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    Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach
    Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach
    Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach
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    Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach

    By Diana Lang

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    In this beautiful book and downloadable audio companion, Diana Lang demonstrates that meditation is as simple as breathing. There is no mystery to it. Her pleasant, straightforward guidance makes meditation available to all. Along the way, she shows us the numerous benefits to be gained from meditation, and she writes and speaks beautifully about breathing, acceptance, intention, and the power of love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateAug 22, 2012
    ISBN9781577313557
    Opening to Meditation: A Gentle, Guided Approach
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    Diana Lang

    Diana Lang is a “teacher’s teacher” of meditation and yoga with over thirty-five years of teaching experience, as well as a spiritual counselor and radio personality. She lives in Los Angeles. www.DianaLang.com

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      Opening to Meditation - Diana Lang

      AUTHOR

      Meditation is easy. You can do it right now, right where you are. It is not mysterious or esoteric. It is your natural birthright as a human being.

      Meditation is an age-old practice that quiets the mind and allows our inner spirit to shine through our life more and more. The effects of meditation unfold over time. It is a practice of awareness that increases our focus, our consciousness, and our soul-knowing.

      Meditation creates a foundation that lets you know yourself deeply — your true self — the part of you that is eternal. It allows for the full potential of your soul to be expressed in your daily life.

      Meditation helps you to become self-realized — to realize who you really are in your deepest essence. In meditation, you arrive at a state of awareness where you consciously recognize the link between your personality and your soul. Meditation aligns these two seemingly separate parts so they are known to be one and act as one. This is called congruency — a conscious bridge between the self and the soul.

      The path to self-realization is a choice. It is the ongoing decision to live your life as truthfully and lovingly as possible. Every time you sit to meditate you are choosing to live an awakened life.

      Meditation reveals a beauty beyond words. By turning within, we discover a world of knowledge, the bounty of our rich inner knowing. We discover that we are more than what we seem; we are better — far greater — than what we have believed about ourselves.

      At our core, we discover we are simply and absolutely the radiance of pure love. Allowing this love to shine more brightly through our life is an inevitable and direct consequence of our meditation practice. We are the directors of our growth; it is always our choice to what degree we want to be receptive to our inner knowing. This inner knowing is always available to us. It does not waver or vary. The flow of our soul is constant. All we have to do is open to it.

      One of the purposes of this book is to show you that you need nothing outside yourself to take your next spiritual step. You already have everything you need.

      Your next step is the one that’s right in front of you, the one you can take right now. If you let your inner knowing guide you, you can’t go wrong. Your next step almost always feels simple, natural, even ordinary. We sometimes expect great changes to happen in our lives instantly, in some dramatic fashion, with a bang, but that rarely happens. More often it is simply putting one foot in front of the other until inevitably some momentous event occurs; it looks

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