On Feeling, Bypassing, & Trusting Yourself ● Meditative Prayer

Some meditation guidance recommend ignoring thoughts, emotions, and sensations (aka stories and feelings), and others recommend exploring and witnessing them with curiosity and compassion. How do we know which advice to follow? In this immersive guided meditation, I describe my experience as it's happening and I share my perspectives on: ● creating rules that are absolutely this way or that ● the outcome of learning to be comfortable with emotions and sensations (feelings) ● the risks of staying in the shallow end of emotion and of going into the deep ill-equipped ● the benefits of facing emotions and sensations (feeling) at deeper and deeper levels ● journeying once again into shame, this time embracing its story ● learning to trust yourself ● discerning between the voice of the Holy Spirit vs the voice of something else ● discerning and deciding which approach to follow ● when reparenting is of benefit ● truth (the seeking and telling of it) as one of the highest values ● the triune God's roles throughout this process May this heartfelt expression of "me" reach those it's meant to. May it be a tiny blessing unto the world. And may it shine through the eyes of the Beloved. with love, Maria #Meditation #SelfTrust #SomaticHealing #EmotionalProcessing