11-30-2018, 06:25 AM
(11-30-2018, 05:10 AM)blossom Wrote: It does brings some ease when someone else can listen and believe me.
Does that negativity sometimes come back at you at full force? Or is it completely eased compared to before?
I feel like I've forgotten something important, not just the knowledge, but the belief that I am indeed a part of the whole.
It feels like you're right, it doesn't matter what I'll call these angels.
Thank you for the words of kindness and strength.
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Also I have a question regarding meditation.
I find it a bit difficult at times to meditate in silence because there is so much noise around me being in a city.
So I listen to some kind of melody while meditating and that helps me clear my mind and body.
What are some of the general thoughts regarding this kind of meditation technique?
I read one time a Q'uo session where Q'uo suggested Carla about silent meditation, and Carla replied that she has difficulty with that because she constantly hears music in her head.
And Q'uo didn't exactly reply in a manner saying that there is something wrong in that, or perhaps I misunderstood the session.
But regardless the answer was unclear and not brought to question again.
So it makes me wonder, because music helps me ease the chatter in my mind and dwell deep in meditation.
Hi Blossom,
I'm glad my words had some positive affect with you.
I'm glad to say that life has been a lot more positive in recent months / the last couple of years, although I have been busier than usual on a creative project and I don't downplay the relevance of that to any progress I've made.
The most recent of greetings, perhaps a year or two ago, came as a grim nightmare, but these have decreased in frequency considerably.
Without wanting to sound dismissive, I would question how much it matters right now, how much your perception leans towards the notion that we are all one being. Sure, the perception of yourself and any "other" as The Creator is important to one's growth, I'm just not sure how important that is for YOU right now!
I you believe that you are something other than a physical Human being, i.e. a Soul, then I recon that will do for now.
Regarding meditation, I live in a city but fortunately, in a usually quiet part of it. Although I can relate to your noise-pollution situation as I've had tinnitus for well over a decade now and I too, have to drown it out in some way. To achieve this I just leave the TV or radio on in the background, just about audible, but not loud enough to distinguish what you are hearing. Although music sounds like a great idea also!
Firstly, here's what the new Glossary for The Ra Contact books says about meditation:
Meditation – Ra describes meditation as a foundational prerequisite of the path of the spiritual seeker, for without such a method of reversing the analytical process, one could not integrate into unity the many understandings gained in such seeking. They would not endorse a best way to meditate, but described broad categories:
1. The passive meditation involving the clearing of the mind and emptying of the mental jumble which is characteristic of the human mind complex. This is efficacious for those whose goal is to achieve an inner silence as a base from which to listen to the Creator. It is by far the most generally useful type of meditation as opposed to contemplation or prayer.
2. Contemplation or the consideration in a meditative state of an inspiring image, text, or spiritual principle.
3. The faculty of will called praying. Whether it is indeed an helpful activity depends quite totally upon the intentions and objects of the one who prays.
4. The type of meditation which may be called visualization is the tool of the adept. When the ability to hold visual images in mind has become crystallized in an adept, the adept may then, without external action, do polarizing in consciousness which can affect the planetary consciousness. Only those wishing to pursue the conscious raising of planetary vibration will find visualization to be a particularly satisfying type of meditation.
And here's a page taken from my book about meditation:
Meditation
Meditation has been recommended and practiced by Human Spiritual philosophies for many millennia as a means to bring balance and enlightenment to one's existence.
I do not believe that any one formalized method of meditation is superior to any other and I have developed my own simple formula for meditation techniques which fall into two categories which I shall describe:
Clearing / Blanking
In this type of meditation, I sit or lie down in a silent room and allow the surface thoughts in my consciousness to rise to my conscious Mind and then dissipate…
After a while I find that I have cleared all of the surface thoughts swimming around my Mind and achieve a state whereby I am conscious, but with no external stimuli or internal noise I reach a state whereby I am conscious but exist in a relatively neutral state of consciousness…
I find this type of meditation very useful for relaxation, stress-relief and balancing any blockages I may have in my energy-system of Chakras.
It is also useful for digging deep down inside my Sub-Conscious-Mind to become aware of any problematic thought-patterns that seem to be escaping my Conscious-Mind.
It is also very useful to those of us who seek guidance from external invisible guides.
The only problem I personally find with this meditation technique is that after an hour or two, I often just fall asleep!
Processing / Contemplation
Again, in this type of meditation, I find it most helpful to sit or lie down in a silent room…
If there is noise in my Conscious or Sub-Conscious-Mind, then I find it appropriate to begin the session by first going through the Clearing / Blanking method…
I am then much more able to allow all of the faculties of my consciousness to process / contemplate the specific subject or subjects I initially intended on considering. I very much enjoy the phenomenon of starting out contemplating one particular subject then allowing my Mind to veer off on any number of alternative tangents. One of my most profound meditations started with an intellectual exploration of the notions of infinity and eternity.
I do not necessarily start my meditation with clearing / blanking and follow it with processing / contemplation. Sometimes the order is reversed, and sometimes I only do one or the other type of meditation. I allow myself the freedom to be guided by my own nature as to which path to follow, a process that is largely instinctual.
Of course there exist many, many different traditions and types of formulised meditation, and I certainly do not believe that the two simple methods described above are superior in any way to any of these, I just find them the most useful. However, if you are serious about embarking on and / or developing a regular meditation practice then you may well find greater use in some of the more formalized traditions and it may therefore be well worth further investigation for your own particular evolutionary process.
I hope this helps a bit brother!
L & L
Jim