A WEIGHT OR WINGS MEDITATION

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Sonny Bonani, welcome to the

Creative Spiritual Journey.

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I am Judy, and if you listen to our.

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Last episode of the Creative

Spiritual Journey podcast, I mentioned

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that I would attach a meditation.

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This is weight or wings meditation.

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In the last episode, I began

with asking you a question.

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What is weighing on your mind?

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What burdens are you carrying your heart?

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We're gonna take this weight.

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That we are carrying and

we're gonna exchange it to

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something as beautiful as wings.

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I also shared with you a

beautiful quote from American

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pastor named Harry Emerson, ick.

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Real Christians do not

carry their religion.

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Their religion carries them.

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It's not weight, it's wings.

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It lifts them up.

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It sees them over hard places.

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It makes the universe seem

friendly, life, purposeful hope,

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real sacrifice, worthwhile.

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It sets them free from fear,

futility, discouragement, and sin.

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Did you know the Lord invites

us to cast our burdens upon him

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and He will help us carry them.

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We do have things in this mortal journey

that we are to carry Our stewardship,

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our relationships, our family, our faith.

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But what if those things like our

marriage, our families, our religion,

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we don't carry them, but they carry us.

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It's not a weight, it's wings.

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What if we learn to come unto

our God with our heavy burdens?

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And give it unto him.

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'cause in Matthew 1128, it says,

come unto me all you that labor

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and are heavy laden and I will

give you rest, rest, wings, ease.

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Okay?

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So if you're new to meditation, a guided

meditation, We're going to think of a

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situation just recently, um, that you've

gone through that felt a little heavy.

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It felt like a burden upon your back or

heavy in your heart or your mind, and

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we're going to bring it into a savior and

take away his grace, his strength, and.

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Take off with wings.

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Now remember my disclaimer

in the last episode.

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I am just a podcast host.

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I am just a senior missionary, a wife,

a mother, a grandma, and a friend.

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But I've also had years of coaching

people through meditations.

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So as you choose this situation,

this memory Please pick the little

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T's, not the capital T, trauma.

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If there's something traumatic, I

encourage you to work with a trauma

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trained professional because there's

a different protocol for working

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through trauma that I'll be doing here.

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So I invite you again to get comfortable.

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You wanna be able to be relaxed

and uninterrupted, and we're gonna

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be breathing the UJA breath, which

is the yoga breath in through

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the nose and down into the belly.

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And this breath, what it does is

it calms our nervous system, slows

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down our brain waves, and this is

where the magic can truly happen.

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begin breathing in

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Nice deep breath.

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Let your body just relax into this space.

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Breathe in light.

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Exhale, chase out the darkness.

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We're creating a safe space here

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and bring to mind this recent experience,

this thought, this load, this burden.

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And don't worry about calling

up the perfect experience.

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Whatever comes to mind will be just fine

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as we do this.

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Remember that a loving God stands there.

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He is willing.

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He is waiting to heal.

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And to carry and to take that

burden, whatever you are willing

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to yield to him and the promises,

rest and wings and strength,

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we're gonna take this experience,

this humanness of being mortal and

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alchemize it into something beautiful.

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So if you would.

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Stay with the breath.

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Notice where you are

sensing this in your body.

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Notice it, the chatter in your mind.

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How about the next breath we take in?

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We hush the chatter in the mind

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and.

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Bring a peace and a calm to our mind.

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Exhale and take the

weight off your shoulders.

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Set down those useless cares.

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That burden that you were not

meant to carry, that somehow we've

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just picked up along the way.

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Open your hands.

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Open your heart.

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Open your mind

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and let that breath and that light

and that grace pour into you.

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Exhale and let go.

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Moving in to your body,

noticing the sensations.

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Resting in this safe

space, breathing in light,

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exhale and releasing load

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call to mind.

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This seen.

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The details,

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the colors, the sounds,

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who are you with, where are you?

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If it's too much to recreate in your

mind, water it down a little bit.

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I just want to notice, as we recall

this thought, this memory, this

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experience where it shows up in our body

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so we can breathe some light,

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breathe some healing

light into that space.

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And then without judgment and

without creating a story, ask

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yourself, why does this feel heavy?

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Just be curious.

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Observe

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if you find the chatter picks

up again in your mind of why me?

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This shouldn't happen.

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Why did they do this?

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Set that aside.

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Those are those useless cares

that you picked up before.

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Keep that pack of heavy

load on the ground.

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You've set it down.

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As you breathe in light, exhale,

you find you begin feeling lighter.

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There's a buoyancy to your heart.

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Stay with the breath, paying

attention to your body.

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Let's go even a little deeper

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breathing in light down into the

very center of your core, your soul.

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opens up and all the cells in our

body open up and we allow when we

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welcome this light to pour into us.

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A golden healing light, alchemizing

giving us strength to our

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shoulders and our marrow in our

bones and our spine, our legs.

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Feel the ease of the burdens lift.

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Feel the strength.

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Pour in

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and let your legs, your arms.

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And especially your mind rests here,

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rest from the journey.

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Taking time to just

accept and allow what is.

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Come unto me all ye at labor and our

heavy laden and I will give you rest.

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Cast,

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cast hear burdens at his feet.

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And if you would imagine being

embraced, embraced in the arms

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of a loving God, a savior,

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And if you would go with me to a

sacred place, the Garden of Gethsemane.

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There.

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Jesus Christ in prayer pleading Father,

if that will take this cup from me.

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Nevertheless, not my will.

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But thy will be done

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now in our own personal way.

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We too are gonna echo these words.

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Father, if thou will take this

load from me, nevertheless, not

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my will, but thy will be done.

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Yielding it all to him,

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yielding, casting, setting

down, bringing it to him,

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and then being willing to

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Whatever it is his will for us to carry.

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be willing to carry off

and on whatever load

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you are meant to carry through this life.

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With a willing heart,

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with a cheerful heart,

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a faithful heart,

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and to be able to stand,

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stand with his grace, his strength.

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That will help you bear

up your burdens with ease.

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Say yes, I'm willing

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by will, not my will.

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And I want you to look

around in your mind's eye

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to your fellow travelers.

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Their loads that they are under

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and judge not,

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but have compassion upon them.

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Let's breathe in

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some compassion, to sucker the weak.

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Lift up the hands, which hang down,

and to strengthen the feeble knees of

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our fellow travelers, our loved ones.

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We all carry loads

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and we are meant to in this mortal life.

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There's opposition in all things, and

we are meant to learn from our own load.

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You're doing beautifully.

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Just stay with the breath.

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I am willing to yield, I am

willing to carry thy will.

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Now, if you would, let's just

gently roll over onto your side.

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If you're laying down into fetal

position, if you're not laying down

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and you're seated, just hug your

knees in or wrap your arms around

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yourself in a nice, warm hug.

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There is an infinite light, a divine

light that's within each one of us,

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and is bright and it is beautiful,

and it is of infinite worth.

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Why don't we remember that today?

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A lot of the burdens that we carry on our

mind are lies told to us by the adversary.

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Let's not believe them.

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Let's believe of our infinite

worth, our love, our strength.

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Remember that who it is that

helps you carry those burdens.

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who it is that walks with

you You are never alone.

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And like any meditative

prayer, when you're ready and

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in the name of Jesus Christ.

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And I will see you on the trail.