Miracles News

April-June, 2013

Inspiration in Motion

by Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan, O.M.C.

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today- Have but one purpose; to be given Christ
To use to bless the world with miracles. W.pII.353

In the midst of thoughts about “caring for” the body, I have been given sight as follows. Inspiration In Motion is an experiential practice of accessing Inspiration Within through your Inspired HeartMind any time, anywhere while in the midst of everyday living. Inspiration Within is This Inner Present Love, wholly free and absolutely present, here, now, everywhere, at all times. There is nowhere This Love is not. This is how This Love is Love.

Inspiration In Motion is the experiential practice of “de-compartmentalizing” how you come into the awareness of Inspiration’s presence within. Experience Inner Stillness and Union while being still and while moving through life’s daily activities, communicating and interacting in all kinds of relationships and even while involved in activities that seem to be body focused such as eating, exercise, cooking, touch, walking, housekeeping, caregiving, playing sports or the physical aspects of a job.
Inspiration In Motion is de-compartmentalizing how, when and where one can experience Inspiration Within. Freeing us up from the ideas about needing to keep the body still or take on certain postures or positions, close the eyes or perform a specific technique or way of moving, or be engaged in a “spiritual” activity or form. Life is experienced as spirit-filled as we are aware of that Inspiration. This Inner Present Love is Life. One can enjoy certain practices, both with the body still and moving, and reap the benefits. However, we need not confine ourselves. We can experience Inner Peace and Union all throughout the day.

Inspiration In Motion helps to heal the mind of the many body images and judgments of the body that the cubicle mind (ego unawareness of Inspiration Within) perpetuates as it identifies itself as a body. It does this by helping one move away from an experience of disconnection as the cause of dispiritedness, and moving towards an experience of connection and union with Inner Present Love.

When the body is still, such as seated for meditation or laying down for sleep, it is less of a distraction, that is, we are more easily able to focus on Inspiration’s peace. Then we begin moving about for our daily life activities and often lose the experience of peace, contentment, rest and connectivity that we were experiencing while being still. Or it can be that being still raises thoughts about the body into our awareness due to discomfort, pain, illness and/or injury.

Inspiration In Motion is the practice of accessing Inspiration Within in body stillness and motion as a way to heal thoughts and judgments about the body and be present with bodily sensations that may be drawing us into unawareness.

Inspiration In Motion is the practice of awareness of Being while not elevating the body and placing it on a pedestal to be worshipped and adored, and not degrading the body or being ashamed of the body. Both stances are judgments and give the body meaning that in and of itself it does not hold. Both perspectives are placing meaning upon the body as they are both rooted in believing I am a body. Inspiration In Motion is not denying the experience of having a body, rather it is recognizing and accepting the usefulness of the body as a means of Love’s extension. Now the body becomes truly helpful.

The body participates in the experience of the mind. If the cubicle mind experiencing separation, disconnection and fear is in charge, the body follows suit and takes on disconnection and fear. If one chooses to be aware of one’s Inspired Mind experiencing connection, union and Love, the body shares this communication and naturally, without thought, participates in extending this healing message to others.

Inspiration In Motion is practicing awareness of Being, Love, Peace and Union, even while engaged in what we may normally think of as “body-activities” such as in exercise, what we say and do while interacting with others and daily physical activities.

We need not become ego-minded. Inspiration In Motion guides us to focus less on how we think we should be exercising, what we think we should be saying and doing and how we think we should be performing a physical task and instead keep a one-pointed focus on how Wisdom and Inner Knowing is literally moving us towards our true nature. It is trusting that there is an Inner Present Love Who truly knows what is in our best interest at this moment in time.

If you are exercising and feel a need to go through a certain routine, you can do so with the awareness of your Inspired Mind. The goal is to move away from disconnection and body identification and towards an experience of connection and wholeness.

Inspiration In Motion is not instructing how to move the body or not move the body by way of a special technique or form for some specific benefit(s). Inspiration In Motion is the practice of trusting This Inner Wisdom and Knowing and allowing the body to follow. This practice naturally allows our experience of being human and this body experience to now have real meaning and purpose. Meaning and purpose that are founded in Inspiration Within.

Inspiration In Motion is truly an experiential movement practice of The 4 Decisions: Pause, Step Back, Step Aside and Let Inspiration Guide. All for the purpose of being a willing vessel of Inspiration Within, inspiring the dispirited, including yourself, thus bringing healing to yourself, others, relationships and the world.

To practice Inspiration In Motion in the midst of your everyday activities, simply allow awareness of Inner Present Love as living, moving and being “in you, with you, through you and beyond you.” This is how you participate in your life, relationships, activities and the world as Inspiration In Motion.

Love does not stop at the level of the mind, heart or body. Inspiration In Motion is an unending, unceasing, continuous, constant Flow. You are inside of This Love and This Love is inside of you.

Note: Mary will be demonstrating and sharing the practice of Inspiration In Motion in person and through the website: http://www.pauseforinspiration.org

Rev. Mary Gerard Lenihan is a Pathways of Light minister living in St. Louis, Missouri. She is author of the books Visions of Illumination, The Mentor Within and the inspiring new CD Album WNYHOO Now!.

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