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The Awaken Presence Within Program - Meditations

 

Awaken Presence Within is the ultimate BioVibrational program that organizes your awakening presence journey though a step-by-step process you can do at home. You have arrived at the free portion of the Awaken Presence Within Program, so please enjoy and reach out to me if any questions arise.

One fundamental phase of the program is to strengthen and sharpen your meditative focus while awakening your presence energy (Kundalini/Shakti). This is a process that can last months for new practitioners, but experienced meditation practitioners may be able to advance through the first 3 practices of the program within a few weeks.

It is essential that you read the instructional texts before partaking in any of the guided meditations in order to get the proper context for the practice. You can use these meditation tracks to guide you through the process and get oriented to the practice, but they are not required to use forever. In other words, use them until you no longer need them and can create these states all on your own. 

Practice 1: Posture

The spiritual path is a process, an unfolding of self that requires a certain kind of flow. Beginning the path with a thorough awareness of that process, an understanding of that flow, helps us move through it with more ease.

To unwind the habitual patterns that cause suffering, we will need to understand the spiritual principles of this path and apply this step-by-step process with the right instruction and guidance.

As habit patterns are unwound and ignorance about our internal system is dispelled, we gain more freedom and more conscious clarity. This increased freedom and conscious clarity gives us control over our lives and our spiritual aspirations, which opens up a whole new paradigm of experience.

But until that paradigm is revealed, the reality we experience is created by an unconscious system. To overcome this, we will need to amplify and enhance three important tools that we will be using to investigate, know, and change the system. Think of this system like you would the code that runs the programs you use on your computer. You know it’s there because you can see the program working correctly, but it’s hidden from your view. This is the subconscious mind and we are accessing/altering this code, gently, through your own internal conscious guidance.

We call these tools: Focus, Intention, and Vitality.

 
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Focus is the ‘will energy’ that gives strength to our Inward-Pointing Focus, and the quality of our awareness. 

Intention in this practice is our aspiration to merge with our awareness, our ‘beingness.’ A process of the two becoming one single point of “I Am” awareness.

Vitality is the body energy required to overcome whatever restrictions are keeping us from obtaining our awakened presence state.

These are discussed further in more detail throughout the website. For now, keep in mind that when we apply a sharp inward-pointing focus with a strong clear aspiration, backed by a powerful vital energy, nothing can stop us.

How do we really know something?

Obtaining authentic self-knowledge of a principle, a notion, a feeling, an intuition, a belief or other phenomenon is a key concept on the spiritual path. This access is your own personal soul-teaching and to truly know it, one cannot simply observe it by thinking. In order to really know, we must experience it directly. We must unite with it.

I can describe to you what the taste of chocolate is like, but if you’ve never tried it, you would only have a concept of what chocolate tastes like based on non-chocolate experiences. This would never get you to know what chocolate tastes like, no matter how hard we tried. You and chocolate would always remain separate. Presence is this way. You have to experience it directly for yourself to know what it is and how it benefits you. Eventually, with enough practice, you become merged with it. You become aligned with your soul-self. Your soul lives in the present moment—when your mind is still and your heart is amplified—and you can only bring your soul into your life by experiencing presence.

It is through this soul-presence experience that we obtain the attributes of our soul-self and adopt its qualities—in this way we can fully relate with it, because we have become it. Our personality becomes aligned with our soul. There is no greater way of knowing anything than to unite with it—by grokking it through direct experience.

To unify, we must learn how to use our internal tools—inward-pointing focus, meditation, our aspiration, our vital energies, and so on.

So that we can effectively focus our awareness without interruption, aspire with great intentions, gain vital power needed to overcome any barriers, and gain creative governance over our lives, we have to step back just a bit at first.

To accomplish this awareness, we will need to set up the ideal platform—one that allows us to utilize these important tools effortlessly. Before we can learn these principle keys of this form of meditation, we first have to learn how to sit, how to withdraw our senses, and how to alter our nervous system deliberately.

As we move forward with the practices, we will be able to master each of these instruments step-by-step, making our process faster, more effective, and more powerful. The more time we take to work on the Foundation, and the more patience we have with us, the more easily and seamlessly the more advanced parts of this system will unfold for us.

Take a week to work with this important fundamental practice to relax into your seated posture before moving to the next meditation. 

Remember that it takes time for the body to get used to sitting upright without tensions arising, so be patient and kind with your getting used to this experience.

You should be able to sit without incident but you might find instead that the body or mind, like an untamed animal, rebels and rejects your instructions to sit and relax for even a few short minutes.

It is important to notice this. By remaining calm, relaxed, and firm in our seated posture, while allowing the reactions to occur, we begin to overcome the habitual patterns that the body may want to return to. For now, just ‘be with’ or observe the mind as it does whatever it does. No need to resist or push away ‘monkey-mind’ thoughts or mental chatter. Just observe.

This practice might seem inconsequential, but it’s not. Huge changes are being made to the underlying energies and governing forces while we sit in this posture. While we are exclusively feeling and sensing the body itself, we are also beginning to set a precedent with the awareness, sharpening attention, and helping us open meridians throughout the energy and physical bodies which are vital to the ongoing steps of the process.

Important note: whenever possible, take 5 - 10 minutes after any meditation to rest and integrate the benefits of your sit. Take time to transition into the next thing on your ‘to-do’ list in order to exponentially accelerate the benefits of these meditations.

So, first thing’s first—how do we sit?

 
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This might sound silly, of course, we all know how to sit. But when it comes to sitting in meditation, there are certain aspects to be aware of that will go a long way in ensuring we continue down the path correctly.

When we sit, it is critical that the lower-, mid-, upper-back, and the neck, head, and shoulders are all aligned correctly with the hips.

An easy way to accomplish this is to adjust these areas one at a time, in stages, listening to my guided meditation audio.

 

Practice 1: Posture

I suggest sitting in meditation for at least 15 minutes a day to begin. The posture meditation track is 15 minutes and you can use it twice a day to accelerate your progress if you wish.

Beyond training your body into a meditative posture, your goal with this meditation is to use the unguided space during the meditation to observe your mind. You will be attempting to observe when you are thinking, drifting into imagined realities of past or future, and to catch yourself in that—gently returning again and again to the present moment. Creating this new habit of “observing the thinker,” by returning to presence over and over will serve all future meditations as a fundamental aspect of what meditation is ‘about.’

Optionally, use the Om track for a second unguided meditation or listen anytime with headphones for additional brainwave entrainment benefits.

Creating a strong meditation posture makes for strong progress down the path. Please move to the next meditation when you believe you’ve mastered meditative posture.