Meditation:Pathway to Well Being

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MeditationPathway to Well Being
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Well-Being

• Physical
• Mental
• Spiritual

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Meditation

• Increases energy
• Relieves stress
• Reduces fatigue
• Relieves insomnia
• Reduces blood pressure and cholesterol
• Reduces anxiety
• Balances hormones
• Improves self-confidence

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Meditation

• Emptying or concentration of the mind
• Focusing
• Mindfulness
• All spiritual traditions have some connection
  with the practice of meditation

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Meditation and Well-Being

• Stress Management
• Decrease in Cortisols
• Increase in Endorphins
• Decreases Self Judgment
• Diminishes Judgments of Others
• Increase in Self-Esteem
• Creates Inner Peace
• Changes your environment

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Habits of mind
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Three-Legged Stool

• Body
• Alert, erect
• Relaxed
• Breath connects the soul to Higher Consciousness
• Mind
• Resists stillness
• Natural state is peace
• Ego wants us to think

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Four-Legged Stool

• Body
• Breath
• Mind
• Non-Judgment

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Non-Judgment

• One of the keys to happiness is to stop the habit
  of self-judgment and self-hatred.
• When we stop judging ourselves we will stop
  judging others.
• Where there is no judgment, there is peace.

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• We go into meditation with a commitment
• That the body will remain still
• That the breath will be calm
• That the mind will be at peace, in spite of its
  habits
• THAT WE WILL NOT JUDGE OURSELVESNO MATTER WHAT
  HAPPENS.

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Two Sides to the Story

• Both sides of the brain are always active.
• The left brain is the language side.
• The right brain in the side of art and feelingof
  euphoria and bliss.
• Close the language door,
• Open the love window
• Rumi

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Peace and the Mind

• The clear sky is always there.
• Clouds come and cover the sky.
• But wind can blow them away.
• Clear sky remains.
• Clear mind, the mind at peace, is always present.
• Thoughts come and obscure the peace of clear
  mind.
• Mindfulness practice can blow the thoughts away,
  gently, with ease, and without judgment.
• Peace remains.

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The Key to Happiness

• To still the language side of the brain so that
  the right brain can be heard and felt.
• A mind at peace, filled with joy, is our natural
  state.

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Brain States

• Beta Normal state multi-tasking
• Alpha - Focused mind waking up
• Theta Dream state of sleep creative deep
  meditation
• Delta Dreamless sleep unified consciousness
  oneness rest and rejuvenation

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Winter Feast for the Soul

• A worldwide 40-day spiritual practice period for
  all people
• January 15 February 23 each year since 2008

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Inspiration

• What nine months does for the embryo
• Forty early morning
• Will do for your growing awareness.
• Rumi

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TOOLS TO SUPPORT YOUand Your Family

• Guided meditations on line
• Christian Contemplative Prayer
• Tibetan Buddhist Meditation
• Sufi Universal Meditation
• Mindfulness/Vipassana Meditation
• New Thought/Science of Mind Interdenominational
  Meditation
• Children (four minutes of stillness for world
  peace)
• Mindfulness Practice for Teens

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Why You Should Start To Practice Peace NOW

• for yourself
• for your family
• for the planet
• The world will never be at peace until peace
  lives in the heart of each and every person on
  the planet. Pope John XXIII (1963)

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• 788-6373

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