Ask yourself:
- Can you learn? Can you let go of what you thought you knew? Can you listen and take action based on what you hear? Can you stand directly in front of the things you have avoided because they terrified you, and learn from your fears? Can you trust .. which means, can you trust yourself, your dreams, desires, ambitions? Can you trust that life works for you, not against you, as soon as you start living and thinking for yourself.
- Can you change? Can you risk losing what you thought you depended on? Can you risk losing who you thought you were? Can you risk failing in order to achieve a greater and deeper success. Can you understand that true success is not a zero-sum game. When you win, everyone can win? Can you get out of your own way? Can you stand face to face with those old fears and trust that they may be your greatest teachers, not just something to ‘overcome’, but true guides and teachers.
What’s exciting to me now is how all the skills derived from my work as a hypnotherapist, and NLP trainer, complement my meditation teaching and practice. There is a relationship between goals and the goal-less state, and understanding that relationship gives you a bigger vision and a clearer view.
If you do not have a destination, a goal, then how can you ever arrive there? At the same time, if you have a goal, but are fixated on arriving there, without really knowing where you are right now, you cannot fully know the steps you must take. To pursue your dreams and goals, AND to live fully in the present, THAT is key. Caitriona Reed
Michele Benzamin-Miki speaks about her own experience of meditation as a vehicle towards clarity, joy, focus, and stability, and tells a story about walking meditation.
Guided meditation from Michele Benzamin-Miki. Recorded on retreat at Manzanita Village.
NLP-Meditation. Making use of anchors in meditation can allow you to change your experience, by changing how you process the associated internal images. Meditation doesn’t have to be hard. It’s actually as easy as you choose to make it.
A solstice meditation on the cycles of life. inter-connection, and love.
