Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Resting in the Silence
I rest in the "deep Silence of My Peace," and "Surrender all of this world to Thee, oh Lord." I behold the Glory of God, Omniactive as far as my eyes can see and my ears can hear. I observe the Good, ever flowing into the space of my beholding - cleansing and purifying my thoughts, attitudes and beliefs, and overturning the soil of the earth so that new plants of Love, Joy and Plenty may flourish in the Garden of my Soul.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
The Temple Within You
Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.
Marianne Williamson
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day,where you don't know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph Campbell
Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
David R. Hawkins
Marianne Williamson
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day,where you don't know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph Campbell
Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
David R. Hawkins
Saturday, June 25, 2011
The Positive Results From Meditation
It looks like more of the leading edge scientists are discovering the positive effects of deep prayer and meditation:
Science of Mind magazine, June 2011
From the Science & Spirituality column by neuroscientists Waldman & Newberg, "Taming the Impatient Brain"
What happens in the brain when we learn patience? We stimulate the insula and striatum. For those of us who do spiritual practice, this is an exciting discovery: Meditation and deep prayer build patience because they stimulate the same reward circuits in the brain. At that moment, we feel satisfied. We don't NEED to have more of anything--food, money, affection--because we're getting it from the states of peacefulness and positive feelings being generated within the brain. Brainscan studies of meditators also show increased activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, an area that regulates impulsive decision making.
From the Science & Spirituality column by neuroscientists Waldman & Newberg, "Taming the Impatient Brain,"
Science of Mind magazine, June 2011
From the Science & Spirituality column by neuroscientists Waldman & Newberg, "Taming the Impatient Brain"
What happens in the brain when we learn patience? We stimulate the insula and striatum. For those of us who do spiritual practice, this is an exciting discovery: Meditation and deep prayer build patience because they stimulate the same reward circuits in the brain. At that moment, we feel satisfied. We don't NEED to have more of anything--food, money, affection--because we're getting it from the states of peacefulness and positive feelings being generated within the brain. Brainscan studies of meditators also show increased activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, an area that regulates impulsive decision making.
From the Science & Spirituality column by neuroscientists Waldman & Newberg, "Taming the Impatient Brain,"
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