Helpful meditation-retreat for going into the heart with God:

Today, again, I asked myself during centering prayer, to let my heart be open to God. This is the Christocentric God of the Trinity about which I speak. The book, "A Seven Day Journey with Thomas Merton" by Esther de Waal is an excellent exercise for home retreat that helps one come to opening the heart to God. The book does so in words, and it has photographs by Thomas Merton.

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We are all now well aware of the enormous benefits that meditation bestows and one of the most important gifts you can give yourself is the gift of a deep, personal, daily meditation practice. There are many useful tips and tools that will help you achieve this goal and in this article I would like to provide you one such key piece of guidance. It is the answer to the question, "What time of day is best for meditation?".

The best time of day to meditate is early in...

by Indra Widaryanto

in the world of this is there many religions and belief with the special characteristic each. so, why do we believe and worshipped jesus? ? isn't it true that there [are] plenty more other choice? ask kenapa…. ?

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It is very easy, particularly for students of meditation to get lost in austerity and ascetic practice. There is something to be said for learning to accept and transmute discomfort and pain, but it will drastically increase the momentum of your practice if you learn to reward yourself.

Ultimately, no learning will take place without the subconscious mind getting involved. The subconscious mind handles long term memory. Typically, the conscious mind tends to bounce around...

One of the many challenges in bringing the Law of Attraction into effect in your life is determining what you really want. You have to be able to focus on a clear goal (or set of goals). It is okay to start out a little bit vague, but you want to get as specific as possible as quickly as possible. You are looking for an ever clearer picture of your desired outcome.

The next challenge comes from the difference between surface thought and deep structures in the mind (sometimes...

Many people who take up yoga practices today, very often ignore the history of yoga as such, and it is definitely unjust to consider yoga a simple way of promoting great physical health and nothing more. The practice of yoga takes spiritual growth as the ultimate goal, and its roots go back five thousand years BC, in the Upanishads. Starting from the Indus Valley, the history of yoga includes a whole set of practices that have been passed on to this day. Thus, in order to initiate...

One of the most important things that you must consider when looking into a meditative practice is to figure out what it is you are looking for in that meditative practice.

Meditation in itself is a way for you to find a structured practice that will allow you to find a peace within yourself.

There are many types of meditation. The most common type is where you are focusing on a person, place, thing or object. Other methods would be where you are blanking the...

As we reach adulthood, most of us begin to lose the pure aliveness that is evident in the face of a healthy infant. The fascination and wonder that we may still dimly remember of early childhood, fades as we conform to the standards that we think the world expects of us. We learn to hide our feelings, first from others, and then from ourselves. We learn to hide our excitement and joy of simple pleasures. We’re bombarded with sensory overload and enticed by commercials and...

Guided imagery meditation and regression are modalities that have been used with more frequency over the past several years and are powerful tools for both transformation and empowerment.

What is guided imagery meditation? Actually, guided meditation is somewhat of a cross between relaxation, hypnosis, and meditation, in which a relaxed state is induced and a deeper level of consciousness is reached, a state somewhere between the waking state and the unconscious or sleep...

Always consider alive can during the long and Eternal. If we detect that everything alive certain come and Beginning from that die. Alive and Die to be pair, there's nothing when there is no death, on the contrary death is our bridge to aims alive eternal. What may be somebody the alive passed by limit (too old) for permanent like moment time still the turn (young) skin that still easy with skin that wrinkled be one of the indication that boone human hold back it. Even so can to as...