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How You Can Unite Meditation, Divine Essence, And Personal Tenacity to Serve Your Highest Purpose
1. Meditation: Meditation is a sacred practice. Shamans, gurus, priests, medicine men and other wise beings have practiced meditation for over 5000 years. In the 20th century, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi popularized one form of meditation he named Transcendental Meditation, (TM). This is a simple form of mantra meditation, easy to learn and to do. We meditate by sitting quietly, eyes open, and concentrating on an image such as a mandala, or a candle, or sitting with closed eyes, and, in either case, repeating a mantra. A mantra is not a word. A mantra is a sound. Different sounds, repeated over and over and over again, affect energies within the body, each in its own way. There are many ways to meditate. In most instances, you sit quietly. Teachers may recommend different postures. These include the lotus position in which the Buddha is often depicted. Diverse cultures recommend various deployments of the fingers. (one example: thumbs and forefingers lightly touching, palms up.) When we meditate, we slow down our brain waves. We change them from the beta state, (22 cycles per second in normal waking consciousness) to the alpha state (11 cycles per second.) This slower vibration opens up access to the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind, in turn, opens awareness of our otherwise inaccessible higher consciousness. To higher consciousness as well as to universal intelligence. 2. Divine Essence: When a person's intentions are pure, they surrender selflessly to their higher purpose in life. They surrender themselves in the service of the creator of us all. Diverse cultures variously call the creator God, some Allah, some the Great Spirit, some Our Heavenly Father, some use various other names, all meaning the supreme intelligence, the creator of the universe, of all that is. In this state of surrender, a person is in touch with their divine essence. Having pure intentions, they are harmless. They are interested only in higher service. On the other hand, some people who develop access to their higher powers, use their higher powers for selfish, negative and harmful intentions. (Darth Vader types.) Your intuition may be trusted to inform you, to warn you of people with negative and evil designs. These people are to be resolutely avoided. 3. Bulldog Tenacity: When we unite the practice of meditation with surrender to our divine essence, we are likely to be empathetic, loving, and harmless. And if we are to advance ourselves in the relative world, the temporal world, the ordinary world of people, places, and events, a third quality is required. This quality is bulldog tenacity. Do you know the nature of a bulldog? A bulldog is tenacious in defending its master and the master's property. Their teeth lock onto the presumed invader. Their grip is an iron grip. That iron grip prevails even in death. This means that when your intentions are noble and worthy, when the outcome of your intentions somehow contributes to making this a better world, you are to never, never, never give up. You are to "pay any price, bear any burden" to bring your intentions into objective reality. This is the way to justify the space you take up and the resources you consume while you draw breath. This is the way you make a positive difference in the lives you touch. This is the way you make yourself a role model for others. And, most important of all, this is the way you leave a lasting legacy. About The Author Burt Dubin, a 20 year veteran of the business of speaking, coaches and mentors speakers and wanna-be's world-wide. Burt works with people who want to be speakers and with speakers who want to be masters. The words of his clients, the admiration and respect expressed for his work by some of the world's most successful speakers, testify to the values he delivers. For samples of his wisdom, simply go to his web-site, http://www.SpeakingBizSuccess.com. Burt Dubin, 1 Speaking Success Road, Kingman, Arizona 86402-6543, USA. Phone 800-321-1225. Fax 928-753-7554. mailto: burt@SpeakingBizSuccess.com © Copyright 2003 Burt Dubin
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MORE RESOURCES: Site: Yahoo! News Search Results for meditation Library Meditation Program Cancelled By Joe Toschik: The Half Moon Bay Library meditation program that was scheduled for this Saturday, July 31st at 2:00PM has been cancelled due to an illness in the presenter?s family. We hope to be able to reschedule this program. Meditation Tempers Ups and Downs Think on this: Ups and downs are tempered, transformed into awareness of happiness, harmony, by balancing mental with physical activity. When we take charge we enjoy being happy and feeling good. Mike Sandrock: Meditation can make you more 'present' for your runs, your life If you go What: "Running with the Mind of Meditation" When: Sept. 3-6 Where: Shambhala Mountain Center, in Red Feather Lakes More info: shambhalamountain. Meditation classes offered in Morris Plains MORRIS PLAINS - The nature of mind and the secrets to deal with stress in everyday life will be taught in free breathing and meditation classes in July at Trinity Lutheran Church, 131 Mountain Way. First meditation hike offered at Clary Gardens A first-ever meditation hike Saturday morning at Clary Gardens aimed to bring participants closer to nature and help them find a path to personal spiritual awakening. In 'Four Fish,' Humans Get Schooled On Seafood Lifelong angler Paul Greenberg fuses investigative journalism, travelogue and personal memoir into one grand meditation on humankind's relationship with the ocean. Four Fish asks readers "to reevaluate whether fish are at their root expendable seafood or wildlife desperately in need of our compassion." On the kindness of strangers, meditation and art Joe McConnel describes how painting and meditation has been more help than "traditional" mental health therapies. Read more > New Book Explores the Sacred Art of Bowing, A Moving Meditation for Personal Transformation Bowing is the most beautiful of human activities, representing all of life in its most poetic form. Meditating Buddha Boy 'beats up group' A Nepali known as 'Buddha boy' is being investigated by police for allegedly attacking villagers who disrupted his five-year meditation. Marguerite Manteau-Rao: Meditation: What It's Really Like Inside For people who have never meditated before, the experience of mindfulness meditation can be a mystery. Last night, a friend who had just returned from... Site: meditation - Google News Hindus Suggest Adopting Meditation-Yoga-Spirituality to Lindsay Lohan - NewsBlaze
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