Simply being.
In the Northern Hemisphere,
September is the month of the autumnal equinox.
Time seems to stretch for a moment as we shift from the active growing mode of summer to a time of gathering and assessing our resources.
In the later part of September,
The sun is in the astrological sign of Libra.
We are drawn to balance,
Harmony,
And enjoyment of the refined sensibilities.
Indeed,
At the time of the equinox,
Day and night are of equal length everywhere on the planet.
Begin with centering.
These words of dedication bring focus.
I bless this time,
Opening my heart and mind to discovery,
Allowing,
Experiencing,
Trust.
With gratitude for life and the myriad of gifts life brings.
Bring it on.
Connect the dots.
Sitting comfortably with your feet on the floor.
Gently close your eyes and take a nice deep breath.
As you slowly exhale,
Allow any thoughts of what it took to get to this moment,
Or of what you will be doing after the meditation,
Drop away.
Relax your scalp.
Relax your forehead.
Allow your eyes to sink back into your head.
Face,
Cheeks,
Jaw are relaxed.
Neck and throat are relaxed.
Shoulders,
Upper arms,
Elbows,
Forearms,
Wrists,
Hands,
Fingers.
Loose,
Relaxed,
Free and easy.
Chest and mid-back are relaxed.
Stomach,
Belly,
Lower back,
Hips,
Thighs,
Knees,
Calves,
Ankles,
Heels,
Feet,
Toes,
Nice and relaxed.
Take another deep breath.
And release it with a gentle sigh.
Allowing a wave of relaxation to wash through you,
Sweeping away any tension or holding.
With your awareness on your feet,
Imagine a dot on the bottom of each foot.
Bring your awareness to your belly about an inch below your belly button.
And going directly inward,
Imagine a dot in the middle of your belly.
Bring your awareness to your chest and imagine a dot in the center of your chest.
With your awareness on your hands,
Imagine a dot in the palm of each hand.
Bring your awareness to your forehead.
And going directly inward from the middle of your forehead.
Imagine a dot in the center of your brain.
With your imagination,
Draw a line from the dot in the center of your brain to the dot in the center of your chest.
Draw two lines radiating out from the dot in the center of your chest through each arm to the dots in the palms of your hands.
Draw a line from the dot in the center of your chest to the dot in the center of your belly.
Two lines radiate out from the dot in your belly through each leg to the dots on the bottoms of your feet.
If you stand back in your mind's eye,
You can see that you have connected the dots and created a stick figure inside yourself,
Like a child's drawing.
Now imagine that you have a rheostat light switch.
Slowly bring up the power and the inner stick figure begins to glow with a warm soothing light Inhale energy that you are picturing as light.
To the dots on the bottoms of your feet.
As you gather energy there,
The dots become bigger and brighter.
As you exhale,
Allow the light to spread through your feet.
Filling the bones and muscles and tendons.
Gently hum into your feet,
Probably a low pitch.
Allow yourself to tune in to the rhythms of the earth,
Into the shifting balance and flow of the seasons.
Mmm.
Take another deep breath.
On the exhalation.
Radiate grateful energy into the earth.
Inhaling once again,
Draw up sustaining earth energy.
As you continue to inhale light to your feet,
The energy grows and it naturally rises up your legs,
Filling the muscles and bones with a warm glow.
All of the cells are alive with light.
Add an energy center at the top of your legs near the perineum.
Draw energy to this center as you inhale and relax and open as you exhale,
Allowing light and warmth to spread throughout your thighs and pelvic area.
Experiencing calm and reliable vitality,
Gratitude for the many opportunities of having a human life.
Hum into this energy center.
Tuning in to the abundant life force energy.
Committing to embodying spirit with a deep sense of beauty and joy.
Inhaling light,
Exhaling radiant warmth and well-being,
The energy rises to your belly dot in the middle of your belly.
About an inch below your belly button.
Taking a nice deep breath,
Draw light to this energy center.
As you inhale,
The light grows brighter.
Exhale and the light expands,
Filling your abdomen,
The digestive organs,
Filters,
Eliminators,
Reproductive organs.
Come into this energy center.
Feeling warmth and vibrancy spreading through your sacrum.
Your bottom in the chair,
Your tummy.
Connecting with potential creative expression and life purpose as it gestates and rises up.
We're going to add a dot at the solar plexus,
About an inch above your belly button.
Inhale directly to the start.
Filling it with bright glowing light.
Exhale and the light spreads down toward the belly dot,
Warming the mid-back,
Glowing up into the diaphragm.
Hum into the solar plexus and mid-back,
Softening,
Releasing any tension.
You Enjoy this moment of nothing to do.
No need for accomplishment.
Just being you in all your wonderful you-ness.
Mmmmmmmmm Notice as this light grows,
It naturally rises up through your diaphragm and ribcage.
And now the dot in the center of your chest is glowing with light.
As you inhale,
The light brightens.
As you exhale,
The light fills your chest,
Suffusing your heart organ,
Your lungs,
Your entire upper chest with warm,
Soothing light.
Humming enhances the feeling of warmth,
The release of tension,
Allowing your heart energy center to open.
You Heart energy radiates out in front of you,
Out between your shoulder blades,
Filling your collarbones,
Glowing into your arms,
Relaxed and open.
Hmm.
Bring your awareness to your throat and imagine a dot at the base of your throat.
Inhale,
Drawing energy you are picturing as light to your throat.
As you exhale,
The light radiates out the front of your throat,
The back of your neck.
Down into your chest,
Up into your mouth.
In Messages from Water,
Masaru Emoto shows in pictures of frozen water how the quality of our communications affects water crystals and,
By extrapolation,
All of life.
Draw heart energy up from your chest to help bring care and compassion to all communication.
Hum into the throat,
Imagining kindness in expression and in reception.
You The energy rises up,
Warming the jaw,
Opening the roof of the mouth.
Drawing energy we are picturing as light to the dot in the center of the brain the mind center the wisdom center the center of trust in knowingness Hum into this energy center.
You And the light spreads throughout the brain shining out around your skull.
There is a sense of peace and contentment.
You Hum into the crown of the head as you relax and gently open there.
Enjoying warmth and vibrancy.
You With your awareness on your hands,
Breathe energy you are picturing as light to the palms of your hands.
As you exhale,
The light spreads through the bones and muscles and tendons.
Hum into these glowing myths of light.
You move your hands in your energy field directing energy to your feet perineum belly,
Solar plexus,
Heart,
Throat,
Mind,
Crown.
Notice the current in your field as your hands move the energy.
Hum into the inner stick figure as you gently breathe,
Feeling open,
Expansive,
Vibrant.
You working with the energy.
Once again take a nice deep breath filling your inner stick figure with light As you exhale,
Notice how far the glow extends.
It could be just around your skin.
It could fill up the whole room.
However far it extends,
Take another deep breath.
And on the exhalation allow the glow to extend just a little further.
Breathe here for a moment,
Enjoying the awareness of your inner stick figure and your awareness of the area around you.
On the next exhalation.
Allow your energetic awareness to extend.
Out around the building.
Down into the ground into the sky above the building.
While remaining connected with your inner stick figure.
Take another deep breath and on the exhalation,
Allow the energy to extend over the neighborhood,
Over the city.
On your next exhalation,
The energy goes out over the state,
Deep into the earth,
Up into the sky.
On the next exhalation,
The energy goes out into the solar system and beyond,
Through the earth,
Out into the stars.
Retaining a sense of connection with your inner stick figure.
Enjoy this incredible expansive radiance.
Hum,
Sensing the vibrancy extending throughout the universe.
On an inhalation,
Draw all of the energy back into your inner stick figure.
It is glowing very strong and bright.
And then,
On an exhale,
Gently,
Easily.
Allow it to expand back out into the universe.
Repeat drawing all of the energy back into your inner stick figure it glows intensely bright then gently,
Easily.
.
.
Allow it to expand out into the universe on the exhale Still connected to your inner stick figure,
Enjoy the expansive open awareness.
A feeling of spaciousness.
Now slowly draw the energy back towards the earth back to the state back to the neighborhood to your home to you.
Letting the energy radiate a comfortable distance from you.
There is something in us that is not touched by coming and going,
By up and down,
By for or against,
By totally right or totally wrong.
This part of us is patient with both goodness and evil,
Exactly as God is.
It does not rush to judgment or demand closure now.
Rather,
It stands vigilant and patient in the tragic gap that almost every moment offers.
God in us is a riverbed of mercy that underlies all the flotsam and jessam that flows over it and soon passes away.
Vast,
Silent,
Restful,
And resourceful,
It receives and also releases all these comings and goings.
It is awareness itself as opposed to judgment.
And awareness is not the same as thinking.
It refuses to be pulled into emotional and mental tugs of war that form most of human life.
To look out from this untouchable silence is what we mean by contemplation.
" Richard Rohr,
Immortal Diamond,
The Search for Our True Self.
Cocoon When you're ready to return to 3D reality,
Rub your thumbs across your fingertips,
Wiggle your toes,
Gently move your shoulders and neck.
Gently open your eyes with a soft gaze.
Thank yourself for this time of simply being.
Over the next several days,
Set aside some time each day to relax,
Breathe,
Reconnect with inner awareness,
And extend that awareness to all of life,
Cultivating an open and expansive experience.
In the state of simply being,
There is no good or bad.
There simply is.
In The Art of Spiritual Healing,
Joel Goldsmith writes,
The beginning of wisdom is the realization that these conditions Editorial note,
Pain,
Lack,
Limitation.
Need not exist.
Freedom from them comes not from seeking relief from God,
But through seeking God and rising to that dimension of life in which only God is.
There is not freedom from discord.
There is not freedom from sin,
False appetites,
Or desires.
There is not freedom from poverty.
There is only freedom.
Freedom in God,
Freedom in spirit.
" End quote.
When we practice Connect and Glow,
We have a better chance of noticing when we begin to make a judgment on a thought,
Behavior,
Feeling,
Situation,
A contraction of our energy.
Then we can breathe,
Connect our awareness with the inner stick figure,
And allow expansion and freedom.
We can practice anytime,
Anywhere.
In the grocery store.
Sitting on a riverbank awakening in the morning.
As we close our eyes at night.
From Kay Snow Davis,
Quote,
My heart's desire is to have everyone awaken,
Remember their pure consciousness,
And live and move and make their life choices from that place.
This would,
In fact,
Introduce the golden age.
This would be an ending of the world as we have known it,
With its stress,
Struggle,
War,
Grief,
Horror,
Terrorism,
Etc.
" End quote.
May we awaken.
And may we stay awake.
