My meditation practice
I have been practising meditation religiously, albeit not in a religious way, for over ten years now—every day without fail. My grandmother introduced me to meditation as a child, but it didn’t stick as a practice then. Even so, she did open some crucial doors in my mind for where I currently am.
Not until I met my current spiritual teacher, Ines, did everything fall into place. I usually practice for 30 to 45 minutes in the morning and 30 to 45 minutes in the evening. Sometimes, it becomes just over an hour.
Sometimes it is as short as ten minutes when I have little time in the morning, or I’m not sleeping at home. Even so, it is always at least ten minutes. Flexibility and consistency is the key, not the length of the meditation. Even those ten minutes help me to centre myself and return to my sense of authenticity.
You may think 30 to 45 minutes is a long time, and true it is. For most people, 25 minutes is more than enough. This is my job, after all. Even so, I believe that when you commit to making meditation a practice, you start to design your life around making it possible. Once you feel the benefits, you will choose meditation over other activities.
Over the last ten years, my practice has changed and developed, but even so, the core fundamentals are still there.
People practice meditation for a wide range of reasons: relaxation, calmness, focus, productivity, and the list goes on. I have never given too much attention to those reasons as they focus primarily on using meditation to make more money. Money is fine; spiritual connection and understanding are better.
As you may have guessed by now, meditation is entirely different for me.
I practice meditation to nurture my connection with the spiritual realm, my intuition, psychic abilities and spirit guides. Meditation has also become a way for me to engage in personal and spiritual growth: the inner work and receive messages from the Spirit.
So, I practice meditation primarily for spiritual reasons. Consequently, it does give me a great sense of calm and stillness.
Stillness here is essential because, without stillness, no messages are coming through. Silencing all physical thoughts and emotions is impossible; however, we can reduce them to a murmur through practice.
There are multiple different meditation practices to achieve stillness: transcendental meditation, mindfulness, shamanic journeying, and the list goes on. You have to find the one that works for you. I’m very agnostic with the approach as long as you do it.
My meditation practice is primarily based on visualisation, as visualisation helps us to build a bridge of communication with the spiritual realm and our intuition.
Spirit has no shape or form, and with visualisation, we can build a construct where Spirit can come forward in a way we comprehend and interact with them. There is a danger here that our imagination takes over, and we begin stepping into ego, so we must stay relentlessly grounded as we open ourselves up to the unknown world of spirit.
Many will have shared forms of the spiritual realm, which may also impact how you perceive it.
MY PRACTICE
Ten to fifteen minutes of breathwork. In the morning, the breathwork includes some Wim Hoff Breathing, Conscious Connected Breathing and Extended Box Breathing. In the evening, I focus on Calming Somatic Breathing and Breath Waves.
Fifteen to twenty minutes of visualisation to safely open myself up to Spirit. This sequence of visualisation has stayed the same for ten years.
Ten to fifteen minutes of open-ended exploration. Here, I allow Spirit to bring forward whatever I am meant to experience on the day. In the beginning, a lot of content was coming through during this stage. Most days now, I am held in the powerful golden glow of Spirit.
Five minutes of visualisation to close down and adequately ground myself in the earthly realm. This sequence of visualisation has stayed the same for ten years.
My challenge with the meditation practice these days is complacency. I have been practising the same routine, with a few additions over ten years. I know the visualisations as well as the back of my hand. The practice for me these days is to go super slowly through the visualisation, not skip steps and rush forward. By going slow, you go deeper, and I’m working on achieving even more depth these days.
JOURNALING PROMPTS
What is keeping you from bringing meditation into your life in 2024?
How is your meditation practice challenging you right now?
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