One of the most fabulous things about meditation is the insane amount of connection that it allows you to feel! It can give you a sense of being absolutely and whole-heartedly linked to every single person in your life...even the ones who you don't quite see eye-to-eye with!
Meditating also puts you in touch with the Earth and all the grounding, radiating, healing energy that it provides during every second of every day.
For those of you who ever feel alone and out-of-place in the world, the meditation below is an excellent one. There probably isn't a single one of us who hasn't felt cut off from others at some point. Even in a room full of a gazillion people, one can feel incredibly alone and disjointed.
If any of these feelings ever come up, do the meditation below and find your step with the world again. It's always there, ready to support us. All we have to do is soften our grip on the mind, and everything will fall marvelously into place.
Give it a try...
MEDITATION FOR CONNECTION
Start out by finding a comfortable place to sit, whether it's on the floor or in a chair. Close your eyes and begin to slowly breathe in and out, accessing the full potential of the breath. Allowing the breath to quiet all the thoughts in your mind.
As you breathe, put your attention on your spine. Feel all the aliveness that radiates there, from top to bottom. Start to see a golden light where your spine is. Eventually, see that golden light take up every last cell in your body, until you are made up of nothing but that light.
Continue to breathe, as you feel the warmth of the light that is now your body.
Now, start to feel your body expanding with this golden light...expanding until you fill up the entire room. In this moment, you are the entire room. Breathe in this place. Feel the expansiveness as it reaches out into every corner of the room.
Take that expansiveness even further now. Expand that energy to the house or building or apartment complex that you're in. Wherever you may be, imagine yourself filling up the entire structure that you are physically located in. Breathe here.
And now, expand even further...until your body fills up the entire neighborhood that you're in. Breathe here, as you feel all the life swimming inside of you.
Keep expanding now. Feel your body expand, as it fills up the entire country that you're in. Allow yourself to breathe here and feel all the newness, all the spontaneity. Surrender yourself to the breath, and just allow your body to be one with the entire country that you are presently in.
Now, expand outward one last time. Expand your body so that you are the entire planet. Feel the richness that courses through you here. Feel the aliveness. And continue to breathe here for a few minutes.
When you're ready, start to contract the energy, start to bring yourself back into your own physical body. Into the here and now. Feel the energy shrinking back into your heart. See the golden light getting smaller and smaller, as your heart continues to eat it up.
Once your heart is completely full of this light, take two more deep breaths here, and slowly open your eyes.
Now you are integrated in a blissful, dynamic, and powerful way! Go about the rest of your day spreading wholeness and truth in every single thing that you do!
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