Monday, 9 January 2012
UNLOCKING YOUR INTUITION - Part 3 - Silent Meditation Process
Silent Meditation Process
Begin
by first taking a few deep breath’s. As
you inhale notice anywhere in your body where you are holding tension and as
you exhale allow this tension to relax with the breath.
Pay
full attention to the breath and release all tension.
Continue
in this way and allow your body to succumb and become pliant. When you feel sufficiently relaxed begin to
pay attention only to your breath.
Take
deep slow breaths, noticing and feeling all the sensations associated with the
air entering your body through your nostril and follow the path of the breath
to your lungs. Pay close attention to
only the breath. The key now is to
focus on the breath to the exclusion of all else.
Continue
with this concentration on the breath and as you do so if thoughts arise,
remain detached from the thought, don’t react in any way and go straight back
to observing your breath.
As you continue on
with this process you can begin to slow down the breath and maintain an even
count on the in and out breath. For
example, breathe in to the count of 6 and breathe out to the count of 6, if you
like you can extend this somewhat as long as it is comfortable and you aren’t
struggling for a breath. This all should be done with ease. Counting the breath also helps keep the
thoughts at bay. Continue doing this
until it becomes natural and you no longer need to count the breaths.
From this point,
while maintaining the rhythm, focus on the breath and just listen to the
silence. Do this for as long as
possible. Remember to allow thoughts to
pass without reacting and come back to the breath and get back to the silence
wherever possible. Over time the
silence will begin to be the place where the still small voice of your
intuition will begin to make it-self heard more and more.
Note: You may not
always receive intuitive impressions during the meditation itself but the
practice will open up the channels so that in your day to day activities you
will start to get feeling responses to various situations. In the initial stage it is important to
acknowledge these impressions as doing so further opens the intuitive
channels. You can also just intend to
get an answer to a question and let it go, but ensure you are observant of your
environment. Sometimes answers don’t
come in the way you expect. An answer
can arrive though something a friend says in passing that just happens to be
the one thing you needed to hear at that moment or you notice a sign that gives
you the insight you need. Look for
synchronicities they are everywhere and notice your feelings, your gut instinct
will be talking louder than ever and the more you notice the impressions, the
more your intuition expands.
UNLOCKING YOUR INTUITION - Part 2
Once
you become aware of your thought patterns spend time throughout the day
disengaging with the thoughts. Those
repetitive thoughts will come and go but your job now is to just observe
without attachment. Don’t try to stop
them (what you resist persists) just notice and let go. Do this with the intention of getting to a
place of no thought, just presence.
Continually come back to the present moment, engaged fully in whatever
you are doing without the background noise of your thoughts. Thoughts will pass through your mind but
strive to observe them without reacting and just let them go, much like
swallowing food without it touching the sides.
You could say something like “there goes another thought” and let it go.
By
learning to control your thought, you gain an opportunity to embrace present
moment stillness that results in a direct line to your intuition. The ‘control’ I am referring to, is your
ability to observe your thought with detachment. The happy consequence of this being the dissipation and erosion
of the energetic interference associated with the thoughts that run your mind
and stand between you and your intuition.
When
you have reached this point you will have gained some mastery over the mind and
which thoughts you allow yourself, as a conscious gatekeeper, to entertain or
let go. Your thoughts will pass through you without leaving any stains
upon your mind that could later form into a habitual negative thought
pattern. Anyone who has gone through
the 10 day silent Vipassana Meditation Retreat will have become aware of,
during the breaks between the meditation practice, the repetitive self talk
that goes on when there is little external stimuli to distract you from what is
continuously going on in your mind.
Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, can be truly illuminating
for those willing to undertake this challenging retreat.
Mastery
over your thoughts is also one of the first stages of enlightenment and a great
first step to activating the inner voice of the higher mind otherwise known as
your intuition.
Mastery
over thoughts leads to extended moments of Presence. Where else can you go when thoughts of the past or possible
future are no longer engaged? You have
nowhere else to lose yourself and a happy consequence of this is you will be
that you are nurtured and nourished in a blissful state of present moments.
When
the mindless chatter is harnessed, the silence becomes a world of insights,
intuition, inner urgings and your spiritual senses become heightened as well as
expanded.
Go to Part 3 for the Silent Meditation Process
UNLOCKING YOUR INTUITION - Part 1
Intuitional data gives us the ability to grasp a universally guided understanding or insight into matters outside our conscious reasoning from a spiritual source. Intuition transcends time and space. The guidance you receive when followed can be life changing and life altering.
On a day to day basis our intuition can guide us by
generating a good or bad feeling about choices we are considering, warnings
about people or to simply alert us to take a different route to work, only to
find out later a major car crash had occurred on your usual route which would
have delayed you for quite a considerable amount of time. It can also give you a positive feeling of
warmth and positive feeling about certain people, choices or ideas you are
considering.
In the beginning intuition is sensed most often by a
feeling, but over time we may sense in other ways such as words and pictures to
accompany our feeling senses. As our
use of intuition matures a kind of synthesis of all your senses occurs.
To be able to distinguish intuition from ego however can
take some time. An ability to maintain
a certain detachment from your own wants and desires is important.
To
awaken the intuitive impressions the best place to start is with meditation. Meditation is always one of the best means
to activate the inner voice as it is through quietening the ongoing chatter of
the mind that we begin to hear something more.
Stillness Speaks as Eckhart Tolle so eloquently stated. It is stillness that awakens the deep inner
resources that is innate in all of us.
We are intuitive beings and always have been but through our
conditioning and our absorption in our daily external life we lose sight of
what is our true essence. We all can
commune with our Source yet we assign that ability to a few whom we believe has
an exclusive connection to the Divine Source, yet the truth is we are all
capable and are born with the same gifts.
We just need to spend some time to re-awaken what always ours to begin
with.
If
you can spend at least 15 minutes a day in meditation that would be a good
start, more of course would be much better however a minimum of about 15 to 30
minutes a day is ideal. For the purpose
of awakening the intuition, I would recommend a silent meditation rather than a
guided meditation, however if it is easier to begin with you can listen to a
guided meditation and progress to a silent meditation. *See Part 3 for silent meditation
guidelines.
You
can also begin by paying attention, throughout your day, to your thoughts and
just observe them. Notice the endless
chatter that is constantly running your life.
Perhaps it is your fears speaking to you, or you have thoughts centered
around disaster thinking where you anticipate everything going wrong before
there is any evidence of anything possibly going wrong, maybe you are
constantly concerned with how others perceive you, or continually berating
yourself because of your insecurities.
Notice the pattern of the repetitive thoughts. Notice whose voice it is that is running your thoughts. Is it your voice or is it the voice of a
parent or primary care giver of your childhood. Just this observation alone can bring many insights and empower
you to control your thinking. Remember
‘energy follows thought’. If your
experience is giving you feedback contrary to your intention or desire then
examine your thoughts. 99% of our
thoughts is unconscious, in other words our minds are constantly circulating
thoughts out of habit rather than intention.
When you become aware of your habitual thought patterns you become
empowered to change them consciously.
It takes time and perseverance but it will be well worth the
effort.
Article continues in Part 2
Sunday, 8 January 2012
BE LIKE THE WIND
Be like the wind
Bending and flowing into the space of life
Allowing no mask to form around you
Letting no barriers to block your Light
Let if flow
Be like the wind
Permit experience to wash around you
Touching your skin
But leaving no marks upon your Soul
Untouched and free
Be like the wind
Let it carry away your tears
Cleanse all the lessons of life
Without hardening your Spirit
Let it be
Bend like the wind
Feel it flow around you but not change you
You understand its nature
And your Spirit remains unaltered
You are free
Be like the wind
Be like Spirit
You are a Soul incarnate
A light emanating to the world
Flowing with the moment, in and out of time
Be like the wind
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