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7/11/2016 0 Comments Observation Meditation is the process of deconstructing the conscious mind within a direct line of enlightenment. The practice is to develop a very clear, distinct and specific connection between the emotional mind and the reasonable mind or intellect. This meeting of the minds if you will, is an evolutionary process that establishes a point of balance between what we sense and what we know. It creates a space of abundance in which the finite and infinite meet and merge as one unit or one consciousness.
Try this, take your thumb and the pointer finger of your left hand (intellectual mind) and link it like a chain to the thumb and pointer finger of your right hand (emotional mind). Now with a soft and wide gaze, look at the mid-point of the link. As you do this, you'll see the bigger picture, that within this merge a figure 8 symbol emerges or sign of infinity. Eternity rests on the tips of your fingers. So, it is this linkage and this lineage of universal consciousness that is your wise mind. The eye of peace, calm, and clarity or third eye. The fine point of light between enlightenment (intellect) and wisdom (emotion). This Month's Meditation Focus: Observation To observe is to look at a situation without getting drawn into it. It is refining the ability to feel without judgment and be a witness of action while noticing everything. This includes what you sense as well; what you see, hear, smell, feel, taste. Developing the skill of observation it is to have a complete immersion of experience without opinion, judgment, or criticism. The purity of observation is to take in information without stopping the flow of experience, the key element being non-judgment. Observing is to take in information without stopping the flow of experience. So, when I think about the qualities of observing, I see a through line of action and energy. We know, pure observation is to witness without judgement which naturally leads to the freedom of non-attachment and finally rests peacefully within acceptance. Observation is the foundational skill or seed of acceptance. It's very powerful. Think about it, it offers a chance to not change or fix anything or anyone. To be completely present and aware in the moment of now, immersed in the totality of what is--what is actual. This simple act releases a freedom natural to our being and leaves a trail of something clean and pure... The after taste is sweet and just. Nothing is rejected - Everything is included. So, when you practice the true form of observation what you're really practicing is acceptance. The acceptance of what is. You begin to craft the refinement of truth in the reality of NOW. Now, take this moment for yourself. Self-Discovery Exercise: Take in the information without stopping the flow of experience. - Take a few raisins or carrots (anything you like) and begin to observe it for 5 mins. Set a timer and fully experience your time with your object of choice. Take in all the information- how it looks, feels, smells, tastes, what sounds does it make, can it make..? - Notice what kinds of thoughts and feelings come up. - Notice if any judgments, opinions, or criticisms enter your mind and experience. Have fun with it! Love, Jennifer
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TIS` THE SEASON OF HEART
December can be quite a magical month and fulfilling time of year. We get a chance to embrace the spirit of holidays and witness the wonder through the eyes of children and adults alike. Tis` the season of heart, when the world steps into a place of family, togetherness, and hope. It’s an end of a year that begins an active path into giving and receiving, rooted in a coming together of values and the essence of home. The season fills the atmosphere with magic; crisp air and snow falling from sky, lights aglow on streets and in homes, long gazes into loved one’s eyes by the crackles of fire and sparks of sweet-hearts. We take care, nestling into hearty foods like soups, stews, and hot chocolate. We bundle up with sweaters, scarves, blankets and loved ones and we find ourselves surround by light, the illumination of our hopes and dreams in the stillness of love within our hearts.
The heart symbolizes life, love and the engagement in partnership. The heart never leads alone... It never beats alone... One pulse follows the other in the direction of union. A sense of union requires partnership. We learn to connect and re-connect through the heart-experience, magnified between a pair of arms that allow us to reach out and touch what we love, while, cradled and comforted between two breasts that safely hold what we feel. We are given an opportunity to feel the magic of life, connection and harmony both, individually and collectively. The season of heart reminds us in order to create a spark of life, we cannot go at it alone. We simply relate and create in a blended continuum of wholeness. The heart does not beat alone... It does not lead alone... One pulse follows the other in complete unification. This is a time of un-veiling, re-vealing, and an un-folding of self to the inner sweetness of comfort and warmth. It’s a reminder of the mother-child experience, the inner connection and bond of unconditional love. Our very own place to rest soulfully in the wonder and awe, completely disarmed and embraced in the natural state of being. The heart leads us to a clear passage and cleansing, a shedding of old, a point to nurture life and all that we live for. It is a space given in which to surrender, to lay down a clean slate, to be re-born in concept as we celebrate into the new, calm and cradled in the mother energy, inside the season of heart. Love, Jennifer #HeartSeason #SpiritofCalm&Comfort #MotherEnergy #CradledInHeartEnergy #TistheSeasonforMagic #HeldinLight CONSCIOUS BALANCE
It’s time to get out of the “cookie cutter” version of what healing should look like and shift back into our own personal guidance and experience. Sometimes, the path to healing has us feeling off center and it’s cause for questioning but we forget, feeling off center is also for good purpose. The center balances opposing sides and reveals a place of wholeness. When the scale tips toward into the wound, the other side of balance is overlooked. The gift of wholeness is to be open and available to both sides and to integrate them into conscious balance. Your personal path to healing begins inside wholeness not in one side of experience. Let’s look at pain for example. I’ve thought about pain. Pain is real. Pain is relentless. It reveals itself through the body, not just inside it. It wants to be seen. It beckons to be heard. It tugs at you every minute of every day. Pain is restrictive, trapped in the body with no space for joy and we suffer. Pain is suffering, the physical manifestation of held in, held back, shut down and buried emotion. Your physical body can become the storehouse for ignored, unacknowledged and suppressed emotional energy. Pain is an internal broadcast system for the feelings buried inside, screaming to be heard. To be acknowledged. To be cleared. To be loved.
Every healing journey will not look the same. It’s a personal pursuit-
Have you ever sat with the inner voice of your own pain? I have. Pain is a lot more than just what we name it. It’s a culmination of stuck emotions, blocked feelings, experiences, memories, unconscious belief systems and unhealthy patterns. Because of this, healing can be an evolution of all experience and acknowledging what exists inside you, begins the path that serves as a direction. All of it is important information to construct a very intimate healing experience. Sometimes the tendency is to give up because you don’t like what you see and it can be hard to move through. This is when healing becomes dedication and time becomes discovery. I thought about pain. I’ve had pain. I’ve worked with pain and then it occurred to me. It came into me like a whole being awareness. The other side of pain, is pleasure. Pleasure. What a revelation! In all these years, it never occurred to me that pleasure was a root deficiency to my experience of pain. I was totally invested inside the pain that I missed out on any form of pleasure. I never embraced the joy of life and in being because I never thought to look at the other side of what the experience of pain had to offer.
I thank God for that moment in wholeness. It moved me. Pleasure was now in the game and enjoying my life became priority. When you embrace the other side, you stop brow beating the wound. You cease falling back into rigid, perfectionism disguised as discipline and the “trigger” has a place to go, a space to flourish. My personal healing did not look like the ideal or what I had anticipated. I found rest. I witnessed no more pushing into life or wanting to force forward. I could feel the grip loosen, I allowed some fun and sweeter foods, exercise was no longer a bloodbath but now conscious movement based on my needs for that day. Yes, I gained some weight but I also embraced that weight and loved myself anyway. My healing journey through pain helped me find a better balance within myself, a conscious balance. It helped me find the opening to the possibility of having pleasure move through me and integrate it into my experience. When you make your healing journey personal; it moves you, it changes you, it transforms you into a state of inner-conscious being. Shift away from the “call to action” approach to healing and move deeper into intimate understanding. Let that be the life-giving medicine you take in. Love, Jennifer🌸 -Releasing Emotional Patterns #BecomeYourInnerMostBeing #ConsciousBalance #WoundsAreOurGreatestTeachers #SeektheOtherSide #BecomeWhole #WholnessMatters AUTHOR OF INNER BEAUTY BLOGSJennifer is a truth seeker and artistic expressionist. She is certified energy therapist, emotional wellness coach, yoga/meditation instructor and intuitive. She is known her poetry and the deep care she feels for others. Archives
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