*Please note this is part of a series based on the book The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. The meditation is effective with our without reading the book, but if you’d like to join the book club, click here.*
It’s hard to be present with our loved ones while life is crazy around us, but if we can remember to keep ourselves centered and grounded we do better in all of our relationships.
This meditation helps you be the steady anchor of your home or work to allow you to focus in areas of importance, and connect deeper with those you desire.
What does it mean to be connected to all life and how does it serve you?
*Please note this is part of a series based on the book The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. The meditation is effective with our without reading the book, but if you’d like to join the book club, click here.*
If you sit and watch a river or stream flow, you’ll see that it touches everything in its way and then moves on. It does not stop to ponder why a rock is in the way, or how the tree came to fall right across its path. It continues, day after day, to touch all and carry the loose or unnecessary obstacles away with it.
What can this mean for you? Have you ever had the experience, like Mark Nepo mentions in the book on April 2nd, that the waters of emotion may be with you one hour, and in the next another person is having the same experience? Or that the waves of emotion that wash through us are just that, waves that ebb and surge?
What you discover through this process will be unique. I can’t predict what insights you’ll have to your life and that of those around you, but I do know this meditation can help you find peace and balance as you discover the connection through the never-ending flow of water.
*Please note this is part of a series based on the book Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr. The meditation is effective with or without reading the book, but if you’d like to join the book club, click here.
You may already know where you want to change the world, or what you can bring to the table to do it, but let’s put them together to help you serve in the most powerful way you can.
Starr has an exercise in chapter eight to find a way you can help heal our Mother the Earth, and this expands upon that for those that are called to heal people, animals, everything.
You may want a pen and paper nearby for this, although it’s not required; there will only be a few things you’ll want to remember later.
What Spiritual Leader do you admire most? Now, meditate with them!
*Please note this is part of a series based on the book Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr. The meditation is effective with or without reading the book, but if you’d like to join the book club, click here.
In her book, Starr talks about the mystical experience her friend Greta had after a meditative unburdening of her heart with Jesus. We all have this opportunity to pray and meditate with our most admired leader and reap the insights and inspirations that follow.
You’ll first want to decide who your meditation partner is for this exercise. Is it Jesus? Buddha? Mother Mary? St. Francis? No matter who, alive or dead, if they are worthy of your admiration then they have something to share with you.
In this meditation I’ll lead you into connection and then meditation time with them.
You can help your loved ones immediately with this practice
*Please note this is part of a series based on the book Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr. The meditation is effective with or without reading the book, but if you’d like to join the book club, click here.
Most meditations focus on something self-affirming, enlightening or inspiring, but this week I’d like to introduce you to something that may be new to you: Tonglen. It is a Buddhist practice known as “taking and sending,” and as you help others with it, you are in turn helped by connecting to a deeper spiritual Self.
It is about taking the pain or suffering of another and turning it into something light and bright. Often you will do this for a loved one, but you can most certainly focus on an aspect of your country, the planet, or any group you wish to help ease.
This helps us practice and recognize selflessness and compassion as an important aspect of our being.
