Meditation Circle

This Is the Year To Begin A Meditation Circle

How to still the mind? How to focus on nothing? Sounds like an oxymoron, that does. Soft music, guided journeys or vibrational sounds…I’ve tried them all. Nothing was easy. Life constantly intruded.

I always had a deep desire to know more about energy, vibration and spiritual aspects of life but I had little time to explore them. Raising children, working nonstop and paying a constant stream of bills kept me occupied for decades and mainstream religions were dogmas and power structures that held no allure for me.

I did have one practice that made all the difference. Even during that busy period, I sat in a meditation circle every second Friday night. Five women gathered in one home from 7 – 9 pm. It was all I could manage to allocate and even that changed me. Just 2 hours out of 336 devoted to the evolution of my soul made a huge difference.

I still sit in that circle and have created other ones since then as well.   If you’d like to start a meditation circle in your house, just do it. In the kitchen or a dedicated meditation room, on the porch, just do it. Gather a few people together. Sit in a circle. Dim the lights. Light a candle. Begin with a prayer asking for guidance and the protection of the Divine white light. This prayer can be elaborate or simple, it’s the intention that matters.

If you have a Tibetan bowl, a crystal bowl, chimes, recorded music that you like – trust that you’ll be inspired to use the right instrument in the correct way and just have fun with the process. You can chant, sing, hum, do breathing exercises. If there are noises around you – a ticking clock, a loud appliance, the drone of an oxygen machine - you’ll be amazed, when the meditation is over, that you stopped hearing them. Just that will show you that you shifted your awareness from the outer to the inner world.

Close the meditation with a prayer of gratitude. Then allow a few minutes for people to share their experience. There may be no experience. They may have been bored, been thinking of their day and unable to let the mind go, they may have fallen asleep! Yup, this happens.

Just allow it all, stick with it and you’ll see that perceptions will shift and participants will begin to broaden their experience of energy and non-physical realities. If the practice brings clarity and peacefulness, that’s already a lot. If it brings nothing, then nothing is fine too. At least you’ve consciously chosen to dedicate those few moments out of a busy life, to your own precious self.