Below are three meditation techniques I frequently recommend to people. These meditations are useful for strengthening your connection to the Divine Energy (this has many names: Holy Spirit, Great Spirit, God, Allah, Goddess, etc.), removing unwanted thoughts, and releasing fears, stress, anxiety, depression and many other unloving emotions.
1. Connecting to the Divine Energy Meditation
To begin, sit quietly and let your mind go blank (if you have a problem doing this, try the “Releasing Unwanted Thoughts” meditation technique first [see below]).
Breathe deeply while envisioning the Divine Energy entering your crown chakra (top of your head), letting your breath carry the Divine Energy through your body all the way to your feet. Next, release your breath, envisioning the energy circling up around your body until it rises out of the top of your head. Repeat this process as many times as you feel it’s needed. I recommend 15 minutes or more daily, but even a few minutes can be beneficial.
The results will differ from person to person, and even from session to session. You may experience bliss, or at the very least, your mind will be calm and you’ll forget about life’s stresses for a little while.
My ultimate goal when doing this meditation is to connect to the Divine Energy because of its healing powers. It is possible to connect to the Divine Energy the first time you try this meditation, but it usually takes days or months, so don’t give up too soon. Each time you try, you are making progress, and eventually you’ll feel the Divine Energy.
2. Releasing Day-to-Day Negative Emotions Meditation
The first time I tried this technique was when my family moved to North Carolina. My husband and I were both looking for jobs, but it was just before the holidays and during the 2008 recession, so we weren’t getting any interviews. One day, after the stress of moving to a new state with no income became overwhelming, I was about to have my first anxiety attack. Before the feeling became overwhelming, I decided to give this burden to Divine Energy by saying, “I give this to you. Please take it and heal it. Thank you.” I felt a warmth enter my body, which caused the fear to leave within a few seconds. It was a huge relief to have the anxiety leave so quickly without escalating into a full-blown panic attack. I also like that this technique can be used anywhere, in the car, in the store, in a meeting, etc. without anyone knowing that you are doing it.
It can be used for all of your unwanted emotions, even the smaller ones, such as irritation and impatience, as they occur. This has made a tremendous difference in the quality of my life.
3. Releasing the Past Meditation
This is very similar to the meditation above, but is a more focused, longer meditation aimed at releasing many of events from your past, such as being bullied in school, a moment when your mother or father yelled at you, when you lost your job, made a mistake, etc. Although we may push these events to the back of our minds, the hurt still lingers in our unconscious.
The first time I used this technique was after an offer on a house fell through. It was the perfect house for us and the only one within our price range. It felt like nothing was going right, especially since I had been unemployed for nearly two years. I had never had a problem finding a job before in my life. At my core, I knew my inability to forgive my past was limiting me from accepting the universal abundance in my present day.
To heal the errors and trauma from my past, I spent an entire morning releasing everything that entered my mind — from my parent’s bankruptcy when I was a child (a hungry, cold and dark period) to being bullied in middle school, as well as many other events that I had long forgotten about. Then I moved onto more recent events, such as failing to keep my graphic design business afloat and having to declare bankruptcy due to the financial meltdown of 2008. All of it was a lesson in forgiveness. After I finished the meditation, I felt peaceful, but wasn’t sure what would come of it.
Well, my life dramatically changed within a few days. The low-ball offer my husband and I had placed on the house, which had been rejected, was now unexpectedly accepted. The next day, I was called to interview for a good-paying position. What made this call so odd was I didn’t apply for the job! The employer had found me online. (And I got the job.) My daughter commented at dinner, “It’s like the universe is punking us.” Yes, but in a good way.
It was an amazing transformation that resulted from me asking for healing and being willing to release and forgive my past. With the removal of each blockage, you will have more room to accept abundance, happiness and health.
To practice this on your own, find a comfortable place, such as your bed, and let your mind go blank. When a thought passes through your mind, acknowledge it, and then release it. If the thought is unloving, give it to the Divine Energy for healing (see the “Releasing Day-to-Day Negative Emotions” technique above). It is very important once an unloving thought is recognized that it is released for healing, otherwise you will reinforce it and keep it. Continue doing this meditation until your thoughts trinkle to a stop.
NOTE: Some people have expressed a concern that they felt worse during or after meditation, so I wrote another post , It Might Get Worse, Before It Gets Better, which helps explains this.
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