2012 Farewell – Inviting Grace Meditation
It’s post Christmas time – a very festive, yet introspective moment of the year when we practice gratitude and release. Gratitude because there were so many rewards and opportunities throughout the year, things we bypassed and forgot to acknowledge. Release because we need to make space for the New Year’s intentions to flourish by letting go of the past. Seldom, we forget what we have accomplished. We forget the good things that have happened to us, the ways we’ve come closer to other people and our true self. And just as we lose the positive moments we often bury our discomfort about charged or difficult moments. We beat ourselves trying to justify, or find a culprit other than us to blame. This process of recapitulation is a formal looking back at the great hits or flops of our recent past. It is a process when we bring to mind any baggage we’re carrying and anything that could subtly stand in the way of our intention.
Take a moment to scroll through your mental list of emotionally charged moments you can recall from the past year. The things you’d accomplished, the challenges you faced. Recall actions that made you happy, moments that felt special. Then scan the actions or words you regretted, moments of conflict, behavior that had let to your own or other people’s suffering; incidents where you felt hurt or angry because of another person’s actions. Take a moment to dredge up memories of times you hadn’t lived up to your best self. Give yourself the chance to feel happy about the positive things and regretful about the mistakes. Avoid brooding on the mistakes, simple acknowledge them and make a conscious effort to put them in your self-correcting register. Recapitulation is the precursor to letting of the negativity and self-judgment embedded in the memories and actions we deny or regret. Then symbolically toss this virtual list into a blazing fire. As you watch the flames emblaze the list feel a sense of relief and consider your intentions for the year to come. Use the yogic formula: “How do I want to live my life?” “What qualities in my life would I like to bring forth?” “What would I like to share with and contribute to the world?” Or create your own affirmative questions and pose them to yourself. Once you’ve voiced your inquiry you have weeded out your field and made it fertile for setting your intentions.
Projecting our intentions in space helps gain more clarity into what we want to accomplish without necessarily attaching to the way in which we should obtain it. Working on the physics of manifestation is learning how to vibrate with our divine blueprint. The secret to this law of attraction is balancing the targeted focus with the practice of appreciation and letting go. Like attracts like, so we need to focus on what we really want, not the opposite. The universe doesn’t make a difference between positive and negative projections. If you fear something dreadfully, the universe might pick it up and multiply this fear exponentially. The best way to avoid this confusion is to practice gratitude. As we feel grateful for what we already have we learn to trust the natural coherence of things, surrendering the idea of trying to fix things a certain way. Once we let go of the attachments of the desired outcome we can sit back and marvel the extraordinary dance of manifestation. It’s magical because eventually we always get what we project, not necessarily when we want it, but when the divine clock times it for us.
Find a moment for your practice of recapitulation. When you gain clarity into the next stage of your life, abandon the arrow of intention which you have shot in space immerse yourself into journey into Grace with this special Yogea meditation.
Find a moment for your practice of recapitulation. When you gain clarity into the next stage of your life, abandon the arrow of intention which you have shot in space immerse yourself into journey into Grace with this special Yogea meditation.
Yogea Meditation: Inviting Grace
This Yogea meditation practice focuses on clarity and release. As we morph the boundaries between self and other, between expectations and simple abiding we venture into the parallel realms of voluntary will and graceful surrender. The meditation elicits the parasympathetic nervous system response, stimulating the pineal and pituitary glands to spark insight and induce a state of revelation and initiatory purpose. Feelings of compassion and forgiveness release deeply embedded remorse or regret and open the gateway to faith and Grace.
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