Inner Guide Meditation
Put some questions to your own intuition or subconscious during Meditation.
| Inner Guide Meditation |
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| Kind of Meditation |
Visualization |
| Degree of difficulty |
Beginners and more advanced students |
| Advised duration |
5 to 30 minutes |
| Posture |
Sitting or Lying |
| Advantages |
+ it gets you into contact with the wisdom in yourself
+ deep within ourselves we can find all the answers. Why look anywhere else?
+ it is cheap and has no negative side effects
+ it gives you a relaxed, peaceful feeling
+ you can do this exercise at any time and any place
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| Remarks |
We can find our own wisdom in our own silence. Reach a deep level of relaxation and consult your own resources. There you will find more answers than you can imagine. |
Besides using Visualizations to try and speed up our future performances, dreams, and health, we can also use Visualizations to get into contact with our inner wisdom. The answers to questions that keep us busy are often to be found in our subconscious. By our constant stream of thoughts, most of us have created a smoke screen that makes it hard to look at things objectively and take the right decisions. Often, moments of insight spontaneously occur in us when we are quiet and relaxed for a while. For some people, this happens when they are running or drinking coffee, and for other people when they are taking a shower or when they are fishing. In this Visualization, we are just going to ask our subconscious. We create an image of a wonderful environment in which we are going to ask questions to a sort of guide. This guide is an imaginary person, animal, feeling, voice, or whatever. We call for the guide to appear in our Visualization. It is just like a dream. For some people, it may be hard to visualize this guide in such a way that they really see him clearly. But experience teaches us that practice makes perfect, even in this field. After that, we ask the guide a question, and we just wait. The answers may come our way in all possible manners. Sometimes, it is a thought that enters your mind, sometimes a feeling, a voice, a dream, or just an intuition. If things are difficult or you are confronted with doubts, negative or contradictory thoughts, do not resist them. Observe them and let them pass away as you would do with every ordinary Meditation. Acceptance will always be the essence of every Meditation! Trying to get an answer by means of force or great exertion will always have an adverse effect. Just wait in silence, as Franz Kafka puts it in the following quotation:"You do not have to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
You can also do this Visualization at the end of a normal Meditation. Possible questions for your guide could be: What is the purpose of my life? Is there something I should know right at this moment? What will happen if I accept this job? To make everything as clear as possible for you, we will give you an example of a possible Visualization. You are sitting relaxed on the top of a mountain in the Alps. The view is fantastic and you ask your guide to introduce himself. After a few seconds of waiting, a friend from your past suddenly sits down next to you. This happens automatically and like a thought that suddenly enters your mind. You ask this friend what will happen if you accept a job in Barcelona that was offered to you. A few seconds later, you see yourself walking in the streets of Barcelona extremely happy, you feel excellent, and totally fulfilled. All these happen automatically and show that your subconscious is really looking forward to the new job. You thank your guide and slowly wake up from your Meditation. This is quite simple and very effective. As in the case of any Meditation, we try not to judge, not to get angry with ourselves if things do not go so well, and not to be too goal-oriented. Let us begin!
Inner Guide Meditation Exercise
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- Sit down, close your eyes, and direct your attention to your breathing.
- Be aware of every breathing in and breathing out.
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Let your breathing be something automatic and do not try to steer it.
- Observe how the air slowly goes in through your nose, fills up your lungs, and goes out again.
- Count twenty breaths to reach a state of deep meditative relaxation. With each breath, you become more relaxed.
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When you feel totally at ease and relaxed after a few breaths, you begin with your Visualization.
- When you have reached this state of complete relaxation, you visualize an extremely beautiful environment which gives you a feeling of rest, peace, and relaxation.
- Walk around and enjoy every moment of being in those beautiful surroundings.
- Try to involve all your senses. Smell, taste, look, and feel into the minute details.
- When you have been walking around for a while and you feel fine, you look for a spot where you can nicely sit down.
- This spot is totally yours. You are completely by yourself, and you are completely relaxed.
- Now you ask your inner guide to introduce himself to you and you ask him if he can help you by answering a few questions.
- Just wait for something to happen! Do not force anything! The guide may appear in all sorts of ways. For instance as a person, an animal, a voice, a feeling.
- When the guide has introduced himself, you ask him a question and just wait what happens.
- The answer may come to you in all sorts of ways. Sometimes, it is very concrete. Sometimes, it comes as a metaphor or as a sort of dream from which you have to draw your own conclusions.
- Again: do not force anything. Things will only happen if you are relaxed and in a meditative mood.
- Observe! And if you like you can even ask a second question.
- Go on asking questions for as long as you like.
- When you are finished, thank your guide and just walk around in that beautiful environment for a while.
- You can always go back there to ask new questions or just to relax.
- Then slowly take your attention back to the rest of your body and the sounds in the room. Move a little, stretch your muscles a little, and open your eyes.
- Finished!
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