We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson
Category: Uplevel
How to Start a Meditation Practice
In an earlier post talking about Momentum we talked about keeping the flow of positivity alive; to catch your seedling thought of worry, anxiety, past, or future when it begins rather than continue to feed it.
Well, I thought I’d share a bit on how I like to meditate in the mornings. This varies by situations but for the most part the framework in which I set up the daily morningĀ meditation is outlined below. I hope this helps to either start or solidify your own meditation practice. š
I tend to meditate in sections. I know sounds weird but it works for me and if you have an analytical, type A personality perhaps this will work for you too. Here’s how…
Momentum
Each day we have the opportunity to start anew.
The moment you wake up to take your first – full – deep – breath just remember your slate is clean. Your mind is a vast, expansive, open canvas. This canvas is bright, immaculate, and has no edges.
Begin your prayer. Meditate. Be full of gratitude for another waking day. Honor yourself to the highest. Understand your mind and body are a temple where only the highest of thoughts should live.
Abraham Hicks speaks of momentum. The moment you have a lower vibrational thought, and the moment you keep feeding this thought is the beginning of momentum. Once this begins it gets harder and harder to get back to higher frequency.
And vice versa! Upon waking linger on the clean slate. Linger on the GRATITUDE. Linger onĀ feeling the positive emotions and thoughts. KeepĀ this momentum going.
So, I’m curious… what are some positive thoughts and/or emotions you focus on to keep the momentum going? š
ą„ Losing the Ego: The Awakening by Eckhart Tolle
The thoughts that go through your mind of course are linked through the collective mind of the culture you live in, the collective whole, they areĀ not your thoughts as such but you pick them up from the collective.
You identify with thinking and the identification of thinking is ego.
Which means simply that you believe what you are thinking.
-Eckhart Tolle
Smudging and Clearing Space
The first time I smelled the smoke ofĀ palo santo I felt an odd sense of coming home…
When I first moved to San Francisco I came across an adorable shop called Foggy Notion. Alissa, owner of the shop, carries hand made, local items from hand salves to beautiful hand made bags. While I was still in my mode of “simple living” I strayed away from any material item I didn’t necessarily need, and instead found myself in love with a tightly bound cluster of white sage. Alissa was sweet enough to burn some for me after which I fell in love.
Months later I was walking in the Mission and found myself upon a street vendor selling crystals and other eclectic items, one of which was palo santo. I lingered and went back and forth as to whether or not I should buy anything but ended up leaving empty handed.
The God Box
I’ll be the first to admit I have an overly analytical mind that sometimes just won’t shut up š AtĀ times it can be helpful, especially at work or when I’m planning a trip (which I am totally doing at the moment), but for the most part I tend to over do it.
That’s where the God Box comes into play…
Tosha Silver mentions a God Box and Gabrielle Bernstein has something similar she calls the Holy Triangle. Ā I love this concept. It involves faith, prayer, and the willingness to let go.
Sit in silence
“Sit in silence. It’s the last thing you want to do when you’re anxious and have so many thoughts, feelings, and emotions racing through your mind and chest but just trust me…. sit in silence. From this place of silence you will recognize the truth of who you are. The answer lies within you if you dig deep enough.”
I swear sometimes this is the hardest thing to do when you’re stressed, anxious, fearful, or even strung out with “happiness”. I say happinessĀ in quotes because often times I find that when your ego is equally as identified with a high state based on the earthly plane that too creates an imbalance which causes a form of anxiety within the body. At least that is what I’ve come to find when my state of happiness is attached to a form of this earthly plane and not from within my deeper self.
So how do I re-center myself and find peace? How do I find the place so deep, yet reachable, within me that cannot be touched from any person, event, or even emotion?