| This is a guest post from my wife, Erin. | | | | bare? Whatever you see is fine. Just take note of it. |
| It's a visualization / meditation exercise for | | | | Find a place to sit down and ask to speak to your |
| communicating with your subconscious mind (or your | | | | subconscious, or your higher self, or even your spirit |
| higher self, spiritual guides, a higher power, etc.). Feel | | | | guides. See who shows up. Have a conversation with |
| free to adapt the paradigm she uses to fit into your | | | | them and ask them what they want you to know. |
| current belief system. She taught me this about 11 | | | | Then listen. When you are through, thank them and |
| years ago, and I've been practicing it ever since. | | | | exit your room. Be sure to close the door. Back track |
| Go To Your Room | | | | your way to the staircase and climb it, counting up |
| Wouldn't it be great if your subconscious mind could | | | | from 1 to 21. Then step into the elevator and do the |
| leave you messages the same way someone might | | | | same, count up from 1 to 21 and step out. You're |
| leave you a message on voicemail? How valuable | | | | done. |
| would it be to receive a direct message from your | | | | Now that is the setup. Later you can go back to |
| subconscious or higher self? What if you could not | | | | your room any time and talk to whomever you find |
| only get a message but have a back-and-forth | | | | there. |
| conversation with your subconscious mind? | | | | Then experiment! When I go to my room, there is a |
| When I was a teenager a friend of mine taught me | | | | chalkboard. And on that chalkboard is always a |
| a method for doing just that. I'd like to share it with | | | | written message from my higher self. Perhaps in your |
| you and see if you find it as amazing and valuable as | | | | room there is an answering machine, and you simply |
| I do. It's a method I still practice today when I want | | | | need to press play to hear the message. Or perhaps |
| to receive a direct message from my higher self. | | | | when you enter your room a phone is ringing, and |
| Here's what you do: | | | | you answer it and hear your message on the other |
| You can do this lying down or in a comfortable chair. | | | | end. Come up with a way for your subconscious or |
| I usually do it at night before I go to sleep since I | | | | higher self to leave you messages that you can |
| know I won't be interrupted, and it also helps prepare | | | | check when you don't want to have a lengthy |
| me for sleep and interesting dreams. | | | | conversation. |
| Close your eyes and relax. Imagine you are walking | | | | You can use this method to get clarity on a problem |
| into an elevator and the doors close. You are on the | | | | by asking a specific question, then going into your |
| 21st floor, and you are on your way down. See the | | | | room and seeing your answer on the chalkboard, or |
| numbered display above the elevator doors, and | | | | dry erase board, or hear it on your spiritual answering |
| notice that the light for the 21st floor is lit. Now you | | | | machine. Or you can use this method to have a long |
| are going down the elevator, and you see the light | | | | talk with your higher self or subconscious mind. |
| for the 20th floor turn on. Breathe deeply in between | | | | I've even gone so far as to lay down on the couch in |
| floors. Next you see "19″ and so on. Feel the | | | | my "room" and proceed to mentally enter another |
| motion of the elevator as you go down, see the | | | | elevator and go down another 21 floors, then 21 |
| numbered lights counting down, and count them in | | | | steps, then into another corridor with another room! |
| your mind as you breathe deeply once or twice in | | | | Talk about a trip! You could also try asking the |
| between floors. When you reach the first floor, the | | | | corridor guardian to be taken to someone else's |
| doors open. Step out. | | | | room (perhaps a spouse or family member) and |
| Now you see a staircase, going down. There are | | | | meet their higher self! See what happens and what |
| exactly 21 steps. Imagine yourself walking down the | | | | their room looks like to you. |
| staircase, but pause for a moment on each step, and | | | | You can redecorate or make other changes to your |
| take a deep breath before stepping down to the | | | | room. If it's cluttered, clean it up! You might find that |
| next one. Count in your mind, and really feel yourself | | | | your life is getting "cleaned up" by doing this. I've also |
| walking down the stairs. When you reach "1″ | | | | done a room addition on mine so that now there is a |
| you are at the bottom of the staircase. | | | | cozy, comfortable bedroom for me to sleep in when |
| Now you see a door that is slightly ajar. You walk up | | | | I don't feel like going all the way back up the stairs |
| to it, open it, and see a brightly lit corridor with | | | | and elevator. :) |
| dozens of closed doors along the way. A guardian is | | | | The insights on this journey are invaluable. And the |
| standing there, and you ask him or her to be led to | | | | dreams you'll have after doing this exercise may be a |
| "your room." Imagine you are being led down the | | | | little more clear than usual. Pay attention to them and |
| corridor to your room. Open the door. | | | | what they might be trying to tell you. And the next |
| What you see inside as you step into your room is | | | | time you're feeling unsettled or unclear about |
| entirely up to you and your imagination. Explore the | | | | something in your life, just go to your room! |
| room and take note of what you see in there. Is it | | | | If you find this exercise useful, you might also enjoy |
| cluttered or neat? Is it sterile or cozy? Does it look | | | | this other visualization/meditation for meeting your |
| futuristic or antiquated? Is there furniture or is it | | | | future self. |