昨夜はけっこう涼しげな夜風が吹いて秋の気配がチラリ・・と思ったらやはり昼間は夏だ！暑い！
今日8月22日のGoogleロゴ、なんだか感動しました。
ドビュッシー生誕151周年を記念したデザインになっています。
今朝、13日目のメディテーションをしたドラゴンユウコです
「今」にいて「愛にあふれたハートをもってジャッジなしで聞くこと」・・
それは、相手への最高のギフトだとメッセージにありました。
その愛に満ちたギフトは宇宙からわたしたちに形を変えてかえってくる・・・のだそうです
では、21-day Meditation Challenge の16日目のメッセージをアップします。
Day 16
Miraculous Honor
“The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.” —Marianne Williamson
When we meditate on a regular basis, we develop what is known as “witnessing awareness”—the ability to calmly and objectively observe a situation, acknowledge when we are being triggered, and consciously choose how we want to respond. Instead of feeling stuck in knee-jerk reactions and conditioned patterns of behavior, we free ourselves to make choices that will help us fulfill our deepest desires for love, fulfillment, and happiness.
In today’s meditation we will deepen our experience of witnessing awareness as we practice staying present with our emotions. So often there is a tendency to judge certain feelings as “negative” or “wrong.” We may resist feeling these emotions but this only increases our pain. Every emotion has a valuable message for us, and as we allow ourselves to feel and hold each emotion in loving awareness, our relationship with our self and with everyone in our lives will become more authentic and whole.
Mindful Moment
Today set the intention to consult your heart before you act on any emotion. Your heart is a reliable guide that helps you experience empathy, compassion, and love. The heart is the seat of emotional intelligence, and it allows you to get in touch with your true self. It nurtures all of your relationships by reminding you to see yourself in the other. See through the eye of your heart and you open the doorway to manifesting the life and relationships you most desire.
Today’s Centering Thought: “I release and my heart is at peace.”
Sanskrit Mantra: “Om Anandham Namah – My actions are blissfully free from attachment to outcome.”
Oprah: “Welcome to Day 16 – I love this one – Miraculous Honor. As we learned yesterday, when we feel a reaction from another, it’s actually a reflection pointing out a lesson that we need to learn about ourselves. We all have been in situations where our last nerve has been tested by somebody else. It could be someone very close to you or it could be a total stranger. Today, Deepak speaks to us about the grace that comes to us when you turn a difficult relationship, or even a one-time interaction into a positive learning opportunity by reframing our perspective and releasing. When we choose patience and compassion in response to what feels like stress or irritation, we shift our experience and in return, we receive peace and a new level of personal evolution. And now it’s time to relax and release as Deepak leads us further down a new path and then together, we prepare to meditate.”
Deepak: “Renown mystic and poet, Rumi, writes, ‘If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? When you feel a negative emotional reaction to a comment or situation, it is a good time to stop, look within and listen to the inner message our soul is attempting to communicate. While it may feel appropriate to assign blame to another, this choice not only creates separation between ourselves and those around us, it is also a choice that leaves us with a missed opportunity to access valuable insight for our healing and spiritual growth.
When we are tempted to react from emotion, we can ask ourselves if we want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. There will be people and circumstances that ignite a negative response, pushing our buttons. Harboring negative feelings can be destructive to our health, well-being and ultimately will push us further from living a life filled with the close, supportive and authentic relationships we desire.
As pioneers of the future, we choose a new path to walk. One with space to stop, look around and find that glorious view we seek to experience. From this perspective, the next time we feel reactive, we choose to step back into the position of observer, taking in the terrain, ensuring we mindfully select our best possible next step. We pause, take a deep breath and begin to explore, noticing the feelings or thoughts which are resting just below the reactive response.
We begin to reframe these reactions as important and interesting trail markers indicating that there is far more to see at this spot than we may have once thought. Whatever we discover below the surface, whether hurt, self-doubt, shame, sadness, or even residual trauma, is a part of us calling out for loving attention. As we begin to release the need to assign blame, we open to what is, with presence, honesty and compassion.
Love is the most powerful healing force in the universe. Our daily meditation practice may at times point us to the trail markers where uneasy feelings live. We are now equipped with the awareness that we can begin to release those feelings by surrendering them to the healing power of love. In time, we learn to let go, maybe not all at once, but with a sure and steady intention to live in peace. Our hearts softened in the inherent well of love opens and bubbles over.
It is here that we experience the miracle of joy, harmony and unity within all of our relationships.
As we prepare for meditation, consider our centering thought, ‘I release and my heart is at peace’. ’I release and my heart is at peace.’
Please sit comfortably and close your eyes. In this moment, go within. Let go of all thoughts and begin to observe the inflow and outflow of your breath, inhaling and exhaling slowly and deeply. Now, gently introduce the mantra, Om Anandham Namah. Repeating it silently, allowing it to flow with effortless ease. Om Anandham Namah. My actions are blissfully free from outcome. Whenever you find yourself distracted by thoughts, distractions in your body or noises in the environment, simply return your attention to silently repeating the mantra. Om Anandham Namah. Om Anandham Namah. Continue with your meditation for about 6 minutes. Om Anandham Namah. Om Anandham Namah – just mentally. Om Anandham Namah.
Release the mantra. Please bring your awareness back into your body, take a moment to rest. When you feel ready, gently open your eyes. As you continue with your day, carry the sense of inner quiet and expanded awareness with you, reminding yourself of today’s centering thought, ‘I release and my heart is at peace’. ‘I release and my heart is at peace.’ ‘I release and my heart is at peace.’
Namaste,
Journal Questions
1. Think about what your body feels like at the end of a challenging day. How does accumulated stress manifest in your body, mind and spirit? Do you acknowledge the feelings you have had during the day or do you push them aside or cover them up in the name of moving forward? Take a few minutes to write in detail about the patterns or coping responses you have when dealing with difficult experiences and emotions. Identify and write down three positive response strategies that you can practice to support your sense of peace and well-being. These can be as simple as going for a walk, stretching, or taking a deep breath when feeling anything other than peace.
2. Are there any particular emotions that you resist or avoid feeling? Choose one emotion you find difficult and write a letter to that feeling expressing why you have struggled to accept it.
3. What would you like to release today? Write freely.
4. Please reflect on today’s session in your journal
ナマステ
