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Hi Mobirdie, I have heard that prayer is asking/talking/conversing and meditation is listening. I know that I do much better each day if I do meditate than if I just blow it off or rush through it. I learned how to meditate many years ago at a Benedictine Monastary. Its a wonderful gift.
Barb, meditation is an art I never mastered, and I wish that I had. I just cannot seem to quiet my mind, which I know is a learned experience. Got to be good for the soul.
Besy wishes,
Diva
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"Speak your truth quietly and clearly..." Desiderata
I started almost 3 years ago. I had always been interested in doing it but got the message with Step 11 "sought through prayer and meditation". On a good day, in the morn and evening. When I jog I say my prayers and mantras. When I know that I have let go and my HP is speaking to me is a clear mind and answers come to me.
I don't do well in the traditional sense. I find that when my hands are buzy my mind can wonder and rest. Washing the dishes, cross stitching, driving, those are easy times for me to slow down and listen.
I am never consistant and wish I was but I do body relaxations by focusing on breathing while relaxing different body parts for when I am too tense to sleep. I have meditation cd's that are good and when used daily help to make the relaxation and renewed energy grow. I also took a class in Tai Chi Chih which is a form of meditation for folks who are busy and can't seem to go from moving so much to then sit still to meditate. This is excellent but again I didn't continue on my own after the class was completed. I hope to work on that.
I also like that listening to God is a form of mediation.
ddub
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"Choices are the hinges of destiny." Pythagoras You can't change the past, but you can change the future.
I had a sponsor that told me and then taught me to do meditation 24/7. It takes my life to a very different plane and has now become a normal state of being. We started with finding a spiritual truth and then focusing quietly and openly on it for several periods of time during the day regardless of whatever was going on in my life. I learned how to do it while working, resting and just plain ole fooling around (having fun). I was able to get the practice down into my subconscious where I didn't have to consciously practice...down on the level of autonomic behavior and now it's a constant behavior like breathing.
My spritual truth? I discovered during earlier recovery that my HP had never abandoned me even when I had abandoned my HP. My focus is that my HP is still at and around me in everything that is placed in my life and that I will never be without my HP's presence, love and support. I am assured of this truth and aware of it constantly.
