Category: Meditation

  • Go on a Thoughts Diet

    Extract from 31-Day DMI Devotional Someone once said that your life is a product of your thoughts Another said: Watch your thoughts, they become your words Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, they become your nature. Watch…

  • Mindfulness – How present are you?

    Mindfulness – How present are you?

    By Trishna Patnaik Let’s talk Mindfulness. In a world full of doing, doing and only doing, it is vital to take a moment to just breathe, to just be. Meditation when explained in its simplest terms refers to learning how to pay close attention. When used correctly, meditation allows you to slow down and observe…

  • When Talking to Yourself is a Sign of Sanity

    Have you ever caught ‘you’ talking to yourself?  Did you think you were going insane?   Can talking to yourself be a sign of sanity however?  The words we say to ourselves have more power than any other words that anyone can say to you.  Words have life.  Our lives go in the direction of our…

  • 4 Steps in Meditation – Part 2

    So, the last couple of times, we have been talking about meditation.   The Bible teaches that the key to good success, i.e. permanent success,  is meditation.  But rather than ’empty our minds’ as is done in Eastern practices of meditation, Christian meditation is about filling our minds with good thoughts. So lets recap what the first 2…

  • 4 Steps in Meditation

    Meditation is so important.  For many, when they think of meditation, they think of someone sitting still, cross legged and emptying their mind. However, meditation is an age old practice that people in the Bible did thousands of years ago and is quite the opposite from the way many portray it today. Meditation comes from…

  • The Secret Power of Meditation

    So my story continues.  I had been on various medications for 14 years when I met my wife to be.   Meeting Zoe was to pave the way not just for love but also for a kicking in the boot of mental illness. By this time I was on anti-psychotic drugs.  The drug just slowed me down.  These drugs…