Meditation Musing-Focusing The Mind

Guest blog by Jim Barrett – Serenity Community Member When someone recently told me that they often couldn’t sleep because their mind just kept spinning around and wouldn’t stop, I suggested that they visit one of our meditation groups. I was told sadly...

Reiki Healing Circles in New Berlin, WI

Recently we all have spent quite a lot of time hearing about and watching events unfold regarding the oil spill in the gulf.¬¨‚Ć It’s always gets our attention when something of that sort happens. While it was gut wrenching to watch the news about it every day,...

Meditation Musings – Equanimity

A natural process in meditation for many people is the development of equanimity- the ability to let go. Equanimity allows us to detach ourselves from thoughts and images that attempt to distract us from the Now. As we sit and meditate our minds may become distracted...

Meditation Musings – Being In The Now

Meditation comes in many forms and with many techniques but one of the commonalities of most of them is that one must usually start by being in the Now. Among the traditional Ways, most fall into one of two methods; concentrative or mindful. In concentrative...

Meditation Musings

As Serenity expands its Group Meditation offerings I would like to take a few moments to talk about how we view meditation and how our groups tend to work. Modern science tells us of many benefits of meditation including lower blood pressure, stress level reduction,...