Etikettarkiv: meditation

Inner peace

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Being able to tap into the greater wisdom, that connects us all, can totally change your take on life. I’ve experienced it myself, and am so grateful to the gift that each day brings me. For me, the habit of reflecting have change my life around completely.

So, how come we are not, generally speaking, teaching our young how to do that, how to connect to the inner wisdom, and experience inner peace? And honestly, why are we not letting young children keep this knowledge, that they have innately from the get go. Somethings happens in the school system, and children loose touch with their inner wisdom.

There are many answers to why this is so, but I want to show you what can happen when we take action and introduce something as simple as meditation in schools. Watch for yourself:

So – what can you do, today, to bring about an opportunity to reflect and connect, enabling inner peace?

Mettā

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I am preparing this blog post on September 11th after reading the weekly news letter from Alan Seale. He wrote about the Loving Kindness Meditation, also knows as Metta, from the Buddhist tradition, and I got curious. Luckily, my computer was at hand, and Google works like a charm for ensuring that curiosity doesn’t kill the cat.

Alan suggest the following words, but I understand that you can compose these lines with words that fit you best.

May I dwell in my heart;

May I be free from suffering;

May I be healed;

May I be at peace.

Found another blogpost on Metta, by Christine Carter, and she suggest doing this with you children:

May I be healthy and strong.

May I be happy.

May I be filled with ease.

20130911-145801.jpgStart with yourself as the focal point, after a while shifting focus to a loved one. Move on to a person you do feel neutral about, and after that shift your focus to someone with whom you have a conflict or an issue with. Move all the way out to include everyone in the universe, and conclude by going back to focusing on yourself.

I don’t know what this practice (a fem minutes per day) would do for me – but just from five minutes of googling and reading up on Metta, I’ve decided I’m gonna try it out. Rather than sit and wonder if it might or might not be something for me, I’m gonna try it, and then I’ll know for sure.

Wanna join me?