Meditation 1st March and Food for Thought (Think positive ... but)
Shamaret meditation Mon 1st March 2021
We meet on the first Monday of the month, March to December.
7 pm – 8.30pm Sydney time (AEST). Attend via zoom or attend in person (at Wareemba, near Five Dock).
Let me know if you would like to attend so I can send you zoom link or address if attending in person (email: maret@maretstaron.com )
Fee $10
You’re very welcome to attend for one evening or regularly. It’s suitable for both beginner and experienced meditators.
I’m looking forward to our first evening of shamanic/awareness meditation for 2021. We focus initially on relaxing into a meditative space and then we journey into higher states of our own consciousness. Here we can seek new information, gain new insights or simply be aware and enjoy the experience. Often insights can come to us at a later date. It’s a beautiful space to be in.
Further information about Shamaret Meditation: http://www.maretstaron.com/meditation
Think positive rather than negative thoughts, yes … but
The energy on the planet (planetary energy not the human energy) has been changing for quite some time. And this affects us all. It’s calling us to become more authentic, more aligned to our soul, more of who we truly are. We can resist it or go with it. If we keep resisting it, we continue to experience more misery than we need to. This can involve us in unhelpful game playing, suppression, control and codependent relationships. However, there are many things we can do to assist ourselves in moving forward into greater happiness, well-being and alignment with the interdependent planetary energies.
One of the things we can do is to think more positively. The other day I was out for a walk and a mother walked by with her young children and I heard her say to one of them: “It would be better if you thought about positive things rather than those negative things”. And I thought yes! and then I thought but ...
The reason I hesitate to support simply replacing negative thoughts with positive ones is that the negative thoughts don’t go away. They bubble away underneath and still bother you – even if you spend all your time cultivating positive thoughts. I’m not suggesting you drop the positive thoughts. However, if you find that underneath, you still have those negative thoughts it’s simply telling you that it’s not complete. It’s still unfinished business. You can always feel unfinished business. For example, you may think of a friend who said something to you and you still feel upset about it days, months (or even years) later - or you think about speaking your truth and you feel a flush of hot shame spread over you (that one used to be a big one for me) - or you think of some of your childhood situations and you feel rage, anger, etc. Any time you don’t feel okay and think miserable thoughts, it’s telling you that there is something unfinished, or I like to call it ‘incomplete’.
So, the lesson is not to ignore it, but to get complete. One of the ways to get complete (or finish with it) is to acknowledge it. A fundamental practice always in life is to acknowledge and complete. That way, you gradually tone down or finish with the recurring old negative thoughts and patterns. What you can practice is:
a) stop and get in touch with what you are thinking;
b) then name it, literally acknowledge it eg ‘self-criticism’
c) unconditionally accept it – note that you need to feel the energy of acceptance and allow it to flow all the way through the thoughts that you are having. Many of my clients, in order to learn the energy of unconditional acceptance, think of something they unconditionally accept/love eg a kitten, a baby, a garden etc – and they let that energy enfold them. And you quietly stay in that energy of acceptance/love until you feel the unhelpful negative energy of your thought dissipate.
It works. I know, because I practiced it for some years until I got complete on many old and recurring negative thoughts that were unhelpful to me. I also needed to do other practices to get complete and I had a lot of support from therapists. However, for me, acknowledgment and completion was a fundamental starting point. Because I practiced it so much, and also had a friend who used to remind me to do it, I now automatically do it whenever I’m not feeling okay.
I wish you grace and ease in getting complete on old thoughts that no longer serve you. You will feel so much better for doing it.
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