Inner Silence – Exercises

 
Inner Silence – Exercises  
 
 




  

Exercise 1: Letting go
 
This meditation is about letting go of everything that stands in the way of the inner silence, the inner emptiness. This is not a formal sitting meditation, but a on-going awareness meditation to continously letting go of anger, fear, sadness, frustration and loneliness that stands in the way of the inner silence.
 
“Silence is the source of healing. When we bring things from within ourselves out into the light of awareness, a healing process happens. In the silence, we can let go of all anger, sadness, fear, loneliness and frustration.” 
 
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Exercise 2:. The Inner Silence in the Moment
 
The inner silence is always in the moment. This is an awareness exercise, which aims at turning your attention within yourself during moments during the day to come in contact with yourself and the inner silence.
 
“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence. Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. First this brought up fear, but now I am enjoying this meditation of disappering into the silence and to be nobody. I have started experimenting with this phenomenon to understand how to consciously go beyond the ego: yesterday when I took a cofee at a restaurant, I consciously turned my attention within and disappeared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss.”
 
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Exercise 3: Being dependent on others
 
Being dependent on other people is a bondage, instead of freedom. This is an awareness exercise to put the light of awareness on how you relate to other people – and whether this relating comes out of bondage or freedom. 
 
“When we depend on other people, it becomes a bondage - instead of a freedom. I took this sunday as a meditation to be consciously alone, and to accept all feelings of pain, of not being loved and the fear of being nobody that would come up during the meditation. This meditation goes up and down during the day: at certain moments, I can totally accept my aloneness. It feels fine to accept that I am alone and that I am nobody. At other moments, I feel the pain of not being loved, when the meditation brings up how dependence on other people is a barrier to totally accept my aloneness.
 
I take a coffee at a restaurant. I am the only person that sits alone in the restaurant, while the other guests are couples and families eating sunday dinner. It brings up painful feelings of not being loved and wanting to be needed by other people, when I see how much people cling to each other in the couples and the families.
 
Escaping your aloneness through relationships and needing other people’s attention through being a teacher, a politician or by being rich or famous, are ways of escaping the pain of aloneness. But then the relationships are not really love. Only when you are capable of being alone, you can really love.
 
When we can be alone, we discover the inner source of love, which is our true nature. When we can be alone, it open the door to be one with the Whole.”
 
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Exercise 4: Aloneness
 
Aloneness is the door to the inner silence, to egolessness. This is a awareness exercise to be consciously alone, to accept and rejoice in your aloneness. During moment during the day, turn your attention within yourself and accept your inner aloneness. Also take time to be with yourself, to be consciously alone with yourself. In aloneness, you are not. 
 
“Meditation is the way to be with ourselves and to learn to accept our own aloneness.”
 
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“I have always been comfortable with my own aloneness as an inner source of love, joy, truth, silence and wholeness.”
 
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“In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, you are not.”
 
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Exercise 5: Walking Consciously
 
This is a meditation to walk consciously when you are on your way to somewhere. When you walk turn your attention within and walk consciously, be with the people and situation that you meet , instead of having your mind constantly commenting everything. This is a meditation to being with Existence when you walk.
 
 
“When I am walking, I consciously experiment with being with Existence without having the mind constantly commenting. I try to just be wordlessly with the people and situations that I meet on my walk. When I can just be with Existence, it open the door to be one with the Whole.”
 
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