My own favorite meditation/visualization exercise was first introduced to me when I was a mere teenager of 15 or so. The assignment, for lack of a better word, was to create your own inner space, again for lack of a better word. It is a place where you could be completely you no matter what was going on around you. You could do actual mediation work there, or you could just head there to daydream. I do both.
It’s up on the mountains, for me. It’s nestled between two peaks clear up higher than people should be able to be (it’s my meditation, after all). But it’s not really in a valley either, because it’s still up in the mountains. Anyways, the two peaks kind of make it private. You only get there because you know it’s there.
While it’s usually day time, the sky is always dark so I can see the stars. I love seeing the stars while out in the middle of nowhere. It’s like you can reach up and grab them. I LOVE that. So naturally, in my meditation, I created a sky that was like that all the time, but this time with the right colors – a deep, deep navy blue. I love my sky.
I know some people pick grand houses with lots of rooms they can do their work in, or meadows with every kind of flower you can imagine. I knew one person who created the perfect bed for her inner space. It doesn’t matter what it is, where it is, or even what it looks like. The important thing is that you created it, it has your stamp on it and you can be totally comfortable there.
I’ve been going to my wonderful spot for years. I have it all set up just for me – my work, my play, my place to commune with myself and my god/goddess/all that is. I can be there in the space of three breaths and I can imagine it so completely that I’ve often wondered if it is a real place. Real, as in, I can get in a car and take my family there. I know it’s real in my head and my own personal universe.
I’ve done some great work there. I’ve met spirit guides, and discovered ideas for my own work with colors and crystals, and learned about my personal totems – the ones I chose and the ones that chose me. I even have found a newspaper that gets delivered there that I can read. From it, I get things and feelings that others would call psychic insight. I try not to read it too often. I like surprises. Besides, it’s the best way I can practice my free will. I don’t want to get too dependent on any kind of psychic power for soothsaying purposes.
It sounds “new age,” whatever that means, and maybe that would make some uncomfortable with it, but I’ve always felt that your own psychic spot is a very important place to develop. Everyone should have one regardless of what they call it. It’s a little vacation spot that can help you get away from “the real world” and balance yourself, find your own ground.
In order to get your goddess head going, one must have a psychic spot of their very own.
