The Quiet Space: Recent Episodes
Tony Dalton
You cannot control what happens to you in life but you can control how you respond. The world is busy and demanding and often painful. These meditations to help you get in touch with your ‘Quiet Space‘, so you can better manage what you are in control of. Your response.
We all carry worries and concerns. You don't have to. You can release them and be free of worrying about them confident they are being cared for.
We were created in loved to be loved and to love. It remains a deep seated need in each of us, the desire to be loved and to love. We need to reconnect with the awareness that we have been loved since before the beginning of time, that we were never not loved, not for a moment.
For most of us, there are moments in life when we feel like something is missing. Perhaps it is because we fail to nurture that which is eternal within us. Our souls. What is it is feed your soul?
It's hard to truly love others unless we love and accept our-self first. Young people are especially critical of themselves. This criticism needs to be countered with a healthy dose of self compassion. That way we can become more compassionate toward others, creating a more loving world.
We are so conscious of nurturing our bodies, eating, exercising, sleeping, but we so often neglect that which is most important, our souls.
Despite spending too much money and far too much time trying to avoid pain and suffering. We usually fail miserably. More often than not, our fear of pain is worse than the pain itself. This meditation offers a number of strategies to assist you to live your life more productively by managing pain more effectively.
Are you battling with anxiety or troubles or are you worried about something? God says, 'You only need to be still and I will fight for you'. Let go. Let God.
The world will tell us unless we have their product or wear their clothes or look a certain way we will never be enough. You are already more than enough. You are a gift to the world. There is only one of you so don't be a clone or a second rate copy of someone else. Be the best you that you can be.
The chances of you even existing at all are 1 in 400 trillion. The fact that you are here is both a blessing and a miracle.
Did you ever have a dream? Perhaps as a child you dreamt of what you could be someday. Where is that dream today? It lies within you.
Dreams stem from our unconscious and are often deeply symbolic. They can be hard to understand but with time, practice and attention they often reveal the messages we are in need of hearing. This meditation is to assist in understanding the message of your dream.
Peace is closer to us than our breath. This meditation will help you access the peace that we all have within it.
We live in a world that is both beautiful and cruel. The intentional and unintentional slings and arrows people fire at us can wound. Even more painful can be those that we fire at ourselves. Our own thoughts which belittle, betray and demean us. But we have the power to choose what gets in and what doesn't. We can create mental armour to enable us to protect ourselves.
Dreams are our subconscious' way of telling us truths that we are ready to hear. They are deeply symbolic and need to be carefully considered if we are to access these truths. Using our imagination is one one to take time to listen to your dreams to hear the truths we need to incorporate into our lives. This meditation is primarily to assist you to recall your dreams.
A short 5 minute meditation to help you focus and increase awareness. Practice this when ever you have the chance. It will enhance your focus, peace, relationships, memory and general well being.
If you find it hard to be still this simple body scan may help you to relax amidst the demands and stresses of a busy world.
Instant Relaxation. There are over 100 million neurons in your stomach. As many as are in the brain of a cat. This network acts like a second brain and is constantly sending signals to the brain in our head. We recognize these signals as ‘gut feelings’. We need to learn to trust these gut feelings, like we trust our cat's capacity to sense things. This little brain is known as the Vagus Nerve. The Vagus nerve communicates information from the brain to every organ in your body and triggers the relaxation response. Harvard University Scientist Dr Andrew Weil discovered a simple way to stimulate the Vagus Nerve which he calls, 4 7 8 breathing.