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Basic Meditation Techniques

Herewith some basic techniques and preparation that may be used prior to more focused and mindful meditation :

  • Place yourself in a comfortable position, preferably upright and with your spine straight. Start by relaxing all the body muscles and let all tensions subside.
  • Without giving thought or energy to it, allow your thoughts to come and go until they gradually fade away. You may wish to focus on repeating a chosen mantra, observing the flickering flame of a candle or the intricacies of a mandala, listening to soothing sounds or music, or focus on the movement and sound of your breathing, until a point of stillness is reached. Allow your mind to gently drift to a place of gentle, peaceful relaxation.
  • Find yourself drifting into a space of deep, tranquil yet safe connectedness with the vast open realm within you find yourself. Observe and acknowledge any intuitive impressions, images and thoughts that may spontaneously rise l up from your soul consciousness. You will soon learn to distinguish between soul-thoughts and images and the senseless rumblings of your conscious mind, as you learn to recognise the feelings of surrender and bliss as it fills your entire being.
  • From a state of detachment, observe and contemplate all thoughts, impressions visions and new ideas arising, whilst feeling alert and conscious.
  • Allow yourself to gently return to a grounded space within your body where you are keenly (and often very sensitive) aware of your body and your space in time.

It is important, once the meditation is complete but before returning to the outside world, that you take time to note down that which you have observed and may have realised during your meditation. You will find that this will offer you great insight and inspiration.

As you go about your day, it may be useful to remain mindful of your surroundings and of your intuitive feelings and impressions that may arise at any moment during the day. This anchoring of consciousness in the here and now will eventually allow you to instantaneously access your higher consciousness and enable it to guide your thoughts, words and deeds through the still small voice within and the intuitive, spontaneous promptings you may feel.

Reverence is deeply ingrained in my being. Reverence cannot be explained, described or taught. It simply is. It is silent, yet it speaks loudly. It is invisible, yet it allows one to see heaven in a grain of sand and sometimes, just fleetingly, it allows you to see God in the mirror.
Love, needed to change our lives, calls on us to act on behalf of God in our lives by making the most of who we are, honouring ourselves as worthy and sacred, not letting anyone else overstep this, putting ourselves first, setting boundaries and asking of ourselves, ‘If God Loves me, unconditionally, who am I not to?
We simply do not realise how many times we have died, how many lifetimes we have lived during this short span of time on this earth, for true dying happens not when we leave our body, it happens when we leave our dreams, lose precious moments, give up on hope, deny our faith and most importantly, allow fear to eclipse trust.
I sincerely hope that your time away was filled with enough quiet moments to sustain you when your soul needs it, enough vision for a fulfilling adventure and enough gentle sighs to remind you of the wonder of this time.
"We settled for a long, narrow life instead of a short one with depth. We forgot how to heal. We gave our power away and debased elixir to an anti-aging cream. We settled or less than the whole. Your task is to remember how to make whole again." In the Valley at the End of Time by Kapka Kassabova
True joy is the ability to let go and Let God – allowing the light of true beauty – your soul, to flow through you and bring compassion to all of life’s challenges.
The music of life may be softer now, gently playing in the corners of my mind, but I still feel the excitement, the fear, the doubt and the courage as I accept the invitation from my soul and bow to the first notes of the tango called life.
"But enchantment cannot be destroyed. We just have to remember that we need it. And now, when I start to look for it, there it is: pale, intermittent, waiting patiently for my return. The sudden catch of sunlight behind stained glass. The glint of gold in the silt of a stream. The words that whisper through the leaves." Enchantment by Katherine May

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