Thoughts about Meditation

Are you a meditator? Or a being resisting meditation? I've been both. It was a long time ago that I first learned about transcendental meditation and some of the benefits that regular meditators experienced. I wasn't ready to embrace a regular practice, except I recognized that my daily run was a mediation of physical expression. I also recognized that I loved being a really physical animal, that my physical robustness was an expression of my essence.

Fast forward many years and now my ability to express that essence through physical activity was curtailed by the Lyme disease that I brought back from the Appalachian Trail. Slowly, I have been reclaiming my joyous existence as a healthy physical being. Until very recently, I continued to resist regular meditation, my busy mind doesn't like me to turn it off. Yeah! Isn't that the point of meditation?

As a writer and speaker, I love words and throught my learning about quantum physics have begun to be more and more aware of the energy vibrations of our words and the power they have in the creation of our lives.The word "meditation" doesn't resonate -- for me -- with blessings and joy. It comes dressed in the energy of drudgery and discipline, along the lines of "You must sit and write the correct spelling 100 times."

Recently, I've found a phraseology that works much better for me. What I used to think of as meditation is now "Plug in Time." That's not a terribly elegant phrase but it works for me. I am now taking at least 20 minutes in the morning to "Plug in" to the radio station I have long termed WJOY. I dial in to the program "health, wealth, and happiness." That is who I am and what I choose to experience.

For me, plugging in is a lot more fun than meditating as I joyously tune in to the vibrations of health, wealth, and happiness. Wishing you the same.

New Year's Evolutions

Wow! Here we are in mid-January and I've been a lapsed blogger. Among my other Christmas gifts, Santa left me a bit of flu. I've been in very close contact with my couch over the past few weeks. As "they" say, "Life is what happens while you're making other plans."

So, did your plans for 2007 include the perennial favorite -- losing weight and getting fit? If so, I'd like to recommend that you scurry on over to www.winthefitnessgame.com -- once you've finished this article, of course.

I was the guest speaker on the www.circleofabundance.com teleconference last evening. That experience inspires me to add to that conversation about winning the fitness game.

The statistics about the number of people who've already dropped their resolution ball by mid-January sadden me. I know how very dearly people want to be fit. I think that one of the reasons is that the resolutions we set are too demanding. We take too big a bite of the weight loss/fitness pie making the effort way too strenuous to maintain. It's like someone who is jogging at a 10 minute pace suddenly deciding to run a 5 minute mile. Their systems simply aren't ready for that pace. That's why I reccomend New Year's Evolutions.

Make it easy on you -- take the easy way out of being overweight and unfit. The Resolution/Evolution continuum is a hare/tortoise situtation. Going out too fast and too hard leads to an early drop-out. Go for the tortoise approach!

The thoughts we think and the ideas we have about our bodies are a great place to create an evolution. Last evening, I suggested that folks love their bodies, appreciate all the wonderful things that our bodies do every day, 24/7 without our even having to pay attention. Our bodies are miraculous!

If you live in the United States and are at least age 3, you've probably absorbed some really bizarre messages about your body -- mostly about it's inadequacies and short-comings. That means you've incorporated those negative thoughts and ideas, probably without even being conscious of them. In order to disempower the uncounscious, we need to become conscious. But that's really quite okay. As far as I can see, what this life is about is becoming more conscious!

Play with this. Take several deep breaths, relax, then take paper and pen. Write down all the comments you heard about your body when you were a little kid, both positive and negative. Hopefully, you've got lots of positive comments. If not, make a conscious decision about which ones serve your goals and health and which do not.

Physically destroy the ones you no longer want to hold by tearing them up and trashing them, burning them or burying them. Imagine as you destroy them that the energy embodied by those thoughts is being transmuted by a beautiful white light, transformed into loving, helpful energy that you are releasing into the universe.

Repeat the thoughts you like frequently and often until they are completely at home in your body/mind/heart, especially your heart. Until they are your underlying beliefs, put them on Post-its, and stick them all over your world so you see them often. Write them in a journal, in your day book. Do whatever you can to remember the good beliefs you are building, one thought at a time.

Those beliefs will power your behaviors, making it easier and easier to evolve into the fit, healthy person that you are!