MEDITATION PATH UPDATE - Pineal experience and my current meditation routine
Firstly, the pineal experience.
Every night, before I go to sleep, I've always struggled to "turn off my brain" and go into a relaxed state of near-sleep, always needing screens, entertainment, or some sort of distraction.
Lately, almost as if for no reason, I've just been doing some meditative exercises before sleep instead, and it has worked wonders. I say for no reason, because I didn't put in any direct effort towards changing this habit. Things just slowly went from using my laptop as I fall asleep, to using my phone, to enjoying the lack of light from having neither, to doing a bit of meditation. Actively meditating improves you as a person without you even noticing.
What I normally do before I fall asleep now, and have been for a week or so, is get into a trance by relaxing and just sitting there, and just accepting my hyper-active thoughts. As minutes pass, my thoughts get slower, to the point where I can just feel what I'm feeling without so much introspection or recalling memories, or whatever.
Then, after a certain point, I start to draw in and feel energy, similarly to the Foundation Meditation, and after that it's essentially up to how I feel as for what I do with that energy.
Sometimes, I do some gentle cleaning using only visualization, maybe in a specific Chakra(s) I feel I need extra work on. Doing it like this, with a strict focus on feeling the energy going into cleaning, does seem to improve my regular cleaning session with vibrations, because I know what feelings to mentally focus on.
Maybe, if I'm feeling sore after a workout, I direct it as healing energy, which I do by being aware of how that body part feels, focusing my mind on it, and visualizing light while knowing I'm healing and not cleaning. It does feel different, and it did help me with recovery the couple times I did it.
A couple times, I directed the energy into a certain Chakra for empowerment, just meditating on that Chakra and tuning into the associated feelings, which do become stronger as I both focus harder and send more energy.
What I did today, however, was interesting. I simply directed that energy into my pineal gland, with no expectation in mind (aka, no specific intent or cleaning or empowerment, letting that energy find its path of least resistance).
I focused on my 6th Chakra, then moved slightly around the brain to try to locate the pineal gland. It's a sort of click moment when you find it, if you are decent at feeling energies you'll know when you did.
After about 4-5 breaths of foundation, I essentially felt like I had to stop, because I was definitely feeling something, and I didn't want things to get too intense, since my pre-sleep meditation is supposed to just be relaxing and keep my mind busy on something as I doze off.
I felt a sort of mist covering all of my brain, and the visualization was vivid enough that I could see a small, sparkly white-gold area when looking up with my eyes closed.
I felt relaxed, and very aware of everything I was feeling.
I'll try it a couple more times this week, and perhaps add Pineal Meditation to my daytime routine.
MY CURRENT PROGRAM - after working on what to add and what to not add for a while.
In the morning, I do my Aura Cleaning with about 30 RAUM vibrations in the aura, and 1-2 in each Chakra.
Then, I do some Sun Salutations, because they seem to be great for energy and for feeling great in the morning.
A few hours later, I do some studying (both ToZ and some spiritual books I'm reading), some note taking, and afterwards I do some Chakra Spinning.
After the spinning and studying, comes my prayer session, which usually consists of me talking about my day, goals, or whatever else, with Father. Then, I grab a sheet of paper, and ask my GD (still don't know who it is, but that hasn't seemed to hinder me) for guidance in my spiritual plans, then take some notes on thoughts I get, ideas, things to pay attention to, etc.
Around sunset is when I do my Hatha Yoga session, and about an hour after I do my AoP, with 18 ALGIS and 18 SOWILO.
Before I sleep, comes the trance session I explained above. But before that, I raise energy with 10 SURYA and state some affirmations I tuned for me for mental programming, and I recite a special prayer to the Gods.
These are daily, but I do have some other things I do:
I work on my Astral senses with 16 INANNA about twice a week.
I empower my Solar Chakra for money with 50 AUM RA on Sundays, on the hour of the Sun.
I take a few minutes each day to tune into and focus on a different Chakra. Not necessarily for empowerment, as much as it is for awareness.
I do some Focus Meditation on various symbols 2-3 times a week, for about 10 minutes.
I've been on this routine for a couple weeks, and I've enjoyed it so far. It's energetically stimulating, it's relatively busy, it does push my limits sometimes, and I'm making improvements.
I'll probably stick with this exact routine for a couple months, then move into more empowerment, deeper cleaning and whatnot.