This week, a dear friend has written a blog on the Mind - Body - Spirit Connection that I want to share with you. I have known Cheryl for at least five years, and she is a wonderful friend and an excellent psychic medium. Honoring the connection between our mind, body and spirit, allows us to live a more balanced life, helping us feel more peace and joy each and every day. Often making "time" to honor this connection gets lost in our busy lives - but it really does not take much "time" if we can find creative ways to take 5-10 minutes as part of our routine each day - just like showering, or brushing our teeth - it becomes a positive habit. I hope you enjoy Cheryl's blog as much as I do, and as always, I welcome comments! Thank you!
With Cheryl Jennings as Guest Blogger:
Taking care of YOU is necessary for spiritual development and development of your psychic, mediumship, and healing potential. How often have you told someone who looks a bit frayed at the seams, “You need to take care of yourself”? How often have you promised yourself that this year you will really learn to take better care of yourself? We have the greatest intentions in the world, but life happens. Our day gets filled to the max with children, our significant other, our job, meetings, running errands, shopping, cooking, e-mails, taking care of our pets, etc. – so much so that it often seems laughable to carve out time for meditation and the other things we must do to develop spiritually. However, we know instinctively, that neglecting our spiritual development will inevitably lead us to being less effective, healthy and happy in the long run.
I’ve come to realize that exercise and meditation are necessary for me to feel fit and happy and an effort has to be made to include each in our lives. I have struggled with fitting both consistently into my busy week. I know that every week I don’t exercise is a week my muscles lose strength and tone, making it increasingly harder to keep my weight off and my health up. Every week that I don’t carve out time for meditation, I put unnecessary stress in my life. I want to continue to feel and look wonderful as I grow older and exercise and meditation are necessary tools I need for this goal. So I’ve taught myself not to think twice, but to take action even if I have to involve pets, children, or family in my daily exercise or meditation.
Nearly everyone can manage 5 minutes of meditation per day and those 5 minutes might completely change your life. Start with something simple, like taking 5 minutes of your lunch and concentrating solely on your breath as you breathe deeply in and out. Then make a commitment to stretch the 5 minutes to 10. Then 10 to 15. Then 15 to 30.
Choose a meditation that works for you and that’s easy to do, such as, concentrating on your breath, counting backwards, repeating a mantra over and over, moving energy through your body, etc. www.psychicperspectives.net has a great free energy body guided meditation that is short. Also, be inventive about working meditation into your schedule. How about meditating in your car while parked in line to pick up your child from school or meditating during your daily walk?
To ensure that I meditated regularly, I SCHEDULED it into my life. In the beginning I attended a circle that started with a meditation twice a week. In effect, I scheduled meditation like I scheduled all my other activities. The consistent practice eventually paid off by fueling my spiritual development, which was my goal.
If you think you’re too busy to work meditation into your life, you are wrong! Be inventive and work it into your schedule where practical and soon you’ll find you miss not meditating if you give it up. You’ll also find that meditation spurs your psychic – spiritual development and is definitely worth the effort of fitting it into your life.
Taking care of YOU is necessary for spiritual development and development of your psychic, mediumship, and healing potential. How often have you told someone who looks a bit frayed at the seams, “You need to take care of yourself”? How often have you promised yourself that this year you will really learn to take better care of yourself? We have the greatest intentions in the world, but life happens. Our day gets filled to the max with children, our significant other, our job, meetings, running errands, shopping, cooking, e-mails, taking care of our pets, etc. – so much so that it often seems laughable to carve out time for meditation and the other things we must do to develop spiritually. However, we know instinctively, that neglecting our spiritual development will inevitably lead us to being less effective, healthy and happy in the long run.
I’ve come to realize that exercise and meditation are necessary for me to feel fit and happy and an effort has to be made to include each in our lives. I have struggled with fitting both consistently into my busy week. I know that every week I don’t exercise is a week my muscles lose strength and tone, making it increasingly harder to keep my weight off and my health up. Every week that I don’t carve out time for meditation, I put unnecessary stress in my life. I want to continue to feel and look wonderful as I grow older and exercise and meditation are necessary tools I need for this goal. So I’ve taught myself not to think twice, but to take action even if I have to involve pets, children, or family in my daily exercise or meditation.
Nearly everyone can manage 5 minutes of meditation per day and those 5 minutes might completely change your life. Start with something simple, like taking 5 minutes of your lunch and concentrating solely on your breath as you breathe deeply in and out. Then make a commitment to stretch the 5 minutes to 10. Then 10 to 15. Then 15 to 30.
Choose a meditation that works for you and that’s easy to do, such as, concentrating on your breath, counting backwards, repeating a mantra over and over, moving energy through your body, etc. www.psychicperspectives.net has a great free energy body guided meditation that is short. Also, be inventive about working meditation into your schedule. How about meditating in your car while parked in line to pick up your child from school or meditating during your daily walk?
To ensure that I meditated regularly, I SCHEDULED it into my life. In the beginning I attended a circle that started with a meditation twice a week. In effect, I scheduled meditation like I scheduled all my other activities. The consistent practice eventually paid off by fueling my spiritual development, which was my goal.
If you think you’re too busy to work meditation into your life, you are wrong! Be inventive and work it into your schedule where practical and soon you’ll find you miss not meditating if you give it up. You’ll also find that meditation spurs your psychic – spiritual development and is definitely worth the effort of fitting it into your life.
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