This is a small meditation.
Take your attention to your breath. Just observe it as it enters your nostrils. Just coming and going, easily and effortlessly. You do not have to control anything. It just comes and goes naturally. Continue to observe the breath at your nostrils for several minutes. If any thoughts arise just allow them to become like clouds just drifting through. Consciously bring your attention back to your breath. You might be able to feel some sensations at the entry to your nostrils as the air moves backwards and forwards over the skin. You might notice that it has a temperature. You might notice that it arrives at both nostrils or that one nare is more open than the other. Just continue to observe your breath. It comes and goes naturally, rhythmically without any effort on your part.
Mow let that observation drop away. I want you to bring your attention to your heart centre. The space about nipple line in the middle of your chest. Take your full attention to this place. Allow your chest to rise and fall. The breath comes and goes and as it does, more and more energy builds in this energetic centre. The heart centre. Allow the charge to come more fully into your chest. Bigger and bigger, fuller and fuller. You might also allow a colour to fill in the space. Allow that colour to increase in intensity. Which ever colour arises is completely valid for you. Just observe and focus the energy in this centre.
As is become so full, so big, so overwhelming allow it to spill out , allow it to run down your arms, over the entire surface of your heart, your chest, it is like a river in flood. The volume and pressure is so great that it spill upwards, downwards and to both sides - it fills the entire body. Each breath that you take in, the cascade is greater, stronger and more beautiful. The colour is suffusing everything. The more you inspire and expire, the strong the charge in your system. It is now spilling out into the space beyond your body. The space called the etheric field is fulling with charge, with energy, with colour and vibrational intensity.
You are feeling so good, so energised that you are unable to contain this in your own organism and you allow it to flow out towards other people you love. Your children, your partner, your parents, your siblings your aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents. It extends to your entire extended family, your neighbours, your animals, all sentient beings around your home, in your community, in your village or town, out into your country or state, your region, the entire globe, beyond, out into outer space, this energy this charge this vibrational state is touching every particle of energy everywhere through out the cosmos. You are able to inject the global consciousness, the eternal flame of heart in all directions and in all realms of time. It is huge, and eternal of itself. You are part of it and it is part of you.
This mediation is now at an end.
If you want you can record it and listen to it later, or when you need a greater connection to all that is. Or you can go to my forums (www.sauvage-feng-shui.com and follow the links) and get the downloadable mp3.
Love and heart to you.
Vicki
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
FORgiveness
Today I have been inspired to talk about FORgiveness. If you break the word down like this you see that it is a process of giving.
There are many occasions when we should be asking for forgiveness from others. Whether of our actions. our words or our lack of action or words in certain situations. If we use the same standard that we expect of others then we can get an insight into how other people's actions might also be motivated by things that apply to us.
What do I mean by that.
Are we always attentive to the things that come out of our mouths? Do we, as my mother in law used to say, turn our tongue 10 times in our mouth before we speak? If we develop a deeper level of mindfulness then the things that come from our mouth will indeed be more mindful or better considered. We will have the time to reflect on what we say to others in the moment. We can also catch our self speak as it careens towards a familiar deep rut of our imperfections. It is wonderful to have high ideals but if we do not have a daily practice that develops insight then we will always be deficient in what we achieve and struggling with thoughts and practices that point our and develop our imperfections.
What is being said here is that - with daily practice of mindfulness we are able to develop insight. With insight it is possible to forgive others and to forgive ourself.
If not, we are trapped in a cycle of shame, blame and imperfection.
The route out of shame, self and other blame and ultimately towards a deeper inner and outer wisdom is daily practices that develop wisdom and balance.
Love to all you lovely and loving souls who aspire to develop the self.
Good day or good night and safe journey.
Vicki
There are many occasions when we should be asking for forgiveness from others. Whether of our actions. our words or our lack of action or words in certain situations. If we use the same standard that we expect of others then we can get an insight into how other people's actions might also be motivated by things that apply to us.
What do I mean by that.
Are we always attentive to the things that come out of our mouths? Do we, as my mother in law used to say, turn our tongue 10 times in our mouth before we speak? If we develop a deeper level of mindfulness then the things that come from our mouth will indeed be more mindful or better considered. We will have the time to reflect on what we say to others in the moment. We can also catch our self speak as it careens towards a familiar deep rut of our imperfections. It is wonderful to have high ideals but if we do not have a daily practice that develops insight then we will always be deficient in what we achieve and struggling with thoughts and practices that point our and develop our imperfections.
What is being said here is that - with daily practice of mindfulness we are able to develop insight. With insight it is possible to forgive others and to forgive ourself.
If not, we are trapped in a cycle of shame, blame and imperfection.
The route out of shame, self and other blame and ultimately towards a deeper inner and outer wisdom is daily practices that develop wisdom and balance.
Love to all you lovely and loving souls who aspire to develop the self.
Good day or good night and safe journey.
Vicki
Saturday, February 2, 2008
INtuition
I have just come back from doing an annual follow up for a client. We were talking about the many times she has had an inner voice telling her to follow a particular path or not to follow a particular path and the consequences of stilling the small inner voice.
All of us have access to inner guidance, or angelic guidance or spirit guides or an any other 'guide' that is in the current spiritual vocabulary.
Most of us lead such busy lives that we are totally deaf or blind to our guidance. We choose similar courses of actions, many times in similar circumstances.
Neuro-physically this is completely understandable. What you practice you strengthen. Just like exercising a muscle or more accurately a group of muscles, any thought pattern that we frequently exercise will get chemically encoded or hard-wired into our system. This means that whether we want to or not we will react in EXACTLY the same way when these reactive pathways are stimulated. The stimuli do not have to be identical to the original stimuli - they just need to be similar. This releases a neuro-chemical pathway and voilà you have the same reactive pattern, the same chemicals being produced in your system targeting the same cells. Put simply, what wires together fires together and likewise what fires together wires together. This means that reactive states are habitual.
The only way to bring greater awareness to our actions is to break the pattern when the stimulus is not present - this involves developing a greater sensitivity to when your body is being cued. If you do not have a mindfulness based daily (better if it is twice daily) stillness practice then you will never develop enough energy to break the gravitational field of your habit. The habit can have a physical basis such as smoking, drinking, using drugs, picking your nose, rubbing your hands when you are nervous, to thinking particular thoughts such as "whenever people look at me that way I feel worthless".
The key to most physical, psychological and spiritual problems or challenges is lack of mindfulness.
Address the mindfulness and you will release the pattern.
Release the pattern and you are 'available' to your inner guidance.
All of us have access to inner guidance, or angelic guidance or spirit guides or an any other 'guide' that is in the current spiritual vocabulary.
Most of us lead such busy lives that we are totally deaf or blind to our guidance. We choose similar courses of actions, many times in similar circumstances.
Neuro-physically this is completely understandable. What you practice you strengthen. Just like exercising a muscle or more accurately a group of muscles, any thought pattern that we frequently exercise will get chemically encoded or hard-wired into our system. This means that whether we want to or not we will react in EXACTLY the same way when these reactive pathways are stimulated. The stimuli do not have to be identical to the original stimuli - they just need to be similar. This releases a neuro-chemical pathway and voilà you have the same reactive pattern, the same chemicals being produced in your system targeting the same cells. Put simply, what wires together fires together and likewise what fires together wires together. This means that reactive states are habitual.
The only way to bring greater awareness to our actions is to break the pattern when the stimulus is not present - this involves developing a greater sensitivity to when your body is being cued. If you do not have a mindfulness based daily (better if it is twice daily) stillness practice then you will never develop enough energy to break the gravitational field of your habit. The habit can have a physical basis such as smoking, drinking, using drugs, picking your nose, rubbing your hands when you are nervous, to thinking particular thoughts such as "whenever people look at me that way I feel worthless".
The key to most physical, psychological and spiritual problems or challenges is lack of mindfulness.
Address the mindfulness and you will release the pattern.
Release the pattern and you are 'available' to your inner guidance.
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