I am going to talk about meditation, what the benefits are and some of the mistakes that I made when I first started my journey of self-discovery. I’ll talk about how you can create from a place of love by tapping into your own higher guidance, your higher self, divinity, source, universal energy, whatever you want to call it and discovering your own consciousness. Your own inner voice and create an abundant life full of happiness and joy.
How to get started
When I first began meditating, I thought I had to focus on switching off, quietening my mind, telling myself to think of nothing and to clear my head, but the frustration was real, and I’d give up after a few minutes. I found myself saying oh this doesn’t work for me, I can’t do it, this went on for many years, eventually I just gave up trying.
It all changed when I began training in a healing modality called Sacred Soul Alignments. It was like I had found the missing piece to my jigsaw puzzle. The penny dropped, and I began to understand that the focus was not shutting my mind off and thinking of nothing, it was moving past the analytical mind, the thoughts, the beliefs I had, the emotions I felt. It was using my attention and focus on connecting into my heart centre, you see, this is where we create abundance from, a place of love. Connecting into a place of love did quieten my mind, I found I naturally shut my mind off without even trying.
I soon learned that meditation is a skill that must be practiced. I set my daily routine to focusing my awareness inside of my heart, taking myself out of noise of what was going on in my life, and using intention and focus into what I wanted to create. I would visualise what amazing success I had, how it would feel if I had it all. Now, I wasn’t particularly good at visualising, but with practice I started to really get into.
There were no limits where my imagination took me. I would see myself running my own business, and I would tap into the feeling it gave me, joy, happiness, success. I would hold onto that feeling and at the end of my meditation I would send my intentions from my heart centre and blast it out into the universe, then let it go, and trust the process.
Getting past the analytical mind
After my morning meditation I would have such a spring in my step. I would continue with my affirmations, out loud and in my head. I was feeling good, then someone would upset the applecart, irritate me with something they said. I would expect to have an amazing stress-free day, and when that didn’t happen, I would feel disheartened and lack trust that this really worked. I’d go back to living in my thoughts and waiting for outcomes to happen to prove that what I was doing was working.
What I realised is, that I had to change the energy within me to change my reality, and be consistent with my focus. This wasn’t just about meditation, this was a new way of thinking and feeling. This felt like hard work at the start, I was constantly in my head, stopping my thoughts from running wild. Catastrophising situations in my imagination, having conversations with people and what I would say to them, all in my head. Boy it was no wonder I was exhausted! The more aware I became of them, the more I realised I was in my head A LOT!
I made a commitment to keep learning about myself. I re focused my intentions, the more I learned about how to work from my heart centre the easier it became. You see, we can’t control what happens around us, but we can control how we react and feed into things.
Remember we give meaning to everything.
Back on the horse again, I would become more aware of what I didn’t want to think and feel anymore, and when I’d catch myself thinking a certain way, I’d remind myself, whatever I put my focus on I would create. I’d tell myself throughout the day, I’m only responsible for my own happiness, and I would let go of trying to make others around me happy. I think as parents were all want our children to be safe and happy, and this was a constant focus in my life, but I persevered, focussed on myself.
I soon began to discover that everyone around me was responsible for how they think and feel, and no matter how much I want them to be happy, I have no control over other people’s emotions. I can’t stop the mistakes others make, but I can change this for myself.
I was aware the limits I was setting for myself were the ones coming from a past memory, experience, or belief I had about it.
I would move past the mind i.e. the thoughts, and focus on what gave me joy, what made me feel excited, and affirm, “whatever I put my attention on I am creating”. I decided to focus on success. I would see myself in my imaginary world where everything was possible, wow this started to feel like fun.
I really started to understand what my purpose was in my life, happiness! I then began to perfect my skill and create from a place of love instead of from my analytical mind.
The benefits of meditation
We all have different techniques and how we like to meditate, one glove does not fit all. Find what works for you. What worked for me at the start was guided meditations, so I could focus on the voice, this relaxed me into a state of calmness. We call this the theta brainwave, the state of relaxation. This really helps you to move into your unconscious self. I did this for some years until I could quickly and easily get myself into the state of relaxation myself.
I created my own guided meditations and used sacred light technologies to bring about healing into the energy body. When we are in this state of being, we can receive on a much higher level. This created amazing results for my clients, as the more my intuition increased the more, I could see, feel, sense, blockages in my clients energy field, and help them to release them, removing their own blocks to happiness and peace.
As you move into your heart space you can tap into the abundance of Mother Earth, the soothing, calming, nurturing energy that we all have access to.
Grounding
Grounding your energy field can have life changing results for your mental, emotional physical and spiritual body. It can reduce stress, resolve inflammation, have a pain-relieving affect, resolve anxiety, depression, and many other health issues. Grounding allows your energy to stay in your physical body as opposed to it being scattered. It allows you to come back into harmony with all aspects of yourself.
Anchoring your energy is simple. Focus your awareness into your heart centre and imagine a golden chord that is attached to your heart, dropping it down through your body, through all the layers of the earth and into the golden light of GAIA (Mother Earth). Then draw this energy back up through your body and back into your heart, filling your heart with the golden light. This infuses your body with the energies of Mother Earth.
Expand this light throughout your whole body sending it 12 feet in all directions, creating a container that you are in the centre of.
As I mastered this meditation skill, my intuition shot through the roof. All my fear dissolved, and I began to trust my own inner voice, i.e. my gut instinct. I tapped into higher frequencies and began to communicate with my own spiritual team, yes, we all have them, we are all assisted through life by our spirit guides. This created amazing results for my clients, the more my intuition increased, the more I could see, feel, sense, blockages in my clients energy field. I was able help them release them, and remove their own blocks to happiness and peace.
Breath work
Using breath work in meditation brings the energy in, it also helps you to get into the theta brainwave state. I use the 5 second inhale and 5 second exhale, focusing on your breath gets your body quickly into a relaxed state. If you struggle with this, just do what you can, it’s not supposed to be uncomfortable. It can also help you focus, giving your brain something to do.
Now I spend a couple of hours in meditation every day, sometimes more, depending on what challenges I am experiencing, or what intentions I want to bring in for my day. This helps me to tune out of the noise and back into my heart. It’s never too late to begin your meditation journey, start off slow, 2 minutes then build it up. Make a conscious decision to commit time to yourself, recognise resistance (putting it off), stay focussed on what you want to achieve in your day. Become aware of your thoughts, notice what you are talking about, the words you are using, and decide to let them go and change your thought process to one of success. I say to myself, “whatever I put my focus on I create success,”. Introduce other techniques like journaling, and positive affirmations to keep you focussed.
Become more aware about what gives you joy, what makes you passionate about something, what things make you laugh, and use this in your meditation. See yourself with it, allow yourself to feel it in your body. Then send it out to the universe, let go of all expectation.
Remember when you start something new you must really focus on it, when you become familiar with it, you begin to just do it unconsciously, like driving a car. When you first start learning how to drive, you are concentrating on every gear change, mirrors, signal, accelerate, then it just becomes natural. Think about it like that if it helps. The more you are in a positive state, it will soon become a way of being. That’s when magic starts to happen. So dream big, set no limits to what you can achieve, use your meditation as your vehicle, and then reap the rewards of your new state of awareness.