Beneath all the world’s chaos is a still, peaceful center. It’s located in the quiet inner chamber of your heart.
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“Place your mind before the mirror of eternity.” – Saint Clare of Assisi
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“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali Artist Credit: “Emergence” by Chie Yoshi
Artist Credit: “Emergence” by Chie Yoshi
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain
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Imagine what you could do if you did what you imagined.
Artist Credit: “Destination: Now” by Autumn Skye Morrison
“The imagination is not a State; it is the Human Existence itself.” – William Blake.
Artist Credit: “The Madonna of the Apricot and the Snake” by Ulla Karttunen
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” – Peter Livia Zarlenga
Artist Credit: “White Stag” by Chie Yoshi
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” – Anatole France
Artist Credit: “Timeless Keepers” by Autumn Skye Morrison
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
Artist Credit: “Remembering Eternity:” by Autumn Skye Morrison
Is Mindfulness a Religion?
Mindfulness is truly being in the now. Huffington Post contributor writer Sarah Rudell Beach says it best: “It’s the Year of Mindful Living, the age of the Mindful Revolution!” From clinical and therapeutic settings to entering classrooms, boardrooms, congressional offices and military bases, mindfulness is branching out! “Each day, scientific research confirms the physical, cognitive and emotional benefits of a mindfulness practice,” …
Spiritual Union: Finding Your Way From Lost to Fearless
Do you feel lost? Sometimes the world can have so much influence and bearing on your life, it makes it difficult to know what is true for you. It is easy to be influenced by others, by stressful situations, and especially by what is expected of you. It can leave you feeling off track or …
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Meditation Techniques for Beginners: 20 Practical Tips for Quieting the Mind
Along with helping you to become more attentive and focused, the practice of meditation comes with a long list of major physical and mental health benefits. “Although a great number of people try meditation at some point in their lives, only a small percentage actually stick with it for the long-term. This is unfortunate, and …
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Stressed Out People Reap Benefits of Meditation (and a Little Kitten Therapy)
With our stress levels creeping higher than ever before, we could all stand to reap the benefits of meditation. Sure, meditation may not be for everyone, but this age old technique can quiet the mind and does wonders to help people manage their stressful lives. However, sometimes sitting still, all alone with your thoughts is the worst …
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Creative Energy: Be Bold & Begin Living Your Big Dream
If we are in a routine in our lives, it might be challenging to find the creative energy to get our dreams in motion. It might be particularly hard if those dreams are big, compelling, and will demand our fullest selves. However, getting motivated and in gear is no different than to get your creative …
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Why Mindfulness Exercises, Meditation & Yoga Are Recommended for Breast Cancer
Did you know that up to 80% of American breast cancer patients will undergo complementary therapies to manage anxiety and stress after they receive a diagnosis? ”Non-invasive alternative therapies can clear an anxious mind,” says TIME.com writer Alexandra Sifferlin. ”Though there’s no clear consensus on which integrative and alternative therapies work and which are ineffective, more and more medical …
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Creation Meditation: A Practice of Spiritual Union
Spiritual union, as it’s being discussed here, is the experience of uniting with oneself, which ultimately means uniting with the divinity within. Of course, there are many spiritual traditions that teach methods and practices for reaching spiritual union. There are practices such as meditation, yoga, selfless service, and devotional chanting that can facilitate removing the …
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Meditation Techniques That Boost Your Creativity & Connection to Life
During his trial in which Socrates made the noble choice to die versus being exiled from Athens, he said, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” And this quote became the title of my first journal in 1997. Although I had written poetry and prose before, that year I made writing a means for self-exploration …
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Sacred Sexuality: Experiencing the Holiness of Life
At the peak of orgasm, we pierce through the illusion of fragmentation and separation, and glimpse the unity and interconnectedness of all beings. – Margot Anand Sacred sexuality is none other than recognizing that sexual energy is life energy. At a fundamental level, they are one. Sacred sexuality is waking up to the wisdom …
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What Mindfulness Exercises Can Do for Your Health & Mental Wellbeing
In this busy world of ours, ,most of us don’t have five minutes to sit down and relax, let alone 30 minutes or more to meditate! Everyday, our mind gets pulled from one place to the next, scattering thoughts everywhere and leaving us stressed, highly-strung, and often anxious. However, www.healthline.com says: “it’s essential for our well-being …
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The Skeptic’s Guide to Meditation [INFOGRAPHIC]
These days, the practice of meditation has become as popular in the workplace as weekly meetings. And, there couldn’t be greater reasons for it! Alongside of having a pyramid of physical and mental health benefits, recent research suggests that meditation can help boost focus, lower one’s stress levels, and even make us more compassionate. However, “despite the …
Meditation Tips: What to Do If You’re Struggling in Your Practice
There are many types of meditation; however, the one that’s encouraged in the Creation Meditation community is learning how to focus all of your attention on one object. When you’re meditating, if you’re intensely focused on one thing that object of focus can feel like it is the only thing that exists. That’s how concentrated …
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One Day You Finally Knew What You Had To Do
The wonderful poem by Mary Oliver called “The Journey” beautifully describes the inner intelligence that guides and leads our lives. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began,” reads the first line. And what we have to do often feels incongruent with what is around us – there might be all …
Spiritual Union: The Heroine’s Journey of a Woman
Most people know of the Hero’s Journey, described in detail by mythologist Joseph Campbell and seen again and again in coming-of-age type movies and television shows. The Hero achieves spiritual union by diving into the world within. He leaves the physical world and faces various figures and faces within. He fights and defeats his inner …
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The Creative Energy & Power of Images
Images are the universal language. Despite our unique conditioning, culture, upbringing, perspective, and life experiences, an image communicates to all human beings. However, not everyone will receive the same message. We will experience an image on the level we are able to receive its meaning. Images are the language of the unconscious. Each possesses an …
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A Guided Meditation to Ease Anxiety, Worry, Urgency [VIDEO]
Every now and then, when life feels overwhelming, remember that you have the power to step back, take a deep breath, and pause. What better time than to be in the now and enjoy the calmness without anxiety, worry, and urgency? Follow along with the guided meditation below, which brings you to a mental place of peace, …
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Spiritual Union: Give Outer Expression to Your Inner Experience
If you’re looking for a way to experience spiritual union, that beautiful sense of wholeness and integrity, turn your creativity into a spiritual practice. Doing so is a bit like practicing Tantra. Often when people hear or read Tantra, they think of sexuality. Sex can be a means to practice Tantra, though the yogic practice …
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How Mindfulness Exercises Through Meditation Helped This Man Battle Cancer [VIDEO]
There are numerous and various benefits of meditation, both mentally and physically. For Andy Puddicombe, founder of the Headspace meditation app, the ancient mindfulness exercises of meditation helped him battle testicular cancer. “Although meditation, of course, can’t change the uncertainty of situations, Puddicombe explains that it helps provide valuable perspective,” says Huffington Post.
Creative Energy: It Plays an Essential Role in Who You Are Becoming
You’ve experienced it, I’m sure. The symphony of sunset colors reflecting on the mountainside. The mountain itself is on fire with light and Life. The reds, the pinks, and purples are speaking your language – Love. And as Nature reveals Her Glory, you feel your soul go beyond your skin. Resting in expansion time and …
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Spiritual Union Happens Within the Heart
There’s no coincidence that in the word heart is ART. In order to be creative, in order to genuinely bring something that once did not exist into existence, we need to listen to an inner intelligence, a voice that guides the poem or painting. You might say the heart is the muse. Others would say the …
What is Spirituality But Reverence & Beauty
Although it’s easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of life, although it’s so simple to get carried away with the to-do lists and life’s responsibilities, at the core of this life is absolute holiness. The essence of this existence beckons nothing but reverence. The very fabric of this reality is woven with …
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Chopra’s Top 8 Meditation Tips [VIDEO]
How much time should you be setting aside to meditate each day? Are there different times during the day that call for a better meditation experience? In this short video, meditation guru Deepak Chopra answers our top FAQs on Oprah and provides views with his top eight meditation tips of all time. Enjoy!
Benefits of Meditation: Stopping the Momentum of Thought
There’s energy behind thought. It moves and animates. It’s alive and powerful. It has momentum and a compulsion to keep moving. Like a snowball rolling downhill, thought takes counter-energy to stop it. Thought requires opposing power, like presence, to finally bring its momentum to a standstill. One of the great benefits of meditation is its …
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Sacred Sexuality: The Power of the Serpent
Straighten the serpent and it is a sword, a lingam, a line. It is power. As a line, it extends into infinity on both sides and has neither beginning nor end. It is infinity made finite, the sacred made manifest. The serpent, which we see, is an extension of the invisible. It is the expression …
Meditation Tips: 8 Steps to Transform Writing into Meditation
“Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer,” wrote Diane Ackerman, “is also my form of inquiry.” In this quote, Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, describes how writing is an activity where one can find connection, inner peace, and healing. Here are eight steps, meditation …
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Creative Energy: 6 Keys for Transforming Your Life
Creation Meditation is a practice that cultivates: 1. Presence Creative energy and Creation itself is being born right now. Here and now is the point of power, the point through which all of life is born. What is spirituality? It’s the ability to be with what is arising right now in this moment. The author …
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Creation Meditation Is a Spiritual Practice of Reuniting with Nature
Do you appreciate resting attention inward and becoming ever more aware of who you are? “Meditation,” wrote Swami Sivananda, “is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal Awareness.” Creation Meditation is a spiritual practice of cultivating this kind of awareness. First, in silent meditation, you can cultivate the ability to be a detached observer of all …
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Use Creative Energy to Heal, to Love, to Awaken
I never thought I was being creative. I wanted to be a writer and the instructions were clear: To be successful, make writing your great Love affair! So, I filled hundreds of notebooks – simply giving outer expression to my inner experience. Meanwhile, as I continued to meditate and as I continued to direct my …
Benefits of Meditation: Disentangle Yourself from Yourself
One of the greatest paths in life is exploring humanity’s last frontier: the inner landscape! The turning of attention inward is the grand shift of direction anyone can make. Yet, just like Lewis and Clark, who faced great unknowns and dark challenges, the path inward isn’t easy. For most of us, the mind is filled …
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Experience Spiritual Union by Being Creative
Being creative immediately puts you into a state of union. By bringing your attention inward, by giving expression to the inner experience, by connecting to the creative ideas and images within, you connect human and divine. Have you ever noticed that by going inward you suddenly become available to the feelings, thoughts, and images that …
Mindfulness Exercises: Staying Present in the Here & Now
Along the spiritual path, especially on the path inward, the path of introversion and descent, there must be surrender. And an inner surrender is best cultivated through mindfulness. When we begin to incorporate mindfulness exercises into our day, that’s when a growing inner surrender will take place. Surrender is necessary for the boundaries of the …
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Meditation Tips & Health Benefits: What the Practice Does to Your Body (Infographic)
Do you hear that “meditation improves creative thinking, energy, stress levels, and success” as much as I do? From prestigious business people to politicians and prominent artists all over the world, the practice of meditation has become more than just a phenomenon — it has truly become a way of life. “It did to my …
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Creation: The Living Shape of the World Within
I’m sure you’ve heard that we create our reality through the confines of our beliefs. As a beloved soul mentioned to me this weekend: belief = be lived. Belief too is a way of seeing; belief is an image, the way we hold or compose the world from the inside. And through this particular …
Christ: The Embodiment of Creation
Sure, entering the darkness might feel dangerous, especially when it’s the darkness of you. You might see your own worms and warts and decay. You might see the rotten Earth of yourself. Yet, shining the light of awareness inward is the most compassionate, the most loving, most Christ-like thing you can do. As you go …
Believing in Mind
This is a unique translation (by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal) of what is sometimes called “The Mind of Absolute Trust” by Seng Ts’an, the Third Patriarch of Ch’an Buddhism, which passed into Japan as Zen. (Credit: Artist Meganne Forbes) Believing in Mind The great Way has no impediments; It does not pick and choose. When …
10 Reasons Why Your Creativity Is ESSENTIAL Now!
10 Reasons Why Your Creativity is ESSENTIAL at This Time in History 1. Creativity is what you are doing right now – whether you know it or not! Deepening your relationship with the power of your creative energy facilitates living consciously and powerfully. 2. Creativity can lead you deeper and deeper into the fullness of …
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The Medicine of Meditation
Meditation is sacred time to observe yourself! ……..to bring your patterns into presence – or awareness. It is a potent way to create space between those incessant thoughts so that you can be aware of the contents of the mind versus becoming them. The one powerful and life changing – yes life changing! – moment …
Are You Afraid of Your Own Power?
The power I’m speaking of is Nature, or Creation. It is the intelligence that miraculously breathes us, propels one thought after another to arise within , and keeps time, like a thread, unwinding from the reel of genesis. This is the power you possess! You are Creation! Yet, if you have a belief like “I …
Sexual Energy – It’s Never Anything But Sacred
At the heart of who you are is an abundant fountain of life. Although you might claim certain identities, such as “I am a doctor” or “a teacher” or “a woman”, you are at the core of your being – Source. Streaming forward from this place within – this great Void, this holy place– is …