Saturday, November 13, 2010

Love and Money

For several nights now I've been taking part in the New Reality Transmission, a worldwide event in which thousands, maybe tens of thousands, maybe millions of people are meditating on a world built on love for eleven minutes, at 11:11 (EST), for eleven days, beginning, of course, on 11/11. This is the first of several blogs reflecting on my experience.

Each evening I settle into a quiet place where I can sit comfortably with my back straight - or, as Ganesh Baba would say, my antenna aligned. As I get settled I wiggle a little to loosen up, and exhale rapidly a number of times to clear my lungs, sometimes using my arms like chicken wings to help pump out the air. Then, relaxing more and more deeply, I take about ten of the longest, slowest breaths I am capable of taking, the out-breath roughly twice as long as the in-breath.

I use mantras with my breath practice. Ever since I learned it from Baba, a simple OM on the in-breath, OM on the out-breath, has been the core of my practice. Sometimes I sing the word to myself as I breath, going up and down the scale, or to some melody, but more often I just listen to my inner sound.

The syllable OM represents the primal vibration, the sound of the Big Bang behind space and time. Our ears cannot possibly hear it - but our bodies do sing, some more loudly, some very softly. The body's song is not respected in today's world; we call it "tinnitus." I've always thought of the rushing sound in my head as my personal OM and I find listening to it immensely peaceful. I revert to OMing in one form or another between periods of trying a series of other mantras that have come to me from here and there over the years.

Currently, I am using abundance on the in-breath, surrender on the out-breath. I don't use the word, I feel the idea; it's vibrational.

Eventually, I begin the slow, rhythmic breathing that I try to maintain through rest of the meditation, and I think about a new world built on love, a world where the currency is love instead of money.

Each evening the thoughts that come to me when I set that particular stage are becoming clearer. I've been taking a few notes after each meditation. Over the next few days, I'll try to find the time to put some of those understandings here too.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Thanks for sharing Eve... always good to read you.

I might be a few days late in getting started but i'll be there at 11:11pm tonight :)

2:52 PM  
Blogger Eve said...

Much appreciated, Eric.

I'm glad you'll join the meditation - the more of us there are the better.

2:57 PM  

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