To fill your self
with a quality or power, which you feel you do not have or one, which is lacking
inside you, try the following exercise. Suppose you feel that you lack
contentment (satisfaction). To increase this quality inside you, sit comfortably
in a pleasant room with your eyes open.
Withdraw
(remove) energy mentally from
everything around you - turn your attention inward. You might think of how a
tortoise withdraws into its shell to detach itself from the outside world, but
carrying the experience of the world with it inside its shelter.
Create a point of
consciousness. Focus on the centre of your forehead. Think of this point as a
bright star, a sparkling jewel, a flame or a being of light. This will radiate
positive energy, making you feel good about yourself.
Affirm
(strengthen) this positive energy
through positive thoughts and images about yourself such as * I am a contented
soul, I shower everyone whom I meet with the quality of contentment, * I am a
jewel of contentment or * I am the child of the Supreme Soul, the Ocean of
Contentment.
Focus your energy on
contentment, and let this become the object of your meditation. As you focus,
you will give contentment life, turning a thought into a feeling.
Experience this feeling by
giving your conscious attention to it.
During the entire
day, you could visualize yourself performing each action in the canopy (shelter)
of the Ocean of Contentment.
Now perform this
exercise for different virtues like cheerfulness, courage, humility
(egolessness), tolerance, forgiveness, determination, etc. especially for the
ones you think are lacking inside you. For the qualities already existing inside
you, you could use this exercise to strengthen those features of your
personality and bring them more into your actions and interactions.
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