Meditation: The Skills, Practices and Guided Meditation Scripts

By Sheri-Therese Bartle

Meditation is believed to have been practiced before recorded history began. All culturally intact indigenous people use some form of meditation. As humans have always longed for connection with the divine, all traditional people have intuitively known that through silence, looking inward, using mantras, studying dreams, chanting or contemplation, a doorway opens to connect one with the creator. This book delves into the history, the practices, physiological and psychological benefits together with a range of fully scripted guided "deep transcendental meditation scripts" to take you and/or your clients through deep relaxation techniques and journeys to explore Past Lives, Crystal Healing, Meet Your Spirit Guide, Chakra Cleansing and Affirmations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheri-Therese Bartle
• Release date: Sep 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370846498

Sheri-Therese Bartle

Your author, Sheri-Therese Bartle, has spent most of her adult life as a spiritual teacher, practitioner and speaker. Living on beautiful Mount Tamborine in Queensland, through meditation, she works with esoteric and practical methods to help heal the emotional, physical and mental self. Her works are practical guides for you to use as the vehicle you can use to “go home”, to visit the place where you originated, the path you can travel to bring yourself into the realisation of “home” and "self", to awaken your consciousness to its true nature, to bring you a deeper level of healing, confidence and understanding by using your mind and emotions to effect positive change in your physical world.​ She openly invites you to join her as we celebrate everyone’s uniqueness and lovingly acknowledge that we all have a life purpose and she is blessed to become a part of your life journey into spiritual awareness.​​

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Meditation

The Skills, Practices and Guided Meditation Scripts

By Sheri-Therese Bartle

Copyright 2016

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Table of Contents

The History of Meditation

Contemporary Meditation Practices

The Fourth Way - Self-Observation

Walking Meditation

Meditation Retreat

Guided Meditation

Transcendental Meditation

Visualisation

Meditation and Science

Physiological Benefits

Psychological Benefits

Deep Transcendental Meditation Scripts

-The Beginning (to achieve deep relaxation : to be used with all Meditation Scripts)

The Journeys

- 7 Chakras : Cleanse and Balance

- Healing Crystal Meditation

- Meet Your Spirit Guide

- Past Life Regression

- Positive Affirmations with the Masters

About the Author

Meditation

The History of Meditation

Meditation is believed to have been practiced before recorded history began. All culturally intact indigenous people use some form of meditation. As humans have always longed for connection with the divine, all traditional people have intuitively known that through silence, looking inward, using mantras, studying dreams, chanting or contemplation, a doorway opens to connect one with the creator.

Contemporary Meditation Practices

The Fourth Way Self-Observation

There are many forms of contemporary Western meditation practice. Russian philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff greatly influenced Western meditation practice with his approach to meditation, which he called the Fourth Way.

He was a student of various traditional meditation forms and he developed a meditation discipline resonating uniquely with the Western mind. As described by Victor N. Davich in The Best Guide To Meditation (1998), Gurdjieff categorised approaches to meditation practice as follows:

•The First Way the path of the fakir, who works on the physical body to conquer physical pain. This is the most difficult path. One must surrender everything and do as you are told.

•The Second Way the path of the monk. This way requires faith above all. You develop the emotional centre on this path.

•The Third Way the path of the yogi. This is the path of knowledge and consciousness. One develops the intellectual centre.

•The Fourth Way the easiest path for Westernersone works on the inner self while living in normal life. Gurdjieff’s approach, the Fourth Way, is described for its ease of use for the Western mind.

Here are some of its unique qualities:

• You don’t have to give up everything you own. All the work goes on inside you.

• You continue to live the same life as before, in the same environment. These are the best circumstances anyway.

• If you start to work and study in these conditions you can attain something valuable.

Eventually you’ll be able to transform yourself and your environment, although not before you sense the need to change. Nothing is harder than to change the inner you, without changing the outer, external you.

Here is an additional quote from a student of Gurdjieff, taken from the book The Best Guide To Meditation (1998) by Victor N. Davich: "We are imprisoned within our own minds and however far we extend them and however highly we decorate them, we still remain within their