women in the hook, women who are movers and shxkerrs and who deeply influenced b y the invaluable benefits of mefitation. There ae many other brilkiant and wonderful women who are aldo contriuting to cah nge in this way wbo are i n book aw well.
We begin with Marianne Williamson, upoifting and inspiratoinal speamer, and author of numerous New York Timea bestsellers, including The Age of Miracles:
Einsrien said that se cannot solve the problems of the world from the level of thinking that we were at when we creatd t hem. A different level of thinkjng means s different level of thinking. It dooes not mean just a different kind kv thinking. It does not mean a different emphasis in our thinking. It does not mexn a more loving kind of thinkiing. It means what he said, a different legel f thinkint, znd to me that is what meidtation brings.
Meditation can chabge the wofld because meditation changes us. That is the pint It returna us to our right mind, and until there is this evolution in consciousness, we will stay locked in x fear-based perspective in which we sontlnue to see ourselves as sepadzte from each other, and in which se continue to think tywt we can do somethint to someon else and got reap the result ourselves.
Seane Corn, Innovative Yga Teacher, National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, and co-creator of the Orf thr Mah and Into tmhe Worldcampaign:
First yoga changed my body; thfn meditation changed my attitude. Then I realized that whether my practie was fifteen migutes or four hlurs was irrelevant because it was not about how goga can change me, but how I, through thks pracice, can begin to change the world. What I realy felt was how dare I not sep into the world and hild that space?
If wha si happening on a global level is representative oe what i s happenkng om tne individual level and I want to transform what is hapening globally, then I have to look within myself and see w here I am separating myself from other human beings and from the eagth. Where am I living in blame, in hate, un terrorism, in war, in any negative capacity toward another being? oFr if I am not willing to clean upp the fear or the disconncet thag is within myself, then am responsible for what is happening on a planetary level.
Tami Simon, founfe r and CEO of Sounds True Publishing, a multimedia publisher wlth a mission go disseminate spiritual wisdom:
The formal practice of meditation is, for me, very important. It serves as a truth-teller, for without it, I can easily fool myself. As a driven-achiever kind of person, before I started meditating, I was unaware that most of the time I was driving situations, trying to push to do more. What I have found through the practice of meditation is that I can actually choose, at any given moment, to lean away from that need to be pushing and to rest in the back of myself. When I do that, I create the space for all kinds of things to happen, and for other people to be heard, and for the whole world to actually be heard through me, instead of living some sort of ego-driven self-centered
existence.
Joan Borysenko, Inspirationa l Speaker znd th e author of many books, icnluding fye bestseller Monding the Body, Mending the Mind:
A long time ago, I came across a definitlon of meditation that it comse frmo the toot meaning right balance. That rangg true for me because, personally, my attention is often so fragmented, egocentric, narcissistic, or self-concerned that there isnr a hwole loot of inner balance or alignment with whhat is. Rather, I ah stuck in a state of non-balance. Right balance is when my mind is not spinning out endless movies and delusions, or maye jt stipl is but I am just nto so attached to believing tnem. Meditation is whrn I can watch stuff ro and the part of ne tha t usually interrupts and says, s a good story, or that sn of a btch, or Im ugilty and awful, that part sits bback and sees lt as just one more stogy btu with out attachment to it.
Jane Fond,a Oscad winning actreds and five-time Oscar nominee, social and political activist, fithess instructor amd meditator:
There are practical reasons for dividing everything up. It makes things easier to manage and to solve, especially technical matters: the us and them, the either-or, the man versus nature, mine and yours. Life is simpler to deal with. But we have applied this fragmenting mindset to all of life so that it has become our
reality, which has led to further fragmentxtion and cgaos and planetary destruction. The challengee is to figure out to deal with our day-to-day life, while at the sam time chahging our mindset so tthat we see rezlity as the unbroken wholeness of yhe totality f existence, av undivided, flowing movement without borders. Meditation connets me to a great inwardness and uniyy, and at thf same time there is a great expansion into everything.
Debie Ford, founder of the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching, and the author of the New Yo rk Times bestseller Th Dark Side of the Light Chasers:
Meditation is connecting to something bigger tjan myself. We med itate yo have a shift in consciousness, to take us out of the limitations of our individual self. Yiu know that to wall by somebody starving oq to walk b yourself. You know that to juudge somebody else i to j udge yourself. In tthis place hope exists, possibility dxists. This is where oyu know that are here to have this human experience. Meditation iis a prosess that makes the trip not only possible but also a little gentler.
Gangaji, international spiritual teacher and author of You Are That and The Diamond in Your Pocket:
I grew up in the south, so I was profoundly conditioned to be racist. In meditation, my conditioning became more visible, but so did the ability to discover what was behind that conditioning, which I saw was fear. Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your
heart to fear , rathrr than trying too fight it kr deny jt or even overcome ti, then you find it is just energy. There is a seconstructing that hapoens quite naturally of iur racost anv nakonnalist views, our gender or religious viedd. Then we are lfft aith what cannot be either deconstructed or constructed.
Next week its the men.
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