Center for the Inner Journey’s focus for 2022 is Building the Spiritual Body. Melanie is conducting workshops and studies that guide and bring us into a deepening awareness of this practice of integration. Hope you find the following meditation supporting this in you. — Melanie
A closing post for 2021 seems appropriate as the circle of life teaches us that every ending is like a seed that is ready to be planted in the soil of new beginnings. 2022 is our soil of new beginnings. It is present before us. Take a pause during the next few days and reflect. …
Kalama Sutta, a Buddhic Teaching on my string of pearls. May it serve you on your spiritual journey as it has mine. (It’s a discourse of the Buddha contained in the Anguttara Nikaya of the Tipitaka.) Melanie
In September of 2019, I created this audio Soul Dialogue for those who were attending a Soul Retreat with me in December 2019. Since then, many have found it helpful for meditation and asked me to share it again… May the beauty within Soul Dialogue leave you inspired with its blessings. ?Melanie
In the audio post below, I’ve taken the Nentatsu-ho technique on page 132 of Hiroshi Doi’s A Modern Reiki Method for Healing and expanded it.
Seek not the transcendent within one’s self. Seek the immanent presence of your divine self. An audio blog:
melaniechong.com has been resurrected, thanks to Thom! Thom Forbes was my partner in getting melaniechong.com visible. He set up the site in 2013, maintained it with generosity of spirit and the expertise of his profession as an editor and journalist. The date of the last blog post was August 2018. Here we are in June …
?What will it take to know??? was recently added as the tagline to melaniechong.com.?It serves as a companion to ?the healing energies of love? essay on the home page. I was reminded of the phrase, ?don?t put the cart before the horse? when I contemplated this pairing. How? Keeping it as simple imagery, the horse …
I found myself contemplating how an understanding of the way that biological enzymes function in metabolism would shed light on Valentin Tomberg?s teaching on ?spiritual enzymes? in Meditations on the Tarot, A Journey into Christian Hermeticism. He also refers to them as spiritual exercises. Here is one definition of biological enzymes I found: ?They are …