Join healer Jennifer McLean as she discusses the sacred chamber of the world within, and moving from our mind to this transformational heart space of love and manifestation. A devastating loss led Jennifer to the realization that, in her words, “The only thing you have to do is love yourself,” and that even the apparently devastating moments in our life are “just another measure of light . . . nudging us into expanding our conscious awareness of who we are as love.” In this interview Jennifer explores how real manifestation comes through the field of love, and how loving ourselves—seeing who we really are—actually transforms our exterior world. As a “platform of possibility,” love is a place from which to seamlessly create. Reminding us that we don’t have to think something into creation—we need only go into the truth of who we are—Jennifer leads us through a powerful exercise to experience that sensation of wholeness, the place from which all is possible.

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The Healing Power of YOU - Jennifer McLean

This is the second meditation of the Visibility Project, inspired by the work of Louise Hay and using Kevin McLeod's music as a backdrop.


Louise Hay meditation

Meditation One: Establishing A Mindfulness Meditation Practice

Reviewed April 2017

Stress and your physical body.  I know, I know, we always hear, oh, it’s stress, it’s stress.  Stress is kind of a wastebasket term, isn’t it?  It doesn’t really refer to anything.  I want to tell you what stress does.  We need some stress in our lives.  You need stress on your bones, vertical vectors of force on your bones to keep bringing in the calcium and other minerals that build bone.  And we need stresses on the brain, routinely, in order to learn new things.  And every time you lift weights, you get stronger, because you’re putting stress on the muscle, which brings in more amino acids and so on and builds a stronger muscle over time.  So stress is not necessarily bad.  
	The kind of stress that gets all of us into trouble is the unremitting stress that says, there’s no escape, there’s no way out, there’s nothing you can possibly do.  This is the kind of stress that will cause women to miss their periods, have their hair fall out, gain weight.  
Now how does this happen?  When you’re under stress, your cortisol levels rise and you go into what’s called fight or flight.  Now, as Dr. Pam Peeke points out, when your cortisol levels rise, it is to prepare you to exercise, to run away from something that is scary and that could harm you.  So 15 minutes, 10-15 minutes of walking will eat up excess cortisol, a stress hormone, and that’s really all you need to do.  That’s why exercise is so good for decreasing stress. 
When you don’t exercise and the cortisol goes up, what happens?  You want to eat more, because the cortisol suggests burn calories, do something, I need more calories, and then you actually want to eat more.  Have any of you ever been on any of those steroid inhalers, and after you’re on the steroid inhaler, let’s say for asthma or whatever it is, you’re desperate to eat Pop-Tarts?  It’s because the cortisol, the prednisone, that’s another name for cortisol, it’s a drug, it actually forces you to want to eat more.  So the more cortisol, the higher the desire to eat, and the higher the intake of sugar, and then the higher the intake of insulin, or the blood produces more insulin, and that stores fat in your cells, and it’s a vicious cycle.
So it all starts with some way to stop that vicious cycle of stress.  One way to do it is to simply visualize a stop sign, and then when you’re doing it to yourself, you go, stop, and then you take one full deep breath in through your nose, and out through your nose, and that in itself will stop the vicious cycle of stress, because when you breathe deeply through your nose, the lower lobes of the lungs will expand, and the vagus nerve, the main nerve of the parasympathetic rest and restore nervous system goes right through there, and it will be triggered.  It will instantly lower your blood pressure, and lower your heart rate, and begin to gobble up stress hormones.
Let me give you the other big stress hormone gobbler, sleep.  Sleep is, without a doubt, the best way to digest excess stress hormones that there is.  Of course, and then you want to stop the stressful things in the first place, and that requires mindfulness.  Changing the story you tell yourself about what’s stressing you.  
So let me give you this final thought.  There is no situation that is hopeless, there is nothing that you can’t escape from, but what you have to do is engage your higher power, the nonphysical part of you that knows a lot more than the part of you that is stressed out.  Sometimes that involves getting down on your knees.  I can’t tell you the number of people who have a change in their life, simply when they’re brought to their knees and they surrender.  Okay, all right, I’ve had it.  I can’t figure it out myself.  Tell me what to do.  That, alone, will stop the vicious cycle of stress, most of which is in your head.

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The Effects of Stress

Listen to an excerpt of Sharon Salzberg's REAL LOVE audiobook, read for you by the author.

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world.

Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and life itself.

Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience rather than preconceptions. Across three sections Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved.

With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.

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Real Love by Sharon Salzberg, audiobook excerpt

This 74-minute dharma talk in the Ocean of Peace Meditation Hall takes place on Sunday, February 1, 2004. The monastic and lay community are practicing together during the 2004 Rainy Season Retreat from January 4 to March 14 at Deer Park Monastery.

2004 Winter Retreat

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The more you try to force sleep, the less likely you are to achieve it. Explore this guided meditation to let go of stubborn thoughts and get a full night's rest.

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A Meditation for Easing Into Sleep

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Break the Cycle of Fatigue

How to Make Your Life Easy

Did you know the cycles of the moon have a huge effect on our health, our mood, our relationships and our work? By understanding these phases, we can work with them to improve and empower every aspect of our lives. In Moonology, world-renowned astrologist Yasmin Boland unveils:-why connecting with the moon can change your life for the better-powerful rituals and ceremonies for each moon phase-how the moon connects us to nature and the cosmos-how to work out where the moon is in each cycle-international New Moon and Full Moon dates for the next 10 years. You will also learn affirmations, visualisations and chants to use during each phase of the moon, and will discover the role of Angels, Goddesses and Ascended Masters during the New and Full Moons. This is a book for all those wishing to deepen their connection with nature and take their spiritual practice to a new level.

Break the Cycle of Fatigue

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