Sacred Silence ~ the art of meditation

Put your oils on! 😀 I am using the essential oil Elevation. While sitting by the lake today we will use our imaginations to experience the divine peace of our inner life.. 

• We will begin by finding a place to sit in the Lotus position or Semi Lotus. 
• Take three deep cleansing breaths. 
• Remember to do a body scan. Tell your body to relax.  Relax your neck, shoulders and arms, chest, abdomen, legs and go deeper into relaxation,. Now I will guide you to your lake.
• To ~ See the grassy field, feel the sand beneath your feet. 
• ~ Feel the rock that you are sitting on next to the water. 
• Let your feet dip into the lake water, feel the cool wet water. 
• Feel the heat of the sun, the breeze on your face. 
• Observe the blueness of the sky and a blue green color of the water.
•  Allow your emotions and feelings to be elevated emotions based on happiness, love, enjoy.
• Let your feelings be the prayer.

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Today we will give ourselves a dose of Loving Friendliness and Love. We will share that love to the other.Follow these note suggestions if you've never done this before. 

1.  Find a place to sit comfortably to gently breathe in and out 3 times. 
2.  Place your mind on the words Loving Friendliness 
3. See the words Loving Friendliness in your mind 
4. Hear the words  
5. Feel the words -  do this for five minutes feeling your own heart filling with Loving Friendliness.
6. After we have filled our heart with Loving Friendliness  we will continue to pour out Loving Friendliness from our heart to the other. 
7. Think of someone in your world that is difficult, pushes your buttons. 
8. What wonderful qualities does this person have? Are they generous? Are the talented, can they sing,  sew, garden, run? Think on their virtues for the next five minutes spilling Loving Friendliness all over them INTENTIONALLY. 
9. And we will finish today with great thankfulness, gratefulness for all we have achieved in the spirit through self-love and and sharing our abundance with others especially those who desperately need unconditional love and acceptance.

Today we are using an affirmation “I am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.” When we stop to think about it we do so by breaking down the phrase. Begin with “I am” - where have you heard this before? Moving on to the “Righteousness of God.” Is that not perfection? And finally “in Christ Jesus”, we find all righteousness is in God and in Jesus and I AM all of that. Today’s meditation will begin with breathing for three minutes and then we will move on to quieting our minds and hearts with the affirmation. Through out the meditation just let thoughts float on by. They are real but they may not be true. Just let them float away. And finally we will be grateful, exceedingly thankful for who we are all ready. 

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Feeling Petal

1. Bring your body and your mind into the Sacred Silence.
2. Use the Stillness Element or Petal
3. Feeling
4. Call to mind your 'happy place.; It might be with someone, be a particular place like an outdoor sanctuary or a beautiful sunset.
5. See it,
6. Hear the sounds
7. FEEL IT ~ FEEL IT ~ FEEL IT ~ Enter a spirit of gratefulness and Thankfulness.

"The feeling is the prayer" Gregg Braden

CHECK OUT  the program notes for Stillness Meditation - Episode 110 - for a more complete understanding of the benefits. 

SMILING PETAL

Let go of stray thoughts

Bring your physical body into stillness. Use the Stillness petal 😊

Take several deep cleansing breaths 

Picture in your mind an inner smile. It might show up on the outside too   😊

Remain still on the inside and outside. Observe your breath.

And continue practicing the inner smile.

​Enter a spirit of gratefulness and Thankfulness.

Meditate for 10 or more minutes.

I believe we can receive inner instructions from the Holy Spirit, our teacher, that gives life to our prayers and meditations. Just as every single thing created by God is a UNIQUE EXPRESSION OF HIM so are we. Every lily of the field, every blade of grass, grain of sand, snowflake and yes, every daisy is uniquely made, one of a kind, expression of God in the earth. To broaden our understanding of meditation I envisioned a daisy flower ❃ with simple white petals, each one a part of the daisy, made by God yet expressed slightly differently, a different shade of glory. That is how I understand meditation, simple lovely white petals on a daisy, all belonging, all beautiful alone, while being creatively inspiring in any combination too.

3. Try different elements and combinations depending on how you feel.

Don't worry if you think you are not doing it right, you cannot do it wrong!  If you fidget just bring awareness back to your body and gently bring your physical body back to stillness. If your mind wonders, and it will,  observe the thought, even feel the emotions connected to that thought, then LET IT GO.  Just let it go like a hot air balloon, watch it rise. Some folks like to envision a stream or a river of flowing water and the stray thought floats away. The point is to intentionally set down and begin focusing your mind and heart on the element of the meditation you have chosen. 

Hint: if it seems daunting please try the Stillness or the Breath Meditation. Either one or together will help you establish quietness of mind and body.  

PURPOSE AND POINT: reduces stress, increases sleep, reduces pain, reduces stress, increases sleep, reduces pain, spiritually opens us to the fruit of our own spirit (God and I are ONE) , opens us to self knowledge which opens us to know God also unknowing, preconceptions, negative filters. 

Today I will use a meditation to address the current situation in our country, our communities and around the world. 

•  Find a comfortable place to lie down or sit with your back straight. 
• Take three cleansing breaths. 
• Now we will do a body scan from head to toe. Tell your head and muscles bone and matter to relax. Speak to your neck and shoulders and arms, the bones, the muscles, and the blood vessels, tell them to relax and go deeper into relaxation. Speak to your neck and shoulders and arms the bones the muscles the blood vessels to relax and go deeper into relaxation. Speak to your chest your abdomen and eventually go to your hips and legs and speak to your own body to relax and to go deeper into relaxation. This is how we bring our physical body into the Sacred Silence.
• We will now take several deep breaths and place our attention on the breath. This brings our heart and mind into quietness while quieting our nerves as well. Now are our spirit and our emotions will also be in the sacred rest the Sacred Silence. 
• Begin by selecting a word that means safety and peace, health and wholeness TO YOU. Listen inwardly, begin to hear the word on the inside. Put your attention on the word that you hear in your mind. And begin to hear the word one syllable at a time. Let go of all extraneous thoughts. No blame here just to let them go. Gently bring your mind back to your wonderful, healing, life giving word. These words are really in our hearts and minds already and are very meaningful to us individually.
•  Stay with the word for a few moments and then transition to opening your imagination. Your imagination is amazing . It is your creative center creating in your mind and heart your current - present  -moment. Your brain and body live in this picture you are creating in your mind. Your special word and your picture will agree. Your picture will reflect what the word entails. I chose the word peace. I listened to each syllable which is one syllable. Then I pictured myself in a boat on a turbulent sea. However I was at peace in the boat. In fact I was sleeping in the boat. Perfect peace. 
• Allow yourself to enter into the emotions of the moment. The deep, deep seated emotions, elevated emotions of gratitude and thankfulness. You might even smell or touch something in your imagination. You are using all of your senses.  We have awakened all our senses in our minds in that moment, your moment of creating your Word Answer. This raises your faith and your trust in God's promises. Soon the answers manifest in you physical life. 

This is the heart of meditation. it is the mystery of Christ in you.  It is the prayer of Jesus flowing continuously in our heart. The Holy Spirit praying through you. * We do not know how to pray so the Holy Spirit prays through us. “ Contemplation is a work of love, Christ’s love in us, for us, as us. The practice of meditation is a discipline, a learning process. Discere in latin means to learn. Just begin. Everything you need will be given to you!

Sacred Silence February 2020

Hi friends this is Sue Ellen Jones and I'm here to encourage you this day in your very own meditation.

Before we begin let me share with you a new teaching I will soon be offering. It's more like introducing you to your own, unique, personal practice of meditation, adapted to your particular self. I'm calling the study, "DAISY MEDITATION". I'm not just trying to be cute. Daisies are each one of a kind, no two daisies are exactly alike.  In their own way, daisies are beautiful,  I imagine a field of daisies blowing in the wind and I sigh with quiet satisfaction. So daisies are like us and like our unique, individual selves. My study of meditation has brought me through many streams. It seems I have sifted them through a fine wire mesh and only the GOLD gems remain. Now it is time for me to bring the many practices full circle into some magical way. I believe meditation can be personalized for each one. However one must first be exposed to the power and persuasion of the differences and then allow your intuition, your divine mind, to combine the elements of meditation in a new, infinitely more personal way just for you. Our practice of meditation will still be creative. The meditation puzzle pieces come together gloriously and that's what I will share with you soon. Look for a coming announcement of DAISY MEDITATION.

Today our meditation will be focusing on quieting our hearts and minds while listening to silence. To be quiet in our body we must first find a comfortable position to sit or lie down. Our back should be relatively straight. This all lines up with the flow of energy in the study we've had in the past of energy science. Try to still your hands and your legs from any type of movement. You will find this might be challenging at first. Next bring yourself into a place of silence, a listening state. The sacred sounds of silence produce a heart centered feeling of peace. Finally we think of a special word
A word that means something sacred, special, loving or kind to you.. Love, Joy, Jesus are suggestions.  I have chosen - Le’Chaim- to life. Begin saying your word,  your special word, saying it in your mind.  You don't need to see it but try to hear it in your mind, listen to your special significant word. Only one word. Simple. Shall we