Good Feeling Meditation

Try this meditation when you are about to experience something new.

1. Find a private space and a comfortable sitting position.

2. Bring up the memory of a time, place, thing, person that you want to recreate. It can be just a brief memory that can go from several seconds to a few minutes, however long it was that you experienced a purely joyful emotion. Make sure that your memory is as detailed as possible: time period, place, what you were wearing, what you were hearing, who you were with, what you looked like, etc.

3. Get connected with the feeling that you have and describe it in detail (elated, satisfied, loved, excited, alive). Notice where you feel this feeling in your body. See it being expressed outward from you body, then circulate it back to your lower abdomen area (lower dantien) and see that feeling circle back to the original place in your body. Do this a few times until your body is filled with the emotions you want to feel.

4. Go back to the memory. First, turn down all the sounds (actually turning a pretend knob in the air might help). Repeat # 3. Then, imagine the images of yourself, the place, everything turn to black and white. Repeat # 3 and continue through the next step. Finally, see everything start to fade, first the outlines then the whole image. See it melting before your very eyes. Keep repeating #3 at this time until all you have is the feeling within you.

5. Take 3 cleansing breaths, inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth, with the third exhale bringing you back to the present moment.

6. Try something different. Or experience the same thing differently.

“THE BASIS OF FREEDOM IS RECOGNITION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS; THE INVISIBLE DIMENSION; NOT YET REALIZED; LEAVING A SPACE FOR THE NEW."

~Norman O. Brown, Love's Body