Distractions from our Inner Temple

I’ve written about this topic once before, but it was more about how stress or adversity can sometimes overwhelm us to the point of abandoning our inner world and our meditation practice. However, what about times that are just so fun, hectic, and all-consuming that we simply forget to make time each day to go there? A lot of us find it much easier to stay on track during the winter months. The kids are in school, vacations and family parties slow to a bare minimum and we tend to stick to our schedules much more easily. Taking our twenty minutes or so to meditate and connect with our team of light is pretty doable and we feel connected to both the physical world and the spiritual world simultaneously. That creates a comfortable balance and a better ability to handle stress and remain focused on what’s really important from a spiritual perspective.

Yet, what happens to some of us, including myself during the summer, is that my life and my daily and weekly schedule are overwhelming. Besides working, for many of us, the family vacations, reunions, barbeques etc. take up every weekend and some weeks in between. For me personally, we had my families reunion in mid-July in North Carolina. We were out of town for more than a week. Then we had my husband, Steve’s family gathering that lasted a week and a half. So far, just about every other weekend we’re booked with fun parties with both friends and family. When we do have a rare weekend where we have no plans, we are so tired from all the running around that we just get lazy and do nothing but relax and chill.

As I was reflecting on this, I realized that I had let my meditation practice sort of fall by the wayside a bit. I felt a strange sadness creeping into my emotions that didn’t make sense because we were having so much fun. I soon recognized the reason. I felt disconnected from my spiritual team of light and was operating mostly on a physical or corporal level without my needed balance and connection to the spiritual. I was exhausted from all of endless commitments and was pretty unmotivated to continue doing the things I loved, meditation and writing, that made my life so much more meaningful. I also missed the infusion of invigorating energy I always felt when I emerged from my time in the silence and light within, or after bringing forth spiritual truth while writing. Another feeling that nagged on the fringes of my subconsciousness was a feeling that I was letting down my team, myself, and God. I promised to always be of service and knew it was part of my purpose here. Without it, all the light, airy, and fun times lost their spark because my soul wasn’t fully joining in the parties.

So as always, when those emotions and longings creep their way back into my life, I resumed my daily meditations. The very first day I had a hard time finding my way back to my inner temple. I used all of my tools … my breath work, posture, intention, and focusing on my sixth chakra or third eye, as some call it, but my efforts did not result in what I was hoping for. The way I was finally successful was by going back to the other blog post I did about this topic and did the meditation I wrote contained within the blog. Once the meditation was over, I lingered there in that sublime space and had a wonderful reunion with my spirit guides. Of course, as always, they were not the least bit judgmental, just pleased I had come home to my true self once again. I’d like to share that meditation again with you here.

Find a place where you will be comfortable and undisturbed and close your eyes. Take a deep breath in and hold it, then slowly release it. Take another deep breath and again hold it and as you release it, feel the light of peace grow within you.

Imagine ahead of you is a path that you are very familiar with. You have been down this path many times and you know that it leads to the inner temple of your soul. You begin walking and notice that it is thick with overgrown brush and fallen trees. The farther you walk, the less familiar it seems. You know the side road leading to the temple should be close, but you can’t seem to find it. You keep looking down different trails, but none seem right. You think to yourself, “Why can’t I find my way back? Has it disappeared in my absence? No, It has to be here. I can’t live my life without being able to spend time there!” Finally, as you search down a very narrow pathway, you see a dim light far off in the distance.

You decide this must be the one, so you walk, slowly picking up branches and climbing over fallen trees until you reach the end. There in front of you is a beautiful, ornate, and opulent temple made of crystals of all colors and sizes. Yet, it’s dark except for a small light shining through a lovely crystal sconce on the outside of the temple. Fear begins to rise in you as you wonder if your team of light had waited too long and decided that you would never return, so they left. You feel remorseful and sad. You fall to your knees and begin to weep, raising your head to the heavens and asking for forgiveness and pleading for a chance to begin anew.

Then, the flame in the sconce becomes suddenly brighter. The debris that had accumulated on and around your temple is dissipating. The crystals that make up the walls of the temple begin to glow with an iridescent, other-worldly light. Then slowly the door opens, revealing an angel who welcomes you back home. She escorts you into this sacred space and down a long hallway to a chamber made of rose quartz. Within that chamber, your guides and many other angels await your arrival.

As you enter, you can feel the love and appreciation from each being who is there with you. You can hear soft celestial music that seems to be coming from the very walls themselves. You begin to understand that there is and will never be any judgement for having been away so long. There has never been a punishment waiting for you for unconsciously or consciously turning your back on your spiritual team and the deep connection you had forged together. The only consequence is the perceived absence of the consistent availability and love from your trusted spirit advisers and friends.

One of your spirit guides greets you and reaches his energy outward to embrace you. One by one, each of the guides and angels send you loving thoughts and appreciation that fill your energy and renew your spirit. They begin to offer you their guidance as you ask question after question about your life, your struggles, your confusion, and pain, as well as the chaos and disorder in the world outside of this precious place. After a long time of sharing your thoughts and receiving their assistance, you realize you must return to your life in the physical world. You assure your team of light that you will return regularly, and they promise you they will never abandon you. You begin to weep with sheer gratitude and joy as you turn and head back down the path that is now miraculously cleared of debris and illumined with the infinite light of God’s eternal love.

You may now open your eyes and return to the present moment.

The important thing to remember is we can never do anything that will cause our team of light to abandon us. The only thing that can separate us from their loving guidance is ourselves. God never turns His back on us. His arms are always open wide, ready to receive us. All we need to do is to run into them and allow His love to transform and enlighten our lives.

So, let us complete this blog with a short prayer.

May our sacred temple be always vibrantly illuminated and our visits there be infinite. May we live in the peace, love, and light of the eternal truth of who we are … glorious children of an everlasting universe and eternal souls of pure beauty and Divine love.