Where can I find Christian Meditation and Christian Meditation Techniques Online
Dr. Roland Trujillo is who you are looking for. He is a pastor and has spent 23 years researching and developing Christian mindfulness meditations. He is online and even talks to people for free.
Look in the right sidebar and in the pages above for links to his sites. He also has a brand new 5 minute meditation stress fix.
Here is an article he wrote a few years ago. Hope you like it.
About Meditation
Most of us would like to
deal with life's problems with calmness and understanding. Instead we find
ourselves reacting and
becoming upset. The more upset we become the more resentful we become
toward
others. We become impatient with them and then we become impatient with
ourselves. Soon we start to blame others for our lack of control.
Of course, this is unfair to others. So they react to us. Soon family and relationship problems escalate. Once the process begins, we don't know how to stop it. Either we explode at one another or we repress our hostilities until we are seething volcanoes. All this repressed material soon erupts in other symptoms.
When we can't control ourselves, then we look to experts to control us. Soon we are their subjects, paying dearly for their treatments which never really seem to make us better. Individuals, families, and the whole world is brimming over in anger and upset. Fortunately there is a real answer to your problem. It focuses on the moment of reaction, when you succumb to some stress.
Look at it another way. If you could learn to be calm in the moment
of stress (without expressing or repressing impatience, anger
or upset), you would not add any fuel to the fire. Calmness and reason could
be brought to bear, and you might even have a good laugh. In order to solve
your problem, you must learn to have an attitude of alert preparedness. When
the moment of stress arrives, you will be ready for it already graced with
calmness and understanding. Now, you will have a twinkle in your eye,
meeting the moment with understanding. You will now influence the moment
instead of the moment influencing you.
The way to be prepared to meet life with understanding is through a proper meditation. This meditation is learning how to go in a room and become still before the Truth. Through this practice, you will download (so to speak) enough calmness and understanding to meet the day's vicissitudes.
Get the free Meditation
What most of us do, on the other hand, is go out into the world and react to something. The rest of the day is spent playing catch up. Plus, there is left over baggage from previous upsets which
carries over
into the next interaction. Already upset and with adrenaline flowing through
your veins, you feel anxious and impatient. When someone (like your child,
for example) comes along, you react impatiently and upset him. Then you feel
guilty and perhaps become too nice as a compensation. Soon others start to
walk over you, and this upsets you.
It is much better to allow reason and patience to lead the way. When you begin the day with a commitment to knowing and flowing from the Truth in each moment, you become less subjective, less suggestible, and less "upsetable".
All that remains is to learn from this marvelously simple ancient technique. All that is needed is a sincere desire to know the Truth which is greater than you are, and a willingness to admit your wrong.
The answer is to observe thought from a detached neutral standpoint.
Look in the right sidebar and in the pages above for links to his sites. He also has a brand new 5 minute meditation stress fix.
Here is an article he wrote a few years ago. Hope you like it.
About Meditation
Most of us would like to
deal with life's problems with calmness and understanding. Instead we find
ourselves reacting and
becoming upset. The more upset we become the more resentful we become
toward
others. We become impatient with them and then we become impatient with
ourselves. Soon we start to blame others for our lack of control.Of course, this is unfair to others. So they react to us. Soon family and relationship problems escalate. Once the process begins, we don't know how to stop it. Either we explode at one another or we repress our hostilities until we are seething volcanoes. All this repressed material soon erupts in other symptoms.
When we can't control ourselves, then we look to experts to control us. Soon we are their subjects, paying dearly for their treatments which never really seem to make us better. Individuals, families, and the whole world is brimming over in anger and upset. Fortunately there is a real answer to your problem. It focuses on the moment of reaction, when you succumb to some stress.
Look at it another way. If you could learn to be calm in the moment
of stress (without expressing or repressing impatience, anger
or upset), you would not add any fuel to the fire. Calmness and reason could
be brought to bear, and you might even have a good laugh. In order to solve
your problem, you must learn to have an attitude of alert preparedness. When
the moment of stress arrives, you will be ready for it already graced with
calmness and understanding. Now, you will have a twinkle in your eye,
meeting the moment with understanding. You will now influence the moment
instead of the moment influencing you.The way to be prepared to meet life with understanding is through a proper meditation. This meditation is learning how to go in a room and become still before the Truth. Through this practice, you will download (so to speak) enough calmness and understanding to meet the day's vicissitudes.
Get the free MeditationWhat most of us do, on the other hand, is go out into the world and react to something. The rest of the day is spent playing catch up. Plus, there is left over baggage from previous upsets which
carries over
into the next interaction. Already upset and with adrenaline flowing through
your veins, you feel anxious and impatient. When someone (like your child,
for example) comes along, you react impatiently and upset him. Then you feel
guilty and perhaps become too nice as a compensation. Soon others start to
walk over you, and this upsets you.It is much better to allow reason and patience to lead the way. When you begin the day with a commitment to knowing and flowing from the Truth in each moment, you become less subjective, less suggestible, and less "upsetable".
All that remains is to learn from this marvelously simple ancient technique. All that is needed is a sincere desire to know the Truth which is greater than you are, and a willingness to admit your wrong.
The answer is to observe thought from a detached neutral standpoint.
