Meditation / Visualization for Awakening

If you find yourself wanting a practice that can help shift your perspective and relationship with this reality, or to help you work through things happening in your life, then give this practice a go.

1. Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down.
2. Close your eyes and breathe deeply a few times, bringing your focus to your heart as you do so.
3. As you continue breathing, visualize all of the things that have been in your consciousness and on your mind lately or all of your experiences as little scenes, existing in bubbles or clear glass spheres floating around above your head. See them there, each in their own “sphere world” noticing a few, “oh yes, there’s that thing that happened that bothered me, and there’s that other thing that I’m hoping for, and there are my kids, and there’s that thing that’s happening out in the world, and there is my worry about that other thing, and there is that nice thing that happened” and so on, briefly acknowledging a few of them but not lingering on any.
4. As you visualize these floating spheres that contain these aspects of your life, continue to breathe and also maintain an awareness of your heart center. You can place a hand on your chest to help you if you’d like.
5. Slowly, as you continue to breathe, when you are ready, begin to visualize the spheres at more of a distance from you. Watch them and see as there is a little world happening in each one. For example, maybe you see a scene of your children interacting with each other, or you see a reenactment of what happened with your boss the other day in another one. Acknowledge them as happening there, separate from you.
6. Let them all continue to float a little higher away from you above your head, and then, as they remain floating above you, bring more of your focus back to you and your heart. Gently wonder, “Who am I now that all of these things are no longer with me. Who am I without them?”
7. Feel into your own energy, your own spirit, your own soul, your own essence, your own being. Ask yourself, “Who am I really?”
8. Sit with the feeling of this and anything else that arises.
9. When you are ready, in your mind, lovingly look at all the floating spheres as things that are a part of your experience here, but that are not who you are. Mentally collect them into a lovely little pouch that hangs by your waist side.
10. Take a few more breaths with your hand on your heart, and when you are ready, open your eyes with a shifted perspective from where you started.

A lot can happen in this practice and it can serve different purposes. For just a few examples: It can be used to help someone process feelings about something going on in their life from a higher perspective. It can help a person begin to detach and shift their relationship with the material world. It can help people remember who they really are, outside of societal conditioning.

Take good care of yourself after this practice, reminding yourself how precious you are at the close of it, and always treating yourself like the treasure you are.