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Meditation

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Sleep is the best meditation.  Dalai Lama

We tend to think of meditation in only one way.  But life itself is a meditation.  Raul Julia

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching.  They may awaken simply because they can’t take the suffering anymore.   Eckhart Tolle

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.  Deepak Chopra

Become slower in your journey through life.  Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‘hurry sickness.’  Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes.  Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.   Wayne Dyer

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.   Voltaire

Meditation Works For Me

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When I was 19 years old, I read a book called “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment” by Thaddeus Golas.  Since then, I’ve read it again at various times in my life.  This book motivated me to change my vibration level by meditating.  Over time and changing circumstances, and most likely because of my Christian background, I began to use meditation as a means to secure necessities and desires.  Coming full circle, I have returned to my original intent to change my vibration and energy, to increase my awareness, and to go deeper into understanding.

Many years ago, I received an awareness that, no matter what happened, I was to remain seated within a circle.  I didn’t fully comprehend this at the time.  Looking back years later, I saw that I ran away from intense challenges or ran aggressively forward in confrontation.  Never did I sit quietly in contemplation or acceptance.  Over time, I grew tired of banging my head against the wall.  I grew weary of and exhausted from conflict, resentment, and pain resulting from judgment and condemnation – whether mine or that of others.

Now, I primarily meditate to center myself, to connect to that which is Eternal and Infinite, and to access within myself joy, peace, harmony, and understanding.  I now fully understand what it means to stay seated within my circle.  Not only do I meditate, I find time to be still, to read, to listen and reflect.

I practice various forms of meditation.  I prefer to sit in silence.  Sometimes, however, I cannot stop my thoughts and my mind races with worry, fear, and anxiety.  In these situations, I use guided meditations.  On occasion, I fall sleep with selected meditations playing in my ear.  I believe in the adage, “Thoughts held in mind produce in kind.”  From personal experience, I know that – regardless of the reason, rationale, or justification – unproductive energy will materialize in my life when negativity of any kind emanates from my thoughts, speech, and behavior.  So I’ve got to keep my mind focused on the positive by any means necessary.

Meditation, whether silent or guided, helps to calm me.  It helps me to hold onto my faith while I’m going through the fire.  One morning, I awoke agitated, upset, and overwhelmed with panic and dread.  I had no desire to do anything but lie in bed with the covers pulled over my head.  I decided to mediate.  An hour later, I experienced a peace that I carried throughout the day.

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The Infinity of God

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I have visions of a past self.  I call her “the Priestess.”  She is able to directly connect with the Source.  I don’t yet have the name she and her people used.  Once, I sensed that she was reading my written intentions that I periodically state aloud after my meditations.  She expressed irritation at the part where I affirm that all of my bills are paid and my financial obligations are met.  The Priestess abruptly disappeared.

I was confused and, thereafter, asked her to tell me what I should instead be doing.  No answer.

During the next morning’s meditation, I focused my thoughts on God and the infinity of abundance and harmony.  As I continued to meditate on this infinity that is beyond comprehension, I thought of my list of items and suddenly understood.  The Priestess thought that my specific desires were a sign that I still did not comprehend God.  I had not evolved sufficiently to interact with her.

The infinity of God cannot be limited, contained within, or guided and directed by a list.

I began to focus on Infinity and remembered my past lessons when I understood that I became too focused on yoga, swimming, bicycling, etc., as my joy, instead of seeing them as instruments to access JOY or as manifestations of the Creative Energy working in and through me.

When I focus on lack, I focus on obtaining money and jobs instead of focusing on the Infinite Abundance within me and creating from that Assurance.

During my next meditation, I asked for guidance.  I began to silently say: “I see God.  I hear God.  I understand God.  I feel God,” and feel the corresponding eyes, ears, heart, and mind.  I meditated on these self-made mantras whenever I felt my thoughts wander.  I expanded to “I understand God (consciousness).  I receive God (cells).  I give God (exhaling).  This led to visualizing God flowing in and through me, as me.  I am God manifested.

I began to say, “I see God’s abundance.  I feel God’s abundance.  I hear God’s abundance. I understand God’s abundance.  I give and receive God’s abundance.  I thought of the boy in The Alchemist who turned himself into the wind.  Initially, I thought of God as having dominion over the wind.  As I continued to contemplate, I felt God as integrated within and throughout the wind.  God is the wind.  There is no separation.  The boy became aware of himself as God unseparated, God manifested.  He, thus, became aware that he was also the wind and, by this comprehension, was able to transport himself to another location.

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Patience

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In my guided meditation this morning, I focused on the statements: “My True Self is all that I hold dear.  I AM my mother, my father, my best friend.  I AM health and abundance.”  I have meditated on these before, but today I felt their truth more intensely.  I felt, “I AM that which I seek.”

My logical mind intruded and said, “Well, where are they? Why don’t you have them?”  As usual, it argued with itself, saying “I can walk and see.  I have enough to eat” and then, “You don’t have self-sufficiency.  You don’t have all of the money that you need to live as you would like, to be debt-free, to travel, to live without anxiety.”  Monkey mind.  I refocused on my breath and my statements.

A thought came through: “That is like the sea saying ‘’where is the water?’ or the sky saying ‘I don’t have enough air!'”

Hmmm . . .  I resettled into the silence of my meditation, again feeling that I AM.

I sat long in my meditation because my energy and emotions were low.  Things aren’t happening within my desired time frame.  I have high periods during which unexpected great things happen, after which there seems to be no momentum.  I continue to climb up a mountain with no apparent summit.  I get tired and discouraged, wondering when am I going to reach my destination.  Yes, I mentally understand that the joy is in the journey, but right now I’m not feeling it.

During these times, I know that I need to tap into my Inner Self, so that my direction and purpose become more clear.  As I sat in silence, I remembered that, when I was young, I followed my heart and it seemed as though doors easily opened and opportunities in my best interests presented themselves.  I didn’t need to feel secure before I jumped.  I moved from California to New Jersey with my plants, stereo, and $800.  Now, I hesitate to spend $2,000, worried about what will come in next month.  I sleep with the windows closed, suffocating in a hot house, scared that someone might climb in and attack me.

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