Greetings, Meditators:

Do you know that when you download the free MP3 guided meditations that you are automatically signed up for the Relaxing Tips email list? I started the Relaxing Tips email list a few months ago. If you are interested, just go to the free guided meditation page, sign up, and confirm your subscription. If you've already downloaded the free guided meditations, just ignore the download page. You will receive tips to encourage you in your meditation practice.

Announcement! Last week I launched the new web site I mentioned in last month's edition: Writing for and by Coaches at WritingByCoaches.com. It is designed to assist coaches and consultants to write about their knowledge, wisdom, and experience, especially for publication on the Internet. Please come visit, sign up for the free eBook, Tips to Tap the Writer in the Coach and the Tips to Tap email list. As well, I have a mailing list to announce further additions to the site. I'm just getting started and welcome your observations. You can also tell your friends about the site by clicking on the "Tell a Friend" link on the navigation bar.

Each month, I write a little about the featured guided meditation. This month, I want to mention several people associated with the album itself. Hunter Johnson is my sound engineer, listening adeptly to the music and my voice as we created these guided meditations. My very dear friend, Chris Scott, is the photographer who took the magnificent picture that is on the front and throughout. I dedicated the album to Tom Kaney, another dear friend. Susan Johnson is the graphic artist whose magic hands created the artwork in this and the other five CD albums. Thanks to all.

Balance the Energies Purchase CD or MP3 at Voice of Jeanie Marshall | Purchase CD at Amazon

I find that the ability to trust yourself is greatly enhanced by regular meditation. Meditation makes you more aware, more calm, and more vibrant. With awareness, calmness, and vibrancy you are in a greater state of wisdom. Instead of fretting or even questioning if someone or something is trustworthy, you know. You just know.

On the DailyAffirm Process, the affirmation for today (May 8) is: I open to allow trust to operate in my life. I let self-trust lead to the path of trusting others. It is important to open to trust for it to operate. Sometimes a five to ten minute meditation can relax you just enough to open to trust. Meditation is most effective when you clear your mind. Sometimes people focus on a problem trying to get information, but I call this contemplation or reflection, either of which can be a worthy activitity. But true meditation relaxes the thinking, rather than stimulating it.

Meditation makes you more sensitive to the invisible and also changes your relationship to the visible. Whenever you create anything (having a conversation, writing a book, doing your laundry), you are moving the flow of energy from the invisible (thought) into the visible (matter). All things manifested in this world are the result of changing the density of energy into matter.

If you participate in the DailyAffirm process, you might consider using each day's affirmation as a meditation. The affirmation for tomorrow (May 9) is I receive trust from the Universe.
My trust in the invisible increases, which is surely worthy of a mediation! The way I most enjoy meditating on such a phrase is to simply say it to myself once as I am settling into a quiet mediation, and then clear my mind. In the stillness, I get more trusting, a trust that transcends the words. Some people may prefer to say the affirmation repeatedly, like a mantra. Do whatever works for you.

You can sign up for email alerts for the DailyAffirm process; check the bottom of the navigation bar at the site for details.

Articles by Jeanie. Find forty articles on empowering subjects. Many of my articles are circulating the Internet. Here's the list at Ezine Articles Directory, which is one of my favorite directories, with many other authors participating. Also check out the Alphabetical Listing of Articles for one of my blogs.

JMvoice.com. The Voice of Jeanie Marshall offers free MP3 downloads of brief guided meditations and sells my guided meditations on CD albums and MP3 files.

Here is sleep resource that I recommend. I learned a lot from it to assist me in a long-term sleep problem. This link to Powerful Sleep takes you to a sales letter which requires your email address. You can easily “unsubscribe” if you don’t want further email. The program is well worth it.

Copyright 2007, Marshall House. Next JMvoice Ezine will be published June 5, 2007