Inner Peace Guided Meditation ~ April 6 2025

This is our inner peace guided meditation for April 6, 2025. We have had another exciting or depressing or too exciting or “you fill in the blank that works for you”. I'm ready to move to a small cabin in the woods and hang out there until the shouting is over! There are aspects to this whole political situation that are so frustrating for me. One of the things that bothers me the most, is how emotionally, politically, and spiritually immature we seem to be as humans. We, in general, have such difficulty working together. Politically, we have difficulty even carrying on useful or helpful conversations with each other. That is so frustrating! Apparently, this is where we are right now!

One of the techniques I've been working with this week is a little sound trick I learned years ago. I probably learned this at a retreat or a workshop. It is a humming technique, and you may be familiar with it. It is similar in a quiet way to what Buddhist monks are doing when they're chanting OM. We know that the OM sound sets up very specific frequencies that are healing, unifying, and calming. Based on scientific research, we know when we hum in the area in our throat and along our sternum, we are working with our vagus nerve. Humming helps shift our nervous system from sympathetic, which is fight, flight, or freeze, toward the parasympathetic which is calming and centering. When we are calm and centered, our digestion starts to work again, and all those other helpful systems come back online. This includes our immune system as well as our ability to listen, think, and make better decisions.

We get centered, take a few breaths, and then just quietly hum in our throat and in our sternum area. I use this when I'm having difficulty getting centered, or getting into a meditation. I use this humming technique if my brain is too busy when I'm trying to go to sleep. I use this any time I am feeling out of sorts or discombobulated. Studies have shown that humming shifts our system from sympathetic toward the parasympathetic. Humming for a few minutes can give us a much calmer, much more organized, and functional brain. I can happily recommend this, especially when our world seems so crazy.

We know this chaos is not going to last forever. Some of us have lived through the 60s, and the 70s, and the '80s, and the '90s. So we know it is not going to last forever, but sometimes it does feel like it. This is when we take a walk in the woods, doing some Forest bathing, or join a group doing a coherent meditation. There are groups all over the Internet and there are plenty of apps for group coherence. The one I like to work with is the HeartMath coherence group. They usually have several meditations during the week. Often there are 300, 400, 500, maybe even a thousand people, using the HeartMath breath to be calm and coherent. These are people all around the world who are working together. That is one thing we can do. We've been doing our group meditation here for more than a year. I don't know how many of you are using this guided meditation on Sunday evening, but that's when I like to meditate. Remember, there is tremendous value, support, and effort out there in the world. These coherence groups are meditating for healing, peace, or greater awareness. At any given moment somewhere in the world, there are at least a thousand people meditating, chanting, or doing walking meditations to help the world. This is something I remind myself of often!

Any time you are feeling discouraged, sad, or down, or too up to go to sleep, try the humming. I'll do it on the recording. And remember how many people, all around the world are working to make the world better for everyone. There are lots of us on the job!

Thank you for everything you are doing to make the world a better place. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for taking the time to meditate, or pray, or feed people, or just cleaning up the trash. We have at least 10 or 12 people in Tulsa who are putting in pollinator gardens or seriously planning for one. This is the result of our pollinator gardening program that we did last Saturday. We've got some momentum and we've got excitement! People doing something creative which will help the Pollinators !!!

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