Celtic Spirituality

Renames Celtic Spirituality, formerly "Health Spirituality." We aim to encourage and develop awareness of the many benefits of a healthy faith with many innsights from a Celtic perspective. We explore the Mind-Body-Spirit connections. See also Paschal's home faith community at the website of Celtic Christian Chruch. Inspiration: Ps 23, Luke 1: "My sould magnifies the Lord...", & follwing 15 vv., and the words of Amazing grace. Noblesse Oblige.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

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.