The Five-Minute Miracle
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Exploring Your Life-Path
See your higher consciousness on top of a mountain and ask it to show you a path, a track, or a road leading toward the mountaintop.
When you can see this path, ask your higher consciousness: Can you please show me where I am on this path?
When you have received the answer, remember that it doesn't matter whether you are still down in the valley or whether you are already halfway up the mountain. All that matters is that you are moving toward your higher consciousness and that you are unfolding its wonderful qualities.
Ask your higher consciousness to show you what you are doing on your life-path when you experience your problem. For example, you may be straying from your path, walking in place, or going downhill. Whatever is shown to you, don't judge yourself. Ask your higher consciousness: Please, can you show me what I am doing on my life-path when I suffer from feeling (emotion) about (problem)?
Thank your higher consciousness for the answer.
Asking for Your Healing Symbol
Ask your higher consciousness to show you a healing symbol to overcome your problem. It may be something like a gemstone, a flower, or a geometrical form. You may be shown one or several symbols. Pick the one that feels best for you. It must have a beautiful form and color. Ask in the following way: Please give me a healing symbol to overcome my suffering from (emotion) about (problem).
If you like the symbol, thank your higher consciousness. If you do not really like the symbol, ask for another one.
Working with Your Symbol
See or sense your healing symbol in the openness of your heart in the middle of your chest. While you breathe out, radiate the color and positive qualities of your healing symbol throughout your whole body and surround it with a bubble of loving joyful light the size of your outstretched arms. It is a loving and healing light that brings comfort, clarity, and happiness. Feel all tensions and negative emotions melt away in the loving light of your symbol. The bubble of love has a clear and firm boundary.
Wish yourself to be happy with all your heart and say to yourself: I wish myself to be happy.
If you find it difficult to send love to yourself, think first about someone you find easy to love and wish them to be happy. Without changing this feeling, turn it toward yourself and wish yourself to be happy with all your heart. Alternately, think of your higher consciousness sending you love.
If other people are involved in your problem, breathe the color to them as well. See the person in front of you and feel how the loving joyful light from your healing symbol forms a bubble of love around him or her. Your bubbles of light may touch, but should not overlap. In your mind, say to this person: I wish you to be happy. Know that everyone who is genuinely happy immediately repents their wrongdoings and becomes very likeable.
If you feel resentment toward your parents, always envelop them in bubbles of loving light as well.
If you feel guilty toward the person who is involved in your problem, say: I am sorry for what I did. I wish you to be happy.
If you feel regrets toward the person who is involved in your problem, say: I am sorry it didn't work out. I wish you to be happy.
Notice if you still feel any negative emotion. If yes, notice where in your physical body you feel the tensions that go along with this negative emotion.
Direct the healing light of your symbol to the part of your body where you feel the tensions of your negative emotion and relax these tensions with each out breath. You can imagine these tensions as a tight flower bud that opens into a beautiful bloom with each out breath.
Sometimes, tensions are in more than one place in your body. Relax all these tensions, one after the other, until your whole body is completely relaxed and your negative emotions are completely dissolved.
Work in the same way with fatigue or physical pain.
If you feel any form of fear or anxiety, use the antianxiety breathing technique at the same time.
If you feel sad or depressed, practice with a smile on your face.
When you are ready, open your eyes.
Daily Life
Work with your healing symbol for two minutes, twice daily, for a minimum of two weeks, and every time your negative thoughts and feelings arise. Instead of dwelling on negative self-talk and painful emotions, put your mind immediately on your healing symbol and breathe out its color to surround yourself and others with bubbles of loving joyful light. Simultaneously, put a smile on your face and relax the tensions of your negative emotions.
Continue to work in this way no matter what happens—good or bad—and never change your symbol. At the same time, put into practice any insight you receive on how to solve and improve your problem.
After two weeks, measure your improvements on the scale of suffering using the same precise definition of your problem, and tune into your life-path imagery to check for any improvements. Try to appreciate even the smallest decrease in suffering.
I'd love to hear about your success stories. Visit my website at www.taraspringett.com to let me know about your experience with the method.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TARA SPRINGETT is a psychotherapist and the author of several self-help books (published in the UK and Europe) that combine psychological insight with Buddhist wisdom. She has been a deeply committed Tibetan Buddhist practitioner since 1985 and an authorized teacher since 1994, and has been working with meditation students and counseling clients for more than twenty years.
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