MEDITATION AND PSYCHIC AWARENESS

Meditation can be FUN.  It does not have to be about self-improvement.  If you go into it with the notion that you are a problem that needs to be fixed, you will meet resistance in your mind and your body.  How can meditation be an enriching experience when it starts with an invalidation?  Invalidation does not nourish your spirit.  Your spirit was born free and seeks to create in this earth plane in the vibration of spiritual freedom.  Your spirit and body will resist and fight the spiritual lie of judgment that you are not already everything you need in this moment. 

Meditation can be a space of release, replenishment and healing.  It can also be a space for seeking answers and communication with spirit.  And much more.   What would you like it to be?  Below is an article that might help you reframe your ideas about what meditation is for.

Trinidad Buddha c. FMS 2003

MEDITATION—WHY BOTHER?

by Francine Marie-Sheppard

Everyone says that they wish the world would change, that our planet was different. Yet the only way the world changes is through each of us individually changing.    Change is constantly happening around us and each tiny change effects another, but we like to pretend that we are steady and constant.  This makes us feel safer. A focused examination of nature or biology reveals that stagnation or a fixed state does not exist. The same goes for our energy: it is in constant motion, especially when we are in a state of wellness and growth.

Some of us are bound by our energetic agreements to the people we are close to.  “Don’t ever change, I like you just the way you are.”  It is not in anyone’s healthy spiritual nature to remain completely unchanging.  When you meditate you begin to open the door to exploring your energetic and spiritual nature.  This Being that you are is in constant change because that is what it is meant to do, grow and change.  When we begin to support our growth and contemplate what changes would be more aligned with our hearts desire, we begin to contemplate changing our relationships to the material world or earth plane.  Because everyone is psychic on some level, when you begin to set yourself in motion to the beat of your own authentic self, it will affect those around you on some level.  Maybe they will be encouraged to take some time for themselves and become more authentically themselves.

When we each begin to recognize our true nature, we create our lives from a different place, the space of spiritual freedom. By taking a bit of time to turn within and re-align with our spirit, we are saying that this possibility exists for everyone.  When we practice awareness and recognize our creations we can take responsibility for them instead of blaming people and situations outside ourselves.  With all this in mind, your meditation mission can be to become, in mini steps over your lifetime, more truly yourself.  How this occurs is limitless and unique to you.

Our planet is undergoing some radical shifts in consciousness and we are in the midst of much energetic change.  We are also becoming aware of the lies that we have unconsciously participated in for centuries and how they have created the world we live in today.  Psychic awareness can give you new perceptions about what you are creating in your own universe, with your  energy, and what erroneous beliefs have affected your creations. As your meditation practice grows you begin to uncover your own participation in the things that are no longer true for you or no longer serve you.  Whether your relationships change or not, you will have a greater understanding of why you are in them.  Your communication with the universe, and planet Earth will evolve. In meditation you can renew your communication with the energetic dimensions every day.  When you take the time each day to communicate with spirit, you more easily adjust to the planetary shifts and your own personal shifts as they happen.

When you ask yourself, “Why bother meditating?” you are asking yourself if you have time to increase your spiritual freedom and enjoy your life a little more.  You are asking if you are ready to get to know yourself better.

When you reframe your ideas about meditating into something nice you do for yourself, suddenly it becomes much more attractive.  The next step is to explore different ways to meditate until you find your own way and it becomes something you look forward to rather than a “should”.  There is no right way to meditate; for you, there is only your way.

Buddha in a Box c. FMS 2004

MEDITATION TIP

Find a comfortable sitting chair.  This is crucial.  If your butt and the rest of your body are going to protest in discomfort during your whole meditation period how are you supposed to meditate?  Take this quest to find a good seat very seriously or else realize that you are sabotaging yourself from the get-go.  Your body has to put up with so much nonsense from your spirit as it is, why not give it a break and let it sit comfortably?  When you get out of the mindset of being in competition with your body you will realize how much more pleasant and effective it is to work WITH your body.  All that stuff out there about overcoming the body is just a belief.  Isn’t the body a miracle to be grateful for?  Why not treat it right?   How can the body release energy when it is tensing in discomfort or in effort to do what you believe is the “right thing”.  Proper care of the body will lead to a meditation space that is more easily created on a regular basis. When you work in harmony with the body you will have an easier time achieving your goals.  When you take care of your body, your body will come out of effort and resistance to sitting and meditating.

Reclaim your meditation for yourself.  You can make it your own adventure!