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Welcome to The Meditation Grove
~ with Madeleine Marentette

"You have to know where you are at in order to know where you are going. Meditation opens up the All-Seeing-Eye, the eye being the most potent transmitter and perceiver of energy."

Practicing meditation is a prerequisite to self-discovery, peace of mind and optimum health. I made it my personal goal years ago to effectively integrate three types of meditation into my hectic life ~ every day. Believe it or not, I am here to tell you it is absolutely possible to practice meditation regardless of how busy your life is. If you have a demanding lifestyle like most people today, all the more reason you need to take up meditation. Luckily for me, I was highly motivated back in the early 80's due to a long-term health issue. Admittedly it took me a very long time, almost ten years, to realize that meditation is not something you squeeze in to your schedule like a conference call or a dentist appointment. Meditation is something you do while you are doing life, while you are on a conference call or lying in the dentist chair!

The above statement was my single greatest revelation ~ it changed my path and my future. I realized that meditation was simply a focused mind ~ a 'Eureka!' moment. The practice of observing life while living life is meditation. Seeing life wholly from this perspective is the point, creates the outcome of a steady mind, accountability, a calmer heart, less adverse reactions to people and situations out of your control. This reduces our stress level and literally saves us from ill-health and even pre-mature death. So now you may be asking, "what are the three types of meditation"? Here they are: Silent Meditation, Contemplative Meditation, Invocation Meditation. Each one represents a different type of brain function. Silence has a healing effect, contemplation of course is our creative and imaginative life, and invocation is what some might relate to as their prayer life. All of these play a significant role in the development of spiritual insight, the ultimate objective of our collective human race.



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Every month I will be adding a meditation instruction to this page. My mission and hope is that you try it, like it and integrate it into your everyday, forever. I believe that the greatest of all human adventures is represented in the stories of the legendary quest for the Holy Grail ~ the cup to be discovered (uncovered) within the centre of our own Self. Where there is vision, will come spiritual insight. As I was reminded in one of my favorite books just today "Where there is no vision the people perish". Vision gives life, directs life, and realizes life.

I would like to invite you to join millions of others from around the world to a world meditation for even just a few minutes on the evenings of the full moon. Visit the Grail Springs World Meditation Project which describes a step-by-step invocation meditation, a simple  yet very powerful image that will start you on your way. Enjoy the image. See you there. We always think BIG at Grail Springs...Cheers!

~ Madeleine Marentette
November 20, 2008