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SLUDGE OUT LIGHT IN MEDITATION
When anger, hatred, fear or other distress starts to overwhelm you, and you have discerned from your body that negativity is being created, stop what you are doing and find a quiet place. It is important to remove yourself from the immediate situation of negativity - either physically or by withdrawing energy from that which is presented to you. Take time to honour the body's communication system, for through its agitation it is saying:

Stop; Something Negative has been triggered; Surface it; Identify it; Acknowledge it; Deal with it; Transcend it - this body is in discomfort with its presence!

Breath in deeply, and breath out deeply. Place all your awareness on your breath coming in and going out. Identify the negativity only when calm, because the body and mind become agitated with the activation of afflictive emotions. What evolves here is a step towards body, breath, mind unity through purifying the body of negativities. It is essential to listen to the integrity of the body. Calm yourself and after ten breaths ask inside:

 


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"What is this negativity about?"
"Is it anger? What is the underlying hurt?"
"Is it emotion? What feelings are being denied?"
"Is it fear? What feeling is triggering this reaction?"
"Is it desire? What is the inadequacy about?"
"Is it hatred? Who am I trying to hit back at?"

 
Find a quiet place and sit comfortably with the spine erect and the feet planted firmly on the floor. Breathe gently into the heart center up to the crown and allow the intelligence of breath to circulate throughout the body on the out - breath. Relax into this all encompassing energy state and allow agitation in the body to diminish. When you feel calm, begin this meditation.

Bring the next breath firmly and gently into the heart center. On the in-breath take it right through the body to the back of the spine and feel it connect to the centre of your vertebrae. Visualize the breath as a laser beam or spiral of white light that bores right through the heart center to the spinal column. Still on the in-breath take the light and energy up the spinal column right to the crown of the head. Pause. Having identified the cause of the negative defilement that has so agitated the body, state quietly to yourself "I choose to rid my body, being and cells of this negativity."

On the out-breath flood the body and entire spinal column with white light and make sure the energy travels through your body and out of your feet into the ground. Repeat the entire meditation sequence ten times until you feel the negativity leaving your body. You will also feel physically lighter. Then in this light and calm take a further step. Breathe in to the heart center with such gentleness and reverence, then on the out-breath fill yourself from top to toe with clear, crystalline white light. Breathe in and out of this purified energy state for ten breaths, and feel the difference in your body. This particular meditation is most valuable for instances where you have keyed into bodily signals about negativity and distress.
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