Everyone benefits from meditation. Even those who practice it solely for physical and/or mental
reasons benefit by the positive changes that occur in attitudes and emotions.
There are many different types and methods of meditation and aspirants should select what best suits
them or what attracts them most. The important thing is to start and then persist. One may be
progressively 'self-guided' to what is most suitable according to one's need and degree of vibration i.e. degree
of enlightenment. Some meditation focuses on attaining peace of mind and bodily health; some call for
focusing the mind on some specific problem, thought or aspect of something; part of Buddhist meditation is
to keep the focus at all times on what one is doing in the moment; and another calls for completely clearing
the mind of everything and "entering the void". As I see it, the last mentioned is the 'deepest' meditation, the
one that opens the practitioner to his or her greatest potential, whatever that may be in accordance with the
individual's state of being and state of mind.
Meditation is not an end in itself, it is a disciplinary process that clears the mind of all the mind's
creations, thus opening the way to Absolute Reality, the Truth, or the Great Spirit - all the same. One may say
that Absolute Reality is where all is known, but this would be incorrect because, firstly, 'where' suggests a
place or point and it is neither; and secondly, "all is known" suggests a quantifiable sum of knowledge which
it is not.
Notes:
1. Use the same place and position for each meditation and, if you are away somewhere, visualise your usual place and
position so as to minimize the effects of the change.
2. Keeping the eyes open is possible but this could be too distracting.
3. Provided you are comfortable with it you may use this affirmation whilst visualizing each line:
As you silently state each of these four sub-affirmations, visualise and understand the description and affirm it with the
"I am."
The three sub-affirmations illustrate symbolically our oneness with The Great Spirit - the droplet, lick of flame and
sunbeam are each separate, but part of, the ocean, fire and sunlight; and the three illustrations are in ascending order in
terms of density, or vibration, and lead 'up' to the last sub-affirmation of "As the Great Spirit is, I am."
4. Sequential Visualisation: For example - You are in a beautiful garden and you move yourself through it, going
deeper and deeper into it. Or, you are in a boat at the shore and move further and further out towards, and even beyond,
the horizon.