Limited Series presented by the North East Cluster of Lutheran Churches, NJ Synod, ELCA
Presented by Pastor Phil Scherzer, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Rockaway/Denville,
and Mat Robinson, “The Gregarious Hermit”.
Thank you so much for everyone that was able to join our 4 week series on mindfulness and meditation. It was our pleasure to be able to share these valuable skills that have the power to transform your connection with your mind, body and spirit as well as deepen your spiritual practices.
Below you will find some useful guides to help you establish or strengthen your own practice. You also have access to all the recorded sessions with full discussion as well as just the meditations themselves.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to reach out to philip.scherzer@yahoo.com or Mat@TheGregariousHermit.com
Essential Guides
- Meditation Best Practices – simple guide to help you set up your environment and establish your meditation practice [PDF]
- Mindfulness Best Practices – guide to incorporating mindfulness into your everyday life [PDF]
Week 1 – Introduction to Meditation
Week 1 – Full Session (1 Hour)
This is the full workshop from start to finish, containing all dialogue and the 3 meditations taught that week.
Week 1 – “Simple Breathing Meditation”
The simplest form of meditation that forms the core of most mindfulness meditations.
Week 1 – “The Lord is My Shepherd Mantra Meditation”
Pastor Phil leads a study of the bible passage to gain insight and new meaning into the phrase.
Week 1 – “I Am – Mantra Meditation”
Simple yet powerful meditation. Using your mind by repeating a simple phrase rather than allowing your mind to use you.
Week 2 – Introduction to Mindfulness
Week 2 – FULL Session (1 hour)
This is the full workshop from start to finish, containing all dialogue and the 2 meditations taught that week. Mindfulness is a form of meditation that can be practiced while out in the real world. It’s a way to incorporate the lessons you learn in meditation into your daily life.
Week 2 – Mindfulness Practice
Just the instruction in how to incorporate mindfulness into your life as well as a short practice session.
Find something small you can hold in your hand before watching this video. You’ll need it.
Week 2 – Twin Tiger Meditation
This is one of my favorite meditations because it teaches you to remain perfectly still as well as be acutely aware of your thoughts.
Did anyone say, “fastest way to a silent mind???”
Week 3 – Unconditional Love
Week 3 – FULL Session(1 hour)
Unconditional Love is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal. How can your mind criticize and complain about something if you’re feeling pure love towards it.
Learn how to reprogram your subconscious mind to make unconditional love your default response, and reap the reward of a completely silent mind, flooding your body with feel good hormones. It’s the healthiest you’ve ever felt. No more complaining. No drama. Just pure love.
Week 3 – The Power of Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love sounds wonderful, but how do you actually practice it and make it your default response to everything? Turns out it’s quite easy. Just watch the video to find out.
Week 3 – How to Feel God’s Love
Pastor Phil explains how to feel God’s Love and experience that love with this beautiful guided meditation.
Week 3 – Loving Guided Nature Walk
Relaxing guided meditation incorporating a guided walk through nature. Just relax and unwind.
Week 4 – The Hidden World of Energy
Week 4 – FULL Session (1 hour)
We are surrounded by things we can’t see. Gravity, magnetism, oxygen, cell phone signals, so is it out of the question that we are also filled with an invisible energy field that connect us all.
Enjoy this episode as we delve into the mysterious world of the hidden energy system that runs through us. You don’t have to see it to believe it.
Week 4 – Drinking Straw Meditation
This simple meditation takes our basic breathing meditation and adds a visualization component to it to enable energy to be drawn up through our core. You may start to feel a faint tingle in your spine that yields a euphoric rise of energy.
Week 4 – Bible Story Visualization
Using our mind, we can visit the biblical lands and experience bible stories on a much more personal level. This will undoubtedly bring greater insight into your favorite bible stories.
Week 4 – Chakra Meditation
This meditation helps is to clear out energetic blockages in our system so that the energy of the universe can flow more easily. Problems in the energy body manifest as physical ailments over time. So let’s spend a few minutes clearing sticks and debris from the waterways.
Meditation Club
If you enjoyed this series, I invite you to join me weekday mornings at 7:00am for quick 10 minute meditations to promote focus and concentration. Prepare to take on the world, ward off stress, anxiety and power through your workday without hesitation or procrastination.
We also meet at 7:00pm for relaxation meditations to release the stress, unwind and allow ourselves to repair and heal.
You can view or listen for FREE on Spotify and YouTube and if you’d like to join the live sessions to ask questions and be a part of the discussion, you can become a member of the club using code “LUTHERAN” and get a monthly membership for just $10 per month. Check out the “Infinite Bliss Meditation Club” for more details.
Infinite Bliss Podcast
If you’re interested in delving deeper into my world of spirituality and enlightenment, then I’d encourage you to take my podcast for a spin. “Infinite Bliss” is available on Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.
