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MAILBOX: We get from a few to several e-mails a week saying, in many ways: "I try. I just can’t meditate."

You are multi-leveled spiritual beings. There are many levels of your own spirits and many levels of the bodies in which your spirits are dwelling. All of these levels have consciousness. Meaning all are aware. All have understanding. All can communicate. Add to this the realization you are surrounded with spirit and with many beings of spirit. All of which have awareness and understanding. All of which can communicate. Many of which try to communicate the moment they become aware of you opening yourselves inwardly. So your mind fills with thoughts. If your body needs attention, the cells will fill your mind with thoughts. If your emotions need attention, they will fill your mind with thoughts. If inner children need attention, they will fill your mind with thoughts. If spirits are wanting your attention, they will fill your mind with thoughts. If your thoughts need more attention, they will fill your head too. It is little wonder you have trouble meditating?

Meditation is a "space". It is "holy space" if you would. Meaning it is a "space" set apart. Meditation is when your conscious sense of self disappears as it merges with the Higher Self. It is not a space for spirit guides. It is not a space for communication. It is not a space for emotions. It is not a space for the body and its cells. It is not a space for the brain. It is not a space for other spirits. It is not a space for psychic phenomena. It is not a space for sleep. It is not a space for daydreaming. It is not a conscious space. Those who experience phenomena - visions, sounds, lights, weightlessness, voices, visitations, bliss and the like - are in "spaces" that border the meditation space. They are not in meditation. They are in altered states of "bliss", "weightlessness", "visions", "light", "visitations", and so on.

Meditation is not a psychic state. It is not a phenomenon state. . It is a state of attunement. Many of you disdain this. You want a symphony. You want fireworks. You want a big payoff.

How would an orchestra sound if the musicians did not first tune their instruments?

You have heard many stories of the apprentice who seeks to become a great martial artist or a great yogi or a great zen master. In these stories the apprentice spends many years sweeping, cleaning, scrubbing, tilling the fields, serving - doing all manner of labor that seems to have nothing to do with becoming a master in what they have chosen and desire.

Let these stories be your guide in meditation. The apprentice must demonstrate the mastery of desire, the mastery of ego, the mastery of emotions, the mastery of impatience. The apprentice must learn to attune self to the consciousness of mastery.

Set a clock. Ten minutes, twenty minutes. Whatever you can devote yourself to daily. Mentally surround your body with a protective shield of golden light. Hold the intent that no thoughts - not even your own - are welcome in your meditation space. Turn off your mind. Mentally unplug a phone. Mentally turn off your computer. Mentally close a book. Mentally cover your typewriter. Mentally put pen, paper, pencils in a drawer. Mentally put on a blind fold and ear plugs. Sit upright. If you are unable to sit upright, keep your spine as straight as you are able. Focus your eyes on the backs of your eyelids, or on one image in between them or just above in between them - where the "third eye" is. Make it an image that does not trigger desire, or psychic phenomena or spirit communication or spiritual inspiration. Fasten your eyes in one place. Do not allow your eyes to move around. If thoughts or visions or sounds try to capture your attention, do not move your eyes. Keep your closed eyes looking at the image you've chosen.  You will - after only a few minutes of this - "disappear" into unconsciousness. When your time is up your subconscious or your clock will bring you back into a conscious awareness. You were not asleep. You were "gone". You were in meditation. You were in a state of attunement to prepare you for mastery of the symphony of your daily life.

While meditation itself powerfully influences your life, it is not a means of resolving the matters of your life that need your attention and care. Unresolved emotions do require your attention. Cells that need help do require your attention. "Inner children" that have bad thoughts and feelings about themselves or others need your attention. Meditation is not meant to take the place of communicating with the various levels of mind and spirit. Meditation lifts your consciousness, helping you to be a better facilitator of the communications necessary for joyful lives.

With Light, Pamela and Dr. Hugh

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We think this is worthy of inclusion here because the world’s children are the human future. As this disorder is more prevalent (in California at least) than childhood cancer, diabetes and Down syndrome, we felt it important to share Spirit’s answer. The article attached to the above email was headed: "Autism among children is up 97% in four years"

The answer given by Higher Spirit is provided in Mind, Body, Spirit, Light..

For those who don’t know what autism is, we include this information given in the article: "The incurable disorder is a lifelong neurological condition that severely impairs a person's ability to speak, communicate and interact with others. ….Ron Huff, a psychologist who conducted both studies for DDS, said the latest numbers reflect an actual increase in autism in the state, not just improved diagnosis of existing cases…the DDS report said scientists have not pinpointed a cause for the new disorder. A once-dominant theory, now discounted, that placed blame on cold and distant mothers for causing autism has given way to more thorough investigation of the potential genetic and environmental factors that may increase a child's vulnerability to the condition. DDS researchers are looking at a range of environmental toxins that could make children more vulnerable, including PCBs, pesticides and heavy metals such as mercury and lead. They are also exploring the debated theory that childhood vaccines may be at the root of the problem. While at least one large study has discounted a connection between autism and the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine, Huff pointed to other research indicating that mercury contained in thimerosol, used as a preservative for many vaccines, has caused neurological problems in animals. Advocacy groups and many parents have pressed for a closer examination of the autism/vaccine connection

"There are several contributing factors to this condition as the researchers will discover. What they will resist until they can resist it no longer is discovering that the single greatest factor is sonograms. I believe a Higher Self of one of your client’s said: "It fries the brain." This is tersely and precisely put as the whole neurological system is indeed part of the brain system. A mother’s womb has been designed marvelously by Nature to keep the developing body within free from Man’s interference and it would seem all Man wants to do is to interfere."

Note: Higher Spirit (which we dubbed Master of Spirit) uses the term Man to include men and women; i.e. humans.

Pray or Affirm as you desire. Then, let go, trusting your will has been heard. Breathe deeply. Mentally image yourself holding Planet Earth in your healing hands. Image or sense your spiritual light gathering around you as a magnetic gold energy that draws to you and to the Earth all that is to the highest good and repelling away all that is not. Now breathe in your spiritual light through your crown chakra and beam this white light through your third eye to planet Earth, silently surrounding and filling the atmosphere, the surface, the mantle and the core of Earth with Light.

Why the third eye? Why white light? Why Silence? How to light your self and your loved ones? What else to light?

Click on The Global Wave of Light on the Odyssey website.