Music: Foundation of Faith (And a quick update!)

In case you didn't know i've been kind of quiet on the blogsphere because i've been going back and forth between Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. It's been an amazing couple of weeks! I've got a lot of insights to share here, and on my other blog, but i wanted to share a quick insight that hit me today amazing time, and some fun pictures from my trip.

I love jazz music

Music. Magic that has enchanted people since the beginning of time. There's something inside of us that cannot resist the pull of great music! Whether it's Jazz, or Hip-hop, or Baroque, or Classical, or maybe Country western, once you find music that you love, you can't get it out of your head!

If you've had the pleasure of seeing Pixar's new movie Inside Out, then you (hopefully) noticed the tripledent gum ad that kept popping up for the young girl. The molecules said about the memory of that jingle "this one is never gonna fade! Sometimes we throw it up there just for fun!" (Speaking of Inside Out and music, i'm currently hooked on the song Lava.)

TripleDent Gum, will make you smile!

As i pondered why some of these songs just randomly come from the depths of our memory, i had an insight, it's because we're hardwired for praise. We're hardwired to praise the Lord! (This is a subject i'll be writing about at some point, but it requires a lot more time and attention than I can put into a blog post)  The Lord designed us this way so we could learn easier through song! Basically any song  can stick in our memory like gum on the bottom of a shoe, which means we have to be just as careful what we let into our ears, as what we let our shoes fall into.*

When i was pondering this, one of the first witnesses that pointed me to this was the fact that almost all the major religions, the texts were recited to music? The Hebrews have their chants, and prayers that are in song, the Muslims have their call to prayer, and the Qur'an in song, and the Hindus have the Vedas which were originally hymns, Catholics have their repeated prayers, and songs. Even the Yogis sing their mantras to music!

The Vedas are older than Moses!

For a while i was really annoyed that Latter-day Saints don't put many of our scriptures to music. We have our hymns, yes, but i wish there was some cool song that i could use to sing 1 Nephi!  (I was actually just talking to Erwin about this today.) The jews have cool patterns! However, it seems that Latter-day Saints are peculiar enough as they are, that they avoid things that might make them seem even weirder.. i.e. chanting scriptures to music in order to learn them better.

Back to today! I was walking through Deseret Book, and after i made my purchase i saw a jewel, a nugget of gold, an oasis in the desert! (No, it was not the chocolate counter next to the cashier!) I saw Scripture Scouts on CD!

Old School Cassettes

When i saw the CDs, i remembered that in my childhood i used to listen to the cassettes as i would fall asleep. There was one particular song that i would stay up late and listen to over and over. As i would listen to it, i would feel something. I wasn't sure what it was, but i loved how it felt! I would listen to it over and over, just because i loved how it felt!

As i looked back, i realized that i was feeling the Holy Ghost testifying to me about what i was hearing. Then I realized that the foundation of loving the Lord, and loving the scriptures came to me as i listened to these songs. Songs about the rameumptom, and kids talking about Laban and the plates.

I bought the album, and immediately put it into my car CD player. As i listened to it i was shocked to hear how corny some of the songs are. But even though they're corny i can't help but love them!

Now on CD!

Moral of the story: use music as a foundation for faith. Children may wander in later years, but they will remember the music, and the feelings, and that can and will provide a path to return. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is older, he will not depart from it. President Eyring said it this way,

There are things you can do early, when those you love are young. Remember that daily family prayer, family scripture study, and sharing our testimony in sacrament meeting are easier and more effective when children are young. Young children are often more sensitive to the Spirit than we realize.

When they are older, they will remember the hymns they sang with you. Even more than recalling music, they will remember the words of scripture and testimony. The Holy Ghost can bring all things to their remembrance, but the words of scriptures and hymns will last the longest. Those memories will exert a pull that may bring them back when they wander for a time, possibly for years, from the pathway home to eternal life.

*(The fact that Satan uses that hardwiring to ensure that meaningless drivel and horrid filth play on repeat in our heads is just a further backhanded 2nd confirmation for me.)

Now time for some photos from my trip to AZ with Erwin!

Erwin and me in front of the Payson, UT temple

In front of the Grand Canyon

This is the symbol of our trip. Mediation: where heaven meets earth.

We slept under the stars

Sat Nam! We love meditating!

Beautiful

Religious and Personal Liberty

As i watched this video about religious liberty, i was examining my own heart, and a thought dawned in my mind. "How can i stand for religious liberty when i don't have personal freedom from my sins?" Aren't they basically the same thing? Am i free to worship God in my personal life the way my heart wants me to be? What did i do when the thought came "You should read the scriptures?" How sincere was my prayer this morning? Did i sincerely seek the Lord like i sincerely sought lunch today? What inhibited me from worshiping the God i claim to love so much? Am in bondage to anything in my life that prevents me from worshipping my God even when external circumstances warrant it?

I've often felt that the external world is merely a reflection of an internal world, and our collective external world is a reflection of our collective internal world. (Ghandi was an amazing example of this. He first achieved liberation from the internal war, then helped others achieve spiritual liberation, and then won the external political battles liberating India from the control of the British.) So it is no surprise to me when i'm seeing spiritual bondage all over the place, to hear that religious liberty is under attack.

What i'm seeing though is a lot of well intentioned people getting "vocal" about protecting religious liberties by getting on social media, and clicking, posting, liking, and sharing. That's good, but it's not the best. The Savior said that we must "cleanse the inner vessel." We must first gain spiritual liberty before we can defend our religious liberty. We cannot fight like Captain Moroni for our our freedom of religion if we have not chosen "liberty and eternal life" by obeying the commands of Christ.

Obedience when followed precisely results in one amazing gift: charity. Charity is often viewed as feeling the fulness of God's love for other people, but that is a gross misinterpretation. Charity is described in both Lehi's dream, and Nephi's first vision, as the "love of God which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men (1 Nephi 11:22)." (If you'd like to know more about this, the book Following The Light of Christ Into His Presence, by John Pontius is an amazing resource!)

Charity, then, is the experience of feeling the fulness of God's love for me.

Maybe if he'd cleaned his glasses...

So what does that have to do with religious liberty, you might ask? Everything! If we are to take the Savior at his words, before we can help our brothers and sisters see the error of their ways, we must first have clear vision. We must cleanse the inner vessel, clean the windows, take of our dirty glasses, whatever the euphemism you understand or like, we need to stop talking about it, and do it! Fearless obedience is the very attribute that made Moroni so powerful! (Moroni 38:17) It's also what made the stripling warriors so powerful! We cannot defend ourselves from spiritual enemies if we aren't fully putting on our armor.

This is my vision: every priesthood holder powerfully discerning the influence of the Spirit of Christ, and learning to hold fast to every word which comes out of God's mouth. Every mother nurturing her children with the spirit of Christ in her heart, telling bedtime stories from the scriptures. Instilling faith in Jesus Christ at every opportunity. Taking advantage of every little revelation, every moment of conscience telling us to do something, every prompting, dutifully and faithfully obeyed, obeying because we recognize that those moments are opportunities to show our love for God.

How-To Meditate

Lately I’ve had a lot of my friends ask me how to meditate. I’ll be teaching a class very soon teaching mediation, and exploring different types of meditation some common, some not so common! The intent will be to use your discernment to identify a type of meditation that you can incorporate into your life that you’re comfortable with, and that works for you.

That being said, there are a few tips I can offer here to help all of you who want to begin to learn to meditate. One of the critical elements of understanding the common thread in the diverse types of meditation is having an understanding of what I call the thinking mechanism.  The thinking mechanism is merely a part of the mind that generates thoughts. Your mind has the capacity to follow those thoughts generated by the thinking mechanism, but it cannot actually produce thoughts. Think of it, when you are trying to recall someone’s name, or address, or information and you can’t seem to recall it. It’s because your thinking mechanism can’t “find” the information. Your mind is aware of it’s existence, your heart wants it, your brain has the info stored somewhere in it’s neural pathways, however your thinking mechanism can’t get to it! Thus you only have the power to follow thoughts, not generate them.

It has been said that your mind can only follow one thought at a time, so if you choose what thoughts to accept then no other thought can occupy the stage of your mind. This is true for temptation, and it’s also true for meditation! Meditation translation? In one-way or another all meditation techniques will focus your mind on something other than the products of your thinking mechanism. That might mean focusing on light, a sensation, a color, a sound, a phrase, an emotion, a memory, a scripture, or your breathing.

Doing this sends your thinking mechanism into a state of rest like the 15-minute break you get at work, it’s not down-and-out, it’s just giving your mind a breather so it can do it’s job the rest of the waking day calm, and refreshed. Even in sleep your mind does not get this kind of rest! In sleep, dreaming occurs in which the mind is processing, dumping, storing, and retrieving; the thinking mechanism is very active during sleep! Thus, meditation can be as healing as sleep!

Research done by Harvard Medical has shown that engaging in meditation (resting the thinking mechanism) can regrow grey matter in your brain, a feat once thought impossible by scientists! Resting the thinking mechanism is as important to your mental health as rest is to your physical health.

As you begin meditating, don’t let yourself get discouraged if it seems like your thinking mechanism never quits. I have a friend who, after a month of meditating had 3 seconds without a spontaneous thought being generated. What she needed was a different type of meditation that used more than breathing. If when you meditate your thinking mechanism is particularly noisy, the key is to not get upset. Your thinking mechanism is just doing its’ job. It’s like a workaholic who has been asked to take time of work, and ends up in the office anyway. Just acknowledge it, thank it, and go back to whatever it is you’re focusing on!

World-famous yoga teacher Erich Schiffman suggested that there are two phases to meditation, the first is slowing down, and eventually stopping the thinking mechanism, the second is enjoying the mental quiet. He prescribed 10 minutes to slow down, focus, and rest the thinking mechanism, and then 10 minutes to enjoy the stillness. The first time I tried his prescription was amazing! 20 minutes later and I felt like a whole new person! I couldn’t do 20 minutes consistently though, which brings me to my next point, your edge.

The edge is one of the most important elements of yoga. People who don’t know what their edge is either hurt themselves or never experience growth. With too much of a stretch to our mental, emotional, attention, physical, spiritual, or energetic experience we experience pain, which hinders our growth. With too little stretch there is no challenge, and no invitation to open up to greater good.

Erich Schiffmann said: “Somewhere between these two points (too much stretch and too little stretch) is a degree of stretch… called your ‘edge.’ The body’s edge in yoga is the place just before pain, but not pain itself. Pain tells you where the limits of your physical conditioning lie. Edges are marked by pain and define your limits. How far you can fold forward, for example, is limited by your flexibility edge; to go any further hurts and is actually counterproductive. The length of your stay in a pose is determined by your endurance edge. Your interest in a pose is a function of your attention edge.”

I found it very interesting that there are many different types of edges. If you try one type of meditation and you find that you dislike it, or it isn’t relaxing to you, it may be that this type of meditation is outside of your “edge” and that you ought to try a different type of meditation! I tried and quit many types of yoga before I found a yoga practice that I’m comfortable with. I didn’t realize how many different branches there were! I kept coming back to yoga, and eventually I found out why! I now have a yoga/meditation practice that I enjoy very much! It serves me, and is very satisfying.

So! As you go forth trying guided meditations, yoga classes, singing, visualizations, chanting, or any other type of meditation, just remember to be patient with your thinking mechanism, and to listen to your body for it to tell you when it reaches it’s edge.

For now you can start with this simple meditation taught by Deepak Chopra M.D. that I got from a friend.

1.     Sitting position both feet on the floor, hands on lap palms up:

a.     Just listen to all the sounds around you

2.     Pay attention to your heart:

a.     Think of all the things you’re thankful for

b.     Think of all your blessings

c.      Think of everyone you love, recall and experience of love

3.     Ask yourself a few questions: (don’t answer the questions)

a.     Who am I?

b.     What do I want?

c.      What is my purpose in life?

d.     What makes me happy?

4.     Notice all the sensations in the body: just simple awareness of your body

a.     Your heart beat

b.     Any vibrations that you feel

c.      Your breathing

5.     Be aware of your breathing as it goes in and out:

a.     Take deep breaths and hold for 12 seconds (do this a few times)

b.     Then breathe in and say the word in your head “so”

c.      Then breathe out and say in your head “hmm”

d.     If your mind starts to wander do the breathing again

e.     Do this for about 2 minutes without interruption

6.     Focus your attention on your heart again:

a.     Notice the feelings of your heart beat

b.     Notice the sound of your heart beat

7.     Move your attention into your open hands

a.     See if you can sense your heart beat in your finger tips, as a mild throbbing or as warmth, or as a tingling sensation

8.     Bring your focus back into your heart and relax into your body, take a minute and gently open your eyes

Well, there you have it friends! If you have questions or comments, feel free to comment below. I love comments, and I try to answer all the questions I get. (Sometimes I’m not great at answering questions, so if you feel like your question wasn’t answered, message me, and I’ll try and better answer any questions.)

New Changes In Content

As i've been pondering and praying lately i've realized something. This blog is not for my mind-body studies to be fleshed out and exposed as correlating with the gospel. This is a venue for sharing the truth, pure and undefiled before God, testifying of Christ and His gospel and what i'm learning as i pray for, and seek Eternal Life.

For those of you who were excited by the prospects of me teaching about Yoga, India, The Holy Ghost, Chakras, Meridians, Auras, Scriptures, Prophets, and how they all fit together, i'm sorry, but you're going to be disappointed. I'd be happy to talk about it if you want, but i've seen too many people delve into mind-body/energy medicine and lose the firmness of the Holy Spirit, and lose their path.

My path is to preach the gospel, and that's what i'm going to do! I'm still a big advocate of energy medicine, but i just won't be blogging about it! Sorry!

I'll be leaving up my old mind-body stuff, but the rest of this is going to be dedicated to the finer things testifying of Christ. I'll leave the mind-body stuff to Felice Austin and her blog.

Cheers! And looking forward to sharing scriptural insights, lessons learned, and my testimony of Jesus Christ, the Book of Mormon, the ministry of the Holy Ghost, the divinity of the calling of Joseph Smith, and the divinity of the prophetic mantle held by Thomas Spencer Monson.

The Family: A Proclamation To The World

In LDS General Conference we were invited to record the first vision in our own voice and listen to it over and over again. We were promised that if we obeyed that invitation, it would enable us to get a testimony of the vision of the prophet Joseph Smith! After studying affirmations, and mantras, i've found that they're most powerful if they are in your own voice, so this invitation was right up my alley! (I actually have a recording of me reading my Patriarchal Blessing, and i'll go on walks, and listen to it. It's very special!)

Photo Cred Amber Shaw Photography

My invitation is for us to take a preemptive move in fighting for, and defending the family. I invite all of you to record yourself reading The Family: A Proclamation To The World, and share it on Facebook, or youtube, and to listen to it! We can eliminate subconscious programming by repeating the words of the prophets, and listening to the words of the prophets over and over, and this document is especially powerful.

And in case anyone wants to know this is how i'm memorizing this big document!

Yoga and the Holy Ghost

I. Love. Yoga.

I've said it before, and i'll say it again! But when yoga started having some powerful effects on changing my spiritual/physical/emotional/mental/energetic systems, i got kind of confused. I was convinced that living the Gospel of Jesus Christ would cleanse and change me faster than yoga would, but i wasn't seeing it!  I had felt the guiding hand of the Lord taking me to yoga, but i knew the guiding hand of the Lord because of my religion. Needless to say i was confused and in a mild faith-crisis.

Today i felt like i got an answer! The answer came as i studied how Kundalini Yoga worked, and some inspiration about how the Holy Ghost cleanses our souls. Here's my video kind of explaining what i leaned! The first one cut out, so i'm not sure i said everything i wanted to say. Please let me know if any of this was confusing!

I tried posting the link, but that was annoying. So instead I just uploaded and posted the entire talk! Behold my friends "Unleashing the Dormant Spirit" by Elder F. Enzio Busche. It's a legendary talk. Please enjoy! If you want the audio, i've got that too! I'd be happy to share! Just email me at likenephiofold@gmail.com and i'll send it over!

 

Make God Your Best Friend And Your Wildest Dreams Will Come True

You know those touristy places that sell dream catchers, post-cards, snow-globes and bags of polished rocks? Well, when i was a kid, i was obsessed with those polished stones. I loved them! I contemplated getting a gem polisher, and even attempted to have a rock collection. I dreamt of having a huge Amethyst cathedral in my home, and having big crystals all over my house! I didn't know why i liked them, i just knew that i did!

As i grew older i stopped digging for fossils in my backyard, and i stopped trying to find diamonds or amethyst in the gravel around my church building. I realized that to find those stones that i was so thrilled about it took more mental, emotional and physical resources than i, as a 9 year old, had at my disposal.

As i was leaving my mission in the OTM (Oklahoma Tulsa Mission), my mission president told me something i'd never forget. "Get as much education and training in the areas where you have talents, interests, and passions. God has implanted those desires in you, and He will use them to build his kingdom." So i started my journey to returning to myself! (You can read Part 1, or Part 2.)

Well recently, and my recently i mean in the last 3 years, i re-read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and had an epiphany! I realized that as a child, i had come to earth with innate desires, interests, passions, and skills unique to me, that i brought with me from the Celestial Kingdom. I don't know if major tantrum throwing was one of them, but i did have a desire to help people, and i was drawn in unexplained ways to things quite outside of my family/cultural strata. (For example when i was 9 i insisted that my mom buy me the yoga mat i found at Ross, and then insisted that she buy me the dvd Yoga For Inflexible People, which i used religiously for several months, and then resurrected every time i'd have a yoga kick.)

So, as of the last 3 years, i've been trying to "become as a little child" again. Freely exploring the world around me, enjoying the things i enjoyed as a child, but now equipped with the knowledge of good and evil. As a child, my naiveté led me into some interesting, dark, and downright evil experiences. But that's what life was all about! So now i've been on a mission to recapture the child, while maintaining the wisdom of my 24 years of mistakes and successes.

It's been an awesome road, and i've discovered that i can enjoy my life by starting to live the life i wanted as a kid, right now! I decided that I was going to listen to broadway musicals and take voice lessons instead of forcing myself to enjoy playing the cello and contemplating Saint-Saens, or Elgar! And i've loved it! It's seemed that the entire world has been conspiring for my good.

So here's what i'm really getting to! Today, I just found out that a new friend of mine happens to be a wholesale rock distributor. She sells giant hunks of geological magic to those touristy spots i talked about! And she's selling them to me for wholesale prices! CHA-CHING!

So what I learned is the lesson that Nephi learned, if you make God your best friend, he'll make all your dreams come true! Because in the process of becoming best friends with God, we become purified, and we change, and all that's left is righteous desire! Then, we are blessed as Nephi of old to have all things granted to us according to our desires! (See Helaman 10, and 2 Nephi 4)

Long story short, i'm glad i've decided to make God my best friend. And i think he's glad i decided to do that too! I know he'll be glad if you decide to, and if you have, i know he'll be delighted if you help others do the same! Do you have any stories of this happening? Email them to me at likenephiofold@gmail.com or leaven them in the comments! 

Cellular Memory Storage

Today i woke up to being taught about cells, memory, molecules, light, and computers. I felt impressed to share, so i hope and pray to God that this comes out the way he intended it, and that i get out of the way.

Cells carry memories just like computers! Cells are programmed with light that has been embedded with a message, just like a computer chip is programmed with an encoded signal. The phrase from the 2008 LDS General Conference "Today scientists even describe light as a 'carrier' or 'messenger'" was going through my mind the whole time i was downloading this information. (You can find that talk here.)

Our bodies as divine instruments animated by spirits, i.e. beings of light, have the capacity to encode light with a message, and send that light to a molecule. (Candace Pert PhD calls these molecules the "Molecules of Emotion") That molecule then becomes like the computer chip, embedded with memories, or emotions, or visual flashes, all transmitted through light.

We've moved far beyond binary as "off and on". With light as information transfer, or fiber optics, we can change the quality, color, or brightness, and use that as a code for transferring information. Our bodies, as gifts from the highest and holiest God, are greater than anything we can develop.

It is my hope that you will pray about, and embrace cellular memories. What this information means to me is that God is light, God is truth, and our bodies need to be sanctified by God's light, and we get that because of Christ's Atonement. There is not one molecule of our bodies that needs to hang on to bitterness, or resentment. If we come unto God, every fiber (cell, or molecule) of our being can and will be cleansed by Him who is light, the light of the world.

As always, comments are encouraged and appreciated! Have you had an experience with cellular memory?

Also, if you'd like more information about cellular memory, you can read Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert PhD. For more information about light as a form of information transfer take a look at DYC 88, the talk i mentioned earlier, or this TED Talk.

Morse Code And Meditation

Consider this picture as you read the following story.

There once was a former army morse code operator who was looking for a job. One day while looking in the paper for a job, he saw an ad "Morse Code Operator wanted, for appointment call…." He quickly picked up his phone, and called and made an appointment. He was told to come in at a relatively early hour in the morning in a few days.

The day arrived and the operator hopeful walked into the office, dressed in his best suit and tie, and walked up to the secretary. "I'm here for the interview for morse code operator!" he proudly said. The secretary looked up, smiled, and asked him to "take a seat with the others." Puzzled he turns around and sees 3 men men sitting in chairs, dressed in a suit and tie.

As he takes his seat he asks the men how long they've been sitting there. The first man has been waiting for 45 minutes and was reading the paper, the second man had been waiting for 30 minutes and was reviewing his interview notes, the third man had been waiting for 15 minutes, and was nervously sitting there. As our friend took his seat he decided to calm himself down, and clear his mind.

After a few minutes he stepped up to the secretaries desk and asked for a paper and pen. The other men glanced up, and then resumed their respective activities. A few minutes later our friend stood up and marched into the office of the interviewer. The manager stood up, and asked him what he was doing in his office. Our friend showed him his notes, and the man shook his hand and said "congratulations, you've got the job."

When the hiring manager stepped outside his office to announce that the other perspective employees could go home, they were upset and asked why they weren't hired! They had never gotten their interview!

Calmly the hiring manager said, "The entire time you've been sitting out here a message has been broadcast via morse-code: 'If you can hear this, come into my office, you've got the job.' All of you had equal opportunities to translate, all of you had the training, and the skills, but not one of you took the time to be still and listen. Therefore, none of you got the job. You're all dismissed."

This story illustrates a very powerful truth: if we don't listen for the still small voice, we won't hear it. When Christ comes we'll be among those who "never knew [him]." The injunction to "Be still and know that I am God" is a commandment. (And it's not just in the Old Testament! It's a commandment in the Doctrine and Covenants as well.)

I'm sure there are numerous reasons why this is, first off, the world is going to get CRAZY, and if we don't anchor ourselves into him, then we'll won't survive the storm. The second is more subtle i think, by becoming still, we allow ourselves to really surrender everything to the Savior, and let him make changes in us for our benefit.

John 10:27 says "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me." (NIV) Matthew 7:22-23 says something quite chilling. "Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in they name done many wonderful works? And I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Did you notice how often they said that they did a wonderful work "in thy name"? What is the only church that has Jesus Christ's name on it? I've seen plenty of Baptists, and Methodists, and sects of Christianity, but I'm only aware of one church that bears the name of Jesus Christ: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. 

Many of members of the LDS Church believe that because they're called, (or got the job interview appointment, and were well qualified, as was the case in the story above), that they'll be chosen. Unfortunately it doesn't work like that! "...Many are called, but few are chosen." as the scriptures declare. The problem? "Their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world…." The solution? Spend time in stillness, and give your heart a chance to let go of the things of this world.

What will happen if you do? The scriptures will open up to you in a way that they've never done before. The words of the prophets will make more sense, and you'll feel an increase of peace in times of difficulty. Your ability to regulate your emotions will be enhanced, and you'll be more calm in times of relative chaos. Also, one of my favorite blessings, all things will begin to be revealed to you. 2 Nephi 27: 11 says of the last days, "And all things shall be revealed unto the children of men which ever have been among the children of men, and which ever will be even unto the ends of the earth." Some people think this will happen in General Conference, but it won't. General Conference has to be the standard to the world, the ensign, the constant unchanging message and invitation to all the peoples of the world. No, this says it will be revealed to the "children of men" not just the prophets or apostles, or yogis, or sages, or mystics.  It will be direct, straight to us, from God to man.

The twelve steps teach it, Oprah suggests it, the prophets have commanded it, and the warnings for not doing it are unmistakably clear! Meditate. Take time each day to be still: still your body, mind, spirit and emotions. (Don't still your heart-beat otherwise you'll die, and I don't want that on my head.) And if you don't know how to do this, ask God to teach you! (That's how i had to learn) If you do this with the pray of knowing God, i promise that you'll get that! I have come to know and love God better through my daily time in stillness. I've become a better disciple of Christ. Love reigns in my home, and in my heart, and when i step out of bounds, i recognize it, and quickly hop back on the path of love, and devotion. It might not make you perfect overnight, but it will certainly transform and change you life!  As always, i love comments, so feel free to share your thoughts! 

It is my hope to meet you as we travel the road of happy destiny (hopefully you'll be meditating),

until then, happy meditating, and have a wonderful life!