Essay Edition
Guided Energy Meditation
Bring attention to the third eye, the spot right in the front of the forehead. Feel the spot, holding your attention there, almost like you are looking at it. The spot is activated. It feels like a magnetic pressure on the forehead. Give it your attention, and use your finger, touching your forehead or even just hovering. Activate it.
Bring attention to the heart center. Notice how, when we experience the heart, the third eye is more activated. You are going to be more present in the moment. Feel that you are the sweetest, kindest, most grateful, blissful, happy, generous person. Let yourself feel that beautiful state. Make sure you feel it energetically in the heart chakra. Goodness. Gentleness.
Try to feel your heart expand. Pretend that it literally touches the walls and envelops the house. Expansion can be a reaching, but it can also simply be a whole thing. It is amazing how simply choosing to let the heart expand gives it a sense of transformed size.
We walk around in our own bodies when we are toroidal fields of awareness. We are using that. Make it work.
Go to the navel center, one inch below the belly button. This is the will, willpower. The key is palms down. Palms up is heart; palms down is navel.
It is important that all three levels of the dantian work together. I can physically feel this one, just like the heart and the third eye. You can feel it in the abdomen, but also expanding like the heart does, in front of the abdomen. It feels a little like a fiery heat, a little magnetic. It is both within the body, very viscerally, and it also expands in front of the body.
This is your willpower energy. Stay on the navel center a little longer. It is very important. It is empowering to the whole energy body. It is discipline. It is self-command, stability, integrity, even love, when it serves the heart.
Feel the power in the music, and let it move you, hold you, transform you. Feel your navel center in front of the body, a vortex of energy, expansive. You want to feel warrior-like, poised.
Go back to the heart center. Go up to the throat chakra at the base of the neck. Go to the third eye.
Right inside the middle of the brain, there is a chakra. Stay with that one for now. It is right in the middle of the brain. Try to feel that spot with your awareness field, behind the third eye.
Now raise it to the crown, right at the top of the head and above the head. There is a pillar of energy. It feels like tingling on top of your head. It has other qualities too, like dripping from the top of your head.
You should feel tall. There should be awareness and vitality a foot or two above, and in the scalp on the top. There is a pillar of light that goes straight up for miles, but just two feet above is good too.
This is a transcendent chakra. We are ready for it. Feel that you are a pillar. Your axis is taller. Simply reach out with your mind. Reach with your hand and touch the node above your head. When I touch it, it makes an electrical connection, a magnetic connection, something.
Cultivate that palpable sensation. I use the middle finger, usually, to make the most connection. That is the universal biology, energy pattern. When you touch the node above the head, you simultaneously feel it filled up. There is a flux, a magnetic transportation.
Turn your palm up to the sky and run it from near your head up as high as you can reach, with your middle finger. It moves through a divine current. You can take a few strokes upward through this luminous liquid. If you do it right, the more you do it, it makes you so high.
Feel the entire constellation of chakras, of vortices, activated together, from the bottom of your axis all the way into the crown and above, deeply centered in the heart. Energetic vitality.
Then just enjoy the feeling. Let go into it with the music. You have arrived in the now through your energy cultivation.
Get cozy with yourself. Feel the warmth of being home in your own body, in your own heart, in the moment. Let yourself cherish. For now, just sink into the warmth of that. Happy, just because.
Really savor it. That is your heart. Warm and fuzzy. Expand. Feel your chest. Love. Gratitude.
All along, it was you. It was meditation. It is a love story with existence.
If you have not smiled yet, give yourself a little smile. A small smile or a big smile. Feel what is going on with your eyes, with your mouth, with the whole being.
You have to love this practice. You are at home in yourself. When you are ready, slowly come out of the meditation.
Practice and Energy Awareness
It is good to awaken the energy centers so that you can feel them all the time. If you find a little trail that one leaves behind, follow it vigilantly. You found it. There it is. Hold it, no matter what you are doing.
The navel center is a good one to activate. It is your willpower. You are allowed to have your own power, and it is in service to the heart.
Start with silence. That is a good way to begin before you even do the energy. Just process everything and take some time. Then start with the heart, and you can begin adding the others.
The more we do this, the more it becomes a part of us. Daily practice is very good.
Full Transcript
Gathering and Preparation
Adam Wes Mom, can you not hear me?
Colin W We can hear you, Adam.
Adam Wes Oh, Mom's not answering.
Colin W She's got her mic muted.
Adam Wes No, she's not even speaking. Mom?
Colleen Go ahead.
Adam Wes Did you see what I sent you?
Colleen Yeah, I just saw what you said. You mean the...
Adam Wes I just wanted you to see it. Don't say it out loud.
Colleen I've been doing something else, so I'm only just seeing it.
Adam Wes Oh, okay, that's fine.
Colin W Hello, Ariella.
Ariella Hi!
Adam Wes Good, buddy. Okay, so I'm going to text people because I didn't let anybody know.
Colleen It's almost Christmas Eve, so I'm sure people are running around doing other stuff today.
Adam Wes Yeah. Okay, guys, we have to settle in. This is a time to settle in. Just because very few people are here, it's not small talk time.
Colleen Having a party.
Adam Wes No, we need to do this properly. It will be a very quiet day. Settle in. Maybe somebody else will show up soon. We'll start in a minute or two.
Thank you, Andrea, for letting me know.
I'm thinking today is a good day for a long meditation. Perhaps I'll briefly talk about practice. I guess that could be the sermon of the day: practice, spiritual practice. Perhaps we'll talk at the end about that. Let's dive right into the meditation.
I've been working a little too hard for the last three days at what some of you have just looked at. Mom and Andrea both saw it.
Can you hear the music fine? Let's dive in.
Guided Energy Meditation
Let's bring attention to the third eye, the spot right in the front of the forehead. Feel the spot, holding your attention there, almost like you're looking at it. The spot is activated. It feels like a magnetic pressure on the forehead. Give it your attention, and use your finger, touching your forehead or even just hovering. Activate it.
Actually, yeah, it's there. A few more minutes with the third eye.
Let's bring attention to the heart center. Notice how, when we experience the heart, the third eye is more activated. You're going to be more present in the moment.
Feel you are the sweetest, kindest, most grateful, blissful, happy, generous person. Let yourself feel that beautiful state. Make sure you feel it energetically in the heart chakra. Goodness. Gentleness.
You can put your hand down. Try to feel your heart expand. Pretend that it literally touches the walls and envelops the house.
Expansion can be a reaching, but it can also simply be a whole thing. It's amazing how simply choosing to let the heart expand gives it a sense of transformed size.
We walk around in our own bodies when we're toroidal fields of awareness. We're using that. Make it work.
Are you with us, Andrea? I'm not sure if you're there.
Let's go to the navel center, one inch below the belly button. This is the will, willpower. Sometimes I do this to get it to connect with that spot, especially with the middle fingers. The key is palms down. Palms up is heart; palms down is navel.
It's important that all three levels of the dantian work together. I can physically feel this one, just like the heart and the third eye. You can feel it in the abdomen, but also expanding like the heart does, in front of the abdomen. It feels a little like a fiery heat, a little magnetic. It's both within the body, very viscerally, and it also expands in front of the body.
This is your willpower energy. Let's stay on the navel center a little longer. It's very important. It is empowering to the whole energy body. It's discipline. It's self-command, stability, integrity, even love, when it serves the heart.
Feel the power in the music, and let it move you, hold you, transform you. Feel your navel center in front of the body, a vortex of energy, expansive.
Keep it up, especially for the navel one. You want to feel warrior-like, poised. Good job. If you were with the navel that long, wonderful.
Let's go back to the heart center. Let's go up to the throat chakra at the base of the neck. Go to the third eye for about ten seconds.
Right inside the middle of the brain, there's a chakra. Stay with that one for now. It's right in the middle of the brain. Try to feel that spot with your awareness field, behind the third eye.
Now let's raise it to the crown, right at the top of the head and above the head. There's a pillar of energy. It feels like tingling on top of your head. It has other qualities too, like dripping from the top of your head.
You should feel tall. There should be awareness and vitality a foot or two above, and in the scalp on the top. There's a pillar of light that goes straight up for miles, but just two feet above is good too.
This is a transcendent chakra. We're ready for it. Feel that you are a pillar. Your axis is taller. Simply be reaching out with your mind. Reach with your hand, like I'm doing. I'm actually touching the node above my head. When I touch it, it makes an electrical connection, a magnetic connection, something.
Cultivate that palpable sensation. I use the middle finger, usually, to make the most connection. That's the universal biology, energy pattern. If your arm gets tired, you can always use the other arm.
When you touch the node above the head, you simultaneously feel a little... It's filled up. There's a flux, a magnetic transportation.
If you haven't done so, turn your palm up to the sky and run it from near your head up as high as you can reach, with your middle finger. It moves through a divine current. You can take a few strokes upward through this luminous liquid.
If you do it right, the more you do it, it makes you so high. Woo!
All right. Feel the entire constellation of chakras, of vortices, activated together, from the bottom of your axis all the way into the crown and above, deeply centered in the heart. Energetic vitality.
Then just enjoy the feeling. Let go into it with the music. You have arrived in the now through your energy cultivation.
Let's really get cozy with ourselves. Feel the warmth of being home in your own body, in your own heart, in the moment. Let yourself cherish. For now, just sink into the warmth of that. Happy, just because.
This will be our final song for this meditation. Really savor it. That's your heart. Warm and fuzzy. Expand. Feel your chest. Love. Gratitude.
All along, it was you. It was meditation. It's a love story with existence.
If you haven't smiled yet, you should give yourself a little smile. Give me a small smile or a big smile. What's going on with your eyes or with your mouth? The whole being.
Oh, you have to love this practice. You're at home in yourself. When you're ready, you can slowly come out of the meditation.
I haven't cried in class, I think, in a while.
Experiences and Energy Awareness
Colleen What did you say?
Adam Wes I haven't cried in class, I think, in a while. Tears of joy.
Colleen Oh.
Adam Wes That's nice.
Colleen My eyes are watering, so I thought you were thinking I was crying, but I'm sleepy.
Adam Wes Well, no, I'm actually crying. Tears from the heart.
Namaste, Mama. How was your meditation?
Colleen It looks like you really needed that.
Adam Wes No, it's not about needing it.
Colleen No, I think it did you good.
Adam Wes Oh, it did me good. It doesn't mean I needed it.
Colleen We all need it.
Adam Wes So, how was it?
Colleen It was good. My head was everywhere, but eventually I felt relaxed and tired. Calm is the word, maybe not tired.
Adam Wes Did you experience any light or energy?
Colleen Yeah. I couldn't do this energy. It didn't work for me. Here, I felt that tightness again. I had a lot of purple with green things coming out of it, and then at my navel I saw a royal blue, so maybe something's happening there.
Adam Wes Did you feel it physically?
Colleen No. It's hard physically, but I can feel the third eye. I can't do the navel.
Adam Wes Yeah, keep trying. You should put your finger half an inch to one inch below your belly button.
Colleen I did.
Adam Wes It's a good one to really activate. And you didn't feel the crown?
Right now, I can feel all of them at the same time. It's good to awaken them so that you can feel them all the time. If you find a little trail that it leaves behind, you follow it vigilantly. Try to hold it. It's like, "Oh, I found it. Okay, there it is." Then you just hold it, no matter what you're doing.
In the middle of a conversation with somebody, "Wait, I felt my navel center." Then just hold it. Ariella says to her husband, "Hold on, I'm working on my navel center," and he calls her by her birth name. That's funny.
Nice job, Mom. Wonderful. Just keep trying. Maybe when we're in person, we can work on that, because I really think it's very good for you. It's your willpower. You might even be resisting it a little bit. You're allowed to have your own power, and it's in service to the heart.
Then the crown, I think we haven't even tried that one. You can feel it all the way up like this. I can touch it all the way. This is my crown all the way through.
Colleen Cool. Maybe one day. But I did see a mountain or hill with houses on it, and I did see a stadium with people doing exercise.
Adam Wes Beautiful. What kind of exercise?
Colleen Stretching and stuff. They were all wearing the same, like a little black. I don't know where that came from.
Adam Wes That sounds like Japan or something, with a Tai Chi practice day. That's cool. Namaste, Mom. Thank you.
Colleen Thank you, Adam. Namaste.
Adam Wes Can you do it again? I want to see it. Aw, thank you.
And how about you, Ariella? You're muted.
Ariella It was a very wonderful, expansive experience. It was a bit difficult for me in the beginning because I was communicating with the Higher Self of one of my grandchildren before I came to meditation, so a lot of my energy was going to that. But eventually I focused, and it was very expansive and light-filling.
Adam Wes Beautiful. Namaste. Good job.
Notice how we started with just silence in the beginning? That's a good way to start before you even do the energy. Just process everything and take some time. Then you start with the heart, and you can start adding the others.
Oh, we did an hour, or maybe it was 55 minutes. That was a long one today. Namaste, Ariella. Thank you.
Ariella Thank you. Namaste.
Practice and Community
Adam Wes Namaste. Hi, Andrea.
Andrea P Hi, hello!
Adam Wes Sorry, I was...
Andrea P Stuck in traffic.
Adam Wes That's okay. As you can see, this is a slow day, and that's okay.
Andrea P Yeah, but I thought it was going to be hard for me because I had to get out of the car, so I had a two-part meditation. During the first part, in the car on the highway, everything was pitch black, and I went into it very easily. I find that every time it's getting easier.
Once I got home and we started doing the heart and pineal gland chakras, I kept seeing this green light. So that was nice.
Adam Wes Awesome. Wonderful. Wow, and everything was black too? Was it a visual experience?
Andrea P No, it was where I was. I was in the middle of the highway. Even though I had my eyes closed, it felt black around me because it was black around me. There were no lights.
Adam Wes Are you sure? There's a black energy in meditation, and if you find that, it's actually the deepest energy, the most subtle.
Andrea P No, I don't think it was that. I think it was the situation that helped.
Adam Wes Oh, okay. But you saw some green light. That's wonderful. The more we do this, the more it becomes a part of us. So daily practice is very good. I've been focusing on daily practice all weekend.
I'll send you guys my new website. I sent it to Mom and Andrea. I haven't really announced it yet, but that was a lot of work. Thanks to Andrea's wonderful suggestion, I'm going along with this. I think this is a brilliant idea. Perfect. So thank you, Andrea.
Andrea P Great. Namaste.
Adam Wes Yeah, namaste.
Ariella Oh, I'd also like to see your website.
Adam Wes Oh yeah, I'm going to send it to you very shortly. It has your photo on it. It's got Ariella's photo!
Hey, Dad. Namaste. Thanks for being here. I hope you had a good meditation.
We'll just be slow until the new year, and then we'll be an event, a party, a meditation club.
What? Are you unmuting, Mom? Are you going to say something?
Colleen Yeah, we have to do something, but I just wanted to say, since we celebrate Christmas, Andrea, Merry Christmas. Happy New Year to all of you!
Adam Wes Oh, yeah! I should definitely be saying Merry Christmas to everybody.
Andrea P Merry Christmas.
Adam Wes All right, guys. Andrea, can we talk in half an hour? Is that okay, or is that too late?
Andrea P Yeah, it's fine.
Adam Wes Okay. We could jump on in exactly half an hour, if that's okay. Or would 15 minutes be better?
Andrea P What time is it there? Here it's 9:16.
Adam Wes How about 9:31 your time?
Andrea P Great. Yeah, let's do that.
Adam Wes Okay, see you soon.
Andrea P Bye.
Adam Wes Bye, everybody!
Colleen Bye. Thank you, Adam.
Adam Wes Happy holidays.
Ariella Thank you.
Adam Wes You're welcome, Ariella. Good smile, Ariella. There you go.