#Mindfulness Meditation Christian

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"I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds." 

~ Psalm 77:11-12 NIV

Photo: Morton Arboretum, Illinois

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Verse of the Day - Joshua 1:8

[fathernick]

Jesus claimed to be divine, but he never said that divinity was exclusive to him, he quotes the psalms and said “you are all gods”.

We are all children of God, all sons of God. We are all manifestations of God. We are all one with the father, and each other. What we do to one-another we do to God.

We are all avatars of the Father, images of God.

[cadmar]

Your Choice

It is your choice to stand still, or to be caught up and thrown around in the whirlwind of desires and emotions. Our 3D physical world is a world of pain and sufferings. Not because of events that happened to us and will happen to us, but because of our emotional reactions to them. Our emotional responses are as physical as your arms, legs, and hands are!

To stand still does not mean a stoic life with no reactions, no emotions, no joy, and no happiness. Far from it! Stand still is you paying more attention to details to all the happenings around you and to all their causes! The more details you observe, the more freedom you have. To stand still is like being a professional sensory expert, a food taster, who is a taste expert on the texture, aroma, and quality of food who experiences the most subtlest, finest, and savory flavors.

To stand still is to see, feel, and be a part of each tiny sparkle reflecting the moonlight off of each water molecule of a body of water. Overwhelm by the bountifulness of all this teeming beauty!

3D emotions can not do this completely and fully. Only partially. By standing still, your new emotions are bottomless, fuller, and flowing with joy and peace!

Standing still does not mean you have no emotions. Standing still means you have a profound and penetrating completeness! You are not having physical emotions, but an awakening from an entirely different nature of existence. Solid! Unwavering!

It is still your choice.

[simpleman193]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

divination

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Patanjali, in his classic work on yoga, formulates in his first sentence the practical and theoretical essence of yoga—the “first arcanum” or the key of yoga—as follows: Yoga citta vritti nirodha (Yoga is the suppression of the oscillations of the mental substance, Yoga Sutras 1.2) —or, in other terms, the art of concentration. For the “oscillations” (vritti) of the “mental substance” (citta) take place automatically. This automatism in the movements of thought and imagination is the opposite of concentration. Now, concentration is only possible in a condition of calm and silence, at the expense of the automatism of thought and imagination.

[Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

by Valentin Tomberg]

[jesusinstilettos]

How does one start meditating regularly when they have ipad baby syndrome and can’t be alone with their thoughts for one millisecond asking for a friend

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No fighting is necessary. A person of God relies on witness and testimony. Honestly, humility is essential since we are all born sinners.

Each person's journey varies, reflecting their distinct life experiences and the garments they've worn. As a result, we uplift one another with truths about Christ and prepare ourselves by cleansing our minds with God's Word. Christ, our mediator, transforms our minds, spiritually clothing them in white, replacing the attire from our former lives.

Therefore lifting each other up in truth concerning Christ and preparing ourselves by a cleansing from God Word. As Christ is the mediator so by His Word our minds are being made over and our minds are spiritually clothed in white instead of the one we wore during a system. Each path of life varies as we hear each person has they own life experiences and the clothes they wore or is wearing.

But a witness concerning God Word is accurate knowledge, which leads to everlasting life. Yes, a witness towards God Word that came through holy spirit not a person. It is like the sound of a trumpet 🎺 once you hear it. And the song of Moses is being sang if you hear it. (Revelation 15: 3,4)

If you hear it, then you'll hear the voice of one calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of Jehovah! Make his roads straight." (Matthew 3:3)

Does it not talk about 2 witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days (Revelation 11:3)? Does not God Word say that He has a place prepared for the woman who fled into the wilderness where they would feed her for 1,260 days (Revelation12:6)? This witness is most definitely true. And happy to those observing it and who are hearing it.

But only if you have an ear you will hear. Just as it is written, if anyone is meant for captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed with the sword. (Revelation 13: 9,10)

Bible verses please read one or read them all:

2 Timothy 2:24

For a slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, showing restraint when wronged

Revelation 7: 13, 14

In response one of the elders said to me: “These who are dressed in the white robes, who are they and where did they come from?” So right away I said to him: “My lord, you are the one who knows.” And he said to me: “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 1:3

Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and who observe the things written in it, for the appointed time is near.

Revelation 22:7

Look! I am coming quickly. Happy is anyone observing the words of the prophecy of this scroll.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16

because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first.

Revelation 12:11

And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death.

Revelation 22: 10,11

He also tells me: “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, for the appointed time is near. Let the one who is unrighteous continue in unrighteousness, and let the filthy one continue in his filth; but let the righteous one continue in righteousness, and let the holy one continue in holiness

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and a sharer with you in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in association with Jesus, was on the island called Patʹmos for speaking about God and bearing witness concerning Jesus.

1 Peter 1: 11,12

They kept on investigating what particular time or what season the spirit within them was indicating concerning Christ as it testified beforehand about the sufferings meant for Christ and about the glory that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were ministering, not to themselves, but to you, regarding what has now been announced to you by those who declared the good news to you with holy spirit sent from heaven. Into these very things, angels are desiring to peer

2 Peter 1:4

Through these things he has granted us the precious and very grand promises, so that through these you may become sharers in divine nature, having escaped from the world’s corruption produced by wrong desire.

[tears-that-heal]

To My Dear Brothers & Sisters in Jesus Christ....

"Mindfulness"

The term, mindfulness (or mindful), has become a loaded word in our modern day. According to Webster dictionary, mindfulness is defined as such. 1. the quality or state of being mindful. 2. the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis; also  : such a state of awareness. So this formal definition seems to be a great word to describe one's mindset or outlook on life. Personally, I strive to be "mindful" on the daily, but what this word is strongly associated to eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism.

I touched on these two religions, and their practices on yoga and meditation in a previous post, but adapting their practice of "mindfulness" hasn't needed to happen because within the church. As a Christian, we gain knowledge, wisdom, and understanding through the Holy Spirit, a.k.a Yeshua/God. To achieve "mindfulness" without God is what I'm mainly addressing here. This post is a loving warning for you to be alert and sober whenever you come across this word in the world. Do not fear it, but definitely ask the Holy Spirit for Discernment and Wisdom if you come inbox contact with this subject; especially in Psychology and other Wellness-related services in the US. While still in California, I worked in high school education for a time and "mindfulness" was brought up alot in multiple mandatory meetings. *sigh* Basically, "mindfulness" is the practice to achieve awareness on your own human knowledge and understanding, and to also sustain it on your own will. Truly its more of an awareness of oneself, then awareness of others. Which ties into what I said in my previous post on yoga and meditation.

Mindfulness meditation is, of course, a thing too. It's the "how-to" to practice becoming and being "mindful". For Christians, we mediate/ponder on God's Word, the Holy Bible. Then through prayer, we receive knowledge and understanding from the Holy Spirit of what we've read. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take." (Proverbs 3:5-6 NLT) We are instructed to not depend on our own human knowledge and wisdom because our understanding is limited and flawed. Compared tp our God/Yeshua, who's All Knowing and Perfect. I personally strive to live by this biblical passage as humanly possible. Of course, my efforts are imperfect and God know that too. He simply asks us to look to Him as we wholeheartedly, try daily. So please, be weary of the practice of "mindfulness" as you travel through this life on earth. God Bless <;3

[wholehear-ts]

Organized Free Thoughts on Forgiveness

Forgiveness is an intentional action. Sometimes people are just hot headed at the time and when the dust settles, they realize that there wasn’t much of a reason to be angry. Imagine this as a scratch wound. Sometimes someone did something to someone else that causes a wound in the other person which pains them deeply when it is remembered. This can be more like a bullet wound. It doesn’t heal by just leaving the issue alone. You have to apply yourself to forgive the other person. In both cases you forgive so YOU can get better. In the case of the scratch you put a bandaid on it and give it time. You don’t keep poking at the issue or else what was once a little thing could turn into an infection and then blood poisoning all because you didn’t leave it alone.

Bullet wounds are different. You need immediate attention to make sure you don’t let this issue bleed into other areas of your life and harm those. Imagine, you’re being bullied at school. If you don’t address it right away, you might start to believe you deserve the bullying because you are the things they say. You could start self harming or doing things you characteristically wouldn’t. You need to isolate the issue.

Start by praying about the issue. Sometimes things are out of your hands but it is good to remember things are in good hands.

Start by comforting yourself.

Think back on the situation and be there for yourself in the most loving way possible.

See your attacker as a hurting human instead of some animal of emotionless, hardened enemy. It will help you let go of some of the anger when you can have compassion for someone who is hurting rather than someone who did x to you.

You can work at this by imagining a hypothetical world where you can pity the other rather than be angry.

Detach yourself from the incident. What people do has more to do with what’s going on in their inner world than what it actually has to do with you. They raped because they are a rapist and they had the opportunity to rape. You happened to be their victim. Depersonalizing it will help get rid of emotions like betrayal, shame or fear that will keep you wrapped up with them forever frozen in that incident.

-Create a nice wish for the other person. Seeing them as someone you can still be kind to elevates your character as someone who is kind in the face of whatever injustice. The wish could start out as little as “I hope you have a quick death instead of being tortured to death.” Make your wishes something you actually agree with instead of something that you just say. If you can say honestly say that you don’t hope for severe torture towards the other offender with all your heart, then it is a good day. And you can try to better your wish for them some other time.

-I say this for minor to medium situations, but always assume ignorance instead of malice. Although it merits punishment as well, most people don’t hurt others because they are psychopaths wanting to watch the world burn. Most people are just in their own bubbles swayed by whatever emotion or distraction and hurt others because they aren’t conscious of how they affect others. This is another way of seeing them as human as you are.

-Forgiveness doesn’t mean that the offense wasn’t an injustice but it means that you aren’t going to let it trap you into negative emotions every time you’re reminded of the incident. You can get to the point where you forget about it and carry on with life as the person you’re becoming.

-Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to allow them back in your life if they are committed to toxic behaviour. If someone is genuinely focused on bettering themselves and that incident has very little change of repeating, then you should reevaluate the depth of your forgiveness. Philemon had a real reason to be vengeful, but both were really trying to walk towards Christ and that’s why he was asked to forgive.

Having compassion for yourself looks like:

Keeping your body healthy

Taking time to heal when you’re sick

Removing things that are toxic out of your life

Following your passions

Talking to yourself encouragingly, kindly, realistically

Following through with the things that are important to you

Maintaining healthy relationships

Keeping your conscience clear

Having compassion for humans looks like:

Believing they can love you back in a way that is sweet

Believing that you’ll have a happy life together

Stripping away the hurt to give him/ her another fresh slate

Respect and duty is given whether he gives love or not 

Give the other person hope 

Help them grow in faith 

Love them adoringly anyways 

Having compassion for animals looks like:

See the ways they are in pain and alleviate that

Not eating them unless there’s a dire necessity

Give them places and time to live without fear (Sabbath)

Treating them right if they are in your care

Not killing them

Having compassion for the earth looks like:

Living no to low waste

Walking and biking more than driving

Not wasting the things you have

No polluting through gmo seeds

Creating ecosystems that are good for the earth

Letting the earth rest on her Sabbaths

Using less plastics

Finding creative uses for junk

[carmelitesaet]

On February 2 we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

Lectio Divina for February is now available to download from https://carmelites.org.au/lectiodivina in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats

O God, our Creator and Father, You willed that Your Son, generated before the dawn of the world, should become a member of the human family. Rekindle in us an appreciation for the gift of life, so that parents may participate in the fruitfulness of Your love, old people may pass on to young ones their mature wisdom, and children may grow in wisdom, piety and grace, all giving praise to Your holy name. Through Christ our Lord.

[hkunlimited]

Space is the Place--to Meditate... 

The one who can control himself, can control the world—his world… You don’t have to go anywhere to meditate, except inside. Much is made in the modern New Age movements of all the different kinds of meditation, which, according to the books and blogs can easily number into the dozens, if not hundreds. But most of those sources aren’t really Buddhist, not in any strict sense. Still, a quick…

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[cadmar]

Insights of the 4D Mind

Every living organism has energy that resists the environment's pressures; can distinguish inputs from other inputs; has a means to interact with the inputs; can assign a goal for its action; its actions can become inputs for future actions; and has a threshold to stop an action and goal it is pursuing. All this is automatic that under the same initial situations, will have the same outcomes!

Every living organism becomes the background and can not escape its role! There is no ability to being "outside" to this evolutionary process. The living organism is born into a role, maintains that role, and dies within that role. The role never changes. Evolution changes the role for the next living organism to be born to another role, in which that new role is maintained, and then dies with that new role. Repeats and repeats creating the evolutionary ladder and tree of life!

We, on the other hand, can step outside of this evolutionary ladder. Reasoning is insight. Perspective is insight. Logic is insight. Reasoning, perspective, and logic are all from someone having insight and this insight was handed down to others! An accumulation of insights! An insight is scratching an universal source of all patterns and knowledge!

How did I get the insight about the process of the brain and its neural tree-like patterns? From reading a book, "Fractals in Nature", that showed that water from a river overflowing onto its sandy bank can create a variety of patterns 10 to the 60 power all because of these variables: the amount of force, the amount of water, and the texture of the sandy river's bank.

My insight was taking this unrelated concept and connecting it to the brain's neural process: the sensory signals have different amount of force from different sensory sources; the amount of the chemical-electrical signals; and the neurons' previous connections (the more a connection is used, the stronger it gets). From this insight, I was able to teach others more effectively as this is the process the brain absorbs and maintains knowledge and memories! The students are better learners with higher academic grades!

My insight is taking two unrelated ideas and combining them! I was not thinking on how the brain works! I was curious about fractals in nature. It was only at the end of the book when I came upon this overflowing of the river did I make the connection to the brain! This is insight. How many other people read this book and never made this connection? The author certainly did not!

This is insight. It just comes out of nowhere! Suddenly, like a lightbulb turned on! This is the same when you notice the cause for one of your desires, anger, greed, addiction, and alcoholism! Happens on its own and one must prepare oneself for the unknown to happen! Welcome your insights! The more insights we all have, the more our civilization prospers and develops!

[xitsoksanasworld]

1. Surround yourself with the right people

1. Entoures-toi de bonnes personnes

Our relationships influence the quality of our daily lives, vet the people you keep around you, and puts the right label on the right relationship.

Notre environnement, en plus d'être une influence peut aussi affecter la qualité de notre vie. Fais le tri des personnes que tu rencontres et mets la bonne étiquette sur la relation.

[all-about-meditation]

As a practising Christian and mindfulness meditation practitioner/teacher, I find myself walking the fine line between 2 different traditions. The next article will be on my personal experience, “Navigating the Path Between Buddhism and Christianity.” Do you find yourself in a similar situation? [comments section open to all]