Meditations In The Third Circle (text)

Meditations In

The Third Circle

(31) "Among all means of liberation, devotion is supreme. To seek earnestly to know one's real nature -- this is said to be devotion.

(56) "Neither by the practice of Yoga or of Sankhya philosophy, nor by good works, nor by learning, does liberation come; but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one -- in no other way.

(62) "A sickness is not cured by saying the word 'medicine' -- you must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word 'Brahman' -- Brahman must be actually experienced.

(172) "As the wind creates the clouds and again destroys them, so this bondage is the creation of the mind, and it is the mind also that destroys that bondage."

Shankara
Vivekacudamani (The Crest Jewel of Discrimination)

"Ye must learn to meditate. Then, there must be a conscious contact with that which is a part of thy body-physical, thy body-mental, to thy soul-body or thy superconsciousness.

"For as ye raise the consciousness to that within self, He meeteth thee in thine own tabernacle, in the Holy of Holies; in the third eye, not above same. It is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source."

Edgar Cayce
a medley of excerpts from his readings

Hello fellow human being.

This Web page contains twelve very easy and simple, yet quite powerful meditations, or exercises, or means, or aids, or signposts to any spiritual quest and journey. These twelve meditations are included in The Third Circle (TTC), which is an opening to all-that-is and up to infinity.

As simple as they are, each one of these twelve exercises may facilitate and aid progress at any spiritual stand, from the first steps of interest and curiosity about the spiritual, or an attraction to it, and up to achieving the ultimate, supreme, attainment -- Self-realization, or enlightenment.

All the meditations mentioned in this Web page may be practiced by self-work, that is -- by following the instructions given here. All the necessary information needed to enable practicing these meditations is included in the given instructions -- there is no need for any external teacher, or guide, in order to be able to practice these meditations. Nevertheless, I'm available to reply by e-mail any question concerning the practice of these meditations that may arise.

For all who may want to have a copy of this page on their computer -- there is a link enabling uploading this page as a text file.

TTC contains many more signposts. The twelve ones presented here are to enable and facilitate a springboard, a start, to a spiritual quest, The Third Circle and connecting the unbounded ocean of truth and wisdom lying in the silent chambers of our hearts.

A good books containing some other meditations and useful signposts for connecting the Higher Self is: "Edgar Cayce on Channeling Your Higher Self" by Henry Reed, published by Warner Books, Inc., New York, ISBN: 0446349801. Another book, about which I have some reservations, is: "Living in the Light : A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation" by Shakti Gawain, Published by Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553561049. This book contains some good suggestion for working with our intuition and connecting the Higher Self -- my reservations are about many "New Age" beliefs, concepts and practices contained there.

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Contents of this Page

Due to its length, this meditations page is actually divided into five separate physical pages, in order to shorten the loading time. Yet, for the sake of convenience, the division into separate pages is transparent to the person browsing -- links are given to each section, so, you may jump to any item without noticing the division into separate pages.

These pages contain a very short preface to each one of the twelve meditations and a detailed description, including practicing instructions for each and every meditation.

Preface to Meditations in The Third Circle (TTC)
-- a brief introduction and description of the twelve meditations and exercises.

Instructions to Relaxation exercise
-- a very basic, yet an effective relaxation.

Instructions to Praying / Asking

Instructions to Shielding exercise
-- a very simple, yet powerful, shielding exercise.

Instructions to Simple Breathing Exercise (Pranayama)
-- a very simple, yet very powerful, breathing exercise.

Instructions to Body-Feeling Meditation
-- an effective meditation to alleviate stress, strain, low energy and moods.

Instructions to The Silence Meditation
-- which along The Aum Mantra Meditation are the Crest-Jewel of all spiritual practices. If a person would choose to practice only one meditation -- either one of these two is highly recommended.

Instructions to The Aum Mantra Meditation
-- which along The Silence Meditation are the Crest-Jewel of all spiritual practices. If a person would choose to practice only one meditation -- either one of these two is highly recommended.

Instructions to Healing The Inner Child
-- healing the emotional wounds of the hurt child inside you.

Instructions to Connecting Your Future Self
-- start becoming now your wiser self you would be in the future.

Instructions to Mother Earth Consciousness
-- a very simple, yet extremely powerful exercise for connecting nature and Mother Earth.

Instructions to Mother Earth Meditation
-- a guided imagery meditation for the welfare of our planet Earth.

Instructions to Peace On Earth Meditation
-- a guided imagery meditation towards global peace.

Download the Meditations Instructions as a text file.

Preface To Meditations In The Third Circle

Twelve meditations, or signposts, or aids, or means, or exercises are presented below. They are: "Relaxation", "Praying / Asking", "Shielding", "Simple Breathing Exercise (Pranayama)", "Body-Feeling Meditation", "The Silence Meditation", "The Aum Mantra Meditation", "Healing The Inner Child", "Connecting Your Future Self", "Mother Earth Consciousness", "Mother Earth Meditation" and "Peace On Earth Meditation".

You may choose practicing, or trying, only one of them, all of them, or any combination -- at your choice. As everything in The Third Circle (TTC), there are no set rules or dogmas here. Each and every one is welcomed to exercise one's own Self-Source-Of-Authority (SSOA), choose for oneself and take responsibility for one's choices and their consequences. TTC presents signposts, or recommendations. What to do and how exactly to do it -- is ultimately up to each and every individual.

A Brief Introduction To The Twelve Meditations

Relaxation

A very basic and simple relaxation exercise, yet, quite an effective one. Good to be practiced whenever one may be tensed, and at the beginning of every meditation.

Go to Instructions to Relaxation exercise

Praying / asking

Experience shows praying or asking to be very useful and helpful. Believing in God or not, practicing a particular religion or not, doesn't make much difference here.

TTC is not a religion, not a part of any religion and it is not connected to any religion. Praying is very useful and helpful, regardless whether praying, or asking -- God, or the universe -- is done in a religious context or not. Here, in TTC, there is no religious context to praying; that is, praying doesn't mean practicing a religion -- not necessarily.

What counts here is our attitude and behavior, not any dogma or set rules. Yet, it is the individual's choice whether to pray in a religious context or not. In our experience, praying, or asking, is very useful, regardless to whether it's being done in a religious context or not. TTC, in the context of prayer, have no recommendation pro or con any religion.

One of the reasons that praying or asking is very helpful is that by praying or asking we direct our attention away from our small self, or ego, to a higher ideal. It serves us in widening our perspective, expanding our boundaries.

Another reason for it being beneficial is that by praying or asking we direct our attention to the desired results and goals. Directing our attention serves the flow of energy to and from the desired result or attainment. This energy flow assists in the actual attainment of our goals.

Go to Instructions to Praying / Asking

Shielding

It is an energetic and astral grounding and shielding. Good to be practiced in any case, especially when we may feel being attacked, or drained energetically. It is a suggested protection for meditations, aiding in blocking unwanted energies and entities from entering our meditations.

Please bear in mind that in the relative universe nothing is absolute, thus -- there is no absolute protection and no absolute shielding. Ultimately, one's free will and choices are the best possible protection -- over time. Nevertheless, this shielding exercise is a recommended practice.

Some choose to practice it as a part of their daily routine, some choose to practice it as the first stage of every meditation, some choose to practice it when feeling a need, and some choose not to practice it at all. It's up to you.

Go to Instructions to Shielding exercise

Simple Breathing Exercise (Pranayama)

Prana is the Sanskrit word for the universal life force -- the force that sustains life in all living creatures. In Chinese, this universal life force is called Ki, or Chi, hence, Tai-Chi.

Pranayama - Yogi breathing exercises - is one of the eight limbs of Yoga - for the value and benefit of Pranayama is paramount. It is extremely relaxing, invigorating -- it purifies the body, mind, soul and spirit.

This Simple Breathing Exercise (Pranayama) is indeed very simple and easy to practice, yet, it is highly valuable. This simple Pranayama may be practiced by itself and it may serve as an excellent preamble to any meditation and spiritual exercise.

Go to Instructions to Simple Breathing Exercise (Pranayama)

Body-Feeling Meditation

At times, if you may feel very tired, moody, tensed, agitated, low energies, irritated, impatient, drained out, spaced out, disconnected, the mind is not very clear, etc -- it is recommended to elevate your feeling, mood or energies with the Body-Feeling Meditation.

This meditation is very effective in releasing stress and strain from our nervous system and physical body. By releasing stress and strain from the physical body and nervous system, simultaneously we are releasing mental, psychological and spiritual stress and blocks, opening our energy channels to a better flow, enabling a clearer mind and consciousness.

Another benefit of this meditation is increasing our awareness to our body.

This meditation can be practiced, upon getting acquainted with it, anytime anyplace, while walking, talking, driving etc.

Go To Instructions to Body-Feeling Meditation

The Silence Meditation

The Silence Meditation, along The Aum Mantra Meditation, are the Jewel-Crest of all spiritual practices. Specifying all their benefits will take many pages.

In brief: they are the most effective and direct means to connect the unbounded ocean of truth and wisdom lying inside the silent chambers of our hearts. They are great aids in connecting our Higher Self and, ultimately, our Supreme Self.

This meditation is relaxing and have numerous beneficial effects on our body and mind, health, consciousness, clarity of thinking, energy level, developing our intuition, widening our perspective and expanding our boundaries.

The Silence Meditation may serve as a springboard to all other spiritual practices and exercises. It is very natural, very easy to practice. It is devoid of any connection to any teaching, tradition, dogma or religion.
(TTC is an opening, not a teaching).

Connecting the ocean of silence inside gives momentum to all our actions, facilitates and speeds up attaining all goals.

Ultimately, The Silence Meditation is a great aid in attaining Self-realization, or enlightenment -- upon aspiring this supreme attainment.

Go to Instructions to The Silence Meditation

The Aum Mantra Meditation

The Aum Mantra Meditation, along The Silence Meditation, are the Jewel-Crest of all spiritual practices. Specifying all their benefits will take many pages.

In brief: they are the most effective and direct means to connect the unbounded ocean of truth and wisdom lying inside the silent chambers of our hearts. They are great aids in connecting our Higher Self and, ultimately, our Supreme Self.

This meditation is relaxing and have numerous beneficial effects on our body and mind, health, consciousness, clarity of thinking, energy level, developing our intuition, widening our perspective and expanding our boundaries.

The Aum Mantra Meditation may serve as a springboard to all other spiritual practices and exercises. It is very natural, very easy to practice. It is not conflicting with any teaching, tradition, dogma or religion.

Connecting the Supreme Self, or the ocean of inner silence, gives momentum to all our actions, facilitates and speeds up attaining all goals.

Ultimately, The Aum Mantra Meditation is a great aid in attaining Self-realization, or enlightenment -- upon aspiring this supreme attainment.

Go to Instructions to The Aum Mantra Meditation

Healing The Inner Child

Some people don't get in childhood all the love they deserve and need. At times, children are being wounded emotionally. As we grow and mature, often we carry with us the scars born of the emotional wounds we acquired as little children. Thus, as we go on in life, we often carry with us a hurt and wounded child. Those emotional scars within us, this wounded child in us, affects our psychological makeup as long as the scars and wounds are there. Healing The Inner Child enables us to gain greater emotional and psychological maturity.

The view presented by The Third Circle holds that spiritual growth and human growth are the very same process. Growing as a human being means growing spiritually and true spiritual growth means growing as a human being. Thus, Healing The Inner Child has great value in both our human growth and spiritual evolution.

This is a very simple, yet, extremely powerful exercise, based on guided imagery. It is healing of very deep layers of our psyche, which may remain healed for as long as we live. Healing the inner child may increase your love to yourself and thus increase your love to others -- your ability to genuinely love others.

This healing exercise is a very vivid example for the actual power of love in action -- it exemplifies how love may actually work.

Go to Instructions to Healing The Inner Child

Connecting Your Future Self

As we live our life, we acquire more experience, more knowledge -- which means growth. It may be safe to assume that in the future, a person will have more experience and more knowledge. People who are being consciously on a spiritual path, or a human growth path, may safely assume that in the future they will be at a higher level, both spiritual and human.

By connecting one's future self, one may receive guidance from one's own future, wiser, more evolved self. The process of human and spiritual growth may be quickened by connecting one's future self. The benefit of taking guidance from one's own future self is operating out of Self-Source-Of-Authority.

This meditation, or process, of Connecting Your Future Self is based on guided imagery. It is a very simple process, yet, quite powerful and very effective one.

Go to Instructions to Connecting Your Future Self

Mother Earth Consciousness

It is extremely simple, yet quite powerful exercise, developing and increasing our connectedness to and consciousness of nature and Mother Earth. A great aid in widening our perspective beyond our immediate personal needs and wants. It helps developing our love and caring to all-that-is.

Go to Instructions to Mother Earth Consciousness

Mother Earth Meditation

A visualization of humanity moving to a higher step in its evolution by recreating and increasing connectedness and caring to nature and Mother Earth.

It is a practical application and implementation of our widened perspective, consciousness, caring and love. In turn, practicing this meditation and our practical caring for a wider cause serves us in widening our perspective.

Some say that humanity is degrading itself into too much materialism. Some say that humanity is destroying itself and our planet Earth. Whether it is true or not, to whatever degree it is accurate or not -- it feels like the call of our time for each and everyone to actually do the best one can to care for humanity and Mother Earth. This meditation is quite an effective means towards this end.

Go to Instructions to Mother Earth Meditation

Peace On Earth Meditation

A visualization of peace on Earth. The importance and benefits are similar to those of Mother Earth Meditation.

Quite an effective aid to develop and increase peace and love in our own hearts and actually spreading peace and love vibrations all over the universe.

Peace may be attained by bringing in peace, not by fighting war. Peace attracts peace, fighting brings war, the same attracts the same.

We actually attract to our lives that which our mind, intent and focus are directed to -- that in which we delve. It is an attraction of energies and essences. Directing our attention to peace on Earth facilitates and aids actually bringing it. This is one of the meanings that we create our own reality. It is good to actively and intentionally create whatever we want to there to be.

One of the best uses of our volition is facilitating and aiding peace on Earth.

Go to Instructions to Peace On Earth Meditation

May your own Light and Love guide you.

Download the Meditations in The Third Circle (TTC) -- as a text file.

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Go to Instructions to practicing the meditations -- part 3

Go to Instructions to practicing the meditations -- part 4

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Back to Contents of this page

Back to Preface to Meditations in The Third Circle (TTC)

Introduction -- A brief introduction to what The Third Circle is.

Philosophy -- an outline of some basic concepts in TTC philosophy.

Peace Circles -- an emergency call of our time.

Inspiring Quotes

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Last updated: March 4 2005