Archive for the ‘Meditation’ Category
Breathe Love
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Breathe your way into love.
Breathe your way to love.
Breathe your way from love.
Breathe your way around love.
Breathe love.
The Light in Me Shines the Light in You
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Be a lamp unto yourself. ~Buddha
How peaceful to be the light.
How liberating to shine our light.
How beautiful to experience our own light.
How loving to be a lamp unto ourselves.
How wonderful to share the light within.
The light in me is the light in you.
Mary Anne
Inner Peace to World Peace
Friday, January 6th, 2012
May inner peace be the way to world peace
May inner peace be the way to world peace
May inner peace be the way to world peace
May inner peace be the way to world peace
May inner peace be the way to world peace
May inner peace be the way to world peace
May inner peace be the way to world peace
And so it is. Amen.
Mary Anne
Embrace the Unknown – Winter Solstice!
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
You are the breath before the Dawn. And you are the breath after the Dawn.
The winter season allows us to align with a slower pace. In the depths of winter, it is a natural time to retreat. The winter solstice is a wonderful time to reflect on our personal wellbeing. It is a celebration of embracing the dark. It is in the dark that mystery occurs, and ideas of all the seeds are germinated—these long nights provide ample time to explore possibilities.
Happy Winter Solstice!
Mary Anne
Our Breath Is Our Meditation Practice
Friday, December 16th, 2011
What would it take to liberate your breath?
Your breath is an inhale and exhale to Life.
Your breath is your meditation practice.
Your life is your meditation practice.
Breathe your liberation.
Breathe your life.
What are you breathing in?
What are your breathing out into the world?
Breathe in love and exhale it out into the world.
Here is to the liberation of your breath that allows you to become aware, awake, and alive!
Mary Anne
Breathing into Your Body, Emotions & Thoughts
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
~a meditation for the pyramid within of stillness, awakening, and peace~
Sitting up tall and straight, allow your spine to become like a paintbrush. Bring your attention inward. Focus on your heart. Take a breath. See if you can take a fuller breath. Bring your awareness to the pyramid within: your body, your emotions, and your thoughts.
Notice your physical body. What does your body feel like when it takes a fuller breath in and out? Ask your breath to travel in your body to where you need more attention or softening. What does your physical body need right now? Bring your breath there. Breathe gently in and out. Breathe into your body.
Notice your emotions. Where have you been emotionally? Allow your emotions to rise up. Send your breath there. Breathe into the emotion(s).
Notice your thoughts. What has your mind been dwelling on or avoiding these days? Perhaps there is one thought you have been repeating or many thoughts racing through you. Send your breath to your thoughts.
And take a nice full breath – in through your nose and out through your mouth – breathing your body, breathing your emotions, and breathing your thoughts. Fill yourself up with yourself through your breath.
Fill yourself up with your own light and notice how life is full of more joy and more peace.
Sit quietly and ‘breathe yourself’ and receive even more.
Namaste~
Mary Anne
So Many Blessings!
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you respond to the call of your gift, and find the courage to follow its path.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
~Blessing, by John O’Donohue
Shine Your Light
Monday, November 21st, 2011
The light in me is the light in you.
Albert Schweitzer once said, “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” During this season of gratitude, may we thank all those who light the spark in others. And thank you for keep the flame lit.
Sitting in Our Heart Center
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
As I sat in an overcrowded subway ride in New York City, I closed my eyes. I could hear people pushing and complaining and I took long, deep, and slow breath. I knew it was going to take me at least an hour to get into Manhattan and I needed a mantra to feel calmer. I took a breath and the phrase, “Sit in your heart center” came streaming through.
Taking slower breaths as the trained jerked and screeched, I imagined myself sitting in my heart center. I started to feel expansive. I breathed love, forgiveness, and compassion in my whole body. As I left the train, I felt a sense of peacefulness.
I wanted to be with this feeling longer so after exiting the subway I found a place to sit with my notebook and write about “Sitting in your heart.” Here is what flowed:
Feel your heart. Call wisdom living in you.
There are limitless sources.
What does your heart say?
What does your heart want right now?
What is your heart saying to you about your day?
Take a deeper breath.
Fill yourself up with more of yourself.
Are you ready to fill yourself up with more love?
And more love? And more love?
Bring your hands to your heart center.
Do you feel that?
The love that you are is waiting.
What love name do you want to be called?
Sit in your heart center and notice.
Breathe through your heart center.
You are being breathed in your heart center.
Breathe. Sit. Be. Love
Amen.
Mary Anne
A Heart-Center Meditation
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
As a new month begins with endless possibility, I offer a heart-center meditation.
Take a breath. Breathe yourself.
Breathe in a way that feels best for you.
Close your eyes and breathe in through your nose and out your mouth.
Take in ‘more’ with the next inhalation – whatever that means to you.
And release ‘more’ with the next exhalation – whatever that means to you.
With every breath, go deeper.
With every breath, your brilliance awaits you.
Allow your breath to become softer and gentler.
Trust your breath. Your breath is your greatest teacher right now.
What is your breath showing you at this very moment?
Breathe through your heart center.
How will you be in your heart center today?
Breathe through that. Listen for an answer – however it arrives.
Bring your hand to your heart.
Breathe the lesson of your heart center.
Breathe your heart’s vision.
Breathe your heart’s deepest healing.
Breathe your Whole Self.
Through your heart center, allow love to flow.
Allow love to touch the heartbeat of everyone you meet.
Where do you go to touch love?
What love has come in deeper as you sit with your breath?
Love awaits you with each breath.
Open your eyes. Look around at the love you created.
Mary Anne