Q: What areModern Meditations?

A: My approach to teaching meditation is unique and highly powerful.  Rather than treat meditation as an ancient exercise, I integrate it with contemporary living.  This vastly improves our ability to cultivate its deep and enriching intelligence in these times.  Modern Meditations are the positive practice of connecting to the deepest states of love and wholeness as a life-changing force. When we are in our conscious awakened mind, we cannot experience ourselves. We can only experience other people, places and things. Only in the meditative state of expanded consciousness can we can we finally and actually experience ourselves and all that that means.

 

Q:     What are the benefits of meditating in a group?

A:     The same kind of benefits one might expect when participating in a think-tank - the sum of the whole is greater than the individual parts.  The collective experience energetically supports and expands each members personal abilities and range. Within the trusting environment, limitations seem to melt as new horizons are explored. This in turn enhances one’s personal home meditation experience as new vistas continue to open up.

 

Q:   How are Modern Meditations different from regular meditation?

A:     We live in modern times, with modern influences, environments, thoughts, possibilities and opportunities.  It is the current energy.  The speed has changed, the expectations have changed, and we have changed along with it.  Ancient ways of doing things seem pedestrian, archaic, and often unnecessary.  We are more interested in saving time, not wasting time, in valuing precious time, not squandering it.  We approach our daily lives, our daily tasks, with this perspective and goal.  Meditation is no different.  Our connection to the divine essence within ourselves is inherent throughout time, but our ways of making that contact – that connection – can be better learnt and performed to suit our contemporary abilities.  We can use a machine to wash our clothes or take them to the river.  The clothes will get clean regardless, but we now have power over the choice of many of the variables.  Modern Meditations recognize those elements that have changed over time and approaches our divine connection with those shifts in alignment.

 

Q:      Are Modern Meditations better than ancient methods of meditation?

A:     Better is such a subjective word.  I would rather say that Modern Meditations offer a better alignment with what we are as modern human beings.  It works with our contemporary self – the self we know – instead of insisting that we struggle against that self.  We live in a time when our world is face-paced and highly stimulating.  We call it the information age for good reason because with information comes change and change is inevitable on every level.  Our minds are expanding or shrinking at an incredible rate and our emotions and bodies too.  Modern Meditations address this pace and rhythm by complementing it, to meet you and befriend you where you are now so we can take you to another level of desired experience.  You do not live in a quiet, unstimulated world.  You live in a world of possibilities, and Modern Meditations specifically start you off at that place.

 

Q: What is the best way I can deal with restlessness during meditation?

A: Preparation maybe what’s missing if you want to get the most from your meditation practice. Just as stretching is considered the best warm-up and cooling-down routine that can be done before and after physical exercise, 10-15 minutes of aerobic exercise is the best preparation you can choose to do before and after meditation.

 

Q:     I’ve heard about the physical benefits of meditation [lowered blood pressure, cholesterol and hormonal balance, etc.] but what are the mental and emotional benefits?

A:     Some of the more common experiences Modern Meditation participants report are a greater and easier clarity and focus; more noticeable and spontaneous flow of creativity, insight and intuition with the enhanced ability to act on it more rapidly and fully; an expanded, holistic awareness and sense of connectedness with themselves and the world.

 

Q: How can Modern Meditations help my sex life?

A: In many, many ways. For example, the very act of meditation prepares one for the act of love making, as it requires being still, being present, and paying loving attention.  Then, if you are enjoying the process and feeling a sense of ease, you are more than halfway there.  Meditation connects one to the same energy field that your heart-based sexual experience does, and thus allows one to feel more resilient, more solid, more heightened, more perceptive, and more connected to the loving, living energy within.

 

Q: I’m having a difficult time learning to meditation. Can I be coached in it?

A: Absolutely.  I would never assume that one size fits all.  There are as many different kinds of meditation techniques as there are kinds of people, and everyone deserves to find the best match for their particular style. We are all unique in our learning process and because meditation is more an unlearning rather than a learning, it can feel even more complicated for the beginner. Modern Meditations are a dynamic assimilation of essential teachings into fresh, penetrating meditation experiences bases on an integration of ancient and contemporary explorations and insights.  In groups or one-on-one, meditation coaching serves to work specifically with an individual’s internal guidance systems, to activate and integrate successful experiences.

 

Q: What’s going on in my brain during meditation?

A: During the early stages of your meditation practice, when the technique is relatively new to you, the activity on the left side of your brain, which predominates during your awake time, takes a lesser role, shifting your focus toward the right side.  But after much meditative practice, an unusual balancing of the activities between the two cerebral hemispheres begins to occur. Modern Meditations are the positive experience of weaving your two hemispheres into a harmonic pattern.