Receiving Clearer, More Helpful Answers in Meditation

All right. All right, well it is a pleasure to be working with you once again this month.

And during the next twenty-eight to thirty days we really want to work with you. We want to connect with you by helping you receive clearer, more helpful insights and answers in your meditation.

Now previously we talked about getting more magic out of your meditations. During that discussion we suggested that many of you have very beautiful meditative experiences. Some of you work with the guided meditations upon which we take you in workshops; others work with the cassette or videotapes. And yet others of you have your own unique style and method of altered state work. Your experiences can be beautiful.

The guided imagery and visualizations that your Higher Selves, your counselors, or any other of your Unseen Friends take you upon can be more than beautiful. They can be powerful and magical. And now you can get more - even more - magic out of you meditations. As well as getting more magic, you can also receive more answers - clearer more helpful answers.

Currently while meditating, you do receive answers. They can come in so many different ways. While in meditation, you seem to understand the symbols and the metaphors. There is a clarity that is so gratifying. Sometimes the meditative answers seem so obvious that you are surprised that you didn't "think" of it first.

Then you open your eyes. You come out of the meditative state. As we described before, all of a sudden the magic is no longer there, the magic somehow - as though squeezed through a ringer - got left behind in the meditation and did not seem to make it back into your physical reality. The same thing can happen with those answers - clear and obvious - that were so evident in meditation. They also seem to be left behind in your meditations.

To receive clearer more helpful answers in your meditations and to bring those answers back with you, it is important to focus on creating more magic. We have already talked about how to bring back what magic you do create; now let's talk about creating more magic in the first place.

If your meditations are currently magical, but nothing ever comes of it - nothing results from it - your meditations can become fanciful escapes from the physical world of your own creation. Such meditations can become a way to observe the wonders and the beauties without ever experiencing them beyond your close-eyed fantasy world. That is not what you want for yourself. Thrilling at first, such meditations and such experience are not really self loving.

Fun at first, in times such experience becomes tedious and boring. You wonder why you are bothering. You begin to question, " Yes, I have very magical experiences, so what? I'll just keep having the same level, the same depth of magic. I'll keep using it as some sort of an escape."

But you see, when you really learn to bring that magic out, when you really allow yourself to bring that magic from the meditation into physical reality, then there is much more room in meditation, and there are many more reasons to create a deeper, more profound sense of magic. Out of this come those clear, more valuable answers that are so vital to your growth and change.

Always reaching and stretching in your current reality, you are looking to that future that you will be creating. You know that you can choose a future that is a nightmare or a dream. You can choose a future that is a mediocrity in between. In order to create more elegantly, more successfully, more excellently - in order to create that dream, that future that is beautiful and filled with wonder and with miracles - you must do more than just turn to meditation no matter how magical or no matter how many answers you find there.

We do not diminish your meditative experience: It is beautiful; it can be filled with magic and with answers. No, we do not diminish your meditation. But it must become more.

Now there are those who only turn to meditation as a last resort when all other "solutions" seem to fail or to be unavailable. There are those who turn to their altered states out of fear and as a fear choice. Some turn to meditation with their skepticism all the while wondering why they are doing so. But none of these are you. You may have been in those places but do not have to be there now. This is not you.

Even so, some of you do not turn to your meditations as you could. Perhaps rightly so. Although your meditations have some magic in them and answers come to you, that magic and those answers do not return with you. Though created in meditation, they do not manifest in reality.

Creating is not enough; manifesting is increasingly the key. Why?

In your world, the objective consensus reality is becoming more and more subjective while the previously dismissed subjective reality is becoming more and more objective. You know this. And yet, in this that you know, meditation, which has been so subjective before, is becoming more and more objective, too.

As the world's paradigm of causation continues to shift and reshape itself, as self-determination becomes truly Self-determination, it is increasingly important that you learn to rely upon the meditative inner answers with their inner knowing and inner wisdom. Thus the necessity and vitality of receiving clearer more helpful answers from meditation become paramount.

You are fast moving through these 1990s. You are fast moving through the most monumental decade in the history of humankind. As you soon conclude this decade, century, and millennium, you will come to know yourself as the mapmaker, dreamer-dream weaver that you truly are. You will come to know yourself as the vision-maker and reality-creator that you are. You will come to appreciate the magician and the miracle-maker/miracle-worker that you have become. In all this - for all this to be more than fantasy or frustration - one of the solutions and resolutions lies in more magical meditations and more clear answers from those meditations.

There are so many more reasons about which we could talk. And you have so many reasons of your own. Let us begin. We outline for you a four week plan.

Week number one: You have already worked with awakening the brain; now it is time to sharpen it. And this week the exercise is called "Flushing the Brain."

Now we recommend that you do this meditation sitting up. However, if for some reason it is critical that you lie down, okay. You can adapt it for lying down.

You can do this as its own meditation. It may be worth mentioning that you can attach this procedure to any other meditative activity within your regimen of meditations. It can work to prefix or suffix your meditations. It can be easily working into the middle - in between - of such activity, too.

Now, for the next seven days we want you to flush your brain. That is, we encourage you to visualize as follows: your head opens wide; your brain opens up; and then a flow of water - crystal clear, sparkling wonderful water - flowing into your brain. Be specific with detailing this visual: see the brain stem and see it filling up with this flow of water; see the limbic brain filling up and starting to spill over. Finally watch the cerebrum and the cerebral cortex filling up. Sense it spilling over and flowing all over and throughout your brain. Sense it filling the ventricles of the brain as well. See it full and overflowing.

Now, what about the stuff you are going to flush? You are going to flush your brain of its residue. You are going to flush it of the thoughts and feelings that are lodged there. You are going to flush the memories of pain and hurt and of suffering and struggle.

The first things that overflow are going to be vile stuff. It may be dark and thick with a foul smell as well as a foul look. It may be sludgy, heavy, rank. Perhaps it will have a weird color.

Let all this stuff just spill over your head, run down, oooh, run down your face. Let it tickle as it crosses your cheeks and lips, and as it drips off your chin. Shudder as it runs down your chest, your breast, and across your shoulders. See, the more visual you can get with it, the more effective it is going to be, the more your subconscious and unconscious mind will play and allow the flush to occur.

So you are going to flush. And you keep flushing until eventually all the sludge and all the distasteful stuff is gone, and then all that comes out is flowing water, clear, beautiful, wonderful, incredibly beautiful water.

With the initial flush complete, now you flush something of your desire. What are you going to flush? Well, it depends upon the mood you are in. Today you might flush self-pity, maybe tomorrow it's anger. Maybe it will be martyrhood the next day or maybe it is today. Maybe it is hurt that is the issue right now and that needs immediate attentions. Flush whatever happens to be there. It is your choice. It is important that you choose - a willed choice.

Even though the current flush may be spontaneous, it is important that you consciously choose what will be flushed. Even if that choice is in the moment, it must be your choice.

In this flush, again, keep flushing until the waters run clear, sparkling, and beautiful. Once the water has returned to clear, the third flush happens.

The first flush is of something that is unplanned. It is something that surprises you when it is flushed out. It maybe something unknown or unsuspected; it may be something that you are very aware of but that still comes up unexpectedly. It is sudden; it is a surprise. Let it bubble up and out of you.

"Oho, what was that?"

Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter if in these first seven days of flushing the brain if you know what it is or not. We want you more to sense the experience of something bubbling up and releasing. "I don't know what that was, something negative, something hurtful, something distasteful, certainly so. I don't know what it was, but nonetheless I released it, I flushed it, I let it out of the system."

Once that bubbled up, the last thing is out, then fill your brain, fill your brain with a brilliant light and feel wonderful, happy, successful, powerful, together, etc., very spiritual, very mystical, very much feel the future that you are becoming.

And that is the conclusion of your first week of activity.

Week number two: Last week you flushed your brain; this week we want you to empty your heart. Again, we want you to visualize. And again, this will work best if you sit up and you can adapt it to lying down if that is important to you. As with last week's activity, this week's emptying of heart can stand alone as a meditation or can prefix or suffix your other meditative regimen.

Visualize: See your heart using whatever symbol or metaphor appeals to you. You can be as anatomically correct as you wish, or you can just sense the heart as this vessel, as this cup, as this spherical sort of organ that is located inside you, as abstractly as you want. What is important is that you understand that this is a symbol or metaphor - it is a representation of your heart.

Now, as you sense your heart in this way, notice that at the gravitational bottom of your heart, there is a sediment. Notice a very thick, syrupy, molasses-like sediment that is at the bottom. Now this sediment is all the stuff - you know, the hurt, the pain, the loneliness, the betrayal, the abandonment - all the stuff in the past. It is now sediment. In the past you played it out, acted it out, lived it. Now it is residue. Perhaps it is now guilt that has turned to resentment. It could be self-pity that has become bitterness. It may be martyrhood that has become punishing numbness.

This residue, this sediment, appears to be boiled down. It is very thick and syrupy. It is concentrated and dense; there is no excess. As with so many emotions filled with feeling and thought in your life, it is boiled down and sits heavy in the heart.

Visualize it. Also know what it is. Know its various components. Know its ingredients. Know what makes up your particular, unique, and quite individual sediment.

Now, open a little drain. In whatever way you visualize this, open a tiny drain in the bottom of the sediment. It begins to drip - drop by drop, to drip - out. It will begin slowly at first as the sediment at the bottom is particularly thick. The first drops may form and just cling there for a while. Hanging there, they are almost solid. Finally...ping...it drops. Then another droplet will form and very slowly getting bigger and bigger until it's too heavy to hold, and then . . . ping.

In time the drips will become more fluid and liquid. They will drop more quickly. Ping, ping, ping, ping, . . . .. In time it will almost flow until the last of it - like the very first of it - clings there hanging on the edge. There will be one last shimmering little bubble of residue - of sediment - until . . . ping.

You need not worry about where all these drops - slow, fast and then slow again - go. They are dropping "out of your body." Focus on imagining the sediment finally being done; sense it finally being gone. It may take five minutes, may take ten or fifteen minutes, depending upon the detail, and depending upon how much sediment is there. Let it all drain out. Just when you are sure it is all out - just when you are sure it is all gone - one more drop will fall.

One more drop . . . "What's that?" You do not need to know the answer to that question just yet. Just let that one more drop - that one more ingredient, that one other thing that you did not anticipate, that something you did not plan - drips out of you. Ping.

And once that last drop drips, just as with the last flush of your brain, fill your heart with light. Fill it with light and love, and feel the burst of love, light, and wonder inside you. Feel the laughter, the joy, the healing that is there; feel and know the healing of your heart. You may feel your Higher Self come to touch your heart, and to fill it with the love and the light. We will come to touch your heart, if you so desire.

Week number three: This week the process is more meditative. As with the previous weeks, it can stand alone or be attached to your other meditative procedures. Though we encourage you to sit up, sitting up or lying down does not matter during this week's activity. Due to the significance and the intensity of this experience, you may want to do it a few times as a stand alone meditation.

Go into a relaxed state. In that gentle state, find yourself at an ocean beach. If not ocean, then at a beach beside a large body of water - a body of water large enough that it might be an ocean. Find yourself there at whatever time of day works best for you. For some it may be early morning before the sun, for others it may be in the middle of the morning before the sun has reached her zenith. Perhaps it is in the laze of afternoon that you find yourself by water's edge. Some choose twilight time, others prefer the night of evening, and yet others like the dark called the dead of night.

It does not matter, but make it a very wonderful time, beautiful time. Be alone, in solitude, and quietly at the beach at your favorite time, or the most important time of day for you.

Once you are there, sit and just watch the water trying not to do anything in particular. Do not try to solve any problem or to seek any answer. Just be without any attention to doing. Just be. Just be with the sea. Watch and listen. Watch and listen to the rhythm of you and the rhythm of the sea. Just you and the sea.

Notice that the sea is always working. Whether the day is good or bad, whether it's active or passive, whether it is a weekday, weekend, night or day, whether there has been a worldwide crisis, or a worldwide peace, the sea is always doing what she does. And you just sense that. Sense the beauty of that, the elegance of that, the wonder of that.

Once you are in this state of peace and tranquillity, in this resonance, bring in your Higher Self, or your counselors, or both. Bring in whatever Co-creator you want. You do not want too big a crowd, but allow in whomever you desire. For some we will be glad to be with you however we never insist that we be a part of your process.

Those who gather with you also sit silently on this beach - at water's edge. They sit with you and they watch and listen with you. Silent. Watch the waves ebbing and flowing.

As each wave goes out, let go of your payoff. Whatever your payoff might be for not getting clear answers, whatever your payoff might be that stands in the way of the valued answers, let it go. Whatever stands in the way of getting correct and helpful information, whatever keeps your meditations from being magical, let go of those payoffs.

As you sense it, at first you may not know what the payoff is. Precisely. You just sense yourself letting it go. As the waves withdraw - as the sea crashes against the sand and then retreats into the ocean, into the body of water - with the retreat sense the letting go, sense the release of the payoff. You may well know what it is, but even if you do not, let it go. Let it go.

Maybe on the first, or second, or third day you do not really know what the payoffs are, but by the third, fourth and fifth, and in the sixth, and certainly by the last, you can realize what payoffs you are releasing.

And once you have released these payoffs, once you have let them go, your Higher Self will reach into you. Their hand will seem to go right through your skin. They will reach into you to remove something and to throw it away. They will toss it out into the ocean. Splash . . . it goes into the water. It is taken away.

Now, in this sensing, it may take several minutes - two, five, fifteen - when you begin this procedure at the beginning of week three. It depends upon your veracity; it depends upon how thoroughly you work with imagining and with watching the waves. In time, according to your cadence, you can let go of the payoffs.

Then as we say, your Higher Self can reach into you. No matter how vividly or vaguely you sense, them, with the release, your Higher Self can reach inside, remove something, and toss it into the sea.

When they come, with a startled look let yourself see them. They smile at you; they wink. They have taken something out of you. They have taken something out of you that stands in the way - something that is the payoff, in that regard - and they have thrown it away. And you did not even see what it was.

Once they smile and wink at you, they give you something. They give you a gift. It is not a major gift. It is something of clarity - a gift of clarity.

We suggest that you do this meditation for the first six (6) days of this third week. It sounds complicated but the doing is much easier than the reading. A bit of practice also generates great elegance and ease.

The gift of clarity may be the same every day or it may be different every day. Either way, it is a point of focus. It is something to pay attention to, something to look at, and it is something that speaks to your resistance. It speaks to the resistance that is holding you back from the clarity - from receiving more clear and helpful answers - in meditation.

Do this for six days; the seventh day is a little different. On the seventh day, there again, you release the payoffs, as you have done before. Higher Self reaches in, pulls something out, and tosses it into the water as before. This time they do not give you a gift of clarity.

On this seventh day of week number three, your Higher Self gives you a permanent gift. It is a gift that you can use to allow those clearer answers. You can use it to receive more helpful, more valuable, answers in your meditation.

It could be an obvious symbol such as a pair of glasses or a hearing aid. It could be ear drops or eye drops to improve hearing and seeing. It may be a less obvious symbol or metaphor: it could be a special cloth that you place over your face. It could be a crystal or some other gem, precious or semi-precious.

During the first six days, the gift or gifts of clarity are temporary. On the seventh day, it is a permanent gift. Receive. Receive this gift by using it in your meditations. Do not just accept in the seventh meditation of this week; begin to use this gift in other meditations - in meditations where you seek those clear answers, those correct answers, and the helpful valuable insight.

The final week: This week's activity is to work. Work with the gift and what you have learned during the previous weeks. Do not necessarily return to the same beach, or to do the first week or second week activities. Use what you have learned by going about your normal meditative regimen. In other words, if you go to your safe place of your Inner World to do your work or if you have a special meeting place, go about your meditative activity there. Perhaps you work with the Causal Plane or the Underworld. Allow yourself your normal habitat.

We do ask that you work with four groups of questions during this week. Ask some questions of yourself each day during this final week of activity.

1. During each of the previous three weeks, something unknown came up. During the first week, something unknown bubbled up in your brain. During the second week, something . . . ping . . . dripped the last drop. During the third week, your Higher Self removed something and tossed it into the water. What were these things? Each day ask yourself while in meditation. Each day you may get the same answer; each day you may get different answers, but each day ask the question about what was that unknown.

The first answers to seek with clarity are: what was that something, what was that something week number one, two, and three. What dripped out of you? What flushed out of you? What was lifted out of you and thrown away?

2. Ask for a word.. . . ask your Higher Self to give you a word each day. Ask, "Today I want a word, a word that is going to help my day be more magical, a word that is going to help me to have a more fun day, a more successful day." Obviously if you are doing a meditation late at night, then a word for tomorrow. But "I want a word for the day to be more magical." Every day for seven days.

3. Also ask your Higher Self for a specific feeling or a particular visualization that will generate a more successful day. Again, ask this every day. It may be the same day after day, but it may well be different, too. Do not assume. Once you receive the feeling to feel or the visualization to see, of course, let yourself do it - work with it - each day.

4. Finally, also ask yourself, "What can I do to create _____" and then you fill in the blank with whatever it is you want, more successfully. "What can I do to create _______ more successfully."

Demand an answer that will come in picture, or in word, or fragments of word, or pieces of a puzzle. Demand an answer that you can understand. Be open to its symbols and metaphors, but demand an answer that you can understand and use. Then use it.

Now if you ask these four questions every day, every day for the seven, you have conditioned yourself such that subsequent to that, though you may not need to ask these same questions, the questions you do ask will receive more clear, more precise, more valuable, answers.

As you work with these specific techniques in each of these seven day periods of time, these four seven day periods - twenty-eight days - we would suggest that indeed you will allow yourself clearer, more valuable, more helpful answers to come in your meditation, that you subsequently can pull out of your meditation.

As you complete these activities, you will not only find greater clarity, you will find greater depth, greater insights, and more profound meditations overall. Not only can you bring more magic and more magical answers from your meditations, your meditations themselves can become vibrant with more magic within them. They can become brighter and brighter; they can become brilliant.

We love you. As long as there is light - and the light is forever - we shall love you. It has been wonderful to have this chance to connect - to connect with you once again.

We close with love and peace.

-- Lazaris

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