“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day” ~ Deepak Chopra When you meditate, what are you trying to achieve? Quiet? Wisdom? Guidance? Revelation? Oneness with your Creator?… Read More »
Three Types of Meditation
“Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.” ~ Matthieu Ricard Renowned meditation researchers Cortland Dahl, Antoine Lutz, and Richard Davidson of The Center for Healthy Minds put meditation practices into three families: attentional, constructive, and deconstructive.¹ Attentional: Beginning with the attentional family, these are meditation practices that include counting the breath, body scanning,… Read More »
Soul Ache
“So it appears that amputation of the soul isn’t just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound tends to go septic.” ~ George Orwell Have you ever experienced soul ache? Have you ever said, “my soul aches for you?” What is soul ache? Is soul ache even real? To tackle such… Read More »
Gym Time For The Soul
“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum.” ~ Ansel Adams If you are like most people, you are conscious of the importance of staying physically fit, but what about staying spiritually fit? How committed… Read More »
Giving God Our Best Early
“Those who run from God in the morning will scarcely find God the rest of the day.” ~ John Bunyan How do you start your day? Bathroom stop, coffee, exercise, turn on the tv, play with your pet(s), rush off to work, deal with kids, spend time in prayer and meditation, etc.? How does God… Read More »
Praying With Fervor
Learning to pray in public and private can be challenging, and why do you think that is? If you learned to pray as a child, your prayers were intentional and full of faith. That is why Jesus told His audience, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never… Read More »
The Challenge of Nothingness
You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing. ~ Maxime Lagacé I want you to stop and think about the word nothingness; what comes to mind? In your terms, without googling, how would you define the phrase nothingness? One way to consider nothingness is to personalize the word. There may… Read More »
Use It or Lose It
“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer” ~ Martin Luther When it comes to the subject of prayer, it’s easy to become complacent and only engage in prayer when we need something urgent from God. Most of us learned to pray as children in some shape and… Read More »
