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Accessing the Power Within YOU

Many of us go through life feeling frustrated and unhappy due to feeling a ‘lack’ of something. We often see the problem being down to needing more of something from someone, or a solution from outside of ourselves, whether it is more love, more appreciation, more success, more fulfilment, more motivation, more confidence, more trust.

What are you NOT experiencing in your world that you want to experience?
What are you NOT getting from the people around, your job, your life, that you feel you deserve?
What would make you feel happier and more content and at peace?

The wonderful thing is that we can CREATE these feelings for ourselves, we are incredible creative beings and are capable of giving ourselves everything that we need to be happy and content.

Find a quiet place to sit or lie down listening to relaxing music.

Take some nice deep breaths and feel your body relax and let go of any tension.

Spend a few moments thinking about what you feel you are missing from your life right now.

Once you have decided what it is (best to stick with one at a time), just be aware of it and acknowledge it.

Take your awareness to your breath and follow the rise and fall of your abdomen as you breathe in and out.

For the next 4 breaths, when you breath out, squeeze as much air out of your lungs, using your rib muscles to assist with this. Notice the breath in becomes much longer as you draw more air into your lungs.

Return to normal breathing and get a sense of a tingling vibration throughout all your cells.

Your cells are now creating, bring the awareness of the positive feeling you want to experience into all your cells, saying the word over to yourself.

As you repeat it, see this feeling growing and multiplying, growing and multiplying within all your cells, filling your body entirely.

You are now brimming with this feeling, it is overflowing out of your body and completely surrounding you like a bubble.

Have the intention to stay tuned to these feelings from now on and say it as an affirmation to yourself: ‘I am filled with …….

When you are ready, come back to the room, open your eyes and notice how much better you feel.

It is beneficial and reinforcing to repeat this for 21 days. You can add other positive feelings you wish to bring into your experience using the same exercise.

Good luck and enjoy!
Until next time
lots of love
Nicky xxxxx

Coming soon as MP3 recording.
© Meditation Moments. Nicky Minter 2013.

All you need is ‘YOU’

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Much of the time we look for comfort, love, fulfilment and happiness from experiences outside of ourselves. Unaware that actually we can create ALL of the feelings and experiences that we wish for within ourselves, we are a whole universe of every feeling that ever was and ever will be – waiting to be tapped into.

Fair enough… to experience LIFE … to be part of LIFE, rather than a hermit living in a cave, we interact with people, with nature, with everything going on in this planet, and can gain much happiness from the experiences we have. However, if our LIFE situation is such that we aren’t feeling loved, we aren’t experiencing positive things, we aren’t feeling appreciated or valued, it IS POSSIBLE to go inside ourselves and tap into the energy of positive feelings and create them for ourselves.

Check out this relevant parable from the start of Eckhart Tolle’s book ‘The Power of Now’:

“A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. ‘Spare some change?’ mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. ‘I have nothing to give you,’ said the stranger. Then he asked: ‘What’s that you are sitting on?’ ‘Nothing,’ replied the beggar. ‘Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.’ ‘Ever looked inside?’ asked the stranger. ‘No,’ said the beggar. ‘What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.’ ‘Have a look inside,’ insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere evern closer: inside yourself. ‘But I am not a beggar,’ I can hear you say: Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfilment, for validation, security or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

Follow my next blog for a meditation to help you tap into The Power of ‘You’.

Until next time!
lots of love
Nicky xxx

Change the way you feel!

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So to live a content, happy and fulfilled life, we mainly want to feel emotions such as compassion, acceptance, love, gratitude, peace, enthusiasm, motivation, positivity, empowerment, forgiveness and hope.

But sometimes we can’t help but lose ourselves to the lower energy emotions such as fear, anxiety, disappointment, anger, frustration, pessimism, shame, sadness and bitterness.

It is normal, it is life, often driven by our egos, by past experiences, by attachments to possessions and people and a constant barrage of gloomy news and media driven expectations.

If we have a desire and have an intention to spend more time living the higher energy positive emotions, we can use relaxation, meditation and visualisation to help us achieve this:

Find a quiet place to sit or lie down, listening to some relaxing music and close your eyes
Take some nice deep breaths, allowing your body to relax with every outbreath.
Get a sense of what emotion it is you are feeling and whether you feel it in your head or anywhere else in your body.
Breathe into that area, and imagine you are letting it go, it is softening and releasing.
Use your intention to release the feeling, and on every outbreath notice it moving and letting go, see it leaving your body from wherever feels appropriate.
Sometimes it is helpful to imagine a jug of liquid gold light pouring into the top of your head and as it travels down your body it heals, moves and helps the negative feelings on their way – out of your body.
When that feels better, as you breathe in, draw in the positive feelings you want to experience. Say the positive emotions to yourself and keep breathing them in, allowing the feelings to fill your entire body.
Repeat for as long as you need, imagining the colours associated with those feelings and allow those colours to fill all your cells.
Enjoy the new feelings and make an intention to do this any time you need to change the way you feel.
When you are ready, take some awakening breaths and return slowly to the room and your day.

Have a happy day! Until next time.
lots of love
Nicky xxx

Achieving Goals and Fulfilment in your Day!

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How many times do we wake up with a whole list of things to do – goals we want to achieve, and then the day happens and by the end of it we have been distracted, mis-directed, indecisive or confused? The day ends and we feel unfulfilled and frustrated.

We may not always know exactly what our goals are, or many of them may be general chores, work-related, some may be deeper life direction plans, whatever they are, you know that it feels better at the end of your day when it feels like it has been purposeful!!

Early in the day or any time you feel confused.com, it can be really helpful to spend a few moments connecting to your wisdom and truth and set an intention for your day. Here’s a visualisation to try:

Find a relaxing place to sit or lie, listening to music if you wish and close your eyes.

Take some nice relaxing breaths and follow your breath, relaxing and releasing any tension from your body and mind.

Now place your left hand over your heart and your right hand over your naval.

Breathe into these two areas feeling the connection between the two. Keep them here for the duration of this visualisation.

Say the statement to yourself ‘My intention is to have a fulfilling and enjoyable day’. Breathe with that for a moment.

Then say ‘I am connecting to my wisdom, clairty and truth’ and breathe with that for a moment.

Then say the statement ‘I am having a fulfilling and enjoyable day’.

Now see an image of yourself at the end of your day, and how you would look and feel when you have achieved your goals.

So you may see yourself as calm, relaxed, relieved, excited, happy and fulfilled.

Now bring that image and those feelings into your body and experience those feelings as if your fulfilled day has already happened. Breathe with that for a moment, connecting the feelings throughout your whole body.

When you are ready, open your eyes and start your day with purpose! If appropriate write down your ideas for your day ahead, make a list, a plan and then just DO IT and ENJOY IT!!

You will now find that you feel purpose and fulfilment in everything you do, even the mundane things!

Happy achieving!
Until next time
lots of love
Nicky xxxx

Inner Guidance and Peace

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Are you following what your heart and soul really desires? Or are you distracted by busy lives and a crammed mind? Do you feel overwhelmed and stressed and in need of some inner guidance and peace? Maybe you have the intention to meditate, but you forget or you don’t make it a priority?

There is so much written on these subjects now with many wonderful books, movies and trainings, teaching you how to align to your purpose in life, encouraging you to release your stress and feel various enlightened emotions, so I urge you to read, read and read.

However, what I am offering you here is a SIMPLE experiential way to connect daily to your inner peace and guidance through Relaxation and Meditation.

In due course you will recieve recorded MP3 meditations daily, reminding you to make that connection every day with your inner self, intuition, your heart and your soul, enabling you to feel a greater sense of DIRECTION, FULFILMENT, HAPPINESS and PEACE with yourself and life.

For now, follow my regularly updated suggestions to start this journey connecting with your inner knowledge and calm, or for those of you already on this journey – it’s a gentle reminder to keep connecting to stay true to yourself.

Find a quiet place and make yourself comfortable. Listen to relaxing music if you like.

Follow your breath as it enters and leaves your body, continue doing this for some moments, bringing your attention back to your breath.

As you breathe feel relaxation flowing through your body, and feel all your muscles and any tension releasing.

Take your attention to your naval area. Imagine a yellow light there and in that light is the word PEACE.

Keep saying the word ‘PEACE’ and as you do feel the yellow light expanding and expanding and filling your whole body.

You feel filled with PEACE. Stay with that for as long as feels appropriate.

Allow that yellow light to surround your whole body, have the intention that it is supporting and protecting you.

When you are ready, bring your attention back to your naval, open your eyes and enjoy the Calm and Peace you feel.

I hope you enjoy. Until next time!
lots of love
Nicky xxx

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