Meditation Reveals Our Sacred Body

By Susan Kramer

Our body becomes sacred when used for the Highest Purpose in thought, word and deed. This volume contains over 100 meditations to open your heart to love fully. Meditations lead us to the bright light within where our greatest love lies. Take the time to find this place for yourself. 35,000 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9781794870222

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Meditation Reveals Our Sacred Body

Meditation Reveals Our Sacred Body

By Susan Kramer

Our body becomes Sacred

When used for the Highest Good

Copyright © 2019 Susan Kramer

Meditation Reveals Our Sacred Body

ISBN: 978-1-79487-022-2

Published by Windward House

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Introduction

Our Sacred Body:

Our body when used for the highest purpose of the moment; our body when used in loving and caring; our body when housing feelings and thoughts of healing and prayer.

This collection of meditations nudges open the doorway to your heart. Read what you are drawn to. There is something for all ages.

Meditations Part I.

1. Meditation Reveals Our Sacred Body

Our arms join the sides of our body at the level of our physical heart, symbolizing that it is through the practical application of heart feelings, caring feelings that our tenderness is shown in the everyday world with family, friends, co-workers, community.

Our sacred body ˗ our body viewed in its wholeness of loving action, therefore Holiness.

All acts we perform, in thought word, deed, emanate from our body. Reaching for our sacredness is the challenge and joy of the moment.

To help live in awareness of our sacred, joyful body:

1. Maintain bodily hygiene through clean diet, clean physical body and clothing, clean surroundings.   2. Hold helpful thoughts, and eliminate harmful thoughts toward others or self.   3. Create a personal atmosphere of positive attitudes which in turn produce their offspring of productive thoughts and actions.   4. Reinforce personal sacredness by acting for the overall best resolve in each situation.   5. Act productively at school, work, or in community service.

Importantly, seep into the inner stillness of quietness regularly through meditation. Deep meditation puts you on the fast track to finding your inner sacred self. As you spend more and more time in meditation, the effects wash through all aspects of your life raising consciousness and quality of living.

In the stillness of meditation

Holding kind and loving thoughts

The inner doorway opens

Revealing our Sacred Heart.

2. Sliding Into a Deeper Meditation

As you begin to lengthen the time you meditate your experience of peace goes deeper. For example, if you are used to doing a power meditation for one minute you will experience an instant calmness, but you may end up becoming very active again shortly.

Moving into five minutes from one minute meditations is when there can be more permanent lasting effects for your outlook over all the day.

It is like practicing the piano. If you spend two minutes a day practicing you will have some forward advancement and satisfaction, but oh so much more benefit comes from a regular longer practice session.

One way to begin to accumulate minutes of meditation benefit is to have several shorter meditations a day. Morning, noon and evening are three traditional times to meditate. And, when you add up the minutes by including more than one session a day, just like practicing a musical instrument longer, you mold yourself into a harmonious pattern of thinking and living.

Meditation is a means to an end. Through repeatedly stilling your mind, your body and emotions also calm down and coordinate beautifully, so you can reap the greatest benefit as a human ˗ embody the best qualities.

To go from meditating one minute to five or ten minutes requires some planning. Prepare a place in your living space dedicated to meditation, or that you can easily make ready for your session. Such as ˗ store a meditation cushion under your bed or on a shelf, and place it next to your bed when it is time to sit.

If you like candles and incense they can be lined up on the back of your dresser and brought forward at meditation time. Even with a permanent altar arrangement, I keep several inspirational articles on my dresser, so that anytime I walk by I can remind myself to think high.

Increasing to longer meditations at each session gives you time to more deeply delve into the recesses of your mind - both to find solutions to problems by peeling back thought upon thought, and to enjoy a greater experience of grace, peace, and harmony in the very minutes of meditation, and the rest of the day.

3. Loss Is an Opportunity for Spiritual Growth

When events don't go as we wish or we lose a loved one we have no choice but to eventually, after grieving, sit back and ask ourselves how we can fill the gap in our lives. Fortifying our spiritual connection with the provider of our gifts and loved ones gives them back to us on a deeper and more universal level.

When the tides in our life flow out, they come back stronger with renewed energy. When a loved one moves away to a distant location or leaves for their heavenly home we can reinforce the spiritual ties between us that forever bind us to one another. This is possible by quietly, silently meditating.

Meditation forms a bridge for us to walk upon back and forth between the physical, mental and spiritual worlds.

When feeling lonely, sit in your favorite meditation spot, close your eyes, begin to breathe evenly. Rhythmic breathing is the link between body, mind and emotions ˗ calming all aspects of ourselves. During this period our grief lies at rest and calm reigns as if we are sleeping. But, in meditation, even though our body and emotions may be sleeping, our mind remains awake and alert. Hence we get a much needed rest from our perceived loss.

In deep meditation we get even more than deep rest ˗ we begin to feel the peace that passeth all understanding, our deep spiritual peace and connection with what is eternal and can never be separated from us.

When we come back to being active after quiet meditation we retain that spiritual peace for a period of time. The more often and regularly we meditate, the more easily we can get into that peaceful state in our regular daily lives. It is practical spirituality, useful in our day to day world.

No one escapes trying situations and the displacement and loss of loved ones on the physical plane. But, everyone can enjoy the unsurpassed peace that meditation affords. It is our direct route to uncovering and recapturing our roots in eternal spirit.

After grieving a loss, little by little take time to sit in meditation and go deeply into your spiritual peace. Think of your dear ones with love and enjoy the fullness of spirit permeating your resting body, heart, emotions and mind.

4. Seeing More by Being Still in Meditation

A memory: One night as I was standing on the lawn and looking toward the stars, my vision became so fixed and concentrated for a moment, that I felt a direct opening to infinity in my outer and inner sight. It was as if I were at the center of the universe, and at the same time as big as the universe.

This was my first experience in feeling completely present in the here and now, and because I was not thinking of the past or the future, I felt the infinite full feeling of a single moment in time.

Usually my life is like when I am on a speeding train, and when looking straight out the window see nothing but a blur of images.

But if I stay in the single moment experience in each ever-new moment, I instead see life as if the train were stopped, revealing the whole panorama of images around me.

In daily living I enjoy every moment more fully by staying relaxed in my body and feeling relaxed internally in my attitudes and thoughts.

Yes, life does speed along as the train running down the track, but within my own being I remain relaxed. This is a relaxation that is not from being lazy, rather, I feel even more fully energized and concentrated on what I want to do in the moment.

Meditation gives that pause in its stillness ˗ the time to really go on a journey within into the vastness, flowing as if in a stream of liquid silver.

Time is flowing with a variable volume. When we are energetic we get more done in an hour than we would at a casual pace. One hour may be 60 minutes, but we can make it more valuable ˗ liquid silver ˗ by increasing the quality we put into 60 minutes.

All aspects of living can have the quality of liquid silver if we always act from our highest consciousness. Each moment we use our free will to decide how to act. We can upgrade, viewing our time as precious silver; or downgrade, viewing our time as dust, to be whisked away. Our choice.

The inner doorway opens

Revealing our Sacred Heart.

5. Charity and Being Charitable Meditation

Charity can be applied to giving material goods or having a charitable attitude. Usually giving things to an organization known as a charity means we are recycling what we have ˗ or giving some of our money for a worthwhile cause.

A charitable attitude can be nurtured by seeing the best in others’ motives and deeds ˗ even when the consensus is against them. An example would be feeling charitable when we see someone taking what we consider more than their fair share of cookies off the plate. We know most people would see that as hogging the cookies, but a charitable attitude would think that perhaps they missed a meal and are hungry.

Charity does begin at home ˗ we get lots of practice being charitable when we are around the same group of people often. The home ground is our training ground in learning how to live compatibly and harmoniously with others, in fact how to act so we will feel happy ourselves.

Here is a meditation to reflect on substituting a charitable attitude for judgment:

Begin by choosing a quiet place where you will be undisturbed. Ideas include a corner of your bedroom, a space in the attic or out