Edgar Cayce's Meditation for Everyone Welcome! There is no greater adventure than this inward one called meditation. It is safe, it is easy, and you will find within your own mind and heart an endless stream of treasures! Meditation in Seven Steps: Step One: Find a comfortable position. Keep your spine straight, legs uncrossed, and relax any tense muscles in your body. Step Two: Head-and-neck exercises. Do each of the following three times: head forward, head backward, head to the right shoulder, head to the left shoulder, rotate head in a complete circle clockwise, rotate head in a complete circle counterclockwise. Do not strain or force. Step Three: Deep breathing exercises. Fill lungs from bottom to top, exhale from top to bottom. Breathe in through your right nostril and out through your mouth; repeat three times. Breathe in through your left nostril and out through your right; repeat three times. Step Four: Special meditation aids as desired. Music, incense, chants, personal rituals, inspirational reading, prayers, and the prayer of protection. Step Five: Focus on the affirmation. Move through the three stages of focusing on the affirmation: thinking about it, feeling it, experiencing it. Return to the thinking stage whenever the mind wanders. Allow ten to fifteen minutes for Step Five. Step Six: Decision making. Test any tentative decisions you have made according to the decision-making exercise. Step Seven: Healing prayer. Send out light and constructive energies to the people on your personal prayer list. Health Tips for Meditation Moving to the Deeper Levels of Meditation

Head-and-Neck Exercises Note: All head-and-neck exercises should be done slowly and gently, without straining or forcing the muscles in any way. 1 Repeat three times Sit in an upright position. Tip head forward, trying to touch chin to chest. Return head to upright position.   2 Repeat three times Sit in an upright position. Tip head backward, as if to look at the ceiling. Return head to upright position.   3 Repeat three times to right; three times to left: Sit in upright position. Tip head toward shoulder, as if to touch it with your ear. Incorrrect: Shoulder should not lift or shrug. Return to upright position. Next - Breathing Exercises

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