Create a place for meditation: It’s a good idea to create a place especially for meditation in your home. A conducive environment helps you focus. Keep it simple and clean. You will gradually build up vibrations and atmosphere in this place and this will facilitate good meditation experiences.

Practice makes perfect: Practice once or twice a day to start with, in a quiet place at home or at work. These are the first steps to learning how to meditate and regain control of your thoughts, feelings and your life experience. If you find it a little difficult, be patient. Don’t give yourself a hard time. Meditation is cumulative. Frequent, short meditations are effective. Regular practice will make you perfect. It’s better to practice a little bit every day than to practice for a longer time only 2-3 times a week.

Formula for Success: If you understand and don’t practice, no results. If you practice and get no results, maybe you need further understanding. Practice what you’re learning each week. The content of each class is the basis of your focus. Meditate to apply what you’ve learned, i.e., this week, think about yourself as a soul.

Listen on to a few more tips for sustaining the practice….

Final commentary of the 7 day Challenge…..

All of us in one way or another are in search of God— perhaps without even knowing it. All of us seek a love that never leaves us or puts us down; truth that is unshakeable, unpolluted by falsehood; and beauty that is eternal, not artificial. Our search for these things is in essence a search for God, for these three aspects —love, truth and beauty — are God’s primary qualities. Unfortunately just as the word GOD has been so much used and abused out of context, love, truth and beauty have all but lost their deeper meanings.  Meditation is the journey to reconnect with the Pure Source of LOVE, PEACE, TRUTH & BEAUTY……

Experiment with the following meditation to journey to the Source…

making the connection

There are three simple stages to connect and establish a link with the ONE, The Source of spiritual light and power: Introspection, Observation, and Remembrance.

To practice, find a quiet spot where you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes. Sit comfortably, consciously relax your body, yet remain alert.

introspection 

Withdraw your attention from the world outside.
Center your self and be gently aware of your self being aware.

observation

Watch the flow of your thoughts as if you were just an observer. Notice what you are feeling in this moment. Think of your self as a being of peace.

Allow your self to feel calm and peaceful.

If any particular thoughts and feelings come up, watch them like a detached observer and let them pass, as if watching trains passing through the station.

remembrance 

Visualize bathing in the physical light of the sun.  Imagine your self bathing in the subtle spiritual vibration of the invisible ONE.  Feel that light penetrate your being as it heals all your emotional wounds.  Reflect that light out into the world to all those who need love, light, and power
to face their difficulties.

Now try out this next meditation…. a meditation leading into a song on Being with One by Desert Rose

So a human being is 2 things, soul + body. Who says “My body or my hand”? -Who is speaking? Who is the owner?

So how can you conceive of yourself if you are not the body? If something has no volume, density or mass, the only way it can be conceived of is as a point, because a point has no physical dimensions. It has a form which is infinitesimal. It’s a wonder how something small can contain so much: analogies of microchip (info) and atom (Power).

Imagine a tiny point located where thoughts come from…a point of conscient energy that thinks, decides and remembers, that gives birth to emotion…that acts and interacts through the vehicle of the body…the source of life and life’s experiences…this precious point source of living energy is you.

Let’s explore the soul in more detail…

Enjoy the meditation soul awareness…..

The aim in Raja Yoga Meditation is to use the technique of meditation as a method to deepen our understanding and begin to experience the self as a soul.

Method of Meditation: Begin meditation with the aim to experience yourself as a soul.

Open eyes: The eyes are the most powerful organ of the body and the energy of the mind is transmitted through the eyes. Raja Yoga is an open-eyed
meditation, because we need to learn to develop inner awareness to such an extent that we can maintain it whilst in action.

Sit comfortably: The body’s position needs only to be balanced and comfortable. If you sit on a chair keep your back straight, feet together and legs uncrossed so the subtle energies of your body may flow unobstructed.

Focus attention: Sit in a comfortable position; try to forget about/ let go of the sounds and sights around you and turn your attention inward. Focus your attention on that point in the forehead where you the soul sit. If your mind is running with many thoughts or memories, just observe and watch them come and go. Gently keep bringing your attention back to yourself in the here-and- -now, sitting on your seat of consciousness. Gradually your mind will become more peaceful and your thoughts will slow down. If you experience a headache or tension, you’re trying too hard. Relax completely.

Create specific thoughts: Create the thought of peace, concentrate your attention on that thought and gradually peace will become your experience. As you concentrate on peace you’re able to bring the feeling of peace into your consciousness. You are elevating your consciousness, becoming soul consciousness. When you’re in peace consciousness only then can you deal with anything negative. One has to go above negativity to see the truth of things. If you want to change a person, you don’t keep telling them what’s wrong with them because then that’s what you are emphasizing in their consciousness. This is especially important in working with the self. If you want to change, to move from puppet consciousness to master consciousness, to be a king of the self, you have to focus on your original good qualities. This empowers the self and it has to be done daily, because it’s very easy for one negative thought to come and destroy everything.

It’s a daily practice. How often do you breathe, do you eat? They are daily practices otherwise the body doesn’t function properly. In the same way, the health of the soul requires the oxygen of daily practice even 5-10 minutes will do. Start with this and naturally it will increase.

Try out this next meditation exercise..

Meditation offers many benefits from relieving anxiety and depression, to improving attention, memory, mental focus, concentration, creativity, overall psychological well-being, and so much more.

Apart from the  many health and psychological benefits, meditation offers one of the  simplest and most powerful ways to discovering who you are and what brings real meaning to you.  Secondly, how to connect with the One so that there is joy and love in your being.

You may think a journey to “know yourself” sounds hard or even scary. Or that you don’t have enough time or patience to do it. Or maybe you just don’t know how or where to start.

Try this short guided meditation to get you started….

In light of the current speed of change, the instability of many areas of our world, we are all looking for ways to centre and empower ourselves. 

Meditation is that art of learning to know myself deeper so that I am able to centre myself on that which gives meaning and value to the self and secondly, the connect to the Source, God.  It is through this connection that the soul is truly empowered to transform and realise ones authentic self.

Explore further what meditation is all about ….

Take a few minutes now and be guided in a meditation that will help you to centre yourself and return to being “you”….