Silent Meditation with our Community
The silent meditation on Saturday September 14 will be on Sunday September 15 instead.
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You're invited to sit together with our community for a one hour silent meditation.
There is immense benefit in creating space for simply Being in stillness. This dedicated practice creates opportunity to deepen in presence and open to higher consciousness. In turn, this allows for the seeing and release of unconscious mind patterns and for healing and transformation to take place on both physical and energetic levels, bringing more harmony and peace to the whole system. A gong or music will sound to mark the beginning and end of the session. This event is free and open to everyone. It is held online via Zoom. |
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Every Wednesday and Saturday
During daylight savings periods the time will be based on USA times so there will be 1 hour difference than the times shown below for those in Europe.
Silent Meditation Time
Los Angeles 10:00am
New York 1:00pm
London 6:00pm
Amsterdam 7:00pm
Athens 8:00pm
Los Angeles 10:00am
New York 1:00pm
London 6:00pm
Amsterdam 7:00pm
Athens 8:00pm
Check the time and date in your location: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Join
The meeting will open a few minutes before the start time.
Please use the following zoom link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81436028209?pwd=WEJ5NnFSQm1MNjRSMGh4dE01M2dsQT09
Meeting ID: 814 3602 8209
Password: beherenow
Please use the following zoom link to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81436028209?pwd=WEJ5NnFSQm1MNjRSMGh4dE01M2dsQT09
Meeting ID: 814 3602 8209
Password: beherenow
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"What you seek is right here, right now, beyond thought, beyond emotion and beyond story. You already are that which you seek and with the openness and willingness to gently and honestly observe your behaviours, thoughts and emotions, everything that is not aligned with your highest truth will naturally fall away as you begin to embody and radiate your true self, pure awareness. I invite you to sit with me in pure presence as I support you to connect with the essence of your being which transcends all form, as we become still and deeply allow what is already here."
~ Louise |
Guided Meditation: Energy Body Purification and Chakra Activation
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Guided Meditation: Drop Into Beingness
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The Relationship Between Spiritual Awakening
and the Integration of Childhood Emotional Trauma
Jan 13, 2019
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Most of us as children experienced situations where we felt overwhelmed by our emotions. Maybe a parent yelled at us or hit us, projecting their own emotional traumas onto us. Maybe we met our parents with wide open hearts and they weren't able to meet us back in that love, leaving us feeling unloveable and unworthy. Maybe it was something seemingly small like another child not wanting to play with us. And our gentle hearts were so open. We were so sensitive, innocent, pure, and oh so sweet, and our tender little nervous systems didn't know how to handle these situations. |
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That little one wasn't taught how to be present with emotions, how to gently feel and allow the sensations in the body with unconditional love. In fact, most of us were taught that our emotions are bad and that there was something wrong with us for feeling what we were feeling, that our sensitivity was in fact a sign of weakness and that we should hide it and 'be strong.' And so feelings were repressed and emotional traumas were born.
Different nervous systems respond to these emotional traumas in different ways. Some shut down and became numb, some put up walls of protection around the heart and most develop coping mechanisms, behaviours which allow us to keep on surviving despite the agony that we feel inside, such as numbing our pain with food or other addictive substances and functioning in the world on top of repressed, unprocessed emotions.
When we mature on a spiritual level part of the awakening process that we go through involves meeting and integrating the emotional traumas from our past. We remember how to feel again in a healthy way and we learn how to hold gentle, unconditionally loving space for ourselves and our old pain. For many people it can be scary to open up to these feelings. "What if I open a can of worms and I can't handle it? What if it's too overwhelming? What if it's too painful? What if I open up and then lose my capacity to shut down again? I might have to live in a state of constant overwhelm! Then how will I function in my life?" These fears are a by-product of past emotional trauma. The nervous system remembers how challenging it was to feel overwhelming pain as a child and the mind produces thoughts to try to protect us from feeling that pain again.
In its own sweet way the mind simply wants to keep us safe and it believes that the most effective way to do this is to keep us in control of our experience. While this intention is benevolent, its interference (in the form of thoughts and unconscious beliefs) actually creates resistance to us feeling old energies and it sabotages our healing process by continuously pulling our attention out of our body and into the mind. However, once we understand how the mind's protection mechanism functions we are able to override it by disidentifying from our thoughts. By simply observing our thoughts and turning our attention to the space in which the thoughts arise, our consciousness expands and we are able to see a bigger and much clearer picture. It is from this space of clarity that we can begin to approach the repressed emotions and gently open to them on a physical and energetic level. We do this by becoming fully present and gently opening deeper and deeper to feeling and allowing the sensations in the body as we dive into the infinite void of peaceful, transcendant Being.
Like with everything, as we practice being present with our feelings and opening to them with love, our capacity to do so increases. We are able to stay present with larger and more intense waves of emotion. We don't try to avoid emotions, and nor do we get taken over by them. We surrender to the emotions and become one with them, and by doing so we walk through the gateway of truth, the gateway to our True self, the gateway to the infinite oneness, our true nature, pure awareness.
So don't aim to 'half-open' to feeling in order to stay safe. Dive in head first. Let your heart be smashed into a million pieces. Let it be ripped and torn and broken and shredded. Feel the rawness and the vulnerability. Surrender fully, meet everything with presence, and what you will discover is that you cannot be broken. What you will discover is that you cannot be hurt. What you will discover is the truth of who you are. Eternity itself.
Different nervous systems respond to these emotional traumas in different ways. Some shut down and became numb, some put up walls of protection around the heart and most develop coping mechanisms, behaviours which allow us to keep on surviving despite the agony that we feel inside, such as numbing our pain with food or other addictive substances and functioning in the world on top of repressed, unprocessed emotions.
When we mature on a spiritual level part of the awakening process that we go through involves meeting and integrating the emotional traumas from our past. We remember how to feel again in a healthy way and we learn how to hold gentle, unconditionally loving space for ourselves and our old pain. For many people it can be scary to open up to these feelings. "What if I open a can of worms and I can't handle it? What if it's too overwhelming? What if it's too painful? What if I open up and then lose my capacity to shut down again? I might have to live in a state of constant overwhelm! Then how will I function in my life?" These fears are a by-product of past emotional trauma. The nervous system remembers how challenging it was to feel overwhelming pain as a child and the mind produces thoughts to try to protect us from feeling that pain again.
In its own sweet way the mind simply wants to keep us safe and it believes that the most effective way to do this is to keep us in control of our experience. While this intention is benevolent, its interference (in the form of thoughts and unconscious beliefs) actually creates resistance to us feeling old energies and it sabotages our healing process by continuously pulling our attention out of our body and into the mind. However, once we understand how the mind's protection mechanism functions we are able to override it by disidentifying from our thoughts. By simply observing our thoughts and turning our attention to the space in which the thoughts arise, our consciousness expands and we are able to see a bigger and much clearer picture. It is from this space of clarity that we can begin to approach the repressed emotions and gently open to them on a physical and energetic level. We do this by becoming fully present and gently opening deeper and deeper to feeling and allowing the sensations in the body as we dive into the infinite void of peaceful, transcendant Being.
Like with everything, as we practice being present with our feelings and opening to them with love, our capacity to do so increases. We are able to stay present with larger and more intense waves of emotion. We don't try to avoid emotions, and nor do we get taken over by them. We surrender to the emotions and become one with them, and by doing so we walk through the gateway of truth, the gateway to our True self, the gateway to the infinite oneness, our true nature, pure awareness.
So don't aim to 'half-open' to feeling in order to stay safe. Dive in head first. Let your heart be smashed into a million pieces. Let it be ripped and torn and broken and shredded. Feel the rawness and the vulnerability. Surrender fully, meet everything with presence, and what you will discover is that you cannot be broken. What you will discover is that you cannot be hurt. What you will discover is the truth of who you are. Eternity itself.
Transcending the Mind
Nov 03, 2018
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The mind is in a hurry. It wants answers and it
wants them now. "When will such and such happen?" "When will I get
that?" For the mind the present moment is incomplete and unsatisfying
and it continuously and desperately seeks completeness. It believes that
completeness will come at some point in the future when a different
emotion is experienced, when certain information has been attained, when
a particular status has been reached or when material gain has been
achieved. "When will I feel differently?" "When will I finally be
happy?" "When will I know my purpose?" "When will I meet my life
partner?" The barrage of thoughts never ends and if one question is
answered, another appears. If one desire is fulfilled, another appears.
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The only way to end this vicious cycle of seeking
and to experience a true and lasting sense of completeness is to
transcend the mind by totally letting go of all thoughts and
surrendering fully into the present moment. Letting go of thoughts
doesn't mean that thoughts stop appearing. It means that they are
noticed but not believed in. They are observed but they are not given
any power and they are not identified with.
Transcendence of the mind cannot happen in the future. It can only happen in this moment, regardless of how this moment presents itself. Become still right now and notice how this moment feels. Simply perceive whatever is here without any judgement. Observe the thoughts, notice the breath and feel the body. Open to the completeness that is already here. Accept this moment fully, exactly as it is without trying to change anything about it. Maybe that means feeling sadness or heaviness or anger. That's ok. Feel deeper and deeper into the sensations in the body and gently welcome whatever is here. This moment is not a mistake. This moment is perfection. It is only the belief that this moment is flawed that prevents us from experiencing the perfection that is here. When we release ourselves from the grasp of that belief by recognising it, and we have the willingness to embrace our experience fully, we naturally open to the completeness that is already here.
Transcendence of the mind cannot happen in the future. It can only happen in this moment, regardless of how this moment presents itself. Become still right now and notice how this moment feels. Simply perceive whatever is here without any judgement. Observe the thoughts, notice the breath and feel the body. Open to the completeness that is already here. Accept this moment fully, exactly as it is without trying to change anything about it. Maybe that means feeling sadness or heaviness or anger. That's ok. Feel deeper and deeper into the sensations in the body and gently welcome whatever is here. This moment is not a mistake. This moment is perfection. It is only the belief that this moment is flawed that prevents us from experiencing the perfection that is here. When we release ourselves from the grasp of that belief by recognising it, and we have the willingness to embrace our experience fully, we naturally open to the completeness that is already here.