Post by paulmurdoch1975 on Aug 22, 2011 20:11:02 GMT
There are many ways in which one can meditate, and everyone has a different way which suits them. Learning to quiet the mind at will, or turning inwards is one of the most crucial tools in psychic and spiritual development.
Meditation is something that does take some time to learn. Please do not become frustrated if your mind fills with thoughts when you first begin! Just keep trying and it will finally “click” for you. It should become a natural and effortless thing, so that when you feel stress you will be equipped to know how to relax quickly.
Some frequently asked questions :
Why Meditate?
People who meditate regularly become less stressed, let the small (or big) stuff go straight over their heads, feel calmer, happier and more at peace. The senses become sharper and you may even enhance your psychic capabilities too or meet your spirit guides.
What happens when you meditate?
Real mental and physical relaxation!
Your brain waves shift from waking state to alpha state, the same state as us clairvoyants and mediums shift to. Your waking mind and subconscious mind work as one, bringing clarity, focus, understanding, peace, happiness, and positivity. Your problems seem lessened, and your feeling of contentment increases. You feel at peace with the world.
How do we meditate?
There are many, different ways to meditate. None 'better' than any other, it's a matter of individual choice. A few examples:
Focusing on:
Breath
Colour
a candle - stare at it, what can you see in the flame?
A crystal – feel its smoothness or its texture, how cool or warm it is to the touch
Sound. Listening to calming music, or use a mantra, constant repetition of a word or phrase can help to quiet the mind if thoughts keep popping in.
A single word, examining what it means to you, what memories it invokes etc.
Touch - fabric, worry beads, a crystal.
Meditate on a particular issue - ask a question and wait in the stillness for some guidance
Movement – go for a slow walk in a pleasant space, be aware of your movements - each step – be truly in the moment and feel how your weight moves through your feet, how your hips move etc.
Affirmations and/or visualisations for specific issues.
Guided visualisations, cds or visual aids
How often should I meditate?
Regular practice will yield best results.
If possible, try at least 10 minutes, daily. If you can discipline yourself to do it for a few days you will then most likely find that you look forward to it and miss it when you can't manage it. You will notice the effects very quickly and find yourself going back into medi mode several times a day - because it's a wonderful place to be - and because you can!
However if you really can't manage every day, obviously occasionally is better than never.
When should I meditate?
Whenever you can! At around the same time each day if you can, to add to the 'ritual' (see next paragraph). Whenever you get the chance!
Where should I meditate?
Anywhere you can! In the office, on a train, in a traffic jam (NOT while actually driving though!). In a museum or art gallery, walking, waiting for the bus. Be selective about the techniques used depending on the setting, but it's fine to do a meditation on the moment, for example, when eating a meal, appreciate the qualities of your food : its colour, texture, shape, smell, temperature and flavour.
For regular practise at home you may want to designate a particular space. This could be a cushion on the floor, a corner of the garden shed or a whole room. Perhaps you’d like a little meditation altar and furnish it with things you love. Candles, incense, crystals, aromatic oils, a small bell, some feathers, stones, flowers, twigs - whatever means something to you. Performing a ritual such as lighting candles, burning incense , ringing the bell, playing your singing bowl or a gentle piece of music will eventually shorten the time it takes for you to reach a meditative state, because you will become 'conditioned' by the ritual and go within without any effort.
Learning to meditate is a major key to your psychic development.
Here are some easy, short meditations which may help you to find your own way of meditating.
QUICK GROUNDING MEDITATIONS:
Grounding is when we need to have a strong base and centred energy to begin psychic work or meditation, it is how we shed the dross of the day and prepare ourselves to work safely, in the moment.
Meditation 1
This works great for those times at work when you just can't seem to keep your feet still or relax.
Place your feet flat on the floor and breathe in deeply. On the exhale, picture the excess energy flowing out of your feet and into the Earth.
Keep doing this until you feel calm. Usually my feet feel very heavy after doing this.
Meditation 2
Breathe deep from your root chakra at the base of your spine or even visualise yourself breathing up through your feet.
Feel and “see” the earth beneath your feet, you may even wish to imagine the smell of the earth..
Visualise roots growing from within the earth, wrapping firmly around your feet and ankles, up around your calves to the knees. See these roots anchored securely around a black tourmaline crystal sphere deep within the earth.
Be safe in the knowledge that any energy that isn't your own will leave your auric field and will travel down these roots into the earth and be transformed into positive energy.
With either of these grounding meditations complete you are now ready to go on with any meditation.. some of the following may be useful:
A Centring Meditation:
Sit any way that you feel comfy, so long as your spine is straight.
Close your eyes and focus on your breathing. Take very long and very deep breaths through your nose.
Each time you breathe in, hold it for 2 or 3 seconds and then slowly exhale. Continue this breathing until you feel very calm and peaceful. This usually takes 3-5 minutes
( but that is just me).
Take as long as you need. It is different for everyone. Just go at your own pace.
You can also use sound to centre yourself. Just sit quietly and ring a small bell or chimes, or use a Tibetan singing bowl.
Focus on the soft sound and breathe deeply.
Keep making the noise until you feel centred.
A Basic Meditation with a Candle or Incense
This is a useful meditation for relaxation, relieving stress and beginning your journey into more complex visualisation and meditations.
This meditation is very important in quieting the mind, which is a stepping stone to other meditations and visualisation.
Before you begin this meditation it is important to understand the purpose behind it. What should be achieved is the feeling of your thoughts slowing down and hopefully in time, you will reach the point of turning your thoughts off completely.
It is quietness you are seeking.
A few recommendations before beginning:
Choose a quiet location where you will not be disturbed, a lot of people find the bath the best place to meditate.
Wear comfortable clothes (or obviously none if you are in the bath! :0)). Dim the lights as much as possible. If you are new to meditation, it may be helpful to begin by doing your meditation in the morning when you first get out of bed. Your mind won’t be as full with the thoughts of the day and it will be easier to quieten down the thoughts that do pop in.
A focal point is required for this form of meditation, a candle or incense or anything simple as your focal point will do, even a dot on a wall!
Begin in a reclined but seated position, either in a comfortable chair, recliner or in the bath.
Position the object you are using as your focal point at eye level in front of you.
To begin, look at your object and focus all your attention on it. Notice the flame of the candle and how it bends this way and that. Notice how the smoke rises from the incense, or notice the shape of the dot on the wall. Notice the details of the object you are using and focus on them.
Now as you are doing this, begin to notice your breathing. Breathe in through your nose as deeply and slowly as you can….but don’t make yourself uncomfortable.
Then hold the breath for a few seconds and exhale through your mouth.
Try to keep this relaxed breathing going throughout your meditation. Remember it takes time to get used to and it really is not a big deal if you begin breathing through your mouth again.
In and out ..breathe slowly as you focus on your object……
After a few minutes, you will notice that your eyes want to close….allow them to.
When your eyes close, begin focusing on the back of your eyelids. You will notice that random thoughts will enter your mind…Try not to think of them but just notice they are there and let them go.
Breathe deeply and just let go…..If thoughts come, just let them pass on by…….Soon you will begin to slow or completely stop your thinking process….You will feel very relaxed .. See how long you can go.
Now once you begin to notice thoughts once again, its time to bring yourself back to the present.
Keep breathing deeply, but begin to notice the back of your eyelids again. Become aware of your surroundings and slowly open your eyes…You should feel very refreshed and relaxed
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Psychic Development 4 - Closing Down or read on for more meditations..
Power of the Sea Medi
Clear your mind, have no distractions around you.
Close your eyes and breathe deep:
Listen to the gentle waves
Calmness is within you
See how the sunlight glints and plays on the waves
Look far out to sea, as far as the horizon takes you
Feel the breeze, let it inside with a deep breath Feel the soft sand between your toes
Sit in the warm sand
Allow the oceans power inside - breathe deeply and slowly in time with the waves
See the white curl on the crest of the wave
You are breathing with the ocean
Feel its force and its gentleness as one
The waves rhythmic lull fill your senses
You are calmed and rested.
Springtime Meadow
With eyes closed and breathing deep and even:
Take yourself to a spring meadow
Look at all the colours around you, feel the greenery
You feel warm under the gentle spring sun
Hear the birds song
Smell the fresh grass, run your fingertips across the grasses
Catch the scent of wild flowers
Find a spot to lie in the long grasses and admire the sky
Relax, stretch out all your limbs
Breathe in with all of your senses
Let your spirit be infused with these elements
You feel content with the earth
You are peaceful and happy
Recharged with energy, you breathe in and out in long deep breaths
Feel the energy course through you
You are cleansed and ready to face the rest of your day.
Colours of the Chakra Medi:
To visualise your chakras, try to picture them as spinning balls of energy. Visualise each colour cleansing its chakra.
This is a great start for the day, boosting energies and motivating the spirit!
Root / Base Chakra:
Bright red
Sacral / Sexual Chakra:
Bright orange
Solar Plexus Chakra:
Sunny yellow
Heart Chakra:
Bright green or a bright pink
Throat Chakra:
Light blue
Third Eye Chakra:
Transparent indigo
Crown Chakra:
Violet or white
Coloured Candle Medi
Candle colours are the basic colours associated with the Chakras.
They can be used to enhance any meditation and bring well-being in the areas associated with their colour.
Choose a meditation and burn the candle of your chosen colour while focusing upon the properties associated with that colour.
WHITE CANDLE
For higher awareness, protection (from the material plane).
Used for Centring yourself because your not distracted by colour;
Used most often in Meditation for inner peace, Spirituality, and attaining a higher power.
YELLOW CANDLE
Used to visualize greater intellect and will. Good when concentrating on
creative endeavours. Said to increase psychic awareness and clairvoyance.
When trying to expand your imagination, this is a good colour to
concentrate with.
GREEN CANDLE
Used when you are concentrating on finding prosperity, money, and attracting wealth to yourself.
Also used by some when they want to concentrate on getting married,
have a time of good fortune or getting pregnant.
ORANGE CANDLE
Used when visualizing more Creativity in sex.
It is a stimulating colour and related to healing energies.
This is healing for sudden losses or changes.
BLUE CANDLE
Used to concentrate on health, self-expression, peace and tranquillity;
and greater understanding of those around you.
PURPLE CANDLE
Used to stimulate extra-ordinary awareness (psychic powers);
Comfort that this has been a colour associated with Dignity, Spirituality,
and Success it's vibrancy attract people to it.
INDIGO CANDLE
Electric in nature, the colour is said to increase intuition,
Meditation Ability, Spirituality, It is the colour of power.
DARK PINK CANDLE
For finding a pure, gentle, unconditional love and now.
Also used when concentrating on Spiritual Healing
LIGHT PINK CANDLE
For love, especially sexual in nature also used to concentrate on being a
woman, Emotions of Love, Romance, and a true shared Spiritual Awakening.
DARK AND LIGHT CANDLES
if making your own..
Colour with black added brings a darker shade and both the protection of black with the colour symbolism.
Colour with white added and brings with it both the colour symbolism and the white purity and protection from corruption.
An Angel Meditation
Let a stone, pebble, piece of gravel or crystal rest in your palm.
Make sure you will not be disturbed.
Whether you are inside or outside you may like to prepare the space in whatever way feels sacred to you..
If you are new to meditation then perhaps prepare the room with incense or oil burner fragrance, angelic music, flowers, crystals, an altar or clear the space with the sound of a tingsha or a singing bowl.. However you prepare your sacred space is fine and unique to you.
Light a candle .. then begin.
Meditation
1. Sit quietly cross-legged or with your feet flat on the floor.
2. Visualise roots growing from the base of your spine or your feet, down into the earth, anchoring you to a black tourmaline sphere.
3. Imagine a pyramid of pure white light descending from the heavens and being placed round you or your meditation group.
A second pure white pyramid rises from the centre of Earth and joins the first one. You are in the very centre, totally protected by the light.
4. Visualise pure white light pouring down through your crown chakra from above. As you breathe in, bring the light down to your heart centre. On the out breath, let the light flow down from your heart, through your body, allow the light to travel through your limbs and relax the body completely. Take a moment to allow the light and breath to relax you, breathe in.. and out… in with the light… flowing from the heart as you breathe out.. you are now deeply relaxed.
5a. Bring Archangel Michael into your thoughts and allow a radiant blue light to come to you.
b. Ask him to place his energy around you, the energy of courage and strength.
c. Breathe in these qualities deeply and let them flow down through you, into your arms into your hands and into the stone in your palm and the very earth beneath you, feel the energy grow on every out breath.
d. Hold the vision of Michael standing over the Earth, cutting away all cords that attach humanity to lower energy.
6a. Visualise Archangel Gabriel and allow a shimmering white light to flow into and around you as he draws close.
b. Ask Gabriel to pour purification and aspiration into you. Again breathe in these qualities and let them flow down through your limbs into the stone you hold and the earth below you.
c. Hold the vision of Gabriel illuminating the world in white light.
7a. Think about Archangel Uriel, who dissolves fear and brings peace to humanity. Sense his ruby light flowing through you into the stone and the earth.
b. Breathe out all fear.
c. Visualise angels of peace enfolding you in their wings and relax deeply into their embrace, feel the feathers tickling your face, and the love and warmth of these angels.
d. Visualise angels of peace circling the entire world.
8a. Think about Archangel Raphael, who brings healing and abundance and opens the inner vision. Allow his emerald light to flow through you and inot the stone and the earth.
b. Ask him to open your mind to enlightenment.
c. Hold the vision of all the people of the world whole and healed, living in co-operation, harmony and abundance.
9. Focus on the stone in your palm. . Picture yourself holding this stone and others holding the same energy in places round the world.
10. Lift the stone to the top of your head and visualise a symbol of protection, such as a cross or ankh, being placed over your crown chakra.
11.As you bring it down hold it close to each of your chakras in turn, the brow, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and base, visualising the symbol of protection going into each one of them as you move through them.
12. Ask Archangel Michael to place a deep blue cloak of protection around you. Sense this happening. Then zip it from your feet to your chin and pull up the hood and let it cover your third eye/brow chakra.
13.Thank the angels for working with you.
14.Within the next few days take the stone and place it where it is most needed to bring peace and harmony. It may be anywhere, a hospital, or in a public place where many people will benefit from it.
Meet your Spirit Guide
I found it useful to write my own meditation and then record it in my own voice as a guided medi to play back - and its helped some people I've shared my script with - so here it is if you find it useful. All I ask is please don't republish it anywhere without asking me...
Spirit Guide Meeting Meditation
Before undertaking a meditation to meet your guide for the first time, there are some things you should know.
Spirit guides are the same as ordinary people when it comes to communicating with politeness –
“Please” and “Thank you” are still required!
They, like us, appreciate being spoken to with respect. They usually have a good sense of humour - and always only want what’s best for us.
As you get to know your guide, you will get to know their quirks and little ways, and become more comfortable with your communication. Mine are always joking and providing laughter !
Don’t become dependant on direct communication with your Spirit guides. Our own intuition and gifts are aided enough by our guides most of the time anyway.
Communication is on their terms as their first mission is to guide you 24 – 7 on a more subtle and subconscious level.
They will not be summoned to answer trivial questions that have no real illuminating purpose, for your life purpose or the greater good!
Don’t be concerned if you don’t meet your guide first, second or third time you do the meditation – when the time is appropriate for your guide to introduce themselves, they will. Keep trying every so often, and when they know the time is right for us they will step forward, and not before.
This is an easy to follow meditation, suitable to use as a means to meet your guide for the first time.
Don't be concerned if it doesn't happen for you the first time -this is common.
Create the right atmosphere for meditation, unplug the phone and make sure you won’t be disturbed, get yourself a glass of water, play some relaxing music, light a candle or incense, whatever you feel you need for comfort - its important to be as comfortable as possible.
SAFETY FIRST!
I do recommend grounding and placing protection around yourself before you begin.
Record from here:
Concentrate on your breathing, breathe deeply and slowly, in through your nose and out of your mouth. See good energy going in with each breath, and bad energy leaving as you breathe out.
Continue breathing in this way for about a minute, then relax into a steady breathing pattern.
Clear your mind as best you can and allow the scene to unfold in your minds eye.
Visualise yourself sitting in a beautiful wide open place you have been to in your life that evokes happy memories and a feeling of calm, happiness and contentment.
See yourself as truly being there, surrounded by the sights, smells and sounds of your surroundings.
The sun is warm on your face, you turn it upwards and close your eyes, basking in the glow.
Focus on a point of the landscape far in the distance. This may be a tree, hedge, hill, boulder, whatever fits in with the scenery. Really see its detail.
Soon you see a shape emerge from behind this object far in the distance. You smile.
This shape is your guide. Remember, they come in love and peace to introduce themselves and mean you no harm, just to let you know them.
As they come closer, they may walk or glide depending on whether they have chosen human form at this point.
On their approach, you will be able to see details of their appearance, eye colour, facial features, clothing, markings.
You can walk towards them too if you wish. You will be able to feel the love emanating from them as they come closer.
Greet your guide. Ask them to greet you in their chosen way.
It is a delicate process meeting your guide and establishing communication, so if you don't hear them at first, don’t worry.
It is a warm happy feeling- like greeting an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time – for that is exactly who our guides are, old friends.
In this moment of recognition, you may find familiar “memories” come to you of the times you have spent in Spirit or previous lives with your guide.
Don’t worry if all that you see or hear isn't clear.
Remember your guide will never cause or bring harm to you, they are there to protect and guide you...
At this point your guide may embrace you, or even introduce themselves by name – don’t be disappointed if you don’t get a name first time as some guides will not impart a name - some highly evolved Spirit no longer find "name" of any relevance in their realm of elevation.
If you have a little inner sceptic, your guide may pose a question, a challenge or ask you to go and find proof of their former physical existence elsewhere so that you will not doubt yourself as just having made up a fictional guide in your head.
Ask a question or two - but be thoughtful in how you word them so there is only one possible answer. Ambiguous questions will get vague answers!
You now realise as you look into the smiling and loving eyes of your guide that you can solve problems that have been bothering you for some time and that no problem is so large you can't handle it knowing you have the loving support of your guide, for this spirit knows every thing there is to know about you and loves you unconditionally ...and will always be there standing beside you throughout your life.
Take a little time to talk to your guide, if they wish to speak. Some meetings are silent.
Maybe you would like to take a few moments to thank your guide for all the blessings you've received in your life, and for the all the blessings you will continue to receive.
Often our guides communicate symbolically, maybe your guide will show you something or give something to you.
Its time now for you to say goodbye with a gentle hug or a wave goodbye, as you watch your guide turn around and walk back to the point they emerged from in the distance.
You have no feelings of sadness to see your guide go, because you now know completely that wherever you are, whatever you do, your guide is watching over you, and will hear your requests for help.
Look around you again, everything still looks the same, but now it feels different, every thing seems so much lighter and brighter, as you start making your way back to the present, to this place.
You are filled with an added strength you've never known before, feeling so happy as you make your way back home, take one more look behind and keep this image in your mind’s eye for you can come back to this place at anytime.
You are back at home now, listen to the music, open your eyes, take a look around you be aware of your surroundings, maybe you would like to take a drink of your water and take your time before standing up and having a good stretch.
www.rachelkeene.co.uk/meditation.html
Meditation is something that does take some time to learn. Please do not become frustrated if your mind fills with thoughts when you first begin! Just keep trying and it will finally “click” for you. It should become a natural and effortless thing, so that when you feel stress you will be equipped to know how to relax quickly.
Some frequently asked questions :
Why Meditate?
People who meditate regularly become less stressed, let the small (or big) stuff go straight over their heads, feel calmer, happier and more at peace. The senses become sharper and you may even enhance your psychic capabilities too or meet your spirit guides.
What happens when you meditate?
Real mental and physical relaxation!
Your brain waves shift from waking state to alpha state, the same state as us clairvoyants and mediums shift to. Your waking mind and subconscious mind work as one, bringing clarity, focus, understanding, peace, happiness, and positivity. Your problems seem lessened, and your feeling of contentment increases. You feel at peace with the world.
How do we meditate?
There are many, different ways to meditate. None 'better' than any other, it's a matter of individual choice. A few examples:
Focusing on:
Breath
Colour
a candle - stare at it, what can you see in the flame?
A crystal – feel its smoothness or its texture, how cool or warm it is to the touch
Sound. Listening to calming music, or use a mantra, constant repetition of a word or phrase can help to quiet the mind if thoughts keep popping in.
A single word, examining what it means to you, what memories it invokes etc.
Touch - fabric, worry beads, a crystal.
Meditate on a particular issue - ask a question and wait in the stillness for some guidance
Movement – go for a slow walk in a pleasant space, be aware of your movements - each step – be truly in the moment and feel how your weight moves through your feet, how your hips move etc.
Affirmations and/or visualisations for specific issues.
Guided visualisations, cds or visual aids
How often should I meditate?
Regular practice will yield best results.
If possible, try at least 10 minutes, daily. If you can discipline yourself to do it for a few days you will then most likely find that you look forward to it and miss it when you can't manage it. You will notice the effects very quickly and find yourself going back into medi mode several times a day - because it's a wonderful place to be - and because you can!
However if you really can't manage every day, obviously occasionally is better than never.
When should I meditate?
Whenever you can! At around the same time each day if you can, to add to the 'ritual' (see next paragraph). Whenever you get the chance!
Where should I meditate?
Anywhere you can! In the office, on a train, in a traffic jam (NOT while actually driving though!). In a museum or art gallery, walking, waiting for the bus. Be selective about the techniques used depending on the setting, but it's fine to do a meditation on the moment, for example, when eating a meal, appreciate the qualities of your food : its colour, texture, shape, smell, temperature and flavour.
For regular practise at home you may want to designate a particular space. This could be a cushion on the floor, a corner of the garden shed or a whole room. Perhaps you’d like a little meditation altar and furnish it with things you love. Candles, incense, crystals, aromatic oils, a small bell, some feathers, stones, flowers, twigs - whatever means something to you. Performing a ritual such as lighting candles, burning incense , ringing the bell, playing your singing bowl or a gentle piece of music will eventually shorten the time it takes for you to reach a meditative state, because you will become 'conditioned' by the ritual and go within without any effort.
Learning to meditate is a major key to your psychic development.
Here are some easy, short meditations which may help you to find your own way of meditating.
QUICK GROUNDING MEDITATIONS:
Grounding is when we need to have a strong base and centred energy to begin psychic work or meditation, it is how we shed the dross of the day and prepare ourselves to work safely, in the moment.
Meditation 1
This works great for those times at work when you just can't seem to keep your feet still or relax.
Place your feet flat on the floor and breathe in deeply. On the exhale, picture the excess energy flowing out of your feet and into the Earth.
Keep doing this until you feel calm. Usually my feet feel very heavy after doing this.
Meditation 2
Breathe deep from your root chakra at the base of your spine or even visualise yourself breathing up through your feet.
Feel and “see” the earth beneath your feet, you may even wish to imagine the smell of the earth..
Visualise roots growing from within the earth, wrapping firmly around your feet and ankles, up around your calves to the knees. See these roots anchored securely around a black tourmaline crystal sphere deep within the earth.
Be safe in the knowledge that any energy that isn't your own will leave your auric field and will travel down these roots into the earth and be transformed into positive energy.
With either of these grounding meditations complete you are now ready to go on with any meditation.. some of the following may be useful:
A Centring Meditation:
Sit any way that you feel comfy, so long as your spine is straight.
Close your eyes and focus on your breathing. Take very long and very deep breaths through your nose.
Each time you breathe in, hold it for 2 or 3 seconds and then slowly exhale. Continue this breathing until you feel very calm and peaceful. This usually takes 3-5 minutes
( but that is just me).
Take as long as you need. It is different for everyone. Just go at your own pace.
You can also use sound to centre yourself. Just sit quietly and ring a small bell or chimes, or use a Tibetan singing bowl.
Focus on the soft sound and breathe deeply.
Keep making the noise until you feel centred.
A Basic Meditation with a Candle or Incense
This is a useful meditation for relaxation, relieving stress and beginning your journey into more complex visualisation and meditations.
This meditation is very important in quieting the mind, which is a stepping stone to other meditations and visualisation.
Before you begin this meditation it is important to understand the purpose behind it. What should be achieved is the feeling of your thoughts slowing down and hopefully in time, you will reach the point of turning your thoughts off completely.
It is quietness you are seeking.
A few recommendations before beginning:
Choose a quiet location where you will not be disturbed, a lot of people find the bath the best place to meditate.
Wear comfortable clothes (or obviously none if you are in the bath! :0)). Dim the lights as much as possible. If you are new to meditation, it may be helpful to begin by doing your meditation in the morning when you first get out of bed. Your mind won’t be as full with the thoughts of the day and it will be easier to quieten down the thoughts that do pop in.
A focal point is required for this form of meditation, a candle or incense or anything simple as your focal point will do, even a dot on a wall!
Begin in a reclined but seated position, either in a comfortable chair, recliner or in the bath.
Position the object you are using as your focal point at eye level in front of you.
To begin, look at your object and focus all your attention on it. Notice the flame of the candle and how it bends this way and that. Notice how the smoke rises from the incense, or notice the shape of the dot on the wall. Notice the details of the object you are using and focus on them.
Now as you are doing this, begin to notice your breathing. Breathe in through your nose as deeply and slowly as you can….but don’t make yourself uncomfortable.
Then hold the breath for a few seconds and exhale through your mouth.
Try to keep this relaxed breathing going throughout your meditation. Remember it takes time to get used to and it really is not a big deal if you begin breathing through your mouth again.
In and out ..breathe slowly as you focus on your object……
After a few minutes, you will notice that your eyes want to close….allow them to.
When your eyes close, begin focusing on the back of your eyelids. You will notice that random thoughts will enter your mind…Try not to think of them but just notice they are there and let them go.
Breathe deeply and just let go…..If thoughts come, just let them pass on by…….Soon you will begin to slow or completely stop your thinking process….You will feel very relaxed .. See how long you can go.
Now once you begin to notice thoughts once again, its time to bring yourself back to the present.
Keep breathing deeply, but begin to notice the back of your eyelids again. Become aware of your surroundings and slowly open your eyes…You should feel very refreshed and relaxed
:0)
Psychic Development 4 - Closing Down or read on for more meditations..
Power of the Sea Medi
Clear your mind, have no distractions around you.
Close your eyes and breathe deep:
Listen to the gentle waves
Calmness is within you
See how the sunlight glints and plays on the waves
Look far out to sea, as far as the horizon takes you
Feel the breeze, let it inside with a deep breath Feel the soft sand between your toes
Sit in the warm sand
Allow the oceans power inside - breathe deeply and slowly in time with the waves
See the white curl on the crest of the wave
You are breathing with the ocean
Feel its force and its gentleness as one
The waves rhythmic lull fill your senses
You are calmed and rested.
Springtime Meadow
With eyes closed and breathing deep and even:
Take yourself to a spring meadow
Look at all the colours around you, feel the greenery
You feel warm under the gentle spring sun
Hear the birds song
Smell the fresh grass, run your fingertips across the grasses
Catch the scent of wild flowers
Find a spot to lie in the long grasses and admire the sky
Relax, stretch out all your limbs
Breathe in with all of your senses
Let your spirit be infused with these elements
You feel content with the earth
You are peaceful and happy
Recharged with energy, you breathe in and out in long deep breaths
Feel the energy course through you
You are cleansed and ready to face the rest of your day.
Colours of the Chakra Medi:
To visualise your chakras, try to picture them as spinning balls of energy. Visualise each colour cleansing its chakra.
This is a great start for the day, boosting energies and motivating the spirit!
Root / Base Chakra:
Bright red
Sacral / Sexual Chakra:
Bright orange
Solar Plexus Chakra:
Sunny yellow
Heart Chakra:
Bright green or a bright pink
Throat Chakra:
Light blue
Third Eye Chakra:
Transparent indigo
Crown Chakra:
Violet or white
Coloured Candle Medi
Candle colours are the basic colours associated with the Chakras.
They can be used to enhance any meditation and bring well-being in the areas associated with their colour.
Choose a meditation and burn the candle of your chosen colour while focusing upon the properties associated with that colour.
WHITE CANDLE
For higher awareness, protection (from the material plane).
Used for Centring yourself because your not distracted by colour;
Used most often in Meditation for inner peace, Spirituality, and attaining a higher power.
YELLOW CANDLE
Used to visualize greater intellect and will. Good when concentrating on
creative endeavours. Said to increase psychic awareness and clairvoyance.
When trying to expand your imagination, this is a good colour to
concentrate with.
GREEN CANDLE
Used when you are concentrating on finding prosperity, money, and attracting wealth to yourself.
Also used by some when they want to concentrate on getting married,
have a time of good fortune or getting pregnant.
ORANGE CANDLE
Used when visualizing more Creativity in sex.
It is a stimulating colour and related to healing energies.
This is healing for sudden losses or changes.
BLUE CANDLE
Used to concentrate on health, self-expression, peace and tranquillity;
and greater understanding of those around you.
PURPLE CANDLE
Used to stimulate extra-ordinary awareness (psychic powers);
Comfort that this has been a colour associated with Dignity, Spirituality,
and Success it's vibrancy attract people to it.
INDIGO CANDLE
Electric in nature, the colour is said to increase intuition,
Meditation Ability, Spirituality, It is the colour of power.
DARK PINK CANDLE
For finding a pure, gentle, unconditional love and now.
Also used when concentrating on Spiritual Healing
LIGHT PINK CANDLE
For love, especially sexual in nature also used to concentrate on being a
woman, Emotions of Love, Romance, and a true shared Spiritual Awakening.
DARK AND LIGHT CANDLES
if making your own..
Colour with black added brings a darker shade and both the protection of black with the colour symbolism.
Colour with white added and brings with it both the colour symbolism and the white purity and protection from corruption.
An Angel Meditation
Let a stone, pebble, piece of gravel or crystal rest in your palm.
Make sure you will not be disturbed.
Whether you are inside or outside you may like to prepare the space in whatever way feels sacred to you..
If you are new to meditation then perhaps prepare the room with incense or oil burner fragrance, angelic music, flowers, crystals, an altar or clear the space with the sound of a tingsha or a singing bowl.. However you prepare your sacred space is fine and unique to you.
Light a candle .. then begin.
Meditation
1. Sit quietly cross-legged or with your feet flat on the floor.
2. Visualise roots growing from the base of your spine or your feet, down into the earth, anchoring you to a black tourmaline sphere.
3. Imagine a pyramid of pure white light descending from the heavens and being placed round you or your meditation group.
A second pure white pyramid rises from the centre of Earth and joins the first one. You are in the very centre, totally protected by the light.
4. Visualise pure white light pouring down through your crown chakra from above. As you breathe in, bring the light down to your heart centre. On the out breath, let the light flow down from your heart, through your body, allow the light to travel through your limbs and relax the body completely. Take a moment to allow the light and breath to relax you, breathe in.. and out… in with the light… flowing from the heart as you breathe out.. you are now deeply relaxed.
5a. Bring Archangel Michael into your thoughts and allow a radiant blue light to come to you.
b. Ask him to place his energy around you, the energy of courage and strength.
c. Breathe in these qualities deeply and let them flow down through you, into your arms into your hands and into the stone in your palm and the very earth beneath you, feel the energy grow on every out breath.
d. Hold the vision of Michael standing over the Earth, cutting away all cords that attach humanity to lower energy.
6a. Visualise Archangel Gabriel and allow a shimmering white light to flow into and around you as he draws close.
b. Ask Gabriel to pour purification and aspiration into you. Again breathe in these qualities and let them flow down through your limbs into the stone you hold and the earth below you.
c. Hold the vision of Gabriel illuminating the world in white light.
7a. Think about Archangel Uriel, who dissolves fear and brings peace to humanity. Sense his ruby light flowing through you into the stone and the earth.
b. Breathe out all fear.
c. Visualise angels of peace enfolding you in their wings and relax deeply into their embrace, feel the feathers tickling your face, and the love and warmth of these angels.
d. Visualise angels of peace circling the entire world.
8a. Think about Archangel Raphael, who brings healing and abundance and opens the inner vision. Allow his emerald light to flow through you and inot the stone and the earth.
b. Ask him to open your mind to enlightenment.
c. Hold the vision of all the people of the world whole and healed, living in co-operation, harmony and abundance.
9. Focus on the stone in your palm. . Picture yourself holding this stone and others holding the same energy in places round the world.
10. Lift the stone to the top of your head and visualise a symbol of protection, such as a cross or ankh, being placed over your crown chakra.
11.As you bring it down hold it close to each of your chakras in turn, the brow, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral and base, visualising the symbol of protection going into each one of them as you move through them.
12. Ask Archangel Michael to place a deep blue cloak of protection around you. Sense this happening. Then zip it from your feet to your chin and pull up the hood and let it cover your third eye/brow chakra.
13.Thank the angels for working with you.
14.Within the next few days take the stone and place it where it is most needed to bring peace and harmony. It may be anywhere, a hospital, or in a public place where many people will benefit from it.
Meet your Spirit Guide
I found it useful to write my own meditation and then record it in my own voice as a guided medi to play back - and its helped some people I've shared my script with - so here it is if you find it useful. All I ask is please don't republish it anywhere without asking me...
Spirit Guide Meeting Meditation
Before undertaking a meditation to meet your guide for the first time, there are some things you should know.
Spirit guides are the same as ordinary people when it comes to communicating with politeness –
“Please” and “Thank you” are still required!
They, like us, appreciate being spoken to with respect. They usually have a good sense of humour - and always only want what’s best for us.
As you get to know your guide, you will get to know their quirks and little ways, and become more comfortable with your communication. Mine are always joking and providing laughter !
Don’t become dependant on direct communication with your Spirit guides. Our own intuition and gifts are aided enough by our guides most of the time anyway.
Communication is on their terms as their first mission is to guide you 24 – 7 on a more subtle and subconscious level.
They will not be summoned to answer trivial questions that have no real illuminating purpose, for your life purpose or the greater good!
Don’t be concerned if you don’t meet your guide first, second or third time you do the meditation – when the time is appropriate for your guide to introduce themselves, they will. Keep trying every so often, and when they know the time is right for us they will step forward, and not before.
This is an easy to follow meditation, suitable to use as a means to meet your guide for the first time.
Don't be concerned if it doesn't happen for you the first time -this is common.
Create the right atmosphere for meditation, unplug the phone and make sure you won’t be disturbed, get yourself a glass of water, play some relaxing music, light a candle or incense, whatever you feel you need for comfort - its important to be as comfortable as possible.
SAFETY FIRST!
I do recommend grounding and placing protection around yourself before you begin.
Record from here:
Concentrate on your breathing, breathe deeply and slowly, in through your nose and out of your mouth. See good energy going in with each breath, and bad energy leaving as you breathe out.
Continue breathing in this way for about a minute, then relax into a steady breathing pattern.
Clear your mind as best you can and allow the scene to unfold in your minds eye.
Visualise yourself sitting in a beautiful wide open place you have been to in your life that evokes happy memories and a feeling of calm, happiness and contentment.
See yourself as truly being there, surrounded by the sights, smells and sounds of your surroundings.
The sun is warm on your face, you turn it upwards and close your eyes, basking in the glow.
Focus on a point of the landscape far in the distance. This may be a tree, hedge, hill, boulder, whatever fits in with the scenery. Really see its detail.
Soon you see a shape emerge from behind this object far in the distance. You smile.
This shape is your guide. Remember, they come in love and peace to introduce themselves and mean you no harm, just to let you know them.
As they come closer, they may walk or glide depending on whether they have chosen human form at this point.
On their approach, you will be able to see details of their appearance, eye colour, facial features, clothing, markings.
You can walk towards them too if you wish. You will be able to feel the love emanating from them as they come closer.
Greet your guide. Ask them to greet you in their chosen way.
It is a delicate process meeting your guide and establishing communication, so if you don't hear them at first, don’t worry.
It is a warm happy feeling- like greeting an old friend you haven’t seen in a long time – for that is exactly who our guides are, old friends.
In this moment of recognition, you may find familiar “memories” come to you of the times you have spent in Spirit or previous lives with your guide.
Don’t worry if all that you see or hear isn't clear.
Remember your guide will never cause or bring harm to you, they are there to protect and guide you...
At this point your guide may embrace you, or even introduce themselves by name – don’t be disappointed if you don’t get a name first time as some guides will not impart a name - some highly evolved Spirit no longer find "name" of any relevance in their realm of elevation.
If you have a little inner sceptic, your guide may pose a question, a challenge or ask you to go and find proof of their former physical existence elsewhere so that you will not doubt yourself as just having made up a fictional guide in your head.
Ask a question or two - but be thoughtful in how you word them so there is only one possible answer. Ambiguous questions will get vague answers!
You now realise as you look into the smiling and loving eyes of your guide that you can solve problems that have been bothering you for some time and that no problem is so large you can't handle it knowing you have the loving support of your guide, for this spirit knows every thing there is to know about you and loves you unconditionally ...and will always be there standing beside you throughout your life.
Take a little time to talk to your guide, if they wish to speak. Some meetings are silent.
Maybe you would like to take a few moments to thank your guide for all the blessings you've received in your life, and for the all the blessings you will continue to receive.
Often our guides communicate symbolically, maybe your guide will show you something or give something to you.
Its time now for you to say goodbye with a gentle hug or a wave goodbye, as you watch your guide turn around and walk back to the point they emerged from in the distance.
You have no feelings of sadness to see your guide go, because you now know completely that wherever you are, whatever you do, your guide is watching over you, and will hear your requests for help.
Look around you again, everything still looks the same, but now it feels different, every thing seems so much lighter and brighter, as you start making your way back to the present, to this place.
You are filled with an added strength you've never known before, feeling so happy as you make your way back home, take one more look behind and keep this image in your mind’s eye for you can come back to this place at anytime.
You are back at home now, listen to the music, open your eyes, take a look around you be aware of your surroundings, maybe you would like to take a drink of your water and take your time before standing up and having a good stretch.
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