Integrating Wisdom Into Your Life

You can take what you get from meditation and integrate it into your life to create a much better way of being. Through meditation, you are given the gift of so many things that can be used in everyday living. Your inner self can be your best teacher.

Transcript

A very big aloha.

I'm Rev.

Cindy Paulus and I wanted to talk today about integration.

Now it's a common word used these days for integrating different races and maybe even different ways of thought.

But integration in your life of spiritual with what you're doing in your regular personality life and your job and with your family is a very important thing which a lot of people don't think about or don't talk about.

Now many people are meditating now more than ever before.

It's pretty amazing how many people are meditating.

But the thing is with meditation we know it's very good for your state of mind.

We know it's very good for having a chance to look inside and to have insight to be able to see what's going on on that inner level and spiritual level of yourself.

But all that beautiful insight into what's going on inside yourself is also very key as to how you can use it in your life and how you can bring about that same amazing power that you have within that you have when you meditate into what you do in your everyday activities.

Now I've been trying to do this for a long time and I have to say it is not an easy thing.

It goes on and on and on and it takes a lifetime and perhaps beyond a lifetime to try to get it done.

And I think that's where some of the great teachers are so valuable.

Whether you look at any of the religions,

Well even beyond religion,

The founders of the religion,

Whether you look at Christ or whether you look at Buddha or whether you look at Krishna,

All of these true teachers were going through this and trying to share how to incorporate what you have inside with what you live in your life outside.

And some people call it precepts,

You know,

They're precepts to live by.

Unfortunately what happens over time with any of these teachings is you have people who latch on to a certain teaching and then add to those teachings and make their own rules about what they interpret as those teachings.

And it can get much more complicated when that happens.

So I find it is always valuable to be able to go to the source,

Whether it's the source of any religions or from me,

You know,

Looking a little bit of all of them,

A little bit of this and a little bit of that and how it works at certain times in your life.

Because it's all valuable information and all extremely useful when you go through challenges in life to be able to see where it goes back to that source.

And the reason why some of those teachings were originally given out and shared with the world.

This is an important thing to think of.

Before the religions got,

I don't want to say the word commercialized,

But latched on to as a way of being.

Before that,

When that was originally created,

There's such value in the source of those insights from the teachers,

The original teachers.

And you will find many of what is shared in those teachings that can go back thousands and thousands of years,

Really amazingly long time ago,

That a lot of it is still relevant in today's life.

Except sometimes it has to be supercharged.

Because what was happening 2,

000 years ago has now changed a lot with what's happening as we've sped up our lives,

As we're getting more and more input from a lot more sources,

Especially online,

Etc.

,

That weren't existing in the time that these original teachers were there.

So that is,

I think,

Where some of the separation has occurred.

Because people think,

Well,

This isn't talking about the way I'm living my life today.

How do you equate what was going on 2,

000 years ago with what you're doing in a world where we're getting all this amazingly quick insight and input in from so many different sources that are feeding our brain?

We are actually at times bombarded in just a few hours of being online with so many thoughts and so many things and so many ways of thinking.

And it used to be,

I don't know,

30,

40,

50 years ago when I started,

You just have a few of these meditation teachers doing what they were doing.

And now you have probably thousands,

Right?

Probably thousands of teachers.

Some of them,

Really,

Probably thousands here on Inside Timer.

So there's a lot more input going on than when this all was going on 40,

50,

60 years ago.

So what do you do?

You have to be very discriminating as to what you take in that's true for you.

And only you really can know that,

You know,

What works for you.

And it's very valuable to be able to say,

Well,

This is something I can use in my life and this is valuable.

Now,

We know that meditation is valuable.

But what you get from meditation and how it impacts your life and how it inspires your life and how it directs and supports your life,

That's something to really look at.

How do you use that meditation you get in the morning throughout your day when you have all those things going on in your world?

And lately,

We've been seeing more and more challenges,

Of course,

With the fires that happened here on Maui.

We saw more challenges of the fires that happened in Los Angeles.

In California,

There were more impact around the world.

And what's going on with politics more than ever is impacting a lot of people's lives.

So the source of what you get inspiration can be used in all of those things going on in your life,

But it's up to you to be discriminating on how you use it,

The way you use it,

And what works for you.

And you can find that out.

You know,

I love that phrase,

What rings true?

And you can tell what rings true by whether you're finding strength,

Happiness,

Some peace of mind,

And also some direction in something that's giving you the strength you need to create the life you want,

Whether it be certain fields of maybe writing,

Certain fields of what you might be doing for your work,

Lots of different fields and what you may be doing in your job.

All of those should be able to be made easier and better and more insightful through your meditations.

Now,

Another thing to do,

I think,

That's very important,

Maybe now more than ever,

Is to also use that time before you go to sleep at night,

That time where you can clear out any of the stress that happened in the day.

The time you can reflect on what you may have encountered and what you learned and what your value of what you learned in the day was made possible.

Now,

We naturally do this when we're sleeping,

But you can enhance that by truly taking a little bit of time and just doing a day review like you would a life review.

Review your day,

See what happened,

If there's anything to clear up,

To send love and to forgive,

You can do that before you go to sleep at night.

And then just be able to get clear,

To be clear,

To be able to go to that higher state of subconscious and higher consciousness when you sleep,

Because you do go to a lot of amazing stages of that when you sleep.

So it's such a valuable thing to be able to continue to learn and use what you learn from meditation to improve your life,

To supercharge your life,

To increase the amount of understanding,

To increase the amount of joy that you get in life,

In whatever field you might be in.

So I just wanted to take the time to encourage you to don't limit what you get in meditation,

But to implement and integrate what you get in meditation into your full day of living experience.

To make it not just a separate thing,

But to make it holistic,

To make it whole as part of the way you are living your life.

I think you might find it's one of the most valuable things you can do,

And I really am grateful for you being there,

Listening,

Taking some of these thoughts inside and taking it and making it personal for you,

Making it work for you in your own way.

And I send you my deepest love and blessings on this very wonderful and powerful and amazing journey you're on.

Reviews

Thank you for your wisdom Dr. Cindy. I’m so glad to have the opportunity to listen to your talks.