10 Step Method for Spiritual Exercises
1. Find a quiet place with low lighting and a comfortable chair to sit in. It’s best not to listen to music while doing spiritual exercises (although it’s fine to listen to music while getting ready to start).
2. Sit upright, if possible, and close your eyes.
3. Call yourself forward into the Light for the highest good, and ask for protection and guidance during your spiritual exercises.
4. Chant the Hu (pronounced H-U or hue) or the Ani-Hu (pronounced AHN-EYE-HUE), which are sacred names of God. It’s preferable to do this inwardly (silently).
5. While chanting, focus your attention in the area near the center of the head directly back from your forehead. It is in this place that the Soul has its seat and the Soul energy gathers.
6. After you have chanted for about five minutes, stop and listen within. You are listening for the Sound Current (explained below), which is very subtle. You may hear it the first time you do this, or it may take years of practice. It is a very individual matter.
7. If you find your mind wandering and you lose the focus of listening, you can focus the mind by chanting again.
8. After about five minutes of listening, you can either continue to listen and look inside or return to chanting again. The times are approximate, of course, the idea is to spend time in spiritual exercises doing both chanting and listening.
9. If you see the color purple coming from the right or center of your head, you can allow yourself to follow this inwardly, for this is a form taken by the energy from the highest source of Light and Sound when it is awakening people to an awareness of their Soul. If the color (or any other form) is coming from the left side, we advise not following it because this is often a negative or deceptive influence. (All this applies to seeing inwardly.)
10. After about five minutes more, you can open your eyes. You may want to wiggle your fingers and toes to bring the energy back into your physical body. And so ends your fifteen-minute session of spiritual exercises.
Through daily practice, you can gradually build on this time period until you reach the recommended time of two hours a day. For longer periods of spiritual exercises, you can expand the time for chanting and listening to fifteen minutes each. For example, in an hour session of spiritual exercises, you can chant for fifteen minutes, listen for fifteen minutes, and then repeat the chanting-and-listening cycle one more time.
Something to Remember:
All of the above are only guidelines, so you can experiment with how you do spiritual exercises, using what works for you at a particular time and not getting attached to a certain form. And, again, the focus is on doing your spiritual exercises with as much loving and devotion to God as you can.
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2. Sit upright, if possible, and close your eyes.
3. Call yourself forward into the Light for the highest good, and ask for protection and guidance during your spiritual exercises.
4. Chant the Hu (pronounced H-U or hue) or the Ani-Hu (pronounced AHN-EYE-HUE), which are sacred names of God. It’s preferable to do this inwardly (silently).
5. While chanting, focus your attention in the area near the center of the head directly back from your forehead. It is in this place that the Soul has its seat and the Soul energy gathers.
6. After you have chanted for about five minutes, stop and listen within. You are listening for the Sound Current (explained below), which is very subtle. You may hear it the first time you do this, or it may take years of practice. It is a very individual matter.
7. If you find your mind wandering and you lose the focus of listening, you can focus the mind by chanting again.
8. After about five minutes of listening, you can either continue to listen and look inside or return to chanting again. The times are approximate, of course, the idea is to spend time in spiritual exercises doing both chanting and listening.
9. If you see the color purple coming from the right or center of your head, you can allow yourself to follow this inwardly, for this is a form taken by the energy from the highest source of Light and Sound when it is awakening people to an awareness of their Soul. If the color (or any other form) is coming from the left side, we advise not following it because this is often a negative or deceptive influence. (All this applies to seeing inwardly.)
10. After about five minutes more, you can open your eyes. You may want to wiggle your fingers and toes to bring the energy back into your physical body. And so ends your fifteen-minute session of spiritual exercises.
Through daily practice, you can gradually build on this time period until you reach the recommended time of two hours a day. For longer periods of spiritual exercises, you can expand the time for chanting and listening to fifteen minutes each. For example, in an hour session of spiritual exercises, you can chant for fifteen minutes, listen for fifteen minutes, and then repeat the chanting-and-listening cycle one more time.
Something to Remember:
All of the above are only guidelines, so you can experiment with how you do spiritual exercises, using what works for you at a particular time and not getting attached to a certain form. And, again, the focus is on doing your spiritual exercises with as much loving and devotion to God as you can.
- See more at: http://msiaonlineclasses.org/meditation-classes/-a-10-step-method/#sthash.xM5Trt2y.dpuf
“You are the Light. You are divine. You are in a state of becoming aware of what you already are. In your spiritual quest, look for love in all things.” -John-Roger