If you have difficulty in meditating it can be a good idea to do a few guided meditations to help you to concentrate and focus your mind.
Meditation is not about making your mind blank, thinking of nothing - it is about focussing your mind and shutting out all exterior stimuli. It helps to focus on something i.e. a lotus, with the petals slowly opening, a crystal, a flame etc. When your thoughts stray you must go back to the beginning.
A guided meditation helps to train you to concentrate, it helps you to close out the exterior and not to 'think'. You can watch thoughts but let them go, don't try to make things logical as you medtate - analyse the medtation afterwards, not during.
I have written many guided medtations for my development and meditation groups and I thought that some of you may enjoy this one about Atlantis. It is based on a recalled memory which can be found on Grazier's Scrapbook.
I wrote this in 2000, not really knowing anything about Atlantis. It was a channelled writing.
It is good if you can either tape this or get someone to read it to you as you meditate.
Find yourself a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Settle down in a chair or couch/bed and concentrate on your breathing. Take three deep breaths. Travel deep within yourself, focussing solely on going further into an altered state of reality. You are aware of nothing except your own mind and these words as they slip into your consciousness.
You are sitting in a canoe. Your Guide is paddling the canoe and you are gliding effortlessly over a calm, blue sea. The air is clear, the sun is shining and you can feel its warmth over your body. The sky is clear and blue and there are a few light clouds gliding slowly across the sky. You look ahead of you and see your destination glittering in the distance. An island of crystal, sparkling in the sun, sending rainbows of colour up into the sky.
You slowly glide towards the island and as you get closer it begins to take shape. You can see mountains of amethyst, sparkly green fields and the most beautiful crystal city. As you approach the island you notice a great portal at the entrance to the city, and the walls around the city are of huge amethyst crystals. The portal is like a giant slice of amethyst geode with a slice taken off the bottom so that it can stand. Outside the city walls are fields of emerald grass and there is a backdrop of amethyst mountains. There are pure white goats and pure white horses grazing and playing untethered and free around the city. The beach, as you approach, is of pure golden sand and the calm sea is of azure blue. As you look over the city you can see many, many rainbows of all sizes radiating from the crystal buildings.
Your guide gently beaches your canoe and gestures for you to alight. You get out of the boat and stretch. You feel the warm sand beneath your feet and the cool air on your face as you turn towards the city. You bid farewell to your guide whom you know will wait for your return.
You walk towards the city and notice that there is stillness, a peace and calmness and you relish in this wonder. Walk up to the gateway of amethyst and as you reach it you can see steps of pure crystal, glittering and glinting in the sunlight. These steps lead up to a bridge. Climb easily up the steps and as you climb you feel a lightness and peace.
When you reach the top of the steps you see the bridge across a tinkling brook. The bridge is made from a rainbow. The colours are so beautiful and at the other end of the bridge are more crystal steps. You glide across the bridge and reach the other side and descend the steps on that side. When you reach the bottom of the steps you see pathways of lapis lazuli, a beautiful blue with golden streaks in it. See the houses of crystal and amethyst and emerald and to the left you can see a church-like building made from smoky quartz and to the right an immense temple of pure quartz crystal. Wander among the buildings, along the pathways absorbing the peace and the beauty. There are gardens with beautiful flowers of wonderful vibrant colours.
You see many figures clothed in white, purple, indigo, pale blue, silver and gold. these figures are so light and so brilliant. They are ageless, but seem ancient. You immediatly know that those in light blue are the philosophers, those in indigo are the wise-men, the teachers, those in purple are the spiritual leaders and teachers of a higher level, those in silver are the healers and the doctors and those in gold are the guides. There are no children here. Every being is an enlightened one.
Approach a figure dressed in indigo and mentally ask him why there is one grey building between such beauty and brilliance. He tells you that is where the beings that err go to contemplate their errors and to meditate for purity. They remain there until they are once again enlightened and then they enter the crystal temple to be blessed and made whole again.
Ask if you may visit the crystal temple and he tells you that you can and beckons you to follow him. He takes you to a figure clothed in gold. He also beckons to you to follow as he glides towards the heart of the city, following one of the lapis paths. Follow him as he leads you along a pathway lined with crystal columns . At the end of the pathway you find yourself in front of the most beautiful crystal temple that you could ever imagine, with a huge silver door engraved with unicorns and dolphins, stars and in the centre is a golden sun. The guide bids you farewell and you approach the door, pushing the door open you step inside and find yourself in a huge room, the floor is of white marble, there are amethyst benches in rows with an aisle between them leading to an altar. You look up and there seems to be no ceiling, all you can see is bright white light, so bright but it doesn't hurt your eyes.
There are many Beings in this room, sitting and standing. The seated Beings seem to be meditating and the standing beings are all deep in conversation. Approach the altar upon which are white lilies and a huge golden book that seems to radiate golden light. You are aware that this is the book of spiritual wisdom of the masters.
You are aware of a figure at the altar. It is clothed in white, but as you look you are aware that it radiates a rainbow aura. It beckons to you and you follow it as it glides down a narrow aisle towards a silver door at the back of the altar. the figure opens the door and gestures for you to go through. You do so and find yourself in the most beautiful garden. There is a lake at the end of the garden with people around it. You know that is where you need to go and you wend your way through the flowers towards it. When you reach it you see that the figures are people, some you recognise as your loved ones that have passed to spirit. You know that you must sit by the lake and you find a suitable spot, there is a large slab of aventurine upon which you sit and wait. As you wait one of the figures approaches you. He is an old and wise man. He tells you just to sit there and your loved ones, guides and teachers will approach you and commune with you. Sit there and commune with spirit, just sit and talk and learn.
It is now time to leave the garden and you bid your friends of the Light goodbye and turn towards the temple. You can see the rainbow figure waiting for you so you walk towards him. He takes you back through the silver door, down the narrow aisle to the altar and then bids you goodbye. Glide down the aisle towards the huge silver door and as you do so the figures within the temple acknowledge you and gesture farewell. Pull the door open easily, turn back for one last glimpse of the inner sanctum, then make your way towards the golden clothed figure who leads you back down the crystal lined lapis lazuli pathway, through the city of amethyst, emerald and quartz crystal, back to the steps that lead up to the rainbow bridge. At the foot of the steps you bid the figure goodbye, knowing that he will be there should you return. Turning towards the bridge you climb the steps, at the top you glide back across the bridge, going down the steps at the end of the bridge and through the amethyst portal back on to the beach, where you find your guide waiting in the canoe. Turn around and take one last look at the beautiful city of Atlantea and feel the love and peace that it radiates. Your guide helps you back into the boat and paddles you back across the calm blue sea and as you glide in the canoe you find that you are travelling slowly back into full consciousness.
I hope that you enjoy this meditation.
Blessings
grazier
A Visit to Atlantis, the Crystal Island - a meditation
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