2 Short Meditations: A Habit You'll Love

The time and pleasure you take in your daily habit of showering or bathing is a way of honoring your physical body. You can add to your routine two short and powerful meditations that will enhance your day and your life.

While you’re relaxed in the shower or tub, out loud or to yourself, state your intention, what you have in mind to be accomplished. You can declare your overall, lifetime intention or one just for the day. Examples of overall intentions are: “I intend to live in my contract 100% of the time.” or “My intention is to live my life totally in love, joy, peace, health, wealth, prosperity and abundance.” A day’s intention might be, “I intend to be patient in all situations, every moment of this day.” or “ I state my intention to easily recognize the good in each person with whom I interact today.” Your one sentence announces to your body, mind, spirit and the universe what it is you desire. “And,” as Paulo Coelho reveals in The Alchemist, “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.”

You can follow your words of intention with a soothing visualization that will strengthen your energetic connection to the heavens and earth. Picture in your mind a column of energy coming directly from the heavens into your crown chakra and flowing down into your third eye, thymus, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral, and root chakras, then out of your body and into the center of the earth. Allow your intuition to choose the color of energy for the day.

See the energy flowing freely from the heavens through your body and into the center of earth and back again. Enjoy the energy you’re picturing. Endow it with love, peace, joy and harmony. Know that these qualities are flowing into you and to the earth. Further imagine the love pushing up out of the center of the earth into all the people and animals through the bottom of their feet, next into the roots of all the trees and plants and then flooding into all the soil and rocks. End your visualization by bringing a big smile to your face. How nice you are. You just gave yourself and everything in and on the earth a love bath.

WARNING: Because doing these easy meditations makes you feel so good and produces noticeable results, they are habit forming.

Justine Singer, M.A. leads group meditations weekly. For information contact 909 548 0750 or justinesinger@cs.com

Sept/Oct 2002

2 Short Meditations: A Habit You'll Love

by Justine Singer