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(2) Meditation
Meditation
Meditation like everything else has its duality and is a double edged sword. It can be used as means to control, calm and still the mind, your consciousness, or it can be used as a doorway to expand your consciousness, your view of yourself and your life. Meditation can be spontaneous or it can be a deliberately self-induced state of altered consciousness. Meditation is not hypnotism. Everyone meditates although they don't realize it as a form of meditation. Whenever you daydream or drift off for a moment, that is actually a form of meditation, an altered state of consciousness. It can happen while you are watching TV, driving the car, or at work when suddenly you snap back to conscious awareness of your present reality and out of your altered state and you become aware that minutes, or even hours have passed. Sometimes youll remember your experiences and other times they are lost the moment you return. Daydreaming also allows you to take yourself out of an undesirable or boring situation to experience what you desire. Of note, traumatic events also cause altered states of consciousness where one is not able to recall any conscious memory of the experience. This is important as it also ties into fragmentation and the outer child that will be discussed later.
Meditation requires an absence of effort; you cannot work hard at meditation, the practice of doing nothing, as that defeats the purpose of meditation the first place. To meditate, you have to let yourself go, to relax completely as if you were going to sleep. If you do fall asleep during your meditation thats OK, as that is what you needed to do as your conscious mind wasnt ready to see what was being shown to you. Also don't worry that youll get lost or wouldn't come back during meditation. If you follow the simple guidelines Im going to be giving you and your intuition, youll be totally safe. However, I must caution you that you shouldnt try to meditate or journey if you are under drugs, including prescription or have been drinking, as you are already in an altered state of consciousness. Usually these people will simply fall asleep, but the possibility is there for them to become lost and disoriented and to not be able to bring their consciousness back as quickly. Intent is the key here and will determine what the person experiences.
At the denial end of meditation, the ultimate goal is to control and still the mind, to block out all thoughts and feelings including those of the physical body and to be in a state of emptiness or nothingness. Having said that, it is difficult to remain in this state of non-conscious thought, non-being, so to speak, as sooner or later words or pictures will come to mind. At first one merely allows whatever words, pictures, or feelings to come into their conscious awareness, to be the silent witness. At the same time, if your goal is denial, to still the mind, then this is not desired and so you choose to move these thoughts out of your consciousness.
The next progression is to enter into an internal dialogue with the voices and sights that are coming to your awareness. Following that, is the deliberate guiding of the conscious mind to different realms and aspects of self and to simply becoming aware of what you are experiencing or to allow yourself to verbally express it. This step then takes us to yet to another level, that of channeling. As you still the conscious mind, you become aware of the thoughts, images, and feelings that are coming to you. Knowing that they are not your thoughts or words, that they are separate from your present consciousness, you have the choice of allowing them to be spoken through you or to write them down. Channeling will be presented in its own unique manner and form later in this appendix. Like I said earlier, meditation like everything has its duality and is a double edge sword. It is important to note that all of these different tools and levels also have a denial aspect to them and can be used to either deny, or to openly explore what youre experiencing or feeling.
Before you begin this journey you will need to prepare yourself by going through the basics techniques of breath, grounding, relaxing, centering yourself, see Meditation for details.
Our intent is to be guided to whatever serves my/our highest purpose and good and to receive any insights to the issues I/we have, or what I/we need to look at in my/our life at this time.
Meditation: Now from your place of centre, this quiet place, your sanctuary, simply allow your mind to become still, to open, and to receive. Once youve reached this point there is nothing more you need do, but to allow your awareness to become still in this space. As you enter this silent inner space you may begin to hear, see, or sense things around you, sometimes the communication is vivid and direct, other times it is soft, subtle or symbolic. If interfering, judgmental and critical thoughts come up, simply acknowledge them, and ask them to wait until you are finished your meditation or to join you in this quiet time. Allow yourself to stay here as long as you feel you need to, or you may have previously determined how long you are going to meditate.
Returning: If you are doing a meditation by yourself, you will usually come out of it by yourself or when the music stops. As your consciousness returns to you, state that you now intend to bring back all your power and essence pertaining to the Earth plane and this physical body in the here and now. Allow yourself to come back slowly and to begin to feel your consciousness returning to your body. Begin to move your fingers and toes and slowly move your neck and head. Take a few deep breaths and when you are ready, move the rest of your body.
Integrating: Stay in your seated position for a few minutes and reflect on your experience and the feeling in your body. If you keep a diary or journal you can write your entries. If you become emotional from your experience, allow the emotions to move in whatever way they desire and express them as you feel you can. If you had a friend guiding you, then after a few moments you can share your experience with them if you so choose.
Notes: During a meditation, you may experience strange physical sensations, especially one of feeling HUGE, as in galactic terms or at the other end of the scale, becoming an infinitesimal speck of light. You may also feel physically hot or cold, see of feel yourself floating or surrounded in clouds of coloured light, see specks of light around you, or you might hear music, a kind you have never heard before. Nothing is impossible and expect the unexpected.
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