TECHNIQUE: CLEAR YOUR MIND TO GAIN PERSPECTIVE:
Take a deep breath in, and then a long breath out. Breathe out for as long as you can. This is a clearing breath. Take three clearing breaths in all.Shut your eyes, and visualize a luminous star very far away. Light comes from the star towards you and enters through the top of your head [ the crown chakra]. As it gently flows in and through the center of your body, it clears out all thought, fear, negativity, doubt, pain, anger. It continues to flow as you experience calm and peace, and flows out through your feet, to the center of the earth, to be recycled.
Be clear and be calm.
Use this technique as a part of your daily routine. This can bring tremendous lightness and positivity in your life.
FIRST: SET A TIME.
That's all the time you'll need to clear. Shorter than the time it took to type out the technique or to read it! So each of us decides what works for us, and makes a mental note to clear whenever we can. As they say- clear the garbage from the mind.
SECOND: WATCH THE PROCESS.
THIRD: THE PAY-OFF.
�AUG 2002 Meenakshi Suri
What suits you- to clear every hour on the hour? Every two hours? Thrice a day? When you're waiting- for a download on the computer, a traffic light to turn green, to get to sleep, for a friend to answer the phone?
At first, we may find the lightness that comes immediately after a clearing. Like a ripple, the lightness spreads to other times during the day; times when we would otherwise be impatient or bored. Time seems to slow down, we may find that we are able to internalize the theories that we have read; we feel more connected to events and people, more intuitive, clearer. All help to dispel the emotions we'd like to avoid- despair, anger, annoyance, impatience, depression, worry, anxiety, resentment.
As we continue the clearing and assimilating, there are times when we find the gap between the feeling of an emotion and our expression of it. If we can do the clearing exercise at that moment, we may wonder: whatever happened to the emotion? The clearing can work in wonderful ways. These are ancient techniques- not for the learning but for the experiencing.