THE JOURNEY IN:

Finding Source and Center

The Meditation shared here was given to me by my guides as a means of aligning our own particular paths through Earth Center to the needs of our world as a whole.

We begin our meditation with breathing, using our breath to become quiet and inward. As we pay attention to the rhythms of the breath, it is not important how deep or how shallow we breath, how fast or how slow, or whether the pattern stays constant. It is only important that head and body breathe together. As the breath comes in, it fills the torso, lifts the shoulders slightly, and raises the head. There is a brief pause at the top of the breath, then, as the air goes out, the head surrenders toward the body and drops lightly forward, releasing tension in the throat and neck. At the end of the exhale, another brief pause before the next breath begins.

Letting head and body breath together allows ideas in the mind to become actions of the body, allows the movement of the body to inform the mind and bring it to truth. The throat releases. When the throat chakra opens, we are harmonious, we walk our talk. As breath comes in we experience fullness and strength. As breath goes out we experience trust, release and emptiness. The breath finds its natural rhythm; it may become quicker or slower, deeper or more shallow, as tensions release and patterns play out. The breath comes in, the world enters us; it goes out, we are returned to ourselves. Breath in, breath out. Continue until you feel yourself breathing with the world around you. Until you feel the universe breathing you. Until you feel your oneness with all about, and a sense of quiet within.

When you have become one with the breath, bring consciousness inside your body. Pull your energy field, aura, consciousness toward the back of your body, toward and into the vortex of energies passing up and down the spine. There may be a swirling sensation as you enter the spinal column. Once inside, you are in the quiet at the center of the vortex. Allow your consciousness to drift downward. You are passing through energy centers, or chakras. You may notice different colors or sensations as you drift lower. Simply allow yourself to observe, to float downward.

Moving lower in the body, toward the base of the spine, at the back of the womb, the energy may feel deeper, seem darker or richer, as if at the back of a deep cavern. Here in the deepest place in yourself, you have begun the journey into the earth, not only floating, but also magnetized, being pulled down the same column of energy, as if through a tail, entering the earth, being drawn into and through the various layers and levels of earth.

Again let yourself fall easily, trusting whatever or whoever is pulling you deeper. You may be aware of new colors, sensations, thoughts, messages or even entities living their lives in the levels of earth you are passing through. You may feel yourself becoming lighter, or darker and thicker. You may feel energies passing or swirling through you. As you move through the middle layers of the earth, and down toward the core, you may note similarities to the passage to the bottom of your own body, the back of your own womb, your core. But now you are being drawn into the womb of the Earth Mother herself. Back to the place of origins. Back before birth. To the Source of Life.

You feel the Mother's waters surrounding you, soothing your body, your mind, your spirit. Her energy is all about you, but it is also entering you, spreading into every cell of your body. She is soothing, laving, touching, suffusing you with her own nature, her being, her love, her nurture. You are floating in the core of her womb, and she in turn is inside every cell of your being.

Once with the Mother, you may choose to speak with her. To tell your story. Tell her your struggles, your hopes, dreams, the stories of your loved ones, the tales and trials of the surface world from which you have come. You may tell her of your desire to be connected to her, to become charged with her nurturance and her wisdom to be shared with the world. You may ask her council. You may ask her to show you and clarify to you the purposes for which your soul has embarked upon this present life. To remind you of what you have already accomplished. And to advise you of what lies ahead. However you wish to speak with her, whatever you have to say, speak your heart, then listen. The answers may come in words, in feelings, in sensations or images. Or simply as quiet, as promise that they will be revealed when you need them.

Finish telling your story. Then return to feeling nothing other than the presence of the Mother, Source, Mystery, the Divine One. Float, rest, release whatever or whoever you have brought with you from the surface. Sleep or dream. And let yourself be renewed.

When it is time to begin your return to the surface, thank Spirit and the Mother for the time you have spent with them. Tell them you will be back, but that even as you return to the surface, you wish to retain your connection to the Core. To keep open the channel, the passage which has brought you to the Center.

Then let yourself begin the journey back, again simply allowing yourself to float, not rushing, but letting your consciousness rise gently back through the swirling currents, through the levels and layers of the earth, back toward your body, back toward the outer world. Again you may notice varying sensations and experiences, colors, sounds, emotions, messages as you make your way back up. Or even the presence of other souls, beings, entities accompanying you. Take the time to be with all your experience.

When you are ready to come back out into the room, check your breath again. Feel the rhythms of your interactions with life around you and within you. Feel the energy and the love you have brought back with you. Replay the journey and the messages. As you prepare to reenter daily life, take the inner world with you. Between this world and the inner planes there is also a rhythm, like that of the breath. You belong in both worlds. Your task is to link them, to be the passage between. Whether at any given time we focus inside or out, we retain both experiences, both dimensions. As we learn that we are the passage, light and dark, man and woman, life and death, outside and inside, we unite the world. Our particular tasks are given to us, but are always part of the greater whole.

Each of us is one tiny speck in the cosmos; but we are also all that is.