SGM Jan. 2017 Weekly Message One: Meditation: “Welcoming the Light!”
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“Welcoming the Light”
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Welcome to our first Spiritual Growth Monthly Weekly Message for 2017. I’m Kevin Schoeninger. Thanks for joining us for another healing, empowering, and enlightening year here at SGM!
What if we approached this year from the perspective that we are all here to evolve our consciousness—both personally and collectively? What each of us does affects all of us. If each of us makes a deeper commitment to our spiritual growth, the collective consciousness of ALL rises. I can think of no more important and worthy endeavor!
To open this year, I’d like to share a guided meditation called “Welcoming the Light.” Those who have been with us for a while may recall this one. Each year I like to re-record it with new insights and energy befitting the year ahead.
In this meditation, we journey to the quantum level of our experience. We explore the Universal Field of Energy, Love, and Light that gives life to us All. The imagery of Energy, Love, and Light gives us a new template for our consciousness to “step into” and “inhabit.” When we experience the light, love, and feeling of connection available on an energetic level, we are naturally filled with a sense of deep inner peace and inspired to fully realize “who we are” and “what we are here to do.”
I believe that experiencing ourselves as part of this One Life we all share is what we are all here to do. I think you’ll find this meditation deeply soothing, energizing, and inspiring.
You can follow along with the guided audio in Part B of the recording above.
Enjoy!
“Welcoming the Light”
If you will, please join me in sitting forward on the front edge of a seat, so your hips are level with or slightly above your knees and the soles of your feet are flat on the floor and parallel with each other. Sit far enough forward so you feel some weight in your feet.
Rest your hands, palms cupped, one resting in the other, in your lap, in a receptive posture. Lightly close your eyes.
Focus your attention down into your feet and notice the sensations there. Allow your feet and toes to soften and relax, as if they are melting into the floor underneath you.
Focus into the sensations in your hands and fingers and notice the sensations there. Allow your hands and fingers to soften and relax, as if they are melting into your legs.
As your hands and fingers relax, allow your arms and shoulders to relax down, releasing any tension in your shoulders.
Imagine a string attached to the top of your head drawing your spine gently upright, giving you a feeling of vertical spaciousness up through the center of your body, up through your spine, and through the top of your head. Notice how you feel when you sit nicely upright. You may feel more purposeful, awake, and empowered.
Tuck your chin just slightly, releasing any tension in the back of your neck. Soften and relax your jaw, your eyes, and your forehead. Enjoy this moment of relaxation. . .
Now, focus down into your abdomen and notice the sensations of breathing there.
As you inhale, imagine and feel as if your whole body is filling up. As you exhale, imagine and feel as if your whole body is emptying out. . .
Now, let go of your breathing and feel your body as a whole from the inside. Feel the entire space inside your skin. Allow a feeling of open, clear, spacious Awareness to expand evenly and completely through your whole body.
Now imagine a radiant sphere of Infinite Energy, Unconditional Love, and the Purest White Light high above your head, shining down upon you from the Highest Heaven. Imagine and feel this light shining down through the top of your head, down through the core of your body, and into your heart.
Smile with appreciation and gratitude for this moment of feeling pure positive Energy, Love, and Light. Allow that feeling to flow from your heart evenly and completely through your whole body. Feel your whole body infused with Energy, Love, and Light. Everywhere this Energy flows it heals and transforms. . .
What if you are a being of Infinite Energy, Unconditional Love, and the Purest White Light? What if this is your Eternal Essence—who you really are in your Core? What if you are a luminous being, a pulsing node in the Universal Network of Life? What if you are an expression of the Universal Field of Energy, Love, and Light—a part of One Life we all share—as is everything and everyone around you.
If so, you are connected to the seat you are sitting on, which is also made of Energy, Love, and Light. You are part of the space around you, which is filled with Energy, Love, and Light. Imagine the space around you lighting up and feel your presence within it. Everywhere this Energy flows it heals and transforms.
Imagine and feel the Light-filled space around you expanding to include the larger space around you, the neighborhood where you are at this moment. . .Every space that your attention expands into lights up, including, now, the town, city, or countryside around your neighborhood. . .the state or province around that. . .and the country around that. . .Imagine the Light expanding to illuminate our whole planet. . .and the atmosphere around our planet. . .Imagine that our Field of Light expands farther to include our whole solar system. . .the entire Milky Way. . .and all the galaxies in the Universe. . .Imagine the Network of Light expanding infinitely in all directions. . .You are immersed in an Infinite Field of Energy, Love, and Light. . . Everywhere this Energy flows it heals and transforms.
What happens with anyone, or anything, anywhere, at any time affects everyone, and everything, everywhere, at all times. Everything is part of One Light, One Love, One Life Energy we all share.
You are present, awake, and aware in this Infinite Field of Energy, Love, and Light. Everywhere this Energy flows it heals and transforms. . .
Now, send the Love in your heart out into this Infinite Field, to all beings, and ask that everyone, everywhere receive exactly what they need right now to grow in Energy, Love, and Light, to fully express “who they are” and “what they are here to do.” Release that intention into the Universal Network of Energy, Love, and Light knowing that it is being fulfilled in the best possible ways right here and now. Unexplainable, even miraculous, assistance is available to each of us every moment. Life always supports what is best for each of us. Everywhere this Energy flows it heals and transforms. . .
Rest your mind in the nurturing embrace of the One Life we all share.
And now, feel your body as a whole from the inside. Feel your inner space alive with Infinite Energy, Unconditional Love, and the Purest White Light. Smile with appreciation and gratitude. Record the feeling of luminous presence in your whole body, so you can remember it and return to it at any time.
Slowly open your eyes and take in the space around you. Feel the luminous presence inside your body with your eyes open. Now, bring Energy, Love, and Light into your life through acts of kindness wherever you go. Everywhere this Energy flows it heals and transforms. . .
Well done!
Take a moment to write down anything that is important for you to remember from this meditative experience.