Introduction to Mindful Practices and the Eternal Self
If we want to grow and develop, we must know ourselves well. During your mindful practice, the more you practice, the more you may glimpse your eternal face as a symbol of your true nature.
When your eyelids are lowered, can you remember your own face? Of course, you may have memories of mirror images or photographs, but this is not really your forever face.
First Nations say that we are all given an eternal face. They spend a lot of meditation time trying to glimpse their forever face. Remember that this face involves the DNA of your ancestral line, too.
You are no longer a beginner if you have practised regularly. So please appreciate your endurance and determination to return to your true nature. You were probably in full contact with it as a child, but social conditioning causes it to face.
Setting the Stage for Mindfulness: Preparing Your Environment
In your mindful space, you will need three things, so please prepare them before you start:
- The image of a perfect circle.
2. These words:
“Loving is watching ourselves and others without judging or desiring to change.”
(Use the image of a perfect circle as a focus tool).
- This affirmation:
“I am perfect as I am.”
Gazing Into the Circle: A Practice for Present Awareness
Stand in front of your workstation or a window
- Lengthen your spine with the mere thought of an elegant, long spine and neck
- Widen across the lower rib cage as you breathe deeply the air you borrowed from the Earth
- Visualize your heels going down into the Earth while the crown of your head goes up into the blue sky
Then, when you are ready, please blink 20-30 times.
This will clean the eyes and stimulate the optic nerve. Btw, eye drops prescribed for ‘dry eye’ are now discredited. The eyes can naturally produce the tears they need to moisten them, and blinking stimulates this. So when you feel your eyes are dry, stop and blink. Of course, if you have an eye condition/disease, please use the medicine your medical practitioner prescribes.
When you are ready, gaze at the perfect circle. Stay engaged for as long as is comfortable. When you wish to stop, just let your eyelids lower again.
Inviting Reflection: Contemplating Self-Acceptance and Love
Please sit down comfortably and gaze at the quotation without describing, judging or criticising.
“Loving is watching ourselves and others without judging or desiring to change.”
Reflect on this, and perhaps write down your reflections in your mindfulness notebook.
Then, when you are ready, gaze at the affirmation:
“I am perfect just as I am.”
Reflecting on the quotation and affirmation will help to solidify your mindful state.
Carrying Mindfulness into the World: Beyond the Beginner’s Stage
When you walk out into the external world again, take the circle, the quotation and the affirmation with you.
When you get an opportunity, go to them and smile with pure joy that you have such amazing inner resources.
You are no longer a beginner. What have you accomplished during these days of mindfulness? You may decide to go back and do all 5 stages again. These are the fundamentals so that you will return to them all the time, of course.
Only when you are ready and feel you have completed all five stages, download my gift to you.
Congratulations!🥳
You are ready to move on to the next stage.
