The Benefits of Meditation
- Emotional Resilience: Tools to navigate challenging experiences with greater composure, preventing emotional hijacking
- Stress Management: Enhanced ability to stay present, label reactions, and regulate your body’s stress chemistry
- Improved Tolerance: The capacity to remain mentally and emotionally unaffected by minor irritations or unexpected demands
- Deeper Self‑Knowledge: A clearer understanding of your basic nature, so you can enter the “zone” in any activity with ease
- Heightened Intuition: A stronger instinctive knowing that goes beyond rational proof, tapping into subtle inner guidance
- Sharpened Focus: The skill to gently redirect wandering thoughts and sustain concentration—even amidst distractions
From Living a Sacred Life, the Book
I’ve heard from many people that they believe the point of meditation is to shut down the mind. They tell me that they can’t meditate because there are just too many thoughts racing through their minds that they feel like meditation failures. There are many different approaches to meditation and it may help to know you don’t have to shut down your thoughts to be successful. One of the things that we will be discussing in this book is how to receive your own answers from creation. They’re out there, or within us, depending on how you look at it, but we don’t necessarily need to be empty to get information from creation. We need to be in a place of awareness, of opening ourselves up and being receptive. It’s not about being empty. It’s about being aware of the space of awareness. The space of awareness is being open to what happens in present experience and being able to detect its movement.
We have the active senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. The subtle aspects of the senses are actually intuitive. It means that we actually can hear when the infinite part of ourselves says something. It means we have the ability to get visual representations of something on our inner screen. The something could be things that we’re familiar with here on planet Earth like plants or animals. It could be energy forms that you see in terms of color or shape. It can even be something you might see out of a sci-fi film. One of the things I see when I have myself focused in a place of awareness are blobs of color. They’re generally a vivid green and royal blue and I often see them moving in and out of my inner screen. They expand and contract, moving like smoke in a still room. Some people see geometric forms like a hollow six-pointed star or octagon. Often these things move in and out of your field of awareness. Some people see vortices that spiral inward or outward. Sometimes they have color and sometimes they are grey. This experience is something half way between physical visual sight on the back of your eyelids and the way you imagine something in your mind. This half way point is detected without focus. The moment you focus directly upon it, it disappears. The trick is in allowing and observing the experience.
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Work With Sean
With over three decades of meditation exploration and hundreds of students guided in both in‑person and online formats, I offer:
- Tailored Guidance: Practices adapted to your pace, environment, and goals—no cookie‑cutter approach.
- Holistic Integration: A blend of shamanic insight, ritual design, and habit‑building science for lasting transformation.
- Sustained Accountability: Regular check‑ins, journaling prompts, and community support to keep you motivated and on track.
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