MEDITATION REALLY DOESN'T WORK FOR ME. I DO THIS INSTEAD (Exercise, C&R, past, present, future) Find what works for you!

 The word meditation has been "thrown around" and discussed everywhere from the mainstream media to the Yoga studio, to Hollywood, to the dinner table. Let me tell you this: Meditation actually doesn't really work so well for me! The phrase being in the "now" moment has also been widely thrown around, reminded, and recommended by soo many. We are all unique and complex people. Each of us has our own thing going on, our own unique perceptions, individual energy signatures, unique elements and Astrological alignment influences.  Personally, I usually, if not always, have A LOT of mental energy. I also normally have a great deal of physical energy. What works best for me? Physical movement to clear my energy and mental functions. Breathing while doing Yoga asana flows and deep, long hatha releases. Animal movements, The healing dance, Ballet hops, sprints, calisthenics, or Tae kwon do kicks, punches, and blocks. Weekly barbell deadlifting and overhead pressing is wonderful to make me shine. Intense exercise with deep breathing especially helps generate positive brain chemicals which induces more positive emotions and ultimately raises up my vibration imparting a bright joyful smile. Meditating really doesn't have this kind of powerful effect on me. With some people, Meditation really works, and is part of their daily health maintenance routine. Varying body movement, TIME IN NATURE, and Ceremony and Ritual are part of my EVERY DAY routine that I know are proven to work especially well for me. My physical Yoga practice performed with healing and meditative music in the background IS MY MEDITATION. Often during my past meditation training, sitting on my yoga mat, I experienced boredom. Now, conducting the ancient sacred heart ritual virtually every day, I never find myself bored, I simply enjoy concentrating, engaging, and generating love.  A ritual has to do with connecting with energies outside of the self. A ceremony has to do with affirming and asserting your own creativity (love) through intention to help manifest whatever it is that you desire. Ceremony is most powerful with full presence, focus, and connection with our own oversoul/higher self. Daily I conduct variations of both Ceremony and Ritual. The only energies I connect with through ritual essentially are Mother Earth, Father Sun, my Angels, my Guides, and The Archangels. Even the simple, powerful  practice of invoking the Violet flame of Christ can be considered a ritual. Those who are still  afraid of the word "ritual" simply aren't aware of what a ritual is defined as. Hopefully I am clearing this up here in this post. Physical exercise is most effective for me to clear my mind, and Ceremony and Ritual are most effective to more fully use and apply my mind, and also my heart. Focusing on and harnessing the power of the "now" moment is important. However, there is no need (or logic) to avoid your own evolution (past) or to plan for your own future!!! Obsess to continually focus on the now moment during your Yoga practice, meditation, C&R, or lovemaking. It's not natural to always try to be in a state of present focus. If we have something in the past which still haunts us, you can do what the Kahuna's long ago told me to do: Go back into the past to that moment and change your reaction to it. See if you can view past experiences as a certain time and situation which you prevailed and went through to get you to where you now find yourself. Depending on what it was and if you are ready, or choose to, go ahead and consider changing your reactions to chosen past incidents to personal power and gratitude, instead of fear or anger or whatever else was the reaction. You are not changing anything in the past, just helping to release any stored lower emotions and negativity still potentially keeping you down. Above all, find what works for YOU, the individual, and look for interesting arts, techniques, and teachers which will help you to be the best you can be, and remember your own Infinite Divinity. 

Namaste,

JK