And Then This

As promised at the end of last week’s blog, here is the meditation I opened the night after writing the piece. How my mediation books work is you think of a question or use it to find clarity or answers about what is happening in your life. I use it most often to help me focus on what is really going on in my life that may be causing me confusion, conflict, anxiety or lack of clarity. Every time, the book opens to the perfect meditation. I have no memory of writing any of them nor do I take credit for the contents, I was merely the typist or conduit. What I do know is that each time it happens I say, “Hey Heather, maybe you ought to take a page from your own book.” Both meditation books are available on this website for purchase. If you need to, refresh your memory with last week’s blog and then enjoy.

Synchronicity rocks!

CONFUSION

What is right?

What is wrong?

How should you be in life?

How do you allow the turmoil of your mind to keep you stuck?

Take a few days to listen to your Self. Take notes if you have the time. What are the thoughts, judgments, condemnations, upheavals, upsets and accusations that you rain upon your Self in each day, each hour and in each moment? Do you ever stop roiling the waters of your psyche and just sit in stillness and peace? We have suggested that you meditate at least five minutes each day and are hopeful that you could find at least two minutes in the five that allow for silence. Five would be magnificent. The silence is at the core or center of your being. So if you are feeling “off center” perhaps it is because you do not travel to the center of your being to rest.  This is where bliss resides, peace, contentment and enlightenment. The best information you will receive will come to you in the silence, not the constant chatter and upheaval you think is living.

You live in an information age and think that more input is better, but we would disagree. Remember the phrase “Silence is golden?”  There is a reason for this statement. The void is the place for true healing, for true enlightenment and for true peace. A void contains nothing, if you need a definition. We are using the word void as in abyss not as in a negation of something, although you could see it as a negation of confusion, sound and fury.

Imagine if you can sitting quietly in a forest with nothing around but the trees, or sitting by a stream where the only sound is the water and the wind or if you prefer sitting in a lovely park-like garden surrounded by nature’s beauty. Drink in these moments of solitude and beauty. Feel the wind on your skin and the sun or the coolness and the spray of the water. Just allow for the simple aspects of God’s creation of nature to fill your senses rather then traffic and work, and family and relationship and money and whatever. Just be in the moment, one with all that occurs naturally. You don’t have to do anything to enjoy these places other than to drink them in. Then allow your Self to lose your Self in silence for a few moments. How do you feel afterward? Are you refreshed and rested? Do you feel more at ease with your Self and the world? Where has the confusion gone?

None of the time we recommend for being at peace and returning to the center of your being takes much time yet you resist because you are afraid of the silence. After you analyze what you say to your Self all day long, we believe you will find the silence a wonderful rest.

We leave you silently.

Namaste

And there you go - I am clear that my path leads to mindfulness and silence so that I may have the rest I need to get the projects done.