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What is Meditation?

The answer to the question “What is Meditation?” is diverse and covers a lot of ground.  The term “meditation” (much like the term “sports”) refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force and develop compassion, love, patience, generosity and forgiveness.

Meditation has been used for centuries to quieten the mind until thoughts cease for short or extended periods of time or to “induce a mode of consciousness” that, in spiritual traditions, brought the meditator closer to God or generated a heightened spiritual state.  Meditation has been more often employed by the mystical forms of our familiar spiritual traditions, the Kabbalist form of Judaism, Yoga in Hinduism, Sufism in Islam, and Christian Heyschasm.

This post will examine meditation from several perspectives, including the more traditional approach and a newer, more less mainstream method that I have developed.  It offers a process that is new, innovative, different from traditional “mind training”, and is more effective in helping people develop Elevated Awareness. 

Traditional Meditation

The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines meditation as “the act or process of spending time in quiet thought.  Continuous and profound contemplation or musing or a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; ‘the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge”  (unattributed).   

Wikipedia does a better job in its definition of meditation: 

Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness,  either to realize some benefit or as an end in itself.

A particularly ambitious form of meditation aims at effortlessly sustained single-pointed concentration meant to enable its practitioner to enjoy an indestructible sense of well-being  while engaging in any life activity.

The word meditation carries different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions and beliefs. Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. Meditation is often used to clear the mind and ease many health issues, such as high blood pressure, depression, and anxiety.    It may be done while sitting, or in an active way. For instance, Buddhist monks (and others, ed.) involve awareness (called “mindfulness”) in their day-to-day activities as a form of mind-training.  Prayer beads or other ritual objects are commonly used during meditation in order to keep track of or remind the practitioner about some aspect of the training. 

Let’s Go Deeper into the Meaning

Among the ideas expressed in these definitions and in the Wikipedia commentary that I think are salient:

The story of Gautama Buddha and his awakening is the one most directly tied to meditation.  Enlightenment through meditation came after he spent years of exploring numerous spiritual traditions and studying with many different teachers in India.In Buddhist meditation the spiritual goal is to reach a state of Nirvana, an elevated state of awareness which very few who attempt this approach manage to achieve.  Those who do get there are thought of, and revered, as enlightened.Traditional meditation is difficult because it assumes that the mind is a wild horse that needs to be tamed and uses sitting quietly, observing one’s thoughts, and being aware of one’s breath as its process. Sometimes, meditation incorporates the repeating of mantras (sacred words) and/or the use of objects (beads, a rosary, etc.) to self-regulate and/or subdue the mind.  Unfortunately, such an approach often takes years and years of practice to be successful; to tame that wild horse is not easy.I have been meditating for over 45 years, beginning at Swami Sachidananda’s Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, and have explored a number of other traditions.  I have found that the methods I tried are something of a quest–an engagement with my mind until it began to quieten down a little, and then more and more.  I experienced it as a wrestling match, and many others have said the same thing, to take that wild horse that is the mind and tame it.  This is difficult and many people quit before ever getting there.  It’s hard.  Worthwhile, for sure, but tough for most of us.Meditation has been used increasingly in the West for secular purposes, for the scientifically proven benefits it grants—including the easing of health issues, such as high blood pressure, depression and anxiety as mentioned above. Jon Kabat-Zinn founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the late ‘70s, has shown scientifically that his practice increases the body’s ability to heal and includes a shift from a tendency to use the right prefrontal cortex instead of the left prefrontal  cortex.  This shift is associated with a trend away from depression and anxiety and towards happiness, relaxation, and emotional balance. 

Mindfulness induces a state of “moment to moment non-judgmental awareness” using, among other things, thought and breath observation, body scanning, mindful walking and being aware of the taste and texture of the food that we eat.  It’s a way, with acute observation, to quieten the mind and allow 5D consciousness to flow into 3d situations. 

Higher Consciousness Meditation (HCM) 

HCM builds on traditional meditation and is, in my opinion, the method I developed, is the next step in the evolution of meditation as well as human evolution.  HCM is built around a process that is simple, straightforward, but very powerful.  In addition, HCM offers a variety of other forms, triggers and tricks that add to the process’ effectiveness and offers variety to keep the practice interesting.  Some of you may find that the core process does not suit you and that some of the other forms, triggers and tricks are more to your liking.  Whatever works for you works for me. 

How you use what is offered here is up to you.  Adapt it, vary it, experiment.  You may find that you like some methods better in the beginning and others later as you develop your personal practice.  If none of it works, set it aside for now.  

Confer with your own Higher Consciousness, your sacred place within, for guidance. If you are like me you’ve known for many years that you have a Higher Consciousness, a Soul, but just didn’t know how to access that part of yourself in a deep and satisfying way.   I remember reading about my Thought Adjustor in the Urantia Book many years ago and my heart leapt with recognition.  However, it was not until recently, some 35 years later, that I began to develop a deep relationship with that part of myself through the Higher Consciousness Meditation process that my book The Meditation Book, will show you in detail.    

If you let it, the process will lead you to an experience, an experience of your own Higher Consciousness and the higher vibration associated with this experience.  This experience is hard to describe and is unique to each individual.  However, the process will allow you to experience Yourself in all of your magnificence, the magnificence that comes when Spirit flows into and through your human, three dimensional limitations, and expands you into Five-Dimensional Reality. 

Conclusion 

So you can see why “What is Meditation?” is a complex question.  Meditation is truly a deep, spiritual process that can help you broaden your perspective, explore your spiritual Self, and positively effect your health.  Whether traditional meditation or my new Higher Consciousness Meditation method, it is worth taking a look and trying it out.  Only then will you know whether it suits you or not, and takes you closer to your goals of health and well-being. 

Do you meditate?  Do you prefer sit-down meditation or mindfulness?  Why?   Leave a comment below.

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How Does Meditation Work?

 “How does meditation work?” is a question I hear frequently asked by people  who are not familiar with meditation’s many amazing benefits.  Happily, sitdown and mindfulness meditation have been shown to greatly help humans with many of their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual challenges. 

The research offers clues to the answer to this question as my book on the subject details (The Amazing Benefits of Meditation).   This blog examines the issue of stress as a microcosm for a wide range of human challenges and, in the process, answers the question of how does meditation work.

11 Mindfulness Techniques

Are you feeling stressed out?  Let’s face it these are stressful times.  Here are 11 ways you can relax (see this additional material on the subject of stress).  Here are 11 mindfulness meditation techniques that can help:

1.  Ask the question, “How am I feeling?” 

2.  Make some bread or work in the garden.

3.  Become more Aware

4.  Meditate and develop peace of mind 

5.  Use the Law of Attraction/Vibration to unfold your life.

6.  See the true essence of the people around you

7.  Offer thanks to everything around you, all the time

8.  Bless all things (and circumstances, and people, and moments) 

9.    Choose well what happens to you

10. Turn everything over to Spirit

11. “Release the Endorphins”

 This is a crazy time.  A world pandemic.  Millions out of work.  A difficult president (in the USA).  Increasing climate change problems.  And our personal stress caused by money, job, relationships, traffic, not having enough toilet paper.  Let me offer a handful of ways to help you lessen stress and feel better as a result–Stress Relief 101.

Strategies and Techniques to “De-Stress”

Stress is a feeling of strain and pressure. Its a type of type of psychological pain. Here are some techniques to the answer to lessen the pain.  Let’s consider them.  These will make the next moment, and your life in general, “better”:

1.  Ask the question, “How am I feeling?”

Not an easy question, to be sure.  Often the answer is not clear.  Partially because this moment can be a bit complicated and have multiple feelings at work.  Sometimes contradictory.  “Right now my kids are causing me stress through the roof.  But I love my kids.  I wish I could lessen the stress and just have fun with them. “

The overriding feeling is strain and pressure.  If we can pause and be strategic about the situation we might come up with a way to correct the situation and and relieve the stress.  Like taking them to the park on a sunny day.  We might even ask the question, “How would I like to feel?”  And come up with some way to get to that spot in our consciousness.

2.  Make some bread or work in the garden

There’s nothing more grounding than  the primal act of making bread or working in the garden to improve our state of mind and state of being.  It’s important that we do this with as much awareness and good feeling as we can muster, so as to not bake distractedness, anger, or fear into the bread.  And stay in the moment with the activity we have undertaken, minimizing the mind chatter by losing ourselves in our work/play.  Let the next moment arise out of nowhere. This where mindfulness techniques can help (see next point).

3.  Become more Aware; use mindfulness techniques

Much of the time in our day is focused on what seems to be going on in our environment and, much more frequently, the thoughts and feelings that are going on inside our heads.  It is estimated that each of us has 60,000 thoughts dancing through our minds every day.  It’s no wonder we are distracted and stressed out.

Pause for a moment and take a deep breath.  Say to yourself, “Peace, be still”.  Take another breath and feel the effect of doing this.  You have just done a mindfulness meditation exercise.

When I do this it puts me right in touch with my Soul, or Higher Consciousness, which many of us are not very well acquainted.   Yet, I contend, this is where well-being and the spiritual qualities of love, joy, peace, contentment, compassion, healing, abundance (and more) reside—Within.

In traffic, you can say “peace, be still” rather than “I hate you, faceless other driver” or “I hate being stuck in traffic” or “I hate my circumstances that puts me in this situation” or “Damn, I’m going to be late” or….. whatever you say that sets up an angry, upset state of mind reaction to your circumstances.

My book Six Second Mindfulness Meditations:  Exercises to Transform any Moment offers many of these mindfulness exercises for us in a variety of circumstances, along with a full explanation of what Mindfulness is and why it works.  Click here to get a copy.

4.  Meditate and develop peace of mind

There is nothing more valuable in life than developing peace of mind. Not that it’s easy to do,  given the crazy world we live in.  And the best way to develop peace of mind and to reduce stress is to meditate.

Meditation, or silent prayer, can be done as simply as sitting down for a few minutes, taking some deep breaths, observing the comings and goings of thoughts for a moment or so, and then imagine yourself being at your most favorite place in the whole world for a bit.   Your heart rate will slow down, as will your breathing and your thoughts.  You might even feel a moment of joy and peace.

For those of you who might be interested I have developed a meditation technique that I describe in my book The Meditation Book which is intended to put you in touch with your Higher Self, the Soul part of you, and really get some peace of mind as well as a heightened sense of Awareness going.  It’s a simple yet powerful process for beginners and experts that only takes about 5 minutes, but will get you in the right mood to take on your day.

5.  Use the Law of Attraction/Vibration to unfold your life.

I have found that in my life I have to “trust my process”.   I never know how things are going to turn out, what I will encounter, what obstacles or opportunities will present themselves, what problems will need to be solved.   Trusting my process means trusting that all will be well and that I  will be up to any challenge that comes along.

The Law of Vibration is operational here. “The higher your personal vibration the better your outcomes—people, places, things, circumstances” is how I see it.  Better input, better output applies metaphysically.  In addition, ability and willingness to adapt to change, stay centered and use Higher Consciousness tools (meditation, Sacred Breathing, mindfulness techniques, and so forth) will result in better outcomes.

This takes a certain amount of trust and courage.  But, when partnering with Spirit in everyday life, no matter what the situation, trust, and courage come more easily.  The more I turn to my Higher Consciousness, I have found,  the better my interaction with three-dimensional reality, and the better the results.

The Law of Vibration works better with better outcomes if you focus on higher vibrational outcomes.  Enlisting your Higher Self to participate in your process will do just that.  Our Higher Selves know what we need, are ever with us and available, and respond best when we bring to our aspirations a sense of Receptivity rather than asking.

Presence rather than preference as Buddhists like to say.  In other words, work on your state of mind, your Awareness, which will serve you eternally, rather than focusing so much on your desires, which change day today.  And let the Universe provide that which is best “for all concerned”, including you.

6.  See the true essence of the people around you

This is a big one for me.  My human mind has a strong proclivity to be judge, jury, and executioner. Not so very long ago I slowed down long enough to recognize how pervasive is my need, desire, compulsion to judge everyone I meet.  I still catch my body/mind/personality making up stories about everyone and everything I see.

Instead, learn to see the true essence in others.  Here’s the technique:   Take a deep breath.  Squint a little and soften your eyes.  Look to see if you can see the Spirit of the person in front of you.   Even for just a flash. I call this Sacred Seeing.

One of the best places to practice this technique is at the grocery store.  Lots of people there and none of them know or are paying attention to you.  When I am successful,  I see them from a loving perspective, am in a gentle state, acknowledge them with a smile, and the whole store seems to light up.  Try this with your friends, significant other and kids.  It makes a huge difference, if only in how you see them.

7.  Offer thanks to everything around you, all the time.

Over the years I’ve come to recognize the benefit of the act of offering thanks and gratitude.  For everything around me.  All the time.  The many things surround us every day.  Things we have placed in your vicinity and things that show up in our vicinity.  Atoms cells and electrons arranged in such a way as to serve some need that we have and serves that need well.

Today, for example, when I opened my Toshiba laptop it went through a 20-minute routine of informing me that there was trouble when I last closed it down, and did a preliminary diagnostic and fix, then an update, a disc repair, and finally a reboot.  Back to good as before the problem.  “Good computer” I said, like I say “good girl” to my dog Sasha.  And I meant it.  My computer is a workhorse and a friend.  It helped me write this piece.

Or my car, whose steering wheel I pat periodically and say, “Good car”!  This is the older BMW that began to fall apart in sorrow when I took it off the road for a while since we didn’t need two cars.  The mechanic said that this car doesn’t do well when not driven.  And it even has a “smart car” system that adapts itself to my driving habits.  (Which I found out when they had to reboot the system because of prolonged disuse.)  I felt like I had jilted my formerly well-used transportation mode when I was working full time.

All of my surroundings have, in a way showed up for my benefit, and stand ready to serve me.  They are part of the world reality that I occupy.  Today I threw away a razor and thanked it for its usefulness to me in my shaving endears.  Make it a point to praise all things useful.

If you do, more stuff will want to be with you.  This is also true of more/better circumstance and more/better people wanting to hang out with you.  To be liked by you.    I know that sounds strange, but it isn’t from a spiritual perspective.  From that perspective “stuff” is a metaphor, an idea that somebody had, thought through, and many had a hand in shaping that thing for my use.  It could be a lamp or a bowl or a telephone or a plant.

I have a great mobile that hangs above me in our living room.   Some creative, artistic person dreamed up, had a picture in her head of what a bit of copper could turn into.  Sketched it out.  Took the sketch and developed a 3d drawing.  Gathered some materials and formed them into something striking.  And offered it up for manufacture, and marketing, and purchase, and shipping, and receiving, and getting hung up in my house.  For my pleasure, which it does give me.

As I open my heart more and more by experiencing my heart center getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger and more and more loving, I see that my thanking the people, the happenings, the furnishings are for my benefit.  It’s way to be more loving, and heartfelt, and compassionate.  And a way to raise my Awareness.  To experience Higher Consciousness more frequently and deeply.

All of these things help put me in a state where “All is well with My Universe”.  The Universe I occupy, I coalesce, I create around me to support my personal existence on Planet Earth. the Universe’s natural inclination is to “be well”.

8.  Bless all things (and circumstances, and people, and moments, and, and……….)

Not only thanking but blessing all things.  Wishing them well, holding them in high regard, allowing your Higher Consciousness to flow out, and surround, and caress.

Not too long ago, soon after my 3rd grandchild was born, I was holding him, looking at him, and began blessing him.  “Welcome to Planet Earth.  And to a renewed relationship with your parents.  And to Lynne and me, your grandparents.  I sense that I have known you before.  Your Grandma and I will be acting, no matter what your named godparents will be doing, as your godparents, also.  We will have your well-being and spiritual development as our highest priority for you.  For as long as we are around.  I also sense your Eternal Beingness inside this little, awkward body you are occupying and will constantly shift my perception to see this about you.  Blessed be.”

A few days later, our wacky neighbor acted really weirdly in an interaction I had with her.  Unfortunately for her, she’s emotionally challenged, so strange interactions are not unusual.  All I could say to myself, and to her, was “Bless you, my dear” and shift my attention to her Eternal Beingness.

Now, I didn’t mean that in the Southern way that I grew up with when people made allowances for those difficult to deal with by remarking, “Bless her little heart” in order not to say something “ugly” (also Southern phraseology).  But as a way of internally offering my higher vibration to the moment and letting it go.

 Blessing another in a special moment or in a difficult moment essentially has the same effect–an offering of Higher Consciousness to the other and raising the level of my own awareness.

Doing a project or cooking a meal or driving the car are also opportunities to bless what is or has just been going on.  Infusing the salmon that I just cooked to near perfection with a blessing for it and the folks who are about to consume my offering of sustenance, adds an elevated quality to my food preparation.

Blessing your physical form for its coalescence to house your consciousness, from time to time, and acknowledging the intricacy of its inner workings will go a long way toward encouraging your body to be well.  Such acknowledgment is like the rider’s praise for the horse.  The horse wants to please, to continue to please, and to enjoy the ride as much as the rider himself/herself.

The body wants to be well.  This is its natural state.  It has many self-correcting systems and processes to be well, stay well, and correct itself in a time of illness.  Its natural inclination is to repair a cut inflicted upon it.  To fight a dis-ease that passes through it.  To mend a bone that is broken.  Blessing it at these times of distress and at times of wellness will set the stage for this highly complex vehicle to run properly for many a year.

9.  Choose well

We all experience that “stuff happens” in life.  Sometimes unfortunate, awkward experiences seem to just come out of the blue, from who knows where.  I am one of the first to argue that each of us creates our own reality, and that very little just comes “out of the blue” without being attracted on some level by us.

You’ve heard it said that it’s not what happens, though, that we can control–it’s our reaction to what happens that we can control.   We do have control over whether to curse or bless the person who has just cut us off in traffic.  Whether we react one way or the other that reaction is a decision made and a reaction undertaken.

Then we react–to people, circumstances, and stimuli hundreds, perhaps thousands of times a day.  The knitting together of these decisions is the pattern of our lives.  The quality of the arc of our lives.  Fundamentally,  we constantly make a choice between a higher level, or octave, or a lower level one.  Between a Higher Consciousness or human consciousness.

The answer is right there.  In the synergy between the action and in the reaction, there is room to react from ego/mind or to react from Spirit Mind.  To react with from fear or from love.  To devolve or evolve.

And one decision is built on the last one and adds to the next one.  Before long momentum is built and a pattern emerges—growing incrementally, decision by decision.   A good decision moves us forward.  A bad decision moves us back.  Decisions that are from our Higher Consciousness lead to the next and the next and the next.

What’s a good decision?  What’s a bad one?  What’s neutral?  How to make the better decision?   The beauty of this understanding is the realization that a life is knit together by good and bad decisions.  The better we become at making good decisions, the better our lives become.  Day by day we advance or retreat.  Moment by moment the future is being built.   And most decisions can be reversed or redone if they are not in the “good” category.  A decision made out of fear, for example, can be recognized and remade or repaired.

If we don’t like the direction our lives are taking about most anything, we can simply take them into our Holy of Holies,  examine them with the clarity of Divine Judgment, and use our Higher Consciousness to execute a makeover, favoring growth and evolution over false gains and empty outcomes.  (See Book 2 The Meditation Book for details about the use of your Holy of Holies for doing healing work) .  Change the filter, change the throughput.  Change the throughput, change the outcome.  Change the outcome, change the World.  

10.  Turn Everything over to Spirit

One way to make better decisions, to have better results in your life, to begin to relax your grip a bit on trying to control everything,  is to turn the outcomes over to Spirit.  To ask Spirit, God, the Universe, or whatever you consider to be the Source of All to take these things and unfold the outcomes in a way that is “in the best interest of everyone and everything involved”.   This may sound a bit wonky and passive, but it is not.

Our Universe is a growing, expanding, evolving place.  It grows and expands and evolves in the most efficient and effective way possible by “ the lowering of entropy” or chaos, according to physicist Tom Campbell’s terminology.   Entropy happens when the Universe, and our lives  by implication, becomes more conscious.   This leads to increasingly expanded states, on micro and macro levels.  Therefore, inviting Spirit to take the best decision you can come up with and have it turn out for the best sets up a vibration that encourages the best outcome.

Furthermore, if you turn to your Soul or Higher Consciousness, your individualized Spirit,  for the guidance you are bringing this concept down to your particular slice of the Universe.  Give it a try.  Can’t hurt.  And you can always change your mind if you get a nudge from your Soul that a change is needed.

11.  “Release the Endorphins”

Deepak Chopra, physician and mystic, who wrote that when we are having a good day and feeling happy, our body is producing happy chemicals that protect us against cancer.  When we are happy, we release dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins associated with joy, the same chemicals that are associated with healing of all types, including stimulation of the immune system.

On the other hand, if we are feeling angry or stressed out our body will receive those toxic signals and release adrenaline throughout your body. Anger and stress, more than anything else, cause inflammatory disorders like heart disease. 

In response to being exposed to this teaching I decided to explore this healing modality.  I considered that it might be possible to consciously “release the endorphins”,  shorthand for endorphins and other healing body chemicals.  I took this idea into my meditation sessions for a week or so.

One morning, the thought came flowing in, “If I can just find that ‘spot’ in my consciousness where there is endorphin release”, that might do the trick.  Sure enough, it did.  Now I can just say to myself, if I wake up with body aches, “Release the endorphins, release the happy, healing chemicals” and I can feel the beneficial chemicals enlivening my body.

Bonus: “Illuminate, Elevate”

 One of my favorite mindfulness phrases is “Illuminate, Elevate”.  This is a phrase I use over and over to remind myself to shift my awareness into Higher Consciousness.  I say “Illuminate” to remember to go Within where my Soul resides and is constantly luminous, and then say “Elevate” to raise my awareness into a higher rate of vibration and stress disappears.  Never fails to lift my spirit and brighten the moment.

Great Bunch of Tools

These are great tools because they can help you create the atmosphere around that sings with the exquisiteness of your raised vibration.  In addition,  the movement of Spirit in and through these moments will have impact in Eternity that is hard to understand fully.  Tools, the use of which will take you to the place where you will have that blessed experience of “all is well in my Universe”.  Quite the opposite of stress.

Conclusion

 We all want our lives to be better; it’s a natural human desire.  Seldom are things perfectly calm and peaceful.  There are a handful of tactics we can choose to make them better, all of which work to help us de-stress.  Meditation and mindfulness exercises are two of the best, closely followed by giving thanks (appreciation) and blessing circumstances and people.

If you were to choose one method, from the list above, to make a difficult circumstance in your life better, which one would it be?  Why? 

For a more in-depth exploration of these techniques get a free e-copy of Book 1, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, by clicking here.   And we’ll give you a  free annotated list of great mindfulness exercises in exchange for a Share (here).

 

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Why Is Meditation Important?

Meditation, sometimes called silent prayer,  has many benefits:  stress reduction, healing, peace of mind, a sense of well-being, love, joy, compassion, attracting people, circumstances and things, increasing creativity, being more productive, and reducing personal suffering. In this post we will explore them further and how to get them, along with an explanation of how meditation works.

 

Scientific Studies and Mindfulness MeditationMeditation has been used increasingly in the West for secular purposes, for the scientifically proven benefits it grants—including the easing of health issues, such “high blood pressure, depression, and anxiety” as mentioned above.Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the late ‘70s, has shown scientifically that his mindfulness practice increases the body’s ability to heal and includes a shift from a tendency to use the right prefrontal cortex instead of the left prefrontal cortex.  This shift is associated with a trend away from depression and anxiety and towards happiness, relaxation, and emotional balance.

Mindfulness induces a state of “moment to moment non-judgmental awareness” using, among other things, thought and breath observation, body scanning, mindful walking and being aware of the taste and texture of the food that we eat.  It’s a way, with acute observation, to quieten the mind and allow 5D consciousness to flow into 3d situations.

Personal Story 

I have been meditating for over 45 years, beginning at Swami Satchiananda’s Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, and have explored a number of other traditions.  I have found that the methods I tried are something of a quest--an engagement with my mind until it began to quieten down a little, and then more and more.  I experienced it as a wrestling match, and many others have said the same thing, to take that wild horse that is the mind and tame it.  This is difficult and many people quit before ever getting there.  It’s hard.  Worthwhile, for sure, but tough for most of us.

For that reason I developed my own form of meditation called  Higher Consciousness Meditation, for beginners and experienced meditators alike, to make meditation easier to do and to bypass wrestling with the mind.

Higher Consciousness Meditation (HCM)

HCM builds on traditional meditation and is, in my opinion, the next step in the evolution of meditation as well as human evolution.  I developed it as a process that is simple, straightforward, but very powerful.  The process is described in detail in my cornerstone book  The Meditation Book available at Amazon in e-book and paperback versions.

If you let it, the process will lead you to an experience, an experience of your own Higher Consciousness and the higher vibration associated with this experience.  This impact is hard to describe and is unique to each individual.  However, the process will allow you to experience yourself in all of your magnificence, the magnificence that comes when Spirit flows into and through your human, three-dimensional limitations, and expands you into your Higher Self, your Soul.

How Does Meditation Work to Improve the Human Conditions? 

This is fundamental question I ask in my first book, a free e-book you can request, The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation, and which I wilI amplify on in my upcoming fifth book, Meditation for Health and Healing:  Getting Better Day by Day,  The question is an attempt to discern the principle behind meditations’ efficacy.  A principle that we can apply to every situation– health, wealth, better performance, and other human concerns.

I think that meditation works because, as a problem-solving tool,  it interrupts the momentum that gets built up within our biomechanical ego/body/mind around some problem or issue.  The problem begins for some reason.  Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, dysfunctional childhood and the pain associated thereto; whatever.

While the cause within 3-dimensional reality can be hard to pinpoint, nevertheless a problem or condition arises, probably with multiple swirling causes.  And when a condition starts it begins to loop, especially in our thoughts and feelings. The problem gets bigger, it causes the causes to amplify and feeds on itself.  Kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to, “Alexa, loop it”, and the song plays over and over.

The Loop Effect

I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect.  Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on.  We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank).  We go over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations, and we can’t get it out of our minds.  The loop effect has begun.

We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation, and desire to get retribution.  It begins to take on a life of its own.  We tell those close to us about it.  We speculate together.  We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior.  An argument might ensue.  More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies.  The loop is hard to escape.

Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum.  Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition, interrupts the influence of the condition.  If only for a moment.  The condition goes into abeyance.  If for only a moment.

In addition, if, as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence, realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the lifeforce that animates our human body/mind/personality, we can allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by the suspension of the loop.  Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition.  And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses.  If only for a moment.

Being Human Can Be Tough

Human conditions exist only on in the third dimension.  They have no existence in 5-Dimensional Reality.  My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul.  My existence as Buddha Mind is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes.  They are really not real, except in my human eye’s biological condition.

My approach to doing healing work on my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every six months to get my eye pressure checked, to meditate before I go and to use mindfulness exercise while I am there to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature.  So far, in 3 years, my eye pressure numbers have not increased and I am having no symptoms.

As I write this, I am realizing that the theory behind the medical treatment, the eye drops and the eye vitamins I am receiving, is similar.  They interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy, to arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed.  Similar intervention as meditation.

In my case, I think both my meditation and the medication are helpful.  That my Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects.  Each can amplify the effect of the other.  This is why I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor and why I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins, which I do every evening.

Withdrawing our attention from any condition withdraws the human energy from it, allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence/Spirit Within) to be the predominant energy animating the moment.  Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our ego/body/mind’s functioning renders those conditions powerless.  If only for a moment.  If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.

Help is Right at Your Fingertips

A poor health condition, lack of financial resources, lack of viable and enlivening relationships, whatever, all are part of the same dreamlike nature of the human condition.  And all will respond, or more accurately, recede, when the process of 1. acknowledging and experiencing our true nature as Eternal Beings is accomplished through meditation and 2. withdrawing our attention from the condition, also through meditation, is practiced, recognizing the condition has no real power over us other than the power we give it.

In addition, if as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence, realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the life force that animates our human ego/body/mind, we can allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by withdrawal from the human condition.  Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition.  And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses.  If only for a moment.

And in the process, we achieve the greatest benefit—contacting our Soul and having an experience of our Higher Consciousness.

Conclusion 

Meditation’s benefits are amazing, but many people don’t know that, for example, scientific research has shown that many diseases respond favorably to meditation.    I have developed a meditation process that accelerates the benefits of traditional meditation in my cornerstone book The Meditation Book.  It amplifies regular meditation by encouraging contact with your Higher Self, or Soul. 

Do you meditate?  Do you have your own opinion of how/why it works?  Leave a comment below.

 

 

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Why Meditation is Important

Meditation, sometimes called silent prayer,  has many benefits:  stress reduction, healing, peace of mind, a sense of well-being, love, joy, compassion, attracting people, circumstances and things, increasing creativity, being more productive, and reducing personal suffering. In this post we will explore them further and how to get them, along with an explanation of how meditation works.

Meditation Defined

The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines meditation as “the act or process of spending time in quiet thought.  Continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; ‘the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge.’” (unattributed).

Wikipedia does a better job in its definition of meditation:

“Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness. either to realize some benefit or as an end in itself.

The term ‘meditation’ (much like the term ‘sports’) refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force (qi, ki, prana, etc.) and develop compassion, love, patience, generosity and forgiveness. A particularly ambitious form of meditation aims at effortlessly sustained single-pointed concentration meant to enable its practitioner to enjoy an indestructible sense of well-being while engaging in any life activity.

The word meditation carries different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions and beliefs. Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. Meditation is often used to clear the mind and ease many health issues, such as high blood pressure, depression, and anxiety.   It may be done while sitting, or in an active way.  For instance,  Buddhist monks (and others, ed.) involve awareness (called “mindfulness”, ed.) in their day-to-day activities as a form of mind-training.   Prayer beads or other ritual objects are commonly used during meditation in order to keep track of or remind the practitioner about some aspect of the training.”

A Deeper Look at Meditation

Among the ideas expressed in these definitions and in the Wikipedia commentary that I think are salient:

Meditation has been used for centuries to quieten the mind until thoughts cease for short or extended periods of time or to “induce a mode of consciousness” that, in spiritual traditions, brought the meditator closer to God or generated a heightened spiritual state. Meditation has been more often employed by the mystical forms of our familiar spiritual traditions, the Kabbalist form of Judaism, Yoga in Hinduism, Sufism in Islam, and Christian Hesychasm.The story of Gautama Buddha and his awakening is the one most directly tied to meditation. Enlightenment through meditation came after he spent years of exploring numerous spiritual traditions and studying with many different teachers in India.In Buddhist meditation, the spiritual goal is to reach a state of Nirvana, an elevated state of awareness which very few who attempt this approach manage to achieve. Those who do get there are thought of, and revered, as enlightened.Traditional sit-down meditation is difficult because it assumes that the mind is a wild horse that needs to be tamed and uses sitting quietly, observing one’s thoughts, and being aware of one’s breath as its process. Sometimes, meditation incorporates the repeating of mantras (sacred words) and/or the use of objects (beads, a rosary, etc.) to self-regulate and/or subdue the mind. Unfortunately, such an approach often takes years and years of practice to be successful; to tame that wild horse is not easy.Scientific Studies and Mindfulness MeditationMeditation has been used increasingly in the West for secular purposes, for the scientifically proven benefits it grants—including the easing of health issues, such “high blood pressure, depression, and anxiety” as mentioned above.Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program in the late ‘70s, has shown scientifically that his mindfulness practice increases the body’s ability to heal and includes a shift from a tendency to use the right prefrontal cortex instead of the left prefrontal cortex.  This shift is associated with a trend away from depression and anxiety and towards happiness, relaxation, and emotional balance.

Mindfulness induces a state of “moment to moment non-judgmental awareness” using, among other things, thought and breath observation, body scanning, mindful walking and being aware of the taste and texture of the food that we eat.  It’s a way, with acute observation, to quieten the mind and allow 5D consciousness to flow into 3d situations.

Personal Story 

I have been meditating for over 45 years, beginning at Swami Satchiananda’s Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, and have explored a number of other traditions.  I have found that the methods I tried are something of a quest--an engagement with my mind until it began to quieten down a little, and then more and more.  I experienced it as a wrestling match, and many others have said the same thing, to take that wild horse that is the mind and tame it.  This is difficult and many people quit before ever getting there.  It’s hard.  Worthwhile, for sure, but tough for most of us.

For that reason I developed my own form of meditation called  Higher Consciousness Meditation, for beginners and experienced meditators alike, to make meditation easier to do and to bypass wrestling with the mind.

Higher Consciousness Meditation (HCM)

HCM builds on traditional meditation and is, in my opinion, the next step in the evolution of meditation as well as human evolution.  I developed it as a process that is simple, straightforward, but very powerful.  The process is described in detail in my cornerstone book  The Meditation Book available at Amazon in e-book and paperback versions.

If you let it, the process will lead you to an experience, an experience of your own Higher Consciousness and the higher vibration associated with this experience.  This impact is hard to describe and is unique to each individual.  However, the process will allow you to experience yourself in all of your magnificence, the magnificence that comes when Spirit flows into and through your human, three-dimensional limitations, and expands you into your Higher Self, your Soul.

How Does Meditation Work to Improve the Human Conditions? 

This is fundamental question I ask in my first book, a free e-book you can request, The Many Amazing Benefits of Meditation, and which I wilI amplify on in my upcoming fifth book, Meditation for Health and Healing:  Getting Better Day by Day,  The question is an attempt to discern the principle behind meditations’ efficacy.  A principle that we can apply to every situation– health, wealth, better performance, and other human concerns.

I think that meditation works because, as a problem-solving tool,  it interrupts the momentum that gets built up within our biomechanical ego/body/mind around some problem or issue.  The problem begins for some reason.  Who knows–genetic, environmental, karma, dysfunctional childhood and the pain associated thereto; whatever.

While the cause within 3-dimensional reality can be hard to pinpoint, nevertheless a problem or condition arises, probably with multiple swirling causes.  And when a condition starts it begins to loop, especially in our thoughts and feelings. The problem gets bigger, it causes the causes to amplify and feeds on itself.  Kind of like when I say to Alexa on my Amazon device about a song I am listening to, “Alexa, loop it”, and the song plays over and over.

The Loop Effect

I’ll bet everyone reading this message will recognize the loop effect.  Somebody does something mean or thoughtless to us and we begin to wonder what’s going on.  We try to figure it out and also begin to think of that person as a “_______” (fill in the blank).  We go over and over the mean thing, and the person’s motivations, and we can’t get it out of our minds.  The loop effect has begun.

We begin to weave a web of upset, negativity, judgment, accusation, and desire to get retribution.  It begins to take on a life of its own.  We tell those close to us about it.  We speculate together.  We may confront the perpetrator for his/her rude behavior.  An argument might ensue.  More mass is added to the situation and the momentum intensifies.  The loop is hard to escape.

Meditation is therapeutic because it interrupts the momentum.  Sitting in silence and withdrawing attention from the condition, interrupts the influence of the condition.  If only for a moment.  The condition goes into abeyance.  If for only a moment.

In addition, if, as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence, realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the lifeforce that animates our human body/mind/personality, we can allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by the suspension of the loop.  Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition.  And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses.  If only for a moment.

Being Human Can Be Tough

Human conditions exist only on in the third dimension.  They have no existence in 5-Dimensional Reality.  My diagnosed glaucoma is not a condition in my Soul.  My existence as Buddha Mind is unaffected by the condition of my human eyes.  They are really not real, except in my human eye’s biological condition.

My approach to doing healing work on my glaucoma has been to go to the doctor every six months to get my eye pressure checked, to meditate before I go and to use mindfulness exercise while I am there to interrupt the momentum of the visit’s compelling but illusory nature.  So far, in 3 years, my eye pressure numbers have not increased and I am having no symptoms.

As I write this, I am realizing that the theory behind the medical treatment, the eye drops and the eye vitamins I am receiving, is similar.  They interrupt the momentum of the dis-ease, the condition of the biomechanical system that I occupy, to arrest or reverse the condition that has been diagnosed.  Similar intervention as meditation.

In my case, I think both my meditation and the medication are helpful.  That my Spiritual intervention adds to the medical effects.  Each can amplify the effect of the other.  This is why I do a meditation the morning before going to the doctor and why I take a brief mindfulness moment when I put in the eyedrops and swallow the vitamins, which I do every evening.

Withdrawing our attention from any condition withdraws the human energy from it, allowing Spiritual energy, which is always there (Omnipresence/Spirit Within) to be the predominant energy animating the moment.  Realizing that human conditions are merely a part of the illusory, dreamlike nature of our ego/body/mind’s functioning renders those conditions powerless.  If only for a moment.  If those moments come more and more frequently, the conditions become less and less powerful.

Help is Right at Your Fingertips

A poor health condition, lack of financial resources, lack of viable and enlivening relationships, whatever, all are part of the same dreamlike nature of the human condition.  And all will respond, or more accurately, recede, when the process of 1. acknowledging and experiencing our true nature as Eternal Beings is accomplished through meditation and 2. withdrawing our attention from the condition, also through meditation, is practiced, recognizing the condition has no real power over us other than the power we give it.

In addition, if as in Higher Consciousness Meditation, we, in that moment of silence, realize our 5-Dimensional Nature, realize that Spirit is the life force that animates our human ego/body/mind, we can allow Spirit to rush into the vacuum left by withdrawal from the human condition.  Spirit, rushing, is a healing agent, going to all corners of our human condition to elevate it into our Eternal Condition.  And we become our true Eternal Beingnesses.  If only for a moment.

And in the process, we achieve the greatest benefit—contacting our Soul and having an experience of our Higher Consciousness.

Conclusion 

Meditation’s benefits are amazing, but many people don’t know that, for example, scientific research has shown that many diseases respond favorably to meditation.    I have developed a meditation process that accelerates the benefits of traditional meditation in my cornerstone book The Meditation Book.  It amplifies regular meditation by encouraging contact with your Higher Self, or Soul. 

Do you meditate?  Do you have your own opinion of how/why it works?  Leave a comment below.

 

 

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What Does Meditation Do?

Lynne and I moved a mountain in 6 weeks.  Now I understand the spiritual teaching of Jesus,  “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him”.  

This post tells a story of a mountain in my life needing moving and how we did it.  First, the story and then the “how”.    

The Problem 

Six weeks ago, we received a letter from our landlord’s property manager indicating that they wanted to sell our house, our lease was coming to an end, and we would have to be out of the house in eight weeks.  Shocked…….. Stunned………… Lynne would say that we had just gotten settled after 18 months of moving from San Diego, after a shocking year and a half there, only to be uprooted again. 

The circumstances were not good.  In a seller’s market, rents had been rising in the area.  Nice places were scarce and often contested with multiple good potential tenants vying for a place to live without moving out of the area.  Lynne sensed this first and urged us to begin looking immediately although it might mean that we would have to pay double rents for a month or more. 

What We Wanted 

As I sit here writing this, I am amazed at the whirlwind of activity that has gone on since then, and our good fortune.  Our list of perfect move outcomes: 

We intended to find a bigger place for a little less money in a nicer, quieter neighborhood than where we were living at the edge of the ghettoWe needed a property manager who could help us move our mountain.And wanted a landlord who has bought this house to own as an investment–meaning that we can stay as long as we want to until we are ready to buy or buildA landlord who would allow us to shorten the lease so that we had no overlapping rents in order to move in.  An easy move. I had just agreed to a one month, nearly full time, contract to do work for the organization I had recently become affiliated with.   One not to strenuous. I had recently pulled up lame with “tennis elbow” and was concerned about carrying all those boxes.    Moving the Mountain 

We said to ourselves,” Let’s move this mountain of stuff into a place that is even better than the one we have.  Let’s let Spirit guide our way and go before us to make the crooked places straight.  Let’s allow obstacles to be dissolved and the Unfolding Path to reveal Itself.  Let’s take the next step, and the next and the next, day by day, and trust the unfolding.”  

I think this is what Master Teacher Jesus was trying to teach with his message of moving mountains.  Know that you can ask the mountain (whatever the problem that seems to have mountainous proportions) to move aside, staying steadfast in Spirit and believing/knowing that Spirit will stir and work in your favor, and It will.  

He said, at another time, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”  

The only mistake the translation makes with this teaching is to spell You with a small “y” rather than a capital.  It’s the You energized, vibrationally ablaze by Spirit’s Essence that makes moving mountains possible.  The little you, the 3d will falter and whine and give up.  It confidence, actually a Knowing, by You in your state of Higher Consciousness, that makes all things possible. 

The Outcome 

I wrote at the time, “All is well, although we are both tired weary of packing and unpacking boxes, the latter of which is only half done.  The place seems more expansive, more suited for us to create, grow, and up our vibrations.

The neighbors seem friendlier, more inviting to walk in, and the cats next door less menacing to our two lionesses and our wolf. 

Our property manager, Johnny Walker, was all that we hoped he would be.  Our landlord, likewise, accommodating and helpful.  And asked a reasonable, fair price for his property.”

It took digging deep, working together, knowing we could pull off a major logistical undertaking, and reminding each other daily that Spirit and our Higher Selves were infusing our effort to make all of this happen.  But we knew, we KNEW, that all would be well in the end despite the upheaval in the beginning.   

Other Lessons 

Begin with short, easy wins.  Start by generating an upward movement in your consciousness, and the small things will yield.  Stay with it, grow in It, and bigger hillocks will yield–will respond to the power of your Consciousness. Get comfortable with yourself as an Eternal Being and no mountain will be too big to be removed.  Spirit is neither a respecter of the persons nor the circumstances of three-dimensional reality.  It’s vibrations are the dissolving agent barriers. 

My secret sauce was my meditation practice.  I got up every morning, and went to bed, with a 6-minute Higher Consciousness Meditation session (the new meditation process I have developed that is explained in my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation). 

I also used one or several of my updated 6 second mindfulness meditation techniques throughout the day.  This helped me to stay tuned up, to breathe into the moving of the boxes, to be patient at the UHaul center, and to observe with interest my achey muscles each morning, letting them unfold slowly in the process of getting up. 

(The beauty my Higher Consciousness Meditation (HCM) method is that it enabled me to meditate my way from being clueless to believing I could prevail to Knowing I could.  By learning to use HCM you will learn how to make the transition from ego/mind to Spirit Mind as needed, to think creatively, solve problems, and find the energy to keep moving.  And to move over into Higher Consciousness at will.) 

Conclusion 

Moving mountains, often meaning accomplishing tasks that are a huge challenge, is not easy.  Often the height of the mountain and the depth of the snow seems too much to overcome.  However, in our case, we over came by committing to the process, staying conscious all along,  using our meditation skills, and allowing Spirit into the process

What do you think?  Would this help you move your mountains?  Have you done this before, yourself?  Comment below.

 

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What Can Meditation Help With? Feeling Troubled for One

Meditation can help with many things.  Stress relief, feeling sad, physical and mental healing, gaining a sense of well-being among them, as my book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation discusses in great detail.   Much scientific research has been done on this topic and the evidence is irrefutable.   

Are you feeling it? 

These are turbulent times.  It’s no wonder we are feeling troubled.  Meditation can help—the subject of this post.  Not surprising, from a world war level pandemic, to a country coming apart at the seams, to millions losing, perhaps permanently, their jobs, to having to stay home (or choose to go out at your own peril.)  Natural disasters seem to happen every week

Trouble like this is frightening.  It goes to the core of our human mind biology.  To our reptilian brain intent on survival.  And stimulates fear, adrenaline, dread, confusion, and sleepless nights.  Unless we can figure out how to deal with it.

Here are 5 Techniques That Can Help

     *  Mindful breathing

     *  Sacred breathing

     *  Sit with it and face it

     *   Do some healing on it

     *   Get with wise people to talk about it

Mindful breathing

Mindfulness meditation is one way to approach the problem that bypasses the overstimulated brain.  In my new book, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, I chronicle a number of ways that meditation can help anyone who is having physical, mental, emotional or spiritual issues.  Including the unusually perilous seas we seem to be experiencing.

Mindfulness can be as simple as taking a deep breath or two and saying a soothing phrase to ourselves.  “Peace be Still” is a good one—it has a tinge of assertiveness.  And then pause a moment to let that marinate in our consciousness. Sometimes that’s all it takes to beging to calm down a bit and get some perspective.  And, better yet, to let Spirit flow into the moment to lighten the load.  Sometimes I have to breathe and say this to myself several times.  Breathe.  Peace be Still.

In a way, it’s a blessing to know this simple trick for soothing the mind because it can be used at any time for any thing that is troubling.  Having this tool at our disposal can interrupt the momentum of the mind and the moment that seems to be taking us in the wrong direction.  Saying “Peace be Still” and breathing can put us right into that proverbial “Moment of Now” that Ekhart Tolle talks about.  Or that the book Be Here Now that Ram Dass wrote discusses in-depth.

Sacred Breathing

I developed a technique that I called “Sacred Breathing” several years ago when I had a traumatic experience that seemed very threatening at the time.  Lynne and I had moved to San Diego for me to take a major promotion.  And for us to get back to the West Coast after being in my home State of North Carolina for 20 years, following our move there after the big Bay Area earthquake of ’89.  Unfortunately, my boss turned out to be a sociopath (a person who has no moral compass and will lie and cheat at anytime without impunity).

After 6 months I had to report the problem to people several levels up the organizational ladder.  “Whistle blowing” to use familiar language from recent events.  An investigation was done and she was reassigned.  I was fired for being a “troublemaker”.  And thus ended my career, for all intents and purposes, in my profession of many years where I seemed destined to be a senior official, perhaps a state director of a my program, perhaps here in California.

I was devastated.  I identified very closely with my job and my ego was a very tied up with it.  In fact, I “was my job”, taking a lot of satisfaction and pride in my accomplishments.   What was I going to do?  (The same question many people are asking themselves right now).  I didn’t know.  It was discombobulating and frightening.

This caused me to dive deep into my meditation practice for solace.  And I “discovered” Sacred Breathing.  I had never heard those words before, but they made sense one evening as I was sitting quietly and writing for therapy.  “Sacred Breathing” were the words that popped into my consciousness.  I had to find out what that was.

And I discovered it was nothing more than mindfulness breathing with a twist.  In Sacred Breathing (see my blog post I did something similar to traditional mindfulness by first taking a deep breath or two, and then saying to myself, “Illuminate.  Elevate.  Radiate”.  Similar to “Peace be Still” but with a key difference.  By shifting my mind to, not a place of Peace but a place of Illumination, the experience was one of Spirit “lighting me up”.  This would, inevitably “Elevate” me into a higher vibration, a state of higher consciousness.  After a time or two I would breathe myself in to that Place from which I was able, even, to “Radiate” that State of Mind out into my immediate surroundings.

Thus began the reinvention of myself.  After 100,000 words of therapeutic writing I began to realize that I had a talent with words.  And with expressing myself about the mystical journey I was on.  Therapeutic, free form writing can be equally helpful, by the way.

Sit With It and Face It

This is what I had to do to reinvent myself.  Sit with the multiple layers of “trouble” I was experiencing.  My wife had taught be to “feel my feelings” over the years.  I was not always a cooperative student, sometimes preferring to push my feelings out of the way so that I didn’t have to feel them.  So, I was prepared, at least to a degree, to practice feeling my feelings about this tragedy.

I learned many things by, again, using meditation to in yet a different way that I ever had.  Sitdown meditation I was familiar with, the practice of sitting cross legged or in a chair, for 5-15 minutes, at the end of my yoga workout.  It was aimed at mind training, the type of meditation I had learned, based on observing my thoughts until my mind ran out of words and I would just sit in silence.  I got good at this method during the time of my reinvention.

The deeper I dove into my practice me more I realized that I was more interested in exploring the experience of Illumination than I was a quiet mind.  That, in fact, getting to a quiet mind led to experiencing Illumination most naturally.  And that led me to develop my new meditation technique which I called Higher Consciousness Meditation that has as its goal, as its intention, the experiencing of Illumination without having to go through many years of taming the wild horse that my mind seemed to resemble.  Wild and unruly.  The pursuit of this State of Mind is the subject of my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation.

Do Some Healing Work on It

Experiencing Higher Consciousness, which I came to realize was the same as Soul contact, was, by its very nature, healing.  First and foremost, it quietened the insistent chattering of my “monkey mind” as some Buddhist call it.  I found I could take a Sacred Breath or two, say “Peace be Still”,  and sit for a while in Illumination.  Far superior to a just a quiet mind, which was nice, but not the same as feeling “lit up” by Spirit.

I began to heal.  I began to be able to take a breath and I had a  Higher Self and a human self, where I had only identified totally with my human self before.  I began to think clearly about my situation.  In fact, I began to be able to just sit with it and allow it to be, without devolving into anxiety and a string of worry thoughts.

Writing helped a lot.  After a while the words began to just flow through my fingers and onto the computer screen.  Words that sometimes surprised me by their clarity.  Words that began to dissolve the knot in my stomach.  Words that had a soothing and healing quality.  Words that became many words.  And many words that became the book series that I am writing.

Get With Wise People to Talk About It

If you know any wise ones, and almost everyone does, get together with them and have a chat.  Say it the way it is.  Verbalize the texture of it.  Have them ask you questions.  Or see a therapist who’s compassionate.  Find someone to talk with about it.

And use, as an outline for discussion, the other four parts of this list of things to do.  Do them all.  Dig deep.  Do the work.  Yourself is your best asset.

Sometimes the trouble, as John Lewis used to say is “good trouble”.  Trouble you need to be into, like non-violent protesting.  Sometimes not.  Sometimes the trouble is within and sometimes without.  Well, actually, the trouble always has its source within.  The within causes the within troubles and also the without troubles.  It’s just harder to see that the without always starts somewhere within.

This is a hard truth because it sometimes looks like you had nothing to do with what is troubling you.  To see the truth of this you have to shift your consciousness from good/bad, right/wrong to asking “What is my part in this?”  Or even, what vibration within has caused the attraction of that which is without.

The beauty of that question, though, is that if you can get at what the source is you can change the vibratory rate at which you have been vibrating and attract something else.  Perhaps something else more desirable and then you can really take control of your life.  Because you will have exercised that muscle that you can employ the next time, and the next, and the next.

You will be able to step outside of your internal and external circumstances and be the source of your life and your life’s experiences.  Try it.  And try again.  You may not get it the first time.  But the 5th or the 10th time the use of the tool will “click” and you will have the first of a repeatable ability.

Tool Maker

I like to think of myself as a toolmaker.  I hope you can benefit from at least one or more of these tools.  They can be the paddle that you need to negotiate the river that eventually leads you to the Pool of Peace.  Such a lovely place.  And suffering ends, if only for a moment.

Take advantage of the many tools I have created for myself and to share with you.  My website at www.HiCMeditation.com has books, sample chapters, poems and more.  My Facebook page at Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee, where the Daily Vibe is offered.  And Amazon Kindle where my book series is located, beginning with the first one, The Amazing Benefits of Meditation, which you can get for $.99 at Kindle or free on the website.

If you try something out and have questions, put a comment in below.  If you try something out and have some success do the same—comment below.  Others will be interested in your story.  I certainly will be. 

Conclusion

Trouble causes stress.  Stress can cause a lot of problems.  Meditation, both sitdown and mindfulness meditation can help relieve the stress bring us down of that adrenaline high that can be so addictive.    

Which one of he methods strikes you as being the most useful?  Comment below if you will and leave any questions. 

 

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What is Meditation Good For?

What is meditation good for?  Meditation has many benefits as my book on the subject makes clear.  Dealing with sadness in these turbulent times is one of them.  Here are 3 ways to cope with the sadness.  

1.  Allow yourself to feel sad  

2.  Meditate on your sadness  

3.  Allow Spirit to flow In for healing   

Nearly 30% of American adults report feeling profoundly sad in a recent survey.  And no wonder.  We are suffering with the challenges we are facing:  the corona virus, making a living, our kid and their safety as we begin to think about whether to keep them home or not.  These things on top of our more common concerns:  caring for ourselves and family, making our relationships at home and at ou jobs work, and whatever is going on in our world.   The key relief from feeling sad?  Meditation helps a bunch.

A Personal Story

I was prompted to write this blog post because of the following story about my own life.  I was feeling sad.  Meditation helps.

This morning I felt heavy when I got up.  Did some tossing and turning last night.  Lynne was snoring and I was sleeping lightly.  I fed our herd of two cats and a dog.  I started my morning wake up routine.  And I started to weep.  A three Kleenex weep.  It happened as I began to sing “Morning Has Broken” with Cat Stevens on the Amazon Echo.  I had asked Alexa to “loop it”.  

I sat down to do my morning meditation, and the tears came.  I began to recognize the source of my sadness.  I had the following series of thoughts.  

1.  Allow Yourself to Feel Sad (or Stressed or Lonely)  

I was sad about the suffering I have been witnessing, from the coronavirus to Trump meltdown to people being scared as I venture out to time to Black People insisting on their long denied rights.   

A profound sadness.  And compassion for all who suffer.  And especially those who are suffering and dying from not being able to breathe.  A tortuous death.  Without family around.  Only with the suffering body and the suffering mind. Making decisions in the end about the “reasons”.  “God has abandoned me”, “I’m going to hell”, to “I’m letting my loved ones down”, etc.  (Each will have his/her own particular take on things).  

I’m think these last thoughts partially because of our healer friend George who has been working with us for over 30 years.  He does past life work, roots out the “story” behind the “glitch” that might be going on in present time in order to do the healing work needed to dissolve he “glitch”.  And he has told stories, from his dousing work, of past lives in which we, or people we know in this lifetime that we knew back then, of decisions made in the final throes of death.  Sometimes blaming God for the horrible circumstances.  

2.  Meditate on Your Sadness  

I began my meditation routine, feeling sad.  Meditation helps I said to myself.  I began to breathe “into” the feeling.  5 Sacred Breaths.  (This is a mindfulness meditation technique I developed several years ago.)   And I discovered it was nothing more than mindfulness breathing with a twist.  After  taking a deep breath or two, I would begin saying to myself, “Illuminate.  Elevate.  Radiate”.  

5 times.  It shifted my mind into a place of Illumination–the experience was one of Spirit “lighting me up”.  This “Elevated” me into a higher vibration, a state of higher consciousness And then I began to follow my sit-down Higher Consciousness Meditation process.  And I began to relax.  Feeling sad began to dissipate.  Meditation was working   (My new book The Amazing Benefits of Meditation which you can get free,  shows that scientific research on sadness and depression improvement, one of the particular benefits of meditation.  As well as how and why meditation works.  Check out  a sample chapter, on the subject of Stress, to see another good example).

3.  Allow Spirit to Flow In for Healing 

My Higher Consciousness, my Soul, spoke to me as It often does in these moments of quiet.   “Be comforted, my Child, this is a heart opening experience and you can only do what you can do.”  Which I have come to know as the only healing work I can do, and  that is to become aware of the suffering and settle into a State where “I” gets out of the way and Spirit flows.  To do the work It intends to do given that “we” have engaged.  To watch it, however, can be overwhelming and simply profoundly sad.  Ant then rest into Illumination, where the real healing work is done. 

It hurts to hurt.  It’s my good fortune to be able to observe from a place of  Illumination, can work from home,  and not be worried about having to go to a restaurant and serve food to feed my kids.  The healing work is what I can do– be quiet and let Source take over.  And write about it. 

The sadness began to subside.  Check out my new book Higher Consciousness Meditation for some new sitdown and mindfulness meditation techniques.  Use this link to purchase it at Amazon Kindle.

I Went to Work 

Then I was inspired.  I sent my daughter-in-law Christina a couple of new Daily Vibes to insert  into the string of about 30 she has been working on.  (Have you checked out the Daily Vibe?  If you haven’t, go over to my “Higher Consciousness Meditation with Blair Abee” Facebook Page.)  And check it out.  And Like it so you get it every day.  Here are a couple of the most recent ones.   

She’s done an amazing job with my germ of an idea or words on a solid background.  The best three were in honor of John Lewis, civil rights activist and member of the House of Representatives.  

“Child of God.  Master Teacher” to be put on an appropriate background.  He had inspired me by with his Soul qualities, his compassion, his dedication.  “Blessed are they whose hearts are open (in smaller letters–In these times)” along with “Stay strong.  These days will pass.”  He was a great guy and very Aware.  

Conclusion  

Nothing wrong with feeling sad.  Or feeling any feeling.  We are beings with feelings.  Often feelings that challenge us to just “be” with them and let them be with us.  By being with them, and breathing into them, and saying, as we might, “Peace be still” we can allow whatever treasure of realization might come floating to the surface for healing and solace.  (Go to a similar post on Stress Relief with this link.)

If you are feeling sad, meditation helps, pure and simple.  Leave your comment below.  What do you think?  Will some of these ideas help? 

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Meditation Matters: How Much Meditation Before I Achieve Peace?

One of the questions I get is “How much meditation do I need to do before I gain a sense of peace”.  And “How much longer will it take before I achieve Enlightenment?”.  Two different and difficult questions because the answer is “It depends”.  It depends on many things.  Fortunately, these “things” are up to us and within the scope of our control.  Let’s take a look and examine the variables and tools for achievement. 

Factors At Play 

Our human makeup, individually, has taken a long time to construct.  If you are 45 years old it has taken 45 years of human conditioning   to construct the beliefs, synapses, muscle memory, behavior patterns, internal psychology, and traumas to get where we are. This conditioning is insidious and all pervasive.  Few of us are exposed to much in the way of alternative thinking or training about that challenges the cradle to grave indoctrination of what it means to be human.  Indoctrination that says this is a dog-eat-dog world, full of danger, and with many reasons to be fearful and self-protective.  This results in a life of “suffering” as Buddha once said.  Mental, emotional, physical, psychic and spiritual pain. 

The conclusion I have come to, alternatively, after many years of meditation, is that “yes” we are human beings, but we are also Eternal Beings.  Eternal Beings living in a limited, biomechanical vehicle.  And that if we can come to know that fact, really know it in a visceral, practical, daily, in a moment-by-moment way that we can depend on, that this life of pain and suffering can become one of ease and peace.  And maybe even Illumination. 

When one sets off on the spiritual path to grow in consciousness and evolve into balance and cooperation with our Higher Selves, our Higher Consciousness, it can take years, many years to get “there”.  The buildup of the crust of humanhood has taken many years, lifetimes to develop.   It is the unusual person who can and will transform so dramatically that their vibration, or consciousness, increases sufficiently as to come into union with their Higher Selves and be less entranced by their lower or human selves. 

Sudden Enlightenment is Possible 

Zen Buddhism is full of stories of those who suddenly became enlightened one day when the conditions were right, and the right spiritual puzzle with which they were presented by their teacher unlocked the door of their consciousness.  Often though, it was the spiritual work they had been doing for many years that had finally, suddenly come together in a flash of insight and transformation.  Most had been   frustrated over and over by their inability to wake up to what their Teacher was trying to say. 

But Not Likely 

Each of us has a vibration that is our particular makeup from complicated forces from our past, our conclusions, our present circumstances.  We have created our own reality, which exactly mirrors our vibration.  Changing that vibration sufficiently such that a disease is addressed, a lack of abundance disappears, or a wonderful relationship comes into view requires as significant change in inner vibration for significant outer change to occur.   Most humans do not change very quickly. 

Nevertheless, we do change as do our circumstances over time.  Just look back at your life 5 years ago and you will see a significant change.  Look back 10 years ago and the change is much more significant.  That was a result of many moment-by-moment thoughts, situations, people, and circumstances coming and going.  Yes, change is slow, but change happens. 

Accelerating Change 

Change can be accelerated in a number of ways that we have under our control.  To heal from emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual circumstances happens excruciatingly slowly if one allows oneself to be swept along by time and more quickly if one sets out to guide oneself diligently and intelligently In the direction one wants to go. And most quickly, if most rapid healing and personal illumination are the goal and if one uses skillful means, like meditation and an aspiration for Higher Consciousness.  This is, in my experience, the fastest way to gain personal freedom from limitations our human makeup has created.  

Any spiritual path that is diligently pursued and one that works for you is the right one.  However, some are more helpful others.  Dogmatic religious paths, from my observation, are the slowest because they are based on human belief systems and thought forms that are more likely to slow you down rather than speed you up. 

The methods that will work best are those that acquaint you with your Higher Consciousness and those that encourage the movement of Spirit in your day-to-day existence.  Ones where the outcome is Awakening to your Eternal Self.  Your Higher Self distinct from your human personality. 

Higher Consciousness Meditation 

This is why I created my Higher Consciousness Meditation process.  To enable to first, myself, and then others, to make Soul contact.  To get to know your Higher Self as an immediate, tangible experience.  It bypasses the traditional meditation mind training and goes right to the heart of the matter.  A sense of Illumination begins to occur.  This is Consciousness training.  A vibrational experience of Higher Consciousness that is unmistakable and clear.  Leading to a sense of peace, happiness, and well-being.  And confidence that you are on the right path. 

My two companion books The Meditation Book (formerly Higher Consciousness Meditation) and Six Second Mindfulness Meditations will be your guide. But this path is not for everyone.  It will not resonate with everyone.   

How Long Depends On You 

Eventually there must come dawning that you are in a “no win” box of human beingness.  When the strength of desire to get free from suffering and when you use your inner intelligence to choose a path that works for you becomes a strong inner drive.  That, and with the consistent application of the tools your path offers, one day, assuredly, the breakthrough will come.  Be aware that the breakthrough is usually followed by a time of going back and forth between the two worlds of human and divine. Soon enough the consistent hum of vibration that is the sign of a human being transformed into a Spirit driven Being will set in. 

Choose. Then Go to Work. 

Choose your path wisely.  Work at it.  Let it work on you.  That’s how long.  You will have early successes.  Some things may be harder to “break open” than others.  But what else have you got to do?  Today’s undertaking may result in next weeks’ or next year’s or next lifetimes enlightenment and total escape of the gravity of the human condition. 

A few of you may read this message and be suddenly catapult into a full Awakening. If so, you will do so not because of the strength of this message, but because you have been preparing for a long time for this moment of destiny.  Most will not, however, because that is not how humans change and grow and evolve. 

Others of you don’t have far to go before the moment of transformation occurs.  For some this message is worthless.  It has no meaning and does not compute.  It’s not the right time.  If the message does resonate, however, give it a go. Be willing to change when the path gets stale.  Be creative. 

Conclusion 

Develop your own path (you will anyway–you have to).  One day you will make Soul contact and you, and your Higher Consciousness as your guide, will forge your own path, suited exactly to you.  And you will create your own Higher Reality just as it should be, just as Spirit intends.

 

 

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Meditation Matters: Time to Grow Up America. World.

In the United States of America, we have been in a stupor for the past 4 years.  A stupor, a miasma, caused by making the mistake of choosing White, Male, Unconscious, Ego Gratification over the Competent Female Principal.  And Ego Gratification was never on display more than the attempted insurrection on January 6.  A bunch of adrenaline addicted men (mostly) intent on trying to keep Ego Gratification in power.  

Trump is not the most significant cause of this attempt to stem the tide of history, but more a metaphor for the longing to stay “top dog”, and the willingness to use any means to maintain the status quo.  But the world is moving on.  This was the last, futile attempt to keep us all enslaved to the human ego/body/mind’s desire to run things.  To use worn out methods to manipulate for the maintenance of power of the status quo at the pivotal point in history when the Age of Aquarius is being launched.  

What Is the Real Dilemma We Face? 

Some think the problems we face are racial or political division or climate change or economic inequality or….. you name it.  And, while all of these are significant, compelling, even existential problems they are more symptoms than the true cause of our dilemma as humanity.  They are problems that stem from the fear and selfishness that we as human beings are prey to.  Caused by our humanity it itself. 

We are, on the one hand, human animals, subject the same “dog eat dog” impulses as the rest of the animal kingdom.  We are indoctrinated from the time we emerge from the womb (I would say brainwashed) to believe that this is the only reality there is.  Beings driven to survive at any cost, with a thin veneer of culture, civilization, and politeness added in. 

Look around.  What other explanation can there be for the shape our world is in?  It explains the list of problems and others mentioned at the beginning of the first paragraph of this post.  In fact, we misbehave with each other much more than almost any other species.  And our vaunted human minds can excuse anything. 

Simultaneously, on the other hand, we are spiritual beings (I like to say Eternal Beings) living in an amazingly complex bio-mechanical vehicle. Connected, in an exquisitely profound way, to each other as sisters and brothers on a most gorgeous planet. Beings with a Higher Consciousness that stays mostly in the background and about which very little is said, even among the those who practice our mainstream religions.   It’s unfortunate that we are not taught, that we don’t teach ourselves, about this element of our makeup.  Mostly, because we don’t know.  Almost nobody knows about the depth and breadth of our magnificence. 

But more are learning every day because this is the inevitable direction of our evolution.  Our growth as Sparks of The ALL.  We will reach a tipping point at some point in the future, when enough of us are ready, for a Planetary Growth Spurt to occur.  For love to replace hate and light to replace darkness. Not sure it will happen in my lifetime, but maybe in my next one. 

Taking the High Road of Evolution 

It is clear to me that those that evolve the fastest, those who realize their Spiritual Selves, Homo Spiritus, the earliest will benefit from the change the most and be negatively affected by the change the least.  And, unfortunately, there will be those who will lag behind and will be bewildered by the shift.

The distance we have to travel is great.   If you have, unfortunately, grown up in the United States of America as a black or brown person in one of our many barrios/slums/ghettos your outlook for a life of well-being and creativity is bleak.  Your vibrational frequency tends to be rather low and your thoughts about yourself, others around you, your opportunities for escaping your circumstances are few.    

The same is true in the ghettos of the rich and famous.  While material goods may be more readily available and entertainment opportunities for distracting and not caring much for those who don’t have your same circumstances are many, the desert of the Soul is the same. The real richness of life on Planet Earth is no closer here than for those at the lower end of the socio/economic scale.  Peace of mind, joyfulness at the beauty all around, including the beauty of one’s fellows, love and compassion and appreciation of the sacredness of all that surround is sparse everywhere. 

And will stay so until we grow and evolve out of ego identification and the vibration of the cave dwellers.  We suffer and fear at the altar of the human personality.  Of not knowing that we are Eternal Beings of Higher Consciousness.  However, the Transformation that is needed is under way and will continue until it is fully unfolded. 

The Near-Term Future 

There are an increasing number of people who know and will share what they know with those around them.  They will no longer be derided as “woo woo” but valued as trailblazers.  At some point the 100th Monkey syndrome will take effect and there will be a flip.  We will realize that we will not ever go back to the 60s, or the 90s or the 2000s, and that we don’t really want to go back to those times when we were immature and asleep.  In our little cocoons of ignorance.  Asleep to the fact that the butterfly was only a few breaths and a flutter of wings away.  Hail butterflies. 

This is the High Road.  The path that leads to World Citizenship and the assumption of Citizenship in the Solar System, the Galaxy and The ALL.  The full maturity of the species which has been “within” all along, as our Master Teachers have said over and over. 

How?

In the United States we are taking a large step forward.  Our new president has a big heart, unlike the hard heartedness of his predecessor.  Our new vice president, Black/Asian and proud, will be the most powerful vice president in our nation’s history in her position as tiebreaker in the Senate.  People have never been more ready for change, having been participated in national darkness and dysfunctionality for four long years.  We celebrate, even though the pandemic rages.

New conversations are ready to be had among the majority of Americans.  Conversations that have been begun in the midst of darkness.  Conversations about inequality, neglect, denial, suppression, exploitation that we have not been willing to have since before the birth of our nation.  And we’ll also need to discuss how to deprogram a whole generation of people whose despair arose from their racial privilege. 

Many of our institutions have been tried and found wanting, in need of rebuilding on a firmer footing.  Many of our habits have been found to be somewhat vacuous and lacking in substance.  This last year, especially, has been difficult.  Yet compassion and spontaneous unselfishness have sprouted up everywhere.  Being at home and learning to relax there has been rediscovered.  Parents and children have bonded like never before. 

Conclusion.  Acceleration Through Being Quiet

Meditation has joined yoga as Eastern spiritual practices that is ripe for the times.  And ripe for the Times.  My new Higher Consciousness Meditation (HCM) system is right for the times.  Many people don’t have the discipline or desire to spend many years to train their minds to the point that our mind isn’t the dominating force in our lives.  With HCM we bypass mind training and go right to establishing Soul Contact, so that Spirit can predominate.

Sitting down and doing HCM for 5 minutes, twice a day, and employing mindfulness meditation exercises done in 6 second bursts several additional times a day is sufficient for rapid change in our State of Mind to occur.  For Spirit to begin to move with some frequency in our lives.  For the Higher Consciousness characteristics of love, joy, peace, compassion, and more to begin to dominate in our human behavior.

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National Healing Meditation

In these days of insurrection in the nation’s capital that came close to becoming a coup, my nation, the United States of America, my nation is in need of healing.  For those of us who are spiritually inclined it is a time to come to the aid of the health of our democracy.  From our homes, from our.  And do the work that we would do if we were confronted with ill health in our family. 

Swing into action to do the healing work we are capable of in times of crisis.  It is that which we are capable of doing under the circumstances of not being directly involved in the action happening in Washington.  But powerful, nevertheless.  More powerful than we give ourselves credit for.  But which we can add to the swirling soup of national collective consciousness to help the unfolding of events in the direction of Higher Consciousness.  Of growth and evolution. 

Active, Personal Involvement as an Event Develops

If you have read my writings since 2017, you have read more than several times about a meditation I do when taking Sasha dog go on our morning run in the morning. A meditation that I do inspired by one of my Master Teachers, Joel Goldsmith, the 20th Century writer and sage.  He encouraged his readers that  we all should take a moment each day to do a world meditation..  But, as far as I know, he never said how exactly. 

I played with that idea for several years until, an early version of the meditation that I offer below.  One day the mediation process just spang up in my awareness in a complete detailed form.  Since then I have worked on this–letting my Higher Self’s creativity help me evolve it.    And it has evolved from a world meditation to a meditation that includes the entire Universe. 

The Healing Process

 Sasha and I set out every day, shine or rain (when I put her little yellow raincoat on).  As we start out I begin to breathe in and out deeply for a few minutes, just taking the morning.  There’s a mockingbird that lives close to our house and who often greets me with a flurry of song, and I reply in kind—he’s much cleverer at it than I. 

I begin to say to myself, “Illuminate, Elevate”, “Illuminate, Elevate”, “Illuminate, Elevate, Radiate” getting the feeling of each of these words, having the experience of being filled with light, and radiating that light to my surroundings.  I find if I say the words out loud the feeling is amplified and it begins to grow into an experience that, literally, causes my vibratory rate to increase.  

(The rest of the meditation is a lot of repetition of the words, “Illuminate, Radiate”. Just warning you.  Every time is different though in some large or small way.  Creativity at work.)Then, “Illuminate, Elevate”. “Illuminate, Elevate, consciousness in my neighborhood”. “Illuminate, Elevate consciousness.”  (During the coronavirus I added, “Illuminate, Elevate, Healthenate, Immunize, my neighborhood, and continued with each stage.)  Sometimes the neighbors will just happen to come out of their homes and we exchange a “’Mornin’”.“Illuminate, Elevate”. “Illuminate, Elevate, Vallejo (my town)”.  “Illuminate, Elevate, consciousness”.“Illuminate, Elevate”. “Illuminate, Elevate, my Bay Area. North Bay, South Bay, East Bay, West Bay, Central Bay, Bay Area”.  (And in my mind’s eye, I often get a picture of something related to each area).  “Illuminate, Elevate, consciousness.”“Illuminate, Elevate. Illuminate, Elevate consciousness in my Californiaaaa. Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western California.  Central California.  Illuminate, Elevate consciousness” (usually remembering somebody I know in each place). By now we are heading up the hill that we just went down. My sounding of the words comes out with more huff and puff. “Illuminate, Elevate, USAAAAAA.  Illuminate, Elevate.  Illuminate, Elevate, consciousness.  Illuminate, Elevate, Leadership (especially now).  Illuminate, Elevate, Unite our Citizenship”.  (Somewhere right here I begin double timing and then triple timing my gait to get a good aerobic workout as we get to the top of the hill). Also, by now, I am really feeling the illumination and sense of Soul Contact that such a healing exercise can bring.Then we stop. Sasha pees. And turn to walk the rest of the way home.I finish up by illuminating and radiating to Planetary, Solar System, Galaxy, Universe and Eternity levels.   For the purpose of this exercise, I will eliminate the details to leave the exercise at the national level, my country, the target of this particular guided meditation. The Value of Such an Exercise First, thanks to Joel’s inspiration I think I have lifted the vibratory rate of my neighborhood, town, region, state and nation (and Universe), of only an ounce. I have “prayed” for   the elevation of our human consciousness into Higher Consciousness, into Eternal Being Consciousness. I have been doing this for a while and say to myself related to my country, “Illuminate” (meaning raise my consciousness to an Illumination state), “Radiate”, meaning from my illumined state Within, that Spirit “Radiate” out to my country, my fellow citizens, our leaders, and “Elevate”, meaning Elevate our 3 dimensional into 5D Consciousness.And I personally feel invigorated. Lifted up.  Light filled.  Ready to face my day with the knowledge that I, as an individual human being and spark of The ALL, have done all that I know how to do for this day.Conclusion

 Often when events seem out of our control, we don’t know what to do.  We feel helpless.  Unable to influence the outcome of event.  This guided meditation balances that scale. Offers a remedy.   It gives us a format to know what to do.  A format that hangs together and elevates everything, and everybody, if only for just a bit.  Others doing the same add to the amplitude of the vibration.  

 

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