As We Remember Narrative Meditation & Vision

As We Remember Narrative Meditation & Vision

Author: Terry Clancy

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1524519006

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Neuroscience is saying we are energy, and consciousness is awareness of who we are and what our environment is. Awareness is consciousness that changes as we learn from experience. As we develop, consciousness in turn is changing our experience because the brain is plastic; it changes in response to awareness of self and environment. The question is, if we need to change experience, how do we do that? This book is about meditation as a tool to develop awareness to change experience. That occurs because of synchronicity of consciousness, experience, and plasticity of the brain. Meditation, as a personal art and neuroplastic exercise, is an internal technology of change. For this to happen, it needs to be understood as a process of the transformation of consciousness, an outcome of self-healing, and a method that connects the two. The method is meditation on goals. What is occurring through the process is the integration of reasoning with what was unconscious, intuition. We access intuition through mindfulness of goals as inspiration, the energy of intuition that is changing experience. As we self-heal there are different possibilities of meditation. Through self-healing, we achieve health and well-being. Through our empowerment and awareness of this occurring, we prevent mental illness. As we become aware of what has been causing change, vision is remembered. It has been forgotten but, the difference is that we are aware of it now. Narrative meditation is a method of visualization of goals. It is learned in stages on successively building on the method before. The state of meditation is a state of inspiration, of visualization of goals as experience. This makes meditation accessible. What makes it transformative is the healing of the aspects of self. What makes meditation inspirational is that vision is creating our experience.


Narrative Meditation

Narrative Meditation

Author: Terry Clancy

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1984503405

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This book is written for people interested in meditation. Narrative Meditation is based on nursing practice of the therapeutic use of self. Awareness of what the self is changes through experience and meditation. The journey is understanding what the self is. The quest is to use self to change experience. This book is about Narrative Meditation. It is learnt in three stages. The stages are deeper levels of meditation. Deeper levels of meditation are different levels of healing. Narrative Meditation is a method of self healing to maximise our potential for health, well being, and happiness. As a method it is a neuroplastic exercise of change in awareness, experience, and belief. Another narrative has been evolving through our stories of change; the remembering of identity as the self. The first objective of this book is understanding what the self is. The self is as a state of quantum consciousness of vision accessed through meditation and used as mindfulness of goals. Understanding is a change in awareness. The second is access to a deeper level of meditation. Meditation is accessed through the transformative vision. Understanding what the self is gives the transformative vision meaning as the state of meditation and purpose as healing as the transformative vision is remembered.


Passage Meditation

Passage Meditation

Author: Eknath Easwaran

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1458778606

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Pioneered by spiritual master Eknath Easwaran, passage meditation consists of memorizing an inspirational spiritual passage and then sending it deep into consciousness through slow, sustained attention. It keeps meditation fresh and varied because readers can select the passages - from one tradition or many - that embody their chosen ideals. Many readers also enjoy the passages for their poetic and intellectual appeal. This form of meditation offers all the richness and depth of traditional wisdom, together with a practical method for bringing that wisdom into daily life. The book situates passage meditation as part of Easwaran's eight-point program that, based on traditional spiritual practices but adjusted for modern lifestyles, shows readers how to stay calm and focused at work and home. This edition includes a new preface of previously unpublished material by Easwaran and an epilogue that explains the story behind the book and invites new readers to join the author on this adventure in the ''world within.''


The Heartfulness Way

The Heartfulness Way

Author: Kamlesh D. Patel

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2018-06-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1684031362

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“A must-read for anyone interested in incorporating meditation into their lifestyle.” ––Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent for CNN Heartfulness is an ideal, a spiritual way of living by and from the heart that is inclusive of all ideologies, beliefs, and religions. In this heart-centered book, a student in conversation with his teacher, Kamlesh D. Patel—affectionately known as Daaji, the fourth and current spiritual guide of the century-old Heartfulness tradition—present a unique method of meditation with the power to facilitate an immediate, tangible spiritual experience, irrespective of a person’s faith. Our modern, fast-paced world can be an overwhelming place. Every day, we’re bombarded with messages telling us that in order to be happy, fulfilled, and worthy, we must be better, do more, and accumulate as much material wealth as possible. Most of us move through our busy lives with our minds full of these ideas, multitasking as we strive to navigate the responsibilities and expectations we must meet just to make it through the day. But what if there is another way? What if, rather than letting the busyness of life overtake our minds, we learn to be heartful instead? Based on Daaji’s own combination of approaches and practices for the modern seeker—which draws from the teachings of Sahaj Marg, meaning “Natural Path”—Heartfulness is a contemporized version of the ancient Indian practice of Raja Yoga, a tradition that enables the practitioner to realize the higher Self within. While many books describe refined states of being, The Heartfulness Way goes further, providing a pragmatic course to experience those states for oneself, which, per the book’s guiding principle, is “greater than knowledge.” Heartfulness meditation consists of four elements—relaxation, meditation, cleaning, and prayer—and illuminates the ancient, defining feature of yogic transmission (or pranahuti), the utilization of divine energy for spiritual growth and transformation. Using the method, detailed practices, tips, and practical philosophy offered in this book, you’ll reach new levels of attainment and learn to live a life more deeply connected to the values of the Heartfulness way—with acceptance, humility, compassion, empathy, and love.


The Story of the People

The Story of the People

Author: Eileen M. Rota

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780929385518

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An exciting history of our coming to Earth, our traditions, our choices and the coming changes, it can be viewed as a metaphysical adventure, science fiction or the epic of all of us brave enough to know the truth. Beautifully written and illustrated.


Traditional Storytelling Today

Traditional Storytelling Today

Author: Margaret Read MacDonald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 1042

ISBN-13: 1135917213

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Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.


Do You Remember

Do You Remember

Author: Terry Clancy

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-02-06

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1499006020

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Well being is desirable and many seek to achieve that state. Th is book is about well being through individual empowerment from remembering of our strengths as both a physical and spiritual being. Th is remembering is a process of putting the parts of self back together as our narrative that has meaning as forming ourselves from experiences of the past and purpose in our goals for the future that regenerate us in the present. Meditation is central to this as a process that integrates lifestyle, beliefs and goals and deepens as old symbols of soul, Spirit and Creator have new meaning, outcomes for our well being are experienced and we are aware of it happening. Self healing occurs in awareness of our wholeness. Spiritual healing occurs in awareness of our unity with our environment as an energy fi eld we are interacting with. In this vision of self we are individually empowered in creating our experiences and collectively transformation is experienced as a renaissance of culture and way forward to an Age of Aquarius where in the consciousness of the transformative vision of our wholeness and unity, our energy fi eld is working for us.


Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

Author: Karma Lochrie

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 081220753X

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.


The Craft of Thought

The Craft of Thought

Author: Mary Jean Carruthers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-10-26

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780521795418

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The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing.


Responding to God's Call

Responding to God's Call

Author: Jeremy Worthen

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1848252129

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‘Formation’ has become an increasingly popular concept in the Christian churches in recent years. It is used frequently in relation to education and training for ministry, and also to describe the personal and spiritual growth of individuals and congregations. Yet until now it has lacked clear definition. Responding to God's Call explores formation as the ways in which Christians are shaped for vocation, and the ways in which we hear and respond to God's call. This ground breaking book is an essential resource for all with responsibility for nurturing discipleship and vocation - whether it is our shared call to grow into the fullness of our baptismal calling, or a distinctive vocation to ordained or lay ministry.