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DIY Tips On Meditation

by Shaun Butler
(Swindon, Wiltshire)

Any advice on how to start meditating?

My sister has a set time...either morning or evening, sometimes both
when she relaxes in quiet and no sound, no thought (this is difficult but she persists)

I've tried to meditate...but my head is just too full of ideas and projects.
Also I believe any messages or inspirations will work through my morrass of words and images to represent a clearer, heavenly vision...it's how my poetry comes!

I do, however believe the meditation process renews an inner unspoken power and energy re-charging health, mind and bodily being. Also it is soothing and gives reassurance when we may feel isolated or lonely. Our voice may be rather shy or fragile but it is still OURS and God values and honours us.

Thank you Katherine for your concern in this Oh so useful website.

Shaun Butler

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May 29, 2011

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by: Shaun

Thank you Keith and Katherine,
I like that "all thought has effect" idea Keith.
I'm currently undergoing a radical transformation of my thinking re: this world and whether or not by thinking "into" a heavenlier reality these states of mind can effect the actuality that is perceived by our sensate body.

Katherine would probably elucidate further on this as i believe she has re-shaped and re-constituted herself through God's holy spiritual energy to activate the muscle and "pathways" which this "seeming" world was destroying.

Katherine is a walking miracle.....primarily due to her meeting the mind of God's creative force with her own resilient, accepting, creative awareness of what was needed for her as a human "body" to survive.

This unique "ability" of self-healing as a conduit for God's love Katherine relates and passes on to those she meets.

She is a remarkable woman.
She is also my friend and spiritual guide.
She is quietly spoken, friendly, funny and charming.
God cares for people like this as a parent for a beloved child.

Katherine and her example blesses all our lives.

Love and wishes,
Shaun

May 22, 2011

My Meditation Techniques - Expansion Beyond Body Identification
by: Keith

Hi folks,

I started meditating with a system Stuart Wilde recommended in his book 'The sixth Sense' It concentrates on Chakras and for me was a very good introductory learning curve.

Now I mostly meditate as follows:

I lie down listening to an MP3 of a THETA metronome download. It enables me to quickly get to the correct pattern of brain waves in order to connect. It is important to use headphones; it doesn't work with speakers. This is the one I use, and it lasts for an hour:

http://www.amazon.com/Theta-Meditation/dp/B002SG3IL2

I then lie there concentrating on my breathing, and imagine myself as being a cloud of atomic particles, removing the image of the human body from my mind. I remind myself that I am not a body. Sometimes I go through my affirmations, sometimes I just mentally talk to Jesus, The Holy Spirit, & God for the first few minutes. I try not to use routine. Routine is the enemy in my book and removes all feeling from the meditation. It becomes a chant instead of a connection. Instead I try to concentrate on my feelings and talk to spirit accordingly. Or, sometimes I just lie there in total silence, trying to maintain it.

After around 5 or 10 minutes, I start to expand my cloud of atoms. I picture the room i'm in and mentally fill it to just outside its boundaries. At the same time as I expand my 'entity' I mentally reduce the size of the room, so that as one expands the other contracts. The reason I do this is because I am responsible for all there is. If I made it up and ACIM & Quantum Physics tells me the world is an illusion, then I refuse to make myself fit into IT. I mentally reverse the polarities if you like, from the Universe making me feel and look tiny, helpless, and irrelevant, to me taking my righful place as master of all I am and all that I project. It's a way of reversing, or correcting, the mistaken image we have of ourselves. If I simply expanded myself to be bigger than the Universe, it would seem unreal to me knowing that it doesn't exist, except as a construct of my mind.

Once I am bigger than the room, I then wait a minute, feel the sensation, picture it, (knowing that all thought has effect), then expand to consume the whole building, the country, the world, the solar system, and finally the Universe itself. I then lie there in silence feeling the entire Universe inside me, almost filling my being, because that is exactly how it is in reality. There is nothing outside you. The whole Universe is actually inside your mind but projected onto the fabric of creation outside of yourself. You need to become the doorway you are to this state of reality.

May 22, 2011

Meditation Is An Introduction To A Permanent State Of Being
by: Keith

However...and here is the most important part... after 2 years doing this I have realised that meditating is merely an introduction to a permanent state of spiritual awareness, nothing more.

My meditations nowadays are much shorter, sometimes just 5 minutes, because I find it more important to concentrate on maintaining a permanent meditative state at all times.

Love
Keith

May 22, 2011

How To Practice Meditation
by: Katherine T Owen

Have you seen the page on easy meditation techniques. There are some good ideas there, including a poem on meditating badly. :-)

The pages on spiritual relaxation techniques are also good at just allowing yourself to be where you are and fall into the present moment.

Your sister's approach sounds great to me. To set aside a regular time for quiet and stick to it. They recommend twice a day.

I am the first to agree that the poems that come through in a time of silence you have set aside for God can be a form of God's guidance. That was definitely true for me.

If you are serious about meditating it can be good to join a group. This is what I did when I used to meditate in a disciplined way.

Meditation in Swindon, UK

I know you are from Swindon Shaun, so I can tell you a little of meditation groups in Swindon.

1. A Buddhist Meditation group meets at the Friend's Meeting House, Swindon - Monday 7pm I think. I went to that once and found it very peaceful. (Ask the Tourist Office for information on religious groups.)

2. A Christian Meditation Group meets at Coleshill, Swindon, every other Thursday. I went to that one regularly until I moved to the other side of Swindon. Here is the link to the organisation behind it - The World Community for Christian Meditation in the UK. I have looked up the site though and it doesn't mention the Swindon group. So let me know if you want me to contact the organiser to see if it is still going.
Perhaps you could start your own group through this organisation! You get sent guidance on how to do that.

For anyone who is housebound and wanting to meditate, there is a CD sent out with 10 minute talks which each group listens to, followed by a time of meditation, followed by the Our Father Prayer. If it is possible to buy it, you could listen at the same time as a local group and join your mind in meditation with theirs. This can be a powerful way of making a commitment to a practice of meditation.

Further comment below...

May 22, 2011

Tips for meditation
by: Katherine T Owen

I have just read a charming story called The Buddha and The Terrorist
(USA Spiritual Fiction Bookstore,
UK Spiritual Fiction Bookshop)
which quotes the Buddha as saying:

"Allow [the mind] to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better.
Neither force the mind into concentration not let it wander aimlessly."

It can be helpful to think of meditation not so much as making the mind quiet, but simply paying attention.
Pay attention to a mantra or to your breathing or to the sensations in your body.
You don't need to think of it as mastering meditation or even learning meditation, but just as setting aside a time of quiet for God.

There are currently three poems about resting in God on the site:

A poem by Tagore called A Moment's Indulgence

In God's Time - a poem by Floriana Hall

A spiritual poem submitted to the site Slow Me Down Lord

For those with ME/CFS, there is also a page on relaxation techniques in which I recommend the tapes that helped me to relax in the years when I was ill and had to find a way to lie still without my mind chattering away constantly!

Shaun, you have made me realise there is quite a lot on a-spiritual-journey-oh on this subject, so thank you for getting me to summarize it here!

With Love to all,
Katherine

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