QotW- 2/3 - Meditation?

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QotW- 2/3 - Meditation?
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Fri, 02-03-2006 - 1:07pm

We've been touching on this topic in several other posts, so I thought it deserved a thread of its own.  Do you meditate?  How often?  How long?  Where?  How?


I'm looking forward to your responses!


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Fri, 02-03-2006 - 6:36pm
Not in any formal way.
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Fri, 02-03-2006 - 11:59pm

I do a combination of meditation styles. T'ai chi is a "moving meditation" form which I do daily. When I can, I also do sitting meditation as I learned some years ago in Zen. I've added a book I'm currently studying, "The Earth Path: Grounding your spirit in the rhythms of nature" by Starhawk, recently. I read a chapter and then sit in silent meditation to absorb her wisdom and come to understand it.

I find that in any combination, meditation helps me settle in to my own wisdom, gives me inner balance and helps me access my intuition as my giude. Helps me handle and accept Life with equanimity. And learning to trust myself.

Gypsy



Blessings,

Gypsy

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Sat, 02-04-2006 - 10:06am

I used to think I didn't meditate, but I do, just not in a large block of real time.


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Sat, 02-04-2006 - 7:31pm

Hallo Bink
I come very late in life into this meditation stuff.. It all came about due to a dream I had.. and so I took up Reiki and I went all the way to master/teacher reiki.. hihi, i was the oldest stump between all the other people.

but this because of this? reiki? that I meditate these days.. and you wont believe this!! I must tell you, if you don't mind? me rattling on?

Well first of all? I was so dead curious as to how Reiki guides look like, what are they etc etc.. but in the meantime I was also a bit scared, you see..

Anyway, everytime I did meditation, I would get this vision of the universe, with all these globes of light.. The heavens were just plastered with them.. and I didn't have anybody I could ask.. so I didn't relate these light disks in the universe with the Reiki energy...

Then i attend the second Reiki degree class and there the subject comes up and we were told what they look like. I just couldn't believe my eyes and ears..

So since that worked sooo well, i thought to ask, if I could find out, prior to the birth of my first grandchild, if I was allowed to know what my very very first grandchild was going to be.

First I was shown a baby.. and I said,yeah , well, this is no good, it just shows a baby, but not its sex...
so I kept it going my meditations and not very long afterwards, I was shown this precoseous little girl, trying to climb a fence...

I couldn't wait for the day of her birth.. and when my son, called me that I had become the grandmother of a granddaughter, I can only tell you, that I burst out in tears, because that vision only 3 weeks prior to her birth, had told me the truth.

Since then, I find, that whenever I do Reiki on or for somebody? I always get into a sort of meditation state and I have visions of lovely trees with lovely green leaves, visions of curtains of green leaves and lately, this little old lady, a neighbour of mine, whom I do every week, i get shown a lovely string of semi precious stones with emeralds and turquoise and amathysts...

I have also found out? that I can't miss even one day, of doing my meditations.. I must do it..

So now? am taking lessons, you see, once a week? and am learning to meditate in a particular way, to learn to meet my spirit guide... Tis really Exiting Bink, to learn all this stuff at my age.. am feeling young again and adventerous.. I can talk normal now too and because of my meditations and Reiki, I can even speak english well again and my own language and my heart doesn't go off funny as much anymore!!

Oh,you've started a lovely subject! thanks ever sooo much!
greets from the old brush

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 7:17pm
Dear Brush, I know that when I do reiki, I get healed too. I can havwe dreams that tell nme the sex of a grandchild. I have trouble getting into real meditation. Just can't seem to do it, as gingercookie, I get lost when i am in an artistic project, I make greeting cards. Meditation is always a goal but I don't do it. Love, Leila
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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 7:58pm

I am desperate to learn some meditation. I need some inner peace to deal with the stress in my life and to heal myself from within.

I hoped to find a cd or book on this subject, any tips?

**Star**

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 8:02pm

Dear Leila
I always am very busy reading about other people's experiences, hoping to learn more to educate myself in this matter... So, because of this? I have found out? that there are people who are in a meditative state? when they knit for instance, or crochet or garden or just walking.. I could never just concentrate on my breathing, but with the new Japanese way of doing Reiki? I have now come upon a method that I can and do meditate..

There are soo many ways of doing this.. tis sooo amazing and everybody has different experiences and never two are the same!! Fascinating I find this..

Ah so you do Reiki too? well late last year, I decided to see, if this particular centre, where they do reiki for donations? would take me on. So far? I have been there now a month and a half..

there are a number of ladies, who have had Cancer for over 10 yrs and Reiki for over 10 years!! and are still doing very very well in deed!! I know this is off topic, but still eh? isn't that amazing?

I wonder if there are many more people, who are doing it.. and what their experiences are. Meditation I mean. I love reading about people who do this and I love reading about their amazing experiences.
greets from the old brush

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 11:32pm

Star?
I used to meet with a group of people once every monday evening, and one person there, told me that he had found a very good CD for meditating and had been using it for years, very successfully.

If you sort of search on the websites? like the buddhists? You will come across a few, just to try them for free, while just sitting in front of your pc..

I used to have a couple on my pc, and I experimented on my hub with them, as he was often too dog-gone tired to sleep and actually they worked great for him.

Maybe this could be an idea for you? to try some first via internet, so that you get to know some of them, first? before buying one?

good luck and greets from the old brush

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Tue, 02-07-2006 - 6:13am
I had one experience, I meditated for 1/2 hour, I thought that was amazing. First i had a talk with angels. In the meditation, I saw myself making cookies. when I flipped one over, the underneath of the cookie said, " You are loved"
How bout that for a message from the angels? so why don't I go back for more? I get like a kid, I feel nervous with my eyes closed like something will come up behind me and I feel safer with my eyes open??????????? Once in a group meditaion, I had an experience like in a past life. love, Leila
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Tue, 02-07-2006 - 12:27pm

I love to meditate! I try to meditate for at least 30 min every day (can't always do it because of my schedule). I will either go to "my room" and lock the door, put on a CD, light a candle (color depends on what my goal of the meditation is), or go to a park and be in Nature-using the Birds singing or water flowing as my music.
When I first began meditating, i would do "guided visualization" techniques until I was able to do it on my own. This past year has been the best for my Spiritual Growth, where I can fastly enter a meditative state without much focus. Now I close my eyes and go wherever it takes me and can spend a small amount of time there, but feel as though I have been there for hours!

tavi

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