Wayne Wirs and I were talking last week about spiritual practice, and he suggested I change my schedule to expand the time I spent at the healing bench, and shorten the time I spent in personal meditation. “Just try it for 30 days,” he said. I love new challenges like that, changing it up. Today he asked: “How is that hour long selfless meditation mod working for you?”
I wrote back to him: I like it, although I admit shortening my creative visualization sessions to accommodate. I was doing the hour twice a day personal med, then 20-30 minutes twice a day praying for the ones on the bench, then another hour later doing creative viz on behalf of friends, family, whoever asks me to. Since a lot of the same people are on the bench that ask me to hold a vision for them, I translated your suggestion into that it would be better for me to just pray for them rather than hold a specific (and perhaps limited) vision with them.
The new routine: Now I’m doing an hour morning meditation, just following breath first some prayers but no visualization. After that I do 20 minutes on the bench, reading and picking up the notes and pics and emails and holding them in my mind and thoughts for a moment. I recognize our essential Oneness and ask God/dess to bless them and give them strength and awareness to ease whatever their distress.
In the afternoon, I now do a 30 minute personal med (again just breathing/awareness) followed by an hour now at the bench. I do the ho’oponopono then as well as the prayers and acknowledgement of Oneness.
In the early evening, I do my creative viz sessions. I bring out the list of projects I’m working on with friends and partners, as well as notes and emails people have sent me. I spend a few minutes on each, sending some energy toward their vision, with the intent to help prepave their future experience. Then my personal just-before-bedtime-routine is a quick nightly review of what happened that day, and some personal creative viz toward what I’d like to happen tomorrow or next week or next year. ### end of email
I like changing it up. It always starts the domino effect of other things happening in my life. Things that need shaking up, get shaken up. Old structures fall away so new ones can replace them. Let’s see what happens next.