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WEEK 3: Meditation as a Tool to Get Over Your Sh*T

How to use Meditation as a Tool

Mindfulness is helpful in ALL things.

~ The Buddha

Meditation for Happiness

In every moment there are an infinite number of things to be happy about and an infinite number of things to be unhappy about. By consciously choosing where you put your awareness, you will begin to maintain a happier baseline of being and operate from genuine balance, even while you continue to work for the benefit of all beings.

Meditation for Challenging Emotions

Your heart is a masterpiece of creation. It is your doorway to divine guidance. While your mind speaks to you with words and images, your heart speaks to you in the language of emotions. Whether you are aware of them or not, emotions are a constant presence in your life underlying everything and influencing everything you do. When you do not allow yourself to feel your emotions, you block, avoid or cling onto them. When this happens, life can't flow through you - and you feel stuck, confused and exhausted. When you are able to be with all of your emotions, you discover a deep inner peace that allows you to be present and open to all of life.

Meditation for Forgiveness

Forgiveness doesn’t mean saying that what happened was OK. Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting. Forgiveness is the courageous act of releasing the rage and resentment that you are holding in your system as a result of the trauma so that you can grow something else in that space of your heart. Hanging onto these emotions is harming your body, mind, and spirit –holding you back from moving forward and making a meaningful life. Feel the feelings, allow them, they are your dear friends outraged on your behalf – let them speak their piece in healthy ways. Then, let them go. When you forgive yourself and life, you can reconnect to your deepest spiritual knowing once again.

Meditation for Physical Healing

You have the power to heal yourself, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless,
but we are not. We always have the power of our minds. Claim and consciously use your power. ~ Louise Hay

Meditation for Opening Your Heart

May you be happy. May you be peaceful. May you be safe. May you have ease and joy.
Practice this simple mantra throughout the day to build your unconditional love muscle.

Meditation to Release Painful Thoughts

HOME-PLAY!

1. Play with using meditation as a tool this week.

Use it to boost your mood.
Use it to stay with challenging emotions.
Use it to open your heart.
Use it with any health challenges you may be facing.
Share your insights in the private facebook group!

2. Listen to one guided meditation (below) per day, and use meditation as a tool.

Incorporate it into your life -- remember to meditate whenever you need to shift that experience or see more deeply.

3. Repeat the weekly mantra as many times as possible throughout the day.

Smile and really allow the truth of it into your heart.
Observe and record in your journal any insights that arise from living these perspectives.

4. Journal Inquiries:

What am I struggling with right now in my life? How can I use meditation to help me with this issue?
What is my relationship with my emotions? Do I have hidden beliefs about them? Do I make them mine? Are the doors of my heart open? How often do I let emotions flow through? block them? hold on to them? suppress them? What is the cost?
Who do I need to forgive in my life? Myself? Others? What happens when I use the forgiveness meditation?
Where and to whom does my heart feel open or closed in my life? What happens when I practice the heart opening meditation?