Meditation Monday
In the busyness of our days, it is vital to our spiritual health that we take precious time alone.
Time and space away from the noise and clatter of the world. Away from the pull of tasks, workplace, even needy others. An opportunity to come back to center where we remember how to access our inner calm, clarity, and wisdom once again.
Right now, take time to breathe.
Allow the world to fall away and pay attention only to your breath, to the beating of your heart, to being in your body.
Feel what it is like to BE HERE NOW. To be fully present with your self ... with you and you alone.
Continue to breathe, deeply and evenly. Enjoy the privilege of being in your own company.
What a gift ...
Moments of solitude enable us to reconnect with our inner self,
to gain needed insights or to connect with Spirit.
These things cannot be achieved without silence.
Our thoughts must slow down enough to make room
for new and insightful ones to come forward.*
(*Excerpted from Awakening the Spirit Within by Jan Forrest Lundy. Image courtesy of webmd.com)
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Calling all women on the path to awakening! Please join me today at my other blog, "A Room of Her Own," at Awakened Living. I have a very special guest, Cheryl Wright, of cherylwright-perspectives.blogspot.comShe is presenting powerful thoughts on the importance of solitude in our daily lives. Come on over!
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Hi Jan,
Moments of solitude are so vital. That is why every morning I take time out for myself and go for an hour long walk. It clears my head and makes me feel more intune with my true self. Meditation does the same for me too.
When we are in touch with our inner voice, we are better able to navigate our world.
Hi Jan!
Spot on! Solitude and just being present in the moment! It's the only way I get Monkey Mind to hush up. Without meditation and nature walks I cannot imagine what a nut case I'd be!
Nadia,
I commend you for walking every morning. Alas, I used to but that lovely habit has fallen away. Now, with cold weather setting in, I am even more reluctant to do so. I do not like being cold. :-) But whatever activity helps you get in touch with your inner world, go for it, I say!
SuZen,
You and Nadia sounds like twins. Kudos to both of you for faithfulness to walking and meditating. One of the ways I access inner silence is in the bathtub. Water has that effect upon me. Water meditation, I'd call it.
Time by myself, alone with my thoughts, has been some of the most delicious time I've ever spent. When I truly take time to go within, and investigate what it means to be me: my motivations, fears, desires, attractions... I go forth with more clarity in this life.
Like Nadia, sometimes I meditate to do that. Sometimes I run. Sometimes I just sit and ponder.
Either way, it's quite enlivening and many times enlightening!
Megan,
There is that word "delicious" again that so often seems to come up when we are speaking about solitude. :-) I am glad that you find it so, and enlivening! Solitude does offer clarity and insight, no matter how we find it: walking, running, meditating, gardening, etc.
We can also take the time to stop and to actually revisit the thoughts that constantly plague the mind. They are there to be processed and released, and not necessarily to be fed by reacting and believing in them. Where do the thoughts and the feelings stem from. We can revisit the past by following the thoughts and forgiving their point of origin. This truly frees up the mind. The more tension that is released, the more the mind opens up where silence and love can be achieved. And then, from this state of meditative peace, one can then move forward to manifest one's heart felt and soul initiated dreams into the world.
Yes, time alone is so vital to my well being. Now that my kids are in school I try to immerse myself in quiet. It's not always easy and I need to remind myself to do this. But when I do...if feel so refreshed and peaceful. I think I need to do this tonight...as I have felt a little disconnected. Thank you for this very important reminder!
Ernie,
I continue to be buoyed by the fact that thoughts are just thoughts, nothing more. They come and go like the wind, the weather, etc. 'Tis all about freedom, as you say. Lovely...
Caroline,
Finding time for solitude is always tricky when a busy family is involved. May find time to commune with your true self today!
I am always grateful that I'm a single person who lives alone, and thus am blessed with abundant time to simply be and to enjoy quiet. Perhaps it won't always be so, perhaps it will. But this is my state now and I embrace the opportunities it affords me, being mindful of the present moment, breathing, living according to my own rhythms.
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