Part 2: Meditations, Exercises, Techniques
& Dietary Considerations (Pages 355-369)
Counting Breath
- SIT with your SPINE STRAIGHT
- As you INHALE, count to yourself silently, "ONE"
- As you EXHALE, again count "ONE" silently
- As you INHALE AGAIN, count "TWO"
- EXHALE, count "TWO" again
- CONTINUE like this until you get to "TEN"
- THEN START THE CYCLE OVER AGAIN AT ONE
- Your OBJECTIVE is to do 5 sets of 1-10 without your mind wandering. When you can do that, your CONCENTRATION is WELL DEVELOPED.
VIDEO (similar, not same) of Box Breathing Guided Meditation:
Contemplation & Visualization of Unselfish Love
NOTE: The following exercise requires understanding of the difference between "love" and "Unselfish Love". Reading Chapter 8 on Love {Blog 29}, is recommended. Do this exercise when you are NOT tired.
STEP ONE:
- To begin, ask yourself the following questions - and answer them:
- What is Unselfish Love?
- What does it mean to be Unselfishly Loving?
- Am I always Loving Unselfishly?
- If the answer to that is NO, think about the most recent situation(s) in which you have NOT loved Unselfishly, and go on to the next question:
- Why did I not Love Unselfishly in that situation?
- Once you have thought about it, let go of the thought about why you didn't Love Unselfishly.
- Now, again think of the situation & completely visualize it in your mind BUT this time VISUALIZE YOURSELF BEING UNSELFISHLY LOVING, and VISUALIZE THE RESULTS OF THAT.
- Finally, ask yourself:
- What should I be doing to express/manifest Unselfish Love all the time?
- Ask the Universal Spirit/God/One/Source:
- What would you have me do?
- Do an affirmation such as:
- I am Unselfishly Loving.
- I am a humble servant of the Universal Spirit/God/Source.
- Start by "calling up" the feeling & concept of Unselfish Love.
- Visualize someone you have the most Unselfish Love for (ex. Jesus, true teacher, child, parent, best friend, etc.).
- Feel the Unselfish Love (yours & theirs).
- While you are holding onto that feeling, think of someone you like but don't love.
- Feel Unselfish Love for the ESSENCE of that person - THEIR SPIRIT.
- Now think of someone you dislike.
- Feel Unselfish Love for their essence/spirit also.
- only extend your feeling to their essence, their spirit, their inner being
- Expand your love to embrace everyone & everything.
Blogger's Note: Another exercise you could do in substitute of this is -
- Pray for all of your loved ones, then strangers, then enemies, then everyone in the world, and so forth.
- Visualize sending light & love to your family, friends, strangers, enemies, and so forth. Picture them surrounded by a bright white light.
Kind for a Day
- Every morning, choose one person in your life, who you will put out an EXRTA effort to be thoughtful of, humble with, and kind towards.
- All through the day, stop & consider their feelings, their needs, what it's like to walk in their shoes.
- Treat them special (massage, special meal, gift, etc.)
- The next morning, choose a different person.
Meditation Walk
- The meditation walk is a method that synchronizes your breathing with the number of steps you take while walking.
- Once you have set the pace (up to you), begin breathing in coordination with your walking.
- Create a pattern that is comfortable for you.
- Inhale 3 steps, hold breath 1 step, exhale 3 steps, hold breath 1 step
- Inhale 4 steps, exhale 4 steps
- You can use any number of steps you choose as long as the inhale & exhale number of steps are equal.
- Try to do this exercise every day, around the same time (for a minimum of 5 minutes)
- If you are doing it properly you will find that you are more aware/conscious, of your environment; brings you greater integration/Oneness within yourself, and without (your environment).
When a being truly becomes devoted to serving the Universal Spirit, surrenders to Universal Will, and develops Unselfish Love & Harmlessness, many things change with them. One of the most profound forces involved in these changes, is the Kundalini.
Kundalini comes as an activation of energy along the spine. As the Kundalini force passes through the body's endocrine glands & their corresponding nerve centers, there is a stimulation & "awakening" of the 7 centers or "chakras", that are associated with these glands & nerve groups. This brings new awareness & activity in areas of the vibrational spectrum that were previously self-blocked from the person's experience. And that gives a person powerful new abilities, and great responsibility.
If the body is not pure enough, and has not been prepared for this powerful evolutionary energy, it can cause a great deal of distress, and illness, as the body rushes to "catch up", to purify itself enough, and to develop "nerve circuits" that are strong enough to handle new energies. All this can be made easier, and even brought on by, purification & attunement of the physical body, in coordination with the mind & spirit. All of the meditations, exercises, techniques & diet suggestions in Part 2 of the book (pages 333-369) can help {blogs 48-50}.
STERN WARNING: Through doing certain exercises, such as Kundalini Yoga, you may also activate the Kundalini, BUT THIS IS FORCING IT. Such exercises are good IF they are under the guidance of a TRUE TEACHER & correspond with the entity's spiritual growth, but can be very dangerous & detrimental in other circumstances (see Chapter 19/Blog 43). There are other means of forcing the Kundalini also, including drugs & scientific devices. Obtaining temporary "enlightenment" by Kundalini raised by Skakti, or any other means, does nothing to make for a better person. Inducing or forcing enlightenment through external means is like temporarily airlifting a person to the top of the mountain. Sure, they experience Universal Consciousness, but it's only temporary, they have not climbed there themselves, and they do not belong there. They must come back down, and it is quite a fall. DO NOT FOOL YOURSELF, THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS.
VIDEO: Kundalini Yoga Mini Booster
Physical Aids to Spiritual Consciousness
The physical body can be a window of sorts to your entire being. Everything is interconnected, all One, & when you apply things such as herbs, yoga, diet, etc. on the physical plane, you affect your mental, emotional, & spiritual aspects as well
When you apply mental thoughts that involve spiritual energies to things like yoga, & what you eat, it aids the spiritual effects of the physical applications, making these things even more powerful.
Yoga
Yoga is a very old discipline that tones your body, while freeing up & flowing Universal Life Energy, & sometimes facilitating the activation of Kundalini. One of the most popular & well known, is Hatha yoga, which involves moving & stretching your body in various ways.
VIDEO: 10 Minute Beginners Hatha Yoga
Physically doing yoga exercises without the interplay/integration of the mental & spiritual, would be like going through the motions of playing a musical instrument without actually playing anything. It is impractical to teach yoga in this book, but instructional & workout videos of CLO's techniques have been made if you are interested...called "Tibetan Yoga"...some like acupuncture meridian balancing energy techniques (easy, takes about 20 minutes).
P.S. It is best to do Yoga naked if possible. Clothing, especially footwear or socks, restrict/disrupt some of the body's energy flows.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi & its various counterparts are newer than some yogas, and were originally developed by high consciousness monks as "inner forms" of the different fighting styles or "Kung Fus". These inner forms were used to develop such things as inner strength, Universal Life Energy (Ki/Chi) power, accuracy, & concentration. It is a form of meditation & flowing life energy. It takes far more time to learn than yoga, however, and many years to master.
VIDEO: 15 Minute Tai Chi Flow for Beginners
DIET
When you eat, you should be feeding your spiritual body with energy as well as your physical body. You should also choose a diet that is right for you. Every body is different, and every diet needs to be adjusted for a given body.
Charging Your Food
"Charging" your food with Universal Life Energy before you eat, restores the food's lost energy, and then some (depending on you). To charge your food before eating, place your hands at the sides of your bowl or dish, as near the food as possible. Then visualize the energy flowing through you, into the food, making the food radiant with light.
RECOMMENDED REFERENCE: How to Get Well by Paavo Airola
Basic Dietary Considerations:
- Eat foods that are as pure as possible in as natural a state as possible (mostly raw; organic).
- Balance your intake of acid & alkaline forming foods to 80% alkaline & 20% acid.
- Don't mix fruits & vegetables.
- Don't mix sweets& starches.
- Minimize how many different foods you eat at one meal (no more than 3).
- Eat foods grown as locally as possible.
- Eat only when you are really hungry.
- Chew very well.
- Drink pure water.
- Relax. Don't eat when you're tense or upset.
- Eat about 2/3 of what would normally make you full. An excess of nutritional elements in the system becomes toxic.
Fasting
- Fasting facilitates the elimination of stored up toxins.
- Ancient teachings of Jesus, indicate that we should fast 7 days for every year we have eaten impure foods.
- When you start a fast, the body's eliminative & digestive organs don't have new food to work with, so they turn to all the stored toxins, diseased cells, tumors, etc. & begin to break up & expel them.
- Start with a 3 or 4 day juice fast & work your way from there (done with guidance; see above reference).
- Especially effective is the 40 day water fast - this can be accompanied by vivid spiritual visions & revelations (only to be done under proper supervision & guidance).
Cold Shower
A cold shower benefits the whole being. It has rejuvenating, healing, and stimulating effects with the entire body. A cold shower taken daily, builds resistance to disease & infections. It should be at least 5 minutes long. You can start with warm water & get colder (last 5 minutes cold water only) or even alternate but finish with cold.
Color Visualization -
Chakra Exercise
This exercise uses the power of visualization to stimulate the 7 chakras.
- Start with your spine erect
- Visualize colored light energy at each chakra, starting with the root chakra & flowing upwards in order (see above)
- Dwell on each chakra for at least one breath cycle ( inhale & exhale), longer if you can visualize the colors better
- When you are done with the crown chakra, begin again at the root chakra.
- Keep repeating this for 20 minutes or as long as you have time for
VIDEO: Color Breathing Meditation
Dreams
Many dreams are opportunities, lessons, and experiences that are presented by your Inner Being. Some dreams can be psychic or precognitive vision, out-of-body experience, intuitive problem solving, etc.
Physical illness or disturbances, or mental disturbances in either the conscious or sub-conscious, can affect or even create & dominate dream experiences. These are the only dreams to be ignored.
Integrating our fragmented consciousness, and getting full benefits from dreams can be facilitated in the following ways:
- Extending the waking consciousness into the dream. You may use a key symbol to trigger recognition of awareness within a dream (triangle, looking at hands, light).
- Extending a dream into waking consciousness. Record your dreams every morning.
- Daily reviewing of dreams. The best way to understand the meaning of your dreams is to take in the whole picture intuitively.
- Use the following affirmation at bedtime (repeat silently as going to sleep):
- I remember my dreams and am conscious while dreaming.
Reviewing the Day's Activities
Write down what your day's activities actually were. Do this every night. Do not read this record until a month has passed. After a month, compare your activities & experiences with your current ones.
- Close your eyes
- Go back & view the experiences you had during the day
- Do you find any negative experiences?
- Did you become negative, upset, about something?
- Make any mistakes?
- Go back again to the beginning & re-imagine it, see negative experiences as occurring positively; fix reactions & mistakes (in positive, constructive manner).
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