Last night I went to Donna Schmid‘s local meditation group… she’s the one that gave me both my first Swedish massage, and my Shamanic healing.
For the weekly group meeting though, it’s usually about 10-15 people who sit in a circle, share experiences, and connect with their souls.
Barry wanted me to experience the group alone this time, so I went by myself. I’ve been feeling a bit drained, both physically and emotionally, lately… but I left with more energy, more inspiration, and more enlightenment than I had thought possible.
To start off the session, we passed around a deck of “oracle cards”, and Donna chose one card that would be the topic for the night.
The card she picked was called “Mercy” and it talked about being merciful and compassionate to others, rather than being judgmental.
The card really resonated with her, and she felt it must be her personal card, meant as a personal lesson for her. She told a story about how she had judged someone unfairly the week before, then said we’d pick a new card for the group.
But two of us asked her why she was so sure that nobody else resonated with the concept of mercy? What if there were others who had had similar experiences?
And it turned out that we had — we all had.
So then began the process of uncovering what the topic had to teach us, and what we were going to do to solve it…
First of all, we discussed what “mercy” really meant. One woman equated it with “grace”, and then I talked about the judging part, and how it reminded me of what Michael Angier, who I interviewed for Success Unwrapped and the Manifest Life multi-media portal, told me:
The 11th Commandment is: Thou Shalt Not “Should on” Thyself.
And I’m going to add… don’t “should on” others, either.
It seems like every problem I’ve had over the last few weeks — and the reason I was feeling drained last night — has to do with “shoulding on” others, or having others “should on” me.
You know what that’s like: “You shouldn’t have said that,” “You should do this,” and so forth… sometimes it’s a constant stream of judgments that we all throw at each other.
Sometimes we even judge whether others “should be” judging us, as crazy as that sounds.
When we can let go of what “should” happen, or what we think life is “supposed to be” like, then we can truly live in the moment… and love what is.
Then I pointed out that “mercy” was related to gratitude, because the French word for “thank you” is “merci”.
Suddenly the room went quiet, and several people had a-ha moments. And our topic of the night now included gratitude.
I shared Dr. John Demartini‘s method of being grateful for the things we think are “bad” in our lives, because that allows us to see the balance and neutralize the charge, or the trigger, that we feel around it. The whole process (which he outlines in my interview with him at Masters of the Secret) involves going through a whole list of things, and writing out how the “bad” things served you, and how the “good” things didn’t.
But I only needed to share the nutshell version with the group. Then Donna decided to add a portion about being grateful and neutralizing our emotions into the next thing on the agenda… a guided meditation.
Guided meditations are the backbone of our group meditation session, and usually Donna does two of them. But after just the first, I felt very alive and full of love and gratitude.
Sometimes it’s hard to meditate on our own, because our minds tend to race around, a mile a minute, and we don’t know what to focus on. We can get some powerful benefits from meditation, including solutions to problems from deep in our sub-conscious, or our super-conscious… but if we don’t know what to ask, or how to keep an intention in our meditation session, then we won’t get the answers we need.
For the second meditation session, we used a recording. The benefits of this type of meditation tool is you can use it again and again, and you don’t need a group (or a skilled and intuitive leader like Donna) to take you through it.
My favorite guided meditation series is Real Mind Power Secrets. The package comes with a variety of meditations and hypnosis sessions for all kinds of things you might want to overcome or achieve… and they are very powerfully put together.
After the second guided meditation last night, I felt like I couldn’t be stopped. I was floating on air, and feeling entirely connected to my soul.
Having group sessions is great for the camaraderie and sharing that’s possible. I’d recommend a meditation circle for anyone who wanted to take their conscious creation abilities to the next level.
But if you don’t have someone to guide you through the meditations, using recordings like Real Mind Power Secrets are a great solution. And — the bonus is — you can also use them on your own, to fit your own schedule.
The reason I’ve only gone to the local group a few times, even though I love it, is that it doesn’t always fit in with my life. But with the recordings, I can listen and meditate any time I want to.
In two weeks, I’m planning to go back again. But in the meantime, I’ll be listening to my Real Mind Power Secrets audios. It’s one of my personal secrets for moving towards a Life Without Limits.
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