mfh Posted June 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 Love Nouwen, Anne. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 video is over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Jack Kornfield, PhD, ~ Meditation on Compassion www.nicabm.com (Thank you for sponsoring him) May You Be Held in Compassion To cultivate compassion, let yourself sit in a centered and quiet way. In this traditional form of practice you will combine a repeated inner intention with a visualization of others and the evocation of the feeling of compassion. Take your time. As you first sit, breathe softly and feel your body, your heartbeat and the life within you. Feel how you treasure your own life, how you guard yourself in the face of your sorrows. After some time, bring to mind someone close to you whom you dearly love. Picture them and feel your natural caring for them. Notice how you hold them in your heart. Then let yourself be aware of their measure of sorrows, their suffering in life and as you do, feel how your heart opens to wish them well, to extend comfort, to share in their pain and meet it with compassion. This is the natural response of the heart. Inwardly recite these phrases and intentions: “Feel how your heart opens to wish them well, to extend comfort, to share in their pain and meet it with compassion.” May you be held in compassion… May you be free from pain and sorrow… May you be at peace… Continue gently reciting all the while you are holding them in your heart. You can modify these phrases any way that makes them true to your heart’s intention. After a time, add another loved one and extend the same compassion to them. Now, after a few more minutes, imagine that these loved ones gaze back at you with the same compassion. Feel how they wish that you can hold yourself, and the measure of sorrows you carry with the same tender heart. Gently recite the intentions of compassion for yourself: “Imagine that these loved ones gaze back at you with the same compassion.” Continue gently reciting all the while you are holding them in your heart. You can modify these phrases any way that makes them true to your heart’s intention. After a time, add another loved one and extend the same compassion to them. Now, after a few more minutes, imagine that these loved ones gaze back at you with the same compassion. Feel how they wish that you can hold yourself, and the measure of sorrows you carry with the same tender heart. Gently recite the intentions of compassion for yourself. Then you can open and extend your compassion further, a step at a time, to the suffering of your friends, to your neighbors, to your community. When the heart feels ready you can breath gently and offer compassion to all who suffer, to difficult people, to your enemies, and finally to the brotherhood and sisterhood of all beings. Sense your tenderhearted connection with all life and its creatures. Work with compassion practice intuitively. At times it may feel difficult, as though you might be overwhelmed by the pain. Remember, you are not trying to “fix” the pain of the world, only to meet it with a compassionate heart. Relax and be gentle. Breathe. Let your breath and heart rest naturally, as a center of compassion in the midst of the world. Namasté I honor the Spirit in you that is also in me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 I tried to post this earlier but it didn't post ~ Choosing Love http://wp.henrinouwen.org/daily_meditation_blog/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Tomorrow is Father's Day. I really don't have anything to say about this day except that we can honor all father's for having brought us into this world ~ some were and some were not role models ~ some were and some were not loving and nuturing ~ some are still living and some are not ~ some deserve our love and some do not ~ all can be forgiven for things they have done or have not done ~ that is a gift to ourselves ~ to forgive their imperfections. I light a candle for my father and for all fathers who are not here with us in their physical bodies. Those who gave love, the hurt of their not being here is greatest and the memories are precious. Those who did not give love...well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202514536444676&set=vb.11006419356&type=2&theater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/stressing-about-sleep_n_5500714.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000039&ir=Fifty This piece includes information about how to use Mindfulness to get to sleep. It is a good piece on Mindfulness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 This is a link to a FREE talk given by Jack Kornfield, one of the biggies in Mindfulness. It is live today at NOON EST...if you click on the link, you can find out what time is at your location (or just figure it out). This is not focused on death but it is, in part, focused on divorce which is a form of loss also, so in addition to the basics he presents there will be some focus on loss and mindfulness, albeit a different kind of loss. http://www.onlinemeetingnow2.com/seminar/?id=ixtdqbg3m9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 22, 2014 Report Share Posted June 22, 2014 Being Grateful ~ Why Me? http://willowgreeninspiration.com/2014/06/18/why-me/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2014 Lovely, Anne! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Wisdom simply spoken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyT Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Just outstanding, Mary! Thank you for finding this and sharing it with all of us! Simple wisdom, indeed! (Maybe the world really IS changing for the better ~ slowly, but surely!) ♥ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 I believe and have believed that the world is' indeed, changing. In 1980 when working with a couple of corporations on wellness, I was not allowed to mention the word spirituality. Now they bring all kinds of folks in to assist employees with this. There is hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 A daily thought. . . http://wp.henrinouwen.org/daily_meditation_blog/?p=3048 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralfae Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Wisdom simply spoken Thank you Mary, I hope everyone here watches this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 http://wanderlust.com/journal/tara-brach-meditation-101/ WATCH: Meditation 101: Forgiveness Meditation with Tara Brach Wanderlust, en*theos and Ashley Turner are joining forces to help demystify meditation. We want to help you learn how to meditate to reduce stress, anxiety, depression, sleep better, be happier and have more energy. In the Meditation 101 video series, more than 30 of the world’s leading experts in meditation, mindfulness, psychology and neuroscience will teach you how to meditate, explain the science behind it and how it can transform you mentally, physically and spiritually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted June 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Guided Imagery and PTSD: A Different Approach to Treatment http://www.nicabm.com/nicabmblog/guided-imagery-and-ptsd-a-different-approach-to-treatment/ Consider that losing a child, a spouse, a significant other. For some this is just plain traumatic or has elements of trauma within it. This link may provide some insight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted July 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 Freedom and Happiness in Daily Life with Tara Brach. Published on Jun 28, 2014 Freedom and Happiness in Daily Life (06/11/2014)- How you live today is how you live your life. This talk explores different meditative practices and teachings that help us reconnect with and nurture presence in the midst of the array of daily stressors. Very relevant for all of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 Excellent, Mary. I'll come back to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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enna Posted July 6, 2014 Report Share Posted July 6, 2014 My meditation thought for this morning ~ 'making space for the light.' A message from Tom Zuba. Learning to live with the death of someone you love dearly is not easy. Do not kid yourself.It is hard, hard, hard work. Death cracks us open, wide open. And then what? I love this quote from John Welshons: "Something within you dies when you bear the unbearable...and it is only in that dark night of the soul that you are prepared to see as God sees, and to love as God loves." Put one foot in front of the other. Rest when you must. My wish for you is that you know Hope and moments of peace today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Daily Meditation: July 7, 2014 Posted on July 7, 2014 by daily meditation How Time Heals “Time heals,” people often say. This is not true when it means that we will eventually forget the wounds inflicted on us and be able to live on as if nothing happened. That is not really healing; it is simply ignoring reality. But when the expression “time heals” means that faithfulness in a difficult relationship can lead us to a deeper understanding of the ways we have hurt each other, then there is much truth in it. “Time heals” implies not passively waiting but actively working with our pain and trusting in the possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 doing 'no thing' right now . . . “Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance … We may pause in the midst of meditation to let go of thoughts and reawaken our attention to the breath. We may pause by stepping out of daily life to go on a retreat or to spend time in nature or to take a sabbatical. . . . You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.” – Tara Brach, from “Radical Acceptance” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifflesnook Posted July 9, 2014 Report Share Posted July 9, 2014 Thank you Anne. I did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted July 10, 2014 Report Share Posted July 10, 2014 Stress Reduction ~ http://griefwords.com/index.cgi?action=page&page=articles%2Fhealing_body.html&site_id=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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