MEDITATION & HEALING EVENINGS
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MONDAY NIGHT MEDITATION & HEALING CIRCLE
Special Events in 2012 |
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6 February |
Open Heart Meditation |
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19 May |
Spiritual Orienteering 2012 information to follow |
Spiritual Orienteering 2011
We enjoyed an all day event on Saturday 13th August 2011 for all those that have attended monday night meditation evenings.
We shared a Labyrinth morning with a talk, divining and meditation experience walking the beautiful one at An Tobar. The creative afternoon involved glass painting and a memory board. The evening we all relaxed with a 3 course BBQ, film on the work of Emoto and charades.
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Directions to An Tobar
From Navan, take the old N3 Kells/Cavan road- now the R147 -Cross the railway crossing proceed for 1 Km and take the first left (at Newgate Motors & Grocery Stores). Proceed about 1km and turn left, (An Tobar sign) At the end of this short road turn right at T- junction (An Tobar sign) Then almost immediately turn left between two floodlit stone pillars on left side of road.Proceed to end of avenue and park in front of the main house and statue, the meditations are normally run in the more modern building behind this old house.
| Entrance to An Tobar by night | Entrance to an Tobar by day |
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Snippets from our Meditation Diary
Grieg's music welcomed us into the Oratory, a lamp shone in the centre beside a flask of water, all on a purple cloth. We stood and relaxed from head to toe. The guided visualisation led us to the well at An Tobar, then we descended via a ladder into a chamber of green light and a still mirror-like central pool. We sat beside the water in silent meditation...
Everyone brought hard-boiled eggs. In the centre was an empty basket, 3 chocolate eggs, a fluffy rabbit, a candle, angel cards and daffodils. We held our eggs and put our intentions for the coming year into them. Then we decorated them with colouring pens...
We imaged a fountain at the bottom of Flower Hill in Navan flowing with harmony and peace. This energy spread over the town, road by road, then out over the surrounding countryside, Ireland, in all directions over the world...
we have also meditated on.... mindful walking, the door to our hearts, sitting in silence, Ireland using Amergin's Invocation, our inner child, chakras and colours, physical changes when meditating, hemisynch brain balancing, crystals, experiencing energy with water, colour and lengthening our arms (yes, really!)
A sample of our meditation centre settings
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Removing the Blocks to the Divine: This meddy had us navigate the things in our lives that we cant exist without, the chocolate the crystals, the profit. the pain the things we disfunctionally glorify. They can be blocks to our true divine nature. These are simply sign posts or stepping stones, they are not the eternal. |
Eileen shared a beautiful blossoming heart/rose meditation at the Well for the Full Moon and chakra series |
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From sharing healing with dolphins & whales by Bernie |
a beautiful centre of rose petals |
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| the inner smile with Nora | Yamann shared colour and contemplated flowers |
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and what awaits us in 2012? |
| Christmas saw Baby Jesus and the Star of Bethlehem surrounded by candles |
Christmas 2011
had the Nativity as told in "Give up yer aul sins",
a play based on the Little Soul and the Sun (Neal Donald Walshe)
and a candle dance to honour our divine centre.
Anyone for Artisan Tea?.....It looked odd but popped into boiling water it slowly unfolded to what you see below and was quite drinkable!!!
Artisan Tea. ...........amazing!
Mindful Eating
All enjoyed this Monday Night Meditation which was based on Mindful Eating.
Everyone brought a small plate of food, packet of crisps, bar of choc, salad or similar to share.
A Healing Circle was followed by Food Blessing Meditation and Guided Slow Eating.
We shared a spirit plate with earth and all beings in the Labyrinth.
CIRCLE OF HEALING
This provides a profound opportunity to voice our blessings and healings for ourselves, friends and relations, the wider community, projects, situations and anything else where we want to place positive intentions. Below is the healing/manifestation box tied with a bhrat bhride from Tara.
A great way to start off the week
If you are unable to attend in person,
but would like to have input into the healing circle
please visit the Who We Are section for contact details.
If you have a favourite meditation that you would like to share with others
please come along to one of the meetings and tell us about it.
Charity Meditations
Several times during the year all monies collected during the evening are donated to a charity agreed on a previous Monday night
19th Dec 2011 We raised €550 for St. Vincent de Paul. Thank you to all who contributed!
We donated €700 to Famine Relief in Africa through Oxfam 25th July 2011
Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin
7 March 2011 - we donated €200.
Pakistan Emergency Flood Appeal
16 & 23 August 2010 - we had a special collection - over €230 donated
Bernadette McDonald (Meditation group),
Christine Devlin (Womens Refuge) and
Fr Pat O'Toole (An Tobar)
donation of €250 raised at a recent meditation in aid of the Navan Women's Refuge
7 DECEMBER 2009 for NavJeevan Village near Mumbai in India
NavJeevan (meaning 'New Life') dates back to 1994 when a group of youth set about to interact with the children of the women who ply the world's oldest trade in a sprawling ghetto called Kamathipura, Mumbai. The idea simply was to engage the kids constructively and thereby spare them the terror of witnessing the sordid scenes in the dingy alleys and bylanes in the area. Over the years NavJeevan gradually stepped up its involvement and today has assumed total responsibility for the education and upkeep of a number of children in the NavJeevan Village.
The Village sent this lovely card as a thank you for your donations to the project in 2008
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An Tobar - The Well |
The Mystical Labyrinth at An Tobar centered over crossing water veins |
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| Jesus of an Tobar in one of his frequent apparitions | and look there He is again! |
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29 October 2011 - Bridging An Tobar and St. Ultans Well, Ardbraccan
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29 November 2010 saw the passing of a dear tree friend at An Tobar
It is coincidental that it was only a couple of week's before that Martin led us in a meditation that included this tree.... it will be sadly missed.
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Modern Day Bile Tortain Strange weather we are having. A local man saw a bright orange light in the garden and later found a magnificent cedar (actually a Monterey Cypress) tree split in two. This particular cedar was a massive tree a few hundred years old growing in Ardbraccan, Co. Meath. Maud Gonne would certainly have known about this particular tree and was keen to revive the ancient practice of Tree Worship in the area . Whether it just split in two or was hit by lightning or a meteorite remains to be determined. However, a few centuries ago in the same area stood the Bile Tortain , one of the five sacred trees of Celtic Ireland. A tree of special significance and imbued with magical properties, even mentioned by Columb Cille. Bile meaning sacred tree and Tortain a tribe in the area. Bile was also the Irish god of life and death and from the same root word we get Bealtaine -our season of life unfettered. It was considered a national land mark and associated with the sovereign reign of kings. Indeed the King was often seen as a tree with branches outstretched protecting the people. When ever a Bile fell it was followed with a catastrophic change in the world order. Circa 763AD the Bile Tortain fell and with it the reign of the sons of Aed Sláne. Archetypal trees are central to many world cultures and are often depicted as an axis mundi, the centre around which all life revolves. Damage to the tree is typically met with tragedy. In the bible, for instance, there is the story of the fall from grace for eating off the tree of knowledge which was in the centre of the garden of Eden. How strange then that this magnificent Cedar which is a modern day contender for the role of Bile Tortain and would have seen the rebirth of Sovereignty in Ireland in the early 1900s has seen the end of our economic sovereignty less than a century later. Might we guess what happens next. History may hold a clue. Pictured split in two and frozen in snow the modern day Bile Tortain. Art imitating life? |
The Bile Tortan near ArdbreacanFrom: Survivals in Belief Among the Celts, by George Henderson, [1911] "The Bile Tortan stood in Magh Tortan in Meath, near Ardbreacan, and was blown down in the reign of the sons of Aedh Slaine, about the middle of the seventh century. This tree was one of the three wonderful trees of Eirinn, and had stood at the time of the Milesian conquest, more than a thousand years." "Bile Tortan, Eo Rossa, Craebh Mughna, Craebh Dathi, Bile Uisnigh were five ancient trees which sprang up in Erin in the reign of Conaing Begeglach (Anno Mundi 4388).Conaing held a certain assembly at Tara . . . and they saw coming towards them from the west a man of wonderful size, carrying in his hand a branch of a tree bearing apples, nuts, acorns, and berries. . . . He told them he had come from the place of the sun's rising in the east to the place of its going down in the west, to know why it had stood still for a day, and having obtained the cause of this irregularity that he was now on his return again to the east. He shook the produce of this branch on the ground; and these being taken up by various persons and planted in various localities, produced these wonderful trees which were all blown down in the seventh century.
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First Wednesday of the Month - new for 2012 - starting 1st February
Venue Seomra Tara, Killeen Road, Dunshaughlin, Meath.
Theme for our get-together is the earthly and angelic Brigid. The evening will include Prayers and Blessings of Brigid, meditation focussing on our inheritance of Brigid's gift of light and enduring truth, a healing circle for ourselves, friends, relations and wider world issues. All will receive a Bhrat Bhride left out to collect Brigid's healing energies over the previous night. Cup of tea and biscuits.
Finish prompt at 10pm. Donation of €5 for room hire and drinks. If you would like further information please contact Nora at email@taracelebrations.org.
Organised by Bernadette McDonald -
Rainbow Healings Page on Facebook
A lantern and crystal in a delightful setting for a summer meditation which had us exploring the woods, breathing exercises, energy exercises and a peaceful silent meditation, followed by our healing circle.
The moon revolves around the earth. 
The earth revolves around the sun.
The changing relative positions create the cycles and seasons on earth.
and on a day to day basis this is what is happening now....
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Global Consciousness project:
The colour on this dot is constantly changing in a live global experiment on world consciousness. The more Coherent the collective thoughts of humanity are the redder the dot. The more dispersed consciousness is the bluer the dot. Green is neutral.
Global Consciousness Project studies interactions of consciousness with physical systems. The GCP has been collecting data from a global network of random event generators since August, 1998. The network currently maintains about 65 sites around the world running custom software that reads the output of physical random number generators and records a trial (sum of 200 bits) once every second,24/7 continuously over months and years.
It is an experiment that studies the effect of conscioussness on randomness. The random numbers generated remain random until some significant event takes place on the planet when massive deviations in data are seen. The randomness moves towards coherence and patterns emerge. This demonstrates that when a large number of people are thinking about the same thing, the increased coherence of their consciousness skews the selection of random numbers generated by the computer. Peoples minds seem to be entrained and something in the nature of the universe shifts. Significant deviations were seen during the 11th September attacks, New Years eve, earthquakes, the Kirsk disaster, Funeral of Princess Dianna, various global meditation days etc! http://noosphere.princeton.edu/index.html
MEDITATIONS
Ideas for Meditation All these me ditations have been shared at the Meditation and Healing Evenings you are welcome to print off and try for...
Page last updated: 24th Jan 2012
