Meditation Matters

Today’s meditation includes a special 8-step breathing exercise designed to train ourselves to embrace happiness more fully and to welcome happiness more easily in our lives.

Through some of the poetry of Julia Fehrenbacher, we quiet the distractions and detours of our minds just long enough to hear the holy whispers that speak to each of us.

The Bhagavad Gita it says that yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.   These gentle poses are designed to stretch and open areas of your body and facilitate an alignment of your  breath with your movements.

As Oprah Winfrey has said, what we focus on expands and what we give our attention to grows.  Thus, when we focus on the goodness in our lives, we actually create more of it.

A meditation that bring inner peace by manifesting the insight of the American teacher Pema Chodron, who taught that that true inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or external event control your emotions.

Following the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh, we experience the wisdom that “feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky…[but] conscious breathing is my anchor.”

This meditation allows us to unplug from the world of uncertainty for a few moments and embrace our inner stillness.

Expanding our ability to see the miracles that exist everywhere including the miracles of beauty, compassion and love.

Expanding the deep inner courage that lies within each of us to help work for social change and social justice.

Enjoying--and learning from--the extravagance of nature, including sunflowers, butterflies and rivers.