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Background on the
pool meditation exercises
Pool of
creation/Creation
An inherent
calmness in creating
Using the pool
of creation/Creation exercises
Pool Meditation
Exercises
As discussed under the topic “Meditation
Tools and Techniques” there are six primary ways in which you
will see meditation used in creativity. The Pool Meditation
exercises provide a a methodology to achieve the third, fourth and
fifth defined ends. It is used to bring our awareness to the moment,
to calm ourselves and/or insert and particular thought to manifest.
They are based on the
energy consciousness model and the way we can visualize Creation
and our creative endeavors analogous to the superposition of
vibrations. Pedagogically, we can visualize Creation and our
creations much the way create ripples in a pool of water, the
pool of creation/Creation, or the way music is made.
Meditation when used creatively and coupled with a clear intention
can provide a very quick way to center, calm and/or focus our being.
There is no need to sit for prolonged periods of time to use the
following exercises. However, to use these techniques effectively,
you should both embrace the power of your intention to create your
experiences and be sufficiently mindful and aware to see and capture
information provided by your
intuitive guidance in response to the exercise.
Background
on the pool meditation exercises (Top)
Many see meditation as sitting or
otherwise withdrawing from activity or body movement to focus
inward. Yet meditation is really about focusing and holding our
attention and awareness into a particular end. It doesn’t really
matter whether one moves or not. What is importing is holding focus.
When we realize that what is important is the focus of our attention
and awareness, meditation can be experienced quite different as
compared to what most have been exposed.
As you work with meditation and become observant of your life, you
will come to see
clarity of intention is an extremely powerful creative force.
What you can begin to see, the meditation is not as important as the
intention you hold that causes you to devote your time and
creative life energy to meditation. Directing your creative life
energy in a particular direction is where the real creative power
lies.
An intention causes our creative life energy to flow or not to flow
in a given direction in our life to fulfill the intention that is
held. In this regard, the intention(s) we hold, consciously or
subconsciously, is (are) a very powerful creative force in our life
to create the experiences we have. To get some creative control over
our life it becomes essential we understand both the conscious and
subconscious the intentions we hold. Often we need to go back and
establish the clarity of our intention before we being to mediate.
The discussion entitled, “Clarity
of Intention” and related discussions on intention found at the
end of this discussion can provide some assistance in this area.
The pool
of creation/Creation (Top)
The
pool of creation/Creation is a powerful analogy of Creation to
understand how our thoughts create our experiences. If you are not
familiar with this analogy, it is recommend you read the “The
Pool of creation/Creation” discussion before moving on for there
will be various references to this analogy.
An
inherent calmness in creating
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There is the belief that
meditating will calm our being. What is said here is that the
intention to calm ourselves through meditate and acting on that
intention by meditating is what calms our being. That is we are
exercising our power as a creative being. We choose to calm our
being and we chose to do so through meditation. It is not
necessarily the meditation which calms our being but the intention
we hold. Of course, withdrawing from activity to meditate helps us
become more calm for we are not preoccupied with all that is going
on around us. However, if we are detached from what is occurring
around us, there is no need to withdrawal. We can choose to become
calm and become it - if we choose to do so.
What needs to be understood is that there is a
calmness inherent within the creative process, there is a
calmness within our being that arises whenever we align with the
flow of energy within our being. There is also a calmness that
arises whenever our
creative life energy is free to dissipate in the experience we
desire to have. The calmness we feel that arises in meditation is
only an experience of the fruit of the experience of our creation.
Alternatively said, we choose to meditate then experience the
creation of mediation. The experience of the creation, in this case
meditation, is in itself calming.
As our creative life energy flows into the experience we have, it
expands into the experience. If we allow ourselves to have the
experience without interference of mind, this expansion can be felt
as both a fulness of one’s being and a calmness within one’s being.
If we are free to experience the flow of our creative life energy
into the experience we have in the moment, the energy dissipates and
we feel both the fulness of being and calmness that results from the
free expansion of the energy much like the river dissipating in the
ocean.
However, if our mind is occupied and occupied in its own thinking,
we are not free to fully feel the flow, our creative life energy is
not fully dissipated in the experience we have. We will not feel the
complete fulness of being or the calmness. There are two reasons why
this occurs when our mind is occupied or caught in its own thinking.
One is that our mind by what it chooses to think is creating a new
flow of energy, or rather diverting the existing flow of energy by,
and through, its thinking. The other is that we are often attached
to the experience in some way. For example, if we hold a judgement
of some type about the experience. Then the energy is not free to
flow but some of it remains bound in the attachments. This also can
give rise to pain.
In meditation, when you allow your thoughts to dissipate rather than
holding and/or acting on any though the mind stops injecting itself
into the flow of energy within your being. As you sit unattached to
what you experience you are free to experience the calmness as your
energy dissipates in the experience of meditating. Although we can
create this calmness in anything we do, most of us need to
intentionally calm ourselves.
Establishing a calmness within our being can take us back to the
source/Source where our experiences first take form. It is from
this place of calmness, a place of “no-thing-ness,”
no form out of which all Creation forms. The deeper we can create
this calmness within our being, the greater the creative powers that
are available to us.
Using
the pool of creation/Creation exercises
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The inherent calmness that comes
in creating and the concept of the
pool of creation/Creation in an exercise, is used in the
pool of creation/Creation exercises It may not feel like an
experience of the
source/Source of Creation but we going back to that place out of
which all of
creation/Creation unfold. We do it all the time unconsciously
because that is where our creative power life. To create is inherent
to our being and
our birthright is to be a creator. However we do most of our
creating at an
unconscious or subconscious level. All that is done here is make
what we do unconsciously and subconsciously done with a little more
awareness.
All of these exercises take us back to the
creative source/Creative Source. We need to know our intention
for whatever we choose consciously or subconsciously for it will
manifest in some way within the environment in which we find
ourselves. Our lack of clarity is what gives rise to many of the
issue we face in life.
If we wish to use the
pool of creation/Creation sheet of glass exercise to see thought
time or into another aspect of reality, seen or unseen, we need to
know why we wish to do so. Is it for ego or something which
transcends the ego. Most of what we seek in the unseen is more for
ego. Similarly, if we wish to see a part of ourselves, we need to
know why and what it is you are really seeking to know about
ourselves. Sometimes when we are faced with the truth we end up
denying and repressing the truth even more.
If we desire to use the
pool of creation/Creation insertion exercise to insert an
intention, a wish or a desire we need to have as much clarity on
what we intend as possible and know the intention that lies behind
our intention, wish or desire. We need to know why we intend, wish
or desire what we do. In whatever we do, it is recommended that we
ensure that our choice moves us towards the fulness of being and
towards alignment with the flow of our creative life energy in a way
that serves us.
We are being of unlimited creativity. It is recommended that
whatever you choose you choose in favor of expanding the depth and
breadth of the awareness of your own being and your creative power
and ability.
Pool Meditation
Exercises
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Pool calming exercise
Pool centering exercise
Pool insertion exercise
Pool sheet of glass exercise
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