Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

The purpose of this 10 minute guided meditation is to break the pattern of negative emotions that afflict you. We are focused here on situations where your emotional response, from the perspective of someone outside the situation looking in, wasn’t a fit with what was going on. An event where you reacted to the situation in a way that now you aren’t proud of or would like to have behaved different...

Your power to heal yourself is extraordinary. For example, much suffering comes from unconscious holding on to painful personal histories. One method is to simply let go of that holding. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, traditional Hawaiian practices teach that each person unconsciously participates in a holding on to a sort of shadow cable ("aka"). Until the aka cord was consciou...

After some harm has been done or wrong committed, traditional Hawaiian practices teach that each person unconsciously participates in a holding on to a sort of shadow cable ("aka"). Until the aka cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala"), discord or neuroses would manifest in the person's body or life. Unless and until the spiritual, almost karmic, cable connecting the "sinner" and th...

Ritual practice has provided a means of releasing suffering and ending emotional or physical distress for millenia. Hawaiian traditions preserve soe of these ancient practices and the Kala Meditation is a very powerful one that has been handed down to us through the memories of Hawaiian elders. Kala means to release or untie in Hawaiian. Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person...

Kala means to release or untie in Hawaiian. Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a figurative or shadow (or "aka") cord until the cord was consciously severed or untied. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiritual, al...

Traditional Hawaiian cultures believed that when one person wronged another the two were bound by a figurative or shadow (or "aka") cord. Until the cord was consciously severed ('oki) or untied ("kala") discord or neuroses would manifest. After some harm has been done or wrong committed, each person unconsciously participates in this holding on to each side of the cable. Unless and until the spiri...

We can use the breath as our guide to our higher chakras. In our lives, each of us is born and then we grow up, and then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, our bodies expand with life giving air as we breathe in and contract as we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality...

The human life follows a predictable pattern, varying only in the details. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and wat...

The breath is our teacher. Just as our breath is born, grows, shrinks and dies, we are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire an...

The breath is like a microcosm for life. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two....

We can use the breath as our teacher. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the...

Meditation can be used wherever you are, whenever you like to settle your mind and relax your body. In spite of the sound quality of this 20 minute recording not being ideal (it was captured during a group session in a glass-walled room) it will provide a rapid transport away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Use this meditation to settle your mind and relax your body. In spite of the sound quality of this 10 minute recording not being ideal (it was captured during a group session in a glass-walled room) it will provide a rapid transport away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you would like to feel connected with others, you don't have to have them physically present. They can even be passed away and you can re-establish your loving connection with them. If you are meditating with a group that is physically present together, it works just as well and this is a simple meditation that you can do together. It works whether there are just two of you or many more and it...

Just as we want to understand the nature of reality and we search for meaning and peace and health and joy in our lives, so the men and women of ancient times sought answers to these very same questions and methods of reaching these states of mind. The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series...

The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) represented a carrier of wisdom from Ancient Egypt. These scrolls found a home in the libraries of Alexandria during the early centuries of the first millennium. In this text the secrets of happiness and peace and the very nature of reality were revealed. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Kri...

The wisdom of Ancient Egypt found a home in the libraries of Alexandria during the early centuries of the first millennium. A collection of works attributed to the Egyptian god Thoth (aka Hermes) were among the many hundreds of thousands of scrolls in that great city of old. And in this text the secrets of happiness and peace and the very nature of reality were revealed. Echoing the insights of Za...

In this 20 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life. The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insi...

The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great wo...

Khorasan is a region in north eastern Iran that was home to the great medieval poet Farid Ud-Din Attar. But there were many poets and mystics like him who laid down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever ou...

The middle ages in the Islamic world witnessed an extraordinary flowering of human spiritual development. There were several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out o...

Long ago a great many poets and mystics graced the land stretching from the Andulus to the Levant and beyond. In these enlightened medieval times several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unendin...

The land of Khorasan has a long history of spiritual seekers stretching back millenia. It was one of many locations in the region stretching from the Andulus to the Levant and beyond where the poets and mystics of old illuminated the uninitiated into the secret ways of the soul. In medieval times in particular several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow toda...

In medieval Persia, in the land of Khorasan, a tale would be told of the seven valleys one needed to pass through to reach illumination. The poets and mystics in these ancient times enlightened the uninitiated into the secret ways of the soul. In these times several extraordinary men and women lay down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set f...

Plotinus (204-270 CE) was one of the great philosophers and mystics of antiquity. Sharing many of the themes found in the writings of other ancient masters like his intellectual and spiritual forebearers Plato and Aristotle, he directly or indirectly had an enormous influence on later writers like St. Paul, Aquinas, Augustine, and Ibn 'Arabi. He regarded human's true nature as being something whol...