Guided Meditation: A Simple Meditation for Intuition

For my last medication for my Journal Activity, I chose to do the Simple Meditation for Intuition. Before I started this meditation I expected to be guided to use my intuition some how. Perhaps try to envision what was in a box or on a table. Before I started I made sure that My kids were occupied and that I would not be interrupted. Once I sat down, I made sure that my feet were flat on the ground and my shoulders and arms were relaxed at my sides.

When the meditation started I was asked to ground myself. The grounding method I use is to envision roots from my body going through the earth to the core and back up again. I always love doing this as it makes me feel very connected to Gaia. Grounding itself is a very spiritual experience for me. It is like I am taking Gaia herself into my body.

After grounding I was asked to envision my aura. I always envision my aura as purple. I do not know why as I need to do some reasearch on it but it made me feel very happy to see the purple light surrounding my body. It was a foggy light. Not like light from a light bulb but more of a haze that was glowing. It was a soft purple, yet the light was very bright. It was not extended too far, maybe 1-2 feet. I did feel myself a bit lopsided while sitting here. I felt like my right side was heavier than my left side. I wonder if this has to do with my sciatic nerve pain and having to compensate for that pain when I am sitting down. The powerful energy I felt was definitely behind me, it was almost like it was trying to guide me somewhere by pushing me. It was an odd sensation as I usually feel the energy pulling me. Maybe I felt it was pushing me because I already knew where I needed to go, I just needed the extra push to get me going.

While this was very relaxing, I am not sure I understood how this was a meditation for intuition. I was a bit confused when it ended with no mention of intuition. I think I expected to be led through an intuitive process to help build my intuition. I did fall asleep a few times and jerked myself awake. I am not sure if this happens to a lot of people but it seems to happen to me a lot. I do not feel like I am envisioning anything during those few seconds of time that I doze off. I do not remember when I wake up. I then needed to re-ground myself and get back into the meditation. I am not sure if this means that I am not as intuitive as I thought I was or if I was too tired to do the meditation. I may try doing the meditation again and seeing if I get the same or different results.

Blessed be!
Love and Light,
Pearl

Guided Meditation–Achieving Alpha: Relaxation - Trial #1

I decided to listen to the Achieving Alpha Relaxation video by The Magical Circle School…here is my experience.

I have been sick for the last couple weeks with a head cold, and then bronchitis. I’m also having some sciatic pain. So my experience may not have been as relaxing as if i were in good health. I lit my incense and sat down in front of my computer with my legs crossed, hands relaxed in my lap, earbuds in. Then I sat waiting…waiting…waiting. I opened my eyes to make sure that I had pushed play—I in fact did push play. More than a minute went by and I couldn’t help but think about if my headphones weren’t working. So, I sat and watched the picture change colors in the video, still waiting and wondering what I was supposed to be doing. Finally i hear a voice. It’s faint, so I turn the volume up. I was then led in counting backwards from 10 and repeating sentences. Such as: “My whole body is relaxed.” and “I am so relaxed that I can not feel the weight of my body.”

By the time I was to repeat those sentences we were at number 6 and 5. I didn’t feel too relaxed, I don’t think I felt relaxed at all. My arms started to feel a little weightless, but other than that I didn’t really think I was getting to an alpha state of relaxation. I kept being brought back to the pain in my leg, my runny nose, and pain in my chest…hence the reason why I didn’t add a picture of me meditating!

I was a little bit let down by the experience that I had. I was fully anticipating falling asleep sitting here listening to the recording…as I usually do when listening to something. I found it difficult to know what I was supposed to be doing with my body and that was frustrating me and adding to my discomfort. I couldn’t get relaxed enough to stop moving around. I could see an aura but it was radiating from my left hip because of the sciatica. It left me very distracted. I was unable to block it out and completely focus on the task at hand. I couldn’t tell what color the aura was, it was a mixture of reds and purples. I’m not sure what that means as I don’t have experience with auras and haven’t studied them. Nor have I ever seen them, so that was a new experience for me.

I think next time I will play some music in the background. I think it was the silence between guided readings that made me uneasy and feeling like I had to fill the void. I also think that I will try this meditation again in the morning (it was 10:30pm when I did this meditation). Along with changing the time, I think I will do this while still laying in bed. I will also try a different incense. Over all, I think it was a good trial run. I was able to see what I would like to change next time. I will be doing this same guided meditation two more times to see if I can achieve alpha relaxation.

Guided Meditation: Grounding Trial #2

I felt really relaxed before this session. I drank some Sleepy Time tea (I don not have fancy tea, yet), with cream and had a few pieces of fruit so that I was not hungry. I made sure that I was at a comfortable temperature, which meant putting on a sweater! I did this meditation outside, barefoot. Little did I know that this would be perfect for this meditation!

When the meditation started I was able to really focus on my feet and allowing the stress flow from my neck and back down through my legs to my feet. My feet felt like I had suddenly put cement boots on. I was surprised to feel this because they felt so heavy. Maybe that is a sign of how stressed out I have been lately.

When I began envisioning roots shooting from my feet into the ground I started seeing many channels, similar to how an ant hill looks under the surface. The roots were twisting and turning every which way but constantly going down. I saw the splash of underground streams and little creatures scurry out of the way. There was a point where the roots seemed to slow down a bit, almost like they were having a more difficult time getting through the harder layers of the earth.

Then there was a bright red-orange light, the roots plunged into the bubbling, spewing magma. In that instant it was like watching everything in reverse while the magma flowed up the roots. Past the critters scurrying away, through the underground streams...which were heated after that...and into the bottom of my feet. I felt a warmth in my feet and I felt if creep up slowly to my ankles, and then my thighs. Once the warmth hit my thighs I felt the heat through my hands as well. It was not filling my core and then spilling into my arms, it was like I was being dipped into warmth. Once the heat filled my head, I lifted my hands above my head and put them together and like a firework the magma shot out of my hands. The sight was beautiful, I saw sprays of magma all around me like a firework exploding.

When I bent down to touch the ground I was the same temperature as where I was standing. The grass around me had just been watered so I know it was cool before starting my meditation. Yet, the area just around my feet felt the same temperature as my hands and feet. I stood up, opened my eyes and took my sweater off! I felt warm and relaxed. I felt one with the earth.

I have never experienced a meditation like this before. I have done two other meditations and neither of them had me feel like this one. I really felt like I was completely experiencing what was being said. I think I was able to experience this meditation this way because I have been studying Akasha and I now have a deeper sense of how I am connected to the Earth and universe. It was absolutely beautiful and I can not wait to do it again!