Sacred Silence ~ the art of meditation
By Sue Ellen Jones
Sacred Silence ~ the art of meditationJun 22, 2020
Meditative Reconnective Healing Meditation Episode 150
One Thing Meditation Episode 150 part 1 & 2
Energy Light Information Meditation Episode 149. 3 parts
The Ultimate Christian Meditation Episode 148
Light Life Love Meditation Episode 147
Take Off the Training Wheels Meditation Episode 146
Youâve Got This Meditation Episode 145
Be Filled with the Spirit Meditation Episode 144
Play Children Play Meditation Episode 143 Parts 1 and 2
RECEIVE Meditation Episode 142 PART one and two
In Him Meditation Episode 141
YOU ARE THE GIFT Meditation đ§đťââď¸ Episode 141
As Jesus Is So Am I In This Present World. Meditation Episode 140
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled Meditation Episode 139
The Finished Work Meditation đ§đťââď¸ Episode 138
The Finished Work: Today weâre going to begin with a peace, love and joy blanket. We will find a proper seating position. Attain a zero gravity position where the body feels weightless and energy is free to flow from top to bottom. Place your attention on your breath and do this for 10 minutes. Gently let go of stray thoughts. Allow the peace and the love and the joy of your own mind be your comfort blanket. This is the main thing for meditators. Out of love and joy and peace will flow higher energy transforming previously low energy thoughts, beliefs and physical and material manifestations. Peace, love and joy is our secret weapon. It is the main thing. The peace, love and stillness of body, mind and spirit, when focused on an Intention becomes your creation. (Read that again.) Example: letâs say I achieve a degree of peace and rest during my meditation and my mind feels soft and I have only a few stray thoughts passing by without judgment. My entire body is also responding to my mindful state of being. Another way of saying this is my physical reality, whether itâs physical health, physical wealth, or relationships are all reflecting my spirit, my energy body, or said another way, reflecting the degree to which I believe that Christ is in me. Sit in peace and use your imagination to see yourself healthy. What does a healthy you look like? Donât bother or take any time whatsoever to see yourself sick even if that is your current state, do not see your self in a state of sickness but rather see yourself 100% healed & healthy, happily doing things that only a completely healthy person could do. It is not productive to see a broken, sick self or try to imagine your organs healing no,no, no. See yourself totally healed and hold the vision. Letâs say you want to move into a new home but you havenât found one yet or sold your current home. Use your God-given imagination and see the new house, see yourself having coffee on the deck with a friend. Taste and smell the coffee. Really enter into the scene. Donât even think about the process of selling your home, or finding and purchasing a new home in another place just see The Finished Work.                                 Namaste đđźÂ
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Serenity Meditation Episode 137
Fear Made Into Love Meditation Episode 136
Where Your Attention Goes đ§ENERGY Flows âĄď¸ Meditation Episode 135
You Are Spirit Meditation Episode 134
Raise Your Consciousness Meditation Episode 133
Healing Song: I Am that I Am
Releasing YOU Episode 131
Wordless Meditation Episode 130 đ§đťââď¸
Millennials Meditation Episode 129
DECISIONS!!!!
Today we will meditate and think on what is truly important about all of our life decisions.
There our relationships with friends and family.
During this pandemic Will there be school? Should I even go to school?
What about marriage is it for me? Should I marry someone?
And a a job a life occupation, what shall it be? I do have to earn a living don't die?
What does the future hold for me? And most of all, how do I feel about me?
Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. THIS is to align our spine , neck and head so that our subtle body Energy flows freely .
Take three deep breaths. Put your attention on each breath. Watch it come and fill your abdomen, and watch your breath as you exhale. We are bringing ourselves into relaxation.
Let's begin with yourself. Picture in your mind you - today, doing what you are you doing working going to school playing a videogame.What feelings arise?
Hold the image of you and to begin to smile from inside. A smile can change just about anything.
Be thankful - start - I am thankful for Me. I am thankful for my life my friends and relationships. Just say it inside and smile while you do. Continue being thankful ~ put me on pause. đ¤Ť
Now as you come back what is the most important thing you need a decision on?
Bring that to your mind and apply the same technique. Smile from the inside. It is your strength it is your happy place and it's all yours and it's always there.
Bring that decision or thought to your happy place and be thankful for even the question What should I do about me . Ask the question with thankfulness in your heart and smile on the inside and let the energy of love and grace Bring the resolution and answers where there were none before.
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Up Up And Away teaching and Meditation Episode 128
A Minute of Joy Meditation Episode 127
Quiet Body Quiet Mind Meditation Episode 126
Sitting by the Lake Meditation Episode 125
Put your oils on! đ 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..Â
- We will begin by finding a place to sit in the Lotus position or Semi Lotus.Â
- Take three deep cleansing breaths.Â
- Remember to do a body scan. Tell your body to relax. Â 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.Â
- ~ Feel the rock that you are sitting on next to the water.Â
- Let your feet dip into the lake water, feel the cool wet water.Â
- Feel the heat of the sun, the breeze on your face.Â
- Observe the blueness of the sky and a blue green color of the water.
- Â Allow your emotions and feelings to be elevated emotions based on happiness, love, enjoy.
- Let your feelings be the prayer.
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Christian Meditation Episode 124
Prayer Meditation - Episode 123đđźđ§đťââď¸
Markâs Meditation Episode 122
Beginnerâs Meditation 101.
 1. Meditation benefits health. It brings a sense of peace at our cellular level. Hormones that regulate our fight and flight response are put to rest. Hormones that regulate joy and happiness are released because of the inner quietness resulting from meditation.Â
2. Stress breaks down bodily defenses including our immune system.Â
3. Peace, love, joy, and happiness build our immune system and our physical body benefits at every level.Â
Shall We. . .
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Loving Friendliness for Me and for You Episode 121
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.Â
- Â Find a place to sit comfortably to gently breathe in and out 3 times.Â
- Â Place your mind on the words Loving FriendlinessÂ
- See the words Loving Friendliness in your mindÂ
- Hear the words Â
- Feel the words - Â do this for five minutes feeling your own heart filling with Loving Friendliness.
- After we have filled our heart with Loving Friendliness  we will continue to pour out Loving Friendliness from our heart to the other.Â
- Think of someone in your world that is difficult, pushes your buttons.Â
- What wonderful qualities does this person have? Are they generous? Are the talented, can they sing, Â sew, garden, run? Think on their virtues for the next five minutes spilling Loving Friendliness all over them INTENTIONALLY.Â
- 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.
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Mindfully Observe Distractions Episode 120
Part 2 Interview with Katrina - going deeper Episode 118
Meditation opens our spirit to the voice of God. The God in you, your hope of glory.Â
Interview with Katrina Part 3 Sharing with our listeners. Episode 119
Part 2. Interview with Katrina - Inspiration/insight/Meditation
What I found so interesting in this segment of the interview was that Katrina and I both "received" a very similar illustration, a picture, and we 'saw' it while meditating on the same question, "What does 'IN' mean?". Â The picture tells a simple truth easily understood by children but almost completely overlooked by adults. Katrina and I also share some of the ways we connect with our inner voice, enter the Sacred Silence, and be in the flow. Different strokes for different folks đ
Interview with Katrina Episode 117
Today we are talking with Katrina Jones, my dear daughter-in-law about her understanding of meditation, how folks can begin a practice of meditation and why? We examine what commonly prevents us from being curious about the practice and examining it further. Â Is it a mindless practice or a mindfulness practice? Who can meditate? How do I know if I'm doing it right? Â What is the "Woo Woo Fear?" What is the difference between prayer, contemplation and meditation? Â Along the way we discuss the appropriate science that connects us to our energy.Â
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How to begin Meditation Episode 116
Begin by finding a place to sit. We need to keep our backs straight, it is our highway of energy.
Once you have found your seated or lying down position place your hands in your lap in a cupped position or on your knees..
Gently close your eyes and we began with the 3 cleansing breaths. I breathe in through the nose and exhale through my mouth. Do this three or four times.
(The teaching today will help you concentrate by finding a point of concentration or focus.. We will also practice letting go of monkey mind thoughts and re -centering our awareness on the point of breath. We are using the breath for awareness because:
breath is available
breath is cheap
breath connects us with our subconscious mind
breath is common to all living things
breath places our mind and heart in this present moment.
Continue setting up our meditation
As you begin just breathe normally.
Find the spot in your nose where your inhale touches first. Practice locating this point a few times.
Now continue focusing on this point of inhalation and exhalation for 10 min.
Stray thoughts will come like the grocery list, phone calls to make, bills to pay, worries of every kind. We call them the Monkey Mind. Our monkey mind is not serving us well. Monkey Minds are the compulsive nature of our thoughts. We are re-training our mind and heart to be in control.
Notice when your attention has gone astray and GENTLY bring your attention back to your breath. Doing this over and over again - NO JUDGMENT - be kind but firm to bring your attention back to your breath. In time this gets much easier and you will begin to experience the peace of God throughout your meditation. Then eventually you will carry the peace with you even in your conscious moments during the day. And peace and love will show up even in stressful, challenging situations. It is WHO YOU ARE, WHO YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. But the Monkey mind kept you diverted, kept you busy, busy, busy. with no time for self awareness. No time to see what is true only time to worry, get angry and react.
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Mindfulness - Vipassana Meditation Episode 115
I Am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. MEDITATION Episode 114
Today we are using an affirmation âI am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.â When we stop to think about it we do so by breaking down the phrase. Begin with âI amâ - where have you heard this before? Moving on to the âRighteousness of God.â Is that not perfection? And finally âin Christ Jesusâ, we find all righteousness is in God and in Jesus and I AM all of that. Todayâs 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.Â
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Daisy Meditation 'Feeling Petal' Episode 113
Feeling Petal
- Bring your body and your mind into the Sacred Silence.
- Use the Stillness Element or Petal
- Feeling
- Call to mind your 'happy place.; It might be with someone, be a particular place like an outdoor sanctuary or a beautiful sunset.
- See it,
- Hear the sounds
- FEEL IT ~ FEEL IT ~ FEEL IT ~ Enter a spirit of gratefulness and Thankfulness.
"The feeling is the prayer"Â Gregg Braden
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DAISY MEDITATION "Smiling" petal Episode 112
CHECK OUT Â the program notes for Stillness Meditation - Episode 110 - for a more complete understanding of the benefits.Â
SMILING PETAL
Let go of stray thoughts
Bring your physical body into stillness. Use the Stillness petal đ
Take several deep cleansing breathsÂ
Picture in your mind an inner smile. It might show up on the outside too  đ
Remain still on the inside and outside. Observe your breath.
And continue practicing the inner smile.
âEnter a spirit of gratefulness and Thankfulness.
Meditate for 10 or more minutes.
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Daisy Meditation "Breath" petal Episode 111
Bring your body into  quietnes
Use the Stillness meditation episode 110
Begin to  observe your Breath* Do nothing more Let go of stray thoughts Keep breathing ~ Keep observing When you are ready  begin expressing gratefulness with thanksgiving. For 10 min. or as long as you like "Breath of Life" *If you like ~ inhale for 5 sec. Hold 5 sec. Exhale for 5 sec. Then increase 1 sec. until you reach 10 sec.  This greatly helps quiet the mind and nerves.Promotional video April Daisy Meditation
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Learn how to meditate with the Daisy â Meditation Episode 110
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 â 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.
How to Begin 1. Select one or more of the Elements (petals) of Meditation ~  Stillness, Breath, One Word, Smiling, Feeling, Healing, Imagination, En Christo, New Wine, or my own personal combination called Sue's Meditation.  2. Use your intuition, select the elements you are drawn to.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! Â 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, Â observe the thought, even feel the emotions connected to that thought, then LET IT GO. Â 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.Â
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. Â
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.Â
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New Wine Meditation Episode 109
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Hope in the Midst of Pandemic Meditation 108
Today I will use a meditation to address the current situation in our country, our communities and around the world.Â
- Â Find a comfortable place to lie down or sit with your back straight.Â
- Take three cleansing breaths.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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. Â 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.Â
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Imagination Meditation Episode 107
This particular meditation is part of my teaching series called Daisy Meditations. You can find it on my web pages, Essential Life Essence under the tab Daisy meditations - petals of uniqueness.  The purpose of this series of meditations is to introduce us all to the various possible  ways we can  meditate. With so many different kinds of meditations it's hard to know which style of meditation is right for us.  I don't think it matters really. I do think it is important to follow your heart and intuition and practice as they are leading.  This series offers some simple ways to meditate and different elements of meditation that can be combined many different ways, as you feel led.Â
Today, let's settle down, open our minds and hearts to our beautiful imagination;
- What is your wildest  dream?
- âUse Stillness to become inwardly quiet and at rest.
- âContinue gently Breathing
- âBring your dream into view.
- See your dream on the movie screen of  your mind.
- âSit with the movie for a time, you are the star!
- Feel your joy and exaltation of living your dream.Continue watching and experiencing emotions of satisfaction and happiness.
- Express deep feelings of THANKFULNESS.
- Stay with your vision as long as you wish. Energetically you are creating you're NOW.
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En Christo Meditation Episode 106
This is the heart of meditation. it is the mystery of Christ in you. Â 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. â Contemplation is a work of love, Christâs 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!
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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. Â In their own way, daisies are beautiful, Â 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. Â I have chosen - LeâChaim- to life. Begin saying your word, Â your special word, saying it in your mind. Â 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
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