Page 3 - The Lightworker’s Handbook Series Booklet 1

The Lightworker’s Handbooks Series
Booklet 1
Beginners~ The Basics
Meditation, Protection, Grounding
By Kimberly Murphy

Welcome One and All! Heartfelt greetings and salutations! I am very excited to finally begin offering this
information to the masses. I think you will find these lessons to be very comprehensive and a valuable
reference tool in your spiritual journey. I would like to begin by saying this is merely a guideline. I encourage
all of you to adapt this material to suit your lifestyle and comfort zone.

Today I want to cover the basics of meditation and give you an idea of what you are doing on a physiological
level and what is happening on a spiritual level. Also over the course of these next six sessions of classes, we
will introduce a variety of meditations to allow you the opportunity to explore some popular methods and see if
they work for you.

When we say the word “Meditation” most people think of a guru sitting in lotus position saying “Om” over and
over again. The truth is this is a great means of achieving the meditative state, however, there are a great deal of
ways to achieve this same feeling of peace and love. Great philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Rumi and Jung, as
well as great avatars, such as the likes of the Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna and Jesus, all of these teachers and
their paths of wisdom teach the wisdom of silence.

This amazing machine/computer, we call the human body, is remarkable in its ability to operate on both auto
pilot and manual. Breathing is a perfect example of this ability. In fact, this is precisely where we will begin our
exploration of meditation.

When we breathe for the purpose of meditation, we want to breathe in from the nose and exhale with an open
mouth. There are modifications of this basic technique which can enhance the experience, however, for our
purpose today will stick with the very basic methods.

Positions for meditation can be prone, sitting with feet flat on the ground and arms at your side relaxed, or
awake wherever you may be driving, walking, at work, etc, whatever is most comfortable for you.

Let’s begin by taking 10 deep breaths and while you inhale, see the air enter filled with gold light filling your
entire being and hold it in for as long as you possibly can, and when you exhale, relax all your body and see the
negative stuff leaving your body with the exhale. I recommend starting off with this slower breathing method
until you feel you achieve the same relaxation within three or four breaths.

Most people when they first start, may feel some apprehension as they begin to let go of the mind talk, they
might feel like they are falling or losing control. If you feel this continue to breathe through it slowly with your
eyes open. One other thing most people struggle with initially, is the chatter at the front of the brain. For myself,
I got past this chatter by visualizing myself in a movie theater and sitting in the front row and looking up at a
big white screen, and just continued to focus on that until the mind quieted down. Another visual aid is seeing a
blizzard white out, the white noise stops the chatter. Initially, you may not see anything, just darkness, others
may see swirling colors, others may see actual scenes. The important thing is you get into this state of quieted
non-thinking and hold this for as long as we can. This is a feeling of peace and quiet. For most it is a discipline
and takes practice, like a marathon runner you must be able to do this daily to get the prolonged effects.