I'm Tom Evans,
A meditation guide on Insight Timer.
And it is a great honour for me to be sharing this daily insight with you on Christmas Day.
I should let you know that even though it is Christmas Day,
I will be online and it would be great to connect with you over the festive period.
So do share your thoughts and season's greetings with me and the others in this marvellous community of like-minded souls.
Today we should be mindful that only around 2 billion or so of the 7.
7 million people on planet Earth actually celebrate Christmas.
As far as we know,
No other lifeforms celebrate it for safe.
As you are among one of those 2 billion people,
Season's greetings from me to you.
It is also worth being mindful of why this particular day was settled upon by the Christian faith.
At the time Christianity was gaining a foothold,
Pagan religions in Europe celebrated the Germanic Yule around the winter solstice.
The Romans also had a feast called Saturnalia where much eating and drinking went on.
Christian missionaries gave these holidays a makeover and they are now known to us as Christmas.
One Cyprian text reads,
Oh how wonderfully acted providence,
On that day on which that the sun was born,
Christ should be born.
At the time of the Germanic Yule,
The winter solstice is the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere.
And at this time something happens that all humans and all other lifeforms do share in common.
One earth reaches a turning point in its orbit around the sun.
So by the 25th of December in the Northern Hemisphere the days have started to get longer and the days in the Southern Hemisphere become a little shorter.
Irrespective of your religious beliefs this is immutable for at least the next billion years or so.
This annual turning point provides each of us with an opportunity.
Today can be different from yesterday.
So just muse on this thought.
What can you turn on its head,
In your life,
Your world and your thoughts,
To make tomorrow different from today.
Hold these thoughts close to your heart and allow them to leak out into the world around you.
If you are celebrating Christmas today share some of these thoughts with those around you either in person on social media or even on the discussion forum on the app.
In the next five minutes of this daily insight I'd like to share a magical key with you.
In the major arcana of the Tarot which is a set of keys to activate and unlock nascent aspects of our consciousness.
The 12th key is the hangman.
The hangman views the world from an upside down perspective.
He is the physical embodiment of someone who permanently and constantly operates from the perspective of the turning point.
To the hangman right is wrong and wrong is right.
A half empty glass is always half full.
So over the next few minutes let's reflect on aspects of your life so far.
Don't use the word reflect to mirror and turn things around upside down and sideways.
And let's use the breath to literally provide you with inspiration.
So as you muse on each of these questions breathe in and out four times with the out breath about four times as long as the in breath.
Feel what have been the highlights of your life so far.
What experiences have you taken on board and augmented?
What has been less than satisfactory?
What aspects of your life can you turn on their heads?
What aspects of your life can you turn off?
When we come to the same point in the Earth's orbit the same time next year where do you want to be?
In the remaining 10 minutes of the 20 minute version of this daily insight I'd like to share some more magical techniques with you that will really help you turn the corner over the next orbit of the Sun.
In each hour we spend on planet Earth we travel around 67,
000 miles in space.
So by the time we arrive at the next winter solstice we will have travelled over half a billion miles together on spaceship Earth.
Despite all of this forward momentum some people will be exactly in the same position as they are today in a year's time and some may have even gone backwards.
Imagine if we could use the concept of the key of the hangman to open the door to a new world.
Just muse for a minute on what the most magical world would look like for you.
Who would be in it?
What would be unfolding?
How would you show up in this magical world?
Do you have the time?
So at the same time we see the world one way up,
The hangman sees things completely reversed,
Now thoughts don't exactly become things they are actually things.
At the same time our heads might harbor thoughts about the most ideal world for us,
In our lower mind centers lurks the anti-thoughts or fears that our wildest dreams may not come to pass.
Both these thoughts and anti-thoughts leak out into the collective consciousness and can cancel each other out so our dreams remain within reach but ever so slightly out of reach.
Now alchemy is the science and art of transportation,
Classically of turning lead into gold but also the ability to continually create turning points in our lives where our dreams become our reality.
So let me share an alchemical secret with you called the two-mind transmutation,
It is my Christmas present to you.
So before we begin just take one deep in-breath and expel all the stale air from your lungs and on the next in-breath allow the magic around you to seep into your body and realize that on the out-breath is when we express ourselves into the world,
We express our magic into the world.
So tune into those wild dreams inside your head,
The way you might be in a year's time.
And now move your consciousness to your pineal gland so you imagine you're looking at the back of your eyeballs.
To do this just put the tongue to the roof of your mouth and imagine a point about an inch up,
Two or three centimeters up and two inches back,
That's five or six centimeters at the center of your brain,
This is the location of the pineal gland.
And now observe those dreams as if you are the viewer watching a film of your life.
And let those dreams float down now past your throat into your heart center.
And with your awareness at your heart center allow it to float down a little further into your lower mind centers,
The sacral and the solar plexus and the root.
And just tune into those fears that perhaps your wildest dreams will not come to pass in the next orbit of the Sun.
So let the possibility of your dreams not coming to pass rise up to also sit in your heart center so they join the dreams of what might come to pass.
And let the dreams and the anti dreams,
The thoughts and the anti thoughts,
Cancel each other out.
And now take the notion not of the dream but where that dream might lead to.
When that dream is fulfilled what will come to pass?
How will it benefit you?
How will you reach that turning point and where will you go once you go past it?
As a result how will your dreams affect other people and influence other people?
And how will they influence those around them?
And with your dreams fulfilled how will that be the change in the world?
So just imagine that out from your heart flows a ray,
A powerful ray,
And this is known as the heart ray.
It is nascent in many people but while dormant it is always active.
All we need to do to activate it is to breathe into it.
So as you breathe in imagine the heart ray storing up energy and as you breathe out and it radiates out into the world.
And on that heart ray now place the notion of what will happen to you,
To the people around you and to the world in general when your dreams come to pass.
Now the heart ray operates across space and time.
You can send it back in time to earlier versions of yourself to influence the dreams that you're having right now.
You can also send it forwards in time to future versions of yourself.
So send it forward now to the middle of March the spring equinox.
What will unfold by then to help your dreams turn into reality?
Send it further forward to the summer solstice in June.
Where will you be when you're halfway on your journey?
Go forward further still to the autumn equinox.
You're turning the corner now,
Starting to harvest the results of your dream manifesting into the world.
And now go fully forward another half billion miles one year to next year's winter solstice,
Next year's turning point.
And allow your heart rate to influence the version of you in the future who is now dreaming of the turning point to be passed in the forthcoming orbit of the Sun.
Let me leave you now wishing your wildest dreams will come to pass and that you see today as a turning point for the rest of your life.
Seasons greetings and have a cool year.
