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In your process of mystic awakening, it’s important to have a simple process that you can always fall back on. These are the primary ingredients for powerful meditation. These deceptively simple secrets are also the beginning of the power to change anything in your life!

1-Awareness: Pick your focus of meditation. You can do this in a relaxed, seated situation, or you can do it in your day to day life. When your mind drifts from your focus, gently return it, and smile deep within yourself.

While walking around, you might focus on your breath, the feeling of your feet contacting the ground, the things you see as you are walking, or the things you hear. Gently bring your awareness back to your object of focus again and again.

While sitting, you can pick any sensation (or all sensations at once) in the body. You can also choose internal or external sounds. You can even focus on internal or external images (if you like to meditate with your eyes open) during your formal practice. Whatever your object of focus, be sure to gently return your awareness to it anytime it drifts.

2-Acceptance: Say “yes” on a deep level. Whatever comes up, allow it to be. Relax, mentally and physically. Accept yourself (everything within you) fully… then offer your acceptance to others. When you deeply accept yourself, your peace, acceptance and allowing will naturally flow into others.

For the practice examples listed earlier, be sure to remember you ‘gently’ return your awareness. Remember to let go of judgment. It’s not good or bad. It simply is.

3-Awakening: Recognize that beliefs are only models of reality. I know we like to get attached to our favorites (don’t we!), but they are only there as a map or a model. If a more useful map or model comes along, then we should replace the old one.

Take your thoughts a little more lightly… after all, they’re only thoughts. Whatever you deeply believe in, see if you can imagine the opposite as a serious belief… see if you can step into it… how many opposites can you come up with? Begin to relax in and around your belief systems… begin to release your seriousness. An ideal time to play with your resistance and attachment around belief systems is when you reach a deep, peaceful place in meditation through your practice of awareness and acceptance.

Take some time to integrate these principles into your formal meditation, or into your daily life. Mysticism is nothing more than endless courage when looking within. Courage may be nothing more than accepting what is, and continuing down the path, regardless.

Your current experience level doesn’t matter. When you bring these powerful secrets of mysticism into your daily meditation practice, insight and bliss will become common experiences for you!. By: Benjamin Langley