~ LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED ~ Program to Help Raise Our Vibrations
Painting by Agnès van Gaalen
"We are made by love, we are made of love, and we are made for love..."
The following program of daily exercises and meditations, compiled by Peter Shepherd, has been proven to have wondrous benefits. A group of us here at Trans4mind have been practicing together, communicating over Skype, and the results have been thrilling. The program is inspired by the book Love for No Reason by Marci Shimoff. The book offers a breakthrough approach to experiencing a lasting state of unconditional love - the kind of love that doesn't depend on another person, situation or romantic partner, and that you can access at any time and in any circumstance because it is within yourself. Indeed, unconditional love is your true inner nature and essential being. This is the deepest and truest form of love and is the key to lasting joy and fulfillment in life.
We recommend you introduce these methods into your life. Start with one or two of the exercises and gradually increase to do the whole program. Carry the state of being you achieve, and the insights you gain, into your everyday life—that is crucial for the changes to become permanent. Ideally, have one or more partners in this work, so you can share your wins and be mutually supportive. Let your love shine! Please tell us how you get on in the Comments below, and share on Facebook.
We also have an audio version of the Program, see the player below, and download link.
While you are doing these exercises and meditations, if feelings come up that are hard for you to experience comfortably, just be with the feelings for a while. Don't resist the feeling. And when you are ready, when you can accept the feeling, simply let it go.
You can use the EFT 'tapping' method to help your body's energy system accommodate a feeling that you are still resisting, so you can better accept it and let it go. Download this PDF manual: The Tapping Solution.
If in any difficulty, or you need some expert support, contact our life coach Orsolya Riszt for a FasterEFT Session through Skype.
THE PROGRAM
EXERCISES TO DO EVERYDAY:
Start with a Body Awareness exercise
Sit comfortably with a straight back, relax and breath in and out deeply. Allow your stomach to expand as you take air into the lower lungs. Put your attention on the parts of the body in contact with the chair and floor. Explore these body sensations. Starting with the toes, gradually expand the focus of your attention to include the entirety of your body. Feel your feet, your calves, your knees, your thighs, your hips and bottom, your stomach moving with breath, your chest rising and falling, your hands, your arms, your shoulders, your neck, your mouth, your nose, your eyes, your forehead, the back of your head, the top of your head... your entire body. As you do this, be aware of tensions you feel in your body, and the feelings that accompany them. Gently experience them, learn from them, and then allow them to dissolve and be released as you breathe out.
Then do some Yogic Breathing. Breathe like this:
Inhale gradually over a period of 7 seconds and
Hold your breath for 7 seconds.
Exhale over a period of 7 seconds.
After you have obtained this rhythm of interrupted breathing, focus on your breath and when holding your breath, notice the silence and stillness, just as your being is essentially silent and still. Continue for a few minutes.
Universe Meditation
Every few days, at this point continue to do the 'Universe Meditation' (link to audio in new window) to expand your body awareness Universe-wide.
Positive Moments Exercise
Recalling pleasant experiences lets you re-experience that positive energy now, in your present space. By focusing on positive experiences, you disempower the negative ones, making their stuck energy available to you now as free life-energy.
Ask yourself a question from the Recall List (click to open in a new window).
Recall such an experience and briefly run through it from beginning to end, as if it were happening in the present.
Ask yourself the next question. If you cannot recall an incident, or you get an unpleasant memory, leave that question and go on to the next one.
Continue until you're feeling positive. Next time, use different items from the Recall List.
Disidentification Exercise
This is to help you let go of your small selves and discover your true self, which is not the mind's ego and subpersonalities but is behind the workings of the mind: an observer, a witness. The true self is all about love. In the mirror, early in the day, look deep into your eyes and indicate:
"I have many emotions, and I am not my emotions." "I have many thoughts, and I am not my thoughts." "I have many memories, and I am not my memories." "I have many accomplishments, and I am not my accomplishments." "I have many possessions, and I am not my possessions." "I have a job, and I am not my job." "I have habits and things I do often, and I am not those things." "I have beliefs, and I am not my beliefs." "I have my nationality, and I am not my nationality." "I have my race and culture, and I am not my race and culture." "I have a family and friends, and I am not those people." "I have a body, and I am not my body." "I have feelings, and I am not my feelings." "I have a mind, and I am not my mind." "I am a pure center of awareness and choice." "I am not the things that I have, yet I can choose to connect and be one with all of them." "I create my experience."
In the mirror, look deep into your eyes and say repeatedly (and truly mean):
"I accept myself, as I am, right now..."
Embrace yourself with loving compassion. Accept and be one with all your feelings and inner knowing, and be grateful for all that they teach you.
And then one at a time - to yourself, to others, to the Earth, to God - say repeatedly (and truly mean):
"I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you."
(This is Ho'oponopono, the Hawaiian practice of full responsibility, reconciliation and forgiveness.)
Note: Love is unconditional acceptance, which is not the same as to like or agree (those are conditions).
Embrace the feelings and learning that emerge.
And then, a Buddhist practice for loving compassion.
Think of a person, saying:
"May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be safe."
to each person who comes to mind, then to yourself:
"May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be safe."
Finally affirm:
"I am happy. I am healthy. I am safe."
Followed by a daily Heart-Consciousness Affirmation (written by Anita Moorjani):
I've learned to trust the wisdom of my infinite self. I know that I - along with everyone else - am a powerful, magnificent, unconditionally loved , and loving force.
This energy flows through me, surrounds me, and is indistinguishable from me. It is, in fact, who and what I truly am. Allowing it to guide me, and give me all that's needed for my ultimate happiness and wellbeing, happens simply by being myself. I need only be the magnificent love that I am and allow events and circumstances in my life to play out in the way that I know is always in my best long-term interest.
This is really the only thing I have to do. Everything that's truly mine comes into my life effortlessly, in the most magical and unexpected ways imaginable, demonstrating every day the power and love of who I truly am.
Having activated and opened your heart chakra... Today, as you go out and about, look for love's radiance - the light of love shining - in your family, friends, coworkers and those you encounter.
Keep your karma clean
Whenever you make a choice, ask yourself: "Is this choice guided by love?" Assess the feeling in your heart of compassionate reach or of withdrawal. If your heart is telling you to pull back, then don't make that choice. If you do make a mistake, then learn from that with egoless compassion, and your karma will remain clear.
Remain mindful
If and when you notice negative thoughts and emotions, don't struggle to suppress or change them, and don't act them out either; instead, simply experience them and let them be. Allow what you're actually feeling, rather than fighting against it. And then permit the thoughts and feelings to simply pass on through, with acceptance and without judgment.
Integration
Listen sometimes to this wonderful audio process by Jessica Ortner of The Tapping Solution, to help you integrate everything you've learned and recall it with ease, using the EFT 'tapping' method... 'Integration Process' (link opens in new window)
Listen occasionally to this inspiring audio meditation by Marty Dow... 'God is Love' (link opens in new window)
Send your love, light, and healing wishes to an area in the world/group of people/person/plight/global issue/crisis in nature, your own self even, or anything you wish to direct healing positive energy to in your life. A 9-minute audio from Global Love Project (click to see their offer of 4 excellent free eBooks about Love)... 'World Healing Meditation' (link opens in new window)
Here is another inspiring audio meditation to open your heart from MindPower (click to see their offer of 20 excellent free MP3s)... 'Sacred Love - A Better World' (link opens in new window)
I am grateful for... Being myself
I am grateful for... Communication
I am grateful for... Understanding
I am grateful for... Compassion
I am grateful for... Intelligence
I am grateful for... Intuition
I am grateful for... The things I can learn
I am grateful for... Smiles
I am grateful for... The presence of God
I am grateful for... The wonder of Nature
I am grateful for... The sensations of my body
I am grateful for... My friends
I am grateful for... My family
I am grateful for... My partner
I am grateful for... My possessions
I am grateful for... My clothes
I am grateful for... My pets
I am grateful for... My meals
I am grateful for... My home
I am grateful for... My work
I am grateful for... The love and caring I receive
I am grateful for... The ever-changing weather
I am grateful for... Interesting ideas that can motivate and inspire me
I am grateful for... The people in my life
I am grateful for... The love within my heart
I am grateful for... Music, books, films, art
I am grateful for... The Internet
I am grateful for... The opportunity to help others
I am grateful for... The ability to feel great!
I am grateful for... Abundance that surrounds all of us
I am grateful for... Having so many ways to share my creativity with the world
I am grateful for... The positive changes occurring daily in my life
I am grateful for... All my clients / customers
I am grateful for... Those who visit my website and friends on Facebook
I am grateful for... All the animals in the world
I am grateful for... My human rights
I am grateful for... My liberty
I am grateful for... My values
I am grateful for... My beliefs
I am grateful for... Those who maintain the civilization around me
I am grateful for... People who have fought to protect my way of life
I am grateful for... The beauty that surrounds me everywhere I go
I am grateful for... My health and the health of those I love
I am grateful for... Life itself
Right now, I am most grateful for...
The Spiritualize Technique:
Focus on your breathing while your body relaxes and your mind settles into a reflective state. Then, take three heart-breaths as follows: On each in-breath, visualize spiritual energy as an intense white light coming from the Sun and filling your brain. On each out-breath, transfer that energy down the spine to the level of the heart, then send it out the front of your body into your heart chakra, which is a vortex of energy located approximately four inches (ten centimeters) in front of the breastbone.
Before sleep, meditate according to the following audio instructions:Practice Yoga Nidra (link opens in new window) and end with the following statement, given internally with conscious intention before you sleep:
"I now return to the expanded nature of love that I am..."
Audio of the above Program
(excluding 'Universe,' 'Integration Process,' 'God is Love' and 'Yoga Nidra' meditations)
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The above exercises include guided meditations, but also there is free-form meditation, where there is no set contents of the meditation, and there are many varieties of this. The method of meditation that I personally prefer is simple and starts by focusing on the breathing (as we do at the start of the above program) and notice your thoughts. Notice any tension in your body that arises from the thoughts. Say to yourself, "I release this" with each thought or tension that occurs.
The meditation continues by remaining mindful (conscious and objectively aware) of all the thoughts, feelings, sensations and stimuli from the environment that occur, accepting them, releasing them, letting them pass by like a river flowing. Gradually and with practice, the river becomes a stream, and then a trickle, and then just occasional droplets.
Practice accepting yourself as you are, and the world exactly as it is. Meditation is about finding a place in your being that is both mindful and also secure, so you can relax and be spontaneous as your true self, and experience anything.
One is aware of being aware, a mindful consciousness separate from and objective to the mind, emotions, body and environment - and at the same time one with and inclusive of the mind, emotions, body and environment. You are being your loving, essential self. This is an enlightened state and you can be this way. I like to do this with my eyes shut for about 40 minutes and with a beautiful music track playing in the background, and to do this three times per week. The benefits are cumulative and include being much more able to remain mindful and free of the ego's conditioning and reactions throughout daily life, in all kinds of situations. Persist and, most important, enjoy. You'll be so glad you did.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." ~ by Aldous Huxley
I have found that beautiful music is a great aid to dissipating and releasing emotions that are not serving me, or that are getting in the way of a heart-felt high vibration (fulfillment and gratitude), the state of being that attracts abundance. Feel the doubt and fear dissipate in your body as your vibration rises, and release them as you breathe out. Some of the best music for this purpose is provided by the MindPower MP3 audios - here they provide a special offer with 20 free tracks.
Learn about other kinds of meditation... what meditation is, how it began and how it is done. The benefits of meditation are very clear: live better, healthier, happier lives by improving your physical, mental and emotional state. A must read for someone new to meditation. Download: The Art of Meditation (27 pages) by Tracy Morrow of Inspir3.com.
A particularly powerful and transformative meditation is taught by Sunetra Basu. She has generously made her book describing this technique freely available at Trans4mind here: White Light Meditation : Manifest Your Dreams and Aspirations as well as the printed version on Amazon. The meditation is powerful, short and simple and forms an integral part of many spiritual programs. White Light Meditation is unique in that it helps manifest our dreams and aspirations by empowering the thoughts, stimulating analytical thinking, magnifying and expressing dormant capabilities, and attracting the necessary resources from known and unknown directions. Just ten to fifteen minutes of White Light Meditation every day is enough to keep the process of transformation and manifestation consistent. 'White Light' is omnipresent and is accessible to everyone.
Finally, we hope you'll enjoy the meditative videos we have produced at Inspiration for Your Souls. This is a place where you can unwind, relax and be inspired.
The Awakened Lifestyle
In addition to doing a selection of the Love is All You Need exercises to open your heart and raise your vibration, and a personal period of the kind of meditation that you find most helpful, you will also want to extend your new-found mindfulness into your daily life. Your awakening becomes a lifestyle.
For example, the food you eat is an important factor in your wellbeing; it is best to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, organically grown locally and in season, and with a good proportion eaten raw, retaining the health-giving enzymes that are usually destroyed in cooking.
Exercising every day, in a way that you most enjoy, is important too, as is being in nature as often as you can and absorbing the serenity, tranquility and clear energies of the countryside. Music that raises your spirit is something wonderful to include everyday. And the most uplifting of all: to be of service to another or others in the way only you can be, motivated by love given unconditionally and not, of course, reward.
You may wish to extend your learning and accelerate your development by reading further on this website or doing one or more of the courses and programs we recommend. Or extend your knowledge and skills in other ways that support the achievement of your goals. And if you need support in releasing painful emotions, don't hesitate to get help.
Last but not least every day, you can pray. Communicate to Spirit your gratitude for what you are experiencing, what you are learning, what you want to be manifested in the name of love, and request inner knowing of whatever you want to know. Present your communication in the form of feelings, images and intention (rather than words or reasons) and an answer will come in the same way. Learn to speak the language of Spirit and (He / She / God / Creator / Source / Universe / Higher Self / Guardian Angel - or however you perceive this presence) will always be with you as a loving guide and support.
How to Accept Love When It's Offered to You
Nearly all of us try to keep up a front. We like to give the impression that we are strong, confident, in control, managing our lives okay, and generally don't need anybody, thank you very much. But inside, we are all much softer and more vulnerable than we may appear. We long for acceptance and love, and rejection cuts very deep. Sometimes so deeply that we resolve never to expose ourselves to the risk of it again. It doesn't have to be this way. No matter how long you have lived according to this pattern, you can reconnect with your innate capacity to love and be loved. Break down the wall with the help of hypnosis: get the wonderful audio download, Accept Love. Open up to love again... because the benefits far outweigh the risks.
The Path of Love
Peter Shepherd is interviewed by Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby as part of The Science of Being and Consciousness series of interviews. Dr. Keith asks Peter about his background, how and why Trans4mind was founded, what spiritual growth means in practice, and the heights that can be reached with The Insight Project, an advanced course which Peter developed and supervises. Here is the audio (1 hour)...
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Rachel Remen, MD shares how we can use "generous listening" to deepen our connection with those we care for with this simple, yet profound technique...
Greg Braden -
Gregg Braden reveals how to explore and discover the miracles of the Quantum world. It is in this place of pure energy where everything begins, from the birth of stars and the DNA of life, to our deepest relationships and healing.
Part I (3 hours)...
Part II (1 hour)...
4 Seasons Taichi Form
We have been privileged to have been taught a special form of Taichi, which one can practice daily for 5 minutes and which has innumerable benefits, especially the opening of the heart centre. This has been incorporated into our daily practice and I sincerely recommend you do the same. Here is the technique, demonstrated by the form's creator Robert van Lente, a wellness coach from Rotterdam. It is important to keep your knees slightly bent, to have your weight on one leg (except at beginning and end), your heels grounded, your back straight, and to be as relaxed as possible. When you have mastered the form, then you can do the practice effortlessly; instead you now focus inside on the movement of chi energies... where you focus, the chi will travel, along the meridians.
"When there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person.
When there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the house,
When there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation,
When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world." ~ ancient Chinese proverb
Message channeled by Ken MacLean
Although it appears that events are collapsing and the darkness is expanding its influence, in fact the light is exposing more and more of the control structures in place on the planet Earth. And we would like to say very emphatically that whatever evil exists upon your planet is entirely, and we mean entirely, under your control. You provide the vibrational groundwork that creates the set of possible outcomes. And so when you change your expectations, you also reprogram your reality, and set a new vibrational orientation that does not allow the manipulation of humanity that has been going on for a long time. A vibration of evil cannot survive in an environment of love, harmony, and cooperation. It's as simple as that.
In the coming months you are all going to be exposed to information that will rock your world, as the cocoon you have been living in breaks open, and the "real world" seeps through into playground Earth. Some of this information will shock you, and most of it will delight you. There's a big wide universe out there, and the planet Earth is part of something much grander than even your visionaries can imagine. And of course, humanity is the pilot of spaceship Earth. You get to determine which dimensional reality you experience. Until you realize that your hands are on the controls, you can be buffeted about by misinformation and disinformation. We want to tell you that really there is no such thing as misinformation or disinformation. Everything you are exposed to is someone's, or some group's, reality. That reality may seem bizarre, evil, nonsensical, or insane, depending upon your POV. Again, there is no misinfo or disinfo. There are only realities, created by beings playing a physical game.
It is your job to sort through these realities and decide which ones appeal to you. You must reject those that make you feel worse, and embrace those that inspire you. And above all, we would like you to create your own set of possibilities for planet Earth, and not depend on "authority figures" or "experts." These are persons steeped in the current reality. Fortunately, there are visionaries on your planet who have been seriously studying ways to lift humanity, and the planet, into the light. More and more of you are deciding to create your lives in the highest possible manner. Remember that the only power another being has over you is the persuasive ability to get you to change your own mind. By changing your mind we mean, accepting a new set of information. The best way to prevent yourself from being fooled or duped during the coming months is to visualize your lives at the highest level. When you come across "facts" or realities that conflict with your new vision, you then have a firm orientation that will filter out negative scenarios or possibilities.
Our message is that individuals and groups and the human race has control of its own destiny. The roadblocks that appear in your path are self-created. If you believe that it's not possible to reach your goal without struggle, you will struggle. The power of a widely accepted belief system (a planet-wide one, for example) is that it affects every individual who participates in the game. Those who believe in the idea of struggle, and even those who don't, will come across roadblocks because this belief is so widespread. That was one of the things that made the expanded game so interesting, and so frustrating. You simply will not believe the power of a belief in cooperation. We assure you that if the idea of cooperation was as widely accepted as the belief in the inevitability of struggle, your projects and your organizations would experience immediate relief. Cooperation is so much more in alignment with the laws of the universe, and consciousness itself, that selecting new belief systems oriented toward cooperation and harmony will provide you with new sets of information, and new methods, that are orders of magnitude above the levels you experience today. And so that which is "hard" becomes easy. This occurs with a simple shift in consciousness. A change in thought literally re-programs the information systems that are the blueprints for physical reality.
The Power Of One
One song can spark a moment, one flower can wake the dream.
One tree can start a forest, one bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship, one handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea, one word can frame the goal.
One vote can change a nation, one sunbeam lights a room.
One candle wipes out darkness, one laugh will conquer gloom.
One step must start each journey, one word must start each prayer.
One hope will raise our spirits, one touch can show you care.
One voice can speak with wisdom, one heart can know what's true.
One life can make the difference; you see, IT'S UP TO YOU!
(author unknown)
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