Edgar Cayce’s Meditation Audio Excerpt

(transcripted from www.edgarcayce.com)

1. First Meditation.

Welcome and Hello.

With this course you will learn to meditate by listening to the step-by-step instructions on the tapes.
Lessons are designed to help you learn to meditate through listening and following the instructions you
hear, rather than reading and study.

The workbook included exercises and illustrations to guide you. In order to get the best result from the
course you want to follow along in the workbook as the tape directs you.

There is no greater adventure than this inward one called meditation. It is safe, it is easy, and you’ll
find within your own mind and heart an endless stream of treasures!

Let’s begin.
Hello, and welcome to the Edgar Cayce meditation course. Congratulations for deciding to learn how
to meditate. You’ve made and important personal decision. One that will bring you positive benefits.
You’ll find that spending this brief period learning to meditate will be a good investment in your well-
being as you continue to practice daily. As with most things, doing is the best teacher. The experience
itself will help you understand how and why meditation works.

This course is designed as a step-by-step guide. First you’ll learn the basics then move on to more
advance techniques. We’re going to start immediately.

First select a comfortable chair and decide where in your living quarter you’ll practice meditation.
Choose an area of relative quiet and without bright lighting. Make it a habit to use the same chair and
location during these sessions. Also place your tape recorder next to your chair so you won’t have to
get up to shut-off the machine for brief period during your sessions.

Now you are ready for your first meditation. When you’re comfortably seated be sure to keep your
spine straight but not stiff and place both feet on the floor. Allow your hands to settle in a comfortable
position. Some people prefer to let their hands rest in their laps with the palms either up or down.
Others fold their hands and let them settle separately on their thighs. There is no right or wrong here,
just whatever works for you. With a little experimenting you’ll find the position that feels natural.

Now take a nice deep breath and let your eyelids close. As you close your eyes you’ll feel your body
becoming relax and it is, as you do the following exercise. Allow your mind to survey your body and
detect any possible tightness or tension in your muscles. Let’s begin with your feet. Let your awareness
rest there for a moment. In your mind gently tell your feet to relax. To assure that the muscles become
fully relax, voluntarily tense them, curling your toes up and keeping the muscles in your feet tight for a
few seconds. Now relax them, feeling the tension slipping away. Your awareness moves up to your
legs, calves and thighs. Tighten your leg muscles as firmly as possible, hold the tension a few seconds,
then let go and relax. Moving up now. Hips and buttocks areas. Tense your hips and buttocks for a few
seconds and relax. Now for the torso. Tense your stomach and chests. Hold briefly and relax. Note the
area of your shoulders and neck. Tension often resides in these muscles. Bring your shoulders up in a
tight shrug. Hold the tension, feeling the shoulder blades pushing together. Again relax, letting all of
the tension just flow away. Imagine a golden glowing light of relaxation washing away the tension and
stress.
Also check your face for any tenseness, especially around the eyes and mouth. And let those muscles
relax. Your eyelids are gently closed, your jaw muscles relax.

Now take a few slow deep breaths. You are learning to take time to breath fully. Treat yourself to a
clean, fresh, oxygen-rich air to flush the stale air from the bottom of your lungs. You are ready now to
practice a unique breathing exercise that is especially helpful prior to mediation. In fact, it is an
exercise recommended by Edgar Cayce.

First, place a finger against the side of your left nostril to close it. During this first portion, you’ll only
breathe in through your right nostril, then exhale through your mouth. You’ll be keeping the left nostril
close for this part of the exercise. Exhale completely and breathe normally. Now breathe in deeply,
slowly filling your lungs from the bottom up. There is no hurry, no urgency, so take your time. Breath-
in, imagining your lungs are balloons expanding all the way down to your abdomen. Your shoulders
may tend to rise as you inhale, but only as the upper portion of your lungs are filling. You’ll find that
after the bottom third of your lungs filled, your chest begin to expand as the middle third fills with air.
And as the upper areas of your lungs are filled, it is natural to allow your shoulders to rise in a slight
shrug. Once your lungs are full of air, hold briefly, then exhale, allowing all of the air to be released
slowly through your mouth. This way of breathing is illustrated in your workbook on pages 8 and 9,
which you can refer to later as a review.

Now that you know the procedure you’ll be given enough time to perform the exercise without
directions. Close your left nostril and breath-in slowly and deeply through your right nostril three
times, each time exhaling through your mouth. Begin now.

Good, ready for a slight variation? The second part of this exercise is to inhale through your left nostril
and exhale through the right. This will require you to use your fingers to alternately close the right
nostril then the left each time you inhale and exhale. You will keep your mouth close during the entire
process. Ready?

Now begin breathing-in through your left nostril, exhaling through the right. One, inhale through the
left, exhale through the right. Two, inhale through the left, exhale through the right. Three, inhale
through the left, exhale through the right.

Your eyes are still close, aren’t they? Good, let your hands relax as before. Continue breathing slowly
and naturally. You will now begin a fundamental part of the Cayce approach to meditation: Focusing
your mind on a single calming thought. Imagine you’re funneling all those busy thoughts dancing
through your mind into one easy peaceful ideal. One that is positive and uplifting. Perhaps something
you want more of in your daily life, such as: “I am at peace”. There is a simple way to keep these
calming thoughts in mind, merely repeat them to your self silently. Say the statement with your full
attention, concentrating on the meaning as you say the words in your mind. Let’s try it now. As you
hear the word, feel their meaning. Allow several seconds between each repetition. “I am at
peace”…..”I am at peace”…..”I am at peace”. Feel peace and calm filling your body, your mind.

In the beginning your mind will want to wander. Be patient with yourself when your mind goes
galloping off in another direction. It helps to see the humor in the situation. The mind has a hard time
remaining attentive and faithful to one thought for more than a few seconds. When you realize your
attention is all sightseeing, calmly nudge it back to “I am at peace”. Be persistent and in time your
 mind will become more accustomed to remaining where you directed. And whenever it does wander,
you’ll become aware of it much more quickly. Continually having to bring your focus back to the
subject might frustrate you at first, but it is an important phase in training yourself to meditate. Initially
it happens to practically everyone.

Please take a few minutes and practice “I am at peace”. Turn off the tape recorder during this time. We
will resume when you return in a few minutes, feeling more at peace.

Many meditators take about 20 minutes for each session and some longer. When ending the meditation
period, it is an excellent practice to send out good thoughts or prayers to other people. During the quiet
period, you open yourself to a flow of positive energies. And as these energies are now flowing through
you, you become a channel to direct them to others. We also do this because it is advisable to discharge
some of these energies. Think of yourself as overcharged with energy that will become stagnant if it
just sits inside your body. Instead, let it carry good thoughts and constructive energies to others. There
is an endless supply where that came from. As you broadcast these energies as positive thoughts and
feelings to your close friends and family members, co-workers and others that you care about, you
connect your inner meditation experience with the people and the world around you. It is also a good
idea to offer a prayer for yourself before you open your eyes and end the session. A short silent will
follow to allow you time to send out the energies.

You’ve just completed your first meditation. There is more to come, your next session will cover some
of the things that may happen within you during meditation, as well as the questions new meditators
often ask regarding the experience.

2. Basic Concepts

How was your first meditation?

If you’re like many people, you’d probably have a difficult time settling down and keeping your
thoughts from roaming. And you may have been distracted by sensations in various parts of your body.
Maybe your body itches here and there, requiring you to scratch intermittently.

As you develop the habit of meditating regularly, these …... (irksome?) would go away. Having
practice your first meditation, perhaps you have questions about certain feelings and experiences you
encountered. Or possibly you have no particular experiences during the meditation. If so, just note for
now the following information for future reference.

During the meditative state you may feel a sense of fullness, warmth or even a sense of swelling of
your hands of feet or head. Think of this as your body adjusting from tension build-up during the day.
Our physical and emotional energies will rebalance themselves as soon as we become calm enough for
this to take place. The rebalancing of our energies is why meditation is so often re-energizing. You’re
likely already know that tension causes your muscles and blood vessels to tighten and constrict. That
tension is released through relaxation, allowing the blood and nerve impulses to flow unimpeded. You
may experience this natural flow as fullness, expansion or warmth, which again is simply the
rebalancing of your energies.

If you felt as if you are moving, be assured that for some individuals this is quite common. In fact, it is
not at all unusual for the head to actually sway or move in a circular motion during meditation. But
whether you move or not, the sensation maybe present as when you spend hours in a boat only to
continue to feel the rocking motion later on land. You may feel as if you upper body is gently rocking
back and forth or swaying from side to side or moving in a circular motion. A few meditators have had
the sensation of an up or down movement.

What’s going on when this happens? During meditation you may become aware of a special kind of
energy moving through your body. The nature of this energy will be discussed later. Meanwhile, rest
assured that the energy can stimulate various responses in your body. And though these maybe
unexpected and puzzling, they are perfectly natural. For example, it’s not uncommon for meditators to
become sexually aroused; buzzing impulse may run-off the spine or tingling maybe felt in the hands.
Such sensations are common, though not everyone experiences them. In fact, some individuals may
feel no movement, but they experienced the benefit of meditation nonetheless.

Sometimes meditators may see flashing colours and lights, although many people see nothing. Others
may see the faces of people, both familiar and unfamiliar, in their mind’s eye. These visual effects too
comes from relaxing that allows thought and visual images to flow freely. This is the reason you need
to focus your attention during meditation.

Pin-pointing your attention is a corner stone of meditation and the meaning of the statement you dwell
on helps keep the mind directed in a purposeful way. Edgar Cayce called this single focus or statement,
your affirmation. Like the one we use earlier, “I am at peace”. It affirms an idea, an ideal or a purpose
you want to adopt, perhaps as a day to day attitude. Examples for some hopeful affirmations are listed
at the start of the mediation workbook. Many of these are paraphrases of Biblical passages and convey
traditional Judea-Christian beliefs. If one jumps out at you, then that one would be a good choice, at
least to start with. If not, feel free to find one or make one up that does touch you in some way. Since
you’ll be spending a lot of your meditation time with an affirmation, it is worthwhile to select one that
really speaks to you.

Now let’s consider some ways meditation can transform your life. How can fifteen or twenty minutes a
day in quiet meditation benefit you? What can you expect to gain from the practice of meditation?
What kind of benefits can you reap? Study has shown that during meditation you are comma, your
heart and breathing are slower and anxiety level is minimal. Not only are you less anxious while
meditating, this calmness will begin to carry over into your everyday life. Your mind becomes keener
as if it holds a higher energy charge than before you started meditating and now it doesn’t drain as
readily. Thus, at the end of the day you do not feel mentally exhausted.

Various studies have revealed that meditators reach decisions with less difficulty and children who
practice meditation even experience an improvement in their school grades. The practice of meditation
has a favorable influence in many areas of your life. Business executives report an increase in their
productivity, because of a heightened ability to organize their thoughts. Even your relationships,
whether with your spouse or others, may well improve as you reduce mental and emotional stress,
allows you more mental acuteness without having to filter everything through your former tensions.

There are other less obvious rewards. The realization, for instance, that there was more to life than you
observe in your everyday world around you. Despite all our advances in knowledge, you sense
probably that existence extends into an immense realm of meaning and understanding. You begin to
grasp that your own existence is extremely meaningful and that you are far greater than a being whose
existence ends at death. Among other things, meditation carry an implicit acknowledgement that you
are part of a greater design and that you are opening your self to its influence. This influence reveals
itself in subtle ways. You may find your attitude is freer, that is less automatic. You will find you are
more tolerant and understanding of others, more expansive in your outlook, perhaps more forgiving.
 You may already hold such beliefs in a greater reality. In meditation, however, you will have an even
stronger intuitive awareness of your greater reality that you are something greater than a mere occupant
of the physical world. And further, beyond the relaxation and inner calm, you are likely to come to feel
a special unity with others and eventually a realization of the Oneness of all humanity. The particular of
this awareness may bear on your religious orientation which will draw you closer to your perception of
God.

Your experiences and impressions may not be as explicit as just described, especially during meditation
itself. But pronounced feelings and impressions are less important than the knowledge that you are
removing the clutter that keeps you from knowing what some have called your Higher self. In turn, you
are able to open to those in …… (eight trades?) that allow you to be a more balanced person, to
cultivate peace of mind, to be more loving. You will quicken your creative nature and your mind will
become more inventive and resourceful. The essence of your meditative state works to align your
Higher self with the life-giving energies of creation. The result is that the best within you surfaces,
which expresses your uniqueness. There is no individual in the universe, past or present, who is exactly
alike.

Meanwhile as this course proceeds; begin each session with the expectation of positive results but
without stipulating how you want these results to come about. By specifying the how of the results, you
can block the best that may come. Besides your conscious mind really doesn’t know what is best, leave
the results to your Higher self. Remember in time the clarity and creativity you gained from meditation
will allow you to see yourself, the people around you and the world with greater calm and
understanding which is borne of greater patience. As this becomes the case you will also see yourself
somewhat differently.

At the same time give some thoughts to the improvement you want to see in your life. Make a careful
self-appraisal and decide which characteristic and qualities you either want to change or cultivate in
yourself. You might want to turn-off the tape for a few minutes and actually write down some of those
intentions. The Cayce readings once so far to say that the most important step we can make in life is to
choose our ideals. He also recommended writing them with a pencil, so we could revise them as our
life progress. When you’re ready to resume, turn-on the tape again and this session will continue.

So far, you have a foundation for meditation. You have a general idea of the kinds of experiences that
may occur and some of the benefits. You are now ready to move ahead. What we will learn next is how
to meditate with greater depth. We will be discussing how the body is involved in meditation and how
to make this involvement work to your advantage. We will also explore use of an affirmation, to better
understand why it’s necessary as well as how it works. Once you understand how to use the body and
mind properly during meditation, you will then move on to advance techniques, including exploring
some methods for going deeper into the meditative state. You will work with healing prayers as well as
a way to help yourself, your love ones and others. You will use meditation to make sound, practical
decisions in your life. You will also be introduced to ideas from the Edgar Cayce information which
makes this method of meditating unique because of the emphasis on Oneness. Oneness of body, mind
and soul.

3. Preparation

You’re ready now for another meditation period.

So, are you comfortably seated in your chair? Pleas note, that using the same chair and the same
location at about the same time of day if possible, is especially helpful during this learning phase. Later
of course, you’ll be able to meditate anywhere so long as there is no major distraction to disturb you. Is
your tape player within easy reach? Again, seated, your spine as straight but not rigid or tense, relax
your hands as you begin these exercises. As your eyes close, slowly take a couple of deep breaths.

Notice your thoughts for a moment, and where they’re directed. Centre your attention behind your
eyes. Move your awareness around in your body. Let your attention, your awareness settle all the way
down to your feet. Imagine you’re looking up at your legs from the vantage point of your feet as if
you’re gazing up at the trunks of tall trees. Tell your feet they aren’t going anywhere, so they can relax
and release any tension. As you say this feel the tension ebbing away. Slowly and smoothly the
relaxation will follow your awareness up your legs, replacing any tightness that it encounters.
Deliberately tightened your leg muscles as much as possible and then relax, feeling the relaxation
entering your legs. Then the thighs and buttocks, tense all the muscles there momentarily, then release
the tightness as relaxation replaces it. Moving now to the stomach and chests and lower back; tense
these muscles and relax. Remember to check your shoulders, release any stiffness in this area by
shrugging your shoulders tightly and hold in this position as the shoulder blades push together for a
moment, then let go as relaxation flows in a bright golden cascade through the muscles, washing away
the tension.

How does your neck feel? Any stiffness present? Whether there is or not, it might be beneficial to
perform a special head and neck exercise recommended by Edgar Cayce as a way to help relax you
further and prepare you for meditation. As with the breathing exercise you should precede every
meditation session with this exercise. If you would like a visual preview of the movements pause the
tape for a moment and see pages 6 and 7 in your workbook. Before you begin, remember the exercise
is done slowly and gently. You will stretch your head in four directions, front, back, right, left,
completing three repetitions in one direction before moving to the next. And then you will rotate your
head three times in each direction. Allow your neck to stretch as far as possible without straining at all.

Now you are ready to begin. Gently tilt your head forward; keeping your shoulders in place as if you
are trying to lower your chin to your chest. Don’t strain, but hold for a count of three, then gently raise
your head up to its starting position. Again, slowly lower your head for a count of one, two, three.
Raise your head, lower it again, one, two, three. Now to the rear, allow your head to tilt back slowly as
if you want to look at the ceiling. Don’t strain, but count, one, two, three and raise your head to its
regular position. Again back, one, two, three; one more time, one, two, three.

Next lean your head to the right as if trying to touch your ear to your shoulder. Don’t strain and keep
your shoulders down. Count one, two, three, return your head to upright. Again tilt your head, one, two,
three and gently raise your head. And for the third and final time, gently stretch, one, two, three. Now
repeat the motion to your left and count on your own.

Now again, slowly tilt your head forward. Imagine your neck is a string attached to your head. Let your
head roll, circling slowly clockwise in the direction of your right shoulder. Continue around your back
and rolling to and across your left shoulder and circling to the starting position. Repeat the movements
two more times. Raise your head momentarily and then lowering your chin again slowly roll your head
to your left shoulder and around for three counter-clockwise repetitions as you do your own counting
this time.

How does your face feel; especially the eyes and mouth? Your eyes should be gently, naturally shut
and your jaw muscles relax. Your entire face will look almost as if you’re asleep. Next come the
breathing routine. With either thumb or forefinger close off your left nostril; draw breath in through
 your right nostril, hold it for a count of three and exhale through your mouth. Now repeat. Breathing in
deeply until the lungs are filled, holding, exhaling. Once again, in through the right nostril, holding,
exhaling through the mouth. Now with your right nostril shut, inhale through the left. When you lungs
are full, switch your finger over to close the left nostril and keeping your mouth close, release the air
through your right nostril. Close the right nostril again, inhale deeply through your left nostril and then
close only the left, exhale. One more time, breathe in through the left and out through the right.

As you lower your hands …..(cultimind?) your affirmation “I am at peace”. Feel its meaning in the
silence of your mind. “I am at peace”, “I am at peace”, “I am at peace”. To share this peaceful state
of mind with others, simply imagine it radiating out from you towards family members and friends,
your community and the world around you. Is there anyone who comes to mind who would benefit
from your peaceful thoughts at this time? Notice whatever people occur to you. Direct your peace and
serenity to that person.

Now open your eyes, stretch if you’d like. You might want to refer occasionally to your workbook,
which illustrate the exercises you just perform, the head and neck and the breathing routines. For the
remainder of this course continue your session seated in a chair. Most people prefer the sitting posture,
because if they lie down they tend to fall asleep, but if you’d like after these training sessions to lie on
your back during meditation, that of course is fine. You’d need to do the head and neck exercises in an
upright position before lying down. Whether you sit or lay your legs should not be crossed and your
spine should be straight. When lying down hold your hands on your abdomen over your solar plexus.

4. Mind-Body Connection

Well, you probably feel quite relax after that short meditation. You may even feel better than usual. If
so, it is an indication of the mind effect on the body and the small glimpse of one of the benefits of
these sessions. The intimate relationship between body and mind has been well documented in recent
decade. It’s been found that thoughts and attitudes have a tremendous impact on the body’s chemistry.
The most obvious example is the fear adrenalin can action. The emotion of fear causes the release of
adrenalin into the blood stream to prepare the body to either meet the challenge or to flee. In the case of
less urgent emotions and thoughts, the influence is subtler, but just as real. Negative thoughts produce
detrimental conditions in the body and even in the mind, while positive thoughts generate health and
vitality.

Fortunately, you’re able to choose the thoughts you entertained and the emotions you embraced, which
is one of the thing meditation teaches you. In your daily life you’d probably spend much of the time
reacting to conditions and events in pre-condition ways from years of habit. Meditation however,
allows you to consciously alter your automatic responses with constructive thoughts and attitudes,
resulting in more temperate responses during time of stress. Consider what you’ve learn so far, you are
coming to realize that meditation is rewarding your body, mind and soul. These three components of
your being, your mental, physical and spiritual faculties become much better attuned and synchronized
through meditation. This means they coordinate and function as one instead of possibly warring among
themselves. You experience this unity as inner-harmony, reduce conflict and a sense of peace in your
every day activities.

Some may call this effect a form of self-suggestion. Call it what you like. The results are what count
and the results are real. Consider for a moment the observations of Edgar Cayce that “Thoughts are
things”. “Thoughts are things”. If this statement sounds peculiar, just look at the chair you’re sitting
in. It was a thought, an idea before it became a thing called a chair.
 A more comprehensive meaning of thoughts or things however is that the mind is the architect whose
thoughts designed and shaped energy into physical form or expression. This is what the Cayce reading
means when they say “Mind is the Builder”. Never is this more evident than in the mind’s direct
influence on our bodies. We’ve known for sometime that the mind can make us sick or it can heal us
depending on the thoughts we harbor and the emotions we carry around.

Since the soul is not a visible, physical entity we can gain an idea of its nature by comparing the soul to
an electrical force, an individual bundle of spiritual energy. Just as electrical vibrations transmitted
through a telephone become sound waves, the soul’s energy vibrates through the mind to produce
effects in your body. The mechanism of a telephone converts unseen electrical impulses into sound;
your body converts unseen spiritual impulses into physical vibrations which you can sometimes feel
during meditation. In meditation, these subtle energies have a cleared passage through the body. The
body itself of course, is an energy field on its most elemental level. In addition, your nervous system
and endocrine glands not only regulate numerous physical functions; they also act as channels of
spiritual energies.

The preparation for meditation, relaxation, the head and neck exercise, keeping the spine straight and
deep breathing, all help to clear the channel for receiving the soul’s energies unimpeded. You might
also think of the body as a battery and soul energy as the source of recharging the electrical forces of
your physical and mental faculties. Recharging occurs when you meditate. Efficient recharging, it
should be mentioned, requires you to maintain your health by eating properly, taking adequate exercise
and getting quality sleep. See pages 10 to 12 in the workbook for guidelines for staying healthy. You’d
also want to avoid letting your battery get to drain, because then recharging takes longer and longer to
restore to normal. A defective phone is not a suitable instrument for sending or receiving and unhealthy
body does not receive or hold the charge well. If you are essentially healthy, meditation will help keep
you that way. Next, you will be introduced to the mind’s role in meditation and gain practice with
special affirmations. For now, you may want to take a break and resume later.

5. Using Your Mind

Welcome back!
Our discussion will now take a closer look at the mind’s role in meditation. Not that it is mutually
exclusive from the body’s connection, but the distinction is made here for the sake of convenience and
clarity. Earlier, the adrenaline reaction to an emergency was mentioned. Responding instantly to threat
or danger does not require thoughts of course, only recognition which usually occurs within a few
milliseconds. And then instinct snaps into action, as when someone’s pet runs in front of a car and the
driver’s foot stomps on the brake a half a second later. The full realization may not sink in for a few
seconds, but the adrenalin has nevertheless accomplished its purpose; in this case, causing the driver to
instinctively stop the vehicle. It is an automatic function in our make up, necessary for protection and
survival. And this fact takes us to the heart of the matter regarding the mind.

Your human personality contains numerous automatic reflexes, along with attitudes conditioned by
your own thinking. You’re quietly listening to this tape at the moment, but all you need to do to
become angry is to recall a time when something or someone made you really mad, just downright
furious. Your mind does not distinguished between what is objectively happening or simply imagined
or remembered. So the image you conjure of the time you’re angry also mirrors your feelings as if the
event were happening now. It may be an ancient memory but the feelings that arouses remain
contemporary. That former incident still gets you riled up, though it may have happened years ago.
Two elements create such conditioning within you, the seriousness of the situation and the impact it
had on you. Even today as you remember you may feel definite physical responses such as your
muscles tensing or your pulse rates increasing.

Anger, fear, worry and other unsettling emotions become imbedded as part of our temperament because
we’ve allowed them to register as guests in our minds. By replaying these old grievances and hurts we
allow them to be our mantras, our affirmations as it were and the thought becomes the thing that truly
damages us. When nothing more than your thoughts can give you an upset stomach, destroy your peace
of mind and generally put you in a lousy mood, then it must be time to consider changing your
thinking. Don’t you agree?

Fortunately, you have the capability to replace those old inner recording that controlled your attitudes
and emotions with positive responses. Positive and constructive thought patterns can be nurtured with
practice which makes the former reaction shriveled into nothing. Even a little conscious effort goes a
long way in clearing out those ancient emotional cobwebs and improving your outlook which in turn
increases your sense of well being. Continually building positive responses galvanizes and channels
your soul’s energy on your behalf and inspires greater peace of mind.

Here’s an experiment that demonstrate the importance of keeping your mind fortified with desirable
thoughts and responses. Make yourself comfortable and relax. Instead of meditating, you’re only going
to have a short reverie. Feel at ease, and check your body to see if any muscles are tense. You might try
the tensing and relaxing technique you’ve learned. A simpler method that works, unless you’re
especially tense, is to take a minute and picture yourself fully relax and feeling at ease. Take a couple
of deep breaths. Close your eyes bring to mind an especially pleasant experience. Remember a time
when you felt really great, perhaps even exuberant, on top of the world. Or you might even think of a
coming event you’re looking forward to in the near future. See it all happening in your mind. See all
the details of what is happening. Allow the pleasant sensations aroused by seeing this experience to fill
you and fully appreciate the fact that you deserve to feel this way. You’ve earned this enjoyment, it is
yours, hold to the feeling, embrace it. For it’s a reflection of who you are.

Every time you entertain thoughts and images that are hopeful, peaceful, and uplifting, you counter-act
those embedded responses that feed on anger, fear and disappointment of every kind. Without even
realizing it, you allow nagging little negative thoughts into your mind and they become termites,
gnawing away at your well being. Your moment of positive day dreaming just now shows how we
embed in our body what we are holding in our minds without event thinking about it. That is without
monitoring the quality of our thoughts and in only thirty seconds your thoughts register throughout
your body’s chemical and electrical activities. Just think, in only half a minute you can reversed a
negative thought or feeling with the soothing water of positive thoughts and images. Freeing yourself
from dis-ease, caused by the unwanted irritant and agitators.

During meditation the evocative affirmation is even more penetrating. The impact is greater because
the affirmation conveys a more meaningful truth or quality that reaches to the soul itself. And because
of its gravity the affirmation is easier to concentrate on than a longer reverie. So you can see that a
single idea held in meditation can have a powerful and profound influence on your state of mind and
become a compass guiding you to greater peace of mind, patience and understanding. This is the reason
that learning to focus exclusively on the affirmation is vital. Even if you’re unable to keep that single
idea in mind now, with practice your mind will learn to stay focus. So if you’re having difficulty be
patient and persistent.
Here is a little experiment. Keep your workbook handy. Just close your eyes and let your mind relax as
thoughts come and go for half a minute or so. Just let the tape to continue to wind.

Hello, what was on your mind when you’re interrupted? Go to the workbook now, page 13 and write
that thought. Turn off the tape while you work on pages 13 and 14 now. Once you’ve completed them
turn on the tape and we will explore this exercises connection to meditation.

You’re probably very much aware of your tendency to flip from one thought to another. This tendency
will continue at least for a while as you train yourself in meditation. You may have notice when you
answer the questions in the workbook how your thoughts move in a linear chain-like fashion as one
thought connected with another. And now, more than likely during the exercise the last thought you
held was far removed from the thought in your mind when the silent period began. This indicates how
uncontrolled thoughts seemingly roamed one after another randomly through the mind. This seems to
happen in a more or less chaotic way.

Meditation, on the other hand, gives order to chaos. You select an idea and affirmation and then hold it
in mind. When other thoughts intrude, regardless of how relevant they may appear, you can exclude
them by turning your attention back to the affirmation. In time, the intrusive thoughts will just stay
away. Keeping your mind directed in one idea of course takes practice. So in order for you to increase
your ability at focusing your mind on a single idea, let’s try the following affirmation exercise.

Let us use a single word for your affirmation. As you make yourself comfortable and close your eyes,
let the word “LOVE” dwells in your mind. You might try imagining the letters of the word coming
together one at a time, “L” and “O” and “V” and “E”. See the word clearly and think about what it
means. Call to mind the people you love and those who love you. While you’re focus on the word
“LOVE” you’d probably begin sensing or feeling what love is all about beyond its rational meaning.

Meditation works in the same way. First you begin thinking about the idea, allowing it to fill your
mind. And then a subtle transition in the way you think about it begins. It is this transition that marks
the shifting from the specific to an expanded sense of the meaning. Or you may catch a glimpse of the
feeling or the energy vibration that goes with the word. This awareness may last for only a few
seconds, but it has left a small calling card in your mind that will remain.

Meanwhile, you continue thinking about the affirmation as before, but now, with a more specific
understanding of its meaning and how it feels. Again, close your eyes. Now you’ll continue with an
affirmation that adds to love. As you relax, hold this affirmation in your mind “In the stillness I feel
God’s love”. Silently repeat this in your thoughts a few times. Think only about what that phrase
means to you, only those words. “In the stillness I feel God’s love”.

If your understanding shift beyond the mere meaning of the words that is fine and also let any other
feelings come to you. When you lose the sense of “In the stillness I feel God’s love”, turn your
attention back to the meaning of the words. Do not be concerned that your mind may repeatedly
wander. The fact that you are able to recognize that it has stray and then return it to the phrase is the
important thing.

With the affirmation practice fresh in your mind try another meditation session right now, but first a
suggestion. If you’re a person with lots of demand on your time, you must stay on a schedule, here is a
recommendation. Set a kitchen timer before you began. You may want to mute the sound somewhat by
 wrapping the timer loosely in a hand towel and placing it across the room so that it doesn’t jar your
nerve when it suddenly goes off. You might set the timer for thirty minutes, which will assure you of
about twenty minutes of meditation after the exercises. Anyway, using a timer will prevent you from
being anxious about meditating longer than you have time for which can happen on occasion.

All right, you’re seated comfortably, back straight, eyes closes. You should be relaxed enough without
doing the tensing and relaxing exercise. If you want to do the exercise, turn off the tape until you’re
ready for the other exercises. Now you’re ready for the head and neck exercise. Remember, you stretch
your head forward 3 times, and then back, to the right and then to the left, followed by circling in each
direction. Begin now.

As you’re doing this exercise, you might want to coordinate your breathing with the movements. Take
a breath and then as you tilt your head exhale slowly and breathe in as you raise your head. You can do
the same with the circling movements, inhaling and exhaling each time you move your head around.
Now, let the tape go on running and please continue the exercise in silence.

Ready for the breathing exercise? Remember, in through the right nostril and out through the mouth 3
times, then inhale through the left nostril and exhale out of the right 3 times. Begin now.

For a few minutes stay with your affirmation, “In the stillness I feel God’s love”. Let the tape continue
running while you hold your affirmation in mind. We’ll resume in about 5 minutes.

To end your meditation session as explained earlier, remember to share some of your loving energy
with others who come to mind. After you’ve done that, open your eyes and if you feel like it stretch a
bit.

6. Aids to Meditation

See how simple meditation is. You now have the basic foundation for continuing on your own.
Although there are some other aspects you’ll likely want to learn, such as techniques for deepening you
r meditation experience and ways to enhance your spiritual awareness and understanding. Before that,
you may want to practice what you’ve learned so far; applying this affirmation and making meditation
a daily routine. Then after a few days of meditating without the assistance of this tape, you’ll be ready
to complete the course.

In the meantime, here are a few other things you might consider adding to your sessions. Some people
enjoy music during the period prior to meditating. Look at the end of your workbook for a list of
recommended audio tapes from which you can select.

Others also find that certain odours provided by incense, herbs or flowers are effective for reaching a
deeper state of meditation. Since odours are highly personal matter, you may wish to experiment with a
variety of cense to find those that produce a calm, peaceful feeling. It’s important not to use a fragrance
that is disturbing or distractive. Some types of incense mentioned in the Cayce’s reading are cedar,
lavender, sandalwood, myrrh, hyssop, rose and violet.

Another aid in entering meditation is chanting. Localizing a certain vowel sound is especially helpful
for inducing a resonance between body and soul. Since you’re thinking of the sound you’re making,
this keeps your mind directed and also tunes it up for focusing on the affirmation. Edgar Cayce offers
an insightful comment about chants saying that certain kinds of chants express ideas understandable
 only by the subconscious mind. Even if the sound has no meaning to the conscious mind, the vibrating
effect of chanting provides a gentle stimulation to the nerve and to the endocrine forces that are
quickened in meditation. You’ll find a few of these sounds phonetically described in your workbook on
page 15. See if you can make them vibrate, deeply within you, like this ahrrrrr-eeeee-ooooo-mmmmm,
yah-hay-vah-hay.

Part of the value of these preparation tools is to cue your subconscious mind that meditation time is at
hand. Many people find that washing their face and hands, helps. There are two more valuable aids that
you’d want consider using. One is to read inspirational material and the other is to pray just prior to
your daily sessions. Prayer, for some meditators, has been especially helpful in amplifying the
beneficial effects of their experience. Any one or more of the small ritual just discussed can open a line
of communication to a deeper facet of your being.

You might want to take some time as suggested earlier and practice what you’ve learned so far before
going on. And while you’re at it, you might want to try some of the suggested preparations. In the next
session, you’ll be introduced to techniques for deepening your meditation, as well as methods for
dealing with distraction.

7. Affirmations

Before you move on to the next phase which involves reaching a deeper meditative state, let’s review
the earlier information regarding the affirmation. You hold a phrase in mind, thinking of the meaning,
and then as a broader sense of the meaning comes you allow it to expand and fill your thoughts. Let the
thought create a feeling and gently release the word and thinking. You’ll recall that the words begin to
convey a universal truth and this is the source of the affirmation’s power. It is a truth already familiar to
your soul’s level of understanding.

Remember thoughts are things and your soul co-operate to manifest the thoughts you feed it. The terms
self-fulfilling prophecy is a very real principal and relates to the power contained in a thought,
especially one that persistently occupies your mind. The connection between the thought and its
material counter part isn’t always evident. There might be a long time lapse between the thought and
the thing that happens or actualizes as a consequence.

Understanding this connection provides a clearer meaning of the ancient knowledge paraphrased as
“Like attracts like”. A simpler way of saying is that the vibrations you register in your soul are
reflected back as conditions and experiences in your everyday world. It can be likened to a room full of
tuning forks. As you strike one and let it sound, the tuning forks that are of the same note will begin to
vibrate, sometimes audibly.

We attract whatever it is we spend time imagining, whether positive or negative. Again this emphasizes
why the quality of your thoughts is so vital at any time, whether you’re meditating or not. By and large
the essence of your thoughts determines the essence of your life. Think of every thought as a tuning
fork and the affirmation as your best and highest tuning fork. Also realized that the spiritual affirmation
you’re using are lifting your consciousness upward, reinforcing the vertical dimension of your life.
You’ll find great joy and adding or strengthening this new dimension.

Now open the workbook to the section on moving to deeper levels of meditation, page 16. For
clarification of how meditation works to amplify this process. The first illustration depicts the initial
stage as you focus on the affirmation and consider what it means to you. As you already mentioned,
your thoughts may drift away, so you return to the affirmation, otherwise you just go on using ordained
training.

The second illustration described what happens as you keep your mind on the affirmation. Your
thoughts shifts to another level, one way your understanding advances beyond words. Think of this
deeper awareness of the meaning of the affirmation as a kind of bridge. Because at this point you either
lapse back to consciously thinking as in stage 1 or you stay with the feeling. If you remain with the
feeling, another transition occurs. Perhaps the best explanation of this third stage is that you undergo a
holistic unity in which your entire being knows beyond understanding. That is you rise from rational to
beyond rational knowing as you gain a rapport with the affirmation that allows you to experience the
meaning. It is as if you and the meaning are one. You might think of this as integration of the ideal with
your personality. Your tuning fork is now vibrating at its maximum level. By the law of “Like attracts
like”, the desired change will begin to show up in your life especially as we vibrate with the feeling of
it.

And here’s the key difference between meditation as it is taught in the Cayce’s readings and meditation
as it is designed to simply clear the mind or stop a thought. In Cayce’s way of doing it, meditation is an
active focusing on our intent of ideal, leading eventually to experiences of the ideal that are full of
positive feelings like a flower opening to the sun. This in turn leads to new ways of being with
ourselves and with our friends and associates.

Meditation from the view point of the Cayce’s readings is about attuning to the Higher ideals such as
love and peace and joy, so that more of these qualities will appear in our everyday lives. Meditation is
not so much for our own sake as it is for a new way of being with other people. A way characterized by
more love, more gentleness, more patience. This integration of deepening comes with patience and
persistence. Meanwhile, even if all you do is think about the affirmation, you still assimilate it’s
influence which build towards the third stage. Keep in mind that meditation involves all three stages,
initial focusing, the deeper mental understanding and finally the soul connection. And any stage
produces positive effects whether you’re aware of them or not.

As you’ve likely notice distracting thoughts are common obstacles to relax the tension. You may also
have notice that resisting or trying to push away these idle imaginings does not work very well, instead
it is more effective simply to direct your mind back to the affirmation and avoid getting into a mental
feud with your thoughts. There is an old children’s game that is played by having each participant stand
in a corner of a room and try not to think of a red elephant. Try it and you’ll see the difficulty in trying
to deny the thought because it is impossible to consciously know you’re not thinking of a particular
image or idea.

Another technique for dealing with intrusions of any kind besides simply returning to the affirmation is
to incorporate the distraction into the affirmation. For example, if you’re focusing on peace and the
disturbing noise snaps your attention away then direct peace towards the source and treat the noise as a
reminder of the value of peace. Or if someone comes to mind while you’re focusing on love, simply
send love to the person. The secret is to keep from feeling annoyed or frustrated by either your own
mental or physical distractions or those caused by others.

If you’ve practice meditation for several days, you may have already been confronted with distractions
of various kinds. So perhaps a bit of practice is called for, see your workbook pages 4 and 5. Glance
over the sample affirmation listed there and select one you like or if you prefer create a brief
affirmation for yourself.
 Let’s now do an affirmation exercise but you do not have to prepare as you normally do for meditation.
Now, hold the affirmation in mind as you were doing meditation. Remember, whatever distraction
occurs related to the affirmation. You’ll be given a period of silence for a few minutes for practice. Let
the tape continue to run.

Let’s continue. Did you get the hang of using distractions to redirect you to the affirmation? Keep this
technique in mind and it will prevent you from reacting negatively to intrusions. The next phase of this
course explores meditation for healing. You’ll find it interesting and enlightening. In the meantime you
may want to take a break, reflect on the ideas just discussed and resume at a later time.

8. Directing Energy

It’s now time to consider healing through meditation by directing the energy that you charged yourself
with during your sessions. That you can in fact share this energy by sending it out to others is possible
because all existence is inter-connected. It is as if we are wired together on some invisible level. Just as
you can telephone friends anywhere you can transmit energy to them via this unseen spiritual network.
This is the same network that makes it possible for one person to read another person’s mind or for
someone to receive intuitive knowing of an event.

The Cayce’s readings confirm that on the soul level we are all connected one to another and to God.
Psychiatrist Carl Jung also proposed this connection which he referred to as the “Collective
Unconscious”. Perhaps it’s as if we are each a point of a giant star.

At the deepest level of the meditative state as you connect with your soul self you also get online with
the Creator, with the God you know within. And it is from this source that you’re able to download the
spiritual energy that is always available on request as long as you have the line open and are receptive.
The energy you received is determined by the spirit and meaning of you affirmation.

An interesting experiment was done a number of years ago. More that two thousand meditators spent
several nights in a high-crime area of the city and meditated for six consecutive nights. Afterward,
police statistics revealed that during the nights of meditation the violent crime rates for the area
dropped almost 30%. The same experiment was repeated later with similar results. Whenever group
meditation was held during those nights that typically reflected high incident of crime the number of
crime drops significantly.

The Cayce’s readings state that “prayer is when you talk to God” and “meditation is when you listen
and God talks to you”, not with words but with spiritual energy with knowing beyond understanding.
Before ending meditation, you share this energy with those who may need healing whether in body,
mind or spirit. And if you’re planning to pray for others for a specific reason, it is best to ask their
permission before hand whenever possible. Unless you have permission, the wisest course is to direct
your healing prayers without specifying the purpose. In each case just send a general blessing to the
other person, leaving the result to them and to God.

Remember you are not the source of the energy, just a conduit for sending it to others. Nor are you
directly responsible for the healing that takes place or does not take place. The receptivity of the person
receiving the energy is a vital factor. Be assured, prayer for others is a form of direct contact. It is a
soul to soul communication. Holding them in your thoughts is to speak to them via the spiritual
network. A simple exercise will give you an idea of how this work.
 Relax and shut your eyes. Then think of a friend or someone in your family, a person you want to pray
for. Hear the person’s name in your mind. Remember how you suggested to your body to relax and
picture it relax. Do that now. Then imagine the person’s face. If you are unable to bring the person’s
face into your thoughts, think of something specific about the individual, colour of hair, gestures,
complexion, any details you can summon from your memory. Try to recall expressions, mannerism, the
type of clothing this person likes to wear. If you still can’t see the person clearly in your mind’s eye,
imagine the name. See it written in colour on a chalk board or perhaps scratched in the smooth wet
sand of a beach. See the individual as happy and healthy, cheerful and energetic and picture your
thoughts radiating to the person. Keep imagining the person receiving your thoughts, your love. Now
choose another person, bring the image of this individual into your mind. Direct those cheerful,
energetic, happy, healthy thoughts to this person and envision him or her receiving these feelings. All
right open your eyes. At this point, we’ll fast forward the tape to the end and then turn it over.

What you’ve just done is the same method for sending a healing prayer to others, just less specific. If
you’ve received permission, it is effective to see the person surrounded by light, as in a brilliant bubble
of illumination or glowing as if filled with light. For those people whose permission you have not
received simply send light in their direction and a prayer of non-specific blessing. In both cases the soul
will open to that energy in its own time and manner.

In any case, avoid trying to orchestra a cure by visualizing the treatment of specific symptoms. It is
unwise to assume you know what is best and impose your will on someone else. As before, the results
are best left to the person and to God. Edgar Cayce emphasize that prayer is a real energy and no one
has a right to impose this energy on those who are not willing or ready to accept it. The exception
would be in praying for a young child or an adult who because of an accident or other complication
lacks the mental clarity to ask for your prayers. To barge into another state of existence with prayers
and energy, it’s not unlike walking into someone’s home and starting to run the affairs of the family. It
is spiritually risky to impose your free will on that of others. According to the readings, even God
doesn’t do that.

You are going to continue now working with healing prayers. Before you get started, open your
workbook to page 18 where a space is provided for you to include your own prayer list. You may want
to update this regularly, perhaps weekly. So that you can include it in your regular meditation sessions.
The time anyone remains on your list of course will vary according to individual needs and
circumstances, Turn off the tape until you complete your prayer list, then back on when you’re ready.

9. Healing Meditation

During this phase of the meditation course, you’ll be guided through healing meditation and through
decision making. Finally you’ll be provided with highly recommended procedures for entering and
leaving the meditative state as discussed in the Cayce’s readings. Since you’re going to begin with the
meditation session, you may want to do the beginning preparations, the whole body relaxation, the head
and neck exercises and the deep breathing before continuing. Leave the tape running for the two or
three minutes that it takes you to do these.

Now that you’re ready, turn your thoughts to this affirmation “Let me be a channel of blessings”.
Again, “Let me a channel of blessings”. Think of the people on your prayer list, try to visualize each
person in turn and to each send healing energy. Hold each person in your thoughts for a moment as you
do this. The tape will continue to run while you’re given a couple of minutes to pray for these
individuals.
 And now pray for yourself. See an image of yourself as healthy, happy and feeling fully in balance and
when you have done this, open your eyes.

You can dedicate an entire meditation session to healing, or in the case of longer sessions that run
twenty to thirty minutes you may add the healing just before the end of meditation. You do not have to
be in meditation to dispatch healing prayers, but the meditative state amplifies the energy because
you’re more effective channel.

10. Decision Making

The next application deals with making decision. For most people life is made up of a long series of
decisions, especially in this modern age. The challenge is how do you decide for sure which is the
correct decision or best choice for you. The use of meditation for making the right decision is quite
simple but please keep one point firmly in mind. In the beginning use this approach only for minor and
low risk verdicts. Once you feel confident in the procedure and only then should you seek answers in
meditation for more serious issues. Remember too that the answer often involve factors that you may
not even be aware of consciously. So sometimes the response you get may not appear to be in your best
interest, but ultimately will be.

In the Cayce’s readings the instructions for receiving guidance through meditation are quite simple.
First, you think about the issue, considering all aspects involved. Then you frame the question so that it
can be answered yes or no. Your next step is to decide consciously on the basis of all that you know
about the situation, one way or the other, yes or no. Then you take the question into meditation and
there you ask the question in your thoughts, focusing on the question as if it were an affirmation. As
you regularly apply this method for seeking answers, the response will come more readily. If in the
beginning you feel uncertain of the response, continuer to ask during subsequent meditations if there is
no deadline for reaching a decision until the answer is clear to you.

A man asked Edgar Cayce how he could make the right decision in his life and he was told “through
meditation and prayer”. When asked whether it was possible to receive guidance from meditating on
the matter, Cayce assured the questioner that it was possible regarding any subjects, whether you’re
digging for fishing worms or playing a concerto. He apparently use this contrast to emphasize the point
that any decision can be taken into meditation. No issue is too trivial

Refer to your workbook. The worksheets provided will provide practice for using this technique. The
list includes common area of your life. Study these areas and see which have current questions to
resolve. There might be other areas you want to add to the list. At any rate, take sometime to reflect on
each item. Once you’ve listed some specific questions that are pending, choose a very minor one to
work with. Answer the first four questions as thoroughly as possible.

Supposed you have an opportunity to change your hours on the job. Your boss doesn’t mind if you
come in an hour or two earlier or later as long as you put in the required hours per week. The decision
is entirely up to you. Consider the advantages and disadvantages. An advantage might be by
rearranging your schedule, you’ll avoid the peak rush hour traffic. A possible disadvantage is that
you’ll have to get up earlier in the morning. Or if you opt to report to work later in the morning then
you’ll have to stay later in the afternoon. It might seem that such an inconsequential issue would not
require deep consideration and all you need to do is just meditate on it. That sounds plausible, but the
fact is the more you give conscious thought to a decision and its ramification, the more likely you’ll
 receive a clear response from your subconscious mind. Your deeper knowing will answer in kind and
in accordance with the attention you give to the matter.

Supposed you decide against changing your work schedule. Then in meditation ask the question
“should I change my work schedule?”. The answer is “yes” or “no”. Once you receive an answer you’ll
have to decide next, which hour you’ll work. You can meditate on this question also. You might
simplify the process however by basing the question on specific work hours, making a decision and
then meditating for the right answer.

Now that you have the idea of the decision making process turn your attention to the workbook. The
direction and questions are self-explanatory. Remember to write down your question and decide “yes”
or “no”. Answer the first three questions of part 2. For now turn off the tape until you’ve completed the
exercise and answer the questions in the workbook then we will continue.

See how simple that was. In the past you’ve considered similar questions in trying to reach decisions,
though you may not have done so in an organized way. You probably have found that some decisions
take a little or no effort. Resolving more serious questions however may have left you feeling
ambivalent or uncertain what to do. When you are faced with a decision that causes you conflict,
organizing your thoughts will often aid you in getting a solid, objective perspective on the matters
relevant to your choice. In the process examining the consequences of whether you decide in favor of
or against the question is crucial to arriving at the right choice. It is necessary to confront the
consequences for either decision as question 2c indicates.

Because there is more at stake, serious questions will require you to examine consequences thoroughly
to arrive at a sound decision. And this is especially the case when your choice affects other people
because you want above all to reach an equitable decision with regard to everyone.

Based on the information you entered for question 2 what answer did you supply for question 3? Did
you vote “yes” or “no”. It is recommended that once you reach a decision by following the methods
you just study, lay aside the decision. Meditate as usual, using an affirmation. If the question or issue
regarding it comes to mind treat it as a distraction and return to the affirmation. Only after you spend
the quiet time focusing on the affirmation and just before you offer healing prayer for others will you
silently state your question so that it can be answered “yes” or “no”. Having presented the question,
then silently report your tentative decision, asking whether the answer is “yes” or “no”. Then be still.
Wait for the answer. The answer you received may come in various forms as a feeling or an
impression, visual images or a definite sense of whether your answer is the best or correct one.

This method of receiving guidance is essentially a discipline approach. Of course, meditation itself as
you now realized is a special discipline, as of the various parts hat go into the practice such as the
preparatory exercises. Meditation is also an exercise in patience. A quality we all need in our lives. The
very heart of meditation is holistic, engaging all facets of your being and working to bring balance
among the body, the mind and the soul.

11. Review

Please not that your basic steps for meditation are in your workbook, but you may choose to omit the
muscle relaxation exercises unless you feel they’re necessary. You may find that as you meditate
regularly, your body will instinctively start quieting down as the time nearest for your session. You
may find that certain aids are conducive to enriching your experience. Chants, music, incense are often
 helpful. And reading spiritual or inspirational material sets the tone and prepares the mind for
meditation. You’ve learned that your back should be straight and both feet flat on the floor as you
begin. The head and neck exercises should be done and then the breathing exercise. You’ve practice
working with affirmations, healing energy and decision making. You now possessed the knowledge to
continue meditating on your own.

There is some additional information regarding certain procedures emphasized in the Cayce readings
and it is highly recommended that you adopt two special steps when you meditate. First, before going
into the silence quietly say the Lords Prayer. Second, repeat a prayer of protection in your mind and if
you’d like to end with a prayer, a perfect way to end your session is to silently repeat the 23 rd Psalm.
These are all printed for you in the workbook.

There is a mystical explanation for using these prayers. According to Cayce the endocrine glands
service contact points between the soul and body. There are seven of these centres. In the Sanskrit
language these seven centres are referred to as the Chakras. The Lords Prayer and the 23rd Psalm
connect these spiritual centres to divine influence and attune you to the Highest. You’re opening the
gates of your inner being. The prayer of protection is offered just after you say the Lords Prayer. While
you’re opening yourself to the divine and healing energies, you want to open yourself to positive
energies only, so you can consider the prayer of protection as a means of allowing only the vibration
you want. A prayer of protection, the reading suggest and when sometimes used by Christian
meditators, states: “Father, as I open myself to the unseen forces surrounding the throne of grace,
beauty and might, I throw about myself the protection that is found in the thought of the Christ”. If
you’re of another religious persuasion, you likely already know protective prayer that convey the same
spirit and are appropriate for this purpose.

Meditation is a gradual process of spiritual enlightenment. Edgar Cayce said “You don’t go to heaven,
you grow to heaven”. Meditation is a means for furthering that growth as you learn more about your
whole self which guides you through life and turns your days homeward.

12. Guided Reverie

This is the end of the meditation course. Here is a special guided reverie that you may find helpful and
enjoyable. Many of us have a pleasant experience, pleasant memory of a time at the beach. Here is a
reverie that includes such an experience that perhaps can help us get in touch with those deeper parts of
ourselves, those deeper energies and sharing those deeper healing energies with others. Perhaps you’ve
positive memory as of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the home of Edgar Cayce.

Alright, if you have something on your lap, put it on the floor, feet flat on the floor, spine straight, eyes
closed. And now, for a few breaths just get in touch with your body, observing the breathing, observe
the inhalation and exhalation. Don’t try to change it, except perhaps to make it a little more smooth.
Just get in touch with your breathing, become very very aware of the breathing process. Now, for a few
breaths, as you inhale, say to yourself silently “I am” and as you exhale say “relax”. And each time you
say “relax” allow yourself to relax more fully. Take these few moments to just really enjoy an
opportunity to be fully relax. “I am relax”.

Now become aware of the muscles of the forehead, the face, the jaw. Tense these gently and then relax
them fully and as you do move to a deeper level of consciousness. Allow a wave of relaxation to flow
over your face and head and neck. Visualize the muscles of the forehead relaxing.
Now become aware of the muscles of the shoulders, upper arms, the hands. Tense these gently and then
relax. And as you relax move to a deeper level of consciousness, a deeper level of relaxation. “I am
relax”. Relax and go deeper.
Become aware of the muscles of the lower abdomen, the back, the hips. Tense these and then relax
them. Relax and go deeper. Visualize yourself relaxing more fully, move to a deeper level of mind.
Become aware of the muscles of the thighs, the lower legs, the feet. Tense these. Now relax them.
Relax more fully, move to a deeper level of mind.

Now I am going to count from one to five. As I count with each number allow yourself to move to a
deeper level of relaxation, a deeper level of consciousness.
One, relaxing more fully, moving to a deeper level of consciousness. “I am relax”.
Two, moving to a deeper level of relaxation, a deeper level of consciousness. “I am relax”.
Three, moving still to a deeper level of relaxation, a deeper level of mind. Visualize yourself relaxing,
allow a wave of relaxation to flow through the body. Relax and go deeper.
Four, still moving to a deeper level, a deeper level of relaxation, a deeper level of mind Breathe easily
and deeply. Relax and go deeper.
Five, relax and go deeper. “I am relax”.

Now visualize yourself on a beautiful day walking on a beautiful beach. You alone, no one else is on
the beach, but you feel very safe, very content to be with yourself and with nature. Become aware of
the sand under your feet as you walk along, become aware of the blueness of the water and gentle
sound of the surf as it breaks. Notice the blueness, the depth of the blue of the sky, the white fluffy
clouds with crisp silver edges on them. And you feel the warmth of the sun and yet a coolness of a
breeze on your face. And as you walk along you see a beach towel and a beach chair. And you
remember that this is your special place and just walk over and stretch out on this beach chair in this
special area and feel that this is your special place. Stretch out, lie down, relax and feel the warmth of
the sun on your body and just begin to absorb the warmth of that light. And as you feel the energy from
the sun, that warmth, you remember that your own body is simply energy, more space than particles
really. And it’s as though the sunlight is penetrating your body and just shining all the way through.
And your body becomes a body of light. You begin to feel the light. You feel light and feel the
illumination of it. Feel the living warmth of that energy, that light, as it flows through you. You realize
that the light of the sun, that warmth, and the light of your body, that energy, is the light of God and
allow yourself to be in attunement and awareness of the consciousness of God’s presence within you
own body. And as that light flows through the body, it goes to every portion, quickening, healing and
enlivening, bringing the body to more and more perfect attunement. And as there are parts of your body
about which you’ve been concerned, you direct light to that. Feel that light, that warmth, the life force,
quickening that part of the body, giving it energy and bringing healing and harmony to it.
And you begin to have a sense of being one with life force. And a channel through which the life force
is flowing. Experience that light and energy and the way in which your own body is a body of light.

Now for a moment have a sense of thankfulness for having access to this life force and its healing
energies and allow the awareness to move through the body, up through the body to the forehead.
Begin to get a sense of a pattern of light energy right at he level of the forehead. Begin to get a sense of
perhaps fullness, slight pressure or pulsing of that light energy right at that level of the forehead.

And now think of one person whom you know that is in need and saying that name, the name of that
person silently to yourself. On the wings of thought, send light to surround that person. Just visualize
the light coming from your forehead out to surround that person and send it to that person on the
vibrations of that person’s full name, silently. And be thankful for the healing that’s available for that
one.

Now we will enter these states of relaxation, always for the purpose of that which may be helpful and
hopeful and as we set constructive ideals and purposes for our life, we may move more and more
quickly to deeper and deeper levels of mind at which we may attain greater and greater attunement with
the Divine within. Each time we use these relaxation exercises, we’ll be able to move more and more
quickly to a deep level of mind and a greater attunement with the spirit within. This will be a source of
attunement and the feeling for ourselves and for others as we use this relaxation exercises.

In a minute we’ll return to normal consciousness and as you do there’ll be a sense of energy, harmony,
clarity as I count from five to one.
Five, returning now to normal level of consciousness. The circulation of the body will be equal and
normal for a healthy, waking activity.
Four, returning to normal level of consciousness. You’ll have a sense of well being, energy, peace.
Three, the circulation of the body is normalizing for waking activity. Each time we use these
suggestions we’ll be able to move quickly and deeply to a deeper level of mind and contact the divine
within.
Two, returning now to a full waking consciousness with the circulation of the body fully normal for
waking activity. Breathe deeply now.
One, you’re awake now at a normal level of consciousness.

This is the end of the meditation course. Peace and love to you.