Meditation & Relaxation

Earth breath meditation

1) Choose a relatively quiet place and sit in a comfortable position that will allow you to meditate and breath easily for up to twenty minutes, relax and close your eyes.

2) You now need to release any muscular tensions you may have. To do this, tense and relax your muscle groups, starting with the right side then the left. Start by tensing and releasing the muscles in the right foot, then the left. Continue in the same manner to the calve muscles, knees, thighs, buttocks, lower back, upper back, abdominal area, chest, hands (clench and release a fist), forearms, upper arms, shoulders, neck, face, scalp. By tensing and relaxing the muscles, you ensure that you release any tension within those muscles that you may not have been aware of.

3) Now mentally scan your body inwardly and release any other subtle tensions that may remain, by tensioning and releasing the muscles in that area as before.

4) Take a deep breath and let it go with an audible sigh. Let your stomach area relax to give the breath room to move, and start breathing in the 4-2-4-2 rhythm as practised in the introductory section. This time, imagine that you are inhaling through your feet and up to your knees. Imagine that the air you are inhaling rises out of the earth and the exhaling breath goes deeply back into the earth.

5) Once you have the hang of that, let the imaginary breath rise through your feet to your hips. Again, once you have mastered the technique thus far, allow the imagined breath to rise up to the level of your navel and solar plexus. Then up to your heart, throat, and then the centre of your head (pineal gland). Finally, allow the breath to flow all the way up to the crown of your head. For those familiar with Tai Chi, this is similar to the exercise of raising Chi or 'earth energy'.

6) Continue to 'breathe' from the earth through your feet and up to the crown of your head for ten minutes or so.

7) Now slowly reverse the process, only breathing as far as the pineal gland, then only as far as the throat etc. until you return to breathing in a normal manner.

8) Emerge slowly from the meditation. Sit quietly with your eyes open for a minute, do not rush to get up as you may feel unsteady.

This meditation can be used as a excellent grounding exercise before and after ritual workings.

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