#beconnectedsharonmcl

Connection can occur in meditation to your own highest self, and further to your highest angels, guides, all that you are, ancestors, your intuition, your support team.  Connection can occur through tools, such as cards, crystals, colours and symbols, assisting each individual to receive the message they need in any moment.  Tools are often used until your intuition is honed.

Connection can create transformation and a shift in your consciousness.  Connection can be enhanced through the elements.  Inspiring to shift or clear a space to a higher vibration energetically, sharonmcl over the years has used many different techniques.

To be connected, can mean different things to different people.  Energy flows where your thoughts go, and is reflected in your affirmation, mantra or prayer.

The Dali Lama suggests there are nine stages in meditation.  Depending on your awareness, and perspective what you might believe those stages to be.  Training the mind, compassion, equanimity, the nature of suffering, wisdom, calm abiding, special insight, or what??  There are levels of absorption that can take you into nine states, moving through six powers and four mental activities.  These levels and states can only be attained through no attachment for them.

It is common knowledge now that in meditation the brain waves, shift in stages, from very active BETA, to a softening in ALPHA, to a connecting in THETA, and to deep DELTA sleep.  GAMMA is the new level, where the waves are more rapid then BETA, however in this stage you are expanded, aware and connected to universal cognition.

Within Yoga, meditation is “for the mind” a mental hygiene.   The simple principles of meditation can be a great beginning foundation.  The purpose or goal can be Samadhi or higher consciousness, yet often moves from Dharana or concentration to Dhyana or contemplation before self-realization.

Within the Luminous Mind are three refuges – Stillness, Silence and Spaciousness.  Rinpoche calls these the white, red and blue pills, suggesting that these are the remedy for pain.  Certainly, stillness, silence and spaciousness regularly will create a good habit for meditation.

Since 1990, I have practiced meditation, and have enjoyed all these benefits and more.  I highly recommend making meditation, a part of your daily routine, so that you too can benefit.  It will surprise you.

Mindfulness versus Meditation

What is mindfulness?  Being a Reiki Master since the 90s, I first became aware of the term ‘mindfulness’ when I was studying Reiki Jin Kei Do.  It was being mindful of each moment.  Yoga also teaches “awareness of awareness” which is being mindful of each moment.  When you are aware you are conscious.  Being conscious is an important part of the choices we make.  Which brings us to “the highest intent for the highest good”.

Meditation is a broader technique that can include mindfulness.  Meditation is normally experienced in a sacred space.  Why? because you can go very deep during meditation.  Mindfulness can be done at any moment of your day; and can be like a type of meditation.

What will you choose to do for your well-being?

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References: Stages of Meditation by the Dalai Lama; The opening of the wisdom-eye by HH the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso; Secrets of Meditation by davidji; Awakening the luminous Mind by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche