Master These Two Meditations To Protect Your Mental Health & Build Your Spiritual Body For Every Plane of Existence

Go ahead, look in the mirror.

Do you have a lopsided spiritual body?

Very likely.

But your eyes can't see it.

Imagine doing left-arm bicep curls in the gym — ONLY.

For 20 years.

You would sculpt a hefty left arm, and a floppy right arm.

Well… that is probably how your spiritual body looks.

But hold on... what exactly is a spiritual body?

Let's define it as "the body of non-material skills and wisdom" that you build and carry with you.

So, how can you sculpt a balanced spiritual body? And how might that impact your human experience AND beyond?

Pull up a chair.

Today, we’ll talk about the two types of meditations: Receptive Meditation and Active Meditation.

• Complementary Opposites Activate Potential •

Before we discuss definitions, it’s critical to understand that receptive and active meditations are complementary opposites.

Complementary means “combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other.”

The stronger your receptive meditation practice, the stronger your active meditation practice becomes.

These are two indispensable sides of the same coin—yin and yang—that rely on each other to reach their potential.

Why is that?

In order to have any experience and growth, you need oscillation—a moving back-and forth between the two sides of a coin such as receptive and active.

So, let’s begin with receptive meditation.

∙ Receptive Meditation Creates Foundation∙

In receptive meditation, the goal is to “empty” yourself and to perceive reality as directly as possible, without your typical human filters or projections.

This is absolutely fundamental to every thing and non-thing.

Imagine if your mother’s womb was always “full”. She would have never had the space to conceive you.

The same concept holds true with everything you want to experience or manifest.

If your mind is constantly “impregnated” with repetitive thoughts, your energy will be scattered across past, present, and future. Across disparate ideas, images, and feelings.

Consequently, your life—and especially your active meditations—will lack power and integrity. Your noisy mind will muffle your intentions.

Thus, the goal of receptive meditation is to still “the oscillations of the mental substance”, as written by the famous Indian sage Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras.

This will help you close the “open tabs” in the browser of your monkey mind, which vastly improves your mental health.

However, there are far more fascinating benefits.

Receptive meditations guide you to appreciate a more primordial reality, rather than an infatuation with the temporal illusions created by the human mind.

So, the more you still your mind, the deeper you journey back into where you came from.

This way, as a human, you begin to also identify with your non-human nature.

And that, my friends, increases the odds of a chance encounter with your soul.

As Alan Watts cleverly says, “If I think all the time, I won’t have anything to think about except thoughts. So, in order to have something to think about, there are times when you simply must stop thinking.”

Meditate on that paradox for a moment.

This is the trippy promise of receptive meditations.

By stilling your thinking, it creates an opportunity for you to think a thought worth thinking.

Make sure you understand that before you read on.

Because that is precisely what helps you differentiate between the thoughts perpetuated by your survival thinking versus the whispers from your indomitable soul.

However, this is quite difficult for modern man. As Alan Watts points out, “An enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy.”

We place more value on the mental oscillations of thoughts and fullness—even if that thinking doesn’t serve us—than we place on the oscillation of presence and emptiness.

But, if we can train ourselves to masterfully cultivate receptive states, we can later re-purpose our busy minds to a higher task in our active meditations.

∙ Active Meditation Creates Change ∙

Contrary to receptive meditations, active meditation is used to create change.

It is the process of generating and projecting energy in the present moment to create a new future, or even to re-write the past.

And when you inevitably get distracted during your meditation, re-direct your focus power back to the change you want to create.

Now, why does this matter?

Let’s turn to the founder and teacher of the Vesica Institute for Holistic Studies, Robert J. Gilbert, “Active meditation directs the Mind Power like a laser toward a particular subject or goal. It has the power to create thoughtforms, which can manifest powerful effects on every plane of existence. Like receptive meditation, it is a power which we can cultivate and master in our physical lives, yet which will benefit us in all worlds—regardless of whether we are physically incarnated or not. Active meditation is even more important in the non-physical worlds than it is here on Earth. However, it is vital on every plane of existence.”

Trippy. 

Sign me up for manifesting powerful effects on every plane of existence, whether I am in a body or not.

Clearly, this is a timeless undertaking.

That YOU, in your human body, have time to undertake.

So, how do you get started?

∙ Practice Receptive & Active Meditation ∙

Receptive meditations, such as most Zen Buddhist teachings and Vippasanna meditations, are typically passive and neutral: observe, watch, be.

Just note your thoughts as they arise or go, but do not celebrate, annihilate, or judge them.

Or, just sit in the empty silent space between your thoughts.

Or, just relax into the sensation of the breath flowing in and out of your body.

Don’t waste energy in the present moment trying to change the past or future.

The business is is’ness. Just be with what is.

Nothing to fight, nowhere to go, no desire to have, no thought to think, no feeling to suppress or create.

By strengthening your receptive skills, you create a pristine blank canvas for you to paint on during your active meditations.

Thus, receptive meditation is best mastered before active meditation.

Once you have trained yourself to "clear the canvas", start mastering active meditations.

In an active meditation, focus on cultivating and holding a feeling in your body, such as gratitude or empowerment.

Or, creatively visualize your dream, such as buying yourself a big old fat house.

Or, attune your mind to the frequency of a specific thought or desire, such as a new job, relationship, or quality of health.

And, when you inevitably get distracted, redirect your laser-like mind power to what you want to create.

As you become more skilled at both meditation styles, you will naturally customize your practice.

For example, your 20-minute meditation might begin with 10 minutes of receptive meditation, followed by 10 minutes of creative visualization.

Or, you might spend 5 minutes each morning feeling your future as if it already happened (active meditation), and then spend 5 minutes before bed doing a Just Note Gone practice (receptive meditation).

Whatever you do, you need to remember…

Oscillation is mandatory.

Be receptive.

Be active.

The development of your wisdom depends on it—in this human life and beyond.

With Strength & Love,

Connor

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