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Kimberly
charges $80.00 per hour (plus travel reimbursement) for your group
or private session This includes meditation, energy healing, and/or
spiritual direction. For bookings, call Kimberly at 941- 284-3036
or e-mail her
to reserve your date.
Meditation:
A working definition by Kimberly Braun -
In
all my meditation workshops we begin by giving personal definitions
of meditation. Why do I do this? Because the ideas we bring to
the practice will be the structure that allows (or disallows)
the experience. How many times I have heard people say, 'I just
can't meditation, it's not possible. My mind keeps going and going
and going and I just can't make it stop so I can be still.' Or,
'Trying to sit causes me too much discomfort, I spend my whole
time trying to turn my attention away from my discomfort and let
myself just be; meditation just isn't for me.' Or even, 'It is
a waste of time, I don't seem to get anything out of it, I feel
better if I just spend my time being productive.' And the list
goes on and on…
All these reflections spring from the speaker's idea of meditation.
I like to broaden out the definition in a way that takes away
the ideas of success and failure, in a way that opens the door
to make the connections and open to the possibilities that lie
therein. Let me explain this in a way that makes sense.
Think to a time that you lost track of time, when everything felt
suspended and delightful, when you felt the sublime sense of being
immersed in what WAS at that moment. We have all had multitudes
of moments like that, sometimes we remember them and sometimes
they get buried under the stresses and responsibilities of our
lives.
Meditation, in my estimation, is simply a practice in this awareness.
It is a tool, one of many tools, to facilitate us in having those
timeless moments more often…too remember them…and to eventually
find our lives unfolding in true presence. When we remain in such
presence the infinite wisdom of the universe not only lies open
to us, but floods us and our thoughts and emotions become and
expand in this positive way. The seemingly negative repetitive
patterns within us find a place to heal and be released.
This tool of meditation falls away the moment we sink into awareness
and this is fully possible, fully possible for each and every
person. The tool is not about controlling our minds, our bodies,
outcomes and circumstances. This tool is an aid in a surrendering
that allows everything else to teach us and gives us true power.
With Thich Naht Hanh I say, 'If you can live one moment in peace,
you can live your entire life in peace.' And so it is with every
gift at the core of our being- if you can live one moment of joy,
one moment of love, one moment of clarity, one moment of strength-
you can live your life that way. Why? Why do I know this? Because
the power by which you lived that one brief moment lies at your
core, forever rushing to be manifest in you, and the key to that
door is you. It is the unmanifest and YOU are the individuated
manifest, so let's let it flow!
You
can read more of Kimberly's writings on meditation by visiting
her Articles Page.
Book now! Kimberly charges $80.00 per hour for your group or
private session (meditation, energy healing, spiritual direction.)
E-mail Kimberly
today!
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