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Meditation
When we meditate we step back from our everyday thoughts and simply observe our mind. We connect with a place of stillness within and become the silent witness or observer. This simple act of detaching from the constant stream of thoughts gives us the power to choose what thoughts we give our attention to. We may recognise that some thoughts do not serve us or are simply other people's opinions or old conditioned beliefs that no longer serve us. Meditation gives us the capacity to choose what thoughts to pay attention to and what thoughts to simply ignore. These negative thoughts loose their power over us and simply fade out of our mind. We vitalise the positive thoughts with our conscious attention.
This is why meditation is so effective in reducing stress, anxiety and depression as we experience these as a repetition of negative and self depreciating cycles of thoughts that come from old patterns of beliefs that no longer serve us. We can heal and change these old patterns and rewire new ones.
The regular practice of meditation gives us back the control and power of our own mind. We, our conscious self take the driving seat and this empowers us.
There is an Ancient wisdom axiom that science is starting to understand that says "Energy follows Thought" and so changing our mind changes the energy you give out into life and therefore the energy you attract into your life and this changes your life in a beautiful way. Other people will notice a positive change in you even before you do.
We can delve into the esoteric understanding of meditation and come to realise when we meditate we use our will to connect our conscious mind with the universal consciousness, our higher mind with our higher self, our personality vehicle with our soul and the intuitive messages that come to us come directly from our buddhic nature, the vehicle of our soul.
We feel nourished mentally, emotionally, energetically and physically by the soul as we make this connection. We build the antakarana, the rainbow bridge between our soul and our personality that enables the intuitive wisdom to flow more freely.
With regular practice we build a bigger and wider and clearer bridge until we come to a place where we live our life intuitively with messages from our soul creating a flow in life akin to the flow we see in a world class athlete who performs in a graceful seemingly effortless way to achieve greatness naturally.
This is the flow of the tao spoken of in ancient Chinese Taoist culture, it is the flow of the prana of Indian hindu belief or the flow of chi in Chinese medicine. It is the natural life force flow that we see in the symphony and beauty of nature and it is ours if we learn to reconnect with our body and come out of our thinking mind to a place of stillness.
World peace begins with me...
"Be the Change you Wish to See in the World"
Gandhi
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”
Nelson Mandela
“The only real,
valuable thing is intuition"
Albert Einstein
Meditation develops a
True Understanding of Love
Overcoming Resistance to a
Regular Practice of Meditation
Includes a wonderful meditation to access your intuitive guidance...
When we connect our Body, Heart and Mind Intelligence centres into an integrated whole we have access to Intuitive guidance and wisdom far beyond our Thinking rational Mind.
"When I meditate I am a nicer person to be around, life still has its challenges but I seem to be able to cope with them more easily, the joy returns, the forgiveness and gratitude come more readily, I feel at peace with myself and the world"
Our soul is in constant meditation, when we come into the silence and quieten our thoughts we connect with
the wisdom of our soul
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison
to what lies inside you"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To help you to Return to a place of Calm and Peace when you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious or fearful I have recorded a 4minute Heart Coherence audio that you can play as many times as you need to during the day
I have also included a 12minute Meditation to Restore your Inner Peace and Courage.
These are both available to download as mp3 files
Teresa Talk How Meditation Develops Mindfulness followed by meditation
There are numerous Teresa Talks on Esoteric Subjects followed by Group Meditation on my Youtube Channel
Teresa's Insights into How Meditation enables us to be Less Reactive Emotionally
Teresa's Blog
I want to dive deep into an understanding of the practice of mindfulness and its power to change your mind, change your perception and how you response to the world. To be mindful is to develop Self-Awareness and essentially integrate and coordinate your personality as an effective vehicle for soul expression.
Your Soul has a note, so crystal clear that its expression resounds through the cosmos creating vibrations of truth, beauty and goodness rippling out in great transforming waves to affect the expression of life itself.
Each of us has our own unique way of making a difference in the world and this is something that becomes increasingly clear as the intuitive communication channels to our Soul or Higher Self become open and clear.
Dru Yoga is a gentle but powerful form of Yoga that opens your Heart, Heals your physical body, Brings you to Stillness and Restores your Vitality. To delve deeply into an understand of the magic of this unique form of yoga and why we feel so good after doing Dru Yoga.
We cannot selectively close our heart, when we close down to avoid emotional pain we also stop the natural flow of love, joy and inspiration that gives life its magic. We come to understand how closing our heart to feeling the authentic emotions of life depletes our energy, our vitality and ultimately has very negative effects on our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being. But there is an alternative, learn how to remain open, authentic, embracing all that life has to offer and living to your fullest potential in doing so.
A master posture that has the power to release built up negative emotions and restore our feelings of peace, calm and opens us to an inner clarity so we return to love, acceptance, forgiveness and let go of judgement, criticism and our need to be right. It changes our perspective and has the capacity to transform our life opening up the opportunity to release the past and move forward into a joyful future. An exploration of the many benefits of regularly practicing this master posture.
Our mind and our breath are irrevocably linked. By simply understanding how the breath connects the mind and the body you can change both your mental and your physical state by consciously changing the way you breathe. A focus on the breath calms your mind and brings you to a place of stillness within. With practice you learn that you are not your thoughts, but that which chooses to think them.
Garudasana frees the energy of change in the heart The Eagle is a powerful posture that has the potential to transform through its actions on releasing energy blockages especially around the solar plexus/diaphragm area of the physical body. This is associated with the Manipura Chakra in the subtle body. These energy blockages arise from unexpressed emotions especially anger and frustration and when we feel we cannot express our true Self. If allowed to accumulate these blocked energies will eventually depress the flow of both subtle and physical energy in the body resulting in Depression and an inability to ignite the will to make positive changes in our life. The Eagle transforms by activating and shifting the energy up into the Heart Chakra, Anahata. This cultivates the quality of truthfulness with oneself and others. The power of the will energy is restored and transformation begins. Physically the Eagle improves the shoulder, leg and hip and back flexibility, strength and mobility and restores good balance and co-ordination. There is improved circulation to the sexual organs and the kidneys. Emotionally we feel lighter, happier, with more vitality and a bubbly feeling of well being. Mentally there is renewed purpose with a return of the ability to focus and concentrate the mind and the will. We are able to make the required changes in our life. The Eagle in nature has a powerful ability with its single pointed vision to see its prey and focus all of its energies and physically capability on capturing that prey and achieving its goal. It flies with effortless grace executing wonderful aerial manoeuvres that leave us in awe of this magnificent creature.
The Dolphin Plank not only strengthens your whole physical body but emotionally and mentally it enhances Self-Confidence and Self-Empowerment, strengthening your focus and your willpower. It is excellent for core strength, abdominal conditioning and back muscle strength. But if while holding the plank you allow your mind to quieten and focus on your breath and you will find you can connect with an inner stillness where the thoughts that run in your mind quieten down and you will find a beautiful peace in the posture.
When we feel energised, inspired and positive we are standing in our own personal power. This energy is a result of the strong connection to our truth, our inner Self, understanding who we are and what we need. We learn how to peacefully assert ourselves giving clear boundaries on what is acceptable to us and what is not. As our confidence and feelings of self-worth grow we learn to discriminate between situations and people that support our light shining and those that dim our light. We learn to step into our power, our creative energy flows and we start to live a truly inspiring life, making a difference in the unique way only we can. This can be a lifetime’s work.
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