GUIDED MEDITATIONS
Why Meditate?
The way I see it, we meditate for two main reasons: 1: To wake up – which means to discover what we are beyond the human body. 2: To let go of the “ego-person” – which means to end identification with and stop being controlled by - the physical, mental, emotional and conditioned bodies.
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Simultaneously we allow our awakening to deepen, until ego is completely dissolved. At which time we navigate life on planet Earth – through our True Self - the Divine Presence that we are.
I have designed these guided meditations with the intention of serving our personal dissolution and spiritual evolution. It is my hope that you find them useful to this end.
Preparation for Meditation
Meditation is an exploration of our inner environment. In order to meditate, we need to be emotionally settled enough - that our attention is available to explore this Essence that we are. If there are acute unresolved issues in our life, they will distract the meditation. So the first practice is not exactly a meditation, but a preparation for it.
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I call this preparation for meditation practice FIFI (short for Face It and Feel It). I refer to it as an emotional hygiene shower. If we want to feel better and progress on our spiritual journey, we must face and transcend our ego-person weeds. And don’t be scared. When done right, this method heals and transforms within minutes. All you need is a willingness to jump off the cliff of the known - coupled with little courage and trust in the Unknown.
Morning Meditation
The Sunrise Meditation is your 10-minute wake up meditation - It is intended to help you get a smooth transition from sleep to waking – and to give you a grounded start of the day.
Evening Meditation
This 15-minute Moonrise Meditation will help you let go of the day, maximize the benefits of the upcoming rest and give you a soothing transition into sleep. The Moonrise is also excellent comfort when you are lying awake at night.
Traditional Zen Buddhist Meditation
The Monk Meditation is the longest - it is 40 minutes long - it is a pretty traditional and simple meditation guiding you to disengage personal mind and rest in Awareness itself. Straight forward guidance and long spaces of silence. If you wish to meditate longer on any of my meditations, you can always set your own timer and simply continue after the three end gongs.
Decrease Thought Activity
The 20 minute Muzzle Meditation shows you how to manage, block, and decrease thought activity. Once this becomes easy for you, only necessary and meaningful thoughts will come through. At that time your life unfolds without effort, confusion or decision making, in a warm and loving Silence.
Walking or Jogging Meditation
Personal mind often gets very activated when we walk or run. Thoughts rise up with great frequency. This is why walking meditation is an excellent opportunity to practice ignoring thoughts. With practice this meditation gets you to a place where you can stop a thought before it even arises. This skill lays a great foundation for helping you go deeper in your formal sitting meditations; not to mention the increased grounded peace and focus that will accompany you throughout your daily activities.
Tool for Controlling Your Triggers
It is said that the entire spiritual journey can be summarized as going from reaction to conscious response. The 5-minute Triggerease Meditation is a tool to help you deal with difficult people or situations. When we feel triggered – our conditioned – or unhealed self, by habit, wants to react a certain way. But our Higher Self knows a better way. I hope this meditation will support your desires to change your response to difficult people and assist you in flowing optimally in challenging situations.
Emergency Meditation
The Quicky Meditation is 5 minutes long and handy at any stolen moment during the day or while lying awake at night. It can be a de-stresser, or a reset button to a messy mind. The Quicky can also strengthen our seat in Source so that gained peace is not lost. You can use this meditation whether you have privacy or not. Perhaps you will not even be able to get comfortable. So when you are physically uncomfortable or in the middle of a crowd, you can still do the Quicky. But your practice will not be noticeably to others – it will be quiet and invisible. And once you are experienced, you will even be able to do this kind of meditation while simultaneously carrying on a conversation with someone!
Learn to Identify Your Attention
The first important internal layer to identify and start using consciously in meditation is our Attention. The 15-minute AttentionApp Meditation is created to help you identify your Attention – help you separate it from other layers in your internal environment so you can USE it with Intention and will.
Find the Birthplace of Personal Mind
The Ramana Meditation is named to honor Ramana Marharshi - who encouraged his students to practice Self Inquiry as a tool to awaken. In the Ramana, we will search for the birthplace of personal mind. Mind being defined as a bundle of thoughts - part of ego - or same as ignorance or forgetfulness of our True Self. The intention with the 20-minute Ramana is to destroy the power of personal mind by seeking it. Or we weaken the power of mind by seeking the birthplace of the first thought – the root of all thoughts - the I thought. When the birthplace of this I-thought is looked for, Source is eventually found, and personal mind begins to transform from a disturbing energy consuming noise to a quiet, useful servant of this Sacred Divine Source.
Recognize Your True Self
I have created this 30-minute long Dhira Meditation to help make awakening and deepening of our seeing hands-on and simple. Dhira is Sanskrit and means: “The one who always keeps the mind inward bent without letting it loose.” Letting it loose implies hitchhiking from one thought to another – in an endless chain of indiscriminate associations all day long. When you first start a meditation practice, you will notice how much nonsense and repetition goes on in your head; and once meditation is a regular part of your life, this meaningless time and energy waste will slowly decrease.
As soon as you can identify Attention as separate from whatever it is ON – which I teach in the AttentionApp Meditation – you can start to look for yet another separate layer inside, namely that which is aware of attention. In other words: Awareness itself. Identifying Awareness itself is what is referred to as Awakening. Because Awareness is what we are and consciously resting attention in Awareness – NOT in awareness OF anything – for as much of the waking day as possible weakens personal mind - opens the channel to intuitive higher knowing and deepens our seeing.
Solidifying our seat in Awareness - while simultaneously increasing our knowledge of this Unknown and slowly starting to see and live life more and more from here - is an ever-expanding and never-ending adventure.