Be here now
Today I sent out the second email to my subscribers list. As a reminder: Early subscribers will receive a free guided meditation every two weeks to their inbox. For life.
I won’t spam you. I’ll just deliver a free guided meditation every two weeks to your email, no catch. The first two have been transcripts, as I’m currently abroad, working in the Middle East.
When I get home, I’ll send simple video links with high quality guided meditations that will help you connect with the moment of now, tune in to your team of Spirit Guides, sleep better and deeper, clear ancestral trauma, and much, much more. You’re going to get a lifetime of fresh content to help you tune in to your soul.
Go to the Home page, scroll to the bottom, enter your email, and accept marketing. That’s all you’ve got to do. This offer is only available for a limited time. If you happen to read this post after October 2023, shoot me an email and tell me how bi-weekly meditations could be beneficial to you and I’ll add you to the list.
But for now, here’s an edited version of the second newsletter and meditation you just missed out on..
I’ve spent the past month in Erbil, Kurdistan, filming a World War 1 drama for television. Our main location is a place called Erbil Citadel. It’s the oldest inhabited settlement in the world. Over 6000 years old. It sits on top of a hill created by many generations of people living and rebuilding on the same spot. Alexander the Great defeated the Persian king Darius III on the plains surrounding Erbil in 331 BCE. It is believed to be the birthplace of writing. And in Glowing Deeper, my second book, I write about the Ancient Mesopotamian region and female spirituality being outlawed by male officials in favour of creating religion.
To begin my third book in the very place where spiritual writing began is almost unfathomable to me.
This weeks meditation is going to be about connecting with your current place in the world. Inspired by Erbil Citadel, I want you to learn how to tune in to your surroundings and extract what you can from them. Perhaps you’ll get flashes of insight while you meditate. Take note of them. Don’t dismiss them as random thoughts. Your intuition may be waking up. The meditation will expand on our previous one about tuning in to the Eternal Moment Of Now, and truly lay the foundations for what’s to come when we venture towards connecting with our higher selves and the ethereal plains.
As promised, these meditations will arrive without fail to your inbox every two weeks. Whether you are a seasoned meditator or new to it, there’ll be something here for every level.
See you in two weeks.
Phill
Find yourself a comfortable place to sit and relax, where you won’t be disturbed for ten minutes or so. Silence all digital distractions. Sit with your feet on the floor, hands in lap or to the side, close your eyes, and take one full deep breath. It always begins and comes back to the breath.
Take a moment now to concentrate on your breath. Take a full deep inhale, hold at top, then let it all go. Let your breathing return to its normal rhythm.
Imagine now, a light beneath your feet. It’s being generated by the earth, and travels up to meet you. Perhaps it’s golden green in color, perhaps its sitting like a soft cloud just beneath the surface of where your feet touch the floor. If you’re in an apartment block then imagine this golden green light travelling up through the building to meet you. And on your next breath in, visualise pulling the light up through the soles of your feet, and feel it travel upwards and envelope your ankles, healing as it goes.
On the next breath in, pull the light up a little further, feel it warm your calves and travel up around your knees, soothing any tension that might be held there.
Now pull the light up around your thighs, your pelvic area, feel it warm your stomach as it swirls upwards around the spine and your solar plexus space. Feel the light envelope your heart, and move up through your chest, around your shoulders and down your arms, to the tips of your fingers.
On the next breath in pull the light up through your throat, feel it light up the back of your head, and activate the Third Eye Chakra right above your brow, your intuitive portal to the world. Visualise the golden green glow flowing up and out the top of your head.
You are now secured between the earth and the higher realms. Sit and concentrate on your breath, and be open to any insights that appear. You may very well have random thoughts, don’t struggle to push them away. Let them come and go and return to the breath. Even the most persistent thought will give up if it’s just a random distraction from your brain on autopilot. You will be able to move beyond it. Concentrate on visualising the light. Concentrate on your breath. You are glowing.
Imagine all that has taken place around you. Think about your home, and all the memories made there. If you are outside then think of the transient nature of where you sit. The people that have come and gone. The years that have passed by the place in which you currently are. Think about who may have lived in your home before you. Go back in time and see the years flying in reverse like pages from a calendar. Imagine the generations that have passed through your current space and the place itself being built. If you are out in nature, watch the landscape change in your minds eye as you travel back through time.
There is nowhere else that you are other than right here right now. You belong here. All that you have done before, and everyone who you have ever met has bought you to this place right here, right now. Let’s go beyond that. All those who came before you, also bought you to right here and right now. The generations who have passed through this spot, the generations that interacted with your family members and ancient ancestors. You are here for a reason, and that reason is now.
Take note of any moments of insight that may come to you. Faces, emotions, ideas. Let them flow. If you get distracted, come back to your breath.
After a few more moments, begin to pull the light back down through the top of your head. Feel it travel down your neck, back up your arms, down through your chest, stomach, pelvis and thighs, down through the souls of your feet, and back into the earth to be recycled.
Take another deep breath, and when you feel ready, open your eyes.