Step Back from Thought with This 20 Minute Meditation – Eckhart Tolle

There’s a lyric to the song, “Circle of Life”, made popular by Elton John and in the Movie “The Lion King” that says: “You will find your place on the path unwinding…” This phrase and this song has become a favorite reflection of my life work as shaman guide and teacher in the art of finding and living your destiny.

There are many religions, philosophies and opinions. Each distinct ideology sets forth a unique way by which we may obtain life, both temporal and eternal.

The brain is a very tricky thing that we all possess. Most of us do not even know or understand the power that it might have till after a long period of time in our lives. However, we are missing out on so much if we do not make the maximum use of our minds in our lifetimes.

Creating peace is something that has come easy for me since I am the middle child in a family of three. I will show you some of the techniques I use to create peace.

Love. Do you feel it? It encircles you in its embrace of simplicity. Moment by moment love is there in the space that surrounds you, in the cells that have formed you, in the breath that sustains you. Love is all around you, as the lyrics to a Wet Wet Wet song describe:

Most people pack so much into one day that they believe it’s impossible to fit meditation time into their daily routine. The truth is the ego will fabricate whatever story it needs to in an effort to stop you from meditating.

But God created men and women with the ability to control themselves in all things. If God intended for humans to have uncontrolled sex like the animals, he would not have created commitment, nor the sanctity of the one flesh of marriage. If God intended for humans to run amok with their sex drives He would have made them in the image of the animals.

Possibly, people from different cultures and locations practiced astral projection throughout history. When one considers the topic of spirituality, astral projection is quite a consideration to have. Imagine laying down and then taking certain measures to actually get out of your own physical body, and then likely end up even flying, and being able to go wherever you want on earth, and in space, and in a realm different from the physical one.

While I was working with finding universal principles of ethics from five of the major religions, I discovered two psychological factors that must be noted with the interpretation of the scriptures besides the notions of the nature of humanity during the time they were written and the semantic structure that give rise to the ideas in the spiritual scriptures. First and the most important psychological factor that must be taken into notice is that in which relativity we all write of, and that is how we experience things.

We are all of us at the mercy of our internal logic and most of us could do with improving the quality of that experience and knowledge based understanding. If we take the dreamer as an example of poor internal logic we can see how applying the solution to his damaged understanding can re-structure his life and bring success and fulfilment. Poor internal logic produces a low spirituality level which blocks progress.

Your internal logic has been built up over the course of your lifetime and is essentially the product of everything you have learnt and everything you have experienced. A psychologist might call it ego, or a philosopher describe it as the id, and these things will differ by a small degree, but the fact remains that at your core is an understanding of the world around you which dictates the way you behave.

Anyone who’s been through or is going through a hard time will know that people, even close friends and family can say really odd things to cheer you up. Things like ‘it could be worse’ or ‘you just have to get on with it’ or or ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ or ‘you knew it wasn’t going to be easy’ or the classic ‘there are other people worse off than you’.