What is the difference between this form of meditation and fill-in-the-blank?
Oh my gosh, so many things! For now, let’s just focus on one aspect, the healing aspect.
This meditation format is unusual in that it possesses a strong healing component that other meditation flavors do not have.
Such as?
The first appreciation-based technique heals the subjective root stress of our modern life. This is the underlying judgement that “something is wrong with my life”.
The second gratitude-based technique heals the objective root stress. This is the underlying belief that “there’s not enough, or I’m not enough”.
The third love-based technique heals the spiritual root stress. This is the core belief that “I’m separate from the greatest positive force in the universe (whatever I conceive that to be)”.
So these are the three broad stresses that underlie all other stresses: judgement, lack, separation. That’s the first layer.
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It’s when the secondary healings emerge that this meditation format becomes even more distinctive.
For example, the Love technique also heals the sense of feeling separated from others, and not feeling loved or lovable.
The Gratitude technique also heals the sense of not feeling safe in the world; and heals identifying with guilt and shame.
The Appreciation technique also heals the forgetting of knowing your life’s purpose.
Innocently using the techniques during the day, eyes-open, especially in moments when you don’t feel safe, or don’t feel loved, will shift your state. It’ll rescue you.
Ultimately, these healing components are there to enable you to rest in the stillness of your soul longer. That’s the true purpose behind it—so you don’t get triggered and pulled out of soul consciousness by every little old wound.
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Maybe you’re in a comfortable spot where you are right now and healing isn’t the top of your mind.
Okay.
But let me leave you with this: it’s impossible—im-pos-si-ble—to conceive what an expanded state of consciousness is like.
When you are released from these 3 root stresses—judgement, lack, separation—your life blooms in ways you never could’ve predicted.