Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meditation. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

The potential of the whole

I experienced this lovely meditation while receiving absent healing from two friends.

It was very powerful and took me to a place of expansive understanding.

Meditation
Quieten your mind and consciously release any tension that you feel throughout your body.

Visualise a golden ball of light within the earth and take a strand of that light up through the base of your spine and let it rest in your heart centre.  Next, visualise a white ball of light just above your head in your soul centre and allow a strand of that light energy to flow through the crown centre at the top of the head and down into your heart centre. Take a moment to adjust to being connected above and below.

Take yourself to the shore of a vast and isolated lake. Sit quietly and meditate as the waters stretch out before you. The sun is setting and  dusk is upon you creating a slight haze across the lake. 

As you meditate, you become aware of a light within you, a single flame gradually growing brighter. As your mind quietens, you become less aware of yourself and start to blend with the flame until you and the flame are as one, glowing brightly.

With the light that you are generating, you now become aware that there is something across the other side of the lake. As the image clears in your mind, you realise that what you are seeing is another light, another flame, on the opposite shore of the lake.

Soon, you notice another light glowing to the left and then another to the right. Gradually, more and more lights appear. When you first sat on the lake shore, you thought you were alone, now you realise there are many lights, many flames, dotted all around you.

You watch as all the individual flames flicker and dance, uniting together as one.   You are no longer a single flame, you are part of each and every light you see around you.

The flames reflect in the water of the lake, magnifying the potential of the light being generated. The surface of the lake becomes alive, a glowing glistening expanse of pure intent. A pool of light, a pool of love, a pool of potential which radiates out to the far corners of a space beyond the extent of your imagination. 

You realise the potential of the whole is far greater than the individual and, more importantly, that the individual is always part of the whole. Keep this thought in mind, while you sit for a few more moments or as long as you feel comfortable.

Slowly bring your senses and awareness back into the room, become aware of the feeling of the earth beneath your feet and open your eyes when you feel ready.

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

A rose in the heart

This is a really simple but beautiful meditation, inspired by an article I read in an old copy of Paradigm Shift Magazine.

Rose are symbolic of love and are lovely to use with a heart centred meditation. This meditation represents the opening of  the heart centre to reveal our inner beauty and the light which shines from our core.

Meditation
Quieten your mind and consciously release any tension that you feel throughout your body.

Visualise a golden ball of light within the earth and take a strand of that light up through the base of your spine and let it rest in your heart centre.  Next, visualise a white ball of light just above your head in your soul centre and allow a strand of that light energy to flow through the crown centre at the top of the head and down into your heart centre. Take a moment to adjust to being connected above and below.

Using the creative imagination, visualise a pure white rose within the white ball of light just above your head.

See this rose coming down through the top of your head, your crown chakra, and continuing down through the brow and throat and then into the heart.

Focus your awareness on this rose and pay particular attention to its petals.

Watch as the petals unfold and open out one by one, as the rose expands  to reveal an inner bud .

Now that the rose is fully open, it radiates out beautifully soft, loving light and energy.

Stay with your focus on the rose within the heart for as long as you feel comfortable before moving on to the next step.

Slowly bring your senses and awareness back into the room, become aware of the feeling of the earth beneath your feet and open your eyes when you feel ready.

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

The light in the clearing


Using the power of the creative imagination, this meditation enables you to visualise a space where the lower mind can becomes quiet.

In this stillness, your being becomes vitalised and your true thoughts become clear




Meditation
Quieten your mind and consciously release any tension that you feel throughout your body.

Visualise a golden ball of light within the earth and take a strand of that light up through the base of your spine and let it rest in your heart centre.  Next, visualise a white ball of light just above your head in your soul centre and allow a strand of that light energy to flow through the crown centre at the top of the head and down into your heart centre. Take a moment to adjust to being connected above and below.

See yourself standing before a vast field of long tall grass. The grasses are as tall as you are and  sway in the breeze like a golden sea. You find yourself a pathway through the tall grass and as you pass through you notice the dull hum and constant buzzing noise that they make as they dance in the wind.

You come to a clearing in the centre of the field and notice a sphere of light in the middle of this clearing. You go to sit down and notice a seat made perfectly for you.

As you sit, you become aware of a stillness, a silence far removed from the hum of the long grasses. This stillness makes the sphere of light in front of you ever brighter. As you sit and bask in the light emmanating from the sphere you find strength and comfort from the stillness that surrounds you.

Sit there as long as you need. You may hear words of inspiration, images or some form of message. Make a note of anything that comes to you. Know that this seat by the sphere of light in the clearing is always there for you to return to.

When you are ready, rise from your seat and walk out of the clearing to find the path back through the field of tall grass.  Walk through the field of golden swaying grasses until you are back at the edge of the field where you began.

Slowly bring your senses and awareness back into the room, become aware of the feeling of the earth beneath your feet and open your eyes when you feel ready.