wholeness + duality 2 becomes 3, 3 becomes 1

 

Visualize or sense a "Golden Sun" approximately one metre above your head.  See or feel this warm, soothing energy fill your entire space and cover your skin.  Feel the warmth on your face, on your hands and feet, behind your back, under your legs and arms, and all the way out to the edge of your imagined extended body.  Let your space become completely gold.

Breathe in the energy of your Sun, and feel its warmth as it enters your lungs.  As you breathe, see and feel its energy travel through your bloodstream along with the oxygen you inhale and expand outside your body with every exhalation.  Feel your energy become clean as it lights up your bloodstream, your muscles, your organs, and your bones.  Feel the warmth of its energy fill your abdomen, your hips and legs, your arms and hands, penetrating the inner layers of your skin, and your chest, neck, face, and skull.  Breathe in the warm light and connecting energy.

Let yourself be still and bathe in the energy for a few moments and experience it fully.  This warm, calming, vital energy is now your own.  It is constantly available, and completely within your control.  Feel it as it travels throughout your body, moving gently, illuminating each cell.  

Feel the energy as it flows down from you into the earth below. Pulse the energy deep into the heart of the Earth and sense a returning pulse of energy from the heart of the earth up and through your body. 

Now focus your attention in the area of your heart and breathe gently but deeply, relax with every breath. Focus on the warming, healing feeling that it generates.  As you do so, sense a brighter form of light beginning to take shape here. This form has a transforming light with intense powers to connect. Feel its energy and become more aware of its qualities. As you watch, it begins to slow drift upward until you can see it floating halfway between your heart and your eyes. What is the quality of its movement? What shape is it taking? Look deeply into its centre; what colours do you see? What are the predominant colours and tones? Does it have tonal qualities, is it transparent: what can you ‘see’ inside it? Look at the shapes that form at its core; try to decipher them. Now focus on its edge as it shifts and stretches outward – are there tendrils or branches, arrows of light and colour or definite shapes and lines. Focus on this form and get to know its essence. Take careful note of what it looks like as you feel it as part of you, connecting every cell in your body to the earth.

Continue to breathe into the form and with each breath envisage or sense it expanding and its energy becoming brighter as it grows.  Feel its essence of loving compassion and feel yourself loved and nurtured for all that you are, without condition or judgment.

Envisage this form opening, see it as a portal opening as you breathe into it and as it opens, you become aware of the greater light behind, see this as the universal heart.  Sense a pulse of energy reaching up from your heart to connect you with this; your highest awareness, purpose and guidance.  At this point, breathe into the universal heart and call upon your highest guidance for remembering and healing into the wholeness of who you really are.

When you feel ready to complete the meditation, withdraw your awareness and energy back into your body, offer thanks to the earth and those you love and who love you. Lie quietly and gratefully in the knowledge that you are supported, known and valued as part of this greater whole. You are wholeness within a greater whole.

Now, come back to the breath, be calm and relaxed as you reconnect with your place on the earth. When you are ready, stretch roll up to sitting, take the pencils and paper and draw the form you experienced in as much detail as you can recall. This is your mandala.