How to Meditate

Meditation is for everyone. It integrates practical steps for relaxation and rejuvenation with mystical depth and energy, allowing you to relax in a way that aligns with both the body and the inner realms.

🕯️ Meditation Guide: Entering the Still Place

🔹 1. Prepare the Space

Choose a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed.
Sit on a cushion, chair, or floor with a straight spine.
Dim the lights or light a candle (optional: incense or gentle music).
Leave your phone out of reach or on airplane mode.

🪞 Symbolic thought: You are entering an inner sanctuary—treat it with reverence.

🔹 2. Set Your Intention

Before you begin, silently speak a phrase or question to guide your session. Examples:

“I seek stillness and clarity.”
“May I remember what is true beneath illusion.”
“I offer this time to my inner being.”

🜂 Optional: Place a hand on your heart or forehead as you do this.

🔹 3. Breath Awareness (3–5 minutes)

Close your eyes.
Bring attention to your breath, without changing it.
Feel the air entering your nose… filling your lungs… leaving again.
When thoughts arise, gently return to the breath like returning to a calm pool.

🌬️ Mantra (optional): Inhale – “So” | Exhale – “Hum”
(Or any soft sound that feels sacred or neutral.)

🔹 4. Descent Into Stillness (5–15 minutes)

Now allow attention to rest inwardly.

Notice sensations in your body: weight, warmth, subtle vibrations.
If emotions surface, don’t resist—just observe.
Let thoughts come and go like clouds.
Begin to feel the “watcher”—the quiet awareness beneath all movement.

🪞 Imagery (optional): Imagine descending a staircase into a sacred underground chamber, or stepping through a mirror into a quiet world.

🔹 5. The Open Field (as long as you wish)

Stay in pure awareness.

No need to do anything now.
Just be.
Let yourself fall into silence.
If a spontaneous insight, image, or presence arises, allow it to pass through without clinging.

🌀 This is the threshold of the deeper planes. With time, you may begin to feel subtle energies, visitations, or shifts in identity. But let them come and go—do not chase.

🔹 6. Return With Reverence

When you feel ready, return gently.

Wiggle your fingers and toes.
Take 2–3 deeper breaths.
Open your eyes slowly.
Sit for a moment in silence before moving.

🕊️ Optional closing gesture: Bow your head slightly and whisper gratitude—to your Self, to Silence, to the Mystery.

🧭 Tips for Developing a Practice

Start small: 10–15 minutes daily is powerful.
Consistency matters more than duration.
Journaling after meditation helps integrate insights.
Be kind to yourself when your mind wanders. That is part of the path.

🌌 Optional Practices to Add Later

Guided visualizations (e.g. meeting your Dream Child, Higher Self, or Spirit Animal)
Breath practices (pranayama, box breathing, alternate nostril)
Mantra repetition or sacred sound listening
Symbol gazing (e.g. candle flame, mandala, mirror)