Touching the Stillness

In preparation for a move, we're cleaning up and clearing out; deciding what to keep, what to toss, and what to share, in order to lighten the spiritual load.

When setting goals and intentions for a new year, we may forget to include a very obvious facet of our lives. In this follow-up program about rethinking goals and resolutions, we're encouraged to rectify that and put a plan in place for prayer.

We're buckling up and getting in gear for the journey of a lifetime, as our host guides us in setting sacred intention to make 2012 one of our best years yet!

When life's tempo intensifies, the courageous and wise thing to do is STOP in the name of self-love. In this episode's meditation, we employ stillness as the antidote to our frenetic pace, as we stop, pay attention, and listen.

The holiday season is upon us and one of the ways to get through it, with our good sense and finances in tact, is to remember to take a holy breath! In this episode's meditation, our host helps us breathe our way to stillness and sanity.

Holidays can be especially difficult for people who are grieving. In this episode, specially dedicated to remembering and celebrating our loved ones, our host is joined by guest Chaz Wesley (www.chazwesley.com), who returns to share insights on coping, reflecting and hoping during this joyful, yet sometimes painful, time of year.

Usually a "but" gets in the way of our good. However, our host shares how earlier this year, while preparing for a Sunday Lesson, she came to see her "but" in a whole new way.

What unlikely lesson did our host learn from her late father about the power of thanksgiving? In preparation for a grateful heart meditation, she shares with us how we can give thanks for simply everything!

In recognition of this month of gratitude we give thanks for the friends-and sometimes even strangers-that hold a prayerful space for us while we journey through our valley experiences. Our host's virtual "Welcome" mat is at the door, inviting us into a time of stillness so, together, we can keep the high watch during this episode's special prayer vigil.

Our beloved host celebrates three years on air this week, and in honor of this milestone, she is featuring Touching the Stillness listener Dinah Chapman who, inspired by the work of this broadcast and our host's prayer and meditation ministry, created a tribute song and included it on her new album.

Today's guest, Ashana, has the voice of an angel that merges beautifully with the sounds of the multitude of crystal singing bowls that surround her in a pool of iridescent light to create an enchanting heart-opening experience of rich ambient stillness. (www.ashanamusic.com)

In keeping with Unity's Year of Abundant Living theme for the month, our host urges us to cease and desist evaluating and judging our ability to meditate, or the progress of our prayer practice. She reckons if we just do our best, and 'Let Go and Let God,' this will be enough to make the grade!

With her thoughts attuned to a weekend of stillness and silence, our host encourages us to become still and let the sediments of our minds-and our challenges-settle as she prepares to lead us in a meditation designed to clear our thoughts and clarify our vision.

Listen in as our host discovers how one listener cycles her way to stillness and has plans to create a retreat for other women to use this pursuit as a healthy spiritual practice.

What does our guest Peggy Mulvihill do at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, to support parents in raising spiritually-minded kids? She joins our host to reveal some of the highlights of a newly created initiative that's under way in her church community, in this second part of our series about teaching kids how to meditate.