Last month we looked at how difficult it can be to face change; something we are all having to do at the moment. Now we will begin to explore how becoming more conscious might help us to cope.
One way of becoming more conscious is to travel into the core of ourselves and discover who we really are rather than who we have been programmed to be.
I have therefore devised a number of journey-meditations to help us go on this journey, so make yourself comfortable and let’s start by travelling back to the beginning of time when everything began…
Once upon a dream, every-thing simply was. There was no-thing, no-one and no-where. No form or light, only darkness and void. No thought, no doing, only being and spirit. No light and no sound. Only Being. Only Spirit…
Image by Jakub Sofranco – Unsplash
Eventually, Beingness decided that it wanted to know itself. So it divided into two so that it could have a relationship with itself. Collecting itself together in a huge in-breath, Spirit breathed out…
Image by WikiImages – Pixabay
The sound this made caused a rapidly expanding balloon of energy to be flung outwards in a colossal movement, making friction, heat and fire…
Image by WikiImages – Pixabay
…boiling energy and sound in a giant, universal cauldron until fire joined with Spirit to create light, matter, gravity and galaxies…
Photo by Arnaud Mariat on Unsplash
Image by Comfreak – Pixabay
… until air and water were created and, with all elements in place – Spirit, Fire, Air, and Water – Earth was born…
Image by Gerd Altmann – Pixabay
Rain began to fall onto Earth’s body, cooling her skin to a thin crust. When the rain didn’t stop, the giant outpouring created seas and oceans, rivers and lakes, streams and ponds and puddles…
Image by Nasa – Unsplash
…while up in the sky, an arc appeared like a bridge between heaven and earth: a doorway into another world: a gift of colour from the skies…
Image by Роман Бойцов – Pixabay
And so the dream turns into reality deep in the core of us. We are all joined together in a colossal ocean of being and it is from this ocean that we each emerge as a tiny raindrop, with a separate skin and yet part of the whole.
Image by Michael Ross – Pixabay
We are all of this. The outside is a giant reflection of us on the inside: spirit and matter, the same and individual, deep as an ocean and yet also with a crusty surface. Light is in our hearts, minds and bodies, just as shadow is in our hearts, minds and bodies. We are creation. We are all. We are nothing.
So, safe in this fathomless experience, float gently back to the surface and, in your own time, take three deep breaths to ground yourself back into the present.
Image by Stefan Keller – Pixabay
I hope you have enjoyed this pictorial journey-meditation. I will be a starting a new course of spoken and sung meditation journeys in January on Monday evenings at 7.15pm GMT via Zoom. These can be experienced at the time, or I will send you a recording that you can listen to in your own time. Do email me at laurelle@laurellerond.com if you would like details.
Meanwhile, enjoy journeying back to the centre of yourself. If you travel deeply enough, you will find an entire universe there just waiting to be discovered…
Enjoy October and I look forward to our time together in November when we will embrace the creativity of Mother Earth and the root of our own ability to choose.
Image by Alemko Coksa – Pixabay
Love Laurelle
