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Please share your meditation story,
your experience, strength and hope, with us.
We would like to build an archive
of stories to share and encourage others to help discover their inner spiritual
path through 11th Step Meditation. Share as much as you wish below.....click here to submit your story....or read several of the stories
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Upcoming 11th Step Retreats and Workshops
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Journey into the 11th Step Fri., June 20- Sun. June 22, Peace Village. Haines Falls, New York
More info click here
Buddhism/12 Step WorkshopSaturday-Sunday, June 21-22, 9am-5pm, , Buddhist Study Center, 1436 University Ave, Honolulu, HI.
For info click hereThe Inner Room of Recovery Conference
Fri June 27 - Sun June 29, 2008,
11th Step Meditation Conference, Hosted by Fr. Thomas Keating and Fr. Richard Rohr. Albuquerque, NM
More info click here
Centering Prayer as an 11th Step Practice
* For info on the retreats below
* October 24 - 26, 2008
Centering Prayer
St. Charles Retreat Center, Louisiana
* October 31 - November 2
Centering PrayerSienna Center in Racine, Wisconsin
* November 4 - 16, 2008
Centering Prayer
Marianist Retreat Center, St. Louis, MO
Please let us know of upcoming 11th Step Retreats or Workshops in your area! Email to
randy@spiritstep.com
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Greetings!
Welcome to our April 11th Step Meditation Newsletter. Help Wanted! I am looking for contributors for this newsletter and website to help share your experience, strength and hope in your 11th Step Meditation practice. - Would you like to write an article about a meditation practice or technique, the 11th Step, mind/body science in recovery, or the growing 11th Step Meditation movement? Send me an email with your ideas? info@11thstepmeditation.org
- Do you have an 11th Step Meditation Meeting in your area that is not listed in our meeting directory? Click here to submit your meeting to the directory.
- Share your own 11th Step Meditation journey with us. Share with us what it was like, what happened and how meditation has impacted your recovery. Click here to submit your story
- Is there a product, book, CD, DVD or retreat/workshop that has helped you that you wish to share with others? Send me an email with your ideas? info@11thstepmeditation.org
Learn to meditate, Meditate every day, Meditate with groups, Encourage others to meditate!
Together in Meditation,
Randy F. |
A First! Live, Online 11th Step Speaker and Meditation Webinar April 20.
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Welcome to the
11thStepMeditation.org first Monthly Live Online Workshop - Bringing
the 11th Step Meditation Community together live, online to share,
learn and meditate together.
We are please to have as our first speaker, Kevin Griffin, author of One Breath at a Time, Buddhism and the Twelve Steps.
Kevin
will discuss the role of meditation in recovery. He will talk about
some of the common pitfalls in meditation and give suggestions about
establishing a daily meditation practice.
Kevin Griffin is the author of "One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the
Twelve Steps," and a leader in the mindful recovery movement. A
longtime Buddhist practitioner and Twelve Step participant, he has
taught meditation since 1996. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist
Recovery Network. His new book will focus on the Higher Power question
from a Buddhist perspective. For more information see www.kevingriffin.net.
We are using this new collaboration method to gather our recovery
meditation community live, online to share this experience together.
You will be able to view Kevin's presentation slides online, listen to
his share and guided meditation through the speakers connected to your
computer. 
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| Tools to Grow your Meditation Experience. |
ImproveOurConsciousContact.blogspot (IOCC). This Twelve Step recovery based blog focuses on Step Eleven, "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact". IOCC features several contributors from various religious backgrounds.
Once a month John R. posts a question about Step Eleven and through out the month the writers post their responses. Contributors to this blog join together to help those who are just starting this journey as well as giving new perspectives to those who are well on their way.
The readers can participate by leaving comments for the writers as well taking a stab at the monthly question themselves. Bloggers can copy and paste the monthly question to their own blogs and answer the question or people can start an IOCC journal to write on a private level.
The number one goal of IOCC is to get people actively thinking, learning and growing closer to the God of their own understanding.
 One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps
by Kevin Griffin Kevin will be our first guest speaker for our live, online 11th Step Guest Speaker and Meditation Webinar on April 20.
Please join us for this new adventure via your computer! Click here for more info.
Prayer Beads And Recovery Jewelry Made Exclusively For The Twelve Step Community Holding your prayer beads recite an anchor prayer such as The Lord's Prayer or The Serenity Prayer. Next move from one core bead to the next reciting your ring of prayers. This can be the same prayer on each of the twelve beads or you may have a selection of prayers. You may also pray for a person, resentment, character defect or use a positive affirmation in the same manner.
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Meditation and Mind-Body Medicine
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Mind-body medicine focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body, and behavior, and the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual, and behavioral factors can directly affect health. It regards as fundamental an approach that respects and enhances each person's capacity for self-knowledge and self-care, and it emphasizes techniques that are grounded in this approach. To learn more about Mind-Body Medicine you may download this article "Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview" from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Three prominent leaders in using meditation in this field are:
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Meditation in the News
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Online Video Find of the month on TED!
This is a must to watch!! Through retelling of her stroke, Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor is able to give us a first hand narration of what a sudden spiritual experience might be like from the viewpoint of a scientist that study's the brain.
Although, in meditation we are generally on the gradual spiritual awakening path, you will hear, in Jill's video, many similar ideas and experiences that we study in learning and practicing our meditation.
Mixing Meditation, Yoga, and Money Management
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
He wakes up around 5 am to meditate for 45 minutes and then practices yoga for an hour and a half before making his way to his desk. In his new book, ...
Meditation may cause empathy
Daily Vidette - Normal,IL,USA
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have determined that meditation may increase a person's ability to empathize with other individuals. ...
How To Create Your Own Guided Meditation Script
By k3mp
Listen through your favourite relaxation recordings and choose one that would go well with your meditation script. Although it can be nice to have background music it is not necessary, so don't bother with it if it is too much of a ...
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We hope that you will find this newsletter, site and information useful to your recovery. Please let us know how we can help expand your 11th Step Meditation practice more fully, info@11thStepMeditation.org. This is our 12th Step mission!
Together in Meditation,
Randy F.
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