I found a free guided meditation online this morning so I thought I’d try it. It wasn’t very good, which is why I’m not linking to it, but I did get something rather profound from it.
In another guided meditation I did, the speaker says to make a movement that will indicate to your body that you’re now going to relax and go into meditation. I tried that but I couldn’t come up with a movement that my body doesn’t do all the time without being ridiculous.
In this new meditation this morning, the speaker said to pick a word or short phrase that describes your intention in meditating. For example, peace, love, God, joy, or a phrase of 1 to 5 words.
I was already relaxed and breathing deeply and slipping into my meditation, and when the speaker said a phrase of 1-5 words, the phrase that immediately came to mind was, “The lord is my shepherd.”
What a perfect phrase to repeat on my exhale to signal to my being that I’m going into meditation. And guidance IS what I seek, so it totally fit.
Half an hour or so later that phrase popped into my head again and I remembered that I’d wanted to look it up. I pulled it up online. Psalm 23.
I read the Psalm and remember it fondly from my childhood. I close the page and pull up my Twitter page. My Twitter page informs me that I am following 11 people, I have 22 followers, and I’ve tweeted 444 times.
Wow! What a very cool synchronicity!
I post about it on Facebook AND Twitter. As I start telling a friend about it because she was ON Facebook when I posted, I look up at my Zynga toolbar which announced my next drawing is in 5:55:55.
So I’m thinking “The lord is my shepherd” is my new meditation trigger phrase.
