Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening

By Mary Ellen Flora

In her introductory work and the first book of her Key Series, Mary Ellen Flora illustrates the importance and power of meditation for one’s spiritual awakening and journey here on Earth. Created from decades of spiritual work and experience, this book serves as a thorough guide that teaches ancient spiritual mysteries and explores the benefits of meditation and spiritual awakening in an approachable and earnest way. Meditation is presented as the most essential tool to healing yourself and the world around you.

Whether you meditate regularly or have never meditated before, Meditation provides foundational insight and instruction including six specific techniques to help you turn within, know yourself as spirit, access your wealth of spiritual information, and enhance your spirit-body communication. The featured techniques can be used in quiet meditation as well as during daily activities and are presented as the most essential tool to healing yourself and the world around you.

-Grounding
-Center of Your Head
-Corner of the Room
-Creating and Destroying
-Running Energy
-The Aura
-And more...

“This book has encouraged me to resume my meditation practice with a sense of security, comfort and unconditional love.”
Kimberly A. Bennett, New Connexion, Pacific Northwest’s Journal of Conscious Living.

“Meditation: Key to Spiritual Awakening is written for those seeking validation of their spiritual abilities and the ways and means to tap into them. It provides a roadmap for the healer who wishes to change self and world; for the opening of the spiritual system and communication with spiritual guidance... it’s packed with information, insight and encouragement for all travelers on the journey within.”
Northwest Literature, Bellingham, WA

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Ellen Flora
• Release date: Oct 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781886983298

Mary Ellen Flora

Spiritual teacher, author, and CDM founder, Mary Ellen Flora, has been sharing her insight on spirituality since 1976 through her books, guided meditations, classes and presentations.Mary Ellen is an advocate of the use of daily meditation and has taught thousands of people to enrich their lives by using the spiritual techniques presented throughout her published works. She believes that we are all meant to be fully awake and alive, both spiritually and physically, and shares this belief with amusement, neutrality, and love."For many years I have taught classes focused on spiritual awakening. During that time, I have learned that, more than anything else, people need to learn to meditate. All of the answers to our questions are within us. What remains for us to do is to find a way to turn within for our unique information and our internal path to God. Meditation is the way for us to create what we need..." -Mary Ellen Flora, Meditation: Key to Spiritual AwakeningFlora’s introductory books and guided audio meditations, The Key Series, are a four-part collection that act as guides to the simple spiritual concepts that are a baseline through all her written works. Subjects ranging from Meditation, Healing, Chakras to Clairvoyance are explored with a broad perspective while also distilling these topics into simple, practical techniques that can be used in quiet meditation and daily life.The Energy Series, another collection of four books, focuses on the various energies available for spiritual creativity on planet Earth. Male and Female Energies, Cosmic and Earth Energies and Kundalini are all examined with great enthusiasm and insight, allowing the reader to learn about and use each one in order to get more in touch with their spiritual nature.Mary Ellen currently resides in the Pacific Northwest of the United States where she continues to write, host online classes, and lead online guided meditations – all of which explore the spiritual concepts and techniques included throughout her works.You can read more about Flora and her additional literary works at www.cdmspiritualcenter.org.

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Meditation

Key to Spiritual Awakening

By Mary Ellen Flora

Key Series Book 1

Copyright © 2011 by Mary Ellen Flora

Cover Art: Jeff Gibson

ISBN-13: 978-1-886983-29-8

ISBN-10: 1-886983-29-1

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First Edition 1991 Paperback

Second Edition 2000 Paperback

Third Edition 2011 eBook

You, the spirit, may develop and flourish in conjunction with the proper care of your body and mind. The information in this publication is intended to assist you in your spiritual development and to enhance, but not be substituted for, appropriate medical care from licensed healthcare or mental health professionals.

Neither Church of Divine Man (CDM), CDM Publications, CDM Spiritual Center, the author, nor their representatives shall be responsible or liable for injury or damages incurred by anyone as a result of reliance on or compliance with information contained in this publication.

To Peter,

With Love

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to all those who have helped with all three editions of this book, especially the present eBook edition. Special thanks to Jeff Gibson for his excellent artwork for the cover and graphics.

I greatly appreciate the work and support of Caroline Froc as our production leader and graphics coordinator. Many thanks to Deb Taylor and Karen Packard for their proofreading and administrative support. Thanks also goes to Marsha McKeever, Linda Roberson, and Rosie Leach for their proofreading.

A special thank you to Marion Brewster for being constant in her encouragement, healing, and friendship through the years. Warm appreciation goes to the late Lewis Bostwick who introduced me to meditation. Also, love and appreciation to my late husband Doc Slusher who provided support for me to write the first edition.

A special thanks goes to Peter Salgot, my husband, for his strength and encouragement in all of my work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Meditation

Meditation Techniques

Grounding

Center of Your Head

Corner of the Room

Spiritual Experience

Creating and Destroying

Running Energy

The Aura

Guided Meditation

Ask and You Shall Receive

Suggested Questions

Meditating With Others

Seek and You Shall Find

Other Works by Mary Ellen Flora

About the Author

About CDM Publications

ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURE 1: GROUNDING AND CENTERING

FIGURE 2: RUNNING ENERGY

FIGURE 3: THE AURA

INTRODUCTION

For many years I have taught classes focused on spiritual awakening. During that time, I have learned that, more than anything else, people need to learn to meditate. All of the answers to our questions are within us. What remains for us to do is to find a way to turn within for our unique information and our internal path to God. Meditation is the way within to spiritual awakening and the realization that our spiritual perspective is essential for us to create what we need. Because the Creator of all things, or All That Is, or Cosmic Consciousness, or whatever name you use, really has no name, throughout this book I will most often refer to our Divine Source as God.

People have asked me so many times, in so many ways, How do I find my information to solve my problems? My reply is always: Learn to meditate. When you learn to meditate, you begin to remember how to tune in to your spiritual self, and thus, how to tune in to God. All of the answers to your questions can be found within yourself. When you look within, you find the divine spark of God within you. This God Consciousness provides all of the information you seek.

Meditation leads you within to you, the spirit, because it involves quieting the physical and focusing on the spiritual. Meditation is the only way I know to truly find the answers to your life questions. With meditation, you put your attention back on the spiritual realm within and seek your information there, instead of looking outside yourself for your answers in the physical world around you.

I believe that most people have discovered that a new car, a new outfit, a vacation or any other physical acquisition or action will not solve a problem other than on a superficial level that is not lasting. We need to realize that our information is found within ourselves and not in the world around us. To solve the major problems or answer the important questions of life, we need our spiritual perspective, which is found within. With only the physical perspective, we continue to create the same problems over and over because we focus outside and do not listen to the spiritual answers within.

One young man I know has been asking me the same questions for several years and refuses to hear that he needs to meditate to get to know himself. He continues to create disastrous relationships and to fight with the women in his life. He is so focused on things outside of himself that he is nervous, confused, and unhappy.

By meditating, he could find the beliefs within himself that keep him caught in this destructive pattern. Through continued meditation, he could clear those old concepts and debilitating patterns. Fortunately, God sent him a daughter to teach him since he refuses to help himself.

There are many examples of people who have used meditation successfully. One young woman called me on the phone from the east coast, in a state of fear and despair. She was afraid of not being able to live up to the expectations of others. Her fear of needing to please