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Great piece, but I find it more ‘active’, rather than meditative, as the title suggests. Most therapies force us to look within regardless of disorder or personal opinion. Very cool list :)

I find the 12 pathways to higher consciousness by Ken Keyes, Jr. very helpful:

1. I am freeing myself from security, sensation, and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life, and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

2. I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.
3. I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

3. I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now — unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

4. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

5. I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.

6. I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keep me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people.

7. I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up emotionally in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth.

8. I act freely when I am tuned in, centred, and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness.

9. I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

10. I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using, and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.

11. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

12. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Peter, I’m delighted to see this list here. Sheldon Kopp was one of the first people to break through the armor of reactivity and show me how to THINK. As in live into the possibility of being a human being, instead of just an angry and/or frightened reptile…

I appreciate all that you’re posting here and am grateful to have “met” you in this new place.

Meri, thank you for your kind comment.

If you like Sheldons approach to therapy, which I love especially because of its warmth and acceptance of the human condition (?)(“condition humaine"), you may have a look at the books of Irvin Yalom, especially his book Existential Psychotherapy

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (Matthew 22:39) This great commandment only is true if you are able to love yourself! Sheldon Kopp and Irvin Yalom impressed me the most in helping their readers to accept – and then love – themselves as they are now, not only as they can be.

Nellie, thank you for sharing the 12 pathways! I have to admit though that while reading your comment I often got the feeling: I can’t do that, I am not good enough, not freed enough, maybe simply “not enough” to follow those pathways – there seems to be so much effort needed, so much severe discipline, it scares me away somewhat.

When the distance is caused by ignorance and consequent lack of owning up, any amount of action,effort,emotion or negation can help accomplish the sought to the seeker. The actual I and the Ideal I dichotomy seems to be a trick of the normal function of the brain which may be considered lower when compared to a level of functioning from the zone of silence.

Silence is NOT absence of sounds,speech or thought. Learn without language what it is.

Sometimes best therapy is to be quiet before the LORD and let Him fill you
with HIS love.There is nothing better.

We have all fallen short of the Glory of God,we need His acceptance and forgiveness but because of our brokeness…sometimes His love is carried
over in the arms of a friend.It can be a cup of coffee and a loving hug.

But…nothing…nothing replaces the reality of God’s Love in our lives.
His love being poured into our hearts.

Sometimes in silence we become more alive and more who we are,because
then we are open to God and as He POURS into us….we are finally at rest.