Contemplative practices - Affirmations, white light visualizations, healing meditations
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Wishing all a lovely day. - Rhonda
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Thanks for this @rlschaller . It will make my day.
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Author Parker Palmer posted this on Facebook, and I just loved it. Had to share with you all. ❤️🙏🌈 Rhonda
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Happy Sunday
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@rlschaller, Thanks for posting the short affirmations. They are just right for those of us who are not into hard core meditation but see the value in it.
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@rlschaller Have you read The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski, founder of the Zen Hospice Center? I found the book really insightful, with powerful stories of Ostaseski's own struggles with grief and anger, as well as his understanding gained from hundreds of people in hospice care. These are the five invitations in a nutshell:
-Don’t Wait
-Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing
-Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience
-Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things
-Cultivate Don’t Know Mind
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@maggie15 thanks for the feedback 🙏❤️ I’ll post more of those. I get so excited … lol and have been known to overwhelm with too much … lol part of my journey for sure.
@tougholdcrow I love this ! Thank you so much for sharing the 5 invitations I will get his book. I heard him speak and lead a meditation on Zoom during Covid sponsored by the NYZCCC. I read a little of his work in Awake by the Bedside, which is a lovely collection of chapters on sitting with death and dying . These 5 invitations are beautiful teachings and guide posts for living well. With gratitude- Rhonda
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Happy Sunday
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Happy Sunday back to you! Thanks.
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Here is a short 3 minute talk by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn from 2014 . A gem. Just listening to his voice, brings ease and calm to my body and mind.
For those in the USA who celebrate, I Hope everyone had a lovely thanksgiving . Happy Sunday to all. Rhonda
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Laughter meditation. A nice point of entry into the weekend, happy Saturday 🙏❤️
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Hi , here is a lovely visualization to try - short and profound .
What grows in my garden
15 minutes: Visualization - Mindfulness garden
Imagine your life as a garden. a beautiful garden. You look around at this beautiful garden, what flourishes here? What needs nurturing, watering to grow stronger? What weeds are here, what needs to be pulled to make room for what needs to flourish? WHat is blocking the sun? You probably know what weeds need to be pulled. What will you weed? What will you water?
What positive qualities, relationships, and activities do you want to nurture and have flourish in the garden of your life? What is here? What needs to be planted? Seeded? What qualities, relationships, and activities need to be pulled?
Now add wayfinding to your garden, signposts along the pathways so you can relax here, grow here, flourish here. These signposts are what we cultivate to help us flourish and grow. These are 7 attitudes of mindfulness: trust, patience, letting go/letting be, beginner's mind, acceptance, non striving, non judgment, kindness - where do they go in your garden? What signs do you need in your garden.
Write down which one will be your ally in the coming week. Draw your garden as a vision board to guide you, and place somewhere you can see it and remember you are all that you are in each moment, fresh and new.
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@rlschaller oh I love that garden idea! I will definitely use it. Thank u for sharing.
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@rischaller, Thank you so much for sharing, just on time for my Sunday mindfulness practice.
Happy Sunday to all of us!2 -
@lacombattante and @snm , nice to meet you and I’m so glad you like these posts ! My practice is a mainstay for me, connects me to the light and love eternal. Just this breath.. ❤️ and allowing the visualizations to form and nurture , expand into enlightened awareness… ahh.. and that too. Have a lovely evening all.
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