Daily Devotionals Changed My Life

The requirement of regular meditation may well be the easiest of them all for me.  I have kept a regular practice of meditation and trance work for several years.  I meditate most days, keep my daily devotionals with only rare moments where I miss it, and frequently use drumming for trancing.  At this point, I actually can't imagine my life without it.

For almost a year now, I have been using Caitlin Matthews book Celtic Devotional.  I find it perfect for my needs. It's divided into seasons with the daily devotions appropriately adapted.  It includes devotions for both morning and evening, and changes each day of the week. Even further adaptations include a moment in the morning with a theme to meditate upon based on the day of the month.  Each evening also has a meditation moment ordered by day of the moon cycle. It goes further to include welcomes and farewells to the seasons as well as ideas for spiritual meditative activities each season.  

I ordered this book thinking it would simply be a way to help me get in the practice of having some sort of daily practice instead of being sporadic through the week.  Instead, it has brought me closer to focusing on what is really going on around me, paying closer attention to the natural world, more focus on the ancestors, and has led to an incredible way of grounding myself which has helped me to handle my chronic pain much better. 

My meditation has been quite varied, but I do practice it usually about 4 or 5 nights a week.  Often there is no particular purpose.  I generally just feel a blue healing light fill my entire body.  I can actually feel it pause and sort of  "fill in" any places where there are issues.  I have been using this method for at least a year and I have felt better than I have in a very long time.  Not only does it bring my awareness to any places in my body I am having problems with but did not realize (a frequent problem with the fibromyalgia and lupus), but I can feel myself healing in ways I did not before. This alone is cause for a frequent meditation practice.

I also enjoy practicing drumming trancework.  This is not a regular practice of mine, but it is an important part of my spiritual life.  I only do it when I feel the call.  Sometimes there is an actual purpose, other times an unidentifiable "something" lets me know it is time.  I have a variety of drums, including a small one I can sit in my lap easily while sitting on my bed.  These occurrences always lead to deep journeys and all sorts of important messages.  These I do not share unless they are meant for another person.  I have a small, private notebook specifically for these journeys and the information given to me.  It goes back about three years at this point and has near perfect accuracy.

In the end, although every part of my meditative practices have been extremely important, the daily devotionals have been the most important.  Without this book, I would never have begun the devotions.  I certainly would never have managed to make it into a habit.  My dailies have truly changed my life, and done so for the better!