The April Contemplation on The Child Within in Sleights Nr Whitby

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1hMP4Y5eYXW7VSERdih255DC1beYnU84fRQIy9ShF5j_Dg_bKmPYUSQGgFXGaty34cPdYhrPyVvyp6wCu0hVAdH85IsYmT1F46_N83g6W-sQkpUimzE__wGvb7-2bperwjnFzXnI-uU/s1600/IMG_0428.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1hMP4Y5eYXW7VSERdih255DC1beYnU84fRQIy9ShF5j_Dg_bKmPYUSQGgFXGaty34cPdYhrPyVvyp6wCu0hVAdH85IsYmT1F46_N83g6W-sQkpUimzE__wGvb7-2bperwjnFzXnI-uU/s320/IMG_0428.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">The name Sleights means 'flat land near water'. This refers to the old location for Sleights... Concentration </span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">gives the message of alertness. Meditation gives the message of vastness. Contemplation gives the message of inseparable oneness.<br /><br />If we meditate on a specific quality such as light or peace or bliss, or if we meditate in an abstract way on Infinity, Eternity or Immortality, then all the time we will feel an express train going forward inside us. We are meditating on peace, light or bliss while the express train is constantly moving. Our mind is calm and quiet in the vastness of Infinity, but there is a movement; a train is going endlessly toward the goal. We are envisioning a goal, and meditation is taking us there.<br /><br />In contemplation it is not like that. In contemplation we feel the entire universe and farthest Goal deep inside ourselves. When we are contemplating we feel that we are holding within ourselves the entire universe with all its infinite light, peace, bliss and truth. There is no thought, no form, no idea.<br /><br />In contemplation everything is merged into one stream of consciousness. In our highest contemplation we feel that we are nothing but consciousness itself; we are one with the Absolute. But in our highest meditation there is a dynamic movement going on in our consciousness. We are fully aware of what is happening in the inner and the outer world, but we are not affected. In contemplation, too, we are unaffected by what is going on in the inner and outer worlds, but our whole existence has become part and parcel of the universe, which we are holding deep inside us.<br /><br />We concentrate because we want to reach the Goal. We meditate because we want to live in the heart of the Goal. We contemplate because we want to become the Goal.The early contemplations on the child within a revelation into early birth and its secrets. </span>

The April Contemplation on The Child Within in Sleights Nr Whitby

The name Sleights means 'flat land near water'. This refers to the old location for Sleights... Concentration gives the message of alertness. Meditation gives the message of vastness. Contemplation g…

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This meditation nurtures the child within wonderfully and at the same time nurtures the adult you.

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtv2K8jjqSpMbjoCqR4URNVcxA38SyhJI_270BdJwlYkNRXvWNVTTLo_zT1d_Be8f0kBcsCe-uk1X1QceJp04GcYKTuy2DxFJBUGSrHEGtKXoaXffJoB1LwMxAAZlSCRD5DHq71nfxgc/s1600/good+things.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtv2K8jjqSpMbjoCqR4URNVcxA38SyhJI_270BdJwlYkNRXvWNVTTLo_zT1d_Be8f0kBcsCe-uk1X1QceJp04GcYKTuy2DxFJBUGSrHEGtKXoaXffJoB1LwMxAAZlSCRD5DHq71nfxgc/s320/good+things.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> This meditation nurtures the child within wonderfully and at the same time nurtures the adult you. Prepare for meditation by sitting comfortably with the spine erect. Bring your concentration to the in-breath and the out-breath. After ten or twenty breaths, whenever you feel calm and stable, bring each of the components—love, compassion, joy, equanimity—into yourself, the adult you. The next sequence provides a concentration to water the seeds of Love, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity within your inner child.</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #161616; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> In-breath:        “I bring Love”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Out-breath:        “to my inner child.”</div> </blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> You can say a loving name for your child within if you wish. Say silently, “Dear ” or “Darling .” Feel the energy of love fill you from top to toe and register with the energy for several breaths. Then continue in the same way with:</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #161616; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box;"> In-breath:        “I bring compassion”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Out-breath:        “to my inner child.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In-breath:        “I bring joy”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Out-breath:        “to my inner child.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In-breath:        “I bring equanimity”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Out-breath:        “to my inner child”</div> </blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Raleway, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> Conclude the meditation by once more bringing love, compassion, joy and equanimity to the adult you. The concentration on these four qualities is an incredibly powerful instrument for healing. says if we gather together all the virtuous actions we have realised in this world, they are not equal to practicing love meditations… If we collect together all the light from the stars, it will not be as bright as the light of the moon. In the same way, practicing child within meditation is greater than all other virtuous actions combined.</div> <div> <br /></div>

This meditation nurtures the child within wonderfully and at the same time nurtures the adult you.

This meditation nurtures the child within wonderfully and at the same time nurtures the adult you. Prepare for meditation by sitting comfortably with the spine erect. Bring your concentration to the …

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