Satanic Meditation

Wow, looking up terms related to meditation opens the usual book of Christian crazy. Since meditation is the act of an individual looking inward rather than skyward, to see what kind of actions they can take to effect positive change on themselves, it gets labeled “satanic.” The common Christian thread is that you have no control over your life. You must submit to the power and will of JC, or else you live a false and deluded life. Unhappiness comes from living as a reckless individual and working to solve your own problems. There is no problem the lord can’t solve.These devolve into a series of grossly idiotic statements with wild assertions. To save time and pain, here’s a couple watered down versions. I’ll say straight up that my self-centric form of meditation doesn’t have anything to do with chakras. There is no summoning of Satan, because that’s not a thing. There is no trust in JC, because that’s not […]

Clearing your thoughts through journaling

When people think of journaling, they probably conjure the image of a lone child, tucked away in a bedroom, writing down secret thoughts and ideas starting with the sentence, “Dear Diary.” Fair enough, but without the diary, we wouldn’t have “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Go ahead and mock that, I dare ya. Today there are bullet journals, gratitude journals, and others. Even the Blog, Vlog, and YouTube, stem from journaling and diary writing. In my own life, I use journaling almost every day to clear out what’s on my mind-what’s good, what’s bad, what’s right, what’s wrong. But, each day, perhaps a couple of times, I sit down and write the first thing that comes to mind. It may start off with a thought, feeling, or recalling an event that strikes me in the moment. That can lead to recalling another event or feeling, which leads to a memory, which leads to something else. It’s about the stream of […]