Meditation – I Let Go into the Pool of Forgiveness

I let go into the pool of forgiveness. 

Sometimes I visualize myself floating in a large scallop shaped shell.  I think the idea of floating effortless is showing me that it’s not a fight to forgive or to set your negative emotions free…it’s your natural state…float…clear…expand…enjoy…dip your foot or hands into the water…PLAY.  Sit and imagine yourself floating…feel the ebbing of the water, the sun on your face, the feeling of letting go of everything, just BE.

Sometimes I visualize the creek where my siblings and I would play when we were young…behind our summer cabin near Allegheny State Park…rainbows reflecting off sparkling shallow waters, mossy rocks that felt like velvet to our bare feet creating paths of stepping stones…downed tree trunks crossing the creek for us to climb on and hang off of…so alive with life…dragonflies, small fish and tadpoles…moving and staying still…hidden from the rest of the world.  I see the rainbows reflected off the moving water…the tiny waterfalls.  I pick a color and take it into my essence.  I become that color…it is alive…dancing in the air.  I become part of nature…part of the stream life around me.  What is this color teaching me?  Showing me about myself?  About life?  What message does it have for me?  I can leave it at that or continue the meditation with any other rainbow colors that catch my fancy…drawing on the messages and emotions presented throughout the day.  I am at peace.

My Daily Meditation – Aligning the Chakras

Meditation can mean different things to different people.  This is my process, my way of centering myself for the day, my meditation.   

First I pray to the Archangels Raphael and Raziel…the Archangels of healing.  I say three times “Archangel Raphael, Arhcangel Raziel…hear my prayer.”  As I say each line I imagine the beautiful white healing light from these angels is running through me. 

Then I say this affirmation, “I let go into the pool of forgiveness and become once again the ever shining light of love that I am.”  As I say the first part I imagine myself descending into the water…arms extended up…slipping downward into a silvery pool of deep water…I glide past sparkling pieces of turquoise sea glass, pretty shards of pottery, long, flowing strands of seaweed…the sunlight glistening through the water.  I slip down, down, down to the depths…into the depths of my subconscious.  I forgive those around me that I need to forgive and let go of any negative emotions that I may be holding on to from the present and from the past and most of all, I forgive myself for judging myself to harshly, for holding on to fear and not accepting love, for feeling guilty about expressing my emotions.  I bask in the beauty of what I see and for the moment…all that matters is just being.  I then see myself being raised out the the lake…arms extended and I shoot upwards.  At this point I am saying the second part of the affirmation.  I see myself high up in the sky.  As I bring my arms in a semi-circle downward…crystals appear…always different…depending on the day.  It is the light of the universe, the God force of the universe shining on me.  Most of the time I see white light, sometimes it is blue, sometimes green, sometimes other colors.  Sometimes the light is centered over my head , sometimes I visualize many crystals following the curve of my arms as they create an arc.  Sometimes I see a big crystal heart.  I have even visualized myself holding my child self, my inner child…in the pose of a Madonna and child…basking in the light that surrounds us….connecting me to the free spirited child that I still am.  I imagine this light surrounding me, protecting me, connecting me to God, bringing me peace and strength, connecting me to who I truly am.  I finish the affirmation…”I accept myself.  With this prayer I am healed.”   

Finally, I align my chakras…the seven energy vortexes of the Vedic seers of the Hindu tradition.  On a simple level, the chakras are seen as spinning wheels and when they are functioning correctly, we feel both physically and spiritually balanced.  Here is a web-site where you can see where each chakra resides: www.whats-your-sign.com/chakra-symbols.html  Also, the book entitled  “Healing with Crystals and Chakra Energies” by Sue and Simon Lilly has excellent in depth explanations and exercises related to healing through the chakras.  I have developed my own chakra meditation.  This is how it works.  I start with the red or root chakra and visually send the energy in the form of red light up to my head, through all of my body parts and then back down.  I see myself basking in the red light of the primal life force of this chakra.  Next I move to the orange or creative chakra, then the yellow or vitality chakra, the green or heart chakra, the light blue of the throat or creative expression/communication chakra, the indigo or intuition chakra and then the violet or connection to the universe chakra as I call it.  When I visualize the light blue chakra,  I usually chant the word blue as I send the light blue energy through my body.  I let the sound reverberate throughout my being.  This chakra is related to the thyroid and as I have a thyroid imbalance, I feel that this is the chakra that I need to work on the most…finding my voice, my own form of expression and spreading my ideas without FEAR.  Some days I chant the colors of all the chakras.  The indigo chakra is the one which often flows the easiest for me…it is the easiest for me to visualize.  I have been told that I have had past lives as a priestess…maybe there’s a connection.  As I visualize each color passing through me, I  become that color and take it into my essence.  I am that color, it is alive within me. I see what emotions and images it conjures up.  I ask myself what it is trying to teach me.  I return to these thoughts and emotions during the day.   Finally, I visualize a beam of white light, the presence of all the chakra colors, coming from a few feet above my head and shooting through my body, protecting me, connecting me to the God force, the life force.  This light, this force goes through me, touching all parts of me and then comes out my feet, going several feet into the ground…grounding me.  I am now ready to start my day…and remember that I am both a being of the sky and of the earth, full of the life force, full of the love of the Universe.  I am reminded that this love, this energy was not intended to stay in me.  I need to complete the process, to be a part of the continuum, and to pass on what I have received to others.

Breathe With Nature

How can we learn to reach our “spirit-selves” …our “true-selves”…our “child-selves”…our “selves” that existed before the world hit us with all of its ideas, demands and baggage?

Just go outside and look at nature, breathe with it and see how it just “IS.”   

And so we are as well – we just don’t know it.