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INTRODUCTION The Next Step in Human Evolution Does the Law of Attraction Really Work? So Whats the Secret? Testimonials & Benefits of Core Energy Meditation Raising Your Vibration CHAPTER ONE Why Meditate? Which Meditation is Right for You? What Makes Core Energy Meditation Unique? A Brief Primer on Energy Your Inner Power The Key to Success Tips to Help You Be Consistent CHAPTER TWO The Journey of Core Energy Meditation How Does Core Energy Meditation Work? Releasing Resistance Your Energetic Anatomy What to Expect: Phases of Practice More Tips for Effective Practice CHAPTER THREE Core Energy Meditation Instruction Bonus Section: The Core Energy Technique ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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INTRODUCTION The Next Step in Human Evolution You are about to discover the next step in human evolution. This program will teach you a powerful transformational tool to take you to that next level. I searched for over twenty years and travelled the globe to uncover this technique. Through extensive experimentation, teaching, and practice, I have refined it to make it easily accessible to you. What you are about to learn will increase your energy and vitality, enable you to shift into a positive state of being at will, and prepare you to receive the abundant life you are meant to live. This technique will release you from your personal limits and raise you up to your highest and fullest potential. Im sure youve heard many other books, programs, and techniques make similar claims. What makes this program unique and effective? To tell that story, lets begin with a common phrase that is tossed around these days: the Law of Attraction.
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1. Surface Consciousness If you are doing affirmations, positive thinking, visualization, and goalsetting you are working with your surface consciousness. Surface consciousness is made of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and actions that you are consciously aware of. This is the layer of your being that youre most familiar with because it is what occupies the foreground of your attention. Why do many self-help techniques fail to deliver what they promise? Why do many of your attempts to manifest the life of your dreams end in
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2. Subconscious Your subconscious is a simple stimulus-response mechanism. It holds all the automatic processes that make your life possible and all the conditioning that you have accumulated through your life. Theres a lot of good and necessary programming in there: how to breathe, how to pump blood, how to fight off infection, how to walk, how to drive a car. . .You cant live without the million little tasks that are carried out by your subconscious. If you were aware of all these activities at once, they would overwhelm you. Thats why consciousness is set up so that you dont have to pay attention to them. They are carried out subconsciously. However, your subconscious also houses those little devils that get in your way: the habitual tensions, negative emotions, and limiting beliefs that run counter to your best and highest intentions. How do you neutralize these little devils? Youve got to go yet deeper into a third layer of your being, your subtle energy system.
3. Subtle Energy System This layer is the primary causal level of your life experience. It is the matrix which gives birth to the other layers. Shifting the subtle energetic layer of your being changes the way that your subconscious processes and conscious mind operate. If you want to make significant shifts in your life, its most effective to work directly at this level.
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Effective manifestation using the Law of Attraction requires that you neutralize your little subconscious devils and raise the strength, quality, clarity, and coherence of your energetic vibration.
So Whats the Secret? So what is this amazing technique? I call it Core Energy Meditation. Core Energy Meditation is an easy-to-learn practice that will revolutionize the way that you view your life and the power that you have to create your world. In Chapter Three of this book I will guide you step-by-step through this practice so that you will know for yourself what it means to shift into a powerful state of higher vibration. Once youve read through the written instructions, you can simply listen to the guided audio and follow along. Why havent you heard of this revolutionary technique before? The knowledge of energetic meditation was a sacred secret for centuries in ancient China. The practice was deliberately shrouded in mystery to keep it accessible for an elite few. To receive training in this
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Testimonials
The first time I used Core Energy Meditation, I loved it! When I was finished, I looked forward to the next time I would get to do it. It quickly became a part of my morning practice. Kevins voice brought me right into a positive meditative state. I felt like it was a sacred time. Core Energy Meditation has integrated a deeper sense of connection into my life. It has really helped me remember what is important to me and take that into my day. Monica Augustine, CO, USA
Core Energy Meditation became my mainstay late last winter. There are several meditations (I have done). . .But Core Energy Meditation is the most comprehensiveanywhere, anytime. . .I believe Core Energy Meditation is the foundation of all my recent experiences of positive coherent vibration as well as the ability to see and understand them. It is just fantastic! Debi Dowling, ME, USA
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Benefits of Core Energy Meditation *Greater relaxation and ease *Less negativity and subconscious interference *Improved health and energy *Greater mental clarity and focus *Positive core heart feelings such as appreciation, gratitude, and trust *Deeper feelings of inner peace *Feeling at one with who you are *Better communication and relationship skills *A stronger sense of connection with others, the world around you, and the One Life that we all share.
Raising Your Vibration The emerging model of human nature reveals that we are selfprogrammable energy systems. What that means is that by consciously
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Which Meditation is Right for You? My first suggestion in choosing the right meditation for you is to go with what attracts you. Read or observe different practices. Of those that interest you, try a few out. Rather than judging by immediate results, I suggest that you evaluate more by a gut feeling of interest and alignment with who you are. Choose a meditation that speaks a language that you are comfortable with and that appeals to what you want to get out of meditation. Dont feel you have to make the right choice for all time right off the bat. This
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What Makes Core Energy Meditation Unique? Core Energy Meditation is a holistic style of meditation that develops all aspects of your being: mind, body, heart, and spirit. As such, it is the most integrated and complete style of meditation that I know. It works at an energetic level, the most fundamental level of your existence. It reprograms your system down through your cells and your subconscious mind to the very roots of your being.
Through Core Energy Meditation youll experience a sense of deep connection with who you are and what you are here to do.
Core Energy Meditation was created from the ancient Chinese practice of qigong (pronounced chee gung and meaning cultivating life energy). Ive combined the energetic anatomy of qigong with the latest scientific research on the brain and the heart to create a proven technique for whole-body enlightenment. Many people are not aware of their subtle energy system. Its not something that we are taught in school. The idea of subtle energy is just now reaching the mainstream in Western culture. Because of that, you may be skeptical about it. Yet it isnt a new experience or a new concept. To familiarize you with it, lets discuss the subtle energy system and understand why it is so critical for your health, happiness, and success.
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Core Energy Meditation connects you with a deeper level of your being where your inner guidance is crystal clear.
Coherence has to do with the orderliness of a waves pattern. A system is coherent when all the parts are working together with integrated force. In Core Energy Meditation you will learn to strengthen, purify, clear, and align your energetic vibration so that you function internally as a harmonious whole. This enables you to be at your best in the outer world as well. To give you an example of coherence in a physical system, a coherent respiratory pattern occurs when your in-breath and out-breath are approximately the same duration. The deeper you breathe (greater amplitude) and the more consistently your inhalation matches your exhalation (greater coherence) the stronger and more coherent your breathing pattern becomes. A strong, coherent, breathing pattern will bring your heart-rate into coherence as well. A coherent heart-rate pattern is characteristic of a heart that is in good working order. When your heart-rate is coherent it also positively affects other wave patterns in your body such as your brain-waves. A coherent heart-rate tends to produce coherent brainwave patterns. This brings us to a most important point about the wave-like structure of energy:
When one energy system is strong, positive, clear, and coherent it tends to bring the other systems around it into a like state of coherence as well.
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This effect is called resonance. Resonance occurs when one energetic system vibrates in tune with another. Resonance is the basis of the Law of Attraction. Heres the key to enabling the Law of Attraction to work for you:
When you are able to raise your vibration into a state of strong, positive, clear coherence, you align the systems in your body to work together and you align the energies in your environment to work for you.
Because of the energetic nature of your existence, you have a phenomenal opportunity to consciously step into the energetic matrix of your life and transform your experience.
Your Inner Power Your personal energetic matrix is made up of your cells, as well as your thoughts, feelings, and intentions. All of these are fundamentally waves of energy and part of your total energetic vibration. Recent research has shown that focusing your thoughts, feelings, and intentions into strong, positive, clear coherence can shift the activity and behavior of your cells for the better. When you practice raising your energetic vibration you create greater synergy between all your physiological systems. You also feel and perform better and you get better results in your life.
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A strong, positive, clear and coherent vibration will tend to organize and overcome chaotic or disruptive energy surrounding it.
As an example of how this works, consider your immune system. We have grown up with the idea that germs cause disease. Therefore, we think we need to stay away from germs, or kill them, before they get us. Have you ever wondered why certain people catch every cold that comes their way, while others can be in the same environment and never get sick? The fact is, we all have the same opportunist pathogens living not only around us but inside our skin all of the time. The key to whether we get sick or not is the state of our immune system. If your immune system is functioning well, you can walk into a room of people with the flu and be none the worse for it. A strong immune system is masterfully intelligent at neutralizing any harmful invader. It is when you are stressed, fatigued, or overburdened that your immune system is not able to do its job. Even more amazingly, it is your mental-emotional outlook that is one of the strongest determinants of your immune response. To prove this, Dr. Bruce Lipton tells the story about a talk given by Dr. Robert Koch, one of the founders of the Germ Theory of disease. At a lecture in which Dr. Koch was describing how vibrio cholerae caused cholera, he was confronted by a man who claimed that he would disprove that theory by drinking a whole glass of the known-to-bedangerous bacteria. He did so right in front of Dr. Koch and his audience
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When we live in a state of strong, positive, clear coherence we draw to us that which we desire and keep away that which we dont.
I call this state of strong, positive, clear, and coherent vibration a Core Energy State. This is the ideal state from which to live your life. The best part is that you can learn to self-generate a Core Energy State and return to it as often as you need to. Youll learn how to do that in this program. This is the exciting news about Core Energy Meditation. It gives you a means to positively shift your consciousness and your life experience. Through meditation you can become aware of your inner process, release from subconscious personal limits, and get better results in your life. Now you have the fantastic opportunity to join ancient wisdom with modern science to take the next step in human evolution.
The Key to Success Each meditation system promises certain benefits and results. Dont be discouraged if you dont realize all these benefits right away. As with all worthwhile activities, real results come through consistent practice over time. On the other hand, dont fall prey to the idea that to get benefits from meditation you have to lock yourself in seclusion and go at it for hours a
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You may choose to practice at any time: first thing in the morning (which is an ideal way to start the day), last thing at night (to let go of the day and get a good sleep), or during a break in the day (to de-stress and re-connect with your best self and highest intentions.)
Tips to Help You Be Consistent: 1. Choose a meditation style that is enjoyable to you. That doesnt mean that every moment of every session is a joy, but that, overall, the style of meditation appeals to you and you feel better from having done it. Personally, my time in Core Energy Meditation is one of the most pleasurable times of my day. I look forward to waking up because its the first thing that I get to do every day.
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This program is designed to lead you into meditation in a simple, direct, safe, and effective way. The written portion is relatively short so that you can get right into meditating. The practice of Core Energy Meditation itself is your best teacher. The 20-minute meditation is the place to begin. The longer meditation will expand your practice when you are ready for that. By meditating, you will develop your inner guidance, which is your surest compass. As you journey into Core Energy Meditation, you will find that your inner knowing becomes strong and clear.
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O.K. so youre primed to get started, right? I suggest that you begin by reading through Chapters Two and Three to get the lay of the land. Then put on the 20-minute Guided Meditation and youre on your way.
* * * If you would like mentoring for your practice and/or a wonderful community of support, I highly recommend our members site Spiritual
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How Does Core Energy Meditation Work? So what does it mean to awaken and develop your energetic senses? First, Ill describe some key insights about the process of Core Energy Meditation, then well talk about the specifics of your internal energy system. Core Energy Meditation is a process of focusing your attention into your energetic anatomy. Attention is energy. When you focus your attention into any of your energy centers or paths, two things happen. First, you
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Releasing Resistance When you focus into a site or path in meditation, youll find that thoughts, feelings, and sensations bubble up into your conscious awareness. When that happens, you have an opportunity. You can either be caught up in them and carried away in thinking, obsessing, or mentally replaying them, or you can recognize them with a sense of detached observation. As you practice Core Energy Meditation, you recognize whatever comes up into your conscious awareness and you observe it as if you are looking at it from the outside. That is step one. Then, you let it go and you return to focusing on the cues of your practice. When you take that mental action, you change your mental-emotional-energetic circuitry. You defuse the emotional charge of those experiences and they lose their grip on your attention. When you choose to release the thoughts, feelings, or sensations that come up in meditation, you free up energy that was held in those mentalemotional-energetic circuits. You can then apply this energy to strengthen your meditative focus on the site or path that you are working on. You use this energy to build and reinforce a new, consciously-chosen, pattern. You add energy to raise your energetic vibration. In this way, you bring yourself into a Core Energy State of strong, positive, clear and coherent vibration.
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Recognize the thought, feeling, or sensation that has drawn you away from your meditative focus, let it go (instead of following it out or replaying it in your mind), and return your attention to the cues of your meditation. When you get good at this technique in meditation, you can apply it to your everyday life. Whenever you find yourself tense, angry, overly critical, or caught up in or overwhelmed by life, use the 3Rs: recognize, release, and return. Return to what? Return to a Core Energy State, that state of strong, positive, clear and coherent vibration that you have learned to shift into during meditation. At the end of your meditation instructions in the next chapter, theres a short technique that will help you shift back into a Core Energy State at anytime, anywhere. Sounds simple right? Well, it is simple, but its not always easy. Why? Because we have come to identify who we are with what we think, how we feel, and the tensions and dramas of our lives. In other words, we are afraid that without these things, well have nothing to hang onto, nothing to call me. In your meditation practice, you will come to realize that you are fundamentally more than your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and actions. You are primarily an energetic being. You are a part of all that is. You are a part of the One Field of Universal Energy. When you experience that, your need to attach to the specific contents of your experience fades and loses its force.
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Your Energetic Anatomy: When you begin Core Energy Meditation you follow a series of cues to relax your body, align your spine, calm your emotions, and focus your attention internally. After that preparation, you guide your attention through your internal energy system.
The heart of Core Energy Meditation is to imagine and feel life energy flowing through the sites and paths of your energetic anatomy.
As I said above, well focus on three energy centers (the sites) and a Central Channel (the path) that runs through them. Together I call these the four features of your energetic anatomy. Each of these four features develops one aspect of your higher energetic vibration. Remember that we are looking to develop a strong, positive, clear, and coherent vibration. Each feature represents one of these aspects. After Figure 2.1 below, which is your internal energetic map, I will describe each energy center and the Central Channel. For each of these features I will describe the energetic aspect that you develop by working with this feature, the range of experiences that are associated with that feature, and the subconscious issues that you can resolve by enabling smooth energy flow through that site or path.
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Figure 2.1 Four Energetic Features: 3 Energy Centers (circles) and Central Channel (arrows)
If you are familiar with the chakra system of representing your energetic anatomy, youll find that the first three chakras are summarized in the Body Center (lower abdomen) and the top three energy centers are summarized in the Mind Center (middle of brain). The Heart Center is the same. Using three energy centers is a more efficient way of working and easier to directly relate to the body, heart, and mind dimensions of your being.
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Energetic Feature #1: Your Body Center. After going through your preparatory cues, you will imagine and feel the energy center in the middle of your lower abdomen. This is your Body Center. Energetic Aspect: When you develop your Body Center it increases the strength of your energetic vibration. When you develop this energy center, you boost your physical vitality and your ability to be relaxed and present in your body. You build energy in your Body Center by focusing on deep breathing that is generated by movement of your diaphragm. The movement of diaphragmatic breathing stimulates energy in your lower abdomen, relaxes and releases subconscious neuro-muscular tension from your body, aids digestion and absorption of nutrients, and slows your heart rate, respiration, and brain waves. If you have issues with low energy or hypertension, focusing on your Body Center can have an energy-boosting and a calming effect at the same time. When you build strong energy in this center you gain a sense of relaxed, yet vital, personal presence.
Energetic Feature #2: Your Heart Center After focusing on your Body Center, you will allow your attention to flow upwards through the Central Channel to the middle of your chest, your Heart Center. You will imagine and feel the connection of your Body
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Energetic Feature #3: Your Mind Center After you focus on your Heart Center, you will allow your attention to flow upward through your Central Channel to the middle of your brain, your Mind Center. You will feel the connection of your Heart Center and your Mind Center. Then you will imagine and feel energy in the middle of your brain. Energetic Aspect: As you develop your Mind Center it brings clarity to your energetic vibration.
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Energetic Feature #4: The Central Channel When you move your attention from one energy center to the next, you travel through the Central Channel. The Central Channel extends from your perineum (between your genitals and anus), vertically up through the three energy centers, to the top of your head. To encourage spinal alignment, imagine and feel the Central Channel running in front of and including the spine. Energetic Aspect: When you open and clear your Central Channel you bring coherence and integrity to your energetic vibration. An open Central Channel integrates your body, heart, mind, and spirit. The energy that flows through your energetic anatomy is the Universal Energy of the One Life that we all share. In other words, it is the spiritual energy that enlivens us. The Central Channel is the main conduit through which this energy flows into our being. Smooth energy flow through the Central Channel gives you a clear sense of inner knowing, spiritual connection, and life purpose. The Central Channel aligns your energy system to work as a harmonious whole.
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Effective manifestation requires that you raise your energetic vibration to match that which you truly desire.
During the last part of your meditation practice, you will spend some time manifesting the life of abundance, peace, and joy that you are meant to live. Youll learn more about this in the upcoming section which describes the phases of meditation practice.
What to Expect: Phases of Practice It is important to understand the phases of meditation practice to know how to focus your attention and how to gauge your progress. There are four phases to your Core Energy Meditation practice.
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Phase One: Preparation In Phase One, you follow the sequence of meditation cues. You relax and align your posture, smile and breathe consciously, and imagine and feel your energetic anatomy. As you are able to do these four things well, you will move into the concentration phase, which is Phase Two. You will know that you have achieved proficiency in Phase One when your body is relaxed, your mind is calm, and your emotions are balanced. You will feel de-stressed and pleasantly at ease. Phase Two: Concentration In the Concentration Phase, you feel life energy strongly and it attracts your attention so that you can focus intently. When you feel life energy strongly, its easy to keep your attention focused in that feeling within any area of your body. Life energy will often feel warm or cool, tingly or electric, full or empty. The quality of feeling depends upon what is going on in the area that you are focusing on. Allow whatever feeling is happening without trying to change it. Your inner intelligence knows what to do. By practicing Core Energy Meditation you will learn to sense and trust your inner guidance. You are proficient in the Concentration Phase when you can focus exclusively on a point, pattern, or energetic space in your body. You have mastered Phase Two when your attention is unwavering and the feeling of life energy is clear. Your concentration skills will carry over into your
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Core Energy Meditation is designed with scientifically proven cues that facilitate all four phases of meditation. If you practice consistently, the benefits unfold naturally. As with anything, you get out of it what you put into it. The path of energetic meditation is well-established by 3000 years of ancient wisdom and a growing body of modern scientific research. After 23 years of study, teaching, and practice, I have refined this technique down to the essence of what you need for your own health, success, and whole-body enlightenment. Below you will find some more tips to help you get the most out of your practice.
More Tips for Effective Practice: 1. For maximal effectiveness, practice at least 20 minutes daily in a private, quiet space. Turn off or disconnect your phone or any other distractions. If necessary, let others know you are meditating, so they wont interrupt you. 2. If you are following the guided audio, the meditation is timed for you. If you have learned the practice and are meditating without the
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Core Energy Meditation will teach you how to achieve a Core Energy State, a state of strong, positive, clear, and coherent vibration. The Core Energy Technique (found in the next chapter) is a quick way to return to that state at anytime, anywhere.
When you live from a Core Energy State, youll find yourself less reactive and more able to discern what is right for you to do here and nowyour core possibilities.
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Posture cues: (Note that * indicates cues given in 40-minute version only) Sit forward on the front edge of a chair, couch, or bed. Sit far enough forward so that you feel some weight in your feet. Place your feet approximately hip wide and parallel. Allow your hands to rest in your lap, palms up, one resting in the other, with thumbs touching lightly. Soften your hands so they relax completely. Imagine a heavy weight attached to your tailbone anchoring you into your seat. Imagine a string attached to the top of your head, pulling your spine gently upright.
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Lower Abdominal Breathing Cues: Focus into your lower abdomen, your Body Center, and become aware of your breathing there. As you inhale, allow your abdomen to gently expand and fill up. Imagine and feel your breath expand from your lower abdomen upward. Exhale. Allow your abdomen to relax inward and empty out. Allow your breathing to slow down, to become quiet, subtle, and soft. Allow any thoughts, feelings, or tensions to dissolve in your breathe. Arising thoughts, feelings, and sensations are part of meditation. Its how you relate to these experiences that matters. Recognize them, accept them as part of what is happening now, let them go, and return to your breathing. Bring your attention back to your breathing as many times as it wanders off. *Focus your attention into your Body Center. Feel the space of your lower abdomen gently filling and emptying as you breathe.
Smiling Heart Cues: Now bring your attention from your lower abdomen upward, up through the Central Channel into the middle of your chest, and into the area of your heart. Feel the connection between your lower abdomen and your heart, between your Body Center and your Heart Center. Imagine and feel your heart opening. Allow a smile of appreciation, gratitude, and trust to radiate from your Heart Center outward in all directions, to every cell. Your hearts smile embodies these positive feelings as one healing vibration.
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Clear Mind Cues: Now bring your attention from your chest upward, up through the Central Channel, and into the middle of your brain, your Mind Center. Feel the connection between your Heart Center and your Mind Center. Look, listen, and feel into the middle of your brain. Imagine open, clear, spacious awareness expanding upward and outward from your Mind Center. Imagine any thoughts, feelings, or tensions dissolving in that spacious awareness. Allow your Mind Center to become absolutely quiet and still. Become aware of Awareness itself in that space. Whenever you notice any movement in your mind, any ripple in that open, clear spacious awareness, return to stillness in the middle of your brain. *Focus your attention into the middle of your brain. Allow your attention to rest in your Mind Center.
Breathing the Central Channel: Allow your attention to move from the middle of your brain downward through the Central Channel into the space of your heart. Feel the connection between your Mind Center and your Heart Center. Smile again with appreciation, gratitude, and trust from your heart. Allow your attention to move from your Heart Center downward through the Central Channel to your lower abdomen, to your Body Center. Feel the connection between your Heart Center and your Body Center. Again, become aware of your breathing in your lower abdomen.
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Conclusion A (20-minute Version): Feel Your Body As a Whole From the Inside: Now, let go of your breathing altogether. Feel your body as a whole from the inside. Imagine radiant life energy illuminating every cell. Imagine and feel your inner body as open, clear, spacious awareness.
Awareness of Awareness Itself: Become aware of Awareness itself in that space. Be the watcher, the observer of awareness itself.
Manifestation Cues: Now in this state of strong, positive, clear, coherence ask yourself: What is truly important for me right here and now? Allow your answer to arise from the core of your being.
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Closing: And now, come back to feeling your body as a whole from the inside. Allow inner peace to saturate every cell of your body. Smile with appreciation, gratitude, and trust into your inner space. Slowly open your eyes and begin to take in the space around you. Take a few moments to write down anything about your meditative experience that is important to you. Stand, stretch, and shake out your arms and legs.
Conclusion B (40-minute Advanced Version): Feel Your Body as a Whole From the Inside: Now, let go of your breathing altogether. Feel your body as a whole from the inside. Imagine radiant life energy illuminating every cell. Imagine and feel your inner body as open, clear, spacious awareness.
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Manifestation Cues: Now in this state of strong, positive, clear, coherence ask yourself: What is truly important for me right here and now? Allow your answer to arise from the core of your being. If nothing arises, allow yourself to enjoy the meditation as it is. If something specific arises, imagine the realization of that event right here and now. Imagine seeing it. . .feeling it. . .touching it. . .tasting it. . .smelling it. . .being it. Feel the peace and joy in that. Whatever is arising right now, allow it to be as it is. Feel the peace and joy of Being, right here and now. Imagine that feeling of peace and joy expanding outwards in all directions. Include anyone in particular that you would like to in that feeling. Allow your feeling of peace and joy to expand infinitely in all directions.
Closing:
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The Core Energy Technique: The Core Energy Technique helps you to quickly recall your meditative experience and return to a Core Energy State of strong, positive, clear coherence. You can use this technique at anytime, anywhere, to de-stress and regain a better perspective. Practice the four cues in order. Combine this with regular meditation practice and you will be able to shift your vibration whenever you have gotten off track. From a strong, positive, clear, and coherent vibratory state your life will unfold with maximal health, ease, success, and purpose. Once you get good at this, you will be able to shift into a Core Energy State at a moments notice. 1. Feel your body as a whole from the inside. Imagine and feel all your cells at once. Feel the inner space of your body as relaxed, open, and clear awareness.
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*Remember to check out the Resources and Daily Practice Log on the following pages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin Schoeninger graduated from Villanova University in 1986 with a Masters Degree in Philosophy. He is Certified as a Personal Trainer, a Qigong Instructor, and as a Reiki Master Teacher. Kevins lifework is self-development and spiritual growth through daily practice. He has written several programs that are available through The Mind-Body Training Company. Visit us online at http://www.MindBodyTrainingCompany.com for details on: The Power of Practice Program Learn Qigong Meditation Home Study Course The Life You Are Meant to Live (coming in 2009) Kevin is also the editor and mentor for Spiritual Growth Monthly.com
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CORE ENERGY MEDITATION DAILY PRACTICE LOG Month: ____________ Year: ______ Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
When How Long Rate It 0-10 Briefly describe experience
MONTHLY REVIEW: Average Daily Rating: Add up ratings:_____ divide by ___ (# of Days) =____ (Avg.)
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