I am convinced that my spiritual experience in 1976 is the reason I have been able to stay clean and sober all these years. During the first six months of sobriety, I was lead to learn about meditation and prayer. I consider prayer to be talking to God, and meditation to be listening to God. [...]
I love reading and posting about meditation because I believe that anyone can benefit from practicing it. Some of the posts I’ve read lately : The Unifying Spirit of Meditation–by Brad Shore: If you answer YES to any of these questions, I hope you’ll read on. Are you preoccupied with the next item on your [...]
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Wikipedia identifies mindfulness as “the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally”. Although my faith is based in Jesus Christ, I am thankful that He has given me the gift of openness to explore and implement practices from other faiths and religions. In [...]
Mindfulness added to daily meditation helps build a reservoir of positive thoughts that help keep us rooted in the present. In learning to use the mind as an instrument to help promote peace, we will be strengthened to remember the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where [...]
While doing the research for the 50+ books I selected for the Changemaker Library, I realized that I love writing about good books. I have been reading for 60 years so I have a long history of what books can influence lives. I don’t do book reviews. Instead, I give the book title, the author, [...]
