Meditation is one of two, absolutely essential, foundational building blocks of a spiritual practice. We’ve been programmed to focus our attention on things outside of ourselves. Meditation is the only time we reverse that tendency and turn our attention inside—toward silence, the Divinity within, the only thing that is really important. IF, indeed, our intent is to ascend.
The mental body keeps us locked in logic, ideas, belief systems, defensive stories… It is crucial to bring the mental body to rest. And meditation is the only truly effective and long-lasting way I know to do that.
If you would like some basic instruction on meditation, or more advanced tips for updating your meditation practice for the New Paradigm, please listen to the short mp3:
The second, essential, foundational block of spiritual practice is having a good processing technique. Meditation brings the mental body to rest. Processing brings the emotional body to rest. Both pursuits are extremely helpful if we are to purify our being and move into more refined states of consciousness.
As the old paradigm, patriarchal system falls, it is crucial that you have a way to process your emotional baggage and dismantle your egoic structure. The Patriarchy is inside of us. The only way out of the Patriarchy is to go directly into the patriarchal energies inside of you—to meet, honor, embrace, and embody the fear at the root of every process. Your fears are your buy-ins to the patriarchal system. The physical Patriarchy only exists because we give it permission to exist. And we give it permission because we are afraid of change—afraid to move into the New Paradigm of consciousness that is more open, formless, and free.
Because so many people I meet have no technique for clearing their emotional baggage, I have created a free, one-hour mp3 file that is a concise rendering of the subject: The Mechanics of Perception & Processing. I consider it the most important audio on my website! And I invite you to take a few minutes to listen: