Meditation For Beginners

So 20 years ago if you would have asked me what I thought about meditation I would have said it was a crock of shit,

Right?

And that's when the universe decided to tell me to put my foot in my mouth and learn a thing or two.

So I kind of wanted to just tell my story about how I was introduced to meditation,

How I use it and incorporate it with innate abilities that we all have and the benefits of it and my take on meditation,

Right?

So about seven years ago I started to develop groups to teach people that were interested in developing their psychic abilities,

Their mediumship abilities,

Their intuition,

Right?

I started teaching these classes and when I went into this I went in a very academic type of way.

I would make bullet point paperwork with written explanations,

All the different ways to understand your strengths,

Your weaknesses,

Hands-on practice,

Homework,

Oh I did the whole thing,

Okay?

But what I realized,

The people that were coming here weren't getting everything that they possibly could from that type of approach,

Right?

We're all on different paths,

We all have different abilities,

We all have different purposes,

Right?

And I needed a different way to approach teaching,

Mentoring,

Whatever the case is,

Right?

I needed a different way to approach this.

My spirit team kind of interjected persistently as they usually do and the message was you need to revisit meditation.

So I was like,

Fine,

Okay.

I was number one for meditation.

I never practiced meditation.

I received messages randomly or when needed or what have you.

I didn't have to sit in the meditative state to receive a message.

But something that was made quite clear to me at this point in time,

In order to teach others,

The answer is going to be meditation,

Right?

So when I sat down to meditate for the first time,

I actually made a video on it and released it just because I think everybody can relate to this.

Like we sit down,

We try to meditate,

We sit in the lotus position,

We focus on our breathing,

And before you know it,

We're thinking about all of the things on our to-do list,

Right?

We're yelling at ourselves because we're not doing it right or we're questioning if we're even doing it right.

We think we feel something,

We get startled,

Like it's an absolute clusterfuck,

Right?

It was no different for me.

And I was like,

This is not for me.

I don't want to meditate,

Thank you.

And they didn't care.

My spirit team was like,

This is what you need to do.

You need to write your own meditation.

You need to record it in your own voice and you need to teach yourself how to meditate.

And I was like,

Are you for real?

So nonetheless,

When spirit says do something,

I do it whether I want to or not.

I'm kind of like that reluctant child stomping their feet along the way,

Right?

No different.

So I follow the instructions as usual.

And upon creating the guided meditation,

My spirit team would interject and they guide me in the creation process,

Right?

So they taught me about the snapping technique that you'll hear in most of my guided meditations,

Which basically forces the mind and the body to relax,

Right?

The staircase method that I use in my guided meditations are really there to help us get into a deeper state of the subconscious,

Right?

All of those things did not come from me.

I do them,

But they were definitely something that I was guided to do by my spirit people,

Right?

I did things to the test and I was super surprised,

Right?

Like I could meditate and it wasn't boring.

In fact,

It was kind of like the coolest thing ever.

So a lot of times you'll hear me talk to people about meditation.

And what I tell them is it's like taking a psychedelic drug without the drugs and with good benefits,

Right?

For the mind,

For the body,

For the spirit.

I finally understood why my spirit team kept telling me the best way to teach people was through meditation,

Right?

So here's the thing,

Meditation by definition is a focused thought,

Right?

And a routine process of training our mind to focus and redirect our thoughts the way we want them to go,

Right?

So popularity of meditation is like increasing by the day because it has countless health benefits,

Right?

So it reduces stress and the reduction in stress can lessen anxiety.

A lot of people are stressed out.

A lot of people are anxious,

Right?

Meditation promotes emotional wellbeing.

It lengthens our attention and our focus span.

It helps with our memory abilities.

It generates kindness and love.

It helps us fight off addictions of whatever form or fashion and it can help improve our sleep,

Right?

Like those are the scientific benefits that you can Google and they're all going to come up,

Right?

But for me,

In my case,

Meditation is practiced to increase our self-awareness and develop and harness,

Strengthen our intuition,

Right?

Everything else is just a perk for me.

Going into meditation for the first time,

Like you don't have to sit in the Lotus position.

If you are not comfortable in the Lotus position,

Then sit however you're comfortable.

I have a lot of girls that just lay down,

You know?

And the biggest thing is we hear people talk about how they can see things when they meditate,

Right?

And everybody's thought when you hear somebody say this is,

Well,

I don't see nothing,

Right?

And you probably won't because you're looking at the back of your eyelids.

So it's probably going to be black.

Some of you out there might be like,

Oh,

It's not black whenever I close my eyes.

And that's okay because like we all learn differently.

This is the beautiful part about what my people showed me.

We're going to talk about seeing during meditation.

It's going to happen a lot of different ways,

Right?

So what I want you to do,

And you can do this right now,

Right?

Or you can practice this with someone else and prove this to yourself.

Right now I want you to think back to your most memorable birthday,

Right?

And what happens when you think is you kind of look off somewhere,

Right?

And you look through your mind and you go through this little Rolodex in your mind and you pick out that favorite birthday and you can see it like it was yesterday,

Right?

If you were to do this with somebody in front of you,

Look at them making eye contact,

Say,

What was your most memorable birthday,

Right?

And what they're going to do is the second you get done asking that question,

They are going to lose eye contact with you.

Look up in their mind,

Go through the Rolodex,

Pick out the memory,

And every single one of you will be able to say that you could see it like it was yesterday.

That is one of the main things that happens when we meditate and we see in the mind's eye.

That is the mind's eye,

Right?

This is why reading is such a good practice for the third eye because it's exercising that ability to see.

You're going to see things in that same form,

Right?

But it still might appear black because you're looking at the back of your eyelids.

Now some people will close their eyes,

Go through a meditation,

Let's say it's not guided and they see all different kinds of colors,

Right?

That's another very common beginner experience when it comes to the visual factor of meditation.

What you have to do at that point,

Right,

With the practice and the routine is those colors are meaningful.

They're symbolic and red could be a color that represents passion to one person and represents anger to another.

You kind of have to start to learn the language of the symbols or of the colors or of the experience,

Right?

If you are the type of person that when you meditate,

All you see is colors.

If you continue and you practice,

What happens is those colors begin to take shape and the more you practice,

Those shapes will become more detailed and more detailed and more detailed.

And when it comes to the vision aspect of meditation,

Eventually with enough practice,

The progress will be made and it's like you go through this peephole,

Right?

It's like it's all black and then there's this small opening,

This small peephole that you walk right through and everything is clear as day,

As if you had your eyes open.

That's the psychedelic part.

That's the part where you're like,

Meditation isn't boring anymore.

I just went to another world.

That's the visual aspect.

That's known as clairvoyance,

Right?

The ability to see.

What is a common strength for most people is the clairvoyance,

The ability to see.

The other most common is the clairsentience.

Everybody hears this,

You know,

I'm empathic,

You're empathic,

We're all empathic.

We are empathic beings.

Clairsentience means we feel,

Right?

When we meditate and the clairsentience comes out,

We could feel all different kinds of things.

Like there's so many different ways to feel.

We could feel love.

We could feel warmth.

We could feel cold.

We could feel almost maybe like a heaviness in the chest.

We could feel light,

Not in our bodies.

There's just an array of different feelings that we get when we meditate,

Right?

All of which,

By the way,

I'm going to say flat out,

Are messages.

And when you practice this enough,

You start to understand the messages that are being received and who they're actually coming from,

Right?

Because when you practice meditation enough,

You take all of these abilities.

So you take the clairvoyance,

The clairsentience,

We'll get into the clairaudience and the claircognizance,

And they all operate and work together as one,

Right?

All in the meantime,

Reducing stress and anxiety and you're sleeping better and you're understanding yourself and you're promoting kindness and you're just living at a higher vibration,

Right?

A lot of people will come and do like group meditations with me and they'll say,

Well,

I felt like someone was behind me.

Well,

How did you,

How do you know that your eyes were closed?

You know,

And they'll be like,

I don't know.

I just,

I could feel them,

Right?

It's no different.

When you're meditating and clairaudience happens,

It's usually described as hearing a voice or a thought,

But you know,

It's not your thought,

Right?

You're not hearing voices.

We're not schizophrenic,

But there was just a thought,

A prominent thought.

So I was talking to a girl earlier today and I was,

I was trying,

I wasn't talking to her.

I was reading her and her person that was coming through,

It was like,

Tell her how to meditate.

And I'm like,

You want me to tell her how to meditate and like 10 minutes,

Like it's a practice,

Right?

So I tried to explain to her,

But I told her,

I said,

You know,

Don't focus on whether you're doing it right or wrong.

You can sit and close your eyes and try to focus on your breathing and you still have all these thoughts coming through about what you're supposed to do and what you didn't do and if you're doing it right.

And then all of a sudden a random song or a random thought pops into your mind and you notice it.

What?

What was that?

Right?

That's a form of clairaudience.

It's also,

It also can be a form of claircognizance,

Which we'll get into,

But a thought that you recognize and you hear in your mind is clairaudience.

And that is a message,

Right?

If you get a song stuck in your head,

Think about the lyrics that you keep repeating,

Right?

You can have clairaudient not in the form of a thought,

Right?

So it's an actual voice that you hear outside of the mind.

Like you hear my voice right now,

Right?

That happens.

That's not as common.

It's just a different form of clairaudience.

And then we have claircognizance.

So claircognizance means clear knowing.

And that's when you're going through a meditation and let's say it's guided and you're envisioning yourself on a path in a forest and all of a sudden you just know that you're in Ireland,

Right?

There's nothing that tells you that that grass and that tree before you is growing in Ireland.

You just know it.

And they are usually accompanied with the other clairs.

So you might know that you're in Ireland and you felt it as well.

But all of these things,

All of these different ways that our body receives information when we go into meditation helps us strengthen our sixth sense,

Our intuition,

But it takes practice and every single person will experience meditation differently.

And that's why you could do a group meditation that is focused on just grounding and five people were able to just ground themselves and feel better.

And you have two other people that didn't even go to the same location,

Experience something completely different and had a message that was given to them.

So for me,

Like I said,

Meditation is about increasing stamina with self awareness and your intuition,

Just strengthening and connecting with that ability.

When they taught me how to meditate using the guided meditations,

I did that for a while and it was extremely helpful.

And then I didn't need them to be guided anymore.

And I don't meditate all the time.

I know people that meditate five times a day and that is wonderful for them.

And that is exactly what they need.

You just meditate as often as you feel necessary,

Right?

Meditate before bed.

I have some people that come to my groups and they only meditate before they go to sleep at night and they go to sleep every time and they don't remember anything.

And then they have these wild and crazy dreams,

Right?

And they're like,

It doesn't work for me.

And I'm like,

Yeah,

But you're having dreams,

Right?

And they're like,

Yeah,

You might not have been consciously awake for the meditation,

But all the messages or information that you needed was provided to you in the dream.

So you're going to get the message even if you fall asleep.

So there's not really a one size fits all with meditation.

It does take practice,

A little bit of discipline in there.

If you're looking to develop your intuition,

Right?

I would say start with meditation.

Throughout all the years that I have been actively teaching,

Helping,

Mentoring people,

When I teach people how to meditate and understand how they receive information,

That is where the most success rate comes from.

And to watch somebody who thinks that they don't have the ability,

Learn how to meditate and understand the language that they speak with spirit and then step into that inner divinity and know that it's theirs and it's unique unto themselves is probably one of the most rewarding things that's associated with what I do.

So what I'm going to do right now is I'm just going to play a very short non-guided meditation.

And all I want you to do is just get comfortable.

Take a couple of deep breaths in and the one person that's on the other side that you want to see or know is around.

Sit with the intention of being open and in alignment with them and see what they show you.

Take a couple of deep breaths in and the one person that's on the other side that you want to see.