Several times recently, I have found myself telling people about “tuning in” in that space between sleep and waking up.
It is good to start the day with a broader sense of self and to renew that state several times during the day. For years I have found some sayings appear in my mind as I wake up. These have changed over time. I will put down what is happening now and also outline some thoughts about what the effect is.
“Om mani padme hum.
Am I still breathing?
Mother/Father God please come to me.
I am one with my whole being.
I welcome the presence of my guides.
I am anchored in the core of my being.
I am aware from the core of my being.
I am that I am.
Love flows from my heart, flooding my being and all around me.
Mother/Father God, I ask you and my guides to be with me and to help me throughout this day and beyond.
I surrender, I allow and I open . . . ”
Now some thoughts about what this feels like:
“Om mani padme hum.
This has the effect of expanding my awareness away from the mind to include the heart. I don’t want to know its meaning. It has a resonance which does this for me. You may use Om or any thought or image to begin this.
Am I still breathing?
Eckhart Tolle suggests this to put you in touch with your breathing without any mental involvement.
Mother/Father God please come to me.
I am one with my whole being.
I welcome the presence of my guides.
Expands the consciousness again to the source of all, to your own greater being and to the beings that are constantly with you. Looking outwards.
I am anchored in the core of my being.
I am aware from the core of my being.
Connecting the “I” of the personality to the origin of awareness deep within your own being. Looking inward.
I am that I am.
Relaxing the mind into a calm sensing of your own being.
Love flows from my heart, flooding my being and all around me.
Sensing the love flowing up from deep within to infuse yourself and all around you.
Mother/Father God, I ask you and my guides to be with me and to help me throughout this day and beyond.
Leaves you with the feeling that you are not alone and that the personality aspect of yourself is being nurtured by your greater self and the loving beings that are with you as you go through your day. You can ask for help about specific things.
I surrender, I allow and I open . . .”
Allows your thinking mind to relax and let your greater being and helpers be involved in every moment of the day.
If you have the intention to begin the day with your own personal “tune-in”, you will find that the words and impressions that are perfect for you will begin to appear in your mind as you wake up. It may be that there are few words but that your experience is more like an experience of your truer self. After I have done this, there is often a period of floating in a reverie state for a time before I wake up fully and begin my day. Doing something similar several times a day will help maintain a more present and vibrant state.
Try it and see what a difference it can make. Enjoy!
Watched the Adyashanti DVD "What Is Reality". The last questioner asked about "oneness". Adyashanti led us in simple terms from what was happening in our perception through an experience of the awareness that we are, to the oneness of the awareness that is operating in each of us.
Before that he was asked what was most valuable to him. He said - this experience happening now. The questioner replied - "That's cool"!
On Saturday afternoon, we played Kirtana's new album "Falling Awake" to friends. The impact of "Ramana's Song" was even more powerful.
During the night I was conscious for a long time. Again I was asking for the full emergence of myself.
I was experiencing myself as light and energy, shifting in ways that is difficult to put into words. At times an energy would arise and seem to wait for the allowance to redistribute itself. Sometimes the energy was subtly sensual in nature. There were extended periods of absence of mind and thought, but full awareness of what was happening. An experience of myself as "more" without the need to describe what that was.
At about 1:30am I heard the sound of thunder - the expected storm had arrived. I unplugged the television and computers and went out on the deck. The lightning was brilliantly illuminating the sky from behind the clouds. On impulse I took off my clothes and went out on the grass to stand in the rain and embrace the magnificence of the storm. I returned to bed and the heightened experience continued.
This morning I am aware of not having much sleep. There is a noticeable change: when I return to the old pattern of doing anything with the mind off on its own trip, that is quickly brought to my attention. At times, my physical movements are slowed down so that my mind can remain in contact with what I am doing.
It reminds me of the song in the film "Brother Son, Sister Moon" about the life of Saint Francis and Clare:
"If you want to live like me,
Take your time, go slowly."
The evolution continues - all we need to do is just be!
During our afternoon sanctuary, we were trying to figure out what
was going on with our days and our selves.
I had the thought: "It is almost as if we have lost how to live."
I then began to receive the following message. The experience was given to me
in segments, then I was asked to write each down before moving on.
"You need to learn a new way of existence.
We will teach you.
The mind has nothing to do with it.
We suggest this for now:
Breathe God.
Be aware and Breathe God.
(Not 'breathe in God' - 'breathe God'.)
You are immersed in God.
Be God breathing God - all else will flow.
Sense the Light.
Breathe and sense the Light.
Sense the Love spilling out of your heart,
flooding your being and all around you.
The Love and the Light and God all flowing and intermingling.
Expand up and out.
And around and below and back in,
seated on a cushion of Divinity.
Enjoying just being.
Continue to breathe,
let your breath be the pulse of your Being."
In December, a psychic in Sydney got a message about me, during a reading for someone else, that drinking coffee was endangering my life. She relayed this through a friend. I had a warning 5 years ago from the same lady about caffeine and went off it, until a trip to America where coffee was literally on tap. Since then, I have had 2 cups of brewed coffee a day. I stopped immediately after this message and had almost no withdrawal symptoms.
I began to feel much calmer and the symptoms from my prostate condition greatly reduced (coffee is a diuretic). Rayah told me that the amplitude of my heart beats was much less – her hand on my chest used to be pushed out on each beat. The coffee was stimulating the heart and it was working much harder than it needed to. It was this that was setting up a possible heart attack.
I began to refine what I ate and cut out alcohol. This was confirmed by a channeled message from my friend several weeks later. I am experiencing heightened awareness and clarity, greater creativity and focus. I would never go back to what I was doing before.
What I had been doing was endangering my physicality and dampening more subtle expressions of myself.
I am finding myself asking, before ingesting anything: “Is this good
for me?”