Toning the Om » Meditation

Namaste!

Mary Anne — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:55:57 +0000

The joy in me is the joy in you.

The light in me shines the light in you.

The bliss in me shares the bliss in you.

The song in me sings the song in you.

The peace in me is the peace in you.

The love in me is the love in you.

The dance in me moves with the dance in you.

The creative genius in me is the same as the creative genius in you.

Mary Anne

Breathe Love

Mary Anne — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:01:15 +0000

Breathe your way into love.

Breathe your way to love.

Breathe your way from love.

Breathe your way around love.

Breathe love.

The Light in Me Shines the Light in You

Mary Anne — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:24:48 +0000

Be a lamp unto yourself. ~Buddha

How peaceful to be the light.

How liberating to shine our light.

How beautiful to experience our own light.

How loving to be a lamp unto ourselves.

How wonderful to share the light within.

The light in me is the light in you.

Mary Anne

Inner Peace to World Peace

Mary Anne — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:47:41 +0000

May inner peace be the way to world peace

And so it is. Amen.

Mary Anne

Embrace the Unknown – Winter Solstice!

Mary Anne — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:27:36 +0000

You are the breath before the Dawn. And you are the breath after the Dawn.

The winter season allows us to align with a slower pace. In the depths of winter, it is a natural time to retreat. The winter solstice is a wonderful time to reflect on our personal wellbeing. It is a celebration of embracing the dark. It is in the dark that mystery occurs, and ideas of all the seeds are germinated—these long nights provide ample time to explore possibilities.

Happy Winter Solstice!

Mary Anne

Our Breath Is Our Meditation Practice

Mary Anne — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:27:05 +0000

What would it take to liberate your breath?

Your breath is an inhale and exhale to Life.

Your breath is your meditation practice.

Your life is your meditation practice.

Breathe your liberation.

Breathe your life.

What are you breathing in?

What are your breathing out into the world?

Breathe in love and exhale it out into the world.

Here is to the liberation of your breath that allows you to become aware, awake, and alive!

Mary Anne

Breathing into Your Body, Emotions & Thoughts

Mary Anne — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:10:54 +0000

~a meditation for the pyramid within of stillness, awakening, and peace~

Sitting up tall and straight, allow your spine to become like a paintbrush. Bring your attention inward. Focus on your heart. Take a breath. See if you can take a fuller breath. Bring your awareness to the pyramid within: your body, your emotions, and your thoughts.

Notice your physical body. What does your body feel like when it takes a fuller breath in and out? Ask your breath to travel in your body to where you need more attention or softening. What does your physical body need right now? Bring your breath there. Breathe gently in and out. Breathe into your body.

Notice your emotions. Where have you been emotionally? Allow your emotions to rise up. Send your breath there. Breathe into the emotion(s).

Notice your thoughts. What has your mind been dwelling on or avoiding these days? Perhaps there is one thought you have been repeating or many thoughts racing through you. Send your breath to your thoughts.

And take a nice full breath – in through your nose and out through your mouth – breathing your body, breathing your emotions, and breathing your thoughts. Fill yourself up with yourself through your breath.

Fill yourself up with your own light and notice how life is full of more joy and more peace.

Sit quietly and ‘breathe yourself’ and receive even more.

Namaste~

Mary Anne

So Many Blessings!

Mary Anne — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:16:44 +0000

May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.

May you respond to the call of your gift, and find the courage to follow its path.

May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

~Blessing, by John O’Donohue

Shine Your Light

Mary Anne — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:34:55 +0000

The light in me is the light in you.

Albert Schweitzer once said, “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” During this season of gratitude, may we thank all those who light the spark in others. And thank you for keep the flame lit.

Sitting in Our Heart Center

Mary Anne — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:24:37 +0000

As I sat in an overcrowded subway ride in New York City, I closed my eyes. I could hear people pushing and complaining and I took long, deep, and slow breath. I knew it was going to take me at least an hour to get into Manhattan and I needed a mantra to feel calmer. I took a breath and the phrase, “Sit in your heart center” came streaming through.

Taking slower breaths as the trained jerked and screeched, I imagined myself sitting in my heart center. I started to feel expansive. I breathed love, forgiveness, and compassion in my whole body. As I left the train, I felt a sense of peacefulness.

I wanted to be with this feeling longer so after exiting the subway I found a place to sit with my notebook and write about “Sitting in your heart.” Here is what flowed:

Feel your heart. Call wisdom living in you.
There are limitless sources.

What does your heart say?

What does your heart want right now?

What is your heart saying to you about your day?

Take a deeper breath.
Fill yourself up with more of yourself.

Are you ready to fill yourself up with more love?

And more love? And more love?

Bring your hands to your heart center.

Do you feel that?

The love that you are is waiting.

What love name do you want to be called?
Sit in your heart center and notice.

Breathe through your heart center.

You are being breathed in your heart center.

Breathe. Sit. Be. Love

Amen.

Mary Anne