Throughout
the ages people have believed that you can feel light. Whether it be
symbolic or actually felt within the heart, there is a sensation to
light, when you move beyond the mundane senses. You can feel light
within your body and within the consciousness body of yourself - you can
feel what light means.
When you breathe in to this light, when
you understand this light, then like the mantra, this beautiful light
that has been seen throughout the ages as what helps you to be free, and
is symbolised in many different ways, becomes an actual experience.
In
alchemical mystical philosophies, light is the end product of the
transformation that happens when you allow the old aspects of yourself
to create light. This means that negative thoughts don't need to be
pushed away, rather the negative thoughts need to transform in the same
way as the phoenix.
What you have to do is to change the structure
that maintains those negatives or limits within yourself, so that the
phoenix can rise out of the flames of light, the flames of fire - an
ancient symbol that allows you to change any structure. If you believe
and trust and can imagine the beauty that is contained within the flame
that allows for such transformation, then you can experience the light
in the same way as the phoenix.
Instead of being stuck and caught
by the limits and darkness of the mundane, you can be free and fly to a
higher aspect of yourself - this is higher consciousness and this is
what happens when you allow beautiful light to come within your
thoughts. The beautiful light allows for this beautiful transformation
to happen by the power of light, not by the power of your need to change
certain aspects. Throughout the ages, light and/or fire has been seen
as your path to moving away from the dualistic nature of darkness and
light, good and bad.
This is why I would advise you, when you are
meditating (which is a wonderful practice to do) that whenever your mind
drifts into the mundane thinking, whenever the mind falls back into the
world of pain and suffering bring back the power of light – chant the
mantra and bring back the power of light into your body.
This is
very easy because light has a magnetic resonance. When you begin to
focus on the beautiful light inside of your body, for example, if you
focus on the third eye and imagine in this moment a beautiful candle and
with your eyes closed, focus on this beautiful light, and as you focus
on this light, sense, in the same way as the phoenix, the energy and the
life force that is contained within this structure. And bring this
structure, bring the light into your body, so that every breath that you
take in, is a breath that brings lightness to your body.
What is
amazing is that the magnetic resonance within light begins to expand the
space inside of your brain, inside of your body, so that you feel
lightness, so that you feel bliss, so that you feel the sense of light
that is beyond the physical light, the light that is within your heart.
It is a wonderful thing because once that light and that sense of bliss
begins to open, begins to manifest in this world, through your body,
through your mind, through your meditation, you realise that it calls to
itself, light from everywhere of the same frequency and so the
vibration of your thoughts begins to change. The whole structure of the
way you do things begins to change, even if you're not aware through
your senses of such transformation, even if you're not aware of the
phoenix, the phoenix begins to take shape within your body. Sometimes it
takes a little more practice, but the phoenix is learning to fly.
As
you breathe in and breathe out, be aware, that every time you drift
away from the focus that allows you to be free, simply celebrate the
light that is within your being, within the meditation, within the space
that you're creating as you focus more deeply on your truth. As your
heart begins to resonate with that truth, the truth that is very clear
when you let go of all that veils you from being who you really are,
then the journey to freedom begins. It takes very little effort, because
once you see who you are, once the light shines so brightly that there
is no space for darkness, you move to the next level where there is no
struggle, where expansion happens by itself, where the light begins to
expand simply because of its nature, not because of your desires, or
because of your needs or because of your need to move away from
suffering or pain, but simply because light is ever, forever, expanding
and the magnetic resonance that comes from that space, the more light
there is and the more light becomes part of your experience. Then you
are not anymore controlled by the ego or the negative thoughts of anger,
or jealously or comparing or feeling pained by certain aspects of life -
they are no longer relevant. As you breathe in and breathe out and
manifest this light inside of yourself, allow the light to move you
beyond this physical dimension.
Within meditation, within
consciousness you have to understand that there are dimensions that you
can experience, you can understand, through allowing yourself to trust
that it is OK to let go so deeply that the expansion that happens within
your consciousness, is not limited by this physical mundane reality. To
do this it is very important that there is no darkness, there is no
limitation, there are no negative thoughts.
To be able to travel
to other dimensions of consciousness requires that you are free. So
whenever the little monkey inside of oneself, the ego mind, begins to
play the same tune, the same old paradigm, consciousness recognises that
this place - the same old structure - is of no use, it gives it no
energy, gives it no attention, gives it no importance. You can watch
this as if you're watching a beautiful theatre with no judgment and no
energy given to that situation. You just watch from that space of light
and freedom and allow yourself to constantly come back to that which
allows you to journey deeper - the sound of the mantra.
This is
the secret that the ancient mystical people initiated to the many who
are ready to understand - that behind the mantra, behind the sound,
there is the light of consciousness that allows the mantra not to just
be sound but to be light and sound, infused together to create a sacred
journey that is the path to awareness, the path to bliss.
The
mantra is the creative force that allows for the space to open so that
your consciousness can move to these other dimensions. It is the
creative force that many sacred texts have spoken about; it is the sound
that allows for creation to be understood and within that sound there
is a light, and that light is the ever-expanding universe that allows
for so much information to be present, that everything makes sense.
Consciousness
is not limited to your personality, or your brain, or to your senses.
Consciousness is the evolution of humanity in a complete sense of
oneness. And this understanding is for you to experience. When we
experience this there is a sense of freedom, but we need to let go of
the darkness and the sabotage programmes that stop the expansion.
You
need to remember that it is not you personally that can travel to these
dimensions, but it is the conscious aspect of you, the light within
your heart, that allows for you to move deeper into these dimensions.
I
feel this is very important in these next coming months - that we
understand that spiritual work is a blessing, it is the path to bliss -
deep bliss - the path to deep enjoyment of being and that the old
paradigms where we struggle, are for sure the path to conflict and
separation from that bliss.
When you can put aside the struggle and focus on the celebration of being, then life becomes a more beautiful journey.
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