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A Rain of Peace and Goodness

 

" Energy is Eternal Delight. "

William Blake

 

 

Here is a visualization for times of low energy:

 

Sit down and get comfortable. Take a few slow, deep breaths. Exhale

fully and allow the inhalation to come on its own. Remind yourself to

relax your muscles. Scan your body for tension and invite your muscles

to let it go. Drop your attachment to your thoughts as if they were

attracted by an electromagnet and the power is turned off. Thoughts are

now free to drift off and new ones have no pull on you. They too can be

on their way. They are none of your business and hold no power over you

at the moment.

 

Now imagine all of the positive energy in the universe raining down

upon you. All the goodness, kindness, love, compassion, beauty and

wisdom are flowing to you. These good things fall upon you like a warm

and gentle rain. They soothe you and empower you and they fill you up.

 

This flow of goodness is powerful, but only as powerful as want it to

be. You find this drenching in love, beauty and wisdom comforting,

invigorating and perfectly safe. You feel the goodness and the peace.

 

You know that you have an infinite supply of love and goodness to draw

upon and it gives you strength. When you accept this grace, you also

generate it. So you are not depleting the universal supply, but adding

to it.

 

As this goodness rains upon you, it cleanses your mind, lightens your

emotions and nourishes every cell of your body. As you breathe in

these multiple forms of good energy, all the systems of your body are

harmonized and energized. Your breathing is calm and your blood flows

as if purified and fortified. Your immune system knows what it must do

to keep you in perfect health. Energy flows to you and through you. You

are ready to act with effect when the time is right, but at this

moment, you are at peace. You are open to joy. You are connected.

 

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Out with the Bad, In with the Good

 

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“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.”

Lawrence Durrell, Justine

 

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Imagine you have just finished a campout in a beautiful mountain

valley, or have attended a magnificent symphony in a gothic cathedral,

or have spent the day meditating in the Taj Mahal. How do you feel?

Most likely, you feel calm and joyful. Probably, you feel resilient,

clear headed and untroubled. You might describe a lightness of

spirit--a sense of being radiant.

 

On the other hand, in stressful times, when dealing with problems and

difficult people we may become tense, worried, sad or angry. We may

feel a spiritual heaviness, a mental darkness. It is as if we are

filled with a dark cloud of bad energy. Have you ever spent time with

an angry, bitter person and come away feeling as if they had given you

their bad vibes?

 

These different states of mind, the light, calm and joyful state and

the dark, tense, and unhappy state are quite distinct. We prefer the

brighter, relaxed state, yet we may get stuck in the dark, tense,

unpleasant state. We don’t need to hang on to negative mental and

emotional states, however. Mental imagery can help dispose of bad vibes

and open us up to more joyful experience.

 

Here are some things you can do:

 

After an interaction with someone that leaves you feeling discomfited,

put your hands on a large piece of wood, a desk or doorframe for

instance, and imagine all the negative energy you may have absorbed

flowing into the wood. Think of the wood as grounding or as an

absorbent material. The unwanted thoughts, feelings, and body energy

flow into the wood and dissipate. You are left feeling lighter, clear

headed and unhampered by the energy of the other person.

 

Shower yourself with light and feel the negative energy drain down into

the ground.

 

Imagine you are holding a large balloon or bubble in your hands in

front of your chest. Breathe the bad energy into it. Imagine that all

hurt, anxiety, and unkindness flow out of your heart and into the

balloon. Release the balloon and imagine that it floats off a little

way before bursting. Imagine that, as the balloon breaks, all the bad

energy dissipates harmlessly or falls to the center of the earth where

it can do no harm.

 

Use your hands to sweep the cloudy energy off your body. Let’s say you

have a cat standing on your lap, and you pet it running your hand down

its spine and the length of its tail. After the stroke, there is cat

hair on your hand, so you flick it away. Do that with your own body.

Stroke yourself, and when you get to the end of an appendage, flick

away the negative energy.

 

If you finished a shower and had no towel, you might try to squeegee

the water off your body with your hands. You would run your hands down

from the top of your head to your feet squeezing the water off your

arms, legs and torso. Imagine you are doing that with energy. Brush and

flick away any negative thought, emotion, or dis-ease. Let it go down

the drain to the earth’s core of molten gold where it can do no harm.

 

Imagine your hands are filled with light. As you run them along the

length of your body, the light shines in and clears out any dark energy

like the sun breaking up fog.

 

Say a little prayer. Ask for healing. Ask to be filled with light and

loving-kindness.

 

Breathe. Blow out any remaining discomfort.

 

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