Keeping your head space and energy positive in the present moment can be a powerful tool to shift your life, both now and in the future. When you stay in the present moment, while combining action with positive intention, you plant seeds for a positive tomorrow. Spiritual teachers have long taught to live in the present moment, yet the painful past still pops up to interfere with our “in the moment” mojo as we return over and over again to past hurts. It doesn’t have to be a serious hurt; even a seemingly small event like a small dent from a parking lot hit and run can keep your thoughts in the past. Whether judging your own actions or someone else’s, spending time in the past takes away from the positive contribution you make to the present moment, which is the one place you actually create healthy change in your life. Being positive is wonderful, but pretending or suppressing a past hurt in order to stay positive in the present can do more damage than good. What if you had a way to start healing that past hurt while staying in the present moment? The Blessing Meditation is such a tool. As a way to stop obsessing about a situation, this meditation can be practiced when you are in bed, during the day when sitting at your desk, or even when you are taking a walk. You don’t need to close your eyes or dust off the meditation cushion! You can try the Blessing Meditation now. Think of a time you felt love. It could be love for a child, animal or even a loving time of gratitude. I use how I feel toward Spirit when looking at a beautiful sunset. Bring that feeling of love into the present moment and actually feel the love deep in your heart. Allow the love to grow in your heart until it is so big and feels so strong that it cannot be contained in your heart. Imagine the love rises up out of your heart and forms a golden ball of loving light. For our example, remember when you first saw the big dent in the car. See the setting as if it is in the distance, like at the end of a hallway. Now in the present moment, feel that love and send your golden ball of light down the hallway toward the parking lot. As it reaches it, see the loving energy bathing the past in the love you are feeling in the present. Intend that the loving ball of light sooth the situation in a way that be for everyone’s highest and most loving good. You do not need to force the loving light onto the situation, you don’t need to forgive the person who hit your car or pretend that you will never think of it again. As a matter of fact, it will most likely take a few blessings for the loving effect to become stronger than the hurt. How can a mental vision make a difference? When you go back to the past over and over again, you relive the energy that accompanied the memory, whether it is guilt, shame, anger, or regret, bringing that energy back into the present moment. With the Blessing Meditation, it is as if you are repaving the road to your memory with love, shifting the energy of the memory. This technique does not take place of therapy if that is warranted, yet it helps to start shifting the energy surrounding the memory. You can then deal with the emotions that accompany it, allowing you to work through the hurt. It also brings you back to the present moment and surrounds yourself with love rather than hurt, empowering you instead of leaving you with the feeling of helplessness. The next time you find yourself thinking of the hurtful situation, immediately come back to the present moment and do the Blessing Meditation again. Your memory will now have both the loving energy from the last blessing and the love from the present to empower you. The more Blessing Meditations you do, the greater the loving energy that is invoked. Eventually the loving energy will become stronger than the hurtful memory. You can also use the Blessing Meditation when you worry about the future. Bring that loving feeling into the present moment and send the loving ball of light to the future situation. Remember to always intend the love to help in ways that are for the highest and most loving good for all concerned. Using the Blessing Meditation for future events can help relieve anxiety and worry, plus how great will it be to receive a ball of loving energy sometime in the future! The Blessing Meditation can work in the present moment as well. You can go about your day blessing people as you meet them on the street. They don’t need to know. You don’t need to say, “Bless you my child” as you pass someone in the hall! You can charge up your heart with loving energy in the morning and keep blessing people all day long! What a gift! This Blessing Meditation is a gift for both the receiver and the giver. Every time you bless the past or future, you are surrounding yourself with that loving energy in the present moment! Try the Blessing Meditation right now. Surround yourself with loving energy and start soothing your soul today! Cindy Griffith-Bennett is author of Soul Soothers: Mini Meditations for Busy Lives and co-author of Voyage of Purpose: Spiritual Wisdom from Near Death back to Life. She also has authored and produced multiple Meditation CDs. Cindy blogs for Huffington Post and teaches meditation and other metaphysical workshops across the country. A frequent guest on television and radio, she is currently writing her Master’s thesis, examining a non-religious-specific journey for spiritual maturity according to mystics from multiple traditions. Find more about Cindy at www.SpiritualSimplcityBooks.com, for products, visit www.PsychicSupport.com and www.SpiritualSimplcityBooks.com. †You have permission to reprint what you have just read. 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