In the beginning there was the void, and from the void came everything, including crowded freeways and overflowing inboxes. The best place to look for solutions is at the beginning. By the time we get to meditation it’s like we’ve pulled a sweaty racehorse straight off the track and tried to make it stand still as a statue. We aren’t eating our meals in blessed silence surrounded by fellow practitioners: We’re scarfing down a salad at our desks to get to those last few emails in our inbox before the meeting. We don’t live in ashrams: We’re battling traffic on the freeways, and elbowing through crowds on subways to get to work. The challenge here is that this often doesn’t work for Westerners. Anyway you cut the cosmic cupcake, it sounds like you’re in for an eternity of bliss if you could simply sit still and empty your brain for a few minutes a day. One watches her thoughts while sitting still and attempts to free herself from the attachment of them in order to discover her underlying nature.Įastern meditation also comes with an appealing little promise embroidered on her lapel-the orgasmic Holy Grail of outcomes: Satori, Samadhi, Nirvana, Moksha… Enlightenment. Eastern meditation, to simplify the equation, has its aim toward emptiness-pure realized consciousness. What most people don’t realize is that there are two distinctly separate forms of meditation: Western and Eastern. Emulation of happy monks seated on meditation cushions, perfectly still for hours, seems to be the version of this ancient art that we are all aspiring to-which, if we’re entirely honest, leads many of us to beating ourselves up with black zendo slippers for our underachievement. To most people meditation implies emptying the mind, bringing the mind into focus, stillness. Click here for more information, or purchase tickets here. Conference speakers include Mallika Chopra, Moby, Ariel Garten, Light Watkins, Jim Gimian, and Scott Schwenk, among others. Through Shakti Gawain’s Healing meditation I realised that I could take control over my health and achieve a deeper understanding of my body, steer my mind to positive thoughts and connect to a level of consciousness in which I am the creator of my own world.Why Meditate? Join Wanderlust Hollywood and leaders of the meditation community for an immersion into the science, techniques, benefits, and practical application of meditation. Not in LA? Buy tickets for the livestream and learn from the comfort of home. She quotes ‘Thou shall degree a thing and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy way’ Job22:28 Reviewer’s OpinionĬreative visualization has been a key tool in my life that helped me manage my symptoms following the onset of post-polio syndrome. The more you use creative visualisation the more it becomes a state of consciousness and the less of a technique. Then focus on it often during meditation and throughout the day until you achieve your goal. Create strong positive affirmations around the image. Then create a mental image and or a feeling of the image that represents what you want. The way it works is to decide on something you want to manifest in your life, for example a job, health, relationship. The principle works by quietening the mind and creating thoughts and images that help steer us to what we truly want and what makes us truly happy. Shakti explains by letting go and going with the flow we can begin to guide our way through life consciously like steering our way along the flow of a river rather than clinging to its banks from fear and hence becoming very goal orientated and emotionally attached to things and people we feel we need in order to be happy. Shakti Gawain’s book seeks to reconcile the paradox between ‘going with the flow’, and coaching that by its very nature is intrinsically goal centred.
Who Would Benefit From Reading This Book and Why?Ĭoaches looking for meditations, visualisation exercises and techniques to help clients use their imaginations to take control and change their lives. This is a beautiful, short, simple, practical book that contains techniques that readers can begin using immediately and effectively to change their lives. Creative Visualization Creative Visualization
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