Many people have found meditation to be a proven technique in helping them achieve success and happiness. It is especially relevant today, in our high tempo, high pressure lives. There's no better time to take time-out, meditate, and get back control and peace and happiness will follow.
Creating a special space for yourself is the first key step in meditation. This space will provide 3 important things:
Firstly...
It will become part of the focus for what you need and desire in your life. You will always associate your space with your clearly visualised goals. Whenever you enter this space, you will be in the correct frame of mind to invoke the relaxed meditation that you need.
Secondly...
This Space will be the source of your peaceful environment for the development of your intuition and spiritual awareness.
Lastly...
It will be a refuge for you. Whenever you need to gather strength, acquire peace, or rekindle your faith -- you can move into this Space, your oasis in a noisy world.
Your quiet space can be anywhere, but it must provide the right environment for your meditation. It should be quiet and free from disturbances. Try to choose a place that is uncluttered, or a space within a space that is clean and free from distractions.
Not everyone can have a space that they can set aside for this purpose. If you cannot, it does not matter, because you can choose any quiet place in which to meditate.
If you can have an exclusive place, you can adorn it with things that you feel will help you create the perfect ambiance for your meditation. Account for all the five senses when adorning this place. Something to see, feel, smell, taste and hear. Soft cushions, incense, wine and music.
If you have an exclusive place, you can create an altar to whatever size and shape you want. This altar will be a focus within a focus -- the focus of your Space. An altar can be a box over which a piece of silk or other cloth has been placed. It can be a table, or anything on which you can place your candles, crystals and other things that will help you meditate.
Place a crystal on your altar that has been left under moonlight for 20 minutes. Remember, an altar is not essential if you cannot have an exclusive place. There are no physical barriers to you meditating your way to achieving what you want in your life.
Choose a time when you know you won't be disturbed. Sit or lie down and close your eyes. Breathing gently, concentrate on each part of your body and relax it. Think of your feet and relax them -- let them feel heavy against the floor or the bed as the muscles in each foot relax. Do the same for the ankles, calves, knees, thighs, etc, working your way up to the top of your head.
When you are completely relaxed, visualise a white light entering you from above. This light is wisdom, energy and positive abundance coming to you. Let it fill you up.
Always give thanks for the abundance in your life.
Next, start to breathe deeply. Every time you exhale let all your stress be released in that breath, and see it drift away in your mind's eye. Imagine a place of peace and that you are there. Perhaps sitting on the banks of a small stream in a sun-bathed wood. It could be a garden where you once visited and which filled you with a feeling of peace and tranquillity. Try to get to that place in your mind where you felt relaxed and at peace with the world. If you can't think of a place, create that place in your mind, and revisit it in this quiet space of yours.
Spend some time in this tranquil place, and listen. Don't ask of it questions, simply let answers come to you. Some answers will be to questions you had not thought of. Some answers will end a long-standing uncertainty. Answers may come to you immediately, or they may come later, when you least expect them.
Use your imagination to see yourself with everything that will make you happy and content. Feel the excitement well up inside you as you experience that which you desire the most. These feelings should be the same feelings of excitement, comfort, security and gratitude that you will feel when you get what you want in your life.
Creating a special space for yourself is the first key step in meditation. This space will provide 3 important things:
Firstly...
It will become part of the focus for what you need and desire in your life. You will always associate your space with your clearly visualised goals. Whenever you enter this space, you will be in the correct frame of mind to invoke the relaxed meditation that you need.
Secondly...
This Space will be the source of your peaceful environment for the development of your intuition and spiritual awareness.
Lastly...
It will be a refuge for you. Whenever you need to gather strength, acquire peace, or rekindle your faith -- you can move into this Space, your oasis in a noisy world.
Your quiet space can be anywhere, but it must provide the right environment for your meditation. It should be quiet and free from disturbances. Try to choose a place that is uncluttered, or a space within a space that is clean and free from distractions.
Not everyone can have a space that they can set aside for this purpose. If you cannot, it does not matter, because you can choose any quiet place in which to meditate.
If you can have an exclusive place, you can adorn it with things that you feel will help you create the perfect ambiance for your meditation. Account for all the five senses when adorning this place. Something to see, feel, smell, taste and hear. Soft cushions, incense, wine and music.
If you have an exclusive place, you can create an altar to whatever size and shape you want. This altar will be a focus within a focus -- the focus of your Space. An altar can be a box over which a piece of silk or other cloth has been placed. It can be a table, or anything on which you can place your candles, crystals and other things that will help you meditate.
Place a crystal on your altar that has been left under moonlight for 20 minutes. Remember, an altar is not essential if you cannot have an exclusive place. There are no physical barriers to you meditating your way to achieving what you want in your life.
Choose a time when you know you won't be disturbed. Sit or lie down and close your eyes. Breathing gently, concentrate on each part of your body and relax it. Think of your feet and relax them -- let them feel heavy against the floor or the bed as the muscles in each foot relax. Do the same for the ankles, calves, knees, thighs, etc, working your way up to the top of your head.
When you are completely relaxed, visualise a white light entering you from above. This light is wisdom, energy and positive abundance coming to you. Let it fill you up.
Always give thanks for the abundance in your life.
Next, start to breathe deeply. Every time you exhale let all your stress be released in that breath, and see it drift away in your mind's eye. Imagine a place of peace and that you are there. Perhaps sitting on the banks of a small stream in a sun-bathed wood. It could be a garden where you once visited and which filled you with a feeling of peace and tranquillity. Try to get to that place in your mind where you felt relaxed and at peace with the world. If you can't think of a place, create that place in your mind, and revisit it in this quiet space of yours.
Spend some time in this tranquil place, and listen. Don't ask of it questions, simply let answers come to you. Some answers will be to questions you had not thought of. Some answers will end a long-standing uncertainty. Answers may come to you immediately, or they may come later, when you least expect them.
Use your imagination to see yourself with everything that will make you happy and content. Feel the excitement well up inside you as you experience that which you desire the most. These feelings should be the same feelings of excitement, comfort, security and gratitude that you will feel when you get what you want in your life.
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