Meditation for May 23rd, 2016
Risk of Meditation
If you scour the Internet or peruse a bookstore, you will find endless information on the benefits of a mindful practice. Corporations are starting to use mindfulness and other radical approaches to help make their employees more productive. When someone says they’re meditating, you think they are doing something wonderful or are a hippy dippy who should get a job, but you don’t think to warn them of the dangers.
Yes, meditation can be dangerous. Nothing is without it’s risks. The idea that something is risk free is ridiculous and naive.
When one truly meditates, one is delving deep into themselves to find strength and wisdom that is hidden in the folds of the mind. If one is not careful, one can cause themself a panic attack, anxiety, mania and even psychotic breaks. Practice your meditations with ease and don’t meditate if you feel confused or too morose.
A great way to stay safe from having adverse reactions is to know how intense your meditation should be. If you are a sensitive sort, maybe don’t delve into the wilderness where there are no maps or trails. Just keep music on so you can find your way back. Yanni or the Shins are great meditation musical shamans.
If you are a thinking person, do not try the emptying of the mind meditation. In an intense meditation where your mind is clear and one of your healing stones aren’t lined up properly, you might find yourself unable to awake again. You will be in a vegetable state for all eternity until a person of royal blood and your one true love kisses you, but that won’t happen because you were too busy being a narcissistic new age person.
If you are into the more western approach of meditation where you actually use your brain in the way God had intended, then you will have to be careful about how you phrase your meditative mantras, for using the wrong words in the wrong order will awaken a long slumbering God from the deep who only wish awake is the total enslavement of humankind.
Don’t mess with your sub conscience too much. Playing God with your dreams can jeapordize others. There are cases where someone dreams someone they know is a mermaid and the dreamer is going to catch the mermaid and make the mermaid fall in love with them, but when they wake up they find out that the person who was the mermaid in their dream was found dead in the bathtub and there is no explanation why the person was taking a bath in their pajamas. Don’t be a dream killer.
Learn to ward your meditation room with protective runes, powerful stones and burn the right herbs and spices for a deliciously safe meditation space. The wall between the real world and the supernatural world is thin when one is in a trance, so one has to protect themselves from the long dark claw of evil.
Prayer
The One Who Lives in My Buddha Incense Holder,
Okay,
Here goes some mindfulness.
Okay.
Damnit, this isn’t comfortable.
Maybe if I sit on the floor instead of this bench I paid $86.99 for.
Okay.
Ohm.
Shit, sitting cross legged is not comfortable at all.
Ugh, I’m all stiff and tense.
Let’s just move this pillow over here.
Okay.
Ohm.
Sigh, I should really return that work email.
I’m not on salary, but if I want to be I oughta show that I can be depended on.
Fuck, why?
I’m not at work.
I’m fucking meditating.
I shouldn’t be thinking about work when I’m listening to sitar music and burning incense.
Okay.
Ohm.
I mean, if they want me to answer emails on my day off then they’ll have to put me on salary.
Damn it.
Shit up, head.
I need to clear my brain.
Okay.
Here we go.
Ohm.
Mmmmh, tacos
Amen.
Craft
Here are some protective wards you can do to protect yourself while meditating.
Crystals: surround yourself with hematite, black tourmaline, obsidian, labrodite, jasper, bloodstone and don’t forget, Slam! Duh duh duh, let the boys be boys! Onyx.
Set the stone all around you. The more the merrier. If you found them, you’ll be more attuned to them.
Wards: using basic designs of a shield or a net, one can ward off the evil ones when weakening the walls between here and there. Use salt.
By (element) , I ward thee:
Guard this space from all ill will
and all those who wish me/us harm.
Incense: the power of smelly smoke has kept dark magic and demons at bay for thousands of years.
Blueberry, frankincense, honeysuckle, lotus, myrrh, pine, African violet, Althea, benzoin, cedar, Rosemary and juniper are all scents to burn and smudge along with sage for a protected and safe space.
Burn all the scents at once, hippy.
Goal
Don’t over do anything. Even awesome things can harm. Excercise kills more Americans than terrorists or airplanes.