Colleen M. Doumeng

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We all have our own unique reasons for wanting to learn how to meditate.  Maybe you are attracted to meditation because you heard it may help you sleep better, lower your blood pressure, breathe more easily, boost your immune system, ease some pain both emotional and physical.  

 

I wanted to learn to meditate because I desired more peace and wanted to establish conscious contact with God.  All of my teachers seem to agree that I would need to sit still and meditate.  I tried that for over thirty years and failed.  I was very uncomfortable with the silence.  

 

One day I heard a well-known and popular teacher talking about meditation in language I could finally understand.  He taught a 16 second meditation technique and asked on the radio, “who doesn’t have 16 seconds to meditate?” Well that got my attention especially since I never heard that a 16 second "time in" breath was actually called a “meditation.”  I knew I could find 16 seconds so I started right in that moment and built my practice – slowly.  Today I meditate twice a day, for 30 minutes.  There was something else I heard this teacher ask that day, "if you can't sit still with yourself for five minutes or 30 minutes a day, why would anyone else want to sit with you?  That really got me thinking about developing more self-awareness through the practice of meditation and became another big motivator for why I wanted to learn how to meditate.  Eventually I found my way into this teacher’s meditation teacher training program and today I have taught hundreds of students the same way I was taught.

 

Meditation has improved my life so much.  Today I experience more moments of being present, more moments of joy (or a sense of well being), greater clarity around my core values and how I use my time.  Today I have tools and techniques to help me when I get afraid or worried.  And, as a direct impact of my daily meditation practice, I AM able to practice "mindfulness" throughout my day.  Meditation has helped me develop a kinder attitude towards myself - meaning - I AM a better friend to myself.  The inner critic has quieted down and I AM learning how to stop scaring myself by becoming more aware of my thoughts, allowing myself to feel the feelings and then doing my best to let what no longer serves me go. Spiritually, through the practice of meditation, I have made "conscious contact" with God (Wayne Dyer's invitation) and in doing so I have deepened by connection to my intuition which in turn allows me to hear the whispers of God.  This benefit on it's own has made all the difference in my life allowing me to love more deeply, forgive faster, deepen my connection to life, worry less, sleep better, make better choices, and lower my cortisol levels.

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I AM so grateful that you are here reading this and interested in meditation.  I will help you create a meditation practice that works for you.  Together we will break the rules of meditation!  I promise to keep the language simple and not waste your time with confusing terminology and advanced techniques.  Instead, I will share with you the time-tested techniques that I was taught and use that work in real life!  It will be so easy for  you that you will want to meditate!

There is a voice that doesn't use words - listen.  Rumi