I would just like to mention about the opening and closing of the
Chakras.
Chakras are not physically real but rather an aspect of consciousness
yet when you concentrate on opening or closing a chakra you can often
feel a physical reaction within your body, I found this to be
especially true of the throat chakra. Also in the early days of
experimenting with this kind of meditation I recall feeling an impact
within my solar plexus chakra when closing down as though I'd been hit,
enough to make me curl over....
Okay so what did I achieve with
these meditations? It's hard to fathom out these meditations, the
important thing is to accept what you receive as being a message from
Spirit but it is hard for me to just not put it down to my own
imagination running wild. I try to convince myself that it was not my
imagination, these are the reasons that I use to convince myself:
- The person I "meet" is unlikely
- The thought or "conversation" flows, i.e I'm not thinking of replies to my questions
- The thought is so random or obscure, why would I think about that!
- The message is so abstract that I don't get what it means straight away
(If I think of anymore I'll add them to the list)
So
what have I seen? When I started doing this sort of meditation all I
could see was a bright white light, as the weeks past I could
eventually see the silhouette of a woman. As time passed I saw and
conversed with an Indian woman, it was strange kind of like a conscious
(lucid) dream. The thing that gets me with peoples "Guides" is they're often
Indians, Monks, etc it almost seems to be common to have one, I wonder
if these people have a premeditated conception of what they will see. I
know that I did and hey presto that's pretty much, although not
exactly, what I got. But as time passed I did get different characters
too. At the risk of putting the publics opinion of my sanity on the
line I'd like to share part of a meditation that I had, it was after a
discussion with Rosie about everyone getting the same old, typical
people as Guides:
During this meditation I saw a wizard all
dressed up like he'd stepped out of a Harry Potter book, you know blue
cape with stars on, long pointy hat, long white beard, etc, sat next to
a water fountain. I asked him his name and he "told" me he was Merlin.
Yeah right! "Ok so if you are Spirit" I thought "then you're having me
on!". I went on to have a discussion with Merlin which lead him to tell
me that Spirit can appear to me however they choose although mostly as
someone that we will accept or associate with. He went on to tell me
that it does not matter what they look like or what they are called, it is the message that is
important.
There goes my reputation as a level headed, sensible person down the drain.....
The
reason I shared the above is because it was so unlikely for me to think
of a wizard or to have the conversation that I had with him. I have had
other meditations that have lead to an unlikely outcome and others that
I have received an abstract message from that I still don't get it now.
Do I think that I am talking with my Guides/ Spirit?
I'm
still not sure. Alan's article on meditation (linked above) tells us
"You must BELIEVE in what you are seeing though, that is so very
important." I try to believe is the best I can manage at the moment,
but sometimes that feels like a self inflicted brain washing.
If
I'm not talking with Spirit then I believe that I am accessing my
unconsciousness and having a conversation with myself about things that
I know and understand but cannot access or analyse when my brain is
active, I believe that meditation allows us to access this information,
to become clear headed.
So in conclusion I'm not entirely sure
what the hell is going on in my head when I do this! It is very much
like
lucid dreaming as I said above. I continue to do it because
it has benefited my understanding of different aspects of my life and I
feel good and enjoy doing these meditations, so why not eh? I'm already
half way to madness I might as well see if I get there now :)
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