Meditation Instructions for Sun., Jan. 5, 2014

For this Sunday, January 5th, the focus for our meditation will be on Potential.  The Dalai Lama recently said, “We all have the Potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant.  We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings.  The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.”  Each of us has an untapped Potential lying deep within that can either lie dormant or become awakened.  Sometimes experiences such as the Philippines tragedy may cause us to act in a way that allows us to recognize that untapped Potential.  But it need not take a tragedy to awaken our Potential.  Even the most mundane situations bring an opportunity for us to become aware of some motivation, calling, or talent we have within that is not being used.  In this first week of the new year let us use our meditation time to ask what is our Potential?  How may we find what lies within us waiting to be tapped that we have not yet discovered?  Additionally, may we extend this meditative offering to the entire country in asking what is our Potential as a nation?  What does the United States of America possess in the way of untapped Potential that we want to bring forward and manifest to reflect our country’s highest and best qualities?

In our efforts this week let us also continue to use the energy of our prayers and meditation to amplify the light that covers and fills this nation.  As we perform our meditation this week let us begin by re-energizing the brilliance and power of the light we create.  Just as before, begin by forming a concentrated ball of light that is so bright it is almost impossible to look directly at it.  Raise this sphere of light up high over the nation and then let its rays cascade down to create a solid, impenetrable dome of light that completely covers every inch of our country.  From shore to shore and border to border let the entire continent be filled with this brilliant, dense light that will serve to magnify the best and highest qualities of our country and the people who live across its vast lands.

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, and connect to the circle of others participating in this project.

Ask yourself how do I feel when I discover a hidden Potential I did not know I possessed?  How does it feel in my body when I experience a situation that reveals a Potential within me just waiting to blossom?  Then send the energy and intention of those feelings to the nation.

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

If you have feedback or experiences you would like to share please let me know via e-mail to k_miritello@bellsouth.net or kmiritello@gmail.com

As an added focus for our meditation this week let us also send the light of our prayers to those regions of the country being hit with record low temperatures and winter storms.  May all beings in those areas be given shelter from the dangerous conditions.