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Connecting Meditation with God “The Field” | Guided Christian Meditation for Everyone

This is the supporting blog to the YouTube video of the meditation recorded on 28 February 2023, and available at https://youtu.be/1e9s8zejwWo. Although this blog has the notes from which I made the video, the video has a lot more detail than this blog about each section, so I invite you to watch it when you get a chance!

https://youtu.be/GgWccZtc1Wo
YouTube video “Eye-Opening Meditation with God (The Hallway)”

Agenda

Welcome to Guided Christian Meditation for Everyone! I’m your facilitator, Tenay Benes.

For the first few minutes of this video, I will talk you through today’s agenda, share about me as your facilitator, give guidelines for this meditation, share another Biblical basis for meditation and for pursuing the voice of God, explain how to participate in the meditation, bring you into a grounding technique to prepare you for the meditation, invite the Holy Spirit to lead the meditation, and then facilitate your meditation for the last 30 or so minutes.

About Your Facilitator

I am a speaker, author, and influencer seeking to inspire others into healing by sharing my personal story of overcoming complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).

I got C-PTSD because I was born into a dysfunctional family and later became a combat Veteran who, at the height of my PTSD experience, acquired a 70% service-connected disability rating from the Department of Veterans Affairs. That’s when I dove into my healing journey head-first and participated in over 40 PTSD therapies (both secular and spiritual) to become the thriving daughter of God, wife & mother,  Army Reserve Officer and entrepreneur I am today.

If you want to know more about my story, you can read my blog at tenaybenes.com/about

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One of the most beneficial therapies I experienced was Guided Christian Meditation, which is why I’m so passionate about offering this service to you online.

Today’s meditation will help you pursue a face-to-face connection with your heart, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Spirit of God.

Guidelines

God is in charge of this meditation, I am only a facilitator – if you experience the desire to divert your meditation to another topic or tempo, please do so! In fact, that’s the ideal scenario. You can come back to the video whenever you want to.

I give all instructions up front so that you can stay in a meditative state as long as you want at the end of this video; feel free to turn off the video early, or consider turning off auto-play of the next video, in order to guard the connection between you, yourself, and God.

As you walk through the meditation, allow any emotions that come up to flow through your body like a wave through the ocean. Releasing pent-up emotions to God (through crying, wailing, yelling, and shaking) is one of the primary goals of meeting with God; otherwise, I promise it’ll come out in some way in your life that may be less ideal–like through chronic illness in your body, soul, or spirit.

Below, you will see a link to the supporting to my blog about 32 grounding techniques, a link to my blog about how to stay healed, and a link to my video called “Make the Most of Your Mediation”, which gives you instructions for how to process your meditation.

Biblical Basis

Today, I will share one concept about why we want to meditate specifically to hear God’s voice, from Hebrews 4:12.

David or Daniel says in Psalm 119:97 Interlinear “Oh how I love your guidance! It is my meditation all the day.”

How to Meditate

When we invite the Holy Spirit to sanctify our spiritual senses–including the movie-screen-of-our-minds AKA our imagination, our mind and emotions, our desires, and our body–we can believe with the faith-of-a-mustard-seed that God will help us receive communication and understanding from Heaven through all of these parts of us.

As a response to my prompts, you may see spontaneous images or shorts appear in your imagination, hear spontaneous thoughts in your mind or emotions in your heart, experience a spontaneous knowing or prompting to do something in your heart or gut, or sense spontaneous sensations in your body (like heat, chills, heaviness, lightness, pain, fragrances, and tastes). For now, don’t try to judge or control them–and especially DO NOT FEAR THEM. Just pursue the peace in your meditation and trust God to eventually give you clarity on what it means. Later, you can watch my video “Make the Most of Your Meditation” to process your meditation to gain understanding.

If you feel like you were in the middle of a scene but you are interrupted and get drawn out of it, you can bring yourself back to that scene by remembering it and asking God to continue the conversation, whenever you want.

Prayer

Holy Spirit, you are welcome here…

Grounding Technique

Slowly breathe in the love, breathe out the fear

Meditation

  • Imagine yourself in front of all the people who have, do, or will love you over your lifetime–see them smiling at you
  • Imagine yourself standing in a green field that represents your heart; ask God to show you what God sees
  • Imagine yourself burying a pearl of great price in that field, which is the Kingdom of Heaven
  • Imagine yourself holding up a chalise to hold the Spirit of God, and pour it out on the field and the pearl

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