My article on meditation as featured in reikirays.com
A beautiful spiritual practice to be enjoyed throughout the day as well as in meditation.
Why meditate, how to meditate, what should I be feeling?
Why meditate.
As well as the perfect platform from which to do distance healing, it will help you to be a more connected healer in every way.
It will help you understand your own mind, also your unique gifts, we all vibrate at slightly different frequencies and are all a little different from each other.
With regular practise, our individual gifts will become apparent to us, we all have these and its an exciting and beautiful thing to discover about ourselves.
It will help you overcome negative thought patterns, and cultivate positive ones,
this brings with it peace, happiness, and more clarity over your life. Giving you more control in a very positive way.
It can overcome health problems of all kinds, completely turning around illnesses and imbalances. When you are truly connected your physical and emotional bodies become in balance.
For me meditation opened up a new world I didnt know existed, one of color, beautiful souls, and an earth with consciousness and great compassion who is my friend.
The blissful feeling you have in your heart chakra, while meditating feels like I'm in Gods arms, or an angels, in oneness with the world.
Why wouldnt you want this?
Meditation gives you more time
by calming and focusing the mind.
How to develop a meditation discipline.
It is a discipline, and for the first couple of months it will seem like this. After this time its more of a joyful and life changing process.
Its all very easy and should feel natural and move at your own pace.
Have a discipline of twice a day for 2 months, I would suggest working no longer than 10 to 15 mins. a day on each meditation.
There are 3 parts to my meditation practice, and I have written this out in its fullest form. As you become more familiar with your practice you can adapt it to suit yourself.
I still use this form when its needed, and always get a better connection.
Part 1. PREPARING YOUR SPACE.
Find a quiet space you feel would be good for meditation. In bed isnt the best place as you may end up asleep. The living room will be full of family energy, also maybe television electricity. A space off one of these rooms is fine and will build
its own energy up.
Once you have decided where, make the space your own, you could put an Alta with a buda and candles, or anything you like to enhance your space.
Sit on a large cushion or poof, I use the later as it gives me a good posture for meditating.
Your posture should be crossed legged, or in lotus, straight backed supporting your own weight, Your head slightly tipped forward with eyes closed or slightly opened, so relaxed but not to sleepy. Your hands can be placed in your lap, palms up. Your dominant hand should be under the other hand.
If you have a disability that makes some of these positions uncomfortable just adapt it to suit yourself, this will be fine.
You can burn some essential oils, or smudge your area.
Chanting is a good way of changing energy in a space especially if done regularly.
Any chant your are familiar with is best, you can use any of the reiki symbols, they lend themselves quite nicely to this, or you could use Om Shanti. Om the first sound ever made in the universe. Shanti, peace.
eg. Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti.
or Om Shanti Shanti, Om Shanti Shanti, Om Shanti Shanti.
Chant everything in 3s.
You can put some spiritual music on if you like and you are ready for the second stage.
Part 2. PREPARING YOUR BODY AND MIND.
I would suggest starting by using the raise your vibration meditation listed below, If you read it through then just have a go, it doesn't have to be exact, as long as you get the idea, you will improve every time and make it your own. This part can take up to 10 mins or so.
You will now be prepared for the meditation part.
Part 3. THE MEDITATION.
Ask your higher self or soul energy to be with you, merge with you.
Sit with a lucid and clear mind and relaxed body for as long as feels natural and pleasant with the energy you have created. This can be a few seconds or an hour. This is when your gifts can eventualy become apparent, and the true connection will start to begin, so don't miss out this bit.
This can be built on daily, at first dont try for more that 10 to 15 mins.
Your heart chakra will become lighter each time and can affect you in different ways.
Sometimes you can get fluttering in the heart or even some aching around the heart chakra, this includes your upper back top of shoulders and arms, also your sola,plexes.
If this sort of thing happens you know your doing really well, and starting to truly connect.
When you are used to creating this lovely energy in your body, you can eventually
keep it with you all the time, just by being aware and practicing, also asking for this.
a beautiful spiritual practice to be enjoyed throughout the day, as well as in meditation.
