Meditation Chat Forum

 Ruth is passionate about meditating and teaching meditation.  Using an original, accepting perspective, she invites both newcomers and practiced meditators to a powerful experience of meditation.  She has had a significant impact on my ministry.  I whole heartedly recommend Ruth as a meditation teacher. 

 Rev Brian Walker, Unity Chapel of Light, Santa Maria

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Ruth said that "when we put our minds and intentions into meditation, the Universe will open up a wealth of information that we've been waiting to hear/here." Yesterday, while looking through some old emails, I ran across a meditation for emotional clearing. It said to tune into a difficult "Feeling" {once you are deep "in" your meditation place} and breathe it "into" your heart, {it may intensify} and then breathe it out as Divine Acceptance. Breathe in feeling, breathe out D.A. until it subsides. 

When I was later working with Ruth's new CD, I was in the second meditation, “Your Hero," and she said to tune into a painful place. I immediately went "there" and the breathing it into my heart and out as Divine Acceptance just started happening. The process was intense but when it started to subside, I had such a deep sense of relief.

Then an old book jumped out at me from my bookcase and I knew I was supposed to "open" it anywhere. What I read was about "being" a glass of clear water with settled sediment {past negative experiences} at the bottom. Then an unpleasant experience, disguised as a spoon comes in and stirs up my sediment into a cloud. It appears that the spoon caused the water to "cloud" . . . well . . . If there were no sediment the water would stay clear . . . Even if we remove the spoon our sediment remains . . .

The Universe is showing me so much clarity and opening me to so much potential and healing right now and I know it is due to meditation. Thanks, Ruth for your incredible gifts . . .

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 For years now, I’ve very much disliked washing dishes. What really got to me was that while washing, my mind would race like a hamster on a wheel, thinking of all the other things I still needed to do. After five minutes or so, I’d feel like a nervous wreck, and I’d give up on the dishwashing.

However! I’ve been meditating for a couple of months now and most unexpectedly, washing dishes is easier now. Often while washing up, I find myself concentrating on one dish, then one spoon, then another dish, and so on, all with mindfulness and utterly free of any worries about other tasks. How wonderful! I’m reminded of the fictional proprietor of “The Haunted Bookshop” by Christopher Morley. One evening, this bookseller reaches a delightful sense of peace and happiness standing over a dishpan of warm soapy water after supper with his wife.

 Ruth Cherry is one of the most gifted meditation teachers I've met. She did a 2 hour session that included a variety of visual meditations; all of which took us through a wonderful and relaxing place within ourselves.   She engaged us after each meditation to share what we felt or encountered while doing the meditations and never judged.  Her responses were always "spot on" to the individual and we all felt completely at ease with what she had to share.  Ruth is a Treasure!

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 What a player, a stellar leading actor! With impeccable diction and strong emotional impact, Fear insidiously repeats its believable dialog until the story becomes our own. Ever seeking a leading role, Fear shines at auditions, garnering noteworthy attention in every stance. Insidiously, Fear works its way into every niche of fresh, natal humanness, rendering us creatively, relationally, emotionally and, even physically, less than all we were meant to be.

Sparkling womb crystals, we once glowed and basked in glorious newness, accepting lavish attention from those in whose arms we were held. Laughing, crying, sleeping and moving blissfully from our core, Fear's only role was a brief, vague walk-through. Maturing in our autonomy, though, Fear, ever the temperamental prima donna, greedily nabbed the starring roles. Sometimes playing an intelligent, insightful advisor; sometimes shredding into rubbish every vestige of human worthiness.

Buying into the script line by line, scene by scene, our self-protection began to harden. Now a human geode, of sorts, wearing our dull, lumpy, bumpy, rocky-rough shell, rolling through life, we crash and scrape up against other geodes, all of whom hold lovely colors and crystals within their core. Prompted in the wings by Fear, often we are unaware, missing the core beauty, significance and limitless potential in ourselves and others.

Supporting actors, such as the Accuser and the Controller fight to make their voices heard--Fear shines in their supportive roles. Is it any wonder, when our neediness often surfaces, it is slapped down in embarrassed self-consciousness? And what of our storehouses of marvelous creativity, all rendered dull and lifeless by a Fear of imperfection? Fearful of giving, fearful of receiving, fearful of creating, sharing, laughing, crying, listening and allowing, our world shrinks to the proportions of a sumptuous lambs wool sweater laundered in scalding water.

My own "sweater" had shrunk to an unbearable tightness over the years. I held out no hope of ever again feeling comfortable as myself, just as I was. Miserable, yes, but, in retrospect, altogether necessary. If the tightness had not been so horribly restrictive, there would have been no quest for "resizing" and, from that quest, a discovery: be still and know...meditative silence. During meditation, Silence, in Oscar-worthy performances, does her work. When I detach from the noise, the swirling thoughts, the self-recriminations, the shoulds, the shouldn'ts, Silence soothes my soul, drawing wisdom and understanding into my very Essence, revealing truth about myself and my world, for better or for worse. Silence reveals my vulnerabilities, my longings, my gifts; it comforts, heals and empowers. When I allow Silence to move into my head and heart, God has a voice. I listen and I learn; I am open to what IS, painful or peaceful...and I am profoundly grateful.

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