Touching the Stillness

While rummaging in the Unity archives, fellow Unity Online Radio host Rev. Paul Hasselbeck stumbled upon a selection of original meditations and affirmations created by Unity cofounder Charles Fillmore and brought a few of these historical gems to share with our listeners.

The first time she stumbled on the intoxicating meditation practice of special guest Rev. Blair Tabor, our host was in a chapel. The second time it happened, she was on a cruise ship. On both occasions, what Rev. Paulette overheard seemed to emerge from beyond his soul.

When our host invited you to add your tuppence-worth to the conversation and let your voice be heard, you obliged and helped cocreate this episode by sharing examples of some of your favorite meditation practices and affirmative prayers.

If he had listened to the nagging self-talk, chattering away in the back of his mind, trying to convince him his age was an issue; would Touching the Stillness listener Steve Clisby have missed the opportunity of a lifetime? Hear how he put faith before fear to not only land in a place beyond his wildest imaginings but also in the hearts of a nation.

If the preteen in your life is grappling to come to terms with the young person they see transforming before them in the mirror, hearing that prayer works may not cut it. But Rev. Sharon Connors' don't-tell-me-show-me book is an adventure in prayer which, with its treasure trove of ideas and examples, could cause that preteen's reflection in the mirror to positively glow!

It may be the first thing we do when we're born and the last thing we do before we die; but many of us go through life without giving the breath a second thought. In this episode, we give every breath our full attention as we explore various breathing techniques for deepening our meditation practice.

Going along with the premise that we can all learn from one another, our host extends an invitation to Touching the Stillness listeners to help cocreate a future episode of this broadcast.

In the final part of a trilogy of programs designed around this month's Unity theme of health and well-being, our host continues her deliberations around the beneficial role meditation can play in handling difficult emotions.

Echoing a 1970s advertising campaign, Rev. Paulette concurs that "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"; only here, in the second of three episodes designed around this month's Unity theme of health and well-being, our host persuades listeners to ruminate on what benefits there are to having a meditation practice when we're dealing with difficult emotions.

If writhing in pain, it's likely that our immediate reaction is to reach for medication in order to find relief and comfort. But, in the first of three episodes, designed around this month's Unity theme of health and well-being, Rev. Paulette wonders whether there's a convincing case for including meditation as part of our pain management too.

It turns out that, as a preteen, Rev. Paulette took too literally the advice given to her by her maternal grandmother. As she prepares to straighten out her act, our host invites us to consider doing the exact opposite of what Mummy Hamlet had cautioned.

When assailed by a torrent of sensationalized media reports and discouraging newscasts, don't despair! Our host has a plan for how to transform today's attention-grabbing headlines into tomorrow's positive intentions; and announces a newsflash of her own.

Rumi says, "When I am Silent I fall into that place where everything is music." Setting the arena for a meditation chant in this week's episode, our host is joined by fellow Unity Online Radio host Rev. Dale Worley, as they reflect on the ways lyrics and melodies can usher us to that interior place where music makes magic.

For the past several weeks, our undaunted host has been sharing highlights with her listeners about her recent spiritual sojourn in Bali, Indonesia. In this concluding chapter to her impromptu travel log, she reveals what new insights were ascertained from a spontaneous visit to a sacred temple.

Set amid lush rice paddies in the middle of Ubud, Bali, is a large rustic yoga studio called the Yoga Barn, which on Sunday mornings is transformed into a steamy cathedral of a different kind. Our host shares how she touched the stillness by getting her groove on in its pew-less sacred space.