Hermetic Wisdom For Inner Peace

Tap into the ancient wisdom of Hermetics to better understand the flow and rhythm of life. Understanding these seven Hermetic Principles will help you create more ease and peace during times of uncertainty or struggle.

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Welcome to your Hermetic Meditation for creating inner peace,

Especially during times of stress and unrest.

To prepare for this meditation,

Please find yourself in a comfortable seated position.

Make sure you're cozy and warm.

Just get really comfortable and connect to your breath.

There are seven guiding principles to the philosophy of Hermetics.

And I find these principles to be extremely reassuring when I'm having an uncertain season in life or in the world.

So let's tap into these seven principles together.

I recommend doing a heart hold for this meditation,

Which means bringing one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly.

You can choose which hand feels more comfortable to be on the heart and which one feels more natural and comfortable to be on the belly and just pause there for a moment.

Take a deep breath with your eyes closed.

Inviting in the wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus,

The creator of the principles of Hermetics.

Acknowledging him and his ancient wisdom has been passed down through generations of mystics.

Breathe deeply until you start to feel your heartbeat slowing down just a little bit and your thoughts about external things starting to get a little quieter.

Use your breath to go deep inside.

Imagine that you are in a space that is completely dark.

There's nothing in there but you and it's not scary or claustrophobic it's actually quite comforting.

Let all external distractions fall away so that you can just focus on yourself.

Now with your breath,

Bring your breath all the way down into your belly and imagine that you've got a little double boiler of alchemy like this little violet flame down in the base of your belly that you're starting to ignite with your breath.

What this violet flame does is it helps us transmute the thoughts,

The beliefs,

The identities that are not serving our life.

You're burning off any of the additional stuff that you've been carrying that isn't bringing you closer to your heart's desire.

And so the first principle of Hermetics is the principle of mentalism.

The all is mind,

The universe is mental.

Another way of looking at this is to realize that we create our own experience of reality in our minds.

How we experience the world is only a reflection of what we believe,

And what we think.

You see what you want to see because of what you think.

And so the entire universe exists within your thinking.

Yes,

There are crazy things happening in the world.

And you get to choose what that means to you and how it affects your life and your health.

So right now within the principle of mentalism,

Take a deep breath and remember that you get to choose your thoughts and emotions every moment of every day.

The second principle of Hermetics is the principle of correspondence.

As above,

So below.

As below,

So above.

This principle embodies the truth that there is always a correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of being in life.

What this also means is as within,

So without.

As without,

So within.

Projection is perception.

And everything that you see is a reflection of your inner thoughts,

Your beliefs,

And your inner world.

It also means that you are a reflection of the divine as above,

So below.

Everything corresponds to something else and is a reflection of something else.

Even your relationships are mirrors.

Your relationships are a reflection of you.

Your judgments are a reflection of you.

And so right now,

If you choose your own thoughts,

Beliefs and emotions,

Then you also get to choose how that's reflected back to you in the world.

And once you change your inside,

You'll start to see the outside changing to correspond to that.

What thoughts,

Beliefs or emotions can you change on the inside today and start to look for the reflection of that truth back to you on the outside?

Third principle of hermetics is the principle of vibration.

Nothing rests.

Everything moves.

Everything vibrates.

And as we know with the laws of physics,

Quantum physics,

We are all made of vibrating matter.

The entire world has a vibration.

Everything in the world has a vibration.

Every molecule,

Every atom,

Every cell has its own vibration.

Every emotion has its own vibration.

Some vibrate at different frequencies.

And so if everything vibrates at a different frequency,

And as we know,

If you access certain vibrational frequencies,

Those vibrational frequencies can bring about healing and health and vibrant energy.

And it also goes to know that there are certain things in the world that have a low vibration or vibration that brings about sickness,

Depression,

Low energy,

Destruction.

If you've ever seen the experiments of Dr.

Emoto,

He would look at water cells under microscopes after speaking different words and emotions into these water cells and are these water molecules.

And the ones that he spoke the negative words into look like cancer cells.

They look like black holes.

They look like dirt and nastiness,

Chaos.

The ones with the positive words looked like beautiful snowflakes or mondolous.

And so right now,

If you imagine the vibration of all the water molecules in your body and your body's made of 75-80% water.

Where are they vibrating?

What kind of vibrational frequency do they carry?

And so this is your opportunity to choose your vibration by eating high vibrational foods and drinking water that you have blessed and doing things that raise your vibration.

Letting yourself feel emotions that carry a high vibrational state.

One of the most high vibrational emotional states is gratitude.

Another one is love.

How can you bring more gratitude and more love into your day right now?

The fourth principle of hermetics is the principle of polarity.

Everything is dual.

Everything has poles.

Everything has its pair of opposites.

Like and unlike are the same.

Opposites are identical in nature,

But different in degree.

Extremes meet.

All truths are but half truths.

All paradoxes may be reconciled.

The beauty in the principle of polarity is that good cannot exist without evil.

Dark cannot exist without light.

To everything there is an opposite.

Every female has a male and somewhere in between.

Every hot has a cold.

And so if you find yourself in a time of life where you feel someone is your enemy or you are sick,

Just remember that the opposite exists and is possible to achieve.

Also remember that a life without struggle is a life without wisdom.

A life without suffering is a life without peace.

If you were born into a life where you never had to struggle,

You never had to suffer,

You never had to feel any negative emotions at all,

How happy do you think you would be?

How much do you think you would appreciate the small moments of beauty in your life?

And so remember the principle of polarity right now.

Whatever is bothering you about your life right now,

Remember that it exists to further your evolution.

It exists to help you grow beyond what you are currently feeling and seeing.

It exists as part of your healing journey.

It's part of the principle of polarity.

Next is the principle of rhythm.

Everything flows out and in.

Everything has its tides.

All tides rise and fall.

The pendulum swing manifests in everything.

The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.

Rhythm compensates.

So what comes up must come down and everything flows.

All tides rise and fall.

There is a pendulum.

So again,

If you're in a scarce place of life,

If you're in a place of poverty or celibacy and you are really desiring the pendulum to swing in the opposite direction,

Remember that all seasons of life are part of the rhythm of life and that the pendulum eventually will swing back in the other direction.

If you're in a period of depression,

You will also invite in a period of joy.

If you're in a period of grief,

Same thing goes,

Right?

So remember the principle of rhythm and imagine yourself as one of those little kinetic balls in one of those sculptures where you lift one ball and then you drop it and it hits the other row of balls and then the ball on the other end swings out and it goes back and forth,

Back and forth,

Back and forth.

One of those continuously moving kinetic sculptures.

Remember that your life is like one of those kinetic sculptures and that this time in life,

This stressful time in life will not last forever.

It's not designed to.

That's not how the rhythm,

The principle of rhythm works.

And so take a deep breath in the knowing that this season and this cycle will come to an end and trust and relax in the fact that this is a natural part of experiencing the beauty and the fullness of life.

The sixth principle in hermetics is the principle of cause and effect.

Every cause has its effect.

Every effect has its cause.

Everything happens according to law.

Chance is but a name for law not recognized.

There are many planes of causation,

But nothing escapes the law.

This principle is somewhat similar to the principle in the Far East in India of karma.

And the knowledge that the actions that you take and the choices that you make in life have consequences.

Whether those consequences are immediately visible or they show up in other ways later in life.

Remembering that allows you to act with honor,

With integrity,

With wisdom,

With kindness,

With compassion.

And it also can help you relax and create ease in the knowledge that if someone has created a negative situation in your life or has done something to wrong you,

There will be a cause and effect in their life as well.

And that will be reflected back to them at some point.

It will come around.

The choices and the decisions that they make,

Positive,

Negative,

Will be reflected back to them eventually.

And so trust in the knowing of that and allow yourself to forgive and let go of any animosity,

Stress,

Hatred,

Or concern or,

You know,

Negative thoughts toward other people.

Because the more you create those negative thoughts,

The more those negative thoughts will come back to you as part of the principle of cause and effect.

And so right now I want you to think of someone or some situation in your life that's causing you concern or anchor or negative thoughts.

Take a deep breath.

And as you exhale,

Let yourself just feel what it's like to let that go.

Just let that go and trust in the principle of cause and effect.

Trust that the situation or this person will receive the effect of their decisions and their actions.

Lastly,

The seventh principle is the principle of gender.

Gender is in everything.

Gender has its masculine and feminine principles.

Gender manifests on all planes.

Gender is about much,

Much more than our physical biology and our reproductive organs.

That's not what gender is,

Especially in the principles of hermetics.

But what this principle is referring to is more of the yin and yang philosophy of gender.

It's the internal versus the external.

It's the extroverted versus the introverted.

It is the concept that there must be a balance between the feminine and the masculine within everyone.

If someone has too much masculine energy,

They are likely to create situations of unhealthy competition,

Burnout,

Probably have a bit too much anger or their fire is burning a little bit too brightly.

Eventually,

If they don't create a balance with the feminine,

That will catch up to them and force them to have a period where they where they rest,

Force them to have a feminine period.

And so if you're listening right now,

You can probably relate to this.

And it goes the other way as well.

If you spend too much time in the feminine,

Going inside and resting and feeling your feelings and not bringing enough forward momentum into your life,

You can start to feel a sense of stagnancy.

And then you may be forced into a masculine period of your life where you're forced to take action and it feels uncomfortable because you weren't balancing it in the first place.

And so now you've got a lot to catch up on.

Right.

And so right now,

I want you to just take a deep breath and let go of any shoulds that might be popping up in your head right now and let yourself just appreciate the balance between masculine and feminine within yourself and within your life,

Within your daily activities,

Your exercise,

Your diet,

Your sleep,

Your relationship.

Even if the relationship is between a man and a woman,

The balance still has to go back and forth.

If the relationship is between any kind of gendered beings,

There's still going to be a balance of masculine and feminine in that relationship.

There's going to be one individual who provides certain elements to balance out the other one and vice versa in a healthy relationship and understanding and acknowledging that that not one person can always embody femininity in a relationship or in life.

And not one person can embody all the qualities of what it is to be masculine either,

Regardless of what your sexual identity or your reproductive organs are saying.

So right now if you find yourself in a period of life where you've been bringing in too much masculine energy and you're starting to feel exhausted,

Burnt out,

You're starting to feel like you're on all the time and you just want to hide.

Invite in that feminine quality,

Invite in that hibernation,

That rest,

That peacefulness,

That connection to nature and vice versa.

If you're feeling that you've been in a period of time that's been too stagnant and you're just not seeing enough results in your life that are meeting your needs,

Take a deep breath and ask yourself how you can bring in an element of masculinity into your energy flow today.

And so these are the seven principles of hermetics.

Mentalism,

Correspondence,

Vibration,

Polarity,

Rhythm,

Cause and effect,

And gender.

I hope that you feel like you've learned something today and you feel a deeper sense of peace and contentment with the world.

And like for myself,

I hope that you're able to relax and trust the process.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Namaste.

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