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| MEDITATIONS FOR RAIN FOR AUCKLAND'S WATER STORAGE LAKES |
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INTRODUCTION Thank you for taking an interest in helping to end our water shortage crisis through the power of meditation. Of course, I only intend you to use these meditations in addition to all the conservation measures you are taking with your water usage. It is a spiritual truth that strongly held thoughts are very powerful. At the moment, many people's strongly held thoughts are of drought and crisis, and the spiritual teachings about the power of thought make it obvious that such thoughts only worsen the situation. Have you noticed on the weather reports how sometimes rain is falling elsewhere, yet seems to be 'deliberately' avoiding Auckland? We all need to change our thoughts as quickly as possible to powerful thoughts of, and faith in, rain and normal water supplies. This is where meditation can help, because it involves a deliberate concentration of the power of thought on the desired solution. I'd like to give you one small example from my own experience, of the power of meditation to affect and influence our physical world. In the past, I ran many meditation groups, but one stands out in my memory for this particular reason. At that time, I lived in a house where we had dimmer switches on the lounge lights. My meditation group was in the lounge, with the lights turned down low as usual, and I was leading them in a meditation in which I took them into a pyramid. At this point, to my amazement, the lights began to pulse, getting brighter and dimmer over and over again, without anyone touching the switch. This unexpected effect continued until the meditation was over and then it too stopped. As you can imagine, it was the talking point of the group for ages! These meditations can be done in one of several ways. You can do them by yourself. Learn the relaxation technique, and the main theme of the meditation you want to try. Make sure you will not be disturbed. Sit in a very comfortable position, or you could lie down if you are sure you won't fall asleep, relax in the manner described, and then continue with the meditation of your choice. Alternatively, you could speak the relaxation instructions and your chosen meditation onto a tape, with quiet music in the background if you find that helpful, perhaps even one of those tapes which has the sound of a waterfall, or rain, in with the music! Then choose a quiet time and place where you won't be disturbed, and play the tape, following along with it. Be sure to go slowly with your recording leaving plenty of long pauses where necessary. Another possibility is to arrange for a group of people to meditate together, with one person giving the instructions, and everyone else following along and actually doing the chosen meditation. Again, the person giving the instructions needs to go slowly, using a calm, pleasant voice, with plenty of long pauses, where the meditators need them, to fully develop the meditation. Feel free to adapt the relaxation technique to suit yourself, or to alter the meditations if you wish - you know your own capabilities and preferences best. RELAXATION FOR ALL MEDITATIONS To put yourself in the best possible state to meditate, follow these relaxation techniques at the beginning of each meditation session. Sitting or lying comfortably with your eyes closed, begin with a general statement, "My body is comfortable and relaxed and begins to go deeper and deeper into a deep relaxation." Incorporate any sounds, or music, you are hearing, "The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me more and more relaxed." Incorporate any patterns or pictures you are seeing in front of your closed eyes, "The patterns (or pictures) I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me more and more relaxed." Also add this instruction. "If I am disturbed, or if I must interrupt this meditation for any reason, I will come back to full waking consciousness quickly and comfortably, and deal appropriately with the situation." Now pay attention to your left foot, tense it up, then let it go completely limp. Tense your left calf muscle, then let it go completely limp. Tense your left thigh muscle, then let it go completely limp. Enjoy the feeling of complete relaxation in your left leg. Then pay attention to any sounds you are hearing and remind yourself, "The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me even more relaxed." Notice any patterns or pictures in front of your closed eyes, and remind yourself, 'The patterns and pictures I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me even more relaxed." Now pay attention to your right foot, tense it up, then let it go completely limp. Tense your right calf muscle, then let it go completely limp. Tense your right thigh muscle, then let it go completely limp. Enjoy the feeling of complete relaxation in your right leg. Then pay attention to any sounds you are hearing and remind yourself, "The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me even more relaxed." Notice any patterns or pictures in front of your closed eyes, and remind yourself, 'The patterns and pictures I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me even more relaxed." Now pay attention to your left hand, tense it up, then let it go completely limp. Tense your left arm, then let it go completely limp. Enjoy the feeling of complete relaxation in your left arm. Then pay attention to any sounds you are hearing and remind yourself, "The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me even more relaxed." Notice any patterns or pictures in front of your closed eyes, and remind yourself, "The patterns and pictures I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me even more relaxed." Now pay attention to your right hand, tense it up, then let it go completely limp. Tense your right arm, then let it go completely limp. Enjoy the feeling of complete relaxation in your right arm. Then pay attention to any sounds you are hearing and remind yourself, 'The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me even more relaxed." Notice any patterns or pictures in front of your closed eyes, and remind yourself, "The patterns and pictures I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me even more relaxed." Now pay attention to your buttocks. Tense them up, then let them go completely limp. Tense all the muscles in your back, then let them go completely limp. Tense all the muscles in your stomach, then let them go completely limp. Tense the muscles in your chest and shoulders and let them go completely limp. Enjoy the feeling of deep relaxation in your whole body. Then pay attention to any sounds you are hearing and remind yourself, "The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me even more relaxed." Notice any patterns or pictures in front of your closed eyes, and remind yourself, "The patterns and pictures I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me even more relaxed." Now pay attention to your face. Tense all the muscles in your face, then let them go completely limp. Tense all the muscles in your scalp, then let them go completely limp. Tense all the muscles in your neck, then let them go completely limp. Enjoy the feeling of deep relaxation in your whole head. Then pay attention to any sounds you are hearing and remind yourself, "The sounds I am hearing flow through me, making me even more relaxed." Notice any patterns or pictures in front of your closed eyes, and remind yourself, 'The patterns and pictures I am seeing float in front of my eyes, making me even more relaxed." You are now in a state of deep relaxation. Gently pay attention to your whole body, relaxing any muscle that still has some tension in it. Enjoy the feeling of deep, deep, relaxation. Now begin the meditation of your choice. THE FIRST MEDITATION. STANDING BY THE LAKE, IN THE RAIN. This meditation is the most straightforward, and will probably be similar to others you have done, if you are used to meditating. For that reason, it will have the most immediate value, as you will quickly be able to develop a strong focus in the important levels of thought and influence. This is why I have put it first. When you are completely relaxed, using the relaxation technique, begin this meditation here. Remember to pause long enough to develop each part, in places this may need several minutes, or longer. You are enjoying being completely relaxed in your body, with your eyes closed. Now, in your mind, imagine you are floating out of your body, floating gently across to the nearest window, passing through the glass with ease and comfort, and floating high up into the sky. Imagine that you are flying now, flying through the air until you are above one of Auckland's water storage lakes. Look for a good place to land near the lake and fly gently down and stand beside the lake. Become aware of the feeling of the ground under your feet. Listen to the sound of the lake water, and to the sounds of birds and insects in the bush nearby. Imagine that the sky is filling up with big, low clouds, heavy with rain, and as you watch, the rain begins to pour out of the clouds, drenching the trees and the ground, and splattering on the lake surface. Listen to the sounds of the rain as it patters onto the lake surface, and drips off the trees. Imagine that you are lifting your face up to the sky and feel the rain splashing on your face. Immerse yourself in the experience of watching, listening to, and feeling the rain as it pours down, steadily and reliably filling up the lake. When you are ready, imagine you are lifting up from the ground and flying back to your starting place, back through the window and back into your body. Now you are comfortably back in your body, remember, as if you are seeing it on a screen, the big, low clouds over the lake and the rain pouring down. Imagine that the picture is speeding up, so that as you watch, the lake rapidly gets fuller and fuller of water until it is so full that you feel satisfied and safe with all the water available for the city. Holding that feeling, let the picture go. Return your attention to your relaxed body. Begin to move gently, open your eyes, and return to full waking consciousness. BECOMING THE LAKE AND SURROUNDING AREA, ENTITLED TO RAIN. This meditation begins in the same way as the previous one. However the alteration of consciousness involved is more profound and expansive. When you are completely relaxed, using the relaxation technique, begin this meditation here. Remember to pause long enough to develop each part, in places this may need several minutes, or longer. You are enjoying being completely relaxed in your body, with your eyes closed. Now, in your mind, imagine you are floating out of your body, floating gently across to the nearest window, passing through the glass with ease and comfort, and floating high up into the sky. Imagine that you are flying now, flying through the air until you are above one of Auckland's water storage lakes. As you hover there in the air gently allow and encourage your consciousness to expand like a cloud, light and vaporous, bigger and bigger, until your consciousness is as big as the entire area of the lake and the bush surrounding it. Now gently allow your huge cloudlike consciousness to float down and into the lake and the surrounding land, becoming a part of the water and the ground and every tree and plant. As your consciousness merges with the ground, notice the sensations of being one with the ground, feeling the textures of rock and soil and roots. As your consciousness merges with the lake, notice the sensations of being one with the water, the ripples and motion, the movement of rivers and streams flowing in, the contact of water and ground. As your consciousness merges with the trees and plants, notice the sensations of living and growing here, the roots in the ground, the leaves in the air. Begin to notice the emotional tone of the trees and plants you are merging with, the loving, trusting, acquiescence with life, the connectedness with all the other trees and plants and with the ground and the streams and rivers and the lake. Allow your attention to go from ground to lake to plants until you have brought your consciousness as fully as possible into this experience. Now you are one with the lake and the surrounding area, begin to notice how the trees and plants trust and expect that it will rain and bring them the water they need. They do not need to ask for rain, they know it is their right, and that rain will come. Allow that trust to flow into your awareness, and amplify it, so that you have a huge trust and expectation that rain will fall and that you have a right to the rain. As you do so, notice how clouds are gathering, and rain does indeed begin to fall. Notice how the rain feels where your consciousness is merged with the ground. Notice how the rain feels where your consciousness is merged with the lake. Notice how the rain feels where your consciousness is merged with the trees and plants. Enjoy the natural pleasures of being a part of the Earth where rain is falling. Take as long as you wish. When you are ready, allow your huge cloudlike consciousness to lift up into the sky, leaving behind the ground and the lake and the trees and plants. Gather your consciousness back in to the shape you recognise as yourself. Then fly back to your starting place, back through the window and back into your body. Now you are comfortably back in your body, begin gently to move and stretch, open your eyes, and bring yourself back to full waking consciousness. USING THE POWER OF BLESSINGS TO HELP HEAL THE CRISIS There is another aspect of the spiritual teachings which can be used to help heal any situation. It begins with the understanding that God is Good, entirely and completely, and that therefore all that God has created is good in its most basic essence, at its Divine Level, and also that God always works to bring good out of any situation, no matter how disastrous it looks on the surface. The power of blessings activates the Omnipresent Good in any situation or person, first by acting on the assumption that it is there, no matter how things look, and secondly by calling it out and expecting it to be active. Blessings are a powerful tool for change and healing. When you are completely relaxed, using the relaxation technique, begin this meditation here. Remember to pause long enough to develop each part, in places this may need several minutes, or longer. You are enjoying being completely relaxed in your body, with your eyes closed. Now, in your mind, dwell reverently on thoughts of God's Goodness and Love and Power. (If you wish, you can imagine yourself in a church, temple, or other place set aside for spiritual contemplation.) Fill your mind with these reverent thoughts. Feel yourself to be in harmony with this Divine Goodness, Love and Power. Ask God to bless, with full Power and Divine Results, everything and everyone you now name and bless. Holding onto feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, bring in now, thoughts of the water that comes out of your taps. Mentally affirm, powerfully, "I bless the water that comes out of the taps and I bless the plumbing for all the Divine Goodness that is in them and for all the Divine Goodness they bring into my life." Repeat the blessing until you really feel aware of the Divine Goodness in the water and the plumbing, and really feel appreciative of all the Divine Goodness they bring into your life. Return to feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, rest in them for a moment, then bring in thoughts of the water storage lakes. Mentally affirm, powerfully, "I bless the water storage lakes for all the Divine Goodness that is in them and for all the Divine Goodness they bring into my life." Repeat the blessing until you really feel aware of the Divine Goodness in the lakes and really feel appreciative of all the Divine Goodness they bring into your life. Return to feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, rest in them for a moment, then bring in thoughts of the rain. Mentally affirm, powerfully, "I bless the rain for all the Divine Goodness that is in it and for all the Divine Goodness it brings into my life." Repeat the blessing until you really feel aware of the Divine Goodness in the rain and really feel appreciative of all the Divine Goodness it brings into your life. Return to feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, rest in them for a moment, then bring in thoughts of the city councils. Mentally affirm, powerfully, "I bless the city councils for all the Divine Goodness that is in them and for all the Divine Goodness they bring into my life. I bless them for all the Divine Goodness they bring to this crisis." Repeat the blessing until you really feel aware of the Divine Goodness in the councils and really feel appreciative of all the Divine Goodness they bring into your life and to this crisis. Return to feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, rest in them for a moment, then bring in thoughts of Watercare. Mentally affirm, powerfully, "I bless Watercare for all the Divine Goodness that is in it and for all the Divine Goodness it brings into my life and for all the Divine Goodness it brings to this crisis." Repeat the blessing until you really feel aware of the Divine Goodness in Watercare and really feel appreciative of all the Divine Goodness it brings into your life and into this crisis. Return to feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, rest in them for a moment, then bring in thoughts of the entire area of Auckland, its cities and suburbs and all the people in them. Mentally affirm, powerfully, "I bless the entire area of Auckland, its cities and suburbs and all the people in them for all the Divine Goodness that is in them and for all the Divine Goodness they bring into my life. I bless them for all the Divine Goodness they bring to this crisis." Repeat the blessing until you really feel aware of the Divine Goodness in all of Auckland and all of the people and really feel appreciative of all the Divine Goodness they bring into your life and to this crisis. Return to feelings of harmony with the Divine Level, rest in them for a moment, then holding onto those warm feelings of harmony with God's Goodness, Love and Power, return your attention gently to your relaxed body, with your eyes closed, comfortable and breathing easily. Begin to move gently, open your eyes now, and bring yourself back to full waking consciousness. FINAL NOTES I hope you will actually do some of these meditations, however even reading them will help turn your mind to thoughts of rain and the lakes filling up, and everything and everyone helping to heal and end the crisis. Please continue with all your conservation measures, however each time you use water, affirm "Heavy rain is falling and rapidly filling up our water storage lakes." You could pin notices up to this effect wherever water is used, to help you remember. If you imagine, vividly, a picture of the lake filling up rapidly with the heavy rain, just for a moment, that will help too. This is sensible and proper use of positive thinking. Each person who is involved in the crisis will have a personal reason for their involvement. It will be useful to you to try to work out what it means to you. What does rain symbolise? In which part of your psychological life has there been a drought? What do you believe about cities and councils and other people? If this crisis were happening to you in a dream, how would you interpret that dream? The answers to these questions will help you see how to move out of your personal involvement with the crisis. Throughout this publication, I have used spiritual concepts and understandings which are very familiar to me. If they are new or strange to you, then I apologise for not explaining them more thoroughly, but I simply wanted to get these meditations out as quickly as possible. I assure you that the concepts I have used have taken me safely into the Inner Realms and back again on many thousands of occasions, so they can be trusted. However if any of them do not feel right to you, then don't do that meditation. I would be very interested to know how you get on with these meditations, and what adventures you have while doing them. |
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