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[kimberlysteele]

 

 

 

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[kimberlysteele]

You're welcome, I'm truly glad I could help. I often cry during the SoP. It releases pent up emotions. I call it "the human waterworks" when it happens. Our culture has a great deal to answer for in its brutal repression of normal human emotions, especially grief. This is true no matter what race or creed you are from nowadays (it's actually a bit worse among Asians from what I have noticed). Dealing with this current round of grief as an honest broker will give you newfound empathy when others need it from you in the future. When you do the Spirit below gate, you might try what I do. I kneel down and touch the ground with my hands and then bring my hands up to my bare belly. I then envision Mama Earth's current being channeled into my gut, which seems to be an odd sort of "fun" for the creatures of the Spirit Below and healing for me.

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I will try it! I’m still REALLY new to all this, to be honest, and writing that comment was like lancing a boil. I was able to meditate again yesterday. Just knowing this is normal was huge. I’m still working on the first branch of the Mabinogion and I feel like I’ll never complete it - I could meditate on this for the rest of my life and not get everything from it! Before I found this community via JMG’s Ecosophia blog, I would occasionally do yoga and I would often cry during certain poses. I think that for me, yoga also releases emotions. I’ve always been good at stuffing it all down in a box so I don’t make others uncomfortable (perish the thought!) until it all bursts out of me at once and I forcefully spray my feelings all over whomever happens to be nearest (and not often in a way that makes sense to anyone, least of all myself). I hope this process of spiritual awakening will give me the tools to be aware enough of my own psyche that I can benefit from the release process. But those hands I see, and the feeling of loss, is not for the people in this life. I went through a couple of days of feeling lost, like these are not my people, where am I? But that has resolved, and my meditation was fruitful yesterday. You have helped me tremendously, thank you so very much!

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[kimberlysteele]

I feel like I could meditate on a single Tarot card for the rest of my life and not absorb all of its wisdom... several lifetimes if the card in question was a trump! When I was 28, I went to a random yoga class and afterwards I was crying. Very embarrassing at the time for me as I had no idea about energies or their release. I was still atheist and I dismissed it all as woo despite being extremely familiar with lucid dreaming and astral travel at the time.

True confessions: I meditate myself to sleep. I do a normal discursive meditation during the day and I actually get a bit grumpy if I don't have the time to do it. At night, when I have to wake up to pee/attend to my cat's needs/whatever and can't get back to sleep right away, I'll "go deep" into a discursive meditation, usually about one or more trees of the Ogham. Sure as heck beats worrying about finances! I usually drop off to sleep without getting to a second tree, however, when I have managed to meditate thoroughly because I could NOT fall back to sleep, I have wound up with some of my most productive meditations.