Meditation Instructions for Sun., June 26, 2011

For this Sunday, June 26th, the focus for our meditation will be on Serenity. Roz Savage is a British solo ocean rower whose exploits I have been following for several years. She is a former management consultant who chucked it all during an intensive examination of her life purpose and picked up the cause of keeping our oceans clean of pollution. To promote her cause she became the first woman to complete the 3,000-mile Atlantic Rowing Race, last year completed a solo row of the Pacific Ocean, and this year is tackling the Indian Ocean. In addition to vicariously getting to live through the blog updates (www.rozsavage.com) and podcasts of her adventures I admire her ability to clearly express the deep insights she reaches during the long periods of solitude during her ocean journeys. Her recent post describes how the ocean is rarely calm enough for her to clearly see the fish swimming below its surface. She came to the realization people bear some resemblance to this. She writes, “A lot of the people are like a choppy ocean, all froth and noise and ripples and waves. You can’t see past the surface because it’s going ten different ways at once, reflecting what is around them, just as the ocean reflects the colours of the sky and the clouds. But when the surface is calm, you catch a glimpse of the hidden depths, and what moves there, the life beneath the surface, and the ocean’s true nature is revealed. When you meet those rare people who are calm enough, and brave enough, to let you glimpse their true nature, it is unforgettable.” Her remarks allude to being centered and genuine, traits that prompt a sense of Serenity from those who possess them. All too easily we can lose our grasp on that feeling of Serenity. The hectic pace of life intrudes and makes our life too “frothy” or out of fear we build barriers that block others from seeing our true nature. This week in our prayer and meditation let us reflect on this quality of Serenity. Let us ask what impedes our ability to generate a state of internal calm and Serenity and what enables us to have the self-assurance to allow others in so they may appreciate our depths.

Please follow the same practice as before: Get centered in your body, ask to bring in your guides and others who are there to assist us, connect to the circle of others participating in this project, and create the brilliant star-like light over the nation. Extend blue rays from the center of this light to the nation's four borders and then connect to the grid or matrix that extends from the circle.

Ask yourself how does it feel in my body when I am feeling a sense of deep calm and Serenity? What does it feel like when I am able to remain centered in a way that brings Serenity and the courage to allow others in? Then send the energy and intention of that feeling to the grid for the nation.

Be sure to disconnect from the circle at the end and express thanks for those who have helped us in this effort.

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