You find yourself in a quiet place. The noise of everyday life fades away. You begin to feel a different kind of awareness, with a gentle clarity and a peace that is impossible to disturb. Within this peace there is somehow a sense of connection with living beings all across the universe.
If you explore silence and the states of awareness that it brings, you will discover a gentle intelligence that lives far beyond the confines of our narrow lives. When you learn to explore this intelligence you will discover ways of inviting it into your mind and heart. With this invitation sometimes comes visions, inspirations and insights into new possibilities, new directions for our lives.
These writings are inspired by our own visions - we encourage you to discover your own.
We are driven by the same kinds of instinctive forces that exist in animals.
Society has tried to suppress and control our animal self for tens of thousands of years - believing that there is something better
Humans seek ways to suppress their inner animal - to render it insignificant - seeking to suppress this animal nature by thrusting an idealized notion of "nobility" into our minds and hearts.
Our ideals of the perfect self are derived from cultural and tribal collections of ideas and expectations about how we must shape our lives.
Actually if you gave your animal self a chance to express it's positive side - you would discover that your inner animal nature is often more intelligent, dignified and wiser than your "noble" self. Occasionally we sense the truth of this - when we feel a connection with that animal intelligence and wisdom. One of the reasons we care for our animal companions is because we feel compelled to connect in a caring and nurturing way with our own inner animal.
We create problems for ourselves by mistreating and ignoring our inner animal. When an animal is kept in unnatural confinement, when it feels it's needs are ignored, when it feels suppressed and misunderstood - it can become intensely agitated and aggressive. Being pushed into the subconscious regions of the mind, your inner animal nature acts like that suppressed animal and it will seek ways to inflict it's agitation and aggravation on your conscious mind, your body and your emotions. When you mistreat your inner animal, it becomes an amplifier of stress in your life - making the stresses of modern day living more destructive to your mind, emotions, body and spirit.
Learning to bring yourself to a state of silence is the only effective way of transforming the way you relate to your inner animal. Learning to respect the wisdom and intelligence of our inner animal is vital to the future of the human race. By coming to peace with your inner animal it becomes an ally in your quest for spiritual wisdom and prosperity - instead of a constant source of stress.
Meditation is a way of bringing your heart, mind and inner animal to a state of deep silence. In this state we encounter many kinds of positive emotional and spiritual forces that heal the scars of our destructive emotions - fear, hate and greed.
The scars of fear, hate and greed have kept us imprisoned in our self-limiting habits of thought and emotion, fueling our addiction to a narrow set of beliefs.
When these scars dominate our lives, they lead to even more destructive emotions. Out of fear, hate and greed comes all conflict, oppression, the abuses of power, lust for wealth, control and domination - these are the things that are breaking our world and our inner being. They prevent us from communing with the spiritual intelligence that comes when our minds and hearts are saturated with that living silence.
All the powerful instincts of our inner animal and the human mind find release from their sufferings in the peace of meditation - the inner lion and the inner lamb find friendship and cooperation within this peace.
To explore the art of inner healing meditation: follow the meditation sequence and download the assisting audio file - see the meditation links below.
The Spiritual Enrichment that comes from Meditation
In meditation you direct your mind and body to make an invitation to silence.
This invitation is an act of healing. The arrival of that silence results in a deeper spiritual healing.
When silence finds a way to enter your inner being, the heart and mind are transformed by this healing silence, as the inner animal rests in peace.
In this silence, you will enter the spirit's timeless movement of energy and share in it's unity.
Any act of learning how to bring the mind to this state of
quietness is a kind of meditation.
The fruits of this
silence come to us when our inner explorations move beyond the
known and the familiar.
These fruits are many and diverse kinds of insights into the nature of inner freedom.
These are the kinds of freedom that can lead to the creation of new kinds of awareness.
With these freedoms, we learn to sense an infinite web of spiritual energies.
You will discover for yourself the unity, interconnectedness and diversity of all things.
Meditation and Inner healing - the art of calming, meditation, relaxation - a simple meditation method - "settle-sense-dive-let go"
A helping hand for your healing - healing sounds for your MP3 player or iPod
Exploration into meditation - insights, intuitions, and inspirations emerging from our meditative explorations