MINDFULNESS AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Transcript of MINDFULNESS AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
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Amygdala on FIRE
Today we live in a very busy world. Rush, rush, rush. Get to the next appointment, buy the next new
phone, text, don't talk, drive don't walk. Yet in order to really hear our inner voice/God/Higher Power we need to stop and contemplate life,
for it is in this quiet moment we find true direction.
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Practicing Stillness
Finding the Mystery in the Everyday
As children, we are very sensitive to nature’s beauty, finding miracles and interesting things everywhere. As we grow up, we tend to forget how beautiful and magnificent the world is. There is magic and wonder for eyes who know how to look with curiosity and love.
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The first step to creating The first step to creating The first step to creating The first step to creating magic or miracles in our magic or miracles in our magic or miracles in our magic or miracles in our life is to believe in the life is to believe in the life is to believe in the life is to believe in the
unbelievable, something unbelievable, something unbelievable, something unbelievable, something greater than us, to allow greater than us, to allow greater than us, to allow greater than us, to allow our imagination to our imagination to our imagination to our imagination to expand. We then can expand. We then can expand. We then can expand. We then can become the cobecome the cobecome the cobecome the co----creators creators creators creators
of our own existence and of our own existence and of our own existence and of our own existence and
anything and everything anything and everything anything and everything anything and everything becomes possible.becomes possible.becomes possible.becomes possible.
• Ritual is the pitch through which the personal and collective voices of our longing and creativity are
extended to the unseen dimensions of life, beyond our conscious minds and into the realms of nature and spirit.
SMUDGING
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Resources • Happiness: Thich Nhat Hanh• The Power of Now: Eckhart Tolle• A Life Worth Breathing: Max Strom• The Art of Stopping Time: PedramShojai• The Obstacle is the Way: Ryan Holiday• How God Changes Your Brain: Andrew Newburg• When God Winks at You: Squire Rushnell
CONTACT INFORMATION
James “Wolf” Yoxall
Pavillon Treatment Center
(828) 694-2300 #146