Meditatio – a meditation on breath can be linked to two concepts, like two related gratitudes, or one intention and one gratitude, or two related questions. Two concepts, like slighting and forgiving. So, you could breath out and state an intention, ‘I am a magnet to abundance’ and then breath in a strong feeling of gratitude and being in this state of abundance fulfilled. It could be combined with diety worship or breathing in the elements as in the Bardon training.
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Day Practices of Spirituality and Manifestation
A miscellaneous collection of ideas to aid spiritual and manifestation practices in the waking day.
Have a piece of jewelry, such as a watch or wrist beads. Only wear it when you are in an acceptable state, which is mostly most of the time. If there is a period of negativity you can’t shake, take it off and only put it back on when you regain a desired state.
Boredom is a good thing to practice with; simply decide it is never allowed. If it comes up, then hold a replacement image steady, such as a manifestation or nembutsu image, with high emotion, for as long as it takes.
An extension to this is enjoying NOTHING. If you can go to a place with nothing to do, then do nothing and be joyous based on the present alone; you are successfully free.
Have a replacement bottle, meaning a little bottle of water that you can carry. When you have negative thoughts, locate them within the fluid. Pour the water out once a week onto the bare earth and state your intention to be free.
Find a book about how to make talismans. Make one for your desire, then practice until you can hold a very steady visualisation of it. Use this as a replacement thought for any contrary thoughts or doubts. Remember, it needs around a minute of steady holding to reset the stream of concoction.
Find a spell book and do a spell for something you want. At the end, before you clean up, look at the spell, the candle and herbs or whatever. This image of the spell cast or whatever is a replacement thought in itself for any doubt or negativity.
Rest in the star. Practice letting go throughout the day. Each time you catch yourself in some negativity, immediately freeze the mental picture, locate it, and fade it’s location and energy to the central image in the chest, then hold an awakening image (nembutsu) steady on the visual field.
Tail-up meditation. Do a meditation, but each time a thought arises, if it wasn’t already, turn it to a positive thought before letting go and returning to the breath.
Practice metta on a regular basis, but the short period before this is the one time you allow worry and negativity in your mind. Other times, if it comes up, push it out of your mind, thinking, ‘No, it’s not my negative time now; I’ll think of this before metta.’
Then, when it is time, worry and be negative for half an hour with a cup of coffee or whatever. You can wallow in it a little, as long as it’s all widened to be compassion around other people during the metta practice. This way you are never repressing or ‘burying your head in the sand’. Negativity is allowed, but under will.