Using Mental Time Travel in Meditation from Psalm 73:23-26

If your podcast app is set to skip the silent sections, disable that in your podcast app for this podcast. A good biblical image of what you’re trying to do in meditation… Psalm 16:8-9 NIV Your entire body resting secure in the love and care of your Father in heaven. It’s important to use meditation to try to feel your whole body, bringing your mind and body back into a oneness where you embrace your whole entire body as part of your soul. Your body is an important part of who you are eternally. That’s why you will have a bodily resurrection in your salvation. Not a new body, but a transformed body without decay or sin or mortality. When we embrace our bodies as part of who we are, we are able to live as God intends. And we’re able to present our entire selves, including the members of our bodies, to God’s Spirit.  So an effective way of feeling your body is to focus on breathing and relaxing the entirety of your body and at the same time focus on feeling your body relax. This is re-integrating your mind with your body in meditation. So take some time now to bring your mind’s awareness on relaxing your whole body with each breath. And feeling your body relax.  A big reason we focus on getting good at learning how to feel your body from within is because that’s how you can feel biblical images into your body. When I ask God to fill me with his Spirit, I focus on feeling my whole body and imagining his Spirit filling every cell in my body as his holy temple. That my whole body would be filled with God’s Spirit. This is a much more biblical way to think of it than just limiting God’s Spirit to your spirit. You are an embodied temple of God’s Spirit. So think of your body this way, and use your imagination to feel this biblical image into your body. Try that now… Psalm 73:23–26 ESV “Mental time travel”— “Engage in mental time travel. …Think about how you’ll feel a month, a year, or even longer from now. Remind yourself that you’ll look back on whatever is upsetting you in the future and it’ll seem much less upsetting