up a free e-copy of my first book, The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation: Living the Life You’ve Always Wanted to Live, and purchase an e-copy of Book 2 Higher Consciousness Meditation: Living a Life of Inner Richness and Mastery.
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December 14, 2019
Meditation’s Amazing Health Benefits and How to Gain Them
Meditation, sometimes called silent prayer, has many health benefits: physical, mental, and emotional. From stress reduction and healing, to peace of mind, a sense of well-being, love, joy, compassion, attracting people, circumstances and things, increasing creativity, being more productive, and reducing personal suffering.
In this post we will explore them further and how to get them, along with an explanation of how and why meditation works. My free book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation provides even more in-depth information about this subject.
Scientific Studies and Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is the tradition that has been used in the West for secular purposes, for the scientifically proven benefits it grants—including the easing of health issues, such “high blood pressure, depression, and anxiety”. Wikipedia has chronicled more than 3000 physical conditions that positively responds to meditation.
Joh Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the late ‘70s, has shown scientifically that his mindfulness practice increases the body’s ability to heal and includes a shift from a tendency to use the right prefrontal cortex instead of the left prefrontal cortex. This shift is associated with a trend away from depression and anxiety and towards happiness, relaxation, and emotional balance.
How Does Meditation Work to Improve the Human Condition?
This is fundamental question I ask in my first book, a free e-book you can request , The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation, and which I wilI amplify on in my upcoming fifth book, Meditation for Health and Healing: Getting Better Day by Day, The question is an attempt to discern the principal behind meditations’ efficacy. A principal that we can apply to every situation– health, wealth, better performance, and other human concerns.
I think that meditation works because, as a problem solving tool, it interrupts the momentum that gets built up within our biomechanical ego/body/mind around some problem or issue. The problem begins for some reason. Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, dysfunctional childhood and the pain associated thereto; whatever.
While the cause of physical conditions can be hard to pinpoint, they almost always occur due to multiple swirling causes. And when a condition starts it begins to loop, especially in our thoughts and feelings. The problem gets bigger, it causes the causes to amplify, and feeds on itself. Kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to, “Alexa, loop it”, and the song plays over and over.
The Loop Effect
I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect. Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on. We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank). We go over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations, and we can’t get it out of our minds. The loop effect has begun.
We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation, and desire to get retribution. It begins to take on a life of its own. We tell those close to us about it. We speculate together. We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior. An argument might ensue. More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies. The loop is hard to escape.
Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum. Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition, interrupts the influence of the condition. If only for a moment. The condition goes into abeyance. If for only a moment.
In addition, if, as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in moment of silence, experience our Soul Nature, Spirit will rush into the vacuum left by the suspension of the loop. Spirit, rushing in, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition–including the alleviation of physical suffering.
Being Human Can Be Tough
Human conditions exist only on in the third dimension. They have no existence in 5-Dimensional Spiritual Reality. My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul. My existence as Soul is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes. They are really not real, except in my human eye’s biological condition.
My approach to doing healing work on my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every six months to get my eye pressure checked, to meditate before I go and to use mindfulness exercise while I am there to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature. So far, in 3 years, my eye pressure numbers have not increased and I am having no symptoms.
As I write this, I am realizing that the theory behind the medical treatment, the eyedrops and the eye vitamins I am receiving, is similar. They interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy, to arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed. Similar intervention as meditation.
In my case, I think both my meditation and the medication are helpful. That my Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects. Each can amplify the effect of the other. This is why I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor and why I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins, which I do every evening.
Withdrawing our attention from any condition withdraws the human energy from it, allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence/Spirit Within) to be the predominant energy animating the moment. Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our ego/body/mind’s functioning renders those conditions powerless. If only for a moment. If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.
Help is Right at Your Fingertips
A poor health condition, lack of financial resources, lack of viable and enlivening relationships, whatever, all are part of the same dreamlike nature of the human condition. And all will respond, or more accurately, recede, when the process of 1. acknowledging and experiencing our true nature as Eternal Beings is accomplished through meditation and 2. withdrawing our attention from the condition, also through meditation, is practiced, recognizing the condition has no real power over us other than the power we give it.
In addition, if as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence, realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the real life force that animates our human ego/body/mind, we can allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by withdrawal from the human condition. Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition. And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses. If only for a moment.
And in the process, we achieve the greatest benefit—contacting our Soul and having an experience of our Higher Consciousness.
Conclusion
Meditation’s benefits are amazing, but many people don’t know that, for example, scientific research has shown that many diseases respond favorably to meditation. I have developed a meditation process that accelerates the benefits of traditional meditation in my new book Higher Consciousness Mediation. It amplifies regular meditation by encouraging contact with your Higher Self, or Soul.
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Meditation’s Amazing Health Benefits and How to Gain Them
Meditation, sometimes called silent prayer, has many health benefits: physical, mental, and emotional. From stress reduction and healing, to peace of mind, a sense of well-being, love, joy, compassion, attracting people, circumstances and things, increasing creativity, being more productive, and reducing personal suffering.
In this post we will explore them further and how to get them, along with an explanation of how and why meditation works. My free book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation provides even more in-depth information about this subject.
Scientific Studies and Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is the tradition that has been used in the West for secular purposes, for the scientifically proven benefits it grants—including the easing of health issues, such “high blood pressure, depression, and anxiety”. Wikipedia has chronicled more than 3000 physical conditions that positively responds to meditation.
Joh Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the late ‘70s, has shown scientifically that his mindfulness practice increases the body’s ability to heal and includes a shift from a tendency to use the right prefrontal cortex instead of the left prefrontal cortex. This shift is associated with a trend away from depression and anxiety and towards happiness, relaxation, and emotional balance.
How Does Meditation Work to Improve the Human Condition?
This is fundamental question I ask in my first book, a free e-book you can request , The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation, and which I wilI amplify on in my upcoming fifth book, Meditation for Health and Healing: Getting Better Day by Day, The question is an attempt to discern the principal behind meditations’ efficacy. A principal that we can apply to every situation– health, wealth, better performance, and other human concerns.
I think that meditation works because, as a problem solving tool, it interrupts the momentum that gets built up within our biomechanical ego/body/mind around some problem or issue. The problem begins for some reason. Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, dysfunctional childhood and the pain associated thereto; whatever.
While the cause of physical conditions can be hard to pinpoint, they almost always occur due to multiple swirling causes. And when a condition starts it begins to loop, especially in our thoughts and feelings. The problem gets bigger, it causes the causes to amplify, and feeds on itself. Kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to, “Alexa, loop it”, and the song plays over and over.
The Loop Effect
I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect. Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on. We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank). We go over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations, and we can’t get it out of our minds. The loop effect has begun.
We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation, and desire to get retribution. It begins to take on a life of its own. We tell those close to us about it. We speculate together. We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior. An argument might ensue. More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies. The loop is hard to escape.
Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum. Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition, interrupts the influence of the condition. If only for a moment. The condition goes into abeyance. If for only a moment.
In addition, if, as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in moment of silence, experience our Soul Nature, Spirit will rush into the vacuum left by the suspension of the loop. Spirit, rushing in, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition–including the alleviation of physical suffering.
Being Human Can Be Tough
Human conditions exist only on in the third dimension. They have no existence in 5-Dimensional Spiritual Reality. My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul. My existence as Soul is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes. They are really not real, except in my human eye’s biological condition.
My approach to doing healing work on my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every six months to get my eye pressure checked, to meditate before I go and to use mindfulness exercise while I am there to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature. So far, in 3 years, my eye pressure numbers have not increased and I am having no symptoms.
As I write this, I am realizing that the theory behind the medical treatment, the eyedrops and the eye vitamins I am receiving, is similar. They interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy, to arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed. Similar intervention as meditation.
In my case, I think both my meditation and the medication are helpful. That my Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects. Each can amplify the effect of the other. This is why I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor and why I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins, which I do every evening.
Withdrawing our attention from any condition withdraws the human energy from it, allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence/Spirit Within) to be the predominant energy animating the moment. Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our ego/body/mind’s functioning renders those conditions powerless. If only for a moment. If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.
Help is Right at Your Fingertips
A poor health condition, lack of financial resources, lack of viable and enlivening relationships, whatever, all are part of the same dreamlike nature of the human condition. And all will respond, or more accurately, recede, when the process of 1. acknowledging and experiencing our true nature as Eternal Beings is accomplished through meditation and 2. withdrawing our attention from the condition, also through meditation, is practiced, recognizing the condition has no real power over us other than the power we give it.
In addition, if as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence, realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the real life force that animates our human ego/body/mind, we can allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by withdrawal from the human condition. Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition. And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses. If only for a moment.
And in the process, we achieve the greatest benefit—contacting our Soul and having an experience of our Higher Consciousness.
Conclusion
Meditation’s benefits are amazing, but many people don’t know that, for example, scientific research has shown that many diseases respond favorably to meditation. I have developed a meditation process that accelerates the benefits of traditional meditation in my new book Higher Consciousness Mediation. It amplifies regular meditation by encouraging contact with your Higher Self, or Soul.
Do you meditate? Do you have your own opinion of how/why it works? Leave a comment below.
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December 4, 2019
Benefits of Meditation
Chapter 3. Lessening Stress, Increasing a Sense of Well-Being from The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, Book 1
Let’s first address one of the major benefits of meditation–lessening stress. Stress, that feeling of agitation familiar to all of us in response to the pressures of daily, modern life is awful, pure and simple. I look at my 30 something son these days and think, “It’s no wonder he gets stressed out”. He’s got a high pressure, management level position which requires a 45-minute commute in each direction. He has two very active and inquisitive sons.
His wife is fabulous, works part time, and is at the center of his world. He plays in and co-manages a band that is beginning to make a name for itself in the Oakland/San Francisco music scene. He’s in the middle of a remodeling project on his 1930s bungalow. The family has lots of friends who they enjoy spending time with immensely. He’s an accomplished surfer. And then there’s us, his parents, who live 25 miles away and are an important part of his life as well.
Sound familiar? Except for the details, some of which are related to his age and his personal interests, this list could be yours and that of most of the people you know. He manages all of these activities amazingly well but having so many balls in the air takes its toll. A toll many of us can relate to.
The Impact of Stress
Stress penetrates all aspects of our existence: physical, mental, and emotional. For example, according to says Charles L. Raison, MD, clinical director of the Mind-Body Program at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, “It’s hard to think of an illness in which stress and mood don’t figure,” Raison is quoted as having said at WebMD.“ We know stress is a contributor to all the major modern killers:
Cancer
Chronic lower respiratory diseases
Heart disease
Dementia
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
New (or new strains of) infectious diseases (vulnerable to weak immune systems)
Intentional self-harm (suicide)”
According to author Hanna Braime, “Stress and anxiety wreak havoc with our immune system, leaving us susceptible to all kinds of nasties—particularly during the winter. Developing a regular meditation practice reduces the amount of stress-related chemicals in our body, and also leaves us less likely to turn to unhealthy coping strategies to deal with the stress.”
Dr. Raison led a study that indicated that meditation improves both physical and emotional responses to stress. In the study, people who meditated regularly for six weeks showed less activation of their immune systems and less emotional distress when they were put in a stressful situation. Physiologically, it appears that one of the reasons for the improvement in these areas is that meditation “…reduces cortisol (the body’s natural stress hormone) levels in the body” and, as a result, leads to lower levels of stress and higher levels of a sense of well-being.
We only have to examine the substantial increase in the use of anti-anxiety medication in recent years for proof of the impact of stress on the U.S. population and the use of potentially harmful drugs to cope with this “epidemic” caused by modern lifestyles. On the other hand, Stanford University researcher Emma Seppälä, notes that, “Meditation allows people to take charge of their own nervous system and emotions….Studies have shown improved ability to [permanently] regulate emotions in the brain.”
Here are a few more studies about the stress benefits of meditation:
Decreases stress (study 1)and (study 2) and Psychology Today’s issue on Stress.
Effects genes that control stress and immunity, Bloomberg, NCBI, American Psychosomatic Medicine Journal, Journal of International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology
Strengthens the immune system which is weakened by stress, leaving us less susceptible to all kinds of illness, particularly during the winter (study 3) and (study 4)
Conclusion
The beauty of meditation is that it can decrease the severity and the frequency of stress, and the resulting feeling of internal discord that accompanies stressful situations, large and small. Why is this? Here are some of my non-scientific thoughts:
For some period of time, however brief a time of meditation we might undertake, the ego/body/mind disconnects from the three-dimensional reality that is our human lives.
This pause allows us to return to our natural state of peace and well-being before returning to the stress inducing world each of us lives in.
A mere 6 minutes, twice a day, as outlined in my new book, is a sufficiently long meditation to successfully disconnect and to cultivate the experience of peace and well-being. The Higher Consciousness Meditation process is a fabulous way to begin your day in the right frame of mind before the anxiety of getting out of the door and off to work or before traffic madness takes over.
In addition, the 6 second, brief mindfulness exercises can be used to reinforce the respite that comes with a morning meditation. For example, just taking a Sacred Breath, breathing in and allowing Spirit to flow into your consciousness, pausing, then letting Spirit radiate out to your world on the outbreath, can instantly put you into a moment of peace that can calm you for an hour.
When Spirit, Eternal Life Force, Buddha Mind, Christ Consciousness, or whatever you want to call it, enters into the moment it cancels out stress and its causes for just that moment. It’s like a very short vacation that refreshes. Our vibration and our sense of well-being increases.
While pausing for a moment or a few moments, our higher-level vibratory experiences are activated: a sense of calm, clarity, confidence, and lightness. The strangle hold of stress is loosened. After doing this for a few days or weeks, a more frequent sense of peace in the midst of chaos begins to seem possible. When it is experienced, the spell is broken.
Higher Consciousness Meditation is a great coping mechanism, pure and simple. It is a way to greatly help combat the incidence of stress and its effects.
I love it that science is studying and documenting the benefits of mediation. We all owe Jon Kabat-Zinn and his fellow scientists at the University of Massachusetts, a vote of thanks for the work they have done to show, through the scientific method, the proof of concept beyond the anecdotal evidence that has come down to us for centuries. Every few months, it seems, they push out the boundaries of the field into new discoveries and validations. While the steps seem slow and incremental, at times, they are laying the foundation for what I think is a transformation in the way we as humans experience our lives. A transformation that is evolutionary and will allow us to grow into our new selves as people and as a species.
This latter point was brought home in a report that was highlighted on an episode of the CBS Evening News. CBS News confirmed what we have all heard. Religious services continue to be attended less and less by the U.S. population. More and more people are saying “I’m Spiritual, not religious”.
The most interesting thing that was said in this piece is that 5 years ago about 53% of adults in this country said that they experienced peace and well-being at least once per month and that today the figure is 60%. I was amazed. I would have thought the percentage to be closer to 20 than 60. Lots of folks are having at least a glimpse into what I like to call Five- Dimensional Reality, that Place that we all know, where peace and well-being reside. Where the experience of peace and well-being is a common occurrence.
This indicates to me that we are in fact evolving as a species, and perhaps faster than any of us are aware, into a new species increasingly comfortable with higher vibrational experiences: love, peace, joy, happiness and the like.
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