Post by shadowfox on Nov 14, 2011 12:45:43 GMT
Just what is meditation?
Meditation is the doorway to the inner you. The real you,
the you that is hidden away. It is altering your perceptions of yourself
and the things around you, and allows you to understand the reality of magic
and just what it is.
It is also the foundation of many pagan practices such as gathering power
astral travel, dream walking, healing both self and others. So it would be fair
to say the it is probably one of the most important if not the most important
thing you will learn to do as a pagan.
There are many different techniques that you can use to meditate, and the following
are just a few that i know of.
Grounding and centering.
before one can learn to meditate i believe it is important to learn to ground and center first.
grounding means to feel secure, to root yourself to mother earth, to bring nature
into yourself and to bring yourself into nature.
Centering means to find the ultimate, peaceful calm at the center of your being, stretching
out to the center of where you are standing , to the center of the planet, into the center of the universe.
It is a good idea to ground and center before and after you preform and magical rituals and or meditation.
TO GROUND: Take three deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Close your eyes. Imagine your feet are like the roots of a tree and go deep into the earth, feel the
energy of mother earth.
TO Center: Imagine that you energy is merging with that of the universe. allow the sounds, and smells of
the world around you to pass through you, like you were a ghost. Now concentrate on your solar plexus area.
see a glowing ball of energy, now let this energy expand, it has no limit on how far it can expand.
now allow yourself to slowly become one with the universe. this is the still point.
Just these two techniques can take months to master. but it always takes time and effort on the practitioners part
to bring these things into being.
daily practice is needed to master meditation, some find it easy, others find it difficult, for
one reason or another. For some it is fear, fear of what they may discover about themselves, fear of the unknown
others have a hard time because of health problems. But in the end of it all they discover that they are the
only ones that can do it, through meditation they become the masters of themselves.
Basic meditation.
1. find a nice quiet area that you will not be bothered for at least 1 half hour.
2. have a candle or a light of some kind, make sure it is not to bright.
3. have some kind of back ground noise. Natural sounds i find work best for me, but others it is music.
4. now start the back ground noise and light the candle, make sure the candle is far enough away that you can not knock it over.
5. you can either sit or lie down, i prefer sitting cause if i lie down i usually fall asleep.
6. Start taking deep breaths, slowly, in through nose out through mouth.
7. Start to relax, starting at your toes. Move up you body untill you reach the crown of your head. All the while breathing deeply.
8. once you are relaxed start to blank you mind. picture a blank sheet of paper in you minds eye, Random thoughts will pop into your mind
but gently push them to the side. This is natural as you mind and body hate to be ignored. you need to train your mind to ignore these things.
once you have achieved the blank mind you will be able to do many different things. As I said earlier this is the foundation,
for all forms of meditative work.
Many of these things will be explained in later lessons.
The Second part of the lessons for this evening is cleansing of self and tools.
What is cleansing?
Cleansing is cleaning something of all negative energy and positively charging it with positive energy.
How does something get negative energy?
Energy either positive or negative is around us at all times. If we are sick we have negative energy within us that affects us
in a negative way. Plants that are sick are the same way, as with animals and every other living thing. Even none living things
can have negative and positive energy in them. The energy i speak of is the universal energy. It is an energy that permeates
everything in the multiverse. Some call it magic, energy, but for now let us just call it energy.
If an object or person is around another object or person that has negative energy, in people it can be called a bad attitude,
bad mood, negative personality etc, and object or person can absorb the negative energy from the negative person, for the negative
energy radiates from them like a radiation so to speak. We can even affect ourselves because of negative attitudes, and such.
some things in nature naturally radiate negative energy, some naturally radiate positive energy.
now how do i get rid of this negative energy do you ask?
well remember the meditation i was talking about earlier, well that is the start of it.
first you need to get into a meditative state. now that you are in that state, picture a white light that starts at a spot just above your eyes and in line with you nose.
this is you third eye. allow this white light to totally envelope you in a cocoon. Now picture all negative energy as a different color, usually black.
now as the cocoon envelopes you picture this black energy dissipating, until it is all gone. Now allow yourself to exit the cocoon
and be born anew.
this is one way to cleanse yourself, without the aid of spells and such. I feel it is important to learn this method
because one is not always able to preform the needed spells and rituals when needed. But one can always meditate.
can i cleans my magical tools this way as well?
the answer is yes. the difference is instead of focusing the light from your third eye on yourself you focus it on the tool you want to cleans.
ie. You have just finished putting the finishing touches on your wand. and before you consecrate it and name it you wish to cleanse it.
go into your meditative state, now have the light from you third eye envelope your wand while you hold it with both hands in front of you.
see the different colors now use the white light to remove the other colors, until all that is left is the purity of the white light.
when you see this the item is cleansed.
once again this is one way of cleansing.
But why white light, why not green or yellow.
Well white represents purity, also white is the presence of all colors, and black is the absence of all color. so white, has all color that you want.
plus all the other colors as well which is a bonus on you part.
why do you not show us the spells for cleansing yourself and tools?
To be honest every path has different ways of preforming these things, and to choose one is to show favoritism towards one path
and that is not my intention, If you have a path that you are following then first cleanse the yourself and your items the way i have shown you
then cleans them in the method that your path calls for.
shadowfoxsden.piczo.com/?g=34913011
Meditation is the doorway to the inner you. The real you,
the you that is hidden away. It is altering your perceptions of yourself
and the things around you, and allows you to understand the reality of magic
and just what it is.
It is also the foundation of many pagan practices such as gathering power
astral travel, dream walking, healing both self and others. So it would be fair
to say the it is probably one of the most important if not the most important
thing you will learn to do as a pagan.
There are many different techniques that you can use to meditate, and the following
are just a few that i know of.
Grounding and centering.
before one can learn to meditate i believe it is important to learn to ground and center first.
grounding means to feel secure, to root yourself to mother earth, to bring nature
into yourself and to bring yourself into nature.
Centering means to find the ultimate, peaceful calm at the center of your being, stretching
out to the center of where you are standing , to the center of the planet, into the center of the universe.
It is a good idea to ground and center before and after you preform and magical rituals and or meditation.
TO GROUND: Take three deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Close your eyes. Imagine your feet are like the roots of a tree and go deep into the earth, feel the
energy of mother earth.
TO Center: Imagine that you energy is merging with that of the universe. allow the sounds, and smells of
the world around you to pass through you, like you were a ghost. Now concentrate on your solar plexus area.
see a glowing ball of energy, now let this energy expand, it has no limit on how far it can expand.
now allow yourself to slowly become one with the universe. this is the still point.
Just these two techniques can take months to master. but it always takes time and effort on the practitioners part
to bring these things into being.
daily practice is needed to master meditation, some find it easy, others find it difficult, for
one reason or another. For some it is fear, fear of what they may discover about themselves, fear of the unknown
others have a hard time because of health problems. But in the end of it all they discover that they are the
only ones that can do it, through meditation they become the masters of themselves.
Basic meditation.
1. find a nice quiet area that you will not be bothered for at least 1 half hour.
2. have a candle or a light of some kind, make sure it is not to bright.
3. have some kind of back ground noise. Natural sounds i find work best for me, but others it is music.
4. now start the back ground noise and light the candle, make sure the candle is far enough away that you can not knock it over.
5. you can either sit or lie down, i prefer sitting cause if i lie down i usually fall asleep.
6. Start taking deep breaths, slowly, in through nose out through mouth.
7. Start to relax, starting at your toes. Move up you body untill you reach the crown of your head. All the while breathing deeply.
8. once you are relaxed start to blank you mind. picture a blank sheet of paper in you minds eye, Random thoughts will pop into your mind
but gently push them to the side. This is natural as you mind and body hate to be ignored. you need to train your mind to ignore these things.
once you have achieved the blank mind you will be able to do many different things. As I said earlier this is the foundation,
for all forms of meditative work.
Many of these things will be explained in later lessons.
The Second part of the lessons for this evening is cleansing of self and tools.
What is cleansing?
Cleansing is cleaning something of all negative energy and positively charging it with positive energy.
How does something get negative energy?
Energy either positive or negative is around us at all times. If we are sick we have negative energy within us that affects us
in a negative way. Plants that are sick are the same way, as with animals and every other living thing. Even none living things
can have negative and positive energy in them. The energy i speak of is the universal energy. It is an energy that permeates
everything in the multiverse. Some call it magic, energy, but for now let us just call it energy.
If an object or person is around another object or person that has negative energy, in people it can be called a bad attitude,
bad mood, negative personality etc, and object or person can absorb the negative energy from the negative person, for the negative
energy radiates from them like a radiation so to speak. We can even affect ourselves because of negative attitudes, and such.
some things in nature naturally radiate negative energy, some naturally radiate positive energy.
now how do i get rid of this negative energy do you ask?
well remember the meditation i was talking about earlier, well that is the start of it.
first you need to get into a meditative state. now that you are in that state, picture a white light that starts at a spot just above your eyes and in line with you nose.
this is you third eye. allow this white light to totally envelope you in a cocoon. Now picture all negative energy as a different color, usually black.
now as the cocoon envelopes you picture this black energy dissipating, until it is all gone. Now allow yourself to exit the cocoon
and be born anew.
this is one way to cleanse yourself, without the aid of spells and such. I feel it is important to learn this method
because one is not always able to preform the needed spells and rituals when needed. But one can always meditate.
can i cleans my magical tools this way as well?
the answer is yes. the difference is instead of focusing the light from your third eye on yourself you focus it on the tool you want to cleans.
ie. You have just finished putting the finishing touches on your wand. and before you consecrate it and name it you wish to cleanse it.
go into your meditative state, now have the light from you third eye envelope your wand while you hold it with both hands in front of you.
see the different colors now use the white light to remove the other colors, until all that is left is the purity of the white light.
when you see this the item is cleansed.
once again this is one way of cleansing.
But why white light, why not green or yellow.
Well white represents purity, also white is the presence of all colors, and black is the absence of all color. so white, has all color that you want.
plus all the other colors as well which is a bonus on you part.
why do you not show us the spells for cleansing yourself and tools?
To be honest every path has different ways of preforming these things, and to choose one is to show favoritism towards one path
and that is not my intention, If you have a path that you are following then first cleanse the yourself and your items the way i have shown you
then cleans them in the method that your path calls for.
shadowfoxsden.piczo.com/?g=34913011
