Reframing negative thoughts into positive thoughts, over time changes the way I think. My outward circumstances change too. As I experience more optimism, I attract greater prosperity and abundance into my life.
Category: Meditation
Daily Meditation
Smiling enhances my physical, mental and emotional well being. Breathing in I smile. Breathing out I smile. All is well in my life.
What Type of Meditation Is Best For You?
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What type of meditation is best for you? Several studies underway now to review different types of meditation and analyze the effects of these on heart rate and heart rate variability signals. We found one in Germany recently, where they review the degree of mental effort when using a breathing meditation, a loving-kindness meditation and a thought-observing meditation are very different, and this is reflected in your cardiovascular system as well. The results so far are showing that during a loving-kindness meditation and the thought-observing meditation reflected a higher level of cognitive and physical arousal when contemplating thoughts such as compassion, empathy and forgiveness. Which means what even though we are meditating and definitely taking a relaxed stance, our minds and emotions are still reacting to these concepts. A loving-kindness meditation is essentially about cultivating love, and comes from the Buddhist tradition, it is also known as metta in the Pali language. Another study is also underway reviewing the impact of loving-kindness meditation on back pain. Those results are still pending, but what is important is that we should keep in mind the type of meditation practice we use and tailor that around our specific needs at any one time. |
Daily Meditation
I will never know the bigger picture of anyone’s life, so it is best not to judge it.
Daily Meditation
Love is all there is. And Love is found in compassion, kindness, truth, peace, joy, beauty and creativity.
Daily Meditation
I am fully present in this moment … breathing in Aloha, breathing out Aloha.
Seeds for Meditation
Your pets will help you de-stress … but will you choose to spin less??
Thought for the Day
When someone is at peace, their inner beauty radiates out, making everything around them beautiful too.
Daily Meditation
I still feel ‘butterflies’ in my stomach when I speak in public. Instead of reacting to them, I observe each one flying free with every breath I take.
Daily Meditation
A healthy baby is fully engaged, alert and aware, focused and concentrated in the present moment. I am remembering those qualities in my daily meditation practice.
This Week’s Aloha Spiritual Message
Daily Meditation
Meditation is a great teacher if I am a willing student.
Seeds for Meditation
When I know that I am not separate but connected to all that is, I am aligned with Consciousness.
Seeds for Meditation
Meditation reinforces the profound knowing, that I am never alone.
Seeds for Meditation
I witness a thought as energy. If my thoughts are negative, then that’s a lot of negative energy impacting on the world.
Seeds for Meditation
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
Stop and Fall In Love With This Moment …
Fall in love with this moment, my friend. Anything less than this creates suffering.
Stop arguing with what is, my friend. This argument is the root cause of all conflict, within you and within the world.
This moment cannot be changed, controlled, improved, or made to vanish. It is as it is, and it cannot be any other way. It is a fact of reality.
This moment is in love with you, exactly as you are. It doesn’t care whether you resist or argue or turn away, it doesn’t try to change you, it doesn’t try to make you respond with open arms, and neither does it leave you when you reject it. Whatever your state of mind, this moment is still here, right up close and absolutely naked, as it is.
This moment gives itself to you wholeheartedly, in all its glory and all its horror. This moment is your most faithful friend, totally devoted to you.
When it hurts, when your mind contorts in agony, when you strive to make this moment conform to your idea of how it should be, it is you that suffers. This moment is untouched by your suffering.
If you really want freedom, then stop the fight, stop the argument, simply stop. In stopping, there is a surrender of the mind. And in this surrender there is a relaxation, an opening. And in this opening, there is a clear seeing of the fact of reality. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking, nothing to do with pleasure or pain. It has everything to do with intimacy. Simply being intimate with what is.
So, fall in love with this moment, my friend. It is the only freedom available to you.
Thought For The Day
Your innermost … the depth of You … is already radically free!
Seeds for Meditation
ADORNING …
Fire adorns the mountain.
The highest standards
Are quietly revealed.
Success is achieved without litigation.
The mountain is still.
It is your symbol for this moment.
The mountain attempts to change nothing,
Yet its form and strength of presence
Brings awe with no effort
Seeds for Meditation
On the idea that balance can unbalance us:
“Something is always born of excess … Great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
~ Anaïs Nin
We ought not, perhaps, underestimate our wish to lose our balance, even though it’s often easier to get up than to fall over. Indeed, the sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.
Image: Rainbow at the bottom of the Firefalls, Yosemite National Park
Seeds for Meditation
You might think that divine sparks are meted out by simple protocol: The lowlier the creation, the lowlier the divine spark it holds.
Just the opposite: Only the highest sparks could descend to the lowest places and retain their power to sustain a being.
Those are the sparks remaining to be rescued today.
Seeds for Meditation
All things change.
The root of the situation is in decay.
This is in the natural order;
No blame, no fear.
There is a great work before you
A path you have dreamed of and desired
The key to unlock the gates of your abundance is held by you
Unlock the gate by discharging fear and doubt
Gratitude is the elixir.
Look into the past
And examine what has
Led to this period of dissolution.
Liberate negative emotions by simply acknowledging them.
Changing your inner attitude does the repair.
Weekly Haiku
Bright layers of sound
Herald dancing summer rains
The season is here
Seeds for Meditation … Empty and Full
To fill yourself with wisdom, you must proceed with wisdom.
To fill yourself with wisdom, you must empty yourself of all wise thoughts.
To receive blessings from Above, you must do all those things that draw blessings.
To receive anything from Above, you must be still and quiet.
In Praise of Darkness: Henry Beston on How the Beauty of Night Nourishes the Human Spirit
“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round a fire, do not fear night; they fear, rather, the energies and creatures to whom night gives power; we of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ver more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of the night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of the stars? Having made themselves at home in a civilization obsessed with power, which explains its whole world in terms of energy, do they fear at night for their dull acquiescence and the pattern of their beliefs? Be the answer what it will, to-day’s civilization is full of people who have not the slightest notion of the character or the poetry of night, who have never even seen night. Yet to live thus, to know only artificial night, is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.”
~ writer and naturalist Henry Beston (June 1, 1888–April 15, 1968)
Seeds for Meditation
ON REPRESENTATION ~ We are representatives of the One Above. And as such, we live as two opposites at once:
We are not beings for ourselves. We are but agents of that which is beyond us.
Yet we must be free-thinking, independent beings—because to represent the One Above, we must have our own will and our own sense of being as the One does.
And if you should say, “But this is an impossibility! Two opposites in a single being!”
Yes, you are correct, it is an impossible paradox without resolution.
Which is why this renders us representatives of the Impossible One Above.
Weekly Inspiration
The spirit of the Joyous Dancer has arrived.
It has come to support you
As you enter a cycle
Of strength and correctness.
Fear not the thunder.
The great force of nature is wise.
Pay attention to the thunder in your life;
It is your wake-up call.
Daily Inspiration
Loving kindness reaches out and touches everyone, gently healing mind, body, and spirit.
Seeds for Meditation
Embolden your awe of heaven and you will diminish your fear of human beings.
Seeds for Meditation
Consciously join with your fellows
With that joining set goals
Coming together is the natural way
Intimacy is the fuel for the journey
Consciously join with your fellows
With that joining set goals
Coming together is the natural way
Intimacy is the fuel for the journey
Union can bring happiness and form.
As the waters join together they create new pathways.
When people are brought together
Through love, trust, and compassion
They too create new pathways
For the highest good of all.
When water flows across the earth
Their union creates fecundity.
Join together now while the flow is here;
Do not get left behind;
You may not recover.
Write down your dreams; if you don’t have a dream
How will you have dreams come true?
Weekly Haiku
Carribean dreams
Her steps turn sand to diamonds
Blinded by the light
Seeds for Meditation
“We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion.” — Tom Wolfe
Seeds For Meditation
A world without a friend is like a heaven without a sun … like a body without eyes.
Seeds for Meditation
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” — Kurt Vonnegut
Seeds for Meditation
As the complications of life start to build — whether it is health issues, financial concerns, or relationship problems — it’s important to find resources that enable you to skillfully navigate these challenges. And some of the best resources — like mindfulness, compassion and determination — are ones that already lie within you.
“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” — Dalai Lama
Hālau 'Aha Hui Lānākila 