“Self empowerment ” (in this article) simply refers to the process of filling your Self with a power, virtue, or feeling, that you wish to experience.
To experience this, try the following exercise.
- Suppose you feel that you lack contentment (satisfaction). To increase this quality inside you, sit comfortably in a pleasant room with your eyes open.
2. Imagine the room is empty by withdrawing your mind from everything external around you, including your body. Turn your attention inward. Think of how a tortoise withdraws into its shell to detach itself from a perceived danger in the outside world.
3. Consciously bring your attention to focus on the center of your forehead. Think of this point as a bright star, a sparkling jewel, a flame, or a point of light. Feel the positive energy radiating in all directions from this focal point- making you feel light and elevated. This is truly who you are~the Living Being~known as the Soul which animates the body.
4. Affirm (strengthen) this positive energy through positive thoughts and images about yourself such as * I am a contented soul, I shower everyone with feelings of contentment, * I am a jewel of contentment. OR * I am the child of the Supreme Soul, the Ocean of Contentment who is filling me with contentment.
5. Focus your mind & heart on contentment; let this become the object of your contemplation or meditation. As you focus upon the idea of contentment, you give it space to come into your life. Allow your thoughts about contentment to shift into feeling contented. You will experience this feeling by giving your conscious attention to it, by noticing it. This is how your mind works. For example when you concentrate on sad or angry thoughts, you will feel sad or angry. Through this same action of concentrating on any state, you add fuel to whatever thoughts you entertain, than the feelings that manifest are yours. So consciously choose what you wish to create, what you wish to feel and be.
6. Four or Five times during the day, visualize yourself performing an action under the canopy (shelter) of the Ocean of Contentment.
This same meditation technique works for all the different virtues like: cheerfulness, courage, humility, tolerance, forgiveness, determination, etc.
For the qualities that already exist inside of you, use this exercise to strengthen them and bring them out into your actions, responses, and interactions.
This is a way to experience empowerment through meditation.
Under the Canopy of the Ocean of Contentment
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