HJ: Meditation can be so much more than simply sitting with your eyes closed and watching your breath.  While that absolutely is meditation, there are many different styles and forms each with their own benefits and pros and cons.  As the wise have said for ages…  all paths lead to God.  And so today, we’re presenting a highly unconventional meditation that is more a meditation on life.  A reflection, a contemplation, a moment to open up and really get raw with yourself.  Love it, hate it and everything in between, without further ado, here it is for your consideration (and hopefully benefit as well)…

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Spiritual Healing Meditation That Is Unconventional and Powerful

By Chris Willitts | Mindful Muscle

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More than ever before, our world needs people who are alive and inspired, who have new visions, new ideas for implementing them, and new energy. However, as much as corporations, classrooms, and clinical centers say they want to support creativity, they usually end up stifling it.

For one thing, creative people are often misunderstood as undisciplined, or misdiagnosed as having a personality disorder, when in fact they are absolutely healthy within a creative norm, and capable of brilliant work when recognized, nurtured, and supported in developing their expressive capacities.

In Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, creativity scholar Mihaly Csikszentmilhalyi developed a generic description of the creative personality. It gives teachers, therapists, coaches, managers, and co-workers an expanded framework for working with people driven by internal passions, visions, and values.

Forgiveness; knowing and accepting that another person, in their moment, is unwilling or unable to change and loving them anyway. ~ Creator

Dear Ones, your life expression is a grand production! Like all big productions, there are many people involved, and many helpers behind the scenes, as well. If you were the director of a play, you would not build the theatre, the set, write the play, do the hair and makeup, do the lights and sound, sew the costumes, and act every role, would you? Absolutely not! You would allow all your helpers to do their jobs! Do you see? Ask us for help. Direct us. It was never intended for you to struggle through your incarnation by yourself. Going it alone is separation consciousness. Asking for and receiving help is how you move into unity, co-creating the most splendid life expression you can imagine. ~Archangel Gabriel

“This is no exaggeration: you were born to put death to death.” – Leonard Perlmutter

Bruce Lipton, a leading development biologist who believes that genes and DNA can be manipulated by our beliefs is not the only brilliant mind to propose such a mind-bending idea. In fact, he says that our DNA and cells do not control our health, our emotions do. Yogis have known for centuries that what we think and feel affects the physical body. It is one of the foundational components of almost any yogic path. Utilizing the teachings of our farthest reaching wisdom traditions and the newest biological advances, we can learn how to look at the body for signs of its deepest, darkest challenges.

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Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness

I feel inspired to encourage us to take a grounded approach to spirituality – an approach that doesn’t cause us to ignore our negative or destructive tendencies, but instead, surface them, explore them and flow with them.

I won’t encourage us to give up the practices that align us with higher aspects of our consciousness, but we don’t want to use them to hide from the darkness within.

Carl Jung told us that “one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious”. I think ‘making the darkness conscious’ is exactly what we’ll want to do if we want enjoy our lives and our spirituality without hiding certain parts of ourselves from the world (or from our own attention).

They’ll get our attention one way or another, and they’ll get it in big, bold and destructive ways if we spend our whole life trying to hide from them. There’s no sense hiding from the aspects of our consciousness that could be seen as ‘dark’ or ‘negative’, and we make them worse by convincing ourselves they’re wrong or shouldn’t exist.

By Michael Roads

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

You and I are souls clothed in both a physical body and identity. It is soul that is supposed to incarnate from one so-called lifetime to another, but the words we use to describe this tend to create a false picture. The suggested image is that we die, then through rebirth we incarnate onto Earth once again. In other words, the image is birth, death and rebirth, over and over. This image is false.

Body dies, identity clings, and soul continues forever. Our life is actually the continuity of soul, using one body/identity after another to continue our journey of soul growth, of expanding consciousness, of Self awareness. I mostly describe this process as a movie, The Continuity of Self. Who we are never dies, thus is never reborn, but continues on in a greater frame of timeless time. Soul/Self has no linear measure of time. Body/identity measures the passing of linear time by the ageing of the body, for physically we live in a linear reality. This gives us “cause and effect” and “polarity”, both wonderful tools for the growth and expansion of our human consciousness.