Awareness

Awareness is more than an emotion, it is a vibration, a state of mind, or a state of being.  I’m using this blog entry to help you understand how to expand your awareness to achieve a meditation experience.  Creating a new reality when existing within the five accepted senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling and smelling can be difficult at first.  Allow me to share a story of how I created an expanded state in real-time. 

I was a lifeguard, and this was when I noticed I could alter my awareness and still be present enough to perform my duties.  Yes, when I first opened the pool in the morning my mind would be disciplined into following the protocol of taking money, noting member’s names, and counting bobbing heads.  But when the pool was nearly empty, I had the opportunity to switch my awareness, and eaves drop into other people’s awareness.

Allow me to clarify further…

There was a group of five elderly gentlemen that I called the Roman Bath Club who frequented the pool I worked at.  They wouldn’t really swim, rather they would all congregate in one corner of the pool and lounge with their arms draped around the poolside, chest half out of the water, and lazily converse, while allowing their buoyant bodies to bob in rhythm with the gentle current created by the gutter of the nearby pool’s filtration system. 

Their conversation varied from “who died,” to politics, to complaints of illnesses and inept doctors.  But even in the rare occasion when a few disparities would arrive, the men always stayed calm, and reflective, as they weighed out their options, as if freeing their minds up to the supportive waters.  Their state of awareness was one of calm acceptance as they allowed their bodies to be suspended in the pool, just as they seemingly allowed their opinions to be weighed by the other friends within their group.

This is more than a simple emotion of relaxation.  For each person’s body was experiencing physical stimuli that transformed the group into a shared state of awareness.  One of calm, unity, friendship and acceptance.  I even wonder if this group of elderly gentlemen were, unknowingly, tapping into an unseen source of knowledge generated by some higher beings who supplied them with ideas and solutions to achieve their oneness of common agreement.

When I projected my consciousness, and allowed my ears to eaves drop while perched in my lifeguard chair, I could sense their group state of relaxation.  I could feel my body becoming less dense, as if I, too, were floating in the water.  And the more I allowed myself to absorb their reality, the clearer their words became, as did the associated noises around them.  The bubbler of the filtration system was louder.  The nearby child’s yelling voice a little higher pitched, and the overall sense of well-being, or rather lack of worry over obligations, floated into me as well.

I wanted to retire like these gentlemen!

Perhaps this expanded state of awareness and acceptance was why the Romans socialized in their communal baths?  For the achievement of that expanded state of oneness was the purpose.  A group of men all thinking as one mind, reasoning as one mind, and all reaching a group agreement.  I believe this expanded state of individuals melding into group awareness can be achieved by each of us.

I’m using this real time example of five men functioning as a group of agreeing individuals to illustrate meditation.  Just like I, as the lifeguard, expanded my awareness to eaves drop into these men’s conversation, so too can I expand my awareness outward to listen to people who are not physically in my presence.  I realize this sounds unbelievable, but so is talking on a telephone to another person who is not physically in your presence.  If the frequency is correct, and the listener is relaxed and open to receiving, there are a plethora of unseen voices just waiting to be heard, and likeminded beings waiting to communicate.

But first the listener, the person wanting to meditate, needs to find a process to achieve a state of relaxation.  The womb-like sensation of floating in water has worked for me.  Yes, it might not be conducive to float in a public, or even a private swimming pool when you attempt to meditate, but you can choose to soak in a tub of water or enjoy a long shower.  The water is not only healing, but it will allow the monkey-brain, that thinking and worrying and problem-solving side of your existence to simply float away and be replaced by the secure embrace of the water.

Once this state of relaxation is achieved, accept your solitude, allow your five senses to dull into nothingness, deprive yourself of stimuli, and seek out the stillness of a blank movie screen in a quiet theater.  Then you may lapse into states of awareness beyond that of simple relaxation.  You may fall asleep, stay awake and loose a sense of time, or you may receive a memory, vision, or idea that is out of place with how your current mind perceives reality.

This is but one path used to achieve the meditative state that will help you to control how to expand your awareness.  Yes, there is soooo much more to meditation, becoming aware, and developing your psychic self.  My next entry will delve deeper into how one can direct their expanded state towards a specific goal.

Set the stage, enjoy the journey, and explore with your heart full of promises,

for now… Namaste,

Suzy 😊