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Unleash the Power of a Creative Spiritual Practice
An Inner-world Exploration

Your spiritual practice should be eclectic. It should reflect you – what you believe in, what you need in your life right now. However, there are four elements to address as you continue to create and evolve your personal spiritual practice: regular practice, receptive atmosphere, intention and vibrational actions.

Regular practice is the foundation of your spiritual work

The truth is, you can add a bit of spiritual practice anytime, anyplace, but to elevate your awareness and deepen your connection, you need to create and maintain this spiritual practice.

Begin your day with inner work. Whether it’s a sitting meditative practice or an active meditative practice like yoga or Qi Gong, or both, you have control over your mornings, you can get up and stay tuned into yourself and to your inner world.

In the evening, you can add an element of spiritual practice when you move from workday to home. When I learned Transcendental Meditation fifty years ago, it was suggested we meditate 20 minutes upon arriving home in order to make that transition from work to family.

You can create another spiritual practice at bedtime, in gratitude for the day and in preparation for inner work during the night of rest.

Create a receptive atmosphere

For your spiritual practice, choose a place that feels tranquil to you and use it regularly. The energy in that space will build, the vibration will heighten, and the mere space will become a source of serenity and nurturing for you.

Sit on a chair or cross-legged and use a mudra (hand position) of your choosing to center you. Begin with hands lying palm up on your lap, one hand lying on top of the other, your thumbs touching. Experiment with mudras to find what calls to you.

Set an intention for your meditative session

Intention is the most powerful tool we have in all our inner work. It sets our course and is the wind beneath our wings.

What’s the purpose of your period of inner work? To heal? Clarity around a choice or action? To receive guidance from the unseen world? To bless the day or offer gratitude at the day’s end? Perhaps your intention is to raise your vibration or heighten the impact of your illumined service.

Consciously set an intention for every meditative session.

Use the power of vibration to heal and balance

We’re all one vibration. We communicate through vibration. Your spiritual practice can creatively contain many forms of vibration.

Create vocal vibrational sounds

First, simply sit quietly and breathe. Notice your breathing. As you exhale, release any tension or worry. Empty your mind and sit in silent stillness.

Then begin to hum. Whatever note you hum, notice where it vibrates in your body. Try different pitches and see where they resonate. Direct the hum to your hands or feet. Direct the hum to any part of your body that needs balancing. Just hum. Let the melodies simply appear, and experiment with directing the vibration of the tone.

You can focus sound on your chakras for opening and balancing them. You can send sound to the world, or a person or a situation. Take a slow deep breath, set an intention and hum the vibration where you want it to go.

Experiment with vibrational instruments

Find the vibrational instruments that resonate with you. We’re talking drums, flutes, bells, gongs, rattles, clapping your hands, tapping a rhythm on the arm of your chair, toning, chanting. This is where you do the most experimenting.

Create a ceremony that is uniquely yours

A ceremony anchors your intention. Create one that works for you. You might honor the seven directions – East, South, West, North, Above, Below and middle world. I also honor the Stone Clan and Nature. I use a drum and I drum and sing. I see that drum as connecting me to all the worlds.

I have two rain-sticks. I use them to welcome in the blue light of power, the green light of healing and the white light of unconditional love.

I use my small Tibetan gong to send energy to my past, my present and future. I use my Tibetan cymbals to send it to my home, the people of the earth and the planet. I use my rattle to shake around my home and send positive energy to all the crystals and groupings and to my cats and plants.

I give an intention to each vibrational creator I use. Gong, claves, thumb piano, flutes, rattles, bells. Listen to what you’re using and intuitively find its purpose.

The Manifestation Box

I have a lidded raffia box with a wonderful dragon on the front that I use for a manifestation box. On pieces of paper, I write what I want to bring forth. It can be specific physical healing, it can be ideas like wisdom and insight, healing the planet or simply an intention like “raised vibration.” Each day in my spiritual practice I open the box and read the intentions I’ve chosen. With intention send positive energy to the choices you’ve made.

Don’t forget the rocks!

Crystals hold a higher vibration and have guiding messages for you. Whether you hold a rock in your hand or place it on your altar, listen to the message it offers.

My space is a tad full of crystals so I bring a few to the forefront for a week at a time and work with them and listen to their messages and advice and gifts. Hold crystals in your left hand to receive. You may get a sensation in your body for you to interpret or simply pay attention to the thoughts that show up. Learn to hear and interpret the messages of the crystals.

Create vibrational movement

Movement is vibrational. Whether it’s Qi Gong or Yoga or T’ai chi or simply moving in rhythm to a chant, add conscious movement to your spiritual practice. You can also go outside and dance in nature.

Create a sacred altar

In the sacred space you have chosen for your spiritual practice, perhaps you place a simple table or plant stand to hold objects that resonate with you. My “altars” are all around me. One grouping is on the shelf in front of the desk that I sit at a lot. Another altar surface is on a table under the window beside me. I look out the window to play my flute and work with other objects. It also happens to have a great place for some of my drums underneath. There is another low chest near the chair from which I drum and play a lot of my vibrational instruments. And my desk surface itself is full of crystals and sound instruments because this is where I spend most of my time. This is where I sit to take my shamanic journeys because I change and type them in.

Journal

Whether you journal by hand or on the computer, when you write down what you remember from your meditation it makes room for the next layer to be made evident. Journaling also allows you to look back at your progress, or when something major happens, you can identify what you were doing to help that along.

You can journal at the end of the day in reflection and gratitude. You can journal to set your intentions for the day. Record your visions your insights, your inner messages. It brings them more deeply into your awareness.

Checklist for creating a unique and powerful spiritual practice

Regular practice is the foundation of your spiritual work. Pick some times and stick with them.
Create a receptive atmosphere of uninterrupted quiet.
Create vocal vibrational sounds and direct them for healing.
Experiment with vibrational instruments. Create power songs as you play if they offer themselves.
Create a ceremony to begin and end each spiritual session that is uniquely yours.
Don’t forget the rocks!
Create vibration movement.
Create and evolve your unique sacred altar.
Journal for deeper awareness.

Spend your day mindfully

Enter your day with mindfulness. Walk through your day with mindfulness and end your day in mindfulness. Find opportunities to reflect within throughout your day.

Your life is your spiritual practice!!!

Live it mindfully.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I create a spiritual practice that serves the uniqueness of me.

Deeper Song Process

Look at what you do in your spiritual practice now. What are your favorite things to do? Begin there.
Explore some of the ideas above – toning, sound instruments, movements and see what suits you.
Add that.

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

You ARE Vibration and Why it Matters

How to Interpret the Messages from Within

Make Use of Emptiness

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work

Why You May Want to Have an Altar

The Power of a Ceremony of Releasing

The Pillar of Light Process

The Intentional OM HUM

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

The Light Vibration of One

Broaden and Deepen
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The Pillar of Light Process
An Inner-world Exploration

The Pillar of Light Process creates an experience of focused power coming from your own hands. It began with an energy experience I had in a Qi Gong class and has evolved from my intuition and inner guidance.

It began with the image of the Tree of Life

The Tree of Life reminds us of our roots deep in the lower world, our branches touching the upper world and we, in our body suits, expressing those gifts in the middle world. We stand as a connector to all three worlds.

The final result is that you see and feel and experience yourself as a Pillar of Light radiating positive energy out into the world. It is very powerful for balancing both your physical and vibrational body.

The Pillar of Light Process

Become the Tree of Life

Standing, sitting or lying down, feel yourself become a tree standing solidly in the middle world with your roots deep in the ground and your branches touching the sky. Point one hand down toward to the Lower World. Raise the other hand up toward the Upper World. Feel yourself in your body suit standing firmly in the Middle World.

Gather in the energy

Begin to draw energy from the Lower World up into the hand that is pointing down. It will have a color. Simply let it reveal itself.

From your raised hand, begin to draw energy down from the Upper World. It, too, will have a color. It can be any color that shows up. The two colors can be the same or different. Don’t try to put a meaning to it, just notice it. Pull color up through the downward facing hand. Pull color down through the hand reaching up.

Absorb the color for healing

Feel the colors moving in your body, moving within to heal and balance and release and restore. Let your imagination take the light into all parts of your body and your inner world.

When you are ready, bring your hands up so the palms are facing about four inches apart

Here is both the magic and the proof. When you bring your hands together with palms facing about four inches apart, you will feel the heat, the expression of the vibrant energy you are now focusing. Just notice and be amazed.

Bring the energy into your chakras. Affirm your intentions

Turn the palms of your hands toward your face and experience the warmth of the energy coming to you.
Crown chakra – Bring your hands to the tops of your head with the palms facing downward over your crown chakra. Offer an affirmation like “I expand my connection with my higher self.’
Third eye chakra – With palms facing about four inches from the third eye, say “I see clearly within and within”.
Throat chakra – With palms facing the third eye, say “I speak wisely within and without”.
Heart chakra – With palms facing the heart, say “I love deeply, within and without.”
Solar plexus – With palms facing your navel, say “I act with mindfulness, within and without.”
Sexual chakra – With palms facing your reproductive organs, say “I care for my body, within and without.”
Root chakra – With palms pointing toward your root chakra, say “I stand wisely in my illumined service.”

You can change the affirmations and make them your own, but do hold your palms facing your body in order to send energy to each chakra.

Heal Yourself

Spend time now, focusing the healing energy from your hands into any part of your body that needs healing. Spend as much time as you wish. Your intentions will focus the energy’s direction and usage. It can clear, release, strengthen – whatever is needed. And you can also just send the energy to “whatever is causing…”

Add sound

Sound is a very powerful healer so begin to hum with the intention to send the vibration to the places upon which you are focusing the energy from your hands. Experiment with pitch. You can experiment with sounds, but the humming is like singing yourself a healing lullaby.

Raise Your Vibration and Feel Yourself Radiating Light

When you’re ready for closure, place your hands on your heart and allow the healing and restorative energy to flow inward. When you feel full, allow your vibration to radiate out until you feel yourself as a golden light, radiating out positive vibrations. Feel that light move out from you – into your physical space, out into nature, out to the planet, out into space. Feel yourself as a Pillar of Light radiating wholeness.

For that is what you are.

Make the Pillar of Light process your own

Experiment with this idea. Change the affirmations if you like. Make it your own. For a closure, my original intention was to send this energy to the world by opening my palms. But when I did that I realized that I really liked how it was feeling when my palms were focused on me. My powerful “compromise” was to turn one hand out to offer it to the world and keep the other on my heart. What happened was totally unexpected. I felt healing energy coming in from the world through the extended open palm, and at the same time, I became aware that my whole body was vibrating wholeness out into the world.

Closure

To conclude the Pillar of Light process, I bring my palms together about four inches apat and blow between them to send the wholing energy out into the world and to conclude the experience.

Make it your own

I do this process every morning as part of my spiritual practice. Sitting in a chair looking out at nature. I could add it to my morning Qi Gong practice. And I always do it in bed before going to sleep. If I were to add to this, I might hum into each chakra.

You can certainly choose any affirmation you like for each chakra. I made this process up and have experimented with it for a while before sharing it. The core concept is to gather energy from above and below into your hands and use it to heal and whole yourself – to raise your own vibration and send it out to raise the vibration of the world.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I work with the Pillar of Light process and add it to my spiritual practice.

Deeper Song process