Meditation

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This practice is called primordial meditation because it unveils and reveals our bornless being and innate goodness, which is the very essence of enlightenment. In Kabbalah, the highest name of God is Eheieh , which means I Am or I Shall Be, and alludes to pure or primordial being.

In many Christian Gnostic practices, the breath becomes the vehicle of the light-presence and the direct expression of the power of our supernal soul. Thus, primordial meditation using the breath as our focus may facilitate the enlightenment experience as well as activate the powers of the soul of light in us, resulting in psychic and spiritual gifts.

• When you meditate using this method, breathe naturally, with even inhalations and exhalations. Focus your awareness very gently on the outbreath, and when you exhale, let your awareness flow out with the breath. Every time you breathe in, let go and let be, and imagine that at the end of the outbreath your breath dissolves into the infinite spaciousness of truth. At the end of every exhalation, before the next inhalation, you will find there is a gaplet go and enter into the gap. In the gap is the place of pure and primordial being, which is called perfect repose.


• Whatever thoughts or emotions might arise, neither grasp at them nor push them away. Just let them be, and let them naturally arise and pass away, without engaging them or entertaining any judgment toward them. If you find that you have become distracted or identified with thoughts and emotions, or find yourself daydreaming, merely restore your focus to your breath and continue. If your mind enters into the gap and the natural state dawns, let go of the practice and just calmly abide.


• Instead of watching the breath as though you are separate from your breath, progressively allow yourself to identify with your breath. Breathe and let the breath and the one who is breathing gradually merge in a natural way without unnecessary force. Focus lightly upon the breath. Place about one-fourth of your awareness on breath and leave the other three-fourths free, resting in a quiet and spacious state of relaxed awareness.

With this practice you will find that as the presence of awareness grows you will experience a growing stillness of both the mind and the vital-emotional being. It is as though one is shedding the serpents skin and putting on a body of clear or transparent light.

From Gnostic Healing , by Tau Malachi

The Root Breath
The root breath may be used to help conditions related to a fitful, speedy, dreamy, floating, or weak mind, or for individuals who may lack common sense, discipline, or clear and conscious direction.

Coupled with working with the root breath, we may also seek out the earth element, drawing upon its stable grounding energy for healing. Suggested practices include: touching the earth and stones with the hands and feet, consciously drawing its energy into the aura and subtle body; or sitting or lying on the earth, charging the aura and subtle body with the earths strong force, feeling grounded and stabilized in consciousness.

One useful meditation is to sit or lay on the earth, imagining that all unhealthy energies in your body that cause anxiety, worry, insecurity, apathy, laziness, and inertia are being drawn out by the power of earth. Become one with the earths immeasurable strength, and let gratitude and thanksgiving arise for the healing energy of the earth, and for the tolerance and bounty of the earth that sustains life.

The Navel Breath
The navel breath may be used to help conditions related to inconsistency or difficulty in bringing plans to fruition; likewise for rigidity or lack of fluidity, excitability, or lack of rest or peace of mind.

In addition to working with the navel breath, we may seek out and abide with a body of water, enjoying a creek or river, a pond, lake, or the ocean. Draw in the waters consistency, harmony, and its synthesizing quality, along with its fluidity and its calming qualities. Other ways to meditate upon water: Drink water, fully tasting and appreciating the water, deeply thankful for this life-sustaining element. Bathe or shower, feeling the soothing quality of water; as it cleanses you outwardly, visualize that all inner negativity is washed out of your subtle body and aura. Stand in the rain, and allow it to purify you. Enact a water ceremony (baptism) with friends. Alternatively, sit by a lake or stream and meditate, resting your mind upon the waters and allowing any negativity to flow away from you. If you cannot go to a body of water, then visualize one.

The Solar Plexus Breath
The solar plexus breath may be used for conditions related to a lack of zeal and will, lack of inspiration, drive, or motivation in life, lack of courage or conviction, or the inability to achieve our goals or intentions.

Along with utilizing the solar plexus breath, we may sit by a fire, whether indoors or outdoors, drawing in the strength of its motion, warmth, and light. We may also go out and bask in sunlight, drawing strength from the suns great power. A powerful meditation is to focus your mind on the forceful, powerful qualities of fire and its consuming and radiant nature, drawing in its strength. Then envision fire within your subtle body and an aura of flames surrounding you, as it burns away and protects from all negativity, transforming shades and shadows into light. Alternatively, see the spiritual sun in the sanctuary of your heart and a golden aura surrounding you, your subtle body filled with the divine light as you abide in the remembrance of the indwelling Christ.

The Heart Breath
The heart breath may be used for conditions related to confusion, flightiness, general imbalances with breathing, difficulties concentrating, and qualities that suggest a lack of mental clarityalso slowness, dullness, heaviness of mind, laziness, and lack of insight.

Coupled with working with the heart breath, we may draw healing energy from the pervasive, flowing, and buoyant quality of the air. If the breeze or the wind is blowing, we may gain strength from it, or if it is still, abide in its calmness. An air meditation: standing in a breeze or in the wind, imagine it purifying your aura and subtle body, blowing away all negativity and charging you with its power. Speak prayers or chant into the wind, letting the wind carry them over the land and set your spirit free upon its wings. Then envision your subtle body as crystal-clear and hollow, filled with the all-pervading and light quality of the air, and be uplifted by the airs power.

The Jar Breath
The jar breath may be used for conditions related to constriction, confinement, lack of clarity or perception, density in mind and body, feelings of being blocked or obstructed, or extreme tension or stress. It may also be used for difficulties in memory or the retention of energy in the subtle body and aura (the root breath and the earth element may also help with memory and sealing of energy in the subtle body).

As you work with the jar breath, become aware of the openness and spaciousness around you, and the infinite possibilities of life generated by the unfolding of spirit-space and arising of the elements; let all negativity dissolve into space. A jar breath meditation: rest your mind on the space of your environment, or find a place with a view and relax your mind in the openness and vastness of space or the sky. Release all worries, stresses, and negativity into space, and set your mind free in the spacious luminosity of your inmost nature. Alternatively, envision yourself in a body of translucent light, imagining that you disappear like a rainbow in the sky.

The above provides a beginning for the use of the five breaths and power of the elements within our healing work. With time and experience we will learn much more about the breaths and the elements and their use in healing. Experiential knowledge and understanding will be far more empowering than anything that might be written or told to us. Essentially, we must begin to work with the breaths and elements in our healing practices to really learn about them. As in all forms of practice, we must be creative and seek to live within and be guided from within.

In closing, we may say this: in addition to working with the five radiant holy breaths, remember your breath and the healing power in it. Be conscious of your breath and remember to breathe deep and full, with fluid rhythm, for by breathing properly you will bolster your health and sense of well-being. Consciously breathing, allowing the body to find its own natural rhythm of breath in the presence of awareness, tends to spontaneously align and harmonize the five winds in the subtle body.

May the anointed breathe in us; amen.

From Gnostic Healing , by Tau Malachi and Siobhn Houston

A RELAXITION EXERCISE BY Theofaneia

This is a relaxation exercise I first learned in a theatre class but I've done similar versions in various dance classes. It's good for relaxing your muscles, especially when you're tense, or as a meditation exercise to calm your mind down.

(This exercise was originally intended to have someone saying this out loud but you can easily do it by yourself.)

Lay down on the ground or something, flat on your back with your arms by your sides. Completely relax into a comfortable position and close your eyes.

Imagine a wave of relaxation going through your body. Inhale and exhale slowly, releasing all the tension in your body. Repeat a few times.

One by one, tense each muscle in your body as hard as you can then relax it, completely letting go of the tension. Start with your toes, feet/arch, ankles, calves, quads/hamstrings, to your abs/core, chest, fingers, forearms, etc till you get to your face.

A quicker version is to, after the wave of relaxation step, take a deep breath and when you exhale, sink your core to the ground, pushing your abs as much as you can to your spine. Repeat a few times then repeat the relaxation breathing in and out. Look through your body and find any places with tension and try to remove it.

I usually do it before dance or if I can't sleep and it's amazing how much it can relax you and let your stress go, at least for a little bit.

I'd love to know how it works for everyone! :)

(This has been posted elsewhere under a separate name.)

Deep Meditation Technique

Energy Meditation

This Meditation was created by RollingCrazy / Novice
Nov 27, 2010

Sit down in a relaxing position like on a chair or bed or on the ground then close your eyes and look into the darkness behind your eyelids.
Clear you head of all thoughts and feel the darkness around you. After a while concentrate on the energy around you and feel it being absorbed into your body and be sure that you don?t absorb any dark energy. Feel your body throbbing with energy and visualize the energy running through all parts of your body and clearing you aura of all bad or negative energies.
Do that for a while till you feel your body becoming lighter and your mind clearing up. after you do this you should fee lighter and more energized, also if you do this with specific type of energy for example suns energy helps with heating and cleansing, moon's energy helps with healing, earth's energy for stability and calmness and tree's or plant's energy for stronger roots.

I hope it helped you all. Thanks for reading.

The Real Challenge for Humans at This Time is to be one with the Mother. There are so many Considerations for This, It Bears Deep Reflection.To Which Mother Are We Referring? As well as the Divine Mother, We Mean The EarthMother. Your Physical Body Form Comes Directly Fromthe Earth Mother Herself. It IS Her Body. All the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen andtrace minerals and metals Are Her Bodily Constituents.

She Envelops You While Your Soul Resides in This or Any Physical Form. In This Way You Are Always One With the Mother, Whether You Feel and Know It or not. Why notFeel, Sense, Be the Oneness with The Earth Mother's Body and Energies?

You Can Feel the Oneness With the Earth Mother In Many Ways.

Let Her Spine (North Pole-Crown to South Pole-Root) BE INSIDE Your Spine. Let Her Elements Be Your Elements and make-up.

Become All the FIVE ELEMENTS.

FEEL All the Element EARTH, with All the Continents, Rock Shelves, Ocean Beds, Topsoil INSIDE Your Physical Body.

BE the Element FIRE by FEELING the Flow of Hot Lava Inside Your Spine, Your Stomach, Digestive Systems and Internal Organs Especially Liver, Kidneys, Gall Bladder, Spleen. Feel the Golden, Spiritual Lava flowing through Your Heart Out to the Universe.

BE the Element WATER, so that All the Oceans, Lakes and Rivers of the World are Flowing in Your Arteries, Veins, Blood and Energy Meridians. Feel The Fullness of the Tides Moving You.

BE the Element AIR, currents of Hot, Warm, Cool or Cold Air Movements Inside the Lungs and the Energy Meridians Throughout Your Body, as well as on Your Skin.

Be the Element ETHER whereby the Magneto-Electrical Energy Lines and Grid Patterns of Mother Earth Flow Constantly From Crown of Head to Fingers to Toes. This Consistently Heals, Cleanses, Purifies, Re-Orients, Revisions and Intergalactically Expands You As You Take In Cosmic Rays From Source and Important Stars, Galaxies and Nebulae Around the Universes.

Only When You Have Completed the Moment-to-Moment FULLEST Experience of Being One With the Earth Mother will You Feel Safe In Being the Love You Are While In the Physical Form.

Welcome Home!

From: Babaji - Mantras Chants Meditations and Messages

Astral temple
An Astral Temple is a form of Sacred Space which is created on the Astral (or psychic) plane. It has a number of advantages over the conventional Sacred Space. It can be located in any envrionment you choose, and will be available to you wherever and whenever you wish. It does not require the use of special tools or equipment, and created properly, will always be away from prying eyes and touching fingers.

Some Covens will create one which provides them with a meeting place for magical working when they are physically distant from one another. Sme Solitaries use one so that they have a private and safe place for meditation, pathworking and the like.

An Astral Temple is created through meditation and visualization, so you will need to make sure that you will be completely undisturbed during your working. Before you begin, decide what sort of wetting you would like; indoor, outdoor, etc. Now settle yourself down comfortably, close your eyes and do a few breathing exercises to relax. Visualize yourself travelling to your chosen environment, taking with you something valuable by way of an offering.

Call upon each of the Elements, the Goddess and the God, in your usual ay, and ask each for their Blessing on your Sacred Space. Visualize yourself casting the Circle and making all secure. Now kneeling in the center of your Sacred Space, visualize the Goddess and the God at your Altar, rise, greet them, and make your offering. If they place the offering on your Altar, then your Astral Temple is ready for use. Otherwise, repeat the exercize another time.

By:

Kate West

basic types of meditation:

1. Mindfulness:

also called Vipassana, comes from the Buddhist tradition. Id say mindfulness is the most popular form of meditation in the western world. Its all about being present, letting your mind run, and accepting whatever thoughts come up, while practicing detachment from each thought. Mindfulness is taught along with an awareness on the breath, though the breathing is often considered to be just one sensation among many others, not a particular focus. There is no attempt to change the breathing pattern, which limits this practice and makes it observational rather than active. Changing your breathing changes the energy; just watching what your breathing is doing (particularly if your breathing is shallow, as it generally is) means you are stuck in a low-energy state.

2. Zazen:

is the generic term for seated meditation in the Buddhist tradition, but in the modern Zen tradition, it is often referred to as just sitting. It is a minimal kind of meditation, done for long periods of time, with little instruction beyond the basics of posture (sit with your back straight). There is no particular attention to the breath, nor an attempt to change the breath. Zazen is the anti-method approach to meditation, but it is often done in conjunction with a concentration on a certain aspect of Buddhist scripture, or a paradoxical sentence, story or question, called a koan. Zazen is very difficult to learn, and it is very difficult to make progress with this method, because of the lack of guidance on how to do the practice. Also, it was developed for a monastic setting, making it difficult to adapt to an active life in the world.

3. Transcendental Meditation:

is a simplified practice that emerges from Vedanta, the meditative tradition within Hinduism. In TM, you sit with your back straight (ideally in the Lotus or half-Lotus posture), and use a mantra, a sacred word that is repeated. Your focus is on rising above all that is impermanent. TM is a more involved method than either mindfulness or zazen. At the more advanced levels, TM focuses on the breath and changes the breath to change ones state of being. TM often leads to leaving the body (indeed, that is the aim of the practice). That is problematic because the energy of the body (and the mind) can be disrupted. Also, the practice is not focused on your life and your purpose, and indeed the philosophy that goes with it is harmful to the heart, considering desires to be egoic and materialistic.

4. Kundalini:

is another practice that comes from Vedanta. Kundalini is the name for the rising stream of energy that exists in a human being (there is also a downward stream, not emphasized in Kundalini). The aim of Kundalini meditation is to become aware of that rising stream, and to ride the stream to infinity. The practitioner concentrates on their breath flowing through each of the energy centers of the body, always moving upward, toward the energy center just above the top of the head. Kundalini makes active use of the breath, using breath to move energy upward. Like TM, Kundalini is not heart-based in either its method or philosophy, and it can have unpleasant side-effects, which happen often enough to have been given a name: Kundalini syndrome.

5. Qi gong:

is a form of Taoist meditation that uses the breath to circulate energy through the organs and energy centers of the body in a oval pattern called the microcosmic orbit. Attention is focused on the breath and the circulation of energy (called qi or chi). Attention is also focused on the three major centers used in Taoist meditation: a point about two inches below the navel, the center of the chest, and the center of the forehead. Qi gong uses the breath to direct energy, and circulate energy in the body and spirit, but it is not heart-based. There is little sense of how the heart changes and develops, and no connection between the circulation of energy and emotional states, and no core set of teachings on how to work with emotion.

6. Guided visualization:

is a popular form of meditation that involves concentration upon an image or imaginary environment. It is usually done while listening to a recording. An example would be to imagine you are in a grassy field, with a clear sky overhead. There is sometimes a focus on the breath, but generally no attempt to use or control the breath, and because the sensation is imaginary, and the impetus for it comes from outside, the practice tends to be rather passive. This kind of meditation does not come from an established meditative tradition like the others listed above, and so it is untested as a method of spiritual development.Not every recorded meditation is an example of guided visualization; the key is whether it contains elements of hypnotic suggestion or the creation of fantasies under the guidance of someone else. If you are listening to a recording where the guide lays out a method for you to do yourself, or calls attention to sensation and energy already occurring within you, that is not guided visualization, but rather meditation instruction. The key is whether you are practicing a method that will enable you to do a practice by yourself or not.

7. Trance-based practices :

This is my category for a whole set of reflective practices that generate a trance state. The hallmarks of a trance are: awareness of the self and the environment is limited, conscious control of the experience is absent, rational thinking is absent, and memory of the experience is very limited. Often these kinds of practices involve drugs, music, shallow, rapid breathing (which produces an intoxicating effect), or a form of hypnotic suggestion. Because self-control is so limited, and because of the passivity involved in having a state induced by someone else, a trance state is both potentially dangerous and not helpful for spiritual development. I couldve easily not included this as meditation, because it isnt really meditation, but I includ ed it because these kinds of practices are commonly thought to be meditation.

8. Heart Rhythm Meditation:

f ocuses on the breath and heartbeat, making the breath full, deep, rich, rhythmic, and balanced. Attention is focused on the heart as the center of the energetic system. One tries to identify oneself with the heart. By focusing on the breath, you make your breath powerful. And then learning to direct the breath, to feel the circulation of breath as your pulse in different parts of your body, then on your magnetic field, you learn to direct and circulate energy. You are in control of yourself at all times, and you become both more powerful and more sensitive. Further, your power and sensitivity are always in service of your heart, so you become compassionate.

So as this list shows, there are some basic differences between meditative methods. I could get into these differences at length, but this is intended just to establish that there are differences and briefly sketch them. Its important not to denigrate any traditions or practices; each meditative tradition has been developed through the dedication of many thousands of hours, lifetimes of accumulated experience. I have deep respect for all these traditions. This post merely seeks to illuminate some of the differences so that you can have a better understanding of the kinds of meditation that exist in relation to heart-based forms of meditation like HRM.

Because HRM directs your full, deep, rhythmic breath toward your heart, it has all kinds of positive health effects. HRM is also an incredibly powerful and rapid way of healing the wounds of your heart. HRM is also a powerful way of accessing the state of unity, which is the goal of every kind of meditation. When you meditate on your heartbeat, you access the state of unity in a very unique way: you feel that your heartbeat is the universal heartbeat, the heartbeat of the all life, the heartbeat of God.

source: http://www.iam-u.org/index.php/8-basic-kinds-of-meditation-and-why-you-should-meditate-on-your-heart

The crystal fountain Meditation

The Crystal Fountain is a place of peace and tranquility, you can visit whenever you feel stressed or tired. Here you can ask a question and seek the answer in the waters.

Lie down comfortably, with your arms by your sides and your legs uncrossed, close your eyes and take several deep breaths. Visualize yourself walking through the woods on a Summer's evening. The trees along each side of the path are Oak and Ash and Elm, and they move softly in the gentle night breeze. The air moving through their branches seems to whisper a welcome. The ground beneath your feet is soft and mossy, and cool. You slip off your shoes to make contact with the earth. Above you the sky is a deepening blue and the Full Moon lights your way.

As you walk, you hear the sound of running water, and through the trees you glimpse a small stream, tumbling over rocks and macing music which complements the night. Turning a bend, you see a small waterfall descending into a pool almost at your feet. Take a step towards it and kneel at its edge. Reflected in the rippling waters you see the face of the Moon and below the surface stones and crystals of differing colours. Gazing at the Moon's reflection you ask your question and then, dipping your hand into the waters, you withdraw a stone. Look carefully at the stone and remember it. Now give your thanks to the Moon and the waters, and return to the here and now. Remember the stone and seek the answer to your question through its meaning.

Note : This is a really nice meditation for cleansing and healing as well. Instead of asking a question and dipping your hand into the waters, step into the water and ask to be healed and cleansed. Take plenty of time to relax and allow the magickal waters of the crystal fountain to cleanse and heal you. When you are complete, take time to relax as you return to the here and now. And as always, be sure to express your gratitude.

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