Three Steps into your true nature

[Xan]

THREE STEPS
into your true nature

This simple meditation brings you into the quietness of your inner self, your true nature.

Take a few minutes or longer for the first two steps. In fact, you may need to stay with Step One for a few days or even weeks, until you feel ready to move into the quiet.


STEP ONE
*Bring your attention down from your head and into your lower belly.
*Breathe into your belly, breathing each out-breath with a gentle sigh.
*Notice whatever you feel and allow yourself to accept it as it is.

If your attention goes back up into your head just bring it down again, accepting and breathing.

Notice your mind slowing down, and continue breathing as you become more relaxed.

STEP TWO
*Breathe down and inward a little deeper, and notice the open quiet space.
*Then breathe into this silent openness… until you feel a kind of settling in.

STEP THREE
*As you breathe in the quietness, allow your awareness to expand upward and inward, including your silent inner heart, deep in your chest.

If you get distracted, or feel any discomfort or tension, come back to the all-important Step One… simply breathing and accepting. Then follow with steps Two and Three.

You may need to practice Step One alone for some time before moving on to the other steps.

As you practice this meditation regularly - at least 10 to 20 minutes a day - accepting will become more familiar, and you will ease more deeply into the quiet and the inner heart.


SIMPLE YET POWERFUL

Acceptance is a gentle deep power. It is the key to becoming free from tension, stress, conflict and self-evaluation in the conditioned mind. Accepting helps us meet our challenges more effectively and feel more enjoyment in our lives. It opens the mind and heart.

Conscious Breathing centers us and calms the mind and nervous system. With consistent practice it can balance our body-minds and align our energies. Through it we may release and heal negative patterns from the past, and open to fuller awareness in the present moment.

Belly Breathing connects us within ourselves in a real way. It can free us from the habit of over-involvement in the excessive thinking of the head mind. It also activates energy from the body center, the hara, for improved health and well-being and it integrates the changes of spiritual awakening.

Silence is the quality of our own true Self. In it we feel the peace of our soul and spirit.

Inner Heart is the pure love for-no-reason that best expresses our spiritual Self. The outer, emotional heart often carries hurt and self-protection, but the inner Heart is always pure and whole. In our deep true Heart we are always safe.

Heart Breathing practice leads to a sense of genuine connectedness within ourselves and with others. This increases our experiences of lightness, sweetness, happiness, beauty and compassion in our true nature.


This is a meditation practice that can also be used during daily activities, keeping a little attention in your breathing within whatever else you might be doing.


Please feel free to ask questions, here or in PM.


blessings
Xan

[psychoslice]

Hi Xan this lower belly breathing is really good, I have to admit I thought, na, it wonte work but to my suprise it works really well, so please give it a try to anyone who are feeling disconnected, it will bring you back together again lol, well that's how I felt anyhow. Its great to see you again Xan.

[Soul Searching]

So glad to see you back Xan


namaste

[Xan]

Thanks, Soul.

Happy returns to us all...


Xan

[jorddy]

Great meditation, Its actually funny.. Lately (about a week and a half now) while im working out - On the last 2 heavy sets.. I close my mind and think of the actual energy circulating into my belly and while I breath out, i envision the energy cicrulating out from my belly - Much like Step one.

The meditations help very much man, I swear.. Meditation is one of the most powerful things I have come across.

Stay well.
Zack.

Hey Zack

Thats sounds great man.. I only just started to do some light weights as well.
Im gonna copy your style if you dont mind, want to see how it feels.

Yeah meditation is awesome. Im not as smooth as others, but when i am just silent for maybe 1-3 seconds at the whole time of about 20 mins, its worth it.

_/\_ Namaste

[Soul Searching]

Hi Xan

Hope you are well

Just thought I would send you a short post ..... I am still enjoying practicing your "three steps" meditation technique every day, along with the "counting breaths" relaxation meditation.

Many thanks for guiding me down this path .....

namaste

Soul

[jorddy]

No prob Storm! I hope it works well for you

this is excellent.,

my meditation generally just works in a haphazard fashion with no real structure, but then again my "intent" behind doing it is to get myself in a super positive vibrational state which will allow me to manifest my goals.

so being focused and highly intent is my key emphasis in meditation - other things like breathing etc are secondary, though obviously important as well

[Xan]

spiritflow... If you will go for deep relaxation along with your focus and clear intention, your manifesting work will go even better. This puts you in the creative Alpha state.

This is the benefit of conscious breathing --- focus + relaxing inwardly.


Xan