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Meditations

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What meditations do I start with? 

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==== Beginner Meditations Collection ====

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JoS Clergy

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[[Beginner Meditations Collection]]

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 '''Satanic Void Meditation'''
"Void Meditation" is what is known as "stilling the mind." The benefits of void meditation are the ability to turn off unwanted thoughts and influences at will, being able to control your thoughts instead of your thoughts controlling you (as with the average person), and a sense of inner peace. Void meditation is essential for anyone who practices power meditation, and is important for success in advanced magickal practice. Power meditation changes the strength of our thoughts and it is very important to be able to control thoughts and to turn them off or focus them at will. Thought power, also known as 'witch power' is needed for success in ritual and in using your mind to obtain what you want. Power meditation strengthens our thoughts, and people who are more aware or sensitive will be able to pick up on our thoughts and feelings telepathically.  Void meditation will train your mind to be silent so others will not know what you are thinking. The Japanese Ninja use this technique to avoid being detected while carrying out important missions that require one to advance or infiltrate, unnoticed. Void meditation trains your mind so you can focus during rituals and in every day life so your mind brings you what you desire.

'''General Guide for Void Meditation'''

There are several techniques for void meditation. The goal is to turn off all of your thoughts and focus on the here and now. You get your mind to be completely still for a specified length of time. In the beginning, this can be extremely difficult, as thoughts will come into your head continually. Before you know it, you will again be thinking about something. Don't get upset with yourself as this is very normal and even for advanced practitioners, certain meditation sessions may not go as smooth as usual. Just keep bringing your mind back to focus. Patience and persistence are the keys here. It definitely helps to do some breathing exercises beforehand to induce a trance state. Some people find meditating after a heavy meal causes the mind to be easily distracted.

Always try to meditate when you are fully awake and alert. If you try to do void meditation when you are tired, chances are you will quickly fall asleep.

'''Standard Void Meditation'''

Breathing exercises are optional. This is a simple method of breathing that will induce a trance state:

# Breathe in for a count of six,*
# Hold your breath for a count of six
# Exhale for a count of six

Repeat this several times until you feel relaxed.

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Only hold as long as you feel comfortable. If holding for a count of six is not comfortable, then hold for a count of 4, or even 2. Just make sure you are uniform in your counts. Never hold longer than is comfortable. Breathing exercises are never to be pushed, as in doing so, they can cause damage to the nervous system.

Now, get your entire mind to be completely still and free of any thoughts for a specified amount of time with no thoughts or music in your head. Your mind should be a total blank. You should focus on being in the here and now. For beginners, five minutes is fine. Intermediate and advanced practitioners can go anywhere from 15 minutes to however long they feel is essential.

Void meditation can be done with your eyes open or closed. When your eyes are open, you will more than likely see a mist around objects as you settle into a trance state. This is normal. If you choose to close your eyes, you may fall asleep, but this is an individual choice and use whatever method works best.

'''FOR MEDITATION WITH YOUR EYES OPEN:'''

Choose something small to focus on. This can be a point on the wall, a second hand on a clock, or even a piece of lint on your clothing. Many choose to meditate on a candle flame. The important thing is to concentrate on your object of choice

'''FOR MEDITATION WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED:'''

Focus inside of yourself and relax. You can put yourself deeper and deeper into a trance with a feeling of falling. This is normal. For people who are new, this falling sensation that often accompanies a deep trance can make you feel dizzy. To stop the sensation, focus on the front of your body.

'''EVERYDAY VOID MEDITATION:'''

Void meditation can be done anywhere and at any time with just focusing on the here and now and concentrating totally on whatever you are doing. This method works best for those of you who are unable to secure any privacy. Just set a goal to focus on the here and now for a specific amount of time each day and you will benefit.

'''Advanced Void Meditation'''
* Visualize an object and hold the image in your mind. At first, it will fade in and out, but as you progress, it will remain longer and longer. This is definitely a needed ability for magickal practice and focusing your mind power.
* Focus on a specific chant or sound. You can do this either aloud or in your head. This is what is known as a "mantra." You breathe in and on the exhale, chant a specific mantra or tone of your choice. One common chant used in kundalini yoga is "Sa Ta Na Ma." This is pronounced "Sah- Tah- Nah- Mah." You can also chant "Sa Tan" "Say-Tahn" or "Say- Tahn- Nah- S-S-S-S."
* Focus on a specific emotion- anger, happiness, sadness, love, hate. You can choose an emotion going by how you feel on a specific day. This is excellent training for advanced ritual.
* Focus on a specific texture, for example, running your fingers back and forth across velvet or a terry towel.
* Focus on a specific odor or taste.
'''Advanced void meditation including physical positions'''

Advanced void meditation that includes adding physical positions trains both your mind and develops an iron will, and extreme inner strength.

* Keep your entire body still. Do NOT move. This is what the advanced yogis do.
* Get into a comfortable position. Don't scratch any itches, just ignore them and stay focused. Muscle cramps may come and go. Ignore any physical fatigue or mental fatigue. Just continue to remain focused.
** Add uncomfortable and/or awkward positions.  Make sure these are taken from a Yoga or Tai Chi book, so that they are physically beneficial. This is a discipline that is taught in many Martial Arts schools where one learns to ignore pain, while retaining intense focus. This strengthens the mind for physical combat and drastically increases your sense of self-confidence. This will also increase your resistance to pain.
* Many martial arts masters meditate under cold waterfalls, in snow or other painful conditions. One's physical health must be built up here, for obvious reasons. A cold shower can be substituted.  As with anything new, be sure to start out gradual.
** These techniques, when mastered, will give one total control over one's mind and emotions. If one faces death, one will not freeze up or panic with fear and the odds of one's survival will greatly increase.
* Running and meditating; focusing on your running steps, increases endurance both mentally and physically.
'''Power Void Meditation:'''

This is an excellent way to empower yourself while doing void meditation. This is advanced and you must have a feel for energy and be able to draw it in as with the [[Energy Meditation]]. Here you don't visualize the energy, you just breathe in and out, absorbing the energy on the inhale and expanding your aura on the exhale. You focus totally on the *feel.* you should be adept at energy breathing before incorporating this method into your void meditation.

'''How to Clean Your Aura'''

'''Effects of a clean Aura and problems of a dirty Aura'''

Cleaning your aura is essential for spiritual hygiene. By cleaning your aura on a daily basis, you protect yourself against psychic attacks and illnesses. A clean aura is charismatic and will encourage better relations with others. People will naturally be more considerate and grant favors to one whose aura is clean and radiating with energy. Here is where we influence people and get them to do as we wish. Negative thoughtforms used in black magick and generated from the ill will, jealousy, and/or anger of others attach to one’s aura and invite misfortune such as accidents, illnesses, and so forth. Cleaning one's aura [as long as there are no serious problems] only takes a few minutes a day and is well worth it. When one is ill, and/or depressed, the aura is dirty and can take many meditations to clean. What is within reflects in one’s aura. When there is an illness, whether it has already manifested itself, or is pending, the aura will take on a dirty grayish color.

Ideally, one should clean the aura twice a day- upon awaking and before falling asleep at night. Cleaning your aura before you go to sleep is essential. The more people you come into contact with throughout the day, the more thoughtforms and energy will attach to your astral body, often resulting in problems. People’s astral bodies intermingle on a daily basis. As with physical viruses and physical germs, the astral body can be vulnerable to negative energies, and then manifest in illnesses, accidents, and so forth on the physical self.

'''TO CLEAN YOUR AURA:'''

1. Visualize a bright light all over yourself. Hold this for one or more minutes. It doesn’t take very long.

2. Now, visualize the light even brighter and more intensified on each of your chakras, like a miniature sun.

That’s all there is to it, for a short working. This exercise can alert you to any negative energy or psychic attacks and prevent them from manifesting. If you notice your aura or chakras are seriously dirty, as with an illness, then repeat the full aura cleaning:

TO FULLY CLEAN YOUR AURA, recite a [[Satanic rosary]], with the seed mantra for the Sun, while visualizing yourself engulfed in brilliant white-gold light. Focus the vibration into your entire soul. You can choose whichever mantra for the Sun you feel comfortable working with, as both are effective:

"SURYA" SUUU-RR-YAH For an audio Mp3 of Surya, please click here

or

"RAUM" RR-AHH-UUU-MMM For an audio Mp3 of RAUM, please click here.

[ROLLING THE Rs IS OPTIONAL. FOR THE ENGLISH R, MAKE IT EMPHASIZED IN THE BACK OF THE THROAT, LIKE ERRRRR.

Please Click Here for an Mp3 Audio of Both Rs.

Please feel free to download and save these Mp3s.

'''How to empower Aura cleaning'''

Using a desk lamp with a flexible neck, shining in your face is another prop for visualizing the light indoors. Outside, if you can, use the sun. The sun is also a wonderful and powerful source of energy.  DO NOT USE LED LIGHT BULBS OR LAMPS THAT HAVE LED BUILT INTO THEM!! THESE CAN SEVERELY DAMAGE YOUR EYES, EVEN THOUGH YOUR EYES ARE CLOSED. USE A SOFT WHITE LIGHT BULB, WHICH IS SAFE IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO THIS. NOTE MOST FLASHLIGHTS HAVE THE LED LIGHTING. DO NOT USE THEM!!

Vibration is much more effective in cleaning the aura. This can be done every day, if one so desires. Visualization alone, oftentimes, is not only very difficult in cases where one is very ill, but is not nearly as effective as also using vibration. Because the soul is made of light, the Sun contains all of the visible colors of the spectrum, and in addition, light that is invisible to the naked eye, which is also an integral part of the soul. Visualizing light as bright as the Sun and reciting the solar mantra is very powerful in cleaning the soul of all negative energies.

'''Dealing with a dirty Aura'''

If you see your aura as dirty or gray, and have trouble cleaning it, this can be a warning. Illness and other negative things appear in the aura before they manifest. Take extra immune-boosting vitamins, such as Vitamin C, and be extra careful of what you eat and so forth for the next few days until it clears. I have experienced this a few times and took precautions and it went away. Many times, the aura gives a warning that won't manifest if the right precautions are taken. Tune into your intuition. Other times, it can be like astrology; a Saturn issue. The more you clean your aura and apply your aura of protection, the better off you will be.

Quite often, if there is a problem, such as illness or if there is a lot of negative energy, one will have difficulty in visualizing the light. Once enough energy builds from repeated workings, visualizing the light will become much easier. Seeing the light indicates that the working is doing its job. This is also in the case of Satanic healings. If the illness is severe and/or chronic, it may take several workings before one may be able to visualize and see the light. If this is the case, this indicates that the working should be repeated frequently, even past the point of where one appears to be fully healed. Regardless, whether one can easily "see" the light or not, one should do one's best to visualize the light, even in the most difficult of cases.

'''Light is Power'''

Contrary to many teachings, Satan/Lucifer is the bringer of light. Since the Demons have been liberated, their auras have drastically increased in light. Their power has increased as well. In some of the old grimoires, certain Demons have related their hopes to “return to the light.” Those of us who have worked with them understand what they meant by this statement. The light is in the aura. [[The Chakras|The soul is made up of light]] and needs light in order to have power. Father Satan levitated in front of me one time. When he did so, his aura became extremely brilliant with light.

''"Light is Power"'' - Lilith

'''[[Witchcraft: Beginner Exercises#Aura%20Of%20Protection|Aura Of Protection]]'''

'''Flame Meditation'''

Example of cupping the eyes

'''Method One:'''

1. Light a candle and stare at the flame for approximately two minutes. Make sure your attention does not wander.

2. Close your eyes, place your hands in a relaxed cupped position, palms over your eyes, and concentrate on the imprint of the flame in the darkness. The image will tend to move across your area of vision. Keep looking for it, bring it back and keep concentrating on it for approximately four minutes

3. Relax, empty your thoughts and tune into your breathing for a few minutes, concentrating only on each breath

'''What this exercise does (through Method One):'''

This exercise prepares the mind for one-pointed concentration, which is so important to any psychic/astral workings. With the average person, thoughts are scattered and dissipate into nothing. With a trained mind that can concentrate intensely, one's thoughts are single-pointed, focused like a laser, and have power. Total concentration makes the difference in astral workings. One's will is also developed with this exercise, as a powerful will does not give into distraction. Do not become frustrated or impatient with yourself. It is normal for thoughts to creep in to distract you in the beginning. Total concentration takes time and for most people, is one of the most difficult aspects of training the mind.

'''Method Two [intermediate]:'''

1. Focus on the flame for several minutes

2. Close your eyes and place your hands in a relaxed cupped position, palms over your eyes and concentrate on the imprint of the flame in the darkness. The image will tend to move across your area of vision.

3. Keeping your eyes closed, bring the flame closer. Move it back and forth. When you are proficient at moving and controlling the flame, try to enter the imprint. You will find the imprint begins to compact and change color. The bright image will change to pink, then to red and grow dark.

4. Repeat the exercise if you wish.

'''What this exercise does (through Method Two):'''

This exercise trains the mind and third eye to direct psychic energy.

'''The Breath: The Basis of Magick, Energy Manipulation, and Mind Power'''
# Sit in a comfortable chair or lie down on a comfortable spot and relax.
# Imagine and will, with each inhale, not only your lungs are breathing, inhaling air, but also your whole body is breathing in energy. You inhale with your entire body. The breath acts as a focus for absorbing energy.
# Know that along with your lungs, each single inch of your body simultaneously absorbs energy. Like a dry sponge when dipped into water absorbs, your body should absorb energy with each inhalation.

Since everyone is individual, how each of us feels the energy will be different in some respects.

'''Reversed Exercise'''

To reverse this, exhale energy out. This can make you tired and shouldn’t be done regularly other than to get a grip on how to do it.

* Exhaling energy is for empowering talismans, charging sigils, healing- anything, and everything when you want to put energy into something or to direct it.
* Energy can also be inhaled and absorbed and then directed to a specific area of your body for healing.
* In a very short time, you should be able to feel the energy when you breathe it in. As you advance, you will be able to see it without trying to visualize it.
* Feeling in this exercise is most important, especially when you are new. Do not try to see the energy as this can be a distraction. Just get a feel for it.
* This exercise is the most important for working with your mind and manipulating energy, which is the foundation of all magick.

As you advance, you can use this technique of energy absorption to absorb energy from the Sun and from just about anything you choose.

'''Closing Your Chakras'''

This exercise is important and very useful for shutting out unwanted and/or harmful energies. Upon closing your [[The Chakras|chakras]], you will feel a sense of calm and inner peace. Closing your chakras will also protect you from the energies of both unpleasant humans and astral entities as both attach themselves, penetrating at the chakras. By closing your chakras when you are in the presence of threatening beings, you can prevent most of the negative energies from entering and attaching to your soul. Closed chakras can also protect you from psychic vampirism. This exercise can also help to still the mind when done before [[Satanic Void Meditation|void meditation]] as it shuts out a lot of psychic noise.

# Begin at [[The Base Chakra|the base chakra]]. Visualize your base chakra as a whirling [[The Magickal Properties of Color#Red|red]] vortex of energy, point facing upwards like a pyramid. Visualize either doors or shuttered doors and close them on the chakra, shutting out all of the light. You can visualize this from the front of the chakra, like looking at the chakra through a window.
# Continue this with each individual chakra, all the way up to your [[The Crown Chakra|crown chakra]].

You should feel a sense of peace and quiet when all of your chakras are closed. This exercise can be done several times a day if you wish to block out unwanted external stimuli and/or to protect yourself in a negative environment like around [[Exposing Christianity|Christians]] or other undesirables.

This is especially effective for people who are natural mediums and empaths, who easily absorb energy from those around them and their environments. This exercise is also a help for those who are easily distracted by external stimuli.

This is another exercise that is necessary to master, as it is used in an advanced stage of the [[The Magnum Opus|Magnum Opus]].

Your chakras will open back up on their own after a bit. If you feel you need to open them right away, just reverse the above exercise, open the doors, and [[EZ Chakra Spin|spin each chakra]] several times.