Deepening Your Meditation

Throughout the day, watch your thoughts.  As your meditation process becomes firmly ingrained in your life and you can easily slip into the awareness of being the “detached observer, you will find that observing your thoughts becomes more natural.When you recognize that you are creating thoughts or feelings that are negative or wasteful, remind yourself that you are a peaceful and powerful soul and the creator of your own experience.  Give your mind a powerful/loving thought to ponder, not only while you are sitting for meditation, but also while you go about your day. Exercise your right as a self-sovereign soul to choose the thoughts you create.

This simple process will enhance your meditation later on in the day.  Holding thoughts such as “I am a peaceful soul” or “I am a soul using my inner divinity to guide the external world of action” while you are engaged in the world, will actually carry over into your ability to create and sustain  peaceful, positive streams of thought in your meditations. Have faith in yourself, faith in the intellect that you are the rudder of your ship, following the directions of the Highest on High whom you have connected with during your “remembrance”.

Just as your remembrance  empowers your ability to be peaceful, to make good decisions, to act from  self-respect, and to respond rather than react while engaged in life, so your awareness while engaged in life can impact your meditation when you remember the elevated thoughts and contemplations that make you feel good about yourself. 

Chances are if you are experiencing obstacles during meditation it is because you are experiencing stress during the day due to negative thoughts and feelings.  When you notice this, challenge those negative thoughts, stop them, turn yourself around, and give yourself the chance to regroup your thoughts to create a better feeling and thinking mode as you about.  This will make moving into a meditative state easier whenever you choose.

Night class:

Now, both your sun and moon dynasties are being created again. No one else can know as much or become as pure as you do. When they hear that the Father has come, they will begin to remember Him. You will see all of that as you progress further. Hundreds of thousands and millions will continue to understand this. The atmosphere will be such. Everyone will become hopeless in the war at the end. Everyone will be touched. Your sound will spread. Heaven is being established, but there death of everyone is also prepared. However, that time will be such that there won’t even be time to choke. As you progress further, many here will understand a great deal. It isn’t that all of you (who exist now) will be here at that time. Some would have even died. Only those who were here in the previous cycle (at this time) will be here then. At that time, you will all be in remembrance of the one Father. The noise will also be reduced. You will then just continue to consider yourselves to be souls and remember the Father. You will observe all of this as detached observers. There will continue to be many painful calamities. Everyone will come to know that destruction is now to take place and that the world is to change. Reason says that destruction will take place when the bombs are dropped. They now continue to say to one another: Promise that you won’t drop bombs. However, all of those things have been invented for destruction. You children should remain very happy; you know that the new world is being created. You understand that only the Father establishes the new world. There will be no mention of sorrow there. That is called Paradise. Just as you have faith, in the same way, as you progress further, many others will have faith too. What happens is that those who are to have an experience will have many experiences as they progress further. At the end, you will stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance a great deal. Now, there is still some time left. If you don’t make full effort, your status will be reduced. You receive a good status by making effort. At that time, your stage will be very good. You will also have visions. Destruction will take place again as it has every cycle. Those who have faith and have knowledge of the cycle will remain happy. Achcha. Good night to the spiritual children.

I am serene; still in the midst of change.

In stillness, I find solutions.

I chose to move consciousness inside.

Drawing the energies of my mind into a concentrated point of awareness

I reclaim the moment.

I stop time.

Time stops for me.

In this moment, my energy is perfectly balanced, centered, still.

I fill this moment with the power of my concentrated awareness.

I hold stillness.

A reprieve is found in this still moment.

Energy is stored, concentrated.

I am stable, powerful, still, full.

Then slowly I release time.

To move once again at a pace in keeping with the stillness in my mind.

The world benefits.

Having returned from India this April from a spiritual sojourn at one of the purest pilgrimage spots ever, I welcome you into the thoughts of this pilgrim…

Fortunate to journey back to this ‘Forest of Honey’ each year over the last 9 years, each time I am taken deeper into the art of stillness and silence ~ a balm for the soul. There is great satisfaction for the soul to focus upon itself and to know the peace and true rest that can only be found within.

And yet, the soul finds itself in a world of constant movement and sound, and the ego and personality take so much satisfaction from action, even actions than spring from compulsion! WHAT TO DO!!!

In a piece called The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer, he points out that:“In an age of speed, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing could feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”

As one learns to meditate and focus the awareness inwards, a renewed sense of fulfillment is taken from stillness and silence. Stillness becomes an art when we master the fluidity to rise above the flux of the body and the turbulence in the mind.  When this happens, the desire to act, just to do something is lost.  Spiritual mastery becomes a series of experiences in which we learn to take joy and contentment from stillness.

As a great writer and yogi once said:

“The main state of mind now in the world is the wandering state of mind.  Thoughts go in many directions and consciousness is fragmented. Stillness is a settled state of mind. Stillness results in concentration which creates the experience of BLISS.  Only when still, can we experience the subtle inner state of bliss.”

And in Master Eckhart’s words (1260-1327): “Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.”And from: the Upanishads (c.1000 BC):“Away from the chatter of the senses, from the restless wanderings of the mind, there is a quiet pool of stillness. the wise call this the highest state of being.”

Upon reflection of the intense sense of stillness I recently experienced during many hours of  group meditation, a course has been born to share with new friends and old alike.  I have created 3 sessions that include an Invitation to contemplate, write, and share about your present states of stillness and where you would like to go with it.

We will practise a method of slowing down thoughts to experience more stillness, plus various exercises that will take you deeper into soul consciousness. You will learn how to create an atmosphere that brings you into more silence and soul-fullness in your own space, be it at home, in your car, or on the beach.

Sessions will take place in my home which has been a meditation sanctuary for the past 11 years so that you can experience the built-in atmosphere of peace and tranquility to support you in this venture.

If this intrigues you, inspires you, or grabs you in anyway, please don’t hesitate to call me and sign up. 808-639-9436.  As a group, so much more can be accomplished than if one were to try this alone. Yet this will prepare you for the deep satisfaction of being able to enter the stillness and the silence on your own, whenever you choose to.                                   

 Classes are on-going through July and August from 4:30pm to 6:30 or 7:00p.m.

STILLNESS REQUIRES COURAGE… Come fill your cup with both stillness and courage.

Om Shanti,

Shivalaya

Please call me @ 808-639-9436 to register for this course:   ($20 per class meeting for your first 3 weeks includes handouts) 

After your first 3 sessions, classes are continued by donation.