Let us place our hands in prayer position and touching them to the forehead,
We will say,
May divine creative expression,
Hands at the mouth,
Be made manifest,
Hands at the heart,
In my mind and heart.
Again,
May divine creative expression be made manifest in my mind and heart.
One more time,
May divine creative expression be made manifest in my mind and heart,
This day and each day forth.
Some interfaith inspiration on oneness from the Hindu tradition,
Truth is one and sages have called it by many names.
In the Buddhist tradition,
Equalizing self and others is the foundation of all the practices that lead to enlightenment.
And Thomas Merton,
Christianity,
He says,
We are already one,
But we imagine that we are not and what we have to recover is our original unity.
What we have to be is what we are.
Let's take our focus inward now to our heart center.
And I'd like you to imagine a point of light right in your heart center.
And now from that point of light,
I'd like you to extend a line of light straight up out the top of your head,
12 inches above your head and pause and then reach that line of light straight up into the heavens as high as you can reach and then some and then pause.
And from that very high position now,
Just imagine a canopy of white,
Gold and light falling down upon you,
Enveloping you from head to toe,
Front to back,
Side to side.
A beautiful canopy of protection and love.
And now from that very high position,
Just bring your point of focus from very high up,
Slowly back down to above your head,
Back to your heart center.
And now extend that line of light straight down to the heart of the earth.
And now from the heart of the earth,
Bring that line of light back up to your heart center.
And you can see in your mind's eye an equal arm cross as you're reaching up and down and meeting in the heart,
Those arms extend out horizontally.
And in silence say to yourself,
Between the heights and the depths,
Between the within and the without,
I am becoming more balanced and centered,
One with life.
Now gently breathe through your heart center and I'd like you to think of the highest plane that you can conceive of.
Give this an image,
Visualizing an image of divine oneness that you are merging with.
Choose whatever brings you into a place of peace and beauty with this divine presence.
It could very well be an image of a saint.
It could be the compassionate Buddha.
Perhaps it's Jesus,
One of the angels.
It could be one of the Hindu gods.
It may be nature,
The symbol of a mountain.
Perhaps it's a chalice.
It could be anything.
Place it up right in front of your head and just imagine it merging with you and you with it.
One with it.
Just filling yourself up with this essence and presence.
It will lead you to and through the mind and the heart.
And now we will sound with our breath.
Ham,
Sah.
Ham,
Sah.
In Sanskrit this means I am divine spark.
You will breathe in ham,
Exhale sah.
Sah.
Sah.
In Sanskrit this means I am divine spark.
Sah.
Ride the rhythm of the wave of your breath.
Breathing in the abdomen rises and as you breathe out the abdomen falls navel to spine.
Focus on each exhalation.
Breathing in and out.
Up and down.
Back and forth.
To and fro.
Bring your breath dissolving into an all pervading expanse of truth and just rest at the pause.
The perfect point of rest between the in-breath and the out-breath.
This is where our grasping begins to dissolve.
Relax your body.
And on each exhalation just feel yourself giving into gravity.
Releasing,
Relaxing and letting go.
From your head down your spine to your toes.
And as you focus within notice your emotional waters.
Are they rough?
Do they appear gentle or are they turbulent?
Just create a soft calm mirror-like reflection.
Use your will to do so.
Calm your emotions.
As Laozi said,
Muddy water let stand become clear.
And for any mental distraction or any of the mind chatter just place it up on a cloud and watch it float off and away so the further away the cloud is the more detached you become.
So you can watch it drift away into nothingness.
Rest your mind in the gap.
Allow it to be as wide as the sky.
Just open up a bit more to the greatness of this moment and the breath.
Body relax.
Emotions calm.
And serene.
You are more than your physical body.
Body sensations change.
And you are more than your feelings for your feelings come and go and fade away.
While your thoughts are mere passing they're shifting and they're changing all the time.
But what remains constant and true?
You are the truth of self.
Observing you.
You are soul.
The higher self of beauty.
Goodness and truth.
This is constant.
Be still and know.
You are the divinity you seek.
More radiant than the sun.
Purer than the snow.
Subtler than the ether is the self.
The spirit within my heart.
I am that self.
That self am I.
Now on the screen of your mind I'd like you to focus on a majestic mountain with its mere reflection in the lake.
The symbolic of your higher nature or your soul.
In its mere reflection the lower nature or personality.
As you sit with this image be poised in presence and say to yourself I am willing to release any rigid held beliefs or emotional attachments to allow my truth of being revealed.
I am willing to release any rigid held beliefs or emotional attachments to allow my truth of being revealed.
Be out that you may be filled.
Take words from view from the mountaintop on surrender.
Energy stirs in my core to awaken the sleep filled dark.
A grand illumination.
A self realization recognizing my angels heart.
I encounter deep trust to let go and reveal what is erupting in me.
To free myself of guilt and fear the root system I clearly see.
My depths of knowingness loosen within for conditions to release I acknowledge the emotions as they surface honor them and feel peace.
Sometimes I make the choice to feel it again forgive myself and be open in my heart free in my mind my spirit available to be all of me.
Now the spiritual mountaintop is behind you.
In the lake of peace before you they serve to guide you to know your truth to clear illusions and glamors of self reaching inward and upward to the highest of heights supporting you as you dive into the deepest of depths synthesizing and unifying you.
May we reunite with the divine source of our nature and in silence say to yourself I am willing to be my essence and true self.
Now I'd like you to imagine a dew touched rose pink or any other color that presents to you as if the first glimpse of sunrise as though it's been placed by a divine hand right in your heart center or perhaps it's a perfect lotus floating upon your heart's pure light but just imagine that for now.
Breathe in its healing fragrance and its essence of divine and human love.
It emanates a peace a peace which passeth all understanding.
It's a font of purity and incredible love.
Allow yourself to just be with whatever presents perhaps letting go of something forgiving accepting loving experiencing peace of mind more trust.
Just be and breathe.
Allow.
Allow.
Be.
Receive.
And now we are going to move away from the image of the flower and I'd like you to imagine yourself seated with the mountain behind you on the lake before you and imagine an energetic line of light that forms a vertical figure eight a limbness gate from your heart to your mid belly.
However the limbness gate or that infinity loop or figure eight however it presents allow it to move energetically between these two points.
It could move front to back or side to side simply allow it to be.
Breathing and synthesizing the symbol in your fields it integrates the higher with the lower the inside with the outside the outside with the inside and the two become one at the midpoint of balance.
It is the end that joins these opposites into a rhythm of one.
As you flow with the rhythm of the limbness gate I'd like you to extend.
That line of light up to the throat and down to the navel however it presents allow it to be.
Now the rest.
Now extend your lemniscape all the way up to your head,
Down to your toes,
And wherever the midpoint or intersection presents,
Allow it to be.
It may be at your heart,
It may be mid-belly,
Just be.
And notice any colors that present.
And now shorten your lemniscape from your head to your knees,
Lifting it up a little bit from the feet up to the knees,
Head to the knees.
Rhythm,
Sound,
Color,
Light.
And now bring the lemniscape up from the knees to the base of the spine,
Continuing the head circulating around,
A beautiful rhythm,
Up and around and through the lemniscape.
The alchemy of synthesis.
Now release this image and be grateful for all that has presented.
May we stand like mountain,
Flow like river,
May we be grounded in spirit centered in heart,
Poised in presence,
And may we unfold the lotus petals of self with ease,
Grace,
And love.
And I ask Divine Mother,
Great Sophia,
To provide us with clarity and guidance as we discern,
Love,
And serve,
Seeking and finding balance in right relationship.
In life and between this and that.
Let us focus in our hearts and let us all send emanations of love,
Peace,
And goodwill into the world,
Echoing,
May peace,
Love,
And goodwill prevail on earth.
Now gather yourself.
As a flower closes its petals at dusk,
Bring your energies close to your body and anchor down to the heart of the earth.
And before we bring our awareness back into this space and place,
I'd like to share with you Grandma Sally's daily declaration.
Spirit in the midst of me is mighty.
In the center of my being is spirit,
Life,
Power,
And all good.
And it is greater than the drama and events of life as they occur in the world around me.
In spirit,
I am strong and serene,
Conquering and overcoming,
Growing into the divine image,
Fulfilling my divine destiny.
I rejoice in the knowledge that there is nothing to fear,
For spirit in the midst of me is mighty.
Now focus on your in-breath and take a nice deep breath in,
Deeply and completely,
And slowly exhale.
Bringing your awareness back into this space and place,
Breathe in again,
Feeling more awake and more aware and more alive.
And on your next in-breath,
Reach your arms up overhead as if it's your first big yawn of the day.
And just notice what you notice.
For additional grounding support,
I'd like you to imagine just bringing a light of essence into the bottom of your left foot with this golden spiral of light that comes up and around your body seven times.
It just wraps around spirally up to your head.
And then bring the light straight down your spine,
Down your central vertical channel,
Through your body,
Into the ground.
And please repeat after me.
We give thanks for this shared consciousness and for all that is.
May all the world be blessed,
Hereby in peace.
So it is.
And help us to do our parts.
And our closing gesture with hands in prayer position at your heart center say,
I am at your mouth,
One with at your forehead,
Life.
I am one with life.
We are one with life.
And let us Aum three times.
Aum.
Aum.
Aum.
Aum.
Aum.
