Meditation and Spirituality for Teens and Young Adults: Moving Into the Future

By Susan Kramer

This workbook is a primer to learn about our rich and unlimited spiritual nature. From twelve to early twenties, we travel an uphill road from dependence to independence. The topics in each chapter present useful ideas while moving into the future. Each chapter is followed by 2 lined pages to record your thoughts along the way. 24 chapters. 9,400 words.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781446749180

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Meditation and Spirituality

for Teens and Young Adults

Moving Into the Future

Susan Kramer

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Meditation

Spirituality

Hand in hand

Carrying out a master plan

Of caring, sharing, giving –

For happiness in living

Ideas in writing

Exploring within

Raise thoughts to solve problems –

Solutions begin

Meditation and Spirituality for Teens and Young Adults – Moving Into the Future

Copyright © 2023 Susan Kramer

ISBN: 978-1-4467-4918-0

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Santa Barbara, California

[e-mail]

All Rights Reserved

SusanKramer.com Publishing

Contents

page

4      Introduction

Chapters

5      1. Spiritual Living

8      2. Sitting Meditation

12      3. Relaxation Meditation

15      4. Using a Journal for Reflection

19      5. Instant Meditation

23      6. Meditation Exercise at Your Desk

26      7. Moving Meditations

30      8. Guided Walking Meditation

34      9. Guided Meditation on Compassion

38      10. Guided Meditation on Kindness

42      11. Understanding Harmony

46      12. Loving Is What Counts

50      13. Affirmations and Prayers

53      14. Inner Music of Meditation

57      15. Lesson of the Snowflake Meditation

61      16. Cumulative Effects of Meditation

65      17. Mindfulness Meditation

68      18. Forgiveness Meditation

71      19. Learn to Concentrate with a Walking Meditation

74      20. Impulse Control

78      21. Temptation and Self-Control

82      22. Meditation Is for Everyone

86      23. Daily Group Cyber Meditation

90      24. The Bully Story – for All Ages

94      25. Closing Message

95      Links

Introduction

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This workbook is a primer to learn about our rich and unlimited spiritual nature.

From twelve to early twenties, we travel an uphill road from dependence to independence.

The topics in each chapter present useful ideas while moving into the future.

Each chapter is followed by lined pages to record your thoughts along the way.

1. Spiritual Living

Prayer, meditation, and study of virtues are useful in finding peace and abiding love within.

These practices are a foundation for becoming caring teens and adults.

We learn from a very young age about our innate spirituality underlying all religious practices from the examples around us: family, friends, in community gatherings, in worship services.

Giving thanks in prayer and meditation becomes a lifelong habit when begun early.

Giving thanks can be in the form of prayers from religion, uplifting verses, or spontaneously formed in the moment.

Prayer and meditation are ways to generate feelings of appreciation.

When we feel appreciative, we are feeling happy and peaceful in that moment.

In times of stress, taking time to remember one thing we do have, with appreciation, helps us see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Daily life has moments of ups and downs.

The downs more easily transformed from lemons to lemonade with the sweetness of an appreciation or uplifting verse or thankful thought.

May I grow well and steadily

And learn to live in harmony

With community, friends, and family

Make the most of living

By caring, sharing, giving

From the highest most peak

Of your being

Meditation

The doorway through which

Inner and outer harmony are viewed, enjoyed

As One

Notes

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