{"id":23240,"date":"2020-10-09T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/?p=23240"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:14:24","slug":"divine-introspections-meditation-journeys-through-healing-and-spirituality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2020\/10\/09\/divine-introspections-meditation-journeys-through-healing-and-spirituality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Introspections: Meditation Journeys through Healing and Spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To Release, Then to Increase as We Celebrate the Turn of the Year<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Rounding out a year of tumultuous growth and spontaneous energy shifts, we end our Wheel of the Year with an incredibly rare opportunity to find faith inside of ourselves and refocus our vision to a positive success.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Samhain. Such a sacred time of year as the veil grows to it\u2019s thinnest and we welcome into our homes the Spirits of our deceased loved ones, pay respect to the God\/desses of Old, and look to rebirthing our land for the new crops to come. It is time for us to shed the old, celebrate our accomplishments and dive deep inside ourselves to start new – and we can use meditation to ensure that we follow this path and stay true to the positivity of our goals throughout the year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at ways we can use this time to focus our Universal Vibrations to ensure we are only allowing things that serve us to flow into our lives, and that we are attracting the visualizations we want for our paths. We have all heard of, and more than likely tried some type of a visualization meditation – usually to bring ourselves to peace or to free the mind of negative thought patterns – and this time we are going to be using this a bit in our methods of Meditation. Since we are celebrating fresh starts, we are going to go over creating and maintaining a Meditation Journal which will help us to not only hold ourselves entirely accountable but also as a way to track our personal progress.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Beginning Your Meditation Journal<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

When acknowledging the impact Meditation has had on my life, one of the first things I credit is my practice of keeping a Meditation Journal. To follow a spiritual path is to be honest and true to yourself, with that comes the truth in self accountability. By the mapping of our societal culture, we\u2019re a great deal too hard and too easy on ourselves – and this Journal will help you to see grand transparency in these inside yourself. Pick out a blank notebook that calls to you with peace and a pull to full transparent honesty. I also highly suggest to do the same with your writing utensil, be it pencil or pen, ensure that it is one that calls to your vibration of this Meditation Journal. The balancing of these will help for you to begin this part of your Journey with grounded energies that are ready to be formed into what you need from your path.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Make a pact with yourself. Directly in your Journal. This pact is to be honest, true, and kind to yourself. Do not promise anything that you know is out of your reach – realistic goals are the easiest to attain first and see your confirmation of. This helps to build your energies and vibrations to obtaining larger goals, so it is important to first remain within the realm of reason for yourself when beginning your Journal. An example of this Journal Pact is as follows;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI, Hallie Walker, promise to myself that I will be fair to my emotional state, and not to fall too hard on myself if I do not complete this everyday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I promise to do my absolute best to build this as often as I can with the goal being everyday as the end practice while I\u2019m making my dreams come true. This Journal will be a safe space for emotional release as well, however it\u2019s main goal and purpose is to keep me on track of my Meditation Practice. This is to help expand my consciousness and build my Universal Vibrations so that I may make my dreams come true without obstacle, worry, or negative interaction. If I cannot follow through with any goal of the day, I hold myself to the standard of writing down that I did NOT follow through with this goal and why I did not or could not. I will use this information to help shape the better human being that I am trying to become and making myself stronger spiritually each and every day.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Follow this Pact and be KIND to yourself. Beating yourself up for anything is the opposite of doing work on yourself Spiritually. Make this a Sacred thing – important, real, and true to yourself absolutely.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Samhain Celebration Meditations<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Looking at the major vortex we have brewing for this Samhain, we find an intensity to dive inward with the Sun in Scorpio which is pushed to greater heights with a Blue Full Moon in Taurus. It\u2019s time for us to connect with the deep feelings we carry regardless of how painful they may be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With this Meditation practice we will be acknowledging the events that we have seen throughout this turn of the Wheel, release those that do not serve us or harm us, and tune our personal Vibrations to achieve our goals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With Meditation, we are able to find better use of the Hermetic Principles, Manifest Destiny, and the Laws of Attractions. Within these practices we find that at the basis of our beings, we are able to change how our Paths progress through the Universe by changing our own personal vibrations. We can use Meditation to make these changes in our Paths! These were designed to get a stable and steady footing at the beginning of the turn of the Wheel so that your vibrations have a head start. As yours change, you will notice that the vibrations around you change to begin to meet yours! Before we get started let\u2019s take a quick look at some things we want to remember in this graphic as we begin this exercise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our first Meditation exercise will be to separate ourselves from what does not or may no longer serve our purpose. In order to begin this, we will need to identify the key events that occurred throughout the year to affect our lives. Record this in your Meditation Journal, remembering to include BOTH positive and negative events. Generally we can break down key events in our Path into three main groupings – Societal, Personal, and Relationships. Let\u2019s take a look at some examples of these:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n