Thursday Evening Meditation and Study Group
This is your weekly reminder for the meditation and study group that meets every Thursday at 5:30pm MST at the Unitarian Church in Los Alamos, NM, and also online.
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5054120010?pwd=aWoPgmIYXkOMdpPHKvASKlE6BapNAD.1
Please join us if you are able.
Being Peace and Generating Peace
In our group we have been pondering how we can create peace within ourselves and then generate that peace outward to do our part to manifest peace in this world we live in.
I would like to remind you of an article I wrote previously called: The Reorganization of the World Into A New Balance—How These Current Times Can Offer Us Hope. You can find this article on this Substack and I would encourage you to read or reread it.
I have also posted the meditations from the last two weeks from our Thursday evening gatherings. They are entitled: 1) Imagine, and, 2) A Quiet Edge of Breath.
In these meditations, which followed our discussion, we called forth the Archetype of Peacekeepers. We aimed to anchor in the center and core of our beings, enter the space of the neutral stillpoint, and breathe in peace where duality and division dissolve. Our intention was to transmute separation into wholeness, engender radiance over resistance, and represent the mirror of the future in the current moment.
Embodied Neutrality
Our focus for this week is to embody neutrality. Neutraility is seeing something on the news, in the workplace, or social media, and not reacting. It is having an interaction with someone whose talking points are far different from yours, and then taking a few deep breaths as you pause, to avoid belching your prejudices.
Embodying neutrality is having a hurtful or frustrating or unjust situation arise in your life, then responding not with judgment, hate, anger, or disdain represented by the ego or old energy, but rather entering a neutral stance reflecting your true self.
Neutrality is not passivity, it’s a stabilizing frequency. You may have observed this before. Being in a conversation, whether you are a participant or observer, and then one of the individuals present is drawn in, yet they don’t fuel the fire. Instead, they either don’t respond at all or they say something that redirects the interaction from contemptuous negativity to a neutrality that softens. The heated debate that had been stoked by inflammatory remarks would likely be halted.
With the practice of embodying neutrality you can respond to conflict without adding charge. You are able to do this because you act from stillness rather than reactivity. Yet stillness is a skill that needs to be integrated through regular practice of mindfulness and meditation.
Take note of this the next time an enflamed discussion arises around you. When tension arises, pause and breathe, allowing your words to come from clarity, not defense.
I hope you can join us this week as we gather together to be peace and generate peace by embodying neutrality.
Tom Steward
505-412-0010
tomstewardpa@gmail.com
www.tomsteward.com
www.becomingyourtrueself.com
www.essential-self.com
