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"Attuning with the Inner Teacher"
Now here is the description of an exercise that can be helpful to foster our inner transformation and open our hearts to the marvelous force of Love... It is usually good to go in a quiet place where no sound or activity will be a disturbance. With the body seated in a comfortable position, play a soft music, if necessary, to cover other surrounding sounds and enhance the quality of the exercise. Closing the eyes and breathing in very slowly through the nose, the air is retained inside the lungs for a few seconds and then the exhalation follows very slowly. While doing so, all the attention is focussed in the nostrils to feel fresh air coming in and out. Gradually, the breathing slows down and comes to an imperceptible level. During the breathing, all the muscles become totally relaxed and any residual tension in the neck and shoulders is consciously released. The attention then shifts from the body to the thoughts which are passively observed while they arise and pass through the mind like clouds of all shapes and sizes passing through a vast blue sky. No effort, no struggle is made to stop them from arising and passing but they are accepted as the natural occurrence of an active brain. Becoming gradually aware of the underlying "web of awareness" onto which these thoughts manifest their existence, the attention is not focussed on any specific thing or idea but becomes aware of the attention itself... It's a vast endless canvass onto which all the thoughts and emotions are inscribed. It's neutral, perfect and endlessly shifting to whatever "something" in us chooses to focus on. This "something" that takes the decision is now the focus of all the attention. There is no judgement, no analysis. It is felt, observed, perceived as it is. Then a total acceptance of whatever comes up allows the spontaneous expression of what has been waiting there for years, even for centuries, to be received, listened to, accepted, and integrated into the underlying web of awareness of the consciousness. The will of this "something"
within us gradually rises to assert its presence and offer any needed
guidance at this point in time. Love, Peace, Harmony are the all-pervading
thoughts-feelings radiating through the mind, while "crystalline"
streams of Light-energy The normal process of thought and analysis gradually comes back while the consciousness is suffused with the full meaning and tangible reality of what has just been experienced. The awareness of Unity with all that is has grown a little more. Open the eyes and be... |
