Gaining Empowerment at the Cross Roads of Your Life
“The metaphorical cross roads that often catch us unaware empowers us to do more with what we already have. We learn that acceptance is better than denial, and with acceptance comes balance.”
Pop sensation, Bone Thugs ?N- Harmony sing about the cross roads of life. In their very popular tune, they ask “whatcha gonna do when there ain’t no where to run?” Their answer, “…we pray, and we pray, and we pray…every day…” Is this how you feel sometimes?
What Exactly Is Meditation Anyway?
You will get a different form definition of meditation depending on who you ask and where you look. The definition of meditation that I will give you comes from the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism. “Meditation is a mind that concentrates on a virtuous object, and which is the main cause of mental peace.”
The purpose is to become more familiar with our thoughts and to have more clarity. The more clearer that we become about our thoughts, the more calmer and peaceful our mind becomes. The easier that it is to recognize the negative thoughts, the easier it becomes to transition your thought patterns in to positive supporting thoughts. This alone
Paradise Lost - When Insights Slip Away
We are meditating, or perhaps just walking on the beach, and WHAM! the insight strikes. Wow! But then what happens? In a millisecond, the interfering mind elbows right in, “WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT WAS THAT?” and our insight evaporates like ephemeral foam on a wave.
If only we could keep that meddlesome, nosy mind away for one more moment, then the insight would remain, and deeper and deeper we would go until there would be that immense flash that shifts our consciousness into glorious new levels.
Seeing The Nature Of Reality Through Buddhist Meditation
The perennial philosophy “nondual” spiritual traditions (such as Nisargadatta’s Vedanta, and Tibetan Buddhism’s Dzogchen) hold that existence involves a monistic, enduring, unchanging, absolute reality and a dualistic, ephemeral, constantly-changing relative reality. Through the practices that I describe in my book Toward Wisdom, I too have come to see that this is the way it is. Describing the situation in words has always been tricky, but I found that certain “information age” concepts clarify the situation.
Are You Aware!
I would like to talk about being aware of your life and your surroundings.
You know your obese right? Do you know what the consequences of being obese and what they are costing you at the moment?
Better yet are you TRUELY AWARE of your current health and fitness state?
From what I have seen in clients that I work with it has come to my attention that we are a society in denial, both in our body size and how fit we really are saying that one of the first steps to making lasting changes to our mind, body and spirit is to become AWARE of both our inner self and also our outer self including our environment.
Breathe Your Stress Away
Stress increases heart and breathing rates as well as increases the bodies demand for oxygen. Rapid shallow breathing decreases the efficiency of oxygen delivery to your brain, muscles and the rest of your body and inhibits the clearing of carbon dioxide (a metabolic waste product) from the body. Lack of oxygen causes increased anxiety, poor mental concentration and inhibits growth and repair of tissue. Learning to control breathing is one of the best ways to control stress and to assure your cells are receiving adequate amounts of life giving oxygen while ridding the body of toxic waste products. Controlled breathing is in itself an easy and time efficient relaxation and is the prerequisite to other effective relaxation techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, and progressive relaxation to name just a few.