Healthy Happy Loving Life: Instant Calm for Busy People

26 Tuesday Apr 2022

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I recently shared a brief way to break into meditation practice, in 8 quick steps (https://wp.me/pw4HM-1dw). Many loved it, and some said they couldn’t meditate because their minds were too busy, like the yogini above, and just too full of chatter. I promised to write a piece on instant calm for busy people, and that’s what brings us to today. There are many ways I can share, to instantly calm yourself. Here are 3 hand poses that will take you to calm very fast.

1. Gently place your hands together, palms touching. The palms access your central nervous system and calm you instantly. Now exhale. Drop your shoulders. Hold for one minute. Feel the difference. Feel the sides of your head let go and relax. Feel your brain slow down.

2. Place your hands in the classic prayer position, fingers intertwined. You have now connected most of the meridians in your body to each other. Exhale. Drop your shoulders. Hold for one minute. Feel the difference as your whole body calms. Try bringing your hands toward your forehead and leaning in. Feel the difference.

3. Place your hands together, palms touching. Bring this position back to your chest and feel the heart connection. Hold for one minute. Notice your face relaxing. Feel the contrast as your mind, body, and spirit calm down.

Apply these moves whenever you need calm. And let me know (kebba@kebba.com) what you notice in your thoughtstream, your body, and your skin. And that would be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. They are also available in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the Franciscan Renewal Center bookstore and at the bookstore at St. Barnabas on the Desert Episcopal Church. Or simply email us to order: kebba@kebba.com . Thank you!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 8 Steps to Meditating Today!

24 Sunday Apr 2022

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How would you like to be so mellow that your shoulder tops feel like pudding? Yet you are not tired, just deeply relaxed? A great way to get there is through meditation. And you don’t have to convert to Hinduism and use Indian words in order to meditate. Meditation is also a Christian practice going back centuries. The current Pope uses the word “meditation” in several ways daily. So don’t worry about your faith origin. If you’ve been curious about meditation, maybe now is the time to give it a whirl.

A major key is to set up a comfortable place to sit, away from distractions, preferably for 20 minutes at a time. For the meditation time to work for you, of course you will close your laptop and turn off your smartphone. Change the lighting to soft. Think of it as a set of agreements you are making with yourself! And the more you meditate, for example twice daily, the more you will feel your thoughts, your body, and even your skin relaxing. This feels so good and so healthy, that you might get addicted to it! There are many sources for meditation music, seats, drums, and electronic devices that are offered as helps for different types of meditation. But I have found that low tech, no-additive meditation is really great: refreshing, inexpensive, no-fuss, and life-changing. The beneficial medical effects of true meditation have been documented since the 1970’s.

Here are 8 steps, to try this amazing practice at home:

Sit in a quiet, undisturbed area, in a comfortable chair. Uncross your legs and place your feet on the floor. Sit up fairly straight; this allows the spinal energy to flow well. You may want to be barefoot.
Select some quiet music or turn on a humming room fan if something is needed to screen background noise. To use music or not is up to personal preference.
Exhale and drop your shoulders. Find a comfortable balance in your posture.
Notice your shoulders releasing tension and dropping pleasantly.
Set a pleasant-sounding timer and continue your meditation for 15-20 minutes. Notice how your different body/mind/heart/spirit systems are responding. You may find your eyes are pleasantly streaming tears and your entire system has a deep sense of relaxation. Your breathing may be much more comfortable.
After your selected time, gently open your eyes. If you have trouble opening your eyes, rub your hands together until they are warm, then hold them to your eyes for a half minute or so.
Gently allow your system to come back into consciousness. Take your time.
Journal your observations and realizations for a few minutes. Notice any change in your body, your spiritual perspective or sense of connection.

Let me know (kebba@kebba.com) what you notice in your thoughtstream, your body, and your skin. Has your sense of stress shifted? Notice any changes in your relationship to stress over the next week or month. Notice if some of your routine aches and/or pains are subsiding. Now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm! To learn more about the history and types of meditation, you may want to check out my book, Sacred Meditation.

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Peace Meditation

22 Saturday Jan 2022

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This is the next-to-last piece in our series on meditation, based on excerpts from my book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Today, we offer a type of Peace Meditation.

This meditation is a type of Special Purpose Meditation, which may be used to shift the energy of situations and places. For any special purpose meditation, begin by going to your special quiet practice place. Write down your vision for your desired results. Include sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations. Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

Sit comfortably and quiet your breathing. Be aware of Luke 12:32 (KJV):

It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Feel your heart slow and relax. Feel your core pleasantly melting toward the floor. Know that you are grounded in the Earth’s creative energies.

Extend your awareness from your heart, up through your mind, and up toward Heaven (or out into the Universe). Feel yourself connect strongly with the Heavenly Source, and feel the Source Energy flowing down through you, comingling with the Earth energy that is rising. Now you are in your most creative space, or state of being. Now bring your vision of a desired thing into your consciousness. See the images, hear the sounds, taste the flavors, smell the fragrances, and feel the sensations of your desired reality. Sit with this multisensory vision for a few minutes.

In this moment, know that your vision is now true. Feel your gratitude. Give thanks to God/the Divine/Spirit. Repeat this step whenever you think of the situation you want to be different.

PEACE MEDITATION

Now consider a Peace Meditation, a meditation directed at bringing peace, to yourself, to people, and to the Planet. We live in times of much conflict in many areas. Mass shootings and bombings shatter communities. A global pandemic threatens travel and supply chains and hospitals like never before. Nations disagree with nations, and supranational terror groups are claiming to be nations. Even in the US, conflicts may seem to dominate at the highest levels of government. Many yearn for personal, local, and global peace.

For your peace meditation, begin with contemplation or prayerful listening, using prayers such as this short prayer for peace, from the Church of England:

Gracious God,
We pray for peace in our communities this day.
We commit to you all who work for peace and an end to tensions,
And those who work to uphold law and justice.
We pray for an end to fear,
For comfort and support to those who suffer.
For calm in our streets and cities,
That people may go about their lives in safety and peace.
In your mercy, hear our prayers,
now and always. Amen.

Sit, saturated in the feeling and knowing of peace, for a few minutes. Now journal out your feelings. Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Repeat as desired. And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Mantra Meditation Quickstart in 9 Steps

21 Friday Jan 2022

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Today, we continue a series on meditation, based on excerpts from my latest book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Mantra Meditation is a powerful yet simple controlled practice of opening the mind. It takes the meditator to a deeper brain state, increasing awareness, insight, and relaxation. It then allows release of stress: negative thoughts and feelings a person has been holding. Emotional attachments and judgements will tend to soften and disperse. The beneficial medical effects of true meditation have been documented since the 1970’s.

Here is a quickstart in 9 steps, to try this amazing method on your own:

Select a harmonious word, or mantra, to repeat. To start, try “Om” or “Spirit” or “Love”. For a deep treatment of the subject of mantras, refer to the work of Herbert Benson, M.D.
Sit in a quiet, undisturbed area, in a comfortable chair. Uncross your legs and place your feet on the floor. Sit up fairly straight. You may want to be barefoot.
Select some quiet music or turn on a humming room fan if something is needed to screen background noise. To use music or not is up to personal preference.
Exhale and drop your shoulders. Find a comfortable balance in your posture.
Close your eyes and repeat your selected harmonious word or mantra. Notice your shoulders releasing tension and dropping pleasantly.
Set a pleasant-sounding timer and continue your meditation for 15-20 minutes. Notice how your different body/mind/heart/spirit systems are responding. You may find your eyes are pleasantly streaming tears and your entire system has a deep sense of relaxation. Your breathing may be much more comfortable.
After your selected time, gently open your eyes. If you have trouble opening your eyes, rub your hands together until they are warm, then hold them to your eyes for a half minute.
Gently allow your system to come back into consciousness. Take your time.
Journal your observations and realizations for a few minutes. Notice any change in your body, your spiritual perspective or sense of connection.

Change the mantra you try from time to time, and find out which takes you deeper or relaxes you faster. Try meditating like this twice a day for two weeks, and notice your unpleasant emotions dissolving. Make notes on what you experience. Consider making this a long-term part of your spiritual practice. Remember that you attained this new level of BE-ing absolutely free, in exchange for simply choosing to try it out. Celebrate!

And that’s Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

Now journal out your feelings. Has your sense of stress already shifted? Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Email us at kebba@kebba.com with any questions you have on meditation. And now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would also be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Protection Meditation

20 Thursday Jan 2022

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Today I offer a type of Protection Meditation. This is part of a series of articles on meditation, based on excerpts from my book, Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The more you play with these methods, the more you will find your stress shifted and the closer you will find yourself with the Divine. Meditation is a powerful stress management tool. It will increase your productivity and magnify your efforts in every good thing you put your mind to. Bless you in your journey!

This special purpose meditation should be done whenever you realize you are feeling unsafe, due to financial hazard, the loss of a loved one, neighborhood crime, or a stalker. It is also a good meditation when you feel unsafe due to international conditions of conflict or contagion. This would also include feeling vaguely unsafe, even though you don’t know why.

Any special purpose meditation can shift the energy of situations and places. Begin by going to your special quiet practice place. Take a minute to think about your purpose. Write down your vision for your desired results. Include sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and sensations. Be as vivid and complete in your vision as possible.

For the Protection Meditation, try beginning with contemplation of this portion of Psalm 91 (NIV). Or study the entire Psalm, when you have the time:

⁹If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways

Vision in detail how safe you and your family truly are. Remember to give thanks that all this is true. And repeat whenever you think of these feelings. Consider posting a sign on your mirror that says, “He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”

If you are threatened by a particular enemy, such as an aggressive ex, a stalker, a nasty neighbor, or an abusive boss, you may want to begin with a contemplation of this scripture, Psalm 25: 1-3 (NIV):

¹To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;

² in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.

³ No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse.

Now journal out what you hear and experience while contemplating and meditating on God’s protection. And, as always, give thanks for what you are visioning for. In this case, it’s your safety.

Now journal out your feelings. Has your concern already shifted? Observe any change in your relationships over the next day and week. Email us at kebba@kebba.com with any questions you have on meditation. And now you are in Upbeat Spiritual Living^sm!

And that would be you, also, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Pray and Believe

19 Wednesday Jan 2022

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What have you prayed for lately? Are you perhaps praying for the New Year 2022 to have the qualities you want? Many people think prayer is asking God/Heaven/Spirit/Jesus/Buddha/Allah/Krishna for something. Or pleading, if the need is great. But there are a few forms of prayer, and you can choose. It’s your prayer.

Consider a prayer in which you celebrate your Good, celebrate all that is busy manifesting in your life. New Thought churches say, if you don’t like what’s happening in your life, choose a new thought. Many people are affirming their issues, not living in ways such that they are open to their Good. Thought attracts, but not just psychologically. Your Good is coming in all the time. You need to notice and welcome it and say, “Thank You!” to the Divine.

The Divine is always smarter, knows more, sees more, knows what has been, and knows what is to come. God knows the desires of your heart! How could God not know?

Years ago, I worked with a Greek engineer, whose faith was that of the Greek Orthodox Church. Speaking about prayer one day, he asked me, “but doesn’t any prayer indicate uncertainty?” I was rocked! He was saying, since there is nothing hidden from God, and since God loves us, how would we not believe that God was/is taking care of things?

In fact, Romans 8:28 (KJV) offers this:

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

So God is looking out for us. And who, with what smarts and skills, would you rather have looking out for you?

So, what if you do pray, that is, ask God to direct His particular attention to your finances, or your cancer, or your brother’s marriage-on-the-rocks, or your Mom’s malfunctioning knee? He already knows about it. So go ahead, pray, and KNOW that God knows, God loves you, and God is taking care of it, usually in ways beyond our imagining. Print this, from Mark 11:24, for your bathroom mirror, and ponder it often:

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

So if you want to have faith in your faith, ponder this astonishing thunderclap advice: God loves you, God is for you and God is taking care of things. Believe it to be true. The answers to your prayers are busy manifesting. Believe that to be true. Repeat. Amen. And the more deeply you take in these principles, the more joyfully you will be in Upbeat Spiritual Living!^sm

And that would be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. Email us to order: kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: National Day of Prayer

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2021 Man hands on Bible--rsz-shutterstock_1038655333 Today is our US National Day of Prayer. Passed into law in 1952, it’s a day for all faiths to focus on prayer, in whatever form they may believe in. And there are many forms of prayer. Some popular forms are:

Worship and praise, acknowledging God’s greatness and praising Him
Petitionary or intercessory prayer, asking God to do something or change something that appears to be true, for self or others
Affirmative prayer, expressing that God is always blessing us, and knowing that God is addressing your concern, giving thanks that this is true
Thanksgiving, expressing gratitude for what you have, for the good things that God has provided and done
Spiritual warfare, asking God to protect us and guard us against harm

National Day of Prayer – May 6

But please, if these sound a bit technical, don’t feel you need to pick one and learn how to properly use it. Just find a quiet moment, deeply focus on your feelings about your prayer need, and just start talking to the Divine, from your heart, as an invisible friend. When you are troubled, go ahead and cry. Then ask Upstairs, “what do You think?” You may be astonished! I once asked “what do You think?” and I heard words directing me to do certain things; I met my soulmate husband as a result.

Prayer: the original wireless connection! No monthly fees, no wifi setup, and your call is always answered. Try it more often, not just on the National Day of Prayer. And you’ll find you are more and more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm.

Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM, is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within: Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office. To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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UpBeat Living: 8 Crisis Quickies

30 Tuesday Apr 2013

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UpBeat Living supports you in being happy, healthy, and on-the-go, cocreating the life you want. That said, sometimes even the UpBeat Living office has challenging days. In a couple of project areas, things are stuck on personality issues. We had to fire a major vendor, and today they got the word; we also need to replace them, which is a process. Wanting never to hurt anyone, if possible, made the vendor firing thing very intense. The bank made an error, I drove over to get them to fix it, a secondary effect popped up, and I drove back to get them to fix that. Plus, the Moon has been full, which intensifies everything. For several days, it has seemed the opposite of peaceful. It has seemed like crisis time.

So what does UpBeat Living do when it’s crisis time? We use the crisis-level stress management tools, the “Crisis Quickies”. Try some of these, and let us know how they work for you!

Run in place for 2 minutes, if you can.
Divide the crisis or crises into pieces, and start on one piece.
If you feel like vomiting from stress, go ahead. You’ll release a lot of tension and feel better fast. Then seriously brush your breath, and everything will seem less serious.
If you have to be in meetings with those who are disrupting your peace, try to look calm. This helps directly, signaling your body-mind system to calm down.
In those meetings, place the tips of the 3 center fingers of your right hand in the center of your left palm. This looks calm and signals your central nervous system to go quiet. Now you can deal with those people and issues more easily.
When you get home, take an extra shower. Yes, you’re clean, but this one is for therapy. Picture all the stress energy of the day flowing out of you, out of your head, off your scalp, and down the drain. Sing loudly, any song that comes to mind; make up something that suits the issues of the day. Blow your hair dry, which will also blow stress energy off your head.
Practice exhaling. Forget all that advice about “taking a big breath”. You need to empty your lungs before you can take that big breath. Exhaling is especially powerful, because you can do it quietly without anyone realizing you are managing a crisis.
If you are a person of faith, pray! If you don’t know what to pray for, just pray, “Help!” You may be surprised at how crises ease up when you pray for help.

And all the best to you! May you be back on your happy path, in your UpBeat Living, soon!

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Pray and Believe

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