Episode Summary
Dr. Miller leads a brief meditation where you set a table before you with those who love you and ask them to tell you what you need to know now. This practice helps develop a connection to a deep kind of spirituality that is intuitive and imaginative and helps one to feel loved, held, guided, and never alone.
Show Notes
- Close your eyes and take 5 deep breaths.
- In your minds eye - set a table before you.
- You may invite anyone living or deceased who truly has your best interest in mind.
- Ask them if they love you.
- Invite your higher self - true eternal higher self - ask you if you love you.
- Ask you higher power if they love you.
- With all at your table sitting there - what do they need to tell you now?
- This is your counsel - they are always there for you.
Listen to the full episode - S1:E1 Loved, Held, Guided, and Never Alone: The Science of Spirituality with Dr. Lisa Miller. Here Dr. Miller guides you in a practice where you use your imagination to call up the people in your life who have loved you.
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