In our performance shame driven results-are-the-only-means-to-the-end culture, we fight back. Our weapons? Meditation. We refuse to permit the politics of corporate church and America to poison our families and heart. Check out these passages on meditation. Look at some of the points of beauty with me.
Meditation connects the left side of the brain, Broca’s area, with the right side of the brain where the working model for relationships forms.
In our work of Imago Curo, Caring for the Image of God within, we focus on the vagus nerve endings in the chest area. We deliberately use words to attach to affect and the Vagus system. We reconnect our system using meditation. You will love it, your body will thank you for it. You will sense a diminishing of toxic shame and nearness to God that may have escaped you in the corporate maelstrom of post modern church politics.
(This structure is called the Cingulate Gyrus responsible for processing pleasure, pain, and addiction neural pathways. When we meditate, reward structures wire from this part of the brain. Meditation changes the shape of the brain and our awareness of God and each other.)
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He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.
my heart grew hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love.
I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.
I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked:
I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.”
I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
Though rulers sit together and slander me, your servant will meditate on your decrees.
Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.
I reach out for your commands, which I love, that I may meditate on your decrees.
May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause; but I will meditate on your precepts.
[ מ Mem ] Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises.
I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.
They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty— and I will meditate on your wonderful works.
Hope Experience 