| As a life coach I come across many people who | | | | Having it play in the background is nice, but not as |
| want personal power, happiness and abundance; but | | | | impactful as when you listen intentionally through |
| they don't meditate. That's like baking a cake without | | | | headsets. |
| an emulsifier such as eggs. Just as emulsifiers allow | | | | Now, take a deep breath and think, "Make me |
| your oil-based liquids to blend with your water-based | | | | resplendent." It's like when you go into your favorite |
| liquids, meditation is the emulsifier that blends your | | | | hairstyling salon. You simply show up, tell them what |
| physical body with your spiritual body into a | | | | you want and let them shampoo, cut and style your |
| meaningful life experience. Meditation and deep | | | | hair while you relax. You don't grab the scissors from |
| breathing bring spiritual sustenance to the body, | | | | the stylist and start cutting your hair yourself. Same |
| oxygenating the cells while raising your frequency for | | | | here. If you're not exactly sure what you want to |
| better connectivity and receptivity to spiritual | | | | accomplish, try this: "I surrender to the divinity within |
| guidance. | | | | me. I am open and receptive to that which is the |
| Often people don't meditate because they have tried | | | | highest frequency, the highest vibration and the |
| techniques that are overly complicated. While there | | | | highest Love. I am open and receptive to connecting |
| are many ways to meditate, from simply breathing | | | | with my spirit guides and teachers. I am open and |
| to dropping grounding chords while spinning chakras | | | | receptive to all abundance in my life, NOW." |
| and creating etheric golden nets, I find the simpler | | | | Now, focus on your breathing by counting or by |
| versions more effective. | | | | "breathing in the Light" and "exhaling that which is not |
| Effective at what? Well, we really don't know what | | | | of the Light". If your mind wanders, bring it back to |
| happens behind the scenes during meditation so I | | | | the present moment. |
| leave that to the spirit realm to sort out; I don't need | | | | I find that periods of deep breathing followed by |
| to drive it from my limited perspective. But I will say | | | | calm, light breathing helps me to get the most out of |
| that how I feel about a meditation is tantamount to | | | | the experience. Deep breathing helps me bridge the |
| getting me to do it again. If doing complicated | | | | spiritual and physical worlds while light breathing helps |
| meditations makes you feel spiritually connected then | | | | me feel that connection. Because I'm kinesthetic, |
| by all means, continue. But if you feel frustrated and | | | | feeling my guidance is an important part of my |
| disconnected after doing thirty minutes of convoluted | | | | meditation. |
| meditation aerobics then you're not likely to come | | | | Don't go into your meditation expecting a grand |
| back for more. If that's the case, then let's opt for | | | | phenomenon; go in with a grateful heart. We read |
| something a little more relaxed. Here is a simple but | | | | many stories about people who meditate and receive |
| effective meditation that combines three essential | | | | great visions or channeled messages. If this is your |
| ingredients - intention, focus, receptivity. | | | | expectation you will be disappointed; you'll feel that |
| First, set the intent. Before sitting down for your | | | | somehow you aren't "making progress" or that you |
| meditation, visualize yourself enjoying the meditative | | | | aren't worthy. While it is true that some people are |
| experience. See yourself sitting in your favorite | | | | born to visions, others have disciplined themselves to |
| upright position, surrounded by white light; relaxed, | | | | it and still others are well-intentioned but delusional. |
| smiling and feeling blessed. | | | | Regardless, if you are trying to compare your |
| Now, sit down for your meditation. Because | | | | meditation story to even one other person you've |
| meditation puts you in a receptive state it is a good | | | | lost the beauty of your own unique experience. Let |
| idea to surround yourself etherically with only the | | | | your spiritual guides give you exactly what you need |
| highest Love. "I ask that all the conditions and | | | | as you need it. Your role is to show up and say, |
| circumstances that I need to do my best and highest | | | | "Yes, please". You can't get it wrong. Subtle changes |
| work be present and that all else be removed. I | | | | (so you don't blow a circuit) are being made "behind |
| acknowledge that I'm constantly surrounded by the | | | | the scenes" every time you meditate. Even when |
| forces of Light, Love, and Wisdom, that I am so | | | | you think nothing has happened, it has. Trust this, |
| surrounded here today that nothing else may enter." | | | | and show up every day. |
| If your mind is easily filled with distracting thoughts, | | | | It takes self-discipline to be present in the quiet |
| spend the first few minutes listening to a song that | | | | stillness each day; but the physical, spiritual, mental |
| puts you in a spiritual frame of mind. I like to use | | | | and emotional benefits will quickly outweigh any |
| Robert Kochis's "Prayer of St. Francis", or "To Where | | | | discomfort or resistance you might initially feel. Better |
| You Are". Another would be the song "Surrender" by | | | | the "pain of discipline" than the "pain of regret" for |
| Twinflame. Make sure the song speaks to your | | | | having missed out on so much. |
| spiritual heart and that you really absorb the words. | | | | |