Meditation - An Inner Vision Journey

Your first challenge is to fully and knowingly observe where you are as you begin the process. As you learn to develop this skill, a more inclusive view can become available, allowing you to gently release old patterns that are no longer useful. With an expanded view, Superconscious or High Self shines through, spotlighting areas of your life where you can thrive and feel more alive.

An alignment to the Higher Self begins first of all with recognizing it, then remembering how it can serve you, and finally connecting you with infinite life-enhancing possibilities.

The benefits of this training include activating parts of the mind that have previously not been available and now can be tapped for propelling you into worlds of self-discovery.

Looking deeply into self does not always easy. The process takes time and resolve. You will be guided to probe and examine all aspects, influences and areas of your life.

Your shifting perspectives will be increasingly more apparent as you begin to allow yourself to consider where you are now and where you want to be on this path and more specifically in life.

This is where the creative mind steps in to begin imagining your life’s journey without boundaries.

This exercise is designed to enable you to move forward. You are asked to focus on a quality that you would like to develop in yourself and you are encouraged to consider subjective things like a peaceful mind, joyfulness, enhanced creativity, greater compassion which will in turn empower you to feel more loved, empowered, with a higher sense of self-worth.

This in turn leads to more concrete advantages such as a more stimulating, higher paying job or more fulfilling relationships.

Practice meeting the unknown by imagining a vision quest on an inner vision journey and go into a place of peace, allowing for something greater than the lower mind can consider. Visiting a place of emptiness, openness and quiet brings a shifted perspective for deepening the work of knowing the self.

Calling upon the skills and personal power gained as you traveled the path through the first two Gateposts, you are now ready to choose qualities that can guide you into ever expanding perception, more purposeful living, greater awareness of Self, deeper understanding of the world, enhanced abilities to focus and concentrate, higher levels of creativity and a continually evolving life view.

Practice trusting yourself and ‘acting as if’ in order to Be that which you are intending. As an apprentice to this awareness training, you should begin to notice yourself becoming and being more of what you focus on.

As the body becomes increasingly more refined, sensitivities to others and the world in general can result. It is important that empathic people learn to tune into various methods of protection or integration to be fully engaged in the world.

Holding the quality or qualities you are developing within yourself, this exercise brings you closer to becoming what you envision and is designed to bring you into greater alignment with your true self or Soul.

The power of concentration develops the mind for deeper reflection, including contemplation to allow the heart/mind to grow new pathways. Thoughts come and go rhythmically, guiding the mind into an altered place where no-thought eventually sweeps the consciousness into stillness.

Visualizing energy running through the body is a form of concentration that moves chi and creates good health and well being. Each exercise brings greater surrender, creating a space for something more than the little (concrete) mind can conceive.

Begin by using the creative imagination to become the quality considered in the last gatepost. Bring all your senses to the experience. Create the space to practice concentrating on an object while allowing the ‘mind chatter’ to dissipate. Once this is mastered, the groundwork for your meditation practice has been created.

Here we develop the mind to become increasingly agile, open and receptive to insights. You will experience shifts in perception with the liberated mind as it is released through these exercises. Keeping a journal of what is noticed contributes to growing awareness and is encouraged throughout these exercises, even if there is resistance at first.

Here we develop the mind to become increasingly agile, open and receptive to insights. You will experience shifts in perception with the liberated mind as it is released through these exercises. Keeping a journal of what is noticed contributes to growing awareness and is encouraged throughout these exercises, even if there is resistance at first.

It takes courage and determination to establish a practice that will endure the tests of endless distraction. Discipline, self-control and tenacity are being developed through doing this work.

Keep the rewards in mind as this path is traveled, because without a “Why,” without fully understanding and believing in the benefits, there most certainly will come a time when a little voice comes forward to disparage the work you are doing.

It’s a choice - whether to let go of those beloved habits and patterns that have become so dear, yet have resulted in contraction, or leave them for something as yet unknown. Master this concept and open yourself to the possibility of a more joyful, fulfilling life.

As you move down this path towards being the True Self, Higher Self, often called Soul, contemplation trains the mind to be thoroughly engaged on the chosen area of focus.

This work goes to the depths of a quality, a thought or an object, exploring it so completely that thought can then begin let go in order to move into the rewards of true meditation.

Through Meditation, we dissolve into the goodness, the serenity, the peace that truly does make all things new. The expanded perspectives gained in this practice make space for a precious and profound way of Being, enabling a new, more conscious creative spirit to emerge.

Receptivity to something beyond what is already known grows, and with that expansion comes a readiness to embrace the unexpected. What comes to the heart/mind is seldom what what imagined or longed for, but something so much greater, so much more subtle, that at first it may not be recognized. Here we learn to cherish it.

The breath takes us into a flow beyond the ordinary waking mind where awareness becomes heightened and our senses open to dimensional shits. Our sense of self, idea of others, our purpose and our plans can suddenly shift into something so much greater than ever considered.This can bring confusion before greater clarity sets in.

A Practice for Being Aligned and Still, Being mindful of the posture, keeping the mind quiet where insights can be received. Visualizing Light flowing through the central channel, creating an open, empty space where the magic of Being resides.

All that has been experienced during this journey though consciousness culminates when the mind is able to hold deep stillness and access the point of Synthesis. As we pass through Gatepost Vll we find we are able to be increasingly more Present in the moment.

In this exercise, the practice encourages merging with all of creation in a place without resistance and boundaries. Residing in stillness, peace and acceptance can result in

a sublime place of simply Being Present in the Moment.

Waking to new possibilities, the spiral of life turns, showing continually greater ‘truths’ and preparing us for greater service in the world. With expanded perspectives and opened heart/minds, we blend into the Love, Light and Will beyond physical form.

Greater Joy, Compassion and Love continue to explode within, paving the path with an even deeper commitment to Be All We Can Be. Moving through dimensions and portals of light, we blend our energies with the energies of Source, knowing ourselves and others in a new way.

Living in the ever-expanding qualities of the heart/mind, we have reached a place of Synthesis. We remember who we are and why we are here on this planet as we increasingly remain Present in each moment of the day. We give gratitude for this work and for the expanded perspectives gained as we continue to invoke pure Presence.

Through this Inner Vision Journey there has been a myriad of challenges to the body, feeling nature, mind and spirit, but the practice of Mindful Awareness has guided and encouraged movement forward towards the goal of establishing a practice that will last a lifetime. Forging through life in a more unified, connected and conscious way, there are no boundaries that can stop the eternal expansion that Meditation provides.