Here’s why even on the quiet days, it’s worth sticking with it and what I’ve learned along the way.
Lately my meditation journey has seemingly come to a bit of a flatline moment. I have been meditating every day, twice a day since February this year. In the last couple of months I felt my monkey mind take over and haven’t felt the big rush of emotional connection that I used to get in the beginning. But still I meditate.
I do two different types of meditation. I do a kundalini activation of my main seven energy centres(Chakras) in the morning. Then a Vedic meditation in the evenings.
Let’s break them down.
With my Kundalini activation, the official name of this meditation is the 7 blessings mediation coined by Dr. Joe Dispenza. I learned about it while reading his most recent book ‘Becoming Supernatural’.
Like every book I have read from Dr.Dispenza–it is life changing.
We go through blessing our energy centres from the bottom to the top, starting at our root chakra. Our root chakra (for a physical representation) is around our perineum, the muscle around the base of our spine. We activate that muscle, by squeezing the muscles in this area gently, as if you were holding back urine or stopping a bowel movement. Then we breathe AT THE SAME TIME.
This part was tough to get started on at first, but became a lot more second nature over time.
We take 3 deep breaths for 5 seconds each time, while holding our energy centre.
We then move up to our sacral chakra (just below our belly button) and this time we hold BOTH the root and the sacral and repeat the breathing technique mentioned above.
Then finally we engage our solar plexus chakra and hold all 3 base chakras while we repeat the breathing technique one more time.
This is the full extent of which we will engage our physical bodies in the entire meditation.
Why the Squeezing Works
Dr. Dispenza describes this process as “pulling the mind out of the body.”
- Energetic Flow: It activates dormant energy stored in the lower centres, moving it up the spine to awaken higher energy centres.
- Mind-Body Connection: The physical contractions heighten awareness of these energy centres, helping to integrate body and mind.
- Coherence: This practice fosters balance and alignment, creating a harmonious energy field.
Stay relaxed but focused. Picture energy as light, heat, or a subtle current rising upward with each squeeze.
Dr. Dispenza explains the science behind all this and I can’t recommend enough for anyone and everyone to pick up and read any of his books.
Now it’s time to connect to our heart, the chakra that connects the below with the above.
This was and still is a journey for me, I think I will write an entire blog post about connecting with your heart–it deserves it.
The key takeaways of the next step of this meditation is visualisation. This is the part that you have to focus a lot on, which is great cause it really allows you to not let in any monkey thoughts…
You move up your energy centres and focus wholeheartedly on each individually. Allowing yourself to grow the feeling of love and gratitude as you focus on them.
You visualise your energy centres as a spheres of light, sensing and visualising its location and energy, focusing on one at a time. Acknowledging and blessing them, setting the intention for balance and harmony.
This is usually where I begin to feel tingling goosebumps all over my body. But lately I don’t know if I am used to it or I am not focused enough. Either way I know that what I am doing to myself on a subconscious level is so incredibly important that even if I can’t feel anything it doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
Moving on to my Vedic meditation in the evening, this mantra based meditation I learned from a phenomenal meditation teacher Light Watkins. I have mentioned him before here in the blog, and his daily doses of inspiration–I highly recommend you give him a search and a follow for he truly brings nothing but light to your life.
Mantras are different for everyone, and I sometimes change my mantra depending on what I feel called to focus on.
But first, what is a mantra?
A mantra is a word, phrase, or sound that you repeat to focus your mind, calm your thoughts, and create positive energy or intentions.
I use mantras to help me focus on what’s important, what I want to work on within myself and how I can be of service to others during my time here.
So there you have it, a full breakdown of my daily meditation practice.
Funny story, I started with doing Kundalini both morning and evening–it didn’t turn out so well and after dinner I found it halted my digestion a bit haha but hey we live, learn and adapt!
Meditation has helped me in ways that I don’t think I am fully yet aware of.
All I know is that I am less irritable with my loved ones, and I am much better at expressing myself and listening to others.
I also take for granted the immense change that has happened in my life this last year.
I started my first personal project, 2 projects with friends, I started building my personal brand, I am feeling more connected to myself and my purpose more than ever. I quit drinking alcohol?! I got invited to my first ever speaking event?!
When I lay it out it adds up.
I am not saying that meditation did that, I am saying that meditation opened the line of communication between my heart and my head.
So even if I don’t fully feel something during my meditations recently–doesn’t mean I should stop, on the contrary it means I need to keep going. For if all of this has happened in the first 10 months of meditating regularly with discipline? I can’t wait for what’s to come in the next 10 months.
Much love
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