Mindfulness Meditation Practices, 15 tips
Mindfulness Meditation Practice.
How do you nurture your higher self,
your spirit?
What are the sources of your hope?
What are the principles we begin with?
Take the well-known Serenity
Prayer: " God, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the
courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Most worthy vision! But how
do we locate the wisdom or discover the practice to make it happen? Only, I
propose through mindful meditation. Here's how. Consider recognizing, embracing
and practicing these rules.
1. The present moment is the
only moment we have any control over
2. Concepts create idols;
only wonder and awe understand anything. (Gregory of Nyssa)
3. This mystery we call God
is ineffable. Do not speak of "God" as a noun or object/ o do so
presumes that through human words, we can understand this mystery.
4. Since there is "That
of God" in every person (sole Quaker belief), then the need to be right is
the beginning of violence.
5. We are unconsciously
addicted to our own Ego, while believing that the ego validates us, with its
history and set of beliefs and values. This is a false and limited self, which
will be reinforced by finding negativity outside itself. The belief that the
ego is what gives us credibility, value and endorsement is, in fact, insane,
and further constitutes to the chaos and insanity of the world. This is an
illusion.
6. The human ego is a false
guide, leading us into every kind of misjudgment, the belief that we can and
should construct value from what we do.
7. We cannot become open to
the vanity of our ego and is contrivances without failing miserably but then
accepting and surrendering to this failure as the very beginning of wisdom.
8. The practice of
mindfulness, that is, developing the power of the observing self, and the power
of being totally present to the Now, is the secret of wisdom.
9. To be fully present to the
Is-ness of life and of myself is the spiritual practice to be cultivate
10, The mystery of Being is
to be found everywhere.
11. I am the gift of my
parents, grandparents, and 10,000 grandmothers and grandfather to the( present
moment. They survived and thrived against incredible odds that I might be here.
12. I am gifted by my DNA to
"overcome the monster," to survive and thrive. I am a miracle
survival, literally, the stuff of stars and a spark of divine creativity.
13. Begin each day with
Mindfulness practice.
14. Invite into your awareness,
you council of Elders and benefactors and ancestors, your ci of Wisdom
teachers. See who shows up and what they have to say to you today. Just be pre
to them 15. We are literally, the stuff
of stars, the first generation to know that we come from the E stars. We are
the universe observing itself, Each of us a spark of Being, related to all that
There are stories behind each
of those principles Some references: Mindfulness Meditation, Daniel Siegel, The
Power of Now, Practicing Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, and many books by John
Kabat-Zinn.
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