This a hybrid meditation containing both analytical and stillness elements. The purpose of this meditation is to gain control over your focus of attention and be able to move that focus as skillfully, gracefully, and calmly as you now move your body. Currently your human body anchors your mind where your body is located. An untrained mind without the body to keep it in place can fly anywhere in the universe. With no restraint, the untrained mind can quickly become lost in unfamiliar places. The Spirit body has no mass and follows the mind’s focus of attention. To be able to choose one’s next rebirth or incarnation wisely, requires the ability to focus on the desired choice, not flit one’s attention around the universe or panic and choose rashly. This meditation helps develop control over the focus of your attention and the direction of your mind.
Find a time and place free from distractions. Look around the place you have chosen and mindfully examine all the objects in the room or area so you have a clear idea what they look like and where they are placed. Find a comfortable chair or cushion, place yourself there, and relax. Do some deep breaths as needed, focusing on the breaths. Choose an object within your field of vision. Pick a point on that object and stare at it until you can rest your attention steadily on that point. Now close your eyes while maintaining a mental image of the object and keeping you focus on the point you chose. Realize that this is your focus of attention. Continue until you can rest your attention peacefully on a point.
Keeping your eyes closed, move your focus of attention to a different object in the room or area where you are sitting. Imagine examining it and see in your mind’s eye what it looks like. Move your attention to other objects in the room. Notice that your mind can move your focus of attention independently of your eyes, even to objects behind you. Practice this until you are adept at moving your attention. Try this with your eyes open while staring at these words or straight ahead while your attention focuses on other objects around you. With eyes open or closed, imagine picking up various objects and examining them from different angles. If this is difficult, return to focusing on a point of a single object, and try this again in a different session.
If you are comfortable with moving your focus of attention and while still sitting, imagine getting up and walking outdoors. Walk around your dwelling, looking at it from different places. Then imagine walking to nearby places, looking at and touching things along the way. If this is difficult, try actually walking to nearby places while looking mindfully at things along the way. Then try to replicate that experience in your mind in your next meditation session.
If you are able to visualize walking to nearby places and examining objects in your path, try visualizing a great leap to a favorite spot farther away and enjoy being there as you normally would, doing what you normally do there. Try to spend some time in that spot, enjoying being there. Try this for other favorite spots until you are comfortable doing this and can rest in these places in your mind’s eye for an entire meditation session.
Visualize looking at the sky. Locate the moon. This can be either in daytime or the sky at night. Study its surface from your vantage point on earth. Examine its craters and surface features. Now gather yourself for a mighty leap and imagine yourself flying to the moon. It gets larger as you approach, You land feet first on the surface of the moon in a great puff of dust. Walk around examining rocks and the stars above. Turn to look at the earth, noting its beauty. Pause to enjoy the sight of the earth for a while. Notice that the lack of air has no effect on your point of focus. Take a few deep breaths of empty space. Now gather yourself for another mighty leap, focus on your point where you left, and imagine flying back to earth, its image getting larger as you approach. Land where you started and look back at the moon. If this is difficult, watch some images and videos of the Apollo missions and try again during another session.
Visualize walking back to your meditation location. Realize that if you can calmly move your focus of attention independently of your body, then you really do not need your body to travel where your Spirit wills it to go. You can go where your heart or trusted guides lead you to you next life without fear dictating your destination.