Guided Meditation • Visualization • Mindfulness

10^th Annual Peace thru Unity Breakfast and Peace Makers Gathering

Saturday, April 17^th, 2010

from 9:00 am to 11:30 am

at the Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living

907 Knobb Hill Ave.

Redondo Beach, CA 90277

On Saturday April 17th I have the honor of hosting the 10th Annual Peace Makers Gathering and Peace Through Unity Breakfast. 

Join me for an intriguing and uplifting panel discussion with our own Rev. Moira Foxe from the Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living, A. Marco Turk, J.D., Program Director for Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peace Building at Cal State Dominguez Hills, and other dynamic guest speakers.   The topic is “How to be the Peace in Turbulent Times.”

As always there will be fabulous food and exciting entertainment, and in recognition of all our future peace makers, we’ve added a special youth workshop for children 6-12 years old.

Cost:  $15.00 Adult, $10 child (ages 6-12) before April 15^th

$20.00 Adult, $15 child (ages 6-12) at the door

Seating is limited so purchase your ticket either in-person or call 310-540-5080.    

Popularity: 1% [?]

Hello Everyone,

Well we just finished our 8 week series at the Redondo Beach Centers for Spiritual Living.  Our next session will begin Wed. April 14th.  If you haven’t tried the journaling portion of this course I highly recommend it.  Journaling is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with your self and Self. 

Also, I will be teaching three two-hour long workshops at Beach Cities during the Spring Quarter.  I am really excited to be back at Beach Cities and I’m looking forward to seeing you all there!

On Saturday April 17th I have the honor of MC’ing the Peace Makers Gathering and Peace Through Unity Breakfast at the Redondo Beach Center for Spiritual Living.  This is the third year I have been involved with this project.  You are all invited to come.  It’s a fun and consciousness raising event.  If you’re looking to expand your awareness, to be more peace-filled, and more loving then this event is for you.

I’m working diligently on putting up some online meditation and possibly some video and podcasting.  I am working on a book that will outline the “three minds,” and how you can become the leader of your mind, rather than have your mind leading you. 

I am really excited about all of these projects.  However, I am a one-woman-show with two kids, two cats, and a husband named Stu;  and just like you I am doing the very best I can with the time that I have.   

I am looking forward to sharing in your wellbeing.  You and your individual way of being is so important to the world.  Your humor, your thoughts, and your spirit is unique and should be cherished.  Love yourself and your human family as best you can.  You are already Perfect-Whole-Complete.

For a complete list of classes please go to the Calendar section of my site.

All for now,

Krista

Popularity: 1% [?]

Guided Meditation for Relaxation Workshop, Level 1
Friday March 26th
6:00-8:00PM
$18

Curious about meditation but not sure where to start? Get a taste for some deeply relaxing techniques to help you reduce stress and create serenity. The focus of this workshop will be on proper posture, breath work, and mindfulness techniques.  You’ll learn how to balance mind, body, and spirit at this special mini-workshop.
Please wear comfortable clothing.

Event Held At:
Beach Cities Health District
514 N. Prospect Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90227
Please register early at:  http://www.bchd.org
or call 310-374-9852

Popularity: 1% [?]

Hello,

I just wanted to let you all know that we will be having class as scheduled.  If it continues to pour, just bring your canoes and paddles. 

Until tonight,

Krista

Popularity: 3% [?]

Hello All,

This Saturday’s Workshop has been cancelled, but the Wednesday night class is still open. 

Popularity: 4% [?]

Moral relativism is what our religious, societal, and political systems are deathly afraid of.  They tell us that unless we obey the rules, the laws, and the credos of our society, society will fall into chaos.

Moral relativism is fed by the erroneous beliefs that human beings are alone (that is, non-interrelated to other beings) and essentially morally corrupted.  So, if I do what is good for me and you do what is good for you then, boom! chaos erupts. 

 If you turn on the television, read the paper, or if you’ve lost your home recently, then there is plenty of evidence to substantiate this belief. 

We are driven by fear, and the evidence of our fears. 

We are taught that we can not trust ourselves or our neighbors to do the right thing.  We are taught that people have to be told or coherced into doing what’s good or what’s right.  Then we are taught to ignore the deep sense of resentment or longing that arises for listening to the myriad voices that always seem to know better than we do.   

I find it interesting though that most people intuitively know the good when they see it and they know what’s right for them when they feel it.  I also find it interesting that on the occasion when we follow our intuitive feelings, it turns out to be the right thing.  Could it be that we are hardwired to know the good, rather than hardwired to be selfish?  

There was a time in our recent history where inter-racial marriage was illegal and considered immoral, the way same sex marriage is today.  But there were many individuals, my parents for example, who had the courage to move beyond this fearful conditioned belief.  Today we see them as pioneers, but back then they would have been at the apex of the axis of evil, or gasp! perverts.

Was is it inside of us that recognizes error as error and truth as truth?  Is it our conscience, our Source, our Soul, our Self?  And why aren’t we given the tools to explore the nature of ourselves beyond what we’ve been told?  Because then the world would change.  The current power structures couldn’t survive as they are if the majority of people were Authentically Empowered (thanks Gary Zukav).  If we were told that we were born into love rather than sin, if we were taught to trust and then develop our innate goodness and our intuition, then we wouldn’t need to be told what to believe, how to behave, and how to feel; rather we would know and we would act according to that knowing.

True, for some,  its a long way from where they are now to being authentically empowered, but it isn’t that far for you, if you’re here, reading this entry. 
 

Popularity: 5% [?]

Join me for guided meditation and mindfulness.  Come stressed and leave refreshed!

The Holy Spirit Fellowship

1115 E. Market St., Long Beach, CA 90805

To register, email Pastordlm@aol.com or sign up in person at one of our gatherings, or call (562) 428-5037

$10 suggested donation

Popularity: 4% [?]

Hello Everyone,

I hope that you are able to slow down enough this holiday season to enjoy the company of good friends, family, good food, and good cheer. 

In January the new eight week series, “Connecting with the Still Small Voice Within,” begins at the Center for Spiritual Living in Redondo Beach, CA.  Also, I will be having an hour long workshop on Saturday January 16th at the Holy Spirit Fellowship in Long Beach and I have been invited to share meditation and inspired readings during an Inter-Faith Vespers also at the Holy Spirit Fellowship.   

My focus for the coming year is to use meditation and mindfulness practices to deepen our connection with our Authentic Selves. 

The Authentic Self is who we are beyond our individual and collective conditioning.  Indeed, we are not sinners, nor are we born into sin…we are the light of the universe in individuated form–perfect, whole, and complete.   You are perfect, whole, and complete. 

Imagine living in a world where all of us know this perfection and are free to express it.  I do, and it excites me.  I am excited to live in a world of free people who resolve conflict from the heart center, look for new solutions, or just have the confidence to be silent.  

So much can happen for us as individuals and as a community when we just stop, breathe, and connect.  It is that easy. 

Please check the ”Calendar” section of the site to check for locations and times.   I look forward to seeing all of you this coming year.

With a warm heart,

Krista

Popularity: 20% [?]

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love is as deep.  The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite,” (Shakespeare).

What can we infer from this quote?  Perhaps that unconditioned love is boundless, energizing, and endless.  When our love depends on whether or not “you please me,” then our love is conditioned, it is finite, and ultimately it will cause us and others pain. 

Peace between family memebers, neighbors, and nations requires us to move into the unconditioned state of mind.  We must and we can love one another even if we don’t always like each other.  The ego will never learn to love, love is not its nature.  What loves in us is greater than our self limiting concepts.  What loves in us, what sees the beauty in a child or a flower or even a bug is God (or the Soul, the Self, etc…). 

God is an energy that we live in, yes we live our lives in the energy we call God, but we must acknowledge It and even invite It into our conscious awareness before It can open our eyes to the beauty that is everywhere.    We must make God an activity in our lives rather than just an occassional concept.  This is the key to loving.

Love deeply and with abandon!

Krista

Popularity: 61% [?]

The meditation paradox is this:  While it is true that most of us take up meditation for a specific purpose (i.e., anger management, inner wisdom, stress relief, lowering the blood pressure etc…), using our practice as a means to an ends impedes true progress. This is because meditation is an evolution.  Your understanding of yourself, your environment, and your needs evolve as you practice.

 If you are focused solely on the outcome, for example inner wisdom, you will eventually become frustrated with your practice because you will be expecting “something to happen,” during your meditation.    In fact the more you want something the less likely you are to get it because when you are in a state of wanting, what you are really saying is, “I don’t have.”  Wanting something denotes future time.  It’s like saying, “I’ll be happy when…” or “I’ll be happy when I’ve achieved….” or “I’ll be happy when I have…”

A general Buddhist belief is that every human being has within them the potential for enlightenment.  Religious Scientists believe that since God is omnipresent, and God is perfect, whole and complete, then the human being is also perfect, whole and complete.  Ask a Hindu about the divinity of Jesus Christ, and she might say, “Well if one person is the perfect son of god, then we are all the perfect sons and daughters of god.”  If you believe that what you want already exists as a potential within you, then you have removed the need for future in your practice. That is, what you want is already there.

There is a paradox between having a destination and resting in the confidence that you will eventually arrive at your destination.  If you are always asking yourself, “How much further, when will I get there,” you may in fact become disheartened with the journey.  If however you decide to enjoy journey and the scenery then you are more likely to arrive at your destination in a timely manner.

Your practice is a living thing that needs room to breathe, to grow, and to evolve.  Come to your practice with an intention then let the intention go and enjoy the ride. 
 

Popularity: 91% [?]