How to Quiet the Mind in Meditation

This is an excerpt from a YOFA Meditation Q&A Call. Here is a different approach to the question of how to quiet the mind in meditation. When we include an awareness of how Law of Attraction participates in our meditation practice, a new approach emerges.

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How to Include Ho’oponopono in Your YOFA® Meditation

You can use YOFA® Meditation to amplify your Ho’oponopono cleaning. In this episode, I share a little bit about Ho’oponopono and clear up the misconception that taking responsibility means accepting blame. It is soooo the opposite!

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Dr. Rebbie Straubing is the founder of The Yoga of Alignment (YOFA) and is a certified advanced Ho’oponopono practitioner.

Who is in Charge? (Includes Improvised Chant)

Let’s look at setting your own tone.  And hey, let’s do it literally.  In this episode I end up improvising a chant.  It’s rough, unpolished, right out of the moment. Headphones are always recommended for YOFA Chants.

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The Gift of Unfulfilled Desire

In this episode let’s reveal the value of unfulfilled desires.

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The Paradox of Desire

In this episode let’s realize that desire and desirelessness are the same thing.

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Refer to pages 133 and 215 in Rooted in the Infinite

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Quick Tips For Manifesting Your Heart’s Desire: Bite Sized Applications of Law of Attraction

Desire: Problem or Paradox?

In this episode let’s look at whether your desires are serving you or hurting you.

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Ram Dass on “Freedom from Anger, Fear & Separateness – How to Transform Suffering & Befriend Your Difficult Emotions.

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Remote Energy Sessions for Healing

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Quick Tips For Manifesting Your Heart’s Desire: Bite Sized Applications of Law of Attraction

Getting Ready for “Inner Guidance Revealed”

I’m getting down to the finishing touches on Inner Guidance Revealed and waiting on some third party website details to be ironed out before I let this balloon fly!

Step 1 continued…

In my last post I told you how you can get started before the program even comes out.  I invited you to start looking at your negative emotion as an indicator.  I know I made it sound easier than it might really be for you.  It’s tricky because the negative emotion is a painful experience.  So, even though your head might be making a valiant effort of declaring that this negative emotion is just an indicator, the pain might still be hitting you in the gut.  So let’s add another piece to this early step in our exploration of inner guidance.

2 Kinds of Pain

Imagine this. Maybe you’ve had an experience like this.  You’ve got a sharp, prickly sensation somewhere inside your clothes and you don’t know what’s causing it.  Is it a bug stinging you?  What could it be?

There are two components to the discomfort:

  • the physical pain
  • and the concern about its cause.

Then you realize that it’s a hard edge of a label inside your clothing or a staple from the dry cleaner or some other innocent irritant.

Now you’ve still got the physical pain but the worry is gone. Relief!

Getting the Sense of the Innocent Indicator

I’d like you to be able to start to develop this sense of relief when a negative emotion still causes pain, but you understand that it’s only an innocent indicator and nothing worse.

When you separate your pain from its cause, you can actually even start to value that negative emotion for the useful message it delivers.  And the message of the negative emotion is not that everything is terrible (as it might seem).  I’m calling you to start receiving the true message of the negative emotion which is that you are focused in a way that is causing friction between you and You.  You are out of alignment with yourself and that is inherently painful.

Good + Bad = Neutral = Relief

Ok, let’s look at this.  At first the negative emotion felt very bad. Then, once you realized that its message has value, you could see that its message is good while it’s feeling is bad.

This instantly shifts you out of some of that bad feeling.  And this is guidance. As you start to feel some relief, you know you are headed in the direction you want to go.

If you’re a student of the Abraham Hicks teachings, you might recognize the basis of that teaching in this lesson.  And if you want to spend some time training yourself into high power access to your inner guidance, watch for my new course Inner Guidance Revealed.  

 

Inner Guidance Revealed is Coming Soon!

Inner guidance is hard-wired into you.

It is part of you whether you’re aware of it or not. And I’m on a mission to take you by the hand – if you are interested – and show you how to make this a reality in your life.

They’re Scratching Their Heads…

I’ve been preparing Inner Guidance Revealed for over a year now. My friends and family have been watching me, scratching their heads, wondering what in the world has kept me so completely occupied and passionate about this project.

I mean, they know it’s about inner guidance. But what they can’t see by just looking at my back (as I am forever at the computer), is the vast and powerful process that’s been going on in me in preparation for the release of this course.

Get Started…

For now, here’s a way you can get started before the course comes out.

Abraham (Abraham-Hicks.com) teaches us that your emotions are your guidance system. So whenever you’re experience a negative emotion, I’m inviting you to break the habit of thinking that the emotion is a “thing” or that it’s a state that you’re stuck in. You can actually start your training by simply acknowledging that that negative emotion is a valuable indicator.

You don’t even have to know what it is indicating or what to do with it at this point.  Simply reframing your relationship with your negative emotions, and seeing them as valuable information, can free you, empower you, and even start shifting your emotional state right then and there.

Happy New Year of Mastery!

Happy New Year!

Have you gotten used to writing “2015” yet?

I’m actually enjoying this number.

It feels fresh and clean.

And with the brisk weather here, and bright white snow outside, well, we are sparkling!

So, here’s a little overview of my intention for The Yoga of Alignment (YOFA) for this year, and it includes you.

Inner Guidance

We all know about Law of Attraction. But knowing about Law of Attraction is like knowing about gravity. It doesn’t make you an Olympic gymnast. Those people who seem to fly through the air not only know about gravity, they have mastered their interaction with it.

I want you to not only know about Law of Attraction, I want you to reach a level of mastery. And that’s all about inner guidance. So this is going to be the context of much of what I offer this year. It’s about becoming masterful in the living of your life by tuning in so closely to your inner guidance that you kind of fly though your life.

Watch the blog or the podcast for short videos that help you find your way as you train yourself into alignment with your essence, and as you work with the book Rooted in the Infinite.

Keep watching for ways that it all leads back to you gaining greater and greater access to your inner guidance.

Music

The guitar that’s hanging on the wall of my bedroom is the guitar I bought back in the 1960’s on the same day I went to see the original production of Hair on Broadway. Haha. Ok, so now you know a few things about me.

  1. I’m old.
  2. I’ve been playing guitar for a really long time (even if you can’t tell by my playing!) and
  3. Music has been a big part of my life way before YOFA ever existed.

And now music is about to become a big part of YOFA.

Music, as we use it for affirmative contemplation, has the power to bypass the self sabotaging mental patterns of conflict that keep us stuck in patterns that don’t serve us.

Music has the power to lift us into a new vibration that tunes you to your essence. And Music has the power to bring you into alignment with all that you desire so that you live the life that makes your soul smile.

I posted the first YOFA chant to Youtube as a holiday offering, but this chant is good to use all year round. You can still download it at http://yofa.net/journey

And in fact, it is one of the chants in the upcoming inner guidance training I’m working on. (This thing is taking me way longer than I thought it would — so it’s not going to be available for another little while) Anyway, since that program is going to have chant as a part of it, and since the program is taking so long to get ready, I leaked out this song so you can get a sense of the chant energy that’s becoming a bigger and bigger part of the Yoga of Alignment experience.

I’ll tell you more about all of this soon, but I really just wanted to give you a context for our new year together and I want to thank you for your interest in my work, for your participation in my programs, and for receiving my offerings with such an open heart. It means the world to me.

Happy New Year!

 

A Different Path to the Apple

Hungry people cannot eat a picture of food.  The image of food will not do it for them.  The mere thought of food will not sustain them.  They need the real manifested food to nourish the real manifested body.  In fact, people with any kind of need will not be satisfied with a virtual version of the thing they need.  When we want or need something, we tend to reject anything that falls short of the real manifestation.

The physical probelm wants a physical solution and nothing else will do.  And yet the opposite is true.

Wait. What?

The opposite is not only true, it is typically a more fulfilling path to the apple, or the relationship, or the financial security, or anything else.  Just like a physical person has a nonphysical, mental, emotional, and spiritual life, every physical problem has a metaphysical aspect.

And the metaphysical approach to any problem strengthens the template for the solution so that the physical reality can form itself around that pattern and manifest the solution.. the physical solution.

Nourished by Spirit

At its extreme, we find the story of Saint Therese Neumann, about whom Paramahansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, says, “From 1923 onward, Therese has abstained completely from food and drink, except for the daily swallowing of one small consecrated wafer.”

This demonstration of the metaphysical fulfillment of what we would consider to be a physical, physiological need of the body, reveals the unseen bridge between the seen and the unseen, the physical and the nonphysical, and the problem and the solution.

Sometimes, through a spiritual and metaphysical route, the fulfillment bypasses the physical.  The nourishment comes without the bother of food, as with Saint Therese.  In other instances, the spiritual and metaphysical route leads to the food itself.  It all has to do with the complex chemistry of the desire that births the ultimate fulfillment.  It would appear that Saint Therese’s desire was not for food, so the manifestation went directly to the sustenance.

There is a foundation beneath every desire.  And often a foundation beneath every foundation of every desire.  And once we find the level of the desire that calls to us most strongly at our current state of evolution, we can advance on the spiritual and metaphysical journey that not only leads to that fulfillment, but the journey itself becomes a form of fulfillment.

This Path is Always Available

So, the next time you find yourself wanting something, needing something, or feeling challenged about something, consider approaching it from a metaphysical standpoint.  It is this indirect strategy that can bring you the most satisfying fulfillment, solution, and manifestation.

Energy Clearing 

At the time of this writing, for a few weeks (or maybe only days), you can join the YOFA Energy Sessions and receive 8 metaphysical energy clearings each month, plus 4 coaching sessions over the course of the coming year, all at a special promotional discounted price.  This will only be available for a limited time and it is an opportunity, for those who are serious about clearing the energetic static that blocks your most cherished fulfillments, to come on board with the Yes! (YOFA Energy Sessions) membership. You can  click here to watch the full webinar.  But then make sure you get this special promotion:  CLICK HERE to get your discount.