The affirmations that we are focusing on during meditation are especially powerful. I have studied many meditation techniques over the years, but have only practiced minimally. People who meditate all the time, each experience different results according to their technique and focus during. So it would essentially follow that whatever you focus on will guide the direction of your thoughts and energy. Though the possibilities are endless for points of focus, and each effective to it’s own depth, purpose is paramount.
In the readings of Edgar Cayce, we are encouraged to establish a primary ideal before embarking on a meditation program, and holding to that one ideal for the endurance (until some result, or a new ideal seems appropriate). In another course of study (Astara), we are given a specific affirmation to repeat: “I am whole, I am perfect, I am surrounded by the pure white light of the Christ. Nothing but good can come to me, nothing but good can go from me. I give thanks, I give thanks, I give thanks.” This is a more general beginning, and since my desires are scattered, and my present purpose elusive right now, I am using a variation of this one.
It would seem that the ideal of gratitude would be a really great place to start, also This morning, I relaxed myself into the position, imagined being able to experience myself as whole and perfect, focused on breathing only briefly before I felt very expanded. This is no lie: I could feel that I actually occupied more space than I seem to physically. The chair did not need to contain all of me, though I could feel it under me. I felt profound gratitude for the pulsing of life throughout the whole that is “me”, and understood that this sensation was the same everywhere in the universe, and any and every entity so inclined could experience the same thing simultaneously. We are all doing it all the time, though not realizing it.
The time flew by, and after 25 minutes, it seemed as if only about 10 had passed. I wanted to do it all day. But since I can’t, I can take the peace and gratitude with me through the day, and remember that I’m still “there”, so is everybody else, and respond to THAT rather than my habitual response to the effects of past thoughts.
If I haven’t explained before, the author of “The Secret” makes an early reference to a book her daughter gave to her in a time of desperation that changed her life and evolved into her “secret” project. Not to be satisfied with her interp, I wanted to see the work myself. “The Master Key System” is that work. It is less sensational than the secret, and much more technical as far as guiding meditations for change, but also more comprehensive in its scope. It was written in 1912, and coming from another age lends, somehow for me, added credibility.
The lessons are incredible, the meditations are practical and practicable, and I know that I am changing. Be Love.
