Meandering Mind - Eva Dillner [61]
Keep your awareness on this sacral midpoint. If your attention wanders, it's ok. When you discover you've gone somewhere else, just bring your attention back to the sacral point. To begin with you may not feel much and only be aware of a point, or physical location in your body. Then you may notice that the space expands, becomes light, you can palpate and feel the inner sanctum in you. As the light gets stronger, increase your focus, feel the light grow and expand. As the light gets stronger and expands it will push out of the way any remnants of negativity. You can look at it as an energy affirmation. It's also a nice break from all the digging and clearing and hard work. And it works.
Balance
After doing this meditation for about a week the rest of my body spoke up. Need for balance here, as I reached for an aquamarine necklace. Time to focus on the soul point, between the heart and throat chakras. I perceive the colors as purple and aquamarine here and as I focus on the point I sense a lightness and expansiveness in my chest. These points are further explained in the hara meditation covered in my first book.
The awakening
You know how it is when you meet someone new who really tickles your fancy. You get excited, you feel like you could kiss the world, you feel wonderful and... your fantasies take off. You see yourself with this mate, and your dream in your heart, your script goes playing in your mind. We all do this. We carry within us a puzzle picture of what we really want and when we meet that special someone all our fantasies rev up and get into high gear. Now the rub is that your mate has his own scenario, his own dreams, and his own idea of heaven. Reality soon comes crashing in when we discover the other person doesn't act according to our script. Boo-hoo!
Remember I wrote about puzzle pieces early on in this book? It's time to get back to doing some exercises around it. If we can identify our own end vision, our own idea of what the puzzle is supposed to look like, we become clearer in our intent. If the other people we are working with, whether a potential mate or members of a committee or colleagues at work, also can identify their end vision or puzzle picture, we will be miles ahead of the game.
Puzzle pieces exercise
Ground rule number one is to be totally honest with yourself. If what you want is not what your mate wants, now is the best time to find out so you can set each other free. If you don't, chances are you will spend your energies trying to get the other person to change, to conform to your dream. This is one of the major causes of friction between people. We can't seem to accept that others have different values and goals and lessons to do in this lifetime. Doesn't mean we can't love them, we just have to relate to them differently.
Ok, the exercise. Be honest with yourself. This exercise is situation specific, you need to focus on the mate or group you are currently with, and work from there. You can look at your life goals as well but there are many other ways to get that info.
This exercise works well for those who are visual. If that is not your style, then focus on what you would be hearing, or feeling, or sensing to get in touch with your puzzle vision.
Get yourself into a relaxed or meditative state, staring into space, in the hammock, on the couch or in your favorite chair. Now let your mind drift and daydream, let yourself float. Breathe easily and feel yourself get lighter and fuzzier in that logical brain of yours. Notice the clouds drifting by in the sky and let your mind go. Then with your mate or group in mind, let your mind show you images of what you carry inside as your dream, your vision. Rarely does it come as one complete “here I am” package, it comes more in bits and pieces, in wisps