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By Gloria Joy Greco
At a certain point in evolution, even those without formal instructions on meditation will naturally seek inner quiet. Inner quiet is often associated with nature and silence. It is a powerful form of prayer. It can take the form of a walk in the forest, sitting on the beach listening to the waves hitting the surf, the wonder of viewing a moonlit sky, sunrise, or even working in the garden. These frequencies created by the aforementioned activites, all relax the mind, which helps one recognize the creative vibration of spirit.
In the quest for inner knowing one naturally follows the path of awakening. First comes prayer as petition, then comes prayer as soul reflection (when one recognizes the need to know God personally), and lastly comes prayer as inner listening, entering silence or meditation/contemplation.
In this alignment process one comes to understand that there is a grand purpose for life, in which the individual as a soul/spirit is indeed an important part. In meditation we experience the presence of God, while aligning ourselves to the realization that God loves and cares for us. This is preparation for entering the silence.
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Before reading the meditation instruction, you might want to read my awakening story which is from direct experience, rather than research into others' writings.
BEGINNING MEDITATION:
What is silence? How does one enter silence? How does one live in silence?
To really understand meditation, I teach a very simple form of Bhakti or Devotional Yoga. When a seeker is more advanced, we bring in Laya or Sound.
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If you follow along with this process, I guarantee you will learn some things about yourself very fast. You will acquire the proper mindset and attitude for meditation which will create the link between you and God, however, you perceive him/her (East or West).
Many people meditate for years without ever knowing the purpose of meditation. The purpose of meditation is to align with God, to become God- realized which automatically brings enlightenment.
This teaching is invaluable. Those without it meditate for years just to get into the first layer of the meditative experience. This will by-pass all of the outer layers and take you into meditation faster, easier, and with power since it will come from SOUL INTENT AND NOT FROM THE MIND.
THE FIRST STEP : SPEAK TO GOD OUT LOUD AND FROM THE HEART. This is for you so that you can see yourself how God sees you. It will tell you a great deal about yourself as you hear the thought and vibration that is sent out through you. Do it in your own space and flow; you may do it while you are outside sitting in your yard, or while you are alone in your bedroom. It is important that you are alone and in absolute quiet. While doing this, (this is important) observe yourself like you are watching a movie, OBSERVE WITHOUT JUDGMENT.
Why is this first step so important?
So often one doesn't consciously understand or recognize how he or she relates to God. By speaking to God as though you were in conversation with a friend, mentor, loving father/mother, you hear the tone of your voice, you witness the attitude, humility or lack thereof, you see your body posture and you learn a great deal about yourself in how easyly or uneasily the conversation flows. If you cry and are emotional it is fine, just sit and allow your soul to reach out and speak to its creator. Speaking to God in this space or state of mind automatically creates the link between God as creator and you/soul, as created.
NOW THE BRIDGE FOR SOUL COMMUNICATION HAS FORM. YOU HAVE CREATED THE LINK THAT WILL CARRY YOU INTO MEDITATION WITH POWER. The power, again, comes from soul intent.
Words are spoken with meaning and sincerity, or they can be rambled off with disrespect out of pride and arrogance. Humility is the trait that is required to carry a prayer to God. It prepares the soul to enter deeper into the presence of God.
In the process of creating your connection with God, you first identify with the inner knowledge that God is spirit, and therefore He is EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, both outside and inside. It doesn't matter whether you perceive God in an eastern image or a western image, it will take the form your soul requires for the experience.
This presence will draw you inside like a powerful magnet. You will not only need to know God, but you will want that with every pore of your body, mind and soul. When one speaks from the heart and moves with interior prayer, the capacity to experience spiritual vibrations are stimulated.
EVERY TIME YOU EXPERIENCE A NEED TO CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION, GO INTO IT AGAIN IN ABSOLUTE QUIET AND SOLITUDE.
YOUR QUEST IS SOLID NOW. YOU ARE READY FOR MEDITATION.
Each of us comes to the appointed hour when self-examination re-directs the soul energy inside. This act changes the life of the evolving soul forever.
STEP TWO: ASK GOD FOR THE GIFT OF SILENCE SO THAT YOU CAN ENTER THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE OF MEDITATION WITHOUT THOUGHT OR EFFORT.
Meditation is not about thinking or understanding anything. It is about listening within yourself to that still, silent voice. You won't hear it until you enter the silence.
Silence, peace, tranquility and listening are all states of being which calm the body, mind and soul. It is appropriate to ask God for the gift of silence so that you can listen and feel his/her presence from within. This knowing is ours for the asking; it is a very powerful gift of grace. This experience shifts the focus from the outside world of matter to the inside world of spirit. Don't be afraid to ask for this gift. Let it flow from you to your creator, let it go, and know that your prayers are answered.
THERE ARE TWO POWERFUL FORCES IN THE WORLD. ONE IS FEAR AND THE OTHER IS FAITH, AND FAITH IS STRONGER THAN FEAR. THE MISSION IS TO REPLACE FEAR WITH FAITH.
Pick an appropriate place for meditation. You want to be comfortable, clean, (mind, body, and emotions) focused, and moving into the experience with soul intent. Sit with your back straight in a straightback chair if you have one. As meditation becomes easier, you will want to sit on a stool or in a position on the floor so that nothing but what you are sitting on is touching you. The back needs to be straight for all meditation practice since entering silence makes spiritual energies flow, and this flow starts from the base of the spine and goes up through the top of the head.
Lying down is not appropriate for meditation, because what you do while lying down or sleeping will take you out of your body. You do not want to fall asleep while meditating. Your body may sleep, but the mind must be alert and listening/observing.
YOU WILL FIRST COME TO KNOW GOD AS LIGHT AND SOUND
STEP THREE: SILENCE THE MIND. Say out loud, "BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD" Then say inside, "Be Still and Know I Am God."
This statement takes you immediately into your soul link created from God's Love AS GRACE THROUGH THE PREVIOUS CONVERSATION WITH GOD. God is within you, and by affirming this you activate your connection to God here and now.
STEP FOUR: SAY YAM (EEEEEEEAAAAAAAMMMMMM) OUT LOUD AT FIRST, THEN TAKE IT INSIDE. KEEP SAYING IT UNTIL IT NATURALLY LEAVES. WHEN IT GOES, LET IT GO, IT WILL TAKE YOU INTO SILENCE. WHEN THOUGHTS COME BACK, JUST OBSERVE THEM. BRING EEEEEEAAAAAAMMMMMM BACK AGAIN AS IS NECESSARY.
Yam is the seed sound for the heart center which is the fourth center or chakra in the body. IT IS A MANTRA OR WORD OF POWER WHICH WILL CARRY YOUR AWARENESS INTO THE FREQUENCY OF LOVE. BECOME ONE-POINTED ON THIS CENTER AND SEED SOUND. IT WILL CARRY YOU INTO YOUR SPIRITUAL HOME. THIS HOME IS YOUR BASE FOR ALL MEDITATION & SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES UNTIL TOTAL UNION IS ACCOMPLISHED.
This is simple beginning training for meditation. Remember meditation is a soul/body/mind discipline and involves LIFETIME TRAINING FOR DIRECT SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. You need to practise it daily. A normal meditation in the beginning will last anywhere from twenty minutes to a half hour if you have followed step one appropriately; a half hour will go by as though it were a minute.
After you have followed this process for at least a year to establish your self in the heart center, you are ready to take the next step in the meditation experience.
MEDITATION, MOVING IN DEEPER
Many of you readers have been meditating for many years. Give yourself this little test to see whether or not you are ready to go on to a more advanced level of meditation. It is important to have mastered the ability to stay heart- centered before following these other instructions.
TEST:
Ask yourself now: " AM I ESTABLISHED IN THE HEART CENTER AS MY SPIRITUAL HOME?"
If you have established the heart center as your spiritual home, the following fruit will be evident:
1. You speak spontaneously during the day without thought. You work from intuition and not from mind. Even though you may slip from this state of awareness at times, you know it exists and recognize the state of duality. You are either heart centered or working from the higher self, or you are solar plexus centered and working from the mind/ego. In other words, duality means that you are aware of yourself acting and being in both places.
2. You will know your heart center by frequency and vibration. You will also know the color, sound and light frequency it releases. You naturally experience the state of love. You know the exact location of the heart center in the subtle body and how it is experienced in the physical body. Additionally, you also recognize a higher heart, namely the sacred heart, located just above the heart chakra. When you use the seed sound it manifests as power and takes you directly into the heart center whenever you use it, in meditation or out.
3. When you enter meditation you will automatically enter into the color of the heart center which is green. You will have no difficulty meditating an hour in one sitting. Even though thoughts will come up and you may have some difficulty remaining in this space all of the meditation time, you will be aware of the difference between being in the heart and not being there.
4. You will automatically find time for meditation since it is a priority in your life, even if it means getting up in the middle of the night.
5. You will remember your dreams often.
6. You will experience times of extreme joy, bliss, and humility. Tears flow naturally.
7. You are aware of alignment with God's will as the key factor in your spiritual training. You will relate to it every day, and you will know the difference between being self-involved and being in the flow with Divine Will.
If you have answered these questions in the affirmative with interior knowledge, then go on to this next levl of meditation.
MEDITATION, THE NEXT LEVEL:
You already understand the basic meditation practice, so let's go in deeper and with more power. You will be carried by your inner knowledge of God but we are adding the experience of sound, which is the practice of Laya Yoga.
Doing this exercise can stimulate Kundalini, so please, do it after becoming established in the heart center.
GROUNDING EXERCISE: (THIS MEDITATION IS TO GROUND YOU)
GO OUTSIDE ON THE DIRT, SIT LEGS CROSSED AND BACK STRAIGHT. PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE DIRT. FEEL IT. LET IT FLOW THROUGH YOUR FINGERS. NOW WHERE YOUR REAR END MEETS THE EARTH, FEEL THE ENERGY COME UP FROM MOTHER EARTH DIRECTLY INTO YOUR SPINAL COLUMN. (THIS MEDITATION WILL ACTIVATE KUNDALINI, SO PLEASE USE YOUR GOOD SENSE, YOU WANT TO BE HEART CENTERED ALREADY BEFORE ACTIVATING KUNDALINI. IT IS NOT SOMETHING TO PLAY WITH, EVER.)
BECOME AT-ONE WITH THE EARTH. FEEL IT PULSATE UNDER YOU AND THEN ALLOW IT TO MOVE DIRECTLY INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. YOU ARE THE EARTH, THE SUN, THE TREE, THE WATER, THE SKY, THE ETHER. YOU ARE SPIRIT, AND IN SPIRIT YOU ARE ONE WITH THE DIVINE MOTHER. GOD HAS CHANGED FORM. THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS EVERYWHERE, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. IN BECOMING AWARE OF MOTHER EARTH YOU EXTEND YOUR AWARENESS OF GOD.
LIVING WITH KUNDALINI TAKES DETACHMENT. Practice it 24 hours a day. NOW YOU ARE READY TO WORK IN HIGHER FREQUENCIES.
THROAT OR FIFTH CHAKRA MEDITtATION: SAY HAM, HHHHAAAAAMMMM, ENTER THE SILENCE OF HAM. WHEN IT LEAVES LET IT GO, IF IT COMES BACK, OR THOUGHTS COME IN...OBSERVE, LET IT GO, BRING HAM BACK.
This is the seed sound for the throat chakra, its element is ether and it activates the sense of hearing, the chakra means pure consciousness. IT WILL TAKE YOU INTO THE THROAT CHAKRA AT THE BASE OF THE THROAT. It is safe to enter into the creative process now. You have established your base in the heart, opening up to communication will activate creative energies. Flow with the energy and observe. The color is blue and will change into a smoky purple.
When you have entered deep into this center through many meditations, move on to the next center. KUNDALINI MANIFESTS AS HEARING. Bells, chimes, AND frequency changes will be heard. By going deeper into your silence you will experience the color, sound, and frequency of the center. This light as color is blue/soft purple. You should see and experience the heart as green and the throat as blue, moving back to the heart will shift it back to green, moving into the throat will bring it back to blue. You can move as the spirit moves you, just flow from one to the other, it is natural. Where your attention goes, spirit follows. Stay with the flow, no thought, only silence and flowing.
STEP TWO: AUM ...AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUMMMMMM, ENTER THE SILENCE. IF THE SEED SOUND FOR THE THROAT COMES BACK OR THE HEART, LET IT COME IN. IF AAAAAAAAUUUUUMMMMM IS COMFORTABLE IT WILL TAKE YOU INTO THE CENTER BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS, THE SIXTH CHAKRA, AJNA.
This seed sound is the creative sound. After much practise, you will begin to hear it in your right ear without saying it. This is the sound of creation which will become stronger and stronger, day and night. Since the sixth chakra is a primary power center, Kundalini will be flowing now and you will have insight and intuition every day, without exception.
You now are disciplined to work through the heart, throat, and third eye center. This opens your higher centers and Divine Will is totally natural as experience. The fourth, fifth, and sixth centers are all synchronized, and you are preparing to enter into a Direct Relationship with God, in a much more powerful way than what you have experienced until now. You are awakening to who you are. Power is flowing inside as electrical energy or Kundalini. In fact, by now you are experiencing Kundalini in many forms. Your spiritual journey has become very serious. Now Kundalini is with you always, and nothing that can take you away from it. It may be overpowering at times, and that is o.k. Just stay with it and flow. When there is pain or discomfort, know it is still o.k., that you are working through a block. Don't make an issue out of it. Simply go with it and flow.
You move naturally from blue and green lights into lavender and purple lights which will move into a beautiful white light. Again you move back into the throat and it is blue, down to the heart and it is green, and up to the third eye where you bring down lavender/purple, white. These are very high frequencies. You are changing drastically with every mediation. You can't experience these frequencies without experiencing change.
Continue with this meditation until it automatically activates the seventh chakra, or the higher heaven. It's color is gold. When you reach this stage, you are going to experience a major Kundalini flow. What you've experienced until now is child's play. It is time to know what a real Kundalini release is. Don't think about it. Just know it is all perfect and in God's hands. This is called Sahasara Chakra, and here the highest ecstasy or Nirvikalpa Samadhi state of being is experienced.
You are now prepared to enter the three lower centers because you have become one-pointed, connected into the now in daily life. You are totally committed to God's will, and it is time to transform your life. You still have duality, but you have it to a much lesser degree. You are aware of God in every aspect of life. And, transformation, being contagious, follows you everywhere you go.
When the appropriate time comes, you will automatically be taken into the lower centers. When this occurrs, you are going to face lower frequencies of spirit. You are prepared for this, however, because you are directly linked into the Holy Sprit/Kundalini through Divine Will. You have entered deeply into the walk with God, and whatever comes now, you are prepared for it. You will experience your lower centers both in and out of the body. When you come face to face with a demonic force, don't panic, look at it eye to eye and from your Divine Will center say: "Be Gone." You can add "In the name of Christ, Jesus or Krishna, Be Gone." It is the Christ within you that has the power.
Your meditations will change on their own now. The seed sounds for the solar plexus is Ram, the Sex Chakra is Vam and the Root Chakra is Lam. When spirit takes you down into the lower centers, bring in the sound. You will notice that you see and hear things that don't seem appropriate to you. But this is natural, so don't panic. Just flow with it.
Detachment is necessary. Just observe, watch, and flow, but never judge. You now have your connection to God, and there is nothing to fear. At this time you are being taught about the world of matter, mind, emotions, sex, etc. It, of itself, is neither good nor bad. You are the observer, so watch and experience. You are experiencing it because you are ready. You must gain knowledge of good and evil. Evil comes from the first three centers, Merely observe without judgment, and remember what it is like to be self- involved.
Eventually you will hear the creative sound 24 hours a day. It is directly linked to Divine Will. Staying in the high frequency is necessary in order to work with these currents of lifeforce. If you have acquired detachment in your years of meditation training, hearing the creative sound will not be a bother. I have permanent hearing loss from this, so don't think it will not effect your hearing in the body.
It doesn't matter, you are working from a much higher plane and the sound keeps your spiritual body stable. It will start in the right ear. When it moves into the left ear and both sounds synchronize, it will take you into the seventh center and you will enter Samadhi . During the times that you enter union at this intensity, you are not of this world, so don't expect to function in the human capacity.
It is not difficult to enter Samadhi once the creative energy is permanent. Just going inside will take you into the movement which brings the frequency through the right ear. Staying with the dance will activate the left ear and you will be on automatic pilot. Your body will move totally on its own. Your breath will stop or increase, the heartbeat will seem to totally stop, and the energy will overtake you completely. But you won't care, there simply is nothing like it.
There is no need or purpose in talking about total at-one-ment. When it does happen there are no words that describe it, and there is no need to communicate the experience. It will never leave you. And to relieve your fear, let me re-assure you that after the experience, you are very much alive. The thoughts are gone and the ego is gone, but life goes on as usual.
This is called a natural state of Sahaja Samadhi, which means to remain always in tune with the divine. In this state you talk, carrying on life in perfect meditation. God has become spontaneous and natural within you. This brings you into ceaseless knowing, to speak is to speak with power. This state is God absorbed or God realized.
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