"Meditation, the Practice of Allowing Well-Being. Many teachers, we are among them, teach meditation, because meditation, when
you achieve it effectively, means you distract yourself from the physical
stuff. It’s like a withdrawal of consciousness when you are still awake. When
you are asleep you withdraw consciousness too. But when you slumber and
withdraw consciousness, your consciousness is not consciously aware of
what it feels like to be in that higher vibration. But when you are awake and
in a state of meditation, now you are consciously aware of what it feels like
to be in that higher vibration. Which
means,you will be more aware when your vibration dips. Use Meditation as a Process to Allow Connection to
Source Energy.
Sometimes people say: “Abraham is it normal for all
hell to break loose in someone’s life when they begin the meditation process?”
And we say, yes, because what happens is you are bringing yourself to a place
of heightened sensitivity, so that formerly achieved patterns of lower
vibration are less comfortable to you. There are other ways than meditation:
Appreciation, a rampage of appreciation raises vibration. Listening to music
that makes your heart sing raises vibration. Petting your cat raises vibration,
or sitting and watching the river go by… Often you are in your highest states
of connection to Source Energy while you are driving. It is the reason that
there are fewer traffic accidents, because you are, as a mass consciousness,
often more connected when you are driving. Something about the rhythm of the
road, or the lack of something to focus upon.
Here is the process of meditation that if we were in
your physical places we would utilize:
Every day for 10 or 15 minutes, and not
for much more than that, we would sit quietly by ourselves somewhere. Maybe
under a tree, maybe in our car, maybe in the bathroom, someplace where we would
not be interrupted.
We would do our best to shut down our physical
senses. In other words, we would draw the curtains if it is bright. We would
close our eyes. We would put ourselves in a place where there is not much
sound. We really would not even play music. Some people play music, but even
that can be distracting in nature. Something like the ticking of a clock, or
the dripping of a faucet, or the trickling of a waterfall, something of that
nature can be very soothing. And some music falls into that same category. But
it must be something that does not stimulate thought.
And we would focus inward, even on our breathing.
We would be consciously aware of air in, and we would be consciously aware of
air out. We would concentrate on long breaths in, and we would concentrate on
long breaths out. We would breathe air in, and when we thought it was all our
lungs would hold, we would bring still more in. And when we think it is still
all our lungs could hold we would breathe more air in. And then, at a place of
full expansion of lungs, we would take a long, slow, delicious time to let the
air out. And our intention would be nothing more than being in this moment, and
being consciously aware of breathing. We would let it be our fullest
responsibility. Not fixing breakfast, not combing hair, not wondering how
someone is doing, not thinking about yesterday, not worrying about tomorrow,
not focusing on anything in this moment except air in, and air out.
Now, during this process, within 2 or 3 days of
doing it, you’re going to begin to feel a detachment from your physical
experience. A very common thing that you will feel is a sort of numbing
sensation. Some describe that they cannot tell their toe from their nose. Some,
if their eyes are closed, and we recommend that, may begin to see movement of
light around under their eyelids, or even flashes of color.
There is no right or wrong in this process of
meditation. There is nothing that you should be reaching for. This is a state
of allowing. This is a state where, for just a few moments, you stop running
the show. You stop trying to make anything happen. This is your time of allowing.
This is your time when you are saying unto your maker, unto your Source Energy,
unto your Inner Being, unto your God… whatever you’re wanting to call it, this
is your time of saying:
“Here I be, in a state of allowing.” And what am I
allowing?
I’m allowing
Source Energy to flow purely through me.
15 minutes a day of that effort will change your
life. Because it will put you in the state of allowing the Energy that is
natural to you to flow. You’ll feel better in the moment. You’ll feel more
energized when you come out of it.
You may spend 14 minutes before you achieve any
state of detachment. You might not ever be consciously aware that you’ve
achieved any state of detachment. It doesn’t matter, you are making enormous
progress as you allow yourself to be.
A big benefit that you’ll notice, right away, is
that things that you’ve been wanting will begin showing up. “Now, why is this?
Abraham, I didn’t sit and intend. I didn’t sit and set goals. I didn’t sit and
clarify what I want. I didn’t tell the Universe what I wanted. How come 15
minutes of just being will set those kinds of things in motion?” Because it has
always been, ask and it is given. It has never been “ask and do something right
and it is given”. It has never been “ask and get worthy”. It is ask and allow.
Ask and allow."
From Abraham-Hicks Workshop Ashland, OR — 5/16/2000
P.S: The image is a picture of the human bio-energy
field after meditation taken using Kirlian photography.