meditation

Because all actions and expressionsstem from the mind, it is vital to know themind as well as decide in what way we__l use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But whatabout psychosomatic wellness?

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.

By becoming aware of God__ Spirit, by slowing down and paying attention to the tastes and sounds and smells of the food we make and eat, we infuse our meals__nd by extension our hearts__ith a sense of awe, a depth of prayer that cannot help but transform our mindless eating into moving meditations.

Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.

The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds_ commands.

It doesn't matter how long you're here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and the type of person that you are.

When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was, his answer was, __ots of space, nothing holy._ Meditation is nothing holy. Therefore there__ nothing that you think or feel that somehow gets put in the category of __in._ There__ nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of __ad._ There__ nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of __rong._ It__ all good juicy stuff__he manure of waking up, the manure of achieving enlightenment, the art of living in the present moment.

The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery.

We are basically all one. We are one being, one consciousness, one whole. We are all connected to each other. We are all parts of the same whole. How we treat others are how we treat ourselves. If we treat others badly, we are really treating ourselves badly. If we hate others, we are really hating ourselves. If we love others, we are basically loving ourselves.

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

Through learning to listen to our own intuition, it develops to a constantly available inner source of love, truth and wisdom. We can close our eyes, go within, and always receive the right guidance.

By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scarcity and fears of deprivation. We gradually learn to be more conscious and make better choices. We develop simplicity instead of comlexity, open-mindedness instead of narrow-mindedness, flexibility rather than rigidity. We feel ourselves to be more available to others and to give more generously of ourselves.

When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything.

I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering a silent and playful invitation: "Do you want to play? Do you want to join the dance?" This playful invitation again joined my heart and being with the Existential dance. I was again in a silent prayer and oneness with life.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why_ to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves.