Note

While typing away in the previous post, “A Daily New Habit of Simply BEING While Receiving What’s Beneficial and Releasing What’s Not,” I recalled having created a draft post a while back regarding the topic of meditation; and sure enough, after I did a search within this blog, I came upon this draft post (created on 5/8/2014), which I will publish today.

Whenever I reread an old post, I find myself amazed that I even wrote it, and I trust this is due to automatic writing from Spirit within (where I also type much faster than usual, which is another surprise since I’ve never taken a typing class, and I often have to look at the keyboard when I’m not blogging).

Image above found next to link => giphy.com/I shared a more accurate image within this blog a while back, but I don’t recall where exactly

This post contains sections of my daily journal dated September 29, 2013 (Sunday).

Ever since the intense thunderstorm woke me up in the middle of the night, I woke up and saw 12:34, and was up for the rest of the night; but this time, I focused on meditating in silence and stillness rather than get up and do things (like work on my blog), because I recalled reading that when this symptom of increase in vibration happens, to just do something relaxing.

I think I was up until around 5 am. I talked to my soul about various things more than ever before, to include asking my soul its deepest desires, thoughts and feelings, and that I would really love to remember more of my true self.

Note: 12:34 is a recurring number sequence which reminds me of “steps” from http://sacredscribesangelnumbers.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/angel-number-1234.html

After one of the most intense thunders, that felt like it was right in front of our house, and something was about to get some serious damage done, Kami (my dog) ran over to me (I guess he knew I was up) because he either sensed that it scared me, or he wanted to be comforted. [Update: Kami passed away in November of 2016, which I shared in post, “In Memory of Our Amazing Pet Kami“]

Either way, I thought it was so touching that he came running to me like a kid. He actually reminded me of one of my preschool students a while back, when she was afraid of thunder and lightning. I used the analogy of fireworks (which she’s not afraid of) for thunder and lightning to help comfort her.

A thought crossed my mind that perhaps this intense storm was a practice for something bigger in the near future, and that practicing to transmute fear to love energy (basically just raising the same energy of lower frequency, since there’s ultimately only love energy) would lead to eventually becoming a master of frequency.

I recall reading about The Void, supposedly a transition point—where unlimited possibilities exist—between dimensions, and that when we find ourselves in this space, to ensure that we 1) don’t panic, but just remain calm, 2) only think positive thoughts; either that, or just meditate in silence and stillness and 3) be very patient and faithful.

Otherwise, if we think negative thoughts (which create negative feelings of fear), we could easily tune into our own versions of hell on earth. The goals is to tune into our own versions of heaven on earth.

When I had read about The Void, I had a flashback of when I had a dream about being in pitch darkness, and wondered if was the same thing. I wrote about in one of the older posts called, “Dreams of Jesus.”

Anyway, so even though a part of me was a little startled by the most intense thunderstorm I had ever experienced, I reminded myself of the poem I wrote about falling in love with thunderstorms this one night called, “An Invitation from My Soul.”

I also decided to Be the very things that I wanted to experience by giving (a sign that I already have it since we can’t give what we don’t have) them to another…my dog.

So I started petting Kami and calmly and quietly made my “I AM” statements as I visualized the images that matched them from my meditation Google slides (below) that I had created : “I AM Courage,” “I AM Fearless,” “I AM Indestructible,”  “I AM Peace,” “I AM Serenity,” “I AM Comfort,” “I AM Unconditional Love.”

Positive images and positive feelings are the key ingredients to reprogramming our subconscious/unconscious minds (that may have more negativity stored in them throughout our lives).

I learned from one of the videos (below) I shared in my post, “Videos That Resonate with Me” [deleted a while back, along with old website, bobbieslife.wordpress.com] that our conscious minds are about logic and reason, and our subconscious minds are about images and feelings. Therefore, our conscious and subconscious minds speak two different languages.

So when we watch a scary movie, even though our logical and reasonable mind understands that it’s just a scary movie, our subconscious mind can get scared (and even expressing that fear through our bodies with anxiety, being startled, sweating, screaming, etc.) because it doesn’t know the difference between what’s real and what’s imagination.

So if we focus on using our imaginations to create positive thoughts (which creates positive feelings) and view positive images or imagine positive visions (i.e., us being very happy, peaceful, and abundant), we can raise our vibrations and tune into a more positive reality (out of the infinite possibilities of parallel realities).

Anyway, after several repetitions of saying my “I AM” statements and visualizing, I felt peace, serenity, comfort, and unconditional love.

During meditation (while lying in bed in silence and stillness), I did have a mind-blowing experience, which still hasn’t hit me yet. After basically telling my soul that this meditating in silence and stillness may not be my thing, I closed my eyes, and noticed something I had never experienced before.

It looked like the night sky—a black background with tiny white stars everywhere. It reminded me of the song, ‘Diamonds” by Rhianna, which I love. Next thing you know, I noticed these very subtle, thin white lines, the kind that shows up in space movies when one is moving.

All of sudden, I FELT myself moving through space, at a very rapid rate, and the only way I was able to tell that I was actually moving was being able to see the thin white lines around me. A part of me was excited, but yet, another part of me got a little scared, and I pulled back. I was then back at stillness.

I didn’t realize this until over five months late, but I had experienced astral projection. It went over my head because I had always imagined one day experiencing astral projection in a way that I read that most people experience—consciously leaving my body, and then seeing myself lying in bed. However, astral projection is when “the astral body consciously leaves the physical body.” 

I’ve had various flying dreams before, but they all seemed to be on earth (i.e., into a cave, in the sky right above the ground, in-between what appeared to be the Grand Canyon, up a mountain top, in a city, etc.), not in outer space.

I believe there are many ways one can meditate, and they all lead to the path closer to God, Goddess and Divine Spirit/All That Is as one follows their heart.

I’ve also had another amazing experience while meditating while lying in bed called “My Mesmerizing Spiral of God, Goddess and Divine Spirit Experience.”

Just like prayers, I believe what matters most with meditations is one’s intention, not so much what position one’s in while praying or meditating, what flowery words we choose to use, or what location we’re in. God, Goddess and Divine Spirit/All That Is knows our hearts.

There have been times in my life where I never asked God (whether spoken words or silent prayers) for certain things. I just recall being highly attracted to a specific person (or other life form), object or situation, briefly focusing on it, forgetting about it, and the next thing you know…I receive.

Although I was given the opportunity to have this personal experience, I sometimes had a tendency to fall back to what I’ve been conditioned to do by society…which is to ask God for what I would love to have or experience. As I’m typing this (another reason why I love writing in my blog), I’m reminded to remember this truth/my truth that it’s not necessary to ask since God, Goddess and Divine Spirit/All That Is already knows the desires of my heart.

However, it’s wise to express gratitude for already receiving since it’s communicating trust in Divine timing, acknowledging the fact that we are in essence Abundance (everything we need is within us), and faith that we always receive everything we need in every Moment of Now for our soul growth, as well as that of others.

Update

8/25/2021

I shared the following comment for the video, “Is Astral Travel Possible? | Sadhguru Answers“:

Thank you Sadhguru for this very helpful information (Light).