Sacred Silence ~ the art of meditation

Meditative Reconnective Healing is a meditation that allows us to know who we are and to recognize the field of Divine energy around us and in us. Meditation connects with that energy in a healing way. This guided meditation will take you step-by-step into the sacred silence and then to see yourself as you really are. Welcome --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Welcome friends. Please visit my webpage Essential Life Essence at sjessentialoils@wixsite.com. Or text me at 989-916-6035. Today's lesson and meditation follows Eric Pearls Reconnective Healing. Find Eric pearl at The Reconnection.com or by his book, the Reconnection, Healing Yourself and Others. Today we will focus on centering and quieting ourselves minds and hearts first. And then after entering the Sacred Silence we will use our imagination to begin seeing ourselves in our true identity. Seeing ourselves as a light, or energy, or as a child, seeing our father (God) with us. Keeping our mind and our heart filled with love and goodness. Observing our true identity with thankfulness. Allowing ourselves to receive love and more love. Until we meet again. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Energy Light, & Information. Everything is energy. We are part and parcel of that. Made of particles which sometimes are in waves of energy when thoughts and feelings are synchronized between our heart and our mind. Light photons are the particle of energy that quantum physics measures. Information is all around us in the form of photons and in us in particle or waveform. We entrap like particles in waves. Like begets like. You could also say light begets light. The most powerful thing we will ever do is recognize we are part of source, source is part of us. God is in us, Christ is in us and is our hope of glory. Realizing that it's not a blasphemous statement but one of truth and releases infinite, divine perfection through oneness with God. Msg me 989-916-6035 or voice msg using the Anchor app. Visit sjessentialoils@wixsite.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

The Ultimate Christian Meditation uses Galatians 2:20 as its scriptural reference. Join me for a guided meditation and together we will enter the Sacred Silence, together we will contemplate our divine essence, our oneness with God. We will begin to see ourselves using our imagination, seated in the presence of divine love, listening to loving and kind words of grace. Speaking over our selves goodness and peace using the mind of Christ. To contact me txt. 989-916-6035 or use the voice msg on the Anchor app. Visit my web page at : sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakealiveaware. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Part one of this two-part recording is a teaching on what is meditation. The second part is the meditation - life,light, and love meditation. Hopefully we will all benefit from the review of what is meditation. Changing from techniques and processes to receiving and being intuitively led. This is a dimensional exercise in meditation. We are multi dimensional living in a three or four dimensional world if you include time. Yet in our mind and our spirit we can be more than four dimensional. Meditation will take you where not much else will go. Prayer can take you there when you stop asking and start ‘listening' and ‘seeing' in the spirit. Few of us practice ‘listening prayer' though. Such a shame. In this place of higher consciousness is found perfection. God said be perfect as I am perfect and it is possible to do that. He said we are healed by his stripes. It is possible in the physical world to realize healing that has always been ours. It turns out faith and belief is simply higher dimensional practices. And you know kids do this best. They live from their imaginations which is the gift of God to access supernatural, totally out of this world, miracles. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Today we will simply takeoff the training wheels. You might wobble a bit. You might even fall off. But the object is to get back on and you might find that you find your center of balance for meditation by simplifying your environment, not using candles or any other symbol to help with the meditation.Rather we will come as children with enthusiasm and play and trust. As adults we will find this is a very very big assignment. But it's totally doable so don't anyone quit. Takeoff your training wheels and join me I want you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Do you feel like you need instruction in meditation? Let me tell you something, You've Got This ! It's all inside, it's just a matter of trusting. Yes I said that. You have magnificence and brilliance inside of you. It is the seed of the eternal Godhead, the universe, the divine mind, whatever you call it. You can't be less than your source. Only an evil imagination might produce fear and lack. Hit DELETE. So today YOU ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE JUST HOW MUCH YOU'VE GOT THIS. Join me at Essential Life Essence and text me at 989-916-6035. I will answer you in a timely manner. sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakesliveaware --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Christ is in you and you are in Christ. There is NO separation. > God Presides in the Divine Assembly “They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.' But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”… . >“ We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.” Jesus replied, “Is it not written in your Law: ‘I have said you are gods'? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken—… > [God] saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. (2 Timothy 1:9) > "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). Txt. me at 989–916 - 6035 or visit my webpage https://sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakealiveaware --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Part one and two of todays meditation teaches us to be aware of the effects of divine energy on our own body's as well as using our divine imagination to see ourselves in the arms of our FATHER, like a child. And playing with carefree ease in the face of adversity. This is our position, this is our identity, this is our strength. Join me at https://sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakealiveaware Or text 989-916-6035 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Receive - what does it mean to receive? Today we will be the antenna, the receiver, and the transmitter. We can only give what we have received. So often we tell ourselves that we must pray for this one's healing and pray for another's finances and all of that is true and good. But if we have not received we will give from our lack and not be giving from our abundance. Today we will sit quietly and receive the love, light, life and divine wisdom from God our Father. And we will be thankful and grateful for the miracle that we are. I recommend reading THE RECONNECTION - Heal Others , Heal Yourself by Dr. Eric Pearl. Connect with me through Anchor voice message or txt 9899166035. Please visit ESSENTIAL LIFE ESSENCE - https://sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakealiveaware --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

In Him Meditation. Pause and remember who you are. By finding your secret silent space and reflecting through stillness you will discover you are In Him, Through Him and To Him. You are in Christ and Christ is in you. That God is the whole tamale and you are part of the whole which means there is no part of you separate from the God of the universe. He is father and mother, He is our family. Visit me at https://sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakealiveaware. Or txt 989916035z --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Welcome everyone to Sacred Silence. I am Sue Ellen Jones, your host for the next few minutes. I am so glad you joined me. At Christmas time we give and receive gifts. Today we will meditate on the gift. Let us joyfully appreciate all that we are and that you my friend are the gift. You might be the gift that keeps on giving.

As Jesus is so am I in this present world. So how is Jesus? These are some things we can think about. I will guide you through a meditation using this phrase as a mantra or an affirmation. Think on these things while we meditate. We will begin as I guide you in bringing yourself, your body and mind, into quietness and stillness. Then we will ask the question, “Well, how is Jesus?”How is he physically, mentally and emotionally? Is he worried, concerned, fearful,? Is Jesus worried about money, is Jesus worried about health, is Jesus worried about relationships? Is Jesus kind and considerate to everyone? So how are you doing? I've got some good news, you are doing great! You are just like him! Let that sink in. Think on these things. Meditate on these words and you will see - you and I and everyone else is OK. Text me at 989-916-6035 or use Anchor Voice Message. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Meditation will bring your heart and mind into synchronicity. Meditation allows us to access higher vibrations, higher energy, and live from a higher realm. Today we will learn how to rest in the love joy and peace of God and let go of worry and anxiety. We will simply use our minds eye to see in the spirit powerful words of grace and life and love. We will recognize our feelings that accompany a peaceful heart, feelings of love, joy and peace that passes human understanding. Your heart will respond with gratitude, gratefulness and Thanksgiving. Enter the Sacred Silence. Please leave a voice message in the anchor app and I will respond. Or text msg. me at 989-916-6035 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

The Finished Work: Today we're going to begin with a peace, love and joy blanket. We will find a proper seating position. Attain a zero gravity position where the body feels weightless and energy is free to flow from top to bottom. Place your attention on your breath and do this for 10 minutes. Gently let go of stray thoughts. Allow the peace and the love and the joy of your own mind be your comfort blanket. This is the main thing for meditators. Out of love and joy and peace will flow higher energy transforming previously low energy thoughts, beliefs and physical and material manifestations. Peace, love and joy is our secret weapon. It is the main thing. The peace, love and stillness of body, mind and spirit, when focused on an Intention becomes your creation. (Read that again.) Example: let's say I achieve a degree of peace and rest during my meditation and my mind feels soft and I have only a few stray thoughts passing by without judgment. My entire body is also responding to my mindful state of being. Another way of saying this is my physical reality, whether it's physical health, physical wealth, or relationships are all reflecting my spirit, my energy body, or said another way, reflecting the degree to which I believe that Christ is in me. Sit in peace and use your imagination to see yourself healthy. What does a healthy you look like? Don't bother or take any time whatsoever to see yourself sick even if that is your current state, do not see your self in a state of sickness but rather see yourself 100% healed & healthy, happily doing things that only a completely healthy person could do. It is not productive to see a broken, sick self or try to imagine your organs healing no,no, no. See yourself totally healed and hold the vision. Let's say you want to move into a new home but you haven't found one yet or sold your current home. Use your God-given imagination and see the new house, see yourself having coffee on the deck with a friend. Taste and smell the coffee. Really enter into the scene. Don't even think about the process of selling your home, or finding and purchasing a new home in another place just see The Finished Work. Namaste

In the night season it can be challenging to our hearts and minds to be still. Serenity Meditation is designed to bring a cerebral quietness and stillness in the physical body, a quietness and rest. By slowing down our brain wave we reprogram our mind to enter rest with just our thought. This will help us in the future as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Hi friends, every day is a new day full of surprises.

During a time of meditation thoughts come and thoughts go. If a troubling thought presents itself what are you to do? It often seems the troubling thought is the most persistent thought. First, give this troubling thought your attention. As you observe your thought, you're troubling thought, your energy of observation is released toward the thought. Observe the words, visualize the thought, but do not hold it. Let it move, feel the thought, do you recognize the fear and the anger? Keep observing, keep feeling ,keep breathing. Let your relaxed state influence your thought. Your peaceful, quiet energy originating in love will ultimately transform your fearful thought making it just a thought with no emotional attachment. When the thought passes you will resume observing your breath. Such focused attention keeps our energy in a very good place. The brain is quiet and in a theta brainwave. From here we are re-programming the old fearful, anxious, thought to just a benign thought never to present attached to past emotions. It is re-programmed by divine love. I can be contacted by email: essentiallifeessencesj@gmail.com. Text 989-916-6035. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

You are spirit. You are very familiar with your body but probably not so much with your spirit man. Today we will sit in meditation and choose intentionally to see and feel our spirit. Yes, it is possible. We use our imagination, and our minds eye. God told us we are the light of the world. He also instructed us not to hide our light under a bushel but rather to set our light on a pedestal so that everyone can see it. That can happen only when we believe that we are a light. We hold light, life, and love. That is because God is love, light, and life. We are HIS sons and daughters and we carry and hold the precious DNA of God. Join me for a very special meditation.I can be found at: sjessentialoils.wixsite.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Raising our consciousness is agreeing with God that we have the mind of Christ. That will allow you to expand into realms of the unseen. Once you achieve a quietness of mind, the quietness of body, then you will also be in a theta brainwave. Theta brainwave allows us to re-program messages from our past that are not serving us today. We can change the narrative. It's not so much a rewrite as it is sitting with contentment and thankfulness while our bodies are balanced and energy free flowing . We will experience awareness of our own identity hidden in Christ and be incredibly thankful. One thing that helps facilitate that is to visualize what easterners called the energy body or Life force or Chi. God called it spirit. So we open our minds eye and see in the spirit the things which are. Obviously they will be spirit. See your energy body and your spirit body that surround you. Remember all those pictures that show the halo around Mary and the Saints and Jesus. Many scholars have thought the artist saw light around the body. And they only drew what they saw. Follow along with this guided meditation one time just perhaps listening, then engage in the meditation. And listen to the second part. Where I actually challenge you to do the visualization and expand and go further and raise your consciousness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Many years ago I received a song in prayer/meditation. Today I'm giving it to you as a gift.. Play it, sing

Today's episode is about releasing YOU. It is very simple yet seemingly difficult for us to understand our INNATE power, strength, and brilliance. We rather think in terms of our lack. But you are wonderfully made. Today we journey within using a very simple technique of our meditation posture. As we connect to the freedom of alignment with gravity our mind also aligns effortlessly with life force energy flowing freely in, through and around us, for it is us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

There is a place in meditation that when we achieve this state of being, all answers, all possibilities, are in that place. Meditation is the Sacred Holy Silence of Perfect Love . When we enter that Sacred Silence all the possibilities are there. It doesn't require us to say anything correctly or do anything correctly. Today we will use our imagination to see the Light~Life and Love of the Divine Mind, the mind of God, filling us to overflowing, creating our aura, our energy body. We can use our imagination to see the expansion of this wonderful energy to fill a room, to fill a city, fill a state, a country, to fill the entire world, and to ultimately fill space. And now we see that we are pure energy, the energy of Light ~ Life ~ Love. We can bring our friend or ourselves into the midst of all this Light ~ Life ~ Love,. Transforming us from the inside out. Awakening to all our possibilities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Hi to all the 20 yr olds listening. I want to bless you with a meditation geared toward your life experience now. DECISIONS!!!! Today we will meditate and think on what is truly important about all of our life decisions. There our relationships with friends and family. During this pandemic Will there be school? Should I even go to school? What about marriage is it for me? Should I marry someone? And a a job a life occupation, what shall it be? I do have to earn a living don't die? What does the future hold for me? And most of all, how do I feel about me? Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. THIS is to align our spine , neck and head so that our subtle body Energy flows freely . Take three deep breaths. Put your attention on each breath. Watch it come and fill your abdomen, and watch your breath as you exhale. We are bringing ourselves into relaxation. Let's begin with yourself. Picture in your mind you - today, doing what you are you doing working going to school playing a videogame.What feelings arise?  Hold the image of you and to begin to smile from inside. A smile can change just about anything. Be thankful - start - I am thankful for Me. I am thankful for my life my friends and relationships. Just say it inside and smile while you do. Continue being thankful ~ put me on pause.

What is the essence of meditation and why do we meditate? It is important for us to understand meditation is more than a tool on the tool belt in fact it is the toolbelt it's self. Meditation is not something we must or should do. Meditation is something we are drawn to because we were made enter His rest, to be still and know God. The teaching I bring is my experience in the Christian realm of knowing the God with in. Many facets of Christian teaching are good and profitable but still we may completely miss the relationship if we become entangled in the process. The point being Christ in you is your hope of glory. All prayer, study, reading, practice, services, gatherings, praise and worship, should all expand our conscious knowing of our inclusion in Jesus Christ. We are found in his body, his mind and his heart. We are in Christ and Christ is in us. Part I is the teaching and part II is the meditation. I use the metaphor of a butterfly to explain our unconscious asleep state where the physical body and the physical world is what we experience and see. The butterfly exemplifies the transformation process. You think you know what that looks like but I think not. Join me and see the mystical Life experience that is ours. Contact me at 989-916-6035 , email - sjessentialoils@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Today's meditation is a Minute of Joy. For all the interruptions of life, the bad news, the angry person, the bill, the bad health report, or friendships gone astray, for all the interrupters, stop for a Minute of Joy Meditation. It's done like this: identify the problem. Select a mantra or an affirmation of truth to counter the problem. Recite the affirmation. OK when bad news comes, and it will, the minute you remember - say your affirmation. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, smile on the inside, and say your affirmation. It could be a promise that God gave you in his word, say that. Whatever it is say it as many times as you wish. Every time you get frightened and scared because a problem presents itself, remember your affirmation. Suggestions for affirmations - I am beautiful, I am happy, I am loved, I am perfect in all my ways, I am fearfully and wonderfully made, God loves me, God is my father and my protector, God is my provider, God is my shield and my Buckler of whom should I be afraid, God is abiding with me always,I am in Christ, Christ is in me. sjessentialoils@gmail.com 989-916-6935. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Today I am teaching the importance of the proper meditative posture. It's simple, yet profound. Firstly, we sit away from any back support. Secondly, we set up on cushions that elevate our hips above our knees. Or knees are crossed and in a full Lotus or half Lotus. When you have successfully found the position where the hip is higher than the knee the hip will be slightly tilted forward and all the vertebrae will align. Or another way to say it is your energy centers up and down your spine will all be open and free. The spine is the Hwy of nerve energy and along with it our energy meridians and as easterners teach the energy chakras run along the spine too. Now you will feel effortlessly holding this position. There will be no tension and you will not be exerting effort to hold this position. Your mind will receive full energy for oxygen and your concentration and focus will be sharper. You may use one word or one short phrase with which to intentionally place your attention. This is as others call it, a mantra or an affirmation. Stay in this posture of meditation with this affirmation for 10 to 15 minutes breathing easily with attention to the breath coming in filling your lungs and the exhale, keeping the body in it's quiet restful state. This is your Sacred Silence. I can be reached by text at 989-916-6035 or email sjessentialoils@gmail.com visit my webpage at a Essential Life Essence - https://sjessentialoils.wixsite.com/awakealiveaware --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

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Christian meditation is a prayer and a meditation. We learn from Gregg Braden, the feeling is the prayer. This is the format I follow. Begin with good meditation posture. Sit with your back straight your neck aligned with your back, and legs in a half lotus position. Take three cleansing breaths. Bring your body into full relaxation by speaking to the various parts. Speak to your head and tell it to relax and go deeper into relaxation. Continue to speak to your neck and shoulders your chest abdomen and your hips, legs, feet and tell them all to relax and to go deeper into relaxation. Here is the mantra or the affirmation, “as Jesus is so am I in this present world.” See this mantra scroll across your mind as on the marquee of the theater. Hear the words. You may speak them out loud or you can hear them in your mind. “As Jesus is so am I in this present world.” Do that for two minutes. Next we wish to add our feelings, this is our prayer. We will pray and meditate here for 5 minutes. I feel grateful and thankful that I am (you are) just like him. He is whole and healthy so are you. He is perfect a son of the living God and so are you. He's filled with peace and joy and happiness and so are you. Be thankful and full of gratefulness. When I think of gratefulness I smile on the inside. This smile helps us to be even more thankful and to keep my focus on what is unseen but true in this present world for you and for me. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Prayer Meditation~ what is it? From my Christian experience Prayer Meditation would be a prayer of asking and believing while mindfully meditating and seeing the answer, experiencing the answer. Please listen to the teaching and then join me for a guided Prayer Meditation. 1. Sit with your back and neck in alignment. 2. Take 3 cleansing breaths. 3. As thoughts enter your mind either let the thought flow on by or mindfully consider it. Ask questions, how long have I thought this way? How does this thought make me feel? Is there a place on my body that is holding this energy? And let these interrupting thoughts pass by too.

Beginner‘s Meditation 101. 1. Meditation benefits health. It brings a sense of peace at our cellular level. Hormones that regulate our fight and flight response are put to rest. Hormones that regulate joy and happiness are released because of the inner quietness resulting from meditation. 2. Stress breaks down bodily defenses including our immune system. 3. Peace, love, joy, and happiness build our immune system and our physical body benefits at every level. Shall We. . . Reach me at sjessentialoils@gmail or txt. 989-916-6035 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Today we will give ourselves a dose of Loving Friendliness and Love. We will share that love to the other.Follow these note suggestions if you've never done this before. Find a place to sit comfortably to gently breathe in and out 3 times. Place your mind on the words Loving Friendliness See the words Loving Friendliness in your mind Hear the words Feel the words - do this for five minutes feeling your own heart filling with Loving Friendliness. After we have filled our heart with Loving Friendliness we will continue to pour out Loving Friendliness from our heart to the other. Think of someone in your world that is difficult, pushes your buttons. What wonderful qualities does this person have? Are they generous? Are the talented, can they sing, sew, garden, run? Think on their virtues for the next five minutes spilling Loving Friendliness all over them INTENTIONALLY. And we will finish today with great thankfulness, gratefulness for all we have achieved in the spirit through self-love and and sharing our abundance with others especially those who desperately need unconditional love and acceptance. Thank you for joining me. Text me at one 989-916-6035. Or email: essentiallifeessence@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Thank you for joining me. Today's Meditation will help us use those distracting thoughts and interruptions that come into our mind to further our practice of Mindfulness Meditation. For it is mindful to put your attention on your breath and it is also mindful to observe a thought. A disruptive thought may bring a busy feeling to your body and mind which you observe and take note of it. And then return to your breath and observe your breath. This activity and practice and exercise is allowing our subconscious thought to be gazed upon. When we notice and observe an experiment we change the experiment. When we notice and observe our subconscious thoughts or our conscious thoughts which cross our mind we can change the outcome of that thought. We bring it under the influence of non-judgment. Please contact me at sjessentialoils@gmail.com or txt. 989-916-6035. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Meditation opens our spirit to the voice of God. The God in you, your hope of glory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

It's been a pleasure to have Katrina on Sacred Silence podcast with me. This has been purely an off the cuff discussion. We wanted to follow our hearts. Hopefully you learned what is meditation, why should we meditate, and some ways that we can enter into Meditation. Today's discussion will be about what Katrina and I still feel we need to share with our listeners. Contact information and either Katrina or I will get back with you. Email Katrina at tink351973@yahoo.com or myself at sjessentialoils@gmail.com or txt me at 989-916-6035 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

What I found so interesting in this segment of the interview was that Katrina and I both "received" a very similar illustration, a picture, and we 'saw' it while meditating on the same question, "What does 'IN' mean?". The picture tells a simple truth easily understood by children but almost completely overlooked by adults. Katrina and I also share some of the ways we connect with our inner voice, enter the Sacred Silence, and be in the flow. Different strokes for different folks

Today we are talking with Katrina Jones, my dear daughter-in-law about her understanding of meditation, how folks can begin a practice of meditation and why? We examine what commonly prevents us from being curious about the practice and examining it further. Is it a mindless practice or a mindfulness practice? Who can meditate? How do I know if I'm doing it right? What is the "Woo Woo Fear?" What is the difference between prayer, contemplation and meditation? Along the way we discuss the appropriate science that connects us to our energy. Connect with me at sjessentisloils@gmail.com - send a voice message using the Anchor App. or txt. 989-916-6035. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Welcome friends to Sacred Silence. I am Sue Ellen Jones and I will be your host. Today we will be learning how to begin our meditation..  Begin by finding a place to sit. We need to keep our backs straight, it is our highway of energy.   Once you have found your seated or lying down position place your hands in your lap in a cupped position or on your knees.. Gently close your eyes and we began with the 3 cleansing breaths. I breathe in through the nose and exhale through my mouth. Do this three or four times. (The teaching today will help you concentrate by finding a point of concentration or focus.. We will also practice letting go of monkey mind thoughts and  re -centering our awareness on the point of breath. We are using the breath for awareness because:  breath is available breath is cheap breath connects us with our subconscious mind breath is common to all living things breath places our mind and heart in this present moment. Continue setting up our meditation   As you begin just breathe normally.  Find the spot in your nose where your inhale touches first. Practice locating this point a few times.  Now continue focusing on this point of inhalation and exhalation for 10 min.  Stray thoughts will come like the grocery list, phone calls to make, bills to pay, worries of every kind. We call them the Monkey Mind. Our monkey mind is not serving us well. Monkey Minds are the compulsive nature of our thoughts. We are re-training our mind and heart to be in control.  Notice when your attention has gone astray and GENTLY bring your attention back to your breath. Doing this over and over again - NO JUDGMENT - be kind but firm to bring your attention back to your breath. In time this gets much easier and you will begin to experience the peace of God throughout your meditation. Then eventually you will carry the peace with you even in your conscious moments during the day. And peace and love will show up even in stressful, challenging situations. It is WHO YOU ARE, WHO YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN.  But the Monkey mind kept you diverted, kept you busy, busy, busy. with no time for self awareness. No time to see what is true only time to worry, get angry and react.  Say hi at essentiallifeessence@gmail.com , Essential Life Essence , txt. 989-916-6035 or leave a voice message on the Anchor app. I'll get it

Vipassana. or Mindfulness Meditation is experiencing your own life events without judgement. It is ‘seeing' your life unfold moment to moment without critical analysis. There are many many different kinds of meditation. We learn in the western culture prayer and contemplation. Both of these have been discussed in the past on this podcast. Also there's the yogic meditation which this is a Mind focus, concentration. With in Buddhism there are many different kinds of meditation as well. Today we will learn about and practice of Vipassana Meditation. Vipassana Meditation is an ancient Buddhist meditation. It is the cultivation of mindfulness and awareness. It is the mindfulness of your own life. To me this seems not only practical but it seems empowering. To become an expert of your own self enables us to be present for others. Join me. I can be reached at 989-916-6035 or essentiallifeessence@gmail.com, or leave a voice msg. on the Anchor App. Thank you Sue Ellen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Today we are using an affirmation “I am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.” When we stop to think about it we do so by breaking down the phrase. Begin with “I am” - where have you heard this before? Moving on to the “Righteousness of God.” Is that not perfection? And finally “in Christ Jesus”, we find all righteousness is in God and in Jesus and I AM all of that. Today's meditation will begin with breathing for three minutes and then we will move on to quieting our minds and hearts with the affirmation. Through out the meditation just let thoughts float on by. They are real but they may not be true. Just let them float away. And finally we will be grateful, exceedingly thankful for who we are all ready. Connect with me by txt. 989-916-6035 or use the voice msg on the anchor app. or email - sjessentialoils@gmail.com Please visit my web page Essential Life Essence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Feeling Petal Bring your body and your mind into the Sacred Silence. Use the Stillness Element or Petal Feeling Call to mind your 'happy place.; It might be with someone, be a particular place like an outdoor sanctuary or a beautiful sunset. See it, Hear the sounds FEEL IT ~ FEEL IT ~ FEEL IT ~ Enter a spirit of gratefulness and Thankfulness. "The feeling is the prayer" Gregg Braden I would love to hear from you and I can be reached through messenger on Facebook group - Sacred Silence or txt 989-916-6035 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

CHECK OUT the program notes for Stillness Meditation - Episode 110 - for a more complete understanding of the benefits. SMILING PETAL Let go of stray thoughts Bring your physical body into stillness. Use the Stillness petal

Read my explanation for the Daisy Meditation in my notes in Episode 110 Breath Petal - Bring your body into quietnes Use the Stillness meditation episode 110 Begin to observe your Breath* Do nothing more Let go of stray thoughts Keep breathing ~ Keep observing When you are ready begin expressing gratefulness with thanksgiving. For 10 min. or as long as you like "Breath of Life" *If you like ~ inhale for 5 sec. Hold 5 sec. Exhale for 5 sec. Then increase 1 sec. until you reach 10 sec. This greatly helps quiet the mind and nerves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

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Daisy ❃ Meditation "The quality of our lives depends on the stillness that we find at the centre." John Main. Let your personal meditation practice be your own heart's expression. This is a special offering to help us all enter the practice of meditation with a great degree of confidence and experience success in this contemplative prayer of the heart. I believe we can receive inner instructions from the Holy Spirit, our teacher, that gives life to our prayers and meditations. Just as every single thing created by God is a UNIQUE EXPRESSION OF HIM so are we. Every lily of the field, every blade of grass, grain of sand, snowflake and yes, every daisy is uniquely made, one of a kind, expression of God in the earth. To broaden our understanding of meditation I envisioned a daisy flower ❃ with simple white petals, each one a part of the daisy, made by God yet expressed slightly differently, a different shade of glory. That is how I understand meditation, simple lovely white petals on a daisy, all belonging, all beautiful alone, while being creatively inspiring in any combination too. How to Begin 1. Select one or more of the Elements (petals) of Meditation ~ Stillness, Breath, One Word, Smiling, Feeling, Healing, Imagination, En Christo, New Wine, or my own personal combination called Sue's Meditation. 2. Use your intuition, select the elements you are drawn to. 3. Try different elements and combinations depending on how you feel. Don't worry if you think you are not doing it right, you cannot do it wrong! If you fidget just bring awareness back to your body and gently bring your physical body back to stillness. If your mind wonders, and it will, observe the thought, even feel the emotions connected to that thought, then LET IT GO. Just let it go like a hot air balloon, watch it rise. Some folks like to envision a stream or a river of flowing water and the stray thought floats away. The point is to intentionally set down and begin focusing your mind and heart on the element of the meditation you have chosen. Hint: if it seems daunting please try the Stillness or the Breath Meditation. Either one or together will help you establish quietness of mind and body. PURPOSE AND POINT: reduces stress, increases sleep, reduces pain, reduces stress, increases sleep, reduces pain, spiritually opens us to the fruit of our own spirit (God and I are ONE) , opens us to self knowledge which opens us to know God also unknowing, preconceptions, negative filters. Visit my web page: Essential Life Essence Contact me: 989-916-6035. Join my Facebook group: Sacred Silence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Welcome to Sacred Silence and New Wine in New Wineskins teaching and meditation. I have always believed through my Christian understanding that new wine was the age of grace and new wineskins were the organized church filled with that grace. I have come to a an additional understanding through my practice of meditation. I believe we have expanded. We are the wineskin and Holy Spirit is the new wine poured in and become one with us. With that understanding in mind, when the Bible says we should go into all the world and preach the gospel that men and women might know God. The phrase, “Feed my sheep” takes on greater meaning. We will serve them supper. We will say to our friends and family, taste and see that God is good. What shall they taste? Here is the Key teaching. This is why we repetitiously practice the sacrament of communion. The sacrament consists of bread and wine. The teaching is that Jesus is the bread of life for healing and wholeness and the wine is his blood for our forgiveness and right standing with God. Since that is the teaching from the Last Supper in which Jesus SHARED the bread and the cup of wine with his disciples then the last supper account must have deeper and wider spiritual meaning. Using the first mention principle and going back to the beginning in which God breathed into Adam the breath of life and Adam became a living soul. Firstly, note: the breath of life comes from God and it is breathed into all mankind. The name Adam in Hebrew, means mankind. In the book of Leviticus we discover that the life of each creature is in the blood. What is in the blood? Oxygen. The literal breath of God. This tells me that our breath carries LIFE. Further on in the description of Tabernacle worship we find that the body and blood of bulls and goats were used as offerings. Yet the Bible says that these offerings were symbolic of forgiveness, eternal life and health. The sacrifices of bulls and goats had no real power to give Life. In the New Testsment JESUS tells his disciples that his body is the bread and his blood is the wine. And he invites them to eat his flesh and drink his blood. Firstly, Jesus was NOT EQUATING his body and blood with the body and blood of bulls and goats. And secondly, Jews do not drink blood nor are they cannibals, eating human flesh. Both practices are strictly forbidden in their law. So what does it mean? As we expand our consciousness we connect the dots. Pearls of wisdom come together adorning our neck with a precious pure white beads strung together as pearls of truth . For we come to understand that our body, is the wineskin and God poured himself into us as the new wine for this age of grace. We carry life. because we are ONE with LIFE ~ God. We are pregnant with everlasting life, Holy Spirit overshadowed us and we conceived of the Holy Spirit. Do not our hearts leap with joy in the presence of Love? Invite your family and friends, invite the world, to come taste and see that God is good. Gather around a banqueting table in the presence of your enemies and feast on the life of God. YOU are his life, food for others. Energetically draw them in. Where your mind goes life energy flows. Join me for NEW WINE IN NEW WINESKINS MEDITATION. Connect with me at: Anchor msg., Essential Life Essence, Sacred Silence Facebook Group, Essential Oils Joy Garden Facebook page, sjessentialoils@gmail.com, txt. 989-916-6035. facebook.com/groups/sacredsilence facebook.com/page/essentillifeessence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Today I will use a meditation to address the current situation in our country, our communities and around the world. Find a comfortable place to lie down or sit with your back straight. Take three cleansing breaths. Now we will do a body scan from head to toe. Tell your head and muscles bone and matter to relax. Speak to your neck and shoulders and arms, the bones, the muscles, and the blood vessels, tell them to relax and go deeper into relaxation. Speak to your neck and shoulders and arms the bones the muscles the blood vessels to relax and go deeper into relaxation. Speak to your chest your abdomen and eventually go to your hips and legs and speak to your own body to relax and to go deeper into relaxation. This is how we bring our physical body into the Sacred Silence. We will now take several deep breaths and place our attention on the breath. This brings our heart and mind into quietness while quieting our nerves as well. Now are our spirit and our emotions will also be in the sacred rest the Sacred Silence. Begin by selecting a word that means safety and peace, health and wholeness TO YOU. Listen inwardly, begin to hear the word on the inside. Put your attention on the word that you hear in your mind. And begin to hear the word one syllable at a time. Let go of all extraneous thoughts. No blame here just to let them go. Gently bring your mind back to your wonderful, healing, life giving word. These words are really in our hearts and minds already and are very meaningful to us individually. Stay with the word for a few moments and then transition to opening your imagination. Your imagination is amazing . It is your creative center creating in your mind and heart your current - present -moment. Your brain and body live in this picture you are creating in your mind. Your special word and your picture will agree. Your picture will reflect what the word entails. I chose the word peace. I listened to each syllable which is one syllable. Then I pictured myself in a boat on a turbulent sea. However I was at peace in the boat. In fact I was sleeping in the boat. Perfect peace. Allow yourself to enter into the emotions of the moment. The deep, deep seated emotions, elevated emotions of gratitude and thankfulness. You might even smell or touch something in your imagination. You are using all of your senses. We have awakened all our senses in our minds in that moment, your moment of creating your Word Answer. This raises your faith and your trust in God's promises. Soon the answers manifest in you physical life. Connect with me at: Anchor msg., Essential Life Essence, Sacred Silence Facebook Group, Essential Oils Joy Garden Facebook page, sjessentialoils@gmail.com, txt. 989-916-6035. https://www.facebook.com/groups/sacredsilence business.facebook.com/essentillifeessence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

This particular meditation is part of my teaching series called Daisy Meditations. You can find it on my web pages, Essential Life Essence under the tab Daisy meditations - petals of uniqueness. The purpose of this series of meditations is to introduce us all to the various possible ways we can meditate. With so many different kinds of meditations it's hard to know which style of meditation is right for us. I don't think it matters really. I do think it is important to follow your heart and intuition and practice as they are leading. This series offers some simple ways to meditate and different elements of meditation that can be combined many different ways, as you feel led. Today, let's settle down, open our minds and hearts to our beautiful imagination; What is your wildest dream? ​Use Stillness to become inwardly quiet and at rest. ​Continue gently Breathing ​Bring your dream into view. See your dream on the movie screen of your mind. ​Sit with the movie for a time, you are the star! Feel your joy and exaltation of living your dream.Continue watching and experiencing emotions of satisfaction and happiness. Express deep feelings of THANKFULNESS. Stay with your vision as long as you wish. Energetically you are creating you're NOW. Connect with me at: Anchor msg., Essential Life Essence, Sacred Silence Facebook Group, Essential Oils Joy Garden Facebook page, sjessentialoils@gmail.com, txt. 989-916-6035. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

This is the heart of meditation. it is the mystery of Christ in you. It is the prayer of Jesus flowing continuously in our heart. The Holy Spirit praying through you. * We do not know how to pray so the Holy Spirit prays through us. “ Contemplation is a work of love, Christ's love in us, for us, as us. The practice of meditation is a discipline, a learning process. Discere in latin means to learn. Just begin. Everything you need will be given to you! Connect with me at: Anchor msg., Essential Life Essence, Sacred Silence Facebook Group, Essential Oils Joy Garden Facebook page, sjessentialoils@gmail.com, txt. 989-916-6035. facebook.com/groups/sacredsilence facebook.com/essentillifeessence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Sacred Silence February 2020 Hi friends this is Sue Ellen Jones and I'm here to encourage you this day in your very own meditation. Before we begin let me share with you a new teaching I will soon be offering. It's more like introducing you to your own, unique, personal practice of meditation, adapted to your particular self. I'm calling the study, "DAISY MEDITATION". I'm not just trying to be cute. Daisies are each one of a kind, no two daisies are exactly alike. In their own way, daisies are beautiful, I imagine a field of daisies blowing in the wind and I sigh with quiet satisfaction. So daisies are like us and like our unique, individual selves. My study of meditation has brought me through many streams. It seems I have sifted them through a fine wire mesh and only the GOLD gems remain. Now it is time for me to bring the many practices full circle into some magical way. I believe meditation can be personalized for each one. However one must first be exposed to the power and persuasion of the differences and then allow your intuition, your divine mind, to combine the elements of meditation in a new, infinitely more personal way just for you. Our practice of meditation will still be creative. The meditation puzzle pieces come together gloriously and that's what I will share with you soon. Look for a coming announcement of DAISY MEDITATION. Today our meditation will be focusing on quieting our hearts and minds while listening to silence. To be quiet in our body we must first find a comfortable position to sit or lie down. Our back should be relatively straight. This all lines up with the flow of energy in the study we've had in the past of energy science. Try to still your hands and your legs from any type of movement. You will find this might be challenging at first. Next bring yourself into a place of silence, a listening state. The sacred sounds of silence produce a heart centered feeling of peace. Finally we think of a special word A word that means something sacred, special, loving or kind to you.. Love, Joy, Jesus are suggestions. I have chosen - Le'Chaim- to life. Begin saying your word, your special word, saying it in your mind. You don't need to see it but try to hear it in your mind, listen to your special significant word. Only one word. Simple. Shall we Connect with me at: Anchor msg., Essential Life Essence, Sacred Silence Facebook Group, Essential Oils Joy Garden Facebook page, sjessentialoils@gmail.com, txt. 989-916-6035. facebook.com/groups/sacredsilence facebook.com/essentillifeessence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support

Most of us have prayed prayers in our lifetime. Many times we have prayed over and over again for the same thing. Always asking. But today we will practice a meditation where we contemplate the answer. You see, Resting In The Answer is the energy of trust and faith and belief. It becomes your reality, what you see and experience in this world. It is important for us to learn to rest in the answer. Join me won't you? Connect with me at: Anchor msg., Essential Life Essence Web page Sacred Silence Facebook Group, Essential Oils Joy Garden Facebook page, sjessentialoils@gmail.com, txt. 989-916-6035. facebook.com/groups/sacredsilence facebook.com/essentillifeessence --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sue-ellen-jones/support