SUCCESSFUL CONCENTRATION

Meditation Continued:

Focused Meditation: Here we have a specific problem, difficulty or question we are seeking to understand. As before find a quiet place where you will not be interrupted and perform the cleansing breaths previously outlined. If asked, do not explain the specifics of the meditation to anyone, for in so doing you invite failure. Our time in meditation is the time we are in concert with the Source, it is our time, not the other mans. In your mind’s eye, visualize, without words, the issue at hand. See it in all its aspects. , all those involved, the places and possible outcomes without consciously outlining a solution. After you have thoroughly explored, without words, the issue, silently ask the Source to make the correct course of action evident. End the session thanking the Universe that you now know it better, take a cleansing breath and go about your day. Again, do not tell anyone what you are doing.

Purpose: We are part of everything. Everything is connected and at the most basic level of existence, that which comprises everything, intelligence exists. Even hardened scientists grudgingly acknowledge this truth, though of course there must be a secular reason to explain it, if they could only find it. In focused meditation, we invite the Universal Mind to address our difficulty, without outlining the solution. In short order you will intuitively know what to do, the answers just come. We begin to rely on the infinite, all knowledgeable Source instead of our finite vision and fear tinged solutions.

Chanting Meditation: Begin with cleansing breaths. You probably want to find an undisturbed quiet spot that is additionally out of the earshot of others. You will not be shouting, though you can if you are so situated, but you will be speaking. The chant can be anything really, however it is suggested that it have some spiritual significance for you. Keep it short and simple: God is great or there is only one God or Divine love drives me or be still and know that I am God, you get the idea. Close your eyes and begin chanting until the transition. What is the transition? Trying to describe it would be like standing before Michelangelo’s David and trying to describe it over a cell phone. The first time it happens it will scare the bejesus out of you. This is natural. You will choose an exit point.

Purpose: By staying focused on the chanting, the conscious mind loses its grip and the sub-conscious floats to the surface. We transition into a waking dream. With consistent effort, you will find yourself actually leaving the conscious realm and walking the hidden world of the sub-conscious. Your body will continue to chant but you will lose awareness of it as you travel the astral planes in a waking trance. If you walk this path, make sure your body is left in a safe place for in a deep trance, though connected to your body you will not feel it in any real sense.

There are many ways to meditate, to experience true concentration. Considering the payoff, the purpose in truth, what are you waiting for? See you on the other side.