Sit quietly and focus (visually) on a symbol, picture, or object related to some goal or project. As you maintain focus on the subject your patterns link and change. The usual effect is that initially you begin to get a flow of ideas, old and new, about the subject. If there is tension to begin with in your relationship with the subject or what it represents, you body may express that tension for a while, but as you continue the focus there will be a release and a new relationship pattern.
This is a good meditation for clearing up relationships with people, places, money, success, or any goal-oriented endeavor, as well as for stimulating a flow of creative ideas in relation to it. Many people are doing this without realizing it when studying, planning, or working. The third thing this exercise does is set up a resonance that begins to attract the nearest equivalent to what you are focusing on.
A useful variation is to focus on a symbol, picture, or object related to a problem in your life. This may upset a lot of people who say they don't want to give energy to their problems by focusing on them, but this focus is different. When you focus on a problem with a calm attitude of positive expectation and nonjudgment, the problem changes because you change. You may get different insights or realizations about it, or conditions surrounding the problem may change without your conscious knowledge or effort, but something will change.
We often say that it is easier to resolve a problem if you make peace with it first, and that is what this exercise helps you to do.
We all
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“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we
don't to make it all bearable.”
~Neil Gaiman
1 comments:
Meditation on a symbol for a problem... how interesting. Initially, I thought this would be simple... especially since I can't seem to come up with a good visualization for the "big" thing I want in my life... I figured I'd just focus on a "problem" and now I can't figure out what that problem would be...
I cannot believe I am so blocked this week. No wonder I have financial issues and problems.. And why can't I use THAT as my problem... hmmm.... wow.... this is really really interesting!!
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