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Healing Meditation
May 9, 2012 | 
Author Healing meditation Series
I found this new group of guided meditations I wanted to share as they are very well done and work beautifully!! This is the first and I will post more in the days to come! Enjoy!
Meditation Techniques And Healing
If you find yourself struggling with major health problems, or even the daily aches and pains of a stressful life, imagine being able to find true relief through the practice of healing meditation. It can happen! The healing meditation process uses various techniques to allow you to place yourself in a meditative state, focused upon healing issues. These issues may range from insomnia to pain management to stress reduction. Practitioners swear that the use of healing meditation can even help people recover more quickly from major surgery.
Most practitioners of healing meditation techniques utilize some combination of techniques for relaxation and focus. Many of these techniques have been used in stress management and self-hypnosis for decades. Placing them in the context of healing meditation creates a powerful focus on the mind-body connection and allows a sense of self-healing to begin.
Healing meditation techniques.
Following are some of the most common techniques used in healing meditation.
Relaxation exercises.
Part of the act of meditation is placing your body in a more relaxed state. A tense body and a tense mind go together, and you can begin to relax both by learning simple techniques to calm your breathing, muscles, and thoughts. Common relaxation techniques include deep breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, and the use of music. One of the simplest relaxation exercises uses cleansing breaths: Take 4-5 deep breaths. Begin by inhaling slowly and deeply. Hold the breath for at least 5-10 seconds. Then slowly release the breath. As you release it, imagine all sickness or pain leaving your body with each cleansing breath.
Creative visualizations.
Creative visualizations allow us to use the power of the mind to envision anything that is the focus of change. For example, if you want to rid yourself of pain, you can start by visualizing the pain itself as a shadowed place that needs light and warmth. Then imagine a glowing ball of warm light that travels over the pain, releasing it from the cold shadows. By positively visualizing events either symbolically or literally, your mind can bring actual change to your body.
Positive affirmations.
Along with visualizations, positive affirmations can effectively increase your power of more positive thinking. A positive affirmation is a simple statement you say about something you want to be or have happen. It is always stated in positive terms. For example, rather than saying, “I’m going to stop having so much trouble sleeping all the time,” you might say: “My body feels ready for rest, and I am about to sleep peacefully.”
Repetitive sounds.
For centuries, Eastern philosophers have taught the value of using repetitive sounds to enter a deeper meditative state. Techniques may range from the repetitive “ohm” of the transcendental meditation practitioner to the kirtan kriya chants of the yogi to drumming meditation. What these techniques have in common is the ability to clear the mind of everything but the object of its focus during the meditation.
Research studies have shown that meditation can reduce blood pressure, decrease stress, and improve patient attitudes. If you are willing to invest a few minutes every day in the practice of one or more healing meditation techniques, you may find that meditation becomes the proverbial apple a day you need to keep traditional medicine away from your door.
Angel Guide Plus Healing Meditation
Angels are said to be part of every human’s life. There have been lots of encounters with angels told in history, as many people claim. But a ton of individuals find that quite tough to believe especially if they lack spiritual awareness and faith. Did you are aware that today there are a good number of folk who use angels as guide to their healing meditation?
You have heard it right. There are a lot of people who obtain using angels as a good guide to meditation. You can locate a ton of websites on the web that feature angel guide healing meditation. There are even books published concerning it. Currently the query here is whether or not you do believe in angels since if you don’t, you’ll not succeed in achieving peace of mind nor be healed of your condition.
Angels love plus protect people. For so long as anyone can do not forget, angels are widely recognized. Troubled souls may be enlightened and they may still follow the right path that would lead them to life’s fullness. There are several people who believe which through angels, world peace continues to be achievable.
If you’re experiencing religious difficulties, traumas, and stress, then it’s perhaps time that you simply obtain healing meditation thru angel guides. Angel guides are also people who were given a special gift to act as a non secular channel; they will be able to communicate with angels and that they can greatly help individuals (with religion) to cope up with all their problems.
Most angel guides are willing to help alternative individuals notwithstanding race and religion. They believe that God created each one men equal, and thru the angels, they are able to bring individuals to love one another.
1 of the most important reasons why lots of individuals are currently into meditation is due to health problems. Added and more people are aware of their body and mind connection and so can be the explanation why they practice meditation. There are even doctors that suggest meditation for stress-related depression plus illnesses. Meditation is currently accepted, scientifically speaking. As there are several types of meditation, you can select 1 that you just think you can observe generally within your life.
Through an angel guide meditation, you can awaken your non secular levels through your own experience and not how you have been taught or read. Meditation can help a person discover himself plus his potentials. So don’t miss your chance being healed thru an angel guide.
Have you ever heard concerning the therefore known as touched by an angel? There are stories of folk who were healed because of an angel. Miracles are indeed hard to believe except for individuals who are desperate to become answers and to be healed, they would probably believe in any miracle which might come their way. If you need to go on your probabilities, do it with an angel guide. You have got nothing to lose, and purely everything to gain. Maybe you may get well once such healing. There is no damage in attempting, plus simply make sure that you just trust only the experts.
You can ask your friends plus relations if they know an angel guide. Or if you wish, you are able purchase a book that’s each one about angel guide healing. Do not forget, with faith in God you can overcome a ton of issues in your life.
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Today's Meditation
This is the first meditation of the year, 2012 has so much to offer we need to remember to manifest our desires.I found this wonderful guided meditation to bring in 2012!!
2012 Meditation – Manifesting 5D SOLARA AN-RA
Happy 2012 my dearest Light tribe of Gaia! What a year it has been and what a year to come … 2012 is here at last! My guides gave me this meditation in my morning meditation today, and it felt bliss-ful — I hope it feels that way to you also. The music is by Robert Haig Coxon. For the free download and/or the written transcript, see here: www.solara.org.uk Love love love Solara An-Ra Goddess of the Light
Here is another meditation that I find helps refresh body, soul and mind…and since it is a new year it is time to send out the old to make way for the new, in ALL area’s of your life!
Brief Grounding Of An Idea: A Guided Meditation For You
Copyright 2006 Marshall House
Purpose of this Meditation
The purpose of this guided meditation is to help you to ground an idea. That is, to help an idea of your choosing to manifest. In my view, it is easy to have an idea, even a brilliant idea; it is not so easy to manifest it if our contradictory thoughts get in the way.
Instructions
Find a comfortable place, sitting or lying down, where you can be fully relaxed and open to the ideas and energy of this guided meditation. After settling down and before reading, take three long, deep breaths to calm and empty yourself.
Reading this Meditation
This guided meditation is designed for you to read aloud to yourself or to someone else. For yourself, you may find that creating an audio tape recording is particularly effective. Speed reading this meditation will not accelerate spiritual progress! In fact, speaking slowly in a monotone is beneficial when guiding this meditation, even though such an approach is generally frowned upon in public speaking.
The designation “……” indicates a pause, during which you may choose to be quiet or close your eyes and experience whatever comes to you. The …… may look awkward as you glance at the page. However, when you are reading the meditation, it serves as a reminder to slow down generally and pause at that place.
During the meditation, you will be instructed to identify an idea you want to manifest, which will then be referred to as (your idea). In place of (your idea), read or think the idea you have identified or read “your idea” if you are reading this to someone else.
The Meditation: Brief Grounding of an Idea
Breathe in your essence. Your essence is who you are. Your essence is pure and clear. …… Receive it. …… Let it flow downward through your body, through the various layers and levels of who you are. ……
Let energy flow from the spiritual layer downward through the mental layer, into the emotional layer and then into the physical layer. This is the direction for manifestation. Experience energy as it flows from the top down. ……
Anchor the energy by moving it down through the body, through these layers and levels, down to the feet. …… Linger at the feet so this magnificent energy from above becomes so familiar to the feet that you know easily when to step forward, move back, or stand still. …… Let your feet continue to vibrate so they place you exactly where you need to be, when you need to be there. ……
From your feet, follow the energy further down, into the earth, and then down into the center of the earth. …… Anchor the energy at the center. You may find it helpful to envision tying a knot in the center of the earth with a cord that flows downward with the energy. ……
Once again, open at the top to allow vibrant energy to flow into the energy field and flow downward. ……
Now, shift your attention to the bottom of your energy field and change the direction of the flow of energy. By opening at the soles of your feet and the base of your spine, you welcome up the earth�s vibration. …… Rich, thick, beautiful energy from Mother Earth flows upward. …… It flows up to support you, …… to bring the essence of the ground up to you, …… to help you know, without a doubt, that you are in the right place at the right time. ……
Align now with your life mission and higher purpose. …… Also align with your intention for the idea that you wish to manifest. …… Take all the time you need to identify the mission, purpose, and intention. …… Relax. ……
Now, name an idea that you want to manifest. …… Notice if it is solid enough to be brought into manifestation. …… Make it more solid and dense, if needed, by drawing more Mother Earth energy into it. …… As soon as you have named this idea, relax into the energy that flows from the top down. …… Relax and open. ……
Focus your attention at the top of your head. …… Envision (your idea) at the top of your head. …… Slowly, allow (your idea) to move downward, down through the layers and levels, down to the feet, and down into the center of the earth. …… Notice any resistance or heaviness or discomfort. …… Ask (your idea) if it wants to manifest in your life. Listen to the answer. ……
Rather than trying to force (your idea) to manifest, observe if (your idea) flows into the earth, easily and effortlessly. You will not benefit by trying to manipulate (your idea); instead, be in the flow. Notice and appreciate. ……
Notice if you remain grounded in this process. Notice if (your idea) is grounded, joyous, ready. If not, let it go! If so, let it go! If it wants to change, let it change.
When both you and (your idea) are joyous, (your idea) manifests in your life!
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Jeanie Marshall, Empowerment Consultant and Coach with Marshall House, produces Guided Meditations on CD albums and MP3 downloads and writes extensively on subjects related to personal development and empowerment.
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Today’s Inspirational Quotes
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
Follow your inner moonlight. ~A. Ginsberg
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell
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Today's Meditation
Todays Meditation – Giving and Receiving
Today’s Quotation
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and
thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses,
sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others,
struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial.
It is these, like the blinding colors in a picture, or
the blending notes of music, which constitute the person.
Today’s Meditation
Today’s meditation is a bit longer than I have posted in the past few weeks! But it is of great importance as we head into the holiday season! Giving and Taking, Giving and Receiving Ying and Yang!! A balance must be attained to fully understand how powerful these actions are, and how they are intertwined.
I will go more in-depth with Giving and Taking in a future meditation. So enjoy the meditation and I hope it helps YOU find the perfect balance!!
Namaste
TONGLEN Meditation – TAKING AND GIVING
“Without attuning body, speech and mind unto the Doctrine,
What gain is it to celebrate religious rites?
If anger be unconquered by its antidote,
What gain is it to celebrate religious rites?
Unless one meditate on loving others more than self,
What gain is it merely from the lips to say: ‘O, Pity (sentient beings)”
Milarepa (From Evan Wentz ‘Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa’)
INTRODUCTION
This meditation technique can be extremely powerful when practised correctly. To me, it represents the full idea of a Bodhisattva; a being who wishes to help all sentient beings, without concern for his/her own interests. It is advised to read the pages on Meditation Theory (chapter on Vipashyana) and Meditation Practice if you are not used to (analytical) meditation..
In case you find this meditation very difficult to do, it may well be a very positive sign! It is definitely extremely difficult to let go of our selfish attitude and deciding to give all one’s own happiness and positive karma to others and take upon oneself the suffering of all sentient beings.
If you do this meditation seriously, it cannot be easy – unless you are an extremely advanced practitioner. If you realize that doing this practice is too difficult when trying to focus on all sentient beings, it may be helpful to start at an easier level; instead of being surrounded by all other sentient beings, you can imagine sitting opposite yourself of a future lifetime and practice giving and taking.
If that works well, try to imagine your mother, father or a good friend with whom you practice. Next, one can try to think of ones entire family, friends or neighborhood, and so gradually expand it to include everyone, even animals and life forms we cannot even see.
This meditation works in many ways, to name but a few:
- reducing selfish attachment
- increasing a sense of renunciation
- creating positive karma by giving and helping
- developing loving-kindness and bodhicitta
- it refers to all of the 6 Perfections: giving, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom.
Set yourself a time, like 15 or 30 minutes for the session, put a clock in front of yourself.
Take a couple of deep breaths to relax, check if your body is relaxed and reasonably comfortable.
Set the motivation: for example recite the refuge prayer:
I go for refuge to the Buddha,
I go for refuge to the Dharma,
I go for refuge to the Sangha. (3x)
Setting the mind towards enlightenment:
By virtue of giving and so forth,
may I become a Buddha for the benefit of all sentient beings. (3x)
The four immeasurables:
May all sentient beings have equanimity, free from attachment, aggression and prejudice.
May they be happy, and have the causes for happiness.
May they be free from suffering and causes for suffering.
May they never be separated from the happiness that is free from suffering. (3x)
The seven limbed prayer:
Respectfully I prostrate with body, speech and mind;
I present clouds of every type of offerings, actual and imagined;
I declare all the negative actions I have done since beginning of time,
and rejoice in the merit of all Aryas and ordinary beings.
Please teacher, remain until cyclic existence ends
and turn the wheel of Dharma for all sentient beings.
I dedicate the virtues of myself and others to the great Enlightenment.
Short breathing meditation (maybe 5 minutes or so):
Concentrate on the tip of your nose, and feel the breath going in and out.
To help your concentration, you can count every out-breath as one, and count from 1 to 10. When you arrived at 10, simply start at 1 again. All the attention is with the feeling of the nose and the counting, nothing more, nothing less.
Regularly check yourself if you are still concentrated, do not get angry when distracted, simply return to counting from 1.
Just before the end of the session, release the concentration on the counting and the tip of your nose, and simply be aware of how you feel.
Giving and taking; try to imagine the following:
- Visualize all sentient beings around you: enemies in front, friends behind you all sentient beings are in the form of human beings.
- First visualize that all their sufferings take the form of black clouds of smoke that surrounds them, and inhale this smoke.
- Direct the smoke to your heart where you visualize a black spot, representing your own egoistic self-cherishing mind.
- The destructive force of all the black smoke of suffering goes to this self-cherishing mind, completely destroying it
Take some time to do this.
- Now imagine exhaling bright white nectar and light towards all beings. This white nectar is your own potential for happiness which you give away.
Take some time for this part. When you are used to both practices, you may try the following:
- If possible combine both above practices of inhaling black smoke and exhaling light and nectar with every in- and out-breath. If this takes too much effort, simply return to either giving or taking.
Near the end of the session, let go of the thoughts of giving and taking, and take some time to sense how you feel now.
Next, try to make some sort of brief positive conclusion, like: “this meditation is too difficult, so I need to practice more”, “this was really great, I should do this more often” or “I must work harder to control my selfish mind”, something like that – but it must be your own conclusion.
Then try to concentrate very strongly on this conclusion, but without discussing it in your thoughts: just try to hold on to the feeling that the conclusion gives you and try to focus intensely on it for just one or two minutes.
Dedicate the positive energy of the session to whichever goal you like, use for example:
May all sentient beings have equanimity, free from attachment, aggression and prejudice.
May they be happy, and have the causes for happiness.
May they be free from suffering and causes for suffering.
May they never be separated from the happiness that is free from suffering. (3x)
and below prayers:
By this virtue may I soon
reach a Guru-Buddha-state,
and lead each and every being
to that state of Buddhahood.
May the precious Bodhicitta
not yet born, arise and grow
may that born have no decline
but increase forever more.
And any specific wishes that you may have.
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I a world of darkness, be the light. Be the hope for those who don’t have any. Give your strength to the weak. Light the way for those who are lost. Dare to be different, dare to love&to live. And always remember that life is fragile and should be handled with prayer.- Abigail Jourdain Miller
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Todays Meditation - Prosperity
Today’s quotation: ProsperityOur attitude tells the world what we expect in return. If it’s a cheerful, expectant attitude, it says to everyone with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in our dealings with the world. You see, we tend to live up to our expectations. And others give to us, as far as their attitudes are concerned, what we expect. Our attitude is something we can control. We can establish our attitude each morning when we start our day–in fact, we do just that, whether or not we realize it. And the people in our family–all the people in our world–will reflect back to us the attitude we present to them. It is, then, our attitude toward life that determines life’s attitude toward us. Cause and effect. Everything we say or do will cause a corresponding effect. If we’re cheerful, glad to be experiencing this miracle of life, others will reflect that good cheer back to us. We are the kind of people others enjoy being around.
Earl Nightingale
Today’s Meditation - Meditation for Prosperity
Make yourself comfortable
Take 3 big deep breaths & sigh heavily
In your minds eye you see a meadow, covered in soft, green grass. Dotted through the soft, lush, green grass are flowers of all colours. See your self walking through the meadow. Feel your feet embraced in the coolness of the grass. Feel how soft and delicate it is on your feet. The sky is clear and blue and rays from the sun gently caress your body, filling it with warm waves of energy, allowing you to be totally relaxed. Breathing gently and easily now, you see tall majestic trees reaching to the warmth and light of the sun. The leaves and branches sway to and fro in the gentle breeze.
Approaching the trees, you come to a crystal clear, babbling brook. Walking alongside the brook, you hear birds chirping, flitting from tree to tree. The sun’s rays shine through the branches of the trees, directing and guiding you to move further downstream. Before you is waterfall. Water is cascading and caressing the smooth rocks surrounding the falls. A fine, delicate mist rises as the water falls to the brook below. Moving closer, you see a pathway under the waterfall. The water is purifying, cleansing and refreshing. Move along the path under the water.
Feel it pour gently over your body from the top of your head, through your body and out through your feet. This crystal clear, warm water cleanses away all old beliefs, all fears, all resentments, all apprehensions, and especially washes away all feelings of lack. Feel these being washed away completely. Stay in this space awhile. Feeling or perhaps seeing what is being washed away. See it all dissolved. You are very comfortable with this. Don’t be concerned if you don’t see anything now, it will come.
Affirm for Prosperity
I release all ideas and beliefs of lack in my life.
I now open myself to receive my divine abundance.
I choose and accept an abundance of prosperity into my life now.
I am prosperous in good health. I am prosperous in love.
I am prosperous in wealth. I am worthy to receive these everyday……
Thanks to www.freemeditations.com For today’s meditation!
Today’s Prosperity Affirmations
“My income is constantly increasing”
“Abundance is mine”
“I deserve all good in my life and that includes prosperity”
“I am a money magnet, and prosperity of all kinds is drawn to me”
“I know that life is abundant and I accept abundance in my life now”
“My good comes from everywhere and everyone”
“Money flows to me from expected and unexpected sources”
“New opportunities to increase my income open up for me now”
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Today’s Decoration – Prosperity
Wood mask, ‘Sacrosanct Ganesh’
Ganesha appears infused in Balinese artistry – his inspired image immortalized in albesia wood by Wayan Gandung. The Hindu deity’s wise and noble face is accompanied by a feast of colorful patterns, which Gandung elegantly paints with acrylics.
Ganesha, according to Hindu beliefs, bears the head of an elephant and the body of a man. He is an icon of generosity and wisdom, believed to dispel the occult forces that bring disaster upon humankind.
Wood statuette, ‘Ganesha Tunjung’
Lord Ganesha poses on a tunjung (lotus flower), his delicate, joyous features precisely captured by Nyoman Subrata. Using suar wood, the artisan evokes the renowned figure’s power and benevolence; his clothing and posture suggest a sense of nobility while his face bespeaks kindness and generosity. In the Hindu culture, it is believed that Ganesha possesses the ability to keep under control the occult forces that bring disaster upon humankind.
This item is individually carved by hand and belongs to a special collection created by the artist.
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