Get Real! – Learn Meditation

It has become an increasingly dominant belief that positive thinking is necessary for health, wealth and success in all things. But a new study* by  psychology professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales, says ‘it ain’t necessarily so’.

The study has found that feeling sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory. It seems that people in a negative state are more critical of, and pay more attention to, their surroundings than happier people. The happy folk it seems are more likely to believe what they are told.

Dr Forgas said "Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, cooperation, and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking paying greater attention to the external world,"

He went on to add "Our research suggests that sadness … promotes

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7 Reasons To Learn Meditation

If you are thinking about learning meditation, have done it and let it slide, here are 7 really significant reasons to learn to meditate and keep practicing.

1: Meditation Improves Physical Health

The amount of supportive information for how meditation improves our physical health is vast. In the simplest and  most basic terms I believe the benefits derive from one thing. When we meditate we consciously choose to relax the body while keeping the mind alert. This was termed the ‘relaxation response’ by Dr. Herbert Benson after his groundbreaking research into the physical effects of meditation. In essence all bodily function improve towards optimum function in the absence of stress in the body.

The relaxation response of meditation allows the body to de-stress and allows the Autonomic Parasympathetic nervous system which governs all major bodily functions, immune, cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive etc, to move towards the optimal state of homeostasis – a stable constant condition. Here is an article dedicated to the  health benefits of meditation.

2: Meditation Improves Mental Health

That the body and mind are continually effecting each other is now pretty much undisputed. It follows then that as the body benefits from meditation so the does the mind. Clinical research has proven that meditation reduces anxiety and even depression. But more than this

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God & Life Tweets

God – Great Mystery, only fools would claim to know thee and thy ways

The Divine Mother creates the world – we just get to play in it : )

The mystery does not have limits; it is not controllable; it cannot be contained.

love is the force that animates creation and weaves this unfathomably wondrous web. Hard to see often doesn’t make it not so

Whatever we think God is can only ever be a very limited view

Your spiritual core is all that is real – the rest is a charade of mind

In the Mystery we cease to have to know or control, we trust in the perfection of each moment’s unfolding

Love by its nature doesn’t want anything, it simply IS

Life is love seeking to remember and become itself

Life is a stream, it only flows in one direction, resistance is slowly, inevitable worn away

Truth is Always Simple

We are in any moment in the flow of life- our spiritual process, or in resistance to it There are no other positions

We are all in this together, we are forging our collective future in every moment

Life will not allow inertia, resist as hard as we like it’s nature is movement and will not be denied

Life without Edge is just a Hedge

We always have one of two choices: we either contract into separation or we expand into unity.

Selflove is oft misunderstood & misinterpreted as ‘it’s all about me’ We have to dig deeper 2 a more authentic experience of love 2 get it

Where we have love and acceptance for anyone or anything outside of us is a reflection of where we have love and acceptance of ourselves

God, Spiritual Oneness & Separation

If it is that God and our true nature is One-ness, then why is it that it is not our living experience?

Indian spiritual philosophy addresses the God concept in a way that supports what I am saying. It sees God in two aspects – the manifest and the un-manifest. The un-manifest is the purest state of conscious, beyond description or comprehension Within it is all potential existence. The manifest aspect is this consciousness in expression as the entirety of manifestation. There are many similarities in the Taoist philosophy of yin and yang with yin as the un-manifest and yang as the manifest.

My perception of why Oneness or Unity isn’t our lived experience is this. In the process of entering into manifest existence as an individuated point of life within that existence, we experience separation in the transition from un-manifest to manifest. This ‘moment’ we could call the ‘birth’ of our soul. Why is this experience of separation necessary if in truth there is only One? The one word answer I see is ‘creation’. The purpose and design of the One in manifest existence, is the evolution and expansion of consciousness, or put another way, the endless creative manifesting of the One, in appearance and form.
 
A huge hindrance we have in embracing and understanding this is our conception of the One as God, is

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Fear, Conflict & Spirituality Tweets

Continuing my practice of accumulating some of my ruminations on Twitter here’s some from the past months on Fear, Conflict & Spirituality

The energy of fear inhibits the minds of humanity, the release of fear is the solution for every situation that challenges humanity

Fear is the root of all suffering

Fear acts like gravity on human consciousness, keeping perspective narrow

Fear is like a weed that will keep growing in the mind until every root is removed

Fear is the inner lie that hides the Divine

Healing all fear = liberation

FEAR = False Energy Appearing Real. Fear is the source of illusion/samskara/maya

How many thoughts, words, actions, even positive appearing, actually arise from fear?

All control arises from fear

Whether it’s terrorists or flu pandemics it’s Fear Feeding & Fear is the real disease

As long as it is a fight, it will continue

Conflict is self perpetuating – only in Unity is there Peace

Sometimes anger is an appropriate response

The enemy is always ourselves projected out

As long as we believe we can continue to consume without regard to consequence – we are doomed as a species on earth

The shift in global consciousness is carried as our own consciousness, what can u do to raise yours today

Spirituality cannot be an appendage to our lives, which allows us to be more relaxed or peaceful but unchanged

Spirituality is not for the faint of heart

How many people are really ready to embrace a game changing global paradigm shift – that will be a true spiritual test

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