Meditation

Here is another piece I had written a while back. I really like this piece because it was a very important experience for me. The point of it was not so much to call others to a particular religion or view (I don't consider myself Christian from a traditional religious perspective). It is my experience with something that is bigger than me. For some it may be called God, Universe, Mother Nature, or even Science. For me, it came out this way. It always brings me a certain amount of peace to remember it.

Here it is...

I had this really cool experience while I was meditating a couple of nights ago.
The other night I couldn't sleep and was progressively getting more worked up over the usual dramas of life. I tried but couldn't sleep until about 4 am. In the course of the night, I came to realize that I was reacting so much to everyday life because there was so much hurt and anger inside of me. I tried meditating a couple of times and I just couldn't do it. I had a really hard time concentrating.

Well, a few days later while I was meditating, an image came to me of myself in front of Christ. He was much larger than me (perhaps I was smaller than normal or he was larger than normal). I pictured myself taking each hurt, each bit of anger, each bit of sadness and giving it to him. Each of these things I pictured as a glowing, small, white box. I didn't picture it that way intentionally, but it just came out that way. Each thing I gave him, he gladly took from me. Finally, I took my love for him (which looked like a small bright glowing sphere). It was bigger than the boxes I gave him. He took that from me and in his hands the sphere grew in size and brightness. Then he gave it back to me. When he did, I felt this wave of peace come over me. After that I did my usual affirmations on myself (I am kind, I am loved, I am loving, I am good, I am worthy, ...).

It really helped me a lot and seemed to get out a lot of the gunk. Cool huh.