INNER WORK
SHORT INNER WORK EXERCISE FOR OUR EARTH MOTHER
PREPARATION: CENTER INWARDLY
To begin the inner work, find a comfortable spot, close your eyes, and relax. Take several deep, cleansing breaths. If you have a personal routine you ordinarily follow when centering inwardly such as a stress reduction visualization, a mantra, etc., you can do that as well. Some people center inwardly by closing their eyes, getting into a prayerful posture; or just by folding their hands in a prayerful attitude. Some people first visualize that they're completely surrounded by Divine White Light....Others arrange themselves in the lotus position, or visualize that they're connected from the base of their spine to Earth's center by a golden cord to ground themselves to Earth before entering the meditative state. Use whatever method works best for you.
Steps 1 and 2: Grounding Ourselves in our Planetary Presenceand Planetary Togetherness
Once relaxed and centered inwardly, visualize in your mind’s eye, an image of Earth within the backdrop of Cosmic space... Hold this image in awareness... Begin to get a sense of all of humankind, now collectively focused on the larger Planetary/Cosmic dimension of our existence...Stay focused on this image of Earth as seen from space... Begin to actually feel your presence on Earth ....Our collective presence... When it feels right to you, open your eyes and proceed to the next step.
Still relaxed and centered inwardly, maintain and deepen this sense of all of us collectively focused on our planetary presence... We are now experiencing it together, as all our habitual busywork and pre-occupations come to an end... We collectively take this time to literally feel our togetherness on our home planet... As we deepen our focus on our planetary togetherness we center as well, on how much we care for each other...value each other... and appreciate each other... All our previous internalized borders and boundaries dissolve, as we now stand together in our planetary presence and togetherness... Bonds of affection and caring for each other now unite us as one.... We feel our perspective widening and expanding beyond our ego... beyond our physical body, to become ONE with this collective centering on our planetary presence and togetherness...We feel ourselves in At-One-Ment with all of humankind simultaneously, as we collectively center ourselves in this more expanded sense of place, and unity. When it feels right to you, proceed to the next step.
Step 3 The Specific Energy Expression:
Love For Our Earth Mother
Still focused on an image of our Earth as seen from space, we feel a tremendous gratitude for all our Earth Mother has given us. Collectively, we begin to feel welling up inside of us, a tremendous Love for our Earth Mother... Through our long evolutionary journey, our Earth Mother has been our constant provider, She has sustained and nourished us over long eons... A growing Love and deep Thankfulness for all our Earth Mother has given us, now unites us together as One....The Love we feel for our Earth Mother moves through us... it circles over Her landmasses, and passes over Her Oceans. It surrounds our beloved Earth in a shimmering array of Divine White Light and Love energy...This beautiful Divine White Light and Love energy continues to pour forth from each human heart as we begin to repeat mentally the following lines,
We Love, Honor and Respect our Earth Mother
We Love our Earth Mother, very very much
Not only has our Earth Mother nourished and sustained us, but She has given us a home, here in the material plane in order for our Souls to unfold. She has taken us in, and given us refuge after we wandered long eons in great clouds of Cosmic dust, to finally alight on Her primeval shores. We've dwelt always in Her beauty, found comfort in Her forests and glimpsed eternity from Her highest peaks as our Souls laboriously emerged through shifting forms over long millennia. Our one constant source of ever-flowing bounty, we thank our Earth Mother not only for providing for our needs over all our generations, but for giving us a home among the firmament of stars... and for making possible our Soul's slow progression from Cosmic dust to Divine Light.
We Love, Honor and Respect our Earth Mother
We Love our Earth Mother, very very much
Still relaxed, begin to become aware once again of your body and your physical surroundings. Take 3 or 4 deep, cleansing breaths. Sit in stillness for a few more moments to reflect on the inner work session you just completed. If you’d like to stay with the experience a little while longer, write down your feelings and any insights or images that came to you as you were engaged in the exercise, and any after-thoughts or ideas that might come to you concerning future sessions.