Intuition Series: Re-aligning with the Knowing of Soul, Guided Visualization, The Temple, article 2 of 4

Originally published on examiner.com October 28, 2010 at 11pm

Find a nice quiet place and get ready to tap into a most valuable resource — your inner knowing! Turn off the phone, light a few candles, and you are well on your way.

Do take some time to familiarize yourself with the breathing exercises before beginning.

1) Breathing exercises

Close your eyes. Inhale through your nose while silently counting to five. Hold for five counts. Exhale through your mouth for five counts. Whatever rhythm feels good to you will work — 12 is optimal, however take your time in working up to the 12 count.

Visualize/feel an influx of golden light moving in through the top of your head and infusing your heart with the in-breath, releasing any stress, strain, or heaviness with the out-breath. With each exhale see this energy as it moves down through your body, legs, feet, and out into the earth mother where it will be replenished and re-generated.

Repeat three times.

Silently repeat: The fountain of God’s love flows through me now. As you inwardly repeat these words, see the golden light moving in through the top of your head. Like a golden waterfall, it flows through your body, straight down to your toes. See and feel this energy as it slowly fills the body, rising up to the knees, thighs, hips, abdomen, chest, arms, neck, face, forehead, and now to the top of your head.

See it filling your body until you are brimming in golden light.

2) Choose a place that represents the core of Who You Are.

Through visualization this is where you will go everyday to re-connect with your intuition.

It can be a temple or church, a garden, a place in nature, an auditorium, a room — it can be virtually anything or anywhere! For the purpose of this visualization we will use a temple.

Note: the development of this visualization began when I was in my teen years. A dear friend from childhood and I spent a lot of time in this ‘world’ of our creation. This temple is one of the landmark spaces that we would often visit together in Mind and Soul.

Guided Visualization

Begin with the breathing exercises.

You are walking alongside a river. The water laps back and forth against the sandy riverbanks, gleaming in the sun’s effervescent rays.

You feel the warmth of the sand as it crumbles beneath your toes, the wind as it gently kisses your face bringing with it the aromas of pine and juniper.

Hawk lands high atop a jacaranda tree, guiding your attention and summoning you forward. Can you hear her call?

What message has Hawk come to share with you today?

Hawk returns to a soaring flight. A flash of purple light appears, as if emanating from beneath her wings, capturing your attention and directing it to the forest ahead. Following this light you ease your way up to the forests entrance and are met with an amethyst pathway.

Enraptured by the encompassing glow of the purple light, you continue along the pathway, allowing it to guide you through the trees. The amethyst crystals ignite with each footstep, infusing your being and creating a bright opening at the third-eye — the center that is just above and between your eyebrows.

Feel the energy as it sources, pulsates and clarifies.

Breathe …

Looking upward at the towering trees you sense the vastness of their wisdom. Ask them if they will share their wisdom with you. Thank the trees as the sun peeks in through the canopy and gently rests upon your face.

Hundreds of butterflies rush into the landscape, ushering in the energy of transformation. One butterfly lands upon your heart; feel the gentleness of its way, take it in.

In the distance you see a beautiful white temple. Walk forward until you come to a gateway. Walk through this gateway and follow the path — the one that leads up to the gleaming golden stairwell and in through an archway.

Walk through the archway.

You are now inside the temple. Take a seat at its center.

Look around and take in your surroundings. What do you see?

Take some time to get acquainted with this temple. Get up and walk around; freely explore each angle and every nuance. Make it your own. Decorate it with the things that help you feel most centered.

Resume your seat at temple’s center. Focusing on the inflow and outflow of your breath, invite your intuition into the room. Ask it to reveal itself. It can show up in many forms: a bright light, a Saint, a friend, an angel, an animal, or a tree.

Who or what approaches as you sit in the silence of your sacred space?

Greet your intuition and ask it: ‘Do you have anything to share with me today?’

What does your intuition have to share with you? Do you feel any sensations in your body? Do you see any pictures in your mind’s eye? Does an aroma suddenly permeate the room? Sit with it, feel it.

The insight can take on many forms. It can be sensory or beyond the senses, and it may very well be that silence is the answer. Watch for any symbolism and cease from labeling it. Simply observe and experience.

To end the visualization

Take a moment to thank your intuition, let it know that you deeply appreciate its guidance. Feel the gratitude. This serves in creating a vibration of receptivity. Invite your intuition to come along and spend the day with you. Be sure to check in with it periodically. You can ask it to rest in your third eye, your heart, or on your shoulder like in the cartoons of old — whatever feels right for you!

Stay in open dialogue with your intuition. Greet it upon waking. Make a concerted effort to get to know it. You can even ask it to walk with you through the landscapes that make up your dreams.

Follow or ignore it, but do pay heed to the results of each action, as this will help you in learning how to trust it more fully.

Anytime you are feeling disconnected or off-center, visit your special place, and call upon your intuition to Light the way. With practice you will find that you are able to move into your center with greater and greater ease.

Article 3 in this series is for those who are in tune with their intuition but are not always able to act in accordance with what they know quite yet! It also provides information on the chakras and what they can share with us about energies that we are feeling.

To read article 3 in the Intuition series click here.

Thank you for reading!

If anything has come to heart and/or mind upon reading this piece, I would surely love to hear from you! Please share in comments below.

Soul to Soul,

Creative Hearts Align