In today’s episode of Healing from Within Sheryl Glick (http://www.sherylglick.com), your host and author of her newest book, The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love, launch date May 2014, welcomes Cindy Griffith-Bennett, (http://www.psychicsupport.com) author of Soul Soothers (http://www.psychicsupport.com)and coauthor with David Bennett of Voyage of Purpose. Whether for stress reduction or spiritual development, Cindy’s book provide listeners and readers the benefits of meditation a much needed practice to be incorporated into everyone’s life in these fast moving, challenging technological new times.
Cindy has been teaching meditation and spiritual development for over 20 years. Her writings on meditation and stress reduction are often published in Huffington Post. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in spiritual counseling and Healing and is about to publish her thesis on the spiritual journey of the mystics for her Masters degree in Conscious Development. Both she and her husband, David, are both devoted in their own spiritual development and are great resources on metaphysical matters which are presented in television, newspapers, and magazines.
In today’s show, Cindy and Sheryl will discuss the values and advantages to Meditation as part of any spiritual practice and the way to help the body, mind and soul be peaceful, more loving, and healthy on all levels of our daily activities. Cindy shares with us, early on in the show, something that she remembers her mother telling her as a young girl and says her mother Mary Gray Griffith once gave her and her sisters a pamphlet with common sense wisdom and one thing stayed with her- JUST BELIEVE IN SOMETHING. With those 4 words, Cindy’s mother gave her permission to be free of the limitations of society, her peers and even her religious upbringing, and supported her even when she began her psychic work. Sheryl shares her observation that many of the authors and spiritual leaders who have been guests on this show often show a love of Spirit or Universal Source in their early life as their sensitivity to energy around them is quite acute. Sheryl, as a youngster like Cindy and so many energy workers, psychics, and mediums, though always a sensitive and cooperative soul, may not have been aware at that early age of how their spiritual gifts would develop, leading them into a life time of work revolving around metaphysical discoveries. Not all families or parents are as supportive of their children’s uniqueness as Cindy’s mother was. Perhaps, they were not fully aware as adults of the value of a deeper spiritual life, and therefore had fear for their gifted children that they would be different from ordinary people and their gifts wouldn’t be seen as valuable or acceptable by the general population.
Cindy wrote Soul Soothers for busy people whose life is strong on achievement yet lacking in tranquility. “Me-time” is hard to find even when you chose not to feel guilty about it. Actually, the true nature of our life is to learn more about ourselves and how we interact with people and our physical world. Self exploration in this way through meditation helps us to create or manifest the most healthy and productive life possible. It is nearly impossible to achieve this level of awareness without a spiritual practice- yoga, energy healing work or meditation. So, from simple to more advanced meditation practices, the values are innumerable and necessary for our total development. Since we are all in meditative states, often without being fully conscious of these moments, Cindy shows us numerous simple and more complex meditations that are quite necessary for us to learn more about meditation including its many benefits.
Cindy’s arsenal of meditations includes first; the Twenty Second Meditation (best done at a desk where you can support your elbows, simply telling your mind that it is time to take twenty seconds to clear your head),
