Meditations for Creative Flow and Breaking Free from Habitualization
In the whirlwind of modern life, losing touch with our innate creativity and being overwhelmed by stress and the burdens of daily existence is easy. The Meditation of Creative Flow offers a rhythmic pathway to reconnect with your creative wellspring and envision your future.
We'll also delve into a meditation designed to reprogram deep-seated habits and beliefs formed since childhood, allowing us to navigate life with ease, presence, clarity, and a newfound sense of purpose.
Meditation of Creative Flow
This is a rhythmic meditation, connecting to flow and future vision. This meditation is potent when you're feeling stagnant or overwhelmed and need to let go of stressors to tap into your creativity. It involves visualization and the practice of mantras to reset your inner narrative.
How to Do the meditation of creative flow
Start with engaging the breath. Inhale and hold your breath comfortably. Then, as you suspend the breath in, meditate on the number zero. Say to yourself: "All is zero; each thought is zero; my stress is zero; my problems are zero."
Bring to mind anything creating stress for you, and imagine dialing the energy around that stressor to zero. Even if you don't believe it, imagine dialing any swirling thoughts down to zero. Meditate on all adverse emotional, mental, and physical conditions and situations. As each thing crosses the mind, could you bring it to zero?
Next, as you've released your stressors, imagine you're floating in a body of water: the sea, a lake, or whatever body of water feels best to you. Feel the water rising beneath you, allowing your body to float.
As you inhale, imagine waves gently rolling in; as you exhale, the waves gently roll away. Let this water hold you. Feel its coolness on your skin, hear its movement as it splashes against your body, and smell the salty air. Tell yourself: here in this water, your imagination is free, and your creativity is boundless.
In the visualization practice, imagine your body floating on the shoreline. Stand up and take a moment to let the water thoroughly cleanse you. Let the water rinse through, cleansing your energy centers, beginning at your head and through the root of your body.
Notice if you're holding on to any pain, tightness, or sadness inside your body. Let the water rinse those feelings away.
Notice that an inner shine, a golden light, is coming from within you as you rest on the shoreline. Notice an outer shine and the sun creating a ring of light around you. Allow this light to permeate through you until your inner and outer light merge into one.
Once you've completed the visualization, close with this mantra: I am creative infinity. Say the mantra aloud several times, and write it in places you'll see it throughout the day.
You can practice this visualization-style meditation anytime you're feeling burdened, overwhelmed, or experiencing intense stressors that need to be processed to move forward and feel balanced, grounded, and productive.
Meditation To Release Habitualization
The stories we tell ourselves and our interpretations of what's happening substantially impact our perception of reality.
Did you know that scientists believe that most of our behavior patterns, beliefs, and habits are formed by age seven? So, how we react to day-to-day experiences is entirely influenced by the core beliefs we've carried around since we were young.
These core beliefs encompass how we see ourselves and others and understand the universe's actions. Our subconscious created this system of thinking as we looked to our parents, friends, teachers, and society when we were little kids.
As adults, up to 90% of our thoughts live in the unconscious realm, and our habits take shape from childhood imprinting.
When something stressful happens at work, when we feel rejected in a dating relationship or by a friend, when we disagree with our partner, when we feel personally attacked, when our parents do, well, parent things - some deeply ingrained habitual response is triggered.
Sometimes, it's vice-like things like smoking, drinking, or choosing unhealthy foods; however, sometimes, the response is subtle.
For example, we can have addictions to feelings of acceptance, acknowledgment, advancement, and specific emotional frequencies - and we habitualize the behaviors that deliver those feelings and experiences.
This particular meditation works to repattern the subconscious mind. It allows us to settle our nervous system and show up with ease, presence, clarity, and a sense of purpose.
Once the meditation begins, you'll use the thumbs to gently massage the temples, triggering a rhythmic current into the central brain. This current activates the brain area directly underneath the stem of the pineal gland.
When the pineal gland is impaired, we can experience hormone imbalance, disruption of our sleep, and stress triggers. Our subconscious habits can seem unbreakable when we have an imbalance in this area.
How to do the meditation To release Habitualization:
Posture: Sit in a cross-legged position or a chair if that's more comfortable for you. Straighten your spine; imagine shining your heart forward while locking your lower vertebrae forward.
Mudra: Make fists with both hands and extend the thumbs straight. Gently place the thumbs on the temples and find the niche where the thumbs fit easily into the space on the side of your head. If you were to look in an anatomy book, this is the lower anterior portion of the frontal bone above the temporal-sphenoidal suture.
Gaze: Focus your eyes on the third eye center between your brows.
Next, we'll begin to create movement and a light temple massage. Lightly lock your back molars together and keep the lips sealed.
Keeping the teeth pressed together throughout, alternately squeeze the molars tightly and then release the pressure. The motion should be similar to chewing gum. You'll feel a muscle moving in rhythm under the thumbs.
Feel a light massage as you continue to hold the thumbs in place. Once you've got the basics down, add the ancient mantra - SA TA NA MA. For this meditation, vibrate the mantra in your mind. SA is birth and the beginning, TA is the creative expression of our lives, NA is the transformation of consciousness, and MA is our regeneration.
The takeaway
We are the architects of our destiny. So, as you embark on this inner odyssey, remember that you hold the key to your creative infinity and the power to rewrite your life's narrative. May these practices help you tap into the wellspring of creativity and set you toward greater clarity, purpose, and fulfillment.
