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It is easy to do. Simply find a quiet place and go within. When you are comfortable and your body is completely relaxed, draw your attention to the dark inner screen behind your eyes and see yourself in a place of great beauty, a place you love.
Feel why this is your special place, and embrace these feelings. Holding them in your heart, decide on your ideal: it could be a single word, like love, joy or healing, or a sentence like "Be still and know that I am God," or "I surrender to the Source of my good." Use any phrase that seems meaningful and right to you.
When your thoughts wander, draw them back to the words of your ideal. Let it be your anchor, but not just the words. Try to feel and experience your ideal (which serves as a mantra).
If your busy mind drifts away, bring it back to your ideal. If your thoughts do not slow at all and seem to speed up, but you want to stay in meditation, return to the colors, shapes, textures and forms in your imaged place of beauty and relax into them; as your thoughts slow, return to the words, feeling and experience of your ideal.
Gradually, your thoughts will drift away and your meditation will deepen. In this attunement, many people sense a luminous presence and feel united with goodness and all of life. In deeper meditations, you may receive a message, or some kind of knowledge or wisdom needed for your growth and happiness.
This feels like and is a gift. So is the experience of quiet listening and attunement with the Source. We emerge with a keener clarity of mind, a sense of inner peace, creative solutions to challenges, and the inner strength and resources needed to cope with whatever comes our way.
You can consciously ask for wisdom or guidance. Simply request help and allow it to appear in some form--a symbolic shape, a word or phrase, or an animal, angel, teacher or guide.
Stay focused and wait patiently. If help comes to you, remember what occurred and write it down after your meditation is over. If nothing special occurs except a calmer, deeper sense of relaxation, then close with gratitude for this, open your eyes, wiggle your fingers and toes, and return to ordinary consciousness. Your guidance will appear in some other form: perhaps in a casual comment made by a stranger or a friend, perhaps in a movie-like dream, a meaningful coincidence or a pattern of them.
With the asking, you have embarked upon the higher road of your destiny and your life's greatest blossoming. This is the promise of the Source, the Creative Force that makes itself available in infinite ways for our healing and growth.
You can strengthen this energy in your body, mind and spirit by adding healing prayers for other people: at the end of your meditations, simply say their names or envision them. Depending on what your inner knowing tells you, either infill or surround each person with loving light. Notice how this loving prayerfulness changes your own life for the better.
Over time, you can measure the success of your meditations. You should experience more peace, healing, growth and joy in your life, and it will radiate from you into the lives you touch. Others may not visibly change for the better, but you will notice a qualitative difference in every aspect of your own life.
You are blessed in your journey. May love, the excitement of discovery and your chosen ideal guide you every step of the way until you reach the mountaintop, take flight and soar like the freedom-loving eagle, able to see even the tiniest things with a heart as big as the world.
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