Archive for the ‘Meditation CDs’ Category

Using affirmations as part of your guided meditation experience

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Do you have an unusual or new way to use affirmations for self healing? I'd love to hear from you in the comments. As you may know, every thought and inner statement creates a physiological response. Listening to affirmations (and I also repeat them either silently or vocally) helps you ...

Intuitive Success: Having it all or just bobbing along?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

In my 3-month e-course, The Meditation Portal, which launches next month, I originally intended to provide only 12 lessons to go with 12 Guided Meditation MP3s from the Legacy TeleMeditations series I presented last year. But I decided to provide 2 additional lessons. In the final lesson, “Week 14 - Bonus: ...

Insight meditation practice for embodying spiritual principles that uplift

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A comprehensive study of the insight meditation tradition can teach you many things, including the Buddha's teaching on how happiness itself arises in consciousness. The Buddha developed and taught the insight meditation method of using the power of mindfulness and living by its associated precepts leading to ethical living. The basic ...

Breathing techniques relax the body and prepare for meditation

Monday, May 19th, 2008

The meditations I lead during TeleMeditation Retreats® emphasize simple yet effective breathing techniques to relax the body and prepare you for meditation. Proper breathing is vital; it's considered the most important practice for healthy living. And when used in meditation or yoga exercise, it can even help to reduce pain. ...

Insight Meditation: Healing by the Power of Your Mind

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

It's difficult to manage stress. Yet it's possible to learn to become more aware of stressful situations and deal with them effectively before they escalate into a full scale episode. One form of meditation that I've found to be very effective in dealing with life's challenges is mindfulness or insight ...

Kokin Gumi’s Zen Garden for Relaxing Buddhist Meditation Music

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Here is refreshing and inspiring music by the Japanese ensemble, Kokin Gumi, set here to stunning visual effects. The music is outstanding. You can listen to more simply beautiful and original compositions like this one on the album, Zen Garden. It features traditional instrumentation including shakuhachi, shinobue, hichiriki, kotsuzumi, bamboo ...

Bhakti: Engage your mind always in thinking of Me

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

My experience with yoga has been living and practicing, to the best of my ability and understanding, the paths of raja, hatha, jappa, bhakti and karma yogas. Bhakti is one that seems to come to me most naturally through devotional singing or even the reading of devotional poetry. One of ...

Let’s talk about your Meditation Portal course journaling experience

Friday, May 9th, 2008

In May, 2008, I launch my Meditation Portal three month course. I'm asking those taking the course, and other readers of the blog, to begin journaling about your experience and if you like, to post any comments here that you would like to share with others. You can begin simply ...

Laughter is still good medicine

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

When all else fails...consider practicing the laughing meditation. "You should simply laugh of your own accord, without waiting for reasons to laugh. If you start looking into things, you will not be able to stop laughing. Everything is simply perfect for laughter - nothing is lacking - but we won't ...

On Intention

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

"Your intention is more powerful than the most perfectly crafted prayer, because it is based on your true nature, your true desire. This is self-replenishing, the form of connecting with Source, both within and without. And the intensity of your feelings,

Shaktipat or transmission

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Just as a transformer changes high voltage energy into usable form, so Shaktipat or Saktipata can perhaps be thought of as energy currents of kundalini, streaming through a person serving as the transformer to spiritually conduct it to others. This can be done either in person with sound or touch; ...

TeleMeditation Retreats pre-launch announcement

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Hello! I'm Donna Ferri, and I'm launching TeleMeditation Retreats, my new series of ongoing teleconference meditation events. They begin in late Spring, and I'll be posting announcements of each on this blog and my website. I'll also post MP3 guided meditation previews. So keep an eye on these pages for more details. ...