Conversational Meditating: Having Talks with Yourself, your Inner God/ess, and your Subconscious!

Want to "talk" to yourself? Your inner God and Goddess, or any deity you believe within? Your subconscious? Try these exercises through meditation or just plain deep thinking, and "connect" with yourself through conversations that you can have in your mind-these exercises are extremely helpful and beneficial to your mind, body, and most importantly, spirit. 

Exercise 1: Talking to your inner God or Goddes, or any deity within


Imagine any setting you want, the point is it has to be comfortable to you and only you. This setting can by anything, a forest, a city, even your own bedroom! If I were you, I would do a setting in nature, as nature embodies tranquility and purity and helps you connect with the Earth. The most beneficial (and evocative to us Wiccans) would be to imagine a forest with a lake and a full moon shining overhead in the dark. Imagine a road appearing in this forest or whatever place you are visualizing. Follow the road, sense everything: every touch, scent, vibration, feeling, imagine, taste, all of your senses; including your intuition/sixth sense! Feel this world envelop you in its dreamy vividness, and finally, conjure an ending to the road. In my visualizations, I usually imagine the road rising up from the middle of the lake and taking me through a moonlight walk to the beach, where something is waiting...

The ending to the road should be a scene resembling the surroundings of any deity you want to talk to. Conjure/visualize the God or Goddess if you're Wiccan, Buddha, Christ, anybody you want to talk to. Imagine this deity doing anything that reminds you of he or she, for me I would do the God and Goddess dancing, or both of them sitting down. When you're ready, face them. Have them acknowledge your presence, and acknowledge theirs as well. Sit down with them or get into a position where you can talk to them, and be ready to ask your question. A sample question which is really good would be:

"How can I make my life most optimal for me, with harm to none and free will to all?" 

Then visualize your inner God or Goddess or deity giving you a loving, warm answer. This can be done for spiritual holidays such as Mabon, and I always do it for every Sabbat. I've known people from all religions to do this to give thanks to whom they worship. I mainly do this for asking guidance from the Divine.

Seems simply, doesn't it? Let's move on to the next exercise.

A Basic Guide to Using your Pendulum

If you're reading this, you probably have a pendulum or are thinking of making one--which is fine (and awesome). This is a simple post designed to let you know how to properly, and safely, use a pendulum, one of the most popular dowsing and divination tools. Pendulums are fairly simple to make and can be made from anything--I even have a friend who uses teabags whens she doesn't have her pendulum on hand! You can try at first by using a button on a string, which is a step up from using teabags. It's most important to learn to make your own pendulums, because once you do you've transferred your own energy and have made your already-compatible pendulum.

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Step 1: Cleansing your Pendulum

There are many ways to cleanse your object, or anything in that matter. The goal is to remove all forms of negative energy, therefore "cleaning" whatever it is you're cleansing. Here are some methods that I usually do combined and in succession when I cleanse my pendulum and other spiritual tools:

A - Prayer/Blessing. Usually, I'll say a prayer and blessing much like "I call my spirit guides, angels, protectors, Goddess and God, all Divine--please remove and cleanse all negative energy from my pendulum that I hold, and let it only tell the accurate truth as all evil is removed from my pendulum, myself, and the space around me." Now, you don't have to call up the beings I listed, just whatever you find is your God or whatever you worship. You don't even have to believe in a god! If you don't, just call up the universe. However, it is important to believe that it will work--power comes in the form of thought. I usually do this while doing B at the same time...

B - Meditation/Visualization. Calm your mind. Hold your pendulum in your hand. Breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Do this for about a minute. Let your mind clear. Now, imagine good clean energy (which you can visualize as white, sometimes green) entering your third eye located on top of your nose and between your eyebrows with every inhale. Now, imagine bad energy (red or black) exiting your third eye and being "burned" by a violet flame that surrounds your third eye, turning into good energy. Now, imagine that all the positive and good energy is surrounding the pendulum cupped with your hands, again a violet flame "burning" away the negative energy and turning it into positive energy. I would do this for around five minutes with clear intent. It's important to really believe that it works, because power comes in the form of thought (as I said earlier).

C - Smudging/Incense. Ooh, this is a really good (and smelly) way to cleanse just about anything. Light some incense or smudge stick and pass your pendulum through the smoke several times in all area--visualize the pendulum being cleansed and charged. A good smudge stick that cleanses, removes negativity and negative spirits, and that comes for a good price, can be found here. 

D - Moonlight/Daylight (sun and moon). It's always best to use moonlight when cleansing, preferably a full moon. Never do it on waning or before a new moon, or worse, on the new moon itself. That is when dark energy is abundantly present. Just let your pendulum or object of any kind cleanse in the full moonlight (doing it on a windowsill will sort of weaken the moonlight), and by the morning it should be cleansed. Then leave it in sunlight for a couple of hours to have a newly charged pendulum.