Deepak Chopra recently offered a free 14-day online meditation series, Secrets of Meditation (purchase here), that takes about 15 minutes each day. You may keep a daily journal that you can copy paste to a computer file for later reference (highly recommended for those who want to follow their own changes). This series is great for beginning to advanced students!
This series of meditations demonstrates the importance of slowing down the pace of our lives to breathe, pause, listen and become our true selves once more. All we need is within us. Dr. Chopra reminds us how easy and natural it is to access our true selves and experience our interconnection to All That Is.
The 14 day series is as follows:
- Stress reduction (deep breathing with attention on the breath)
- Your inner universe (build a better life and understand your place in the universe)
- Being present (slow down and pay attention)
- A matter of practice (live everyday as if you are whole)
- Introducing mantras (expand non-local consciousness)
- The monkey mind (release external distractions)
- Find your true self (awareness)
- Letting go of your ego (release conditioning)
- Living in Your NOW (mindfulness)
- I AM (an instrument of thought)
- The Real You (arises from your heart)
- Fight or flight (releasing stress)
- Subtle Action (feel the feelings as if the desired outcome has manifested)
- Shadow Energies (find the switch to turn off negative programming)
The key is to look within for the fulfillment you seek. You are the expert on you! Find a way to make time for you - perhaps a few minutes a day or a hour on the weekend, one lunch break during the week. Walk where nature caresses your senses. Ask your self important questions and allow your feelings to bring forth the answers.
There are many accounts of ascended masters (including Paramahansa Yogananda, Jesus the Christ and Babaji) with various interpretations as to true meaning.
Lee Carroll distilled it into six attributes of mastery, which refers to being a clear channel of the Creative Source and healer.
- Own/believe that you are a piece of God (e.g., Creative Source).
- Fall in love with all life (understand, respect and see the systems in play).
- Look in the mirror and love what you see (that which is eternal).
- Forgive those who have hurt you (throw it away!).
- Love God with all your heart.
- Take everything in the first five attributes and give it to someone else (send light to the planet).
You might ask, So, how do I get there? You have to recalibrate yourself! Sit with yourself and analyze what you have to change. Take stock of who you are. Ask difficult questions:
- What do I fear?
- Do I feed my ego?
- What am I angry about?
- Can I stop reacting to what is going on around me?
- What do I judge?
Now, pull in solutions to impossible problems discovered through the questions. Give intent for what you desire: Dear Spirit, I wish to have the solution to the problem in front of me, the ones to follow that I don’t know about and ways I cannot conceive, and I trust Spirit for this.
Implement changes with mindfulness moment-to-moment and day-to-day. As fear, ego, anger, drama and judgment dissolve from your experience, your vibration rises and you experience greater joy...love...connection to the Creative Source. This is evolvement!
