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Meditation and Spirituality for Teens
De Susan Kramer
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Introduction
Teens, this is a book for you to read and practice on your own, a primer to learn about your rich and unlimited spiritual nature.
It is also a book for adults to use for teaching meditation techniques.
Teens, you’re traveling an uphill road from dependency to independence; these topics are meant to give you support in the process.
e9781257559602_i0002.jpg1. Sitting Meditation
Throughout life we relate with people in the format of the roles we are playing, and the roles we see them in. We dance in and out of relationships, but on the inside we remain our essential ‘Grand Self,’ able to give and receive love.
While playing our roles we come to understand each other by feeling how similar we are underneath. Our role-playing lets us see many perspectives and points of view.
Underlying all is the thread of our commonality, interlocking us as the stitches in a sweater: one long thread with many loops; the fabric of humanity.
In our changing roles we are the unchanging ones, able to radiate caring love in any situation, and able to feel others’ love for us from our underlying constant of lovingness. We ask ourselves who we are. At any moment, in whatever role, we each can say, I am the one who always has love to share.
Roles change. Love is constant.
To begin
Time: 2 to 10 minutes or more.
If indoors, sit in a quiet place with legs folded in on a carpet, folded blanket, or pillow on the floor with back held straight. Clasp your hands in your lap or place them palms up or palms down on your thighs. Or, if you wish, sit on a straight back chair, clasp your hands in