“Meditation on the Tree of Life goals to steadiness and harmonize numerous features of the self by connecting with completely different common energies represented by the tree’s construction”
Expensive Integral Meditators,
I’m simply making ready for my upcoming workshop on the Meditations for connecting to the Tree of Life, and growing your own personal Life Tree, & am inserting beneath an article introducing the concept of meditating with the Tree. The total article is kind of lengthy, so I’ve positioned a quick abstract beneath, with the complete detailed article beneath.
It’s one in all my favourite meditation practices, I hope that by inserting it right here I’ll encourage just a few to search out out extra about it! When studying, you need to use the above image for reference.
Within the spirit of the Life Tree,
Toby
Article & meditation abstract:
The Tree of Life is a big idea in Western meditation traditions. The Tree of Life is represented as a diagram with three pillars and three triangles, every symbolizing numerous features of the universe and particular person growth. Right here’s a quick abstract of the important thing factors and levels of the meditation:
- Visualization of the Tree: Begin by visualizing a ravishing tree in nature. Think about a pillar of sunshine extending from its roots to the sky, with spheres of earth, lunar, photo voltaic, and stellar energies alongside the central column. Two facet pillars additionally include orbs of power.
- Merging with the Tree: Visualize your self sitting on the base of the tree and progressively merging into it, aligning with the central column of sunshine. Really feel the energies of the earth, moon, solar, and stars flowing into your being, filling you with gentle and power.
- Ascending and Descending the Central Pillar:
- Lunar/Persona Sphere: Transfer your consciousness as much as the lunar sphere, the place silvery moon energies strengthen and steadiness your physique, thoughts (orange gentle) and feelings (inexperienced gentle).
- Photo voltaic/Soul Stage Sphere: Ascend additional to the photo voltaic sphere, the place golden solar energies steadiness along with your willpower and sense of justice (crimson/crimson gentle) and your sense of mercy and compassion (blue/indigo gentle).
- Stellar/Religious Sphere: Rise to a sphere beneath the stellar sphere, the place white stellar energies steadiness along with your female power and presence (darkish gentle) and masculine power and creativity (silvery-grey gentle). Obtain steadiness and concord between these features.
- Merging with the Tree/Physique Mandala Observe: Descend the central pillar till you’re again on the base, after which increase your consciousness to develop into the Tree of Life. Your backbone and core symbolize the central column, whereas your left and proper halves embody the energies of the left and proper columns. This step integrates the tree’s energies into your being.
- Conclusion: Progressively return your consciousness to your bodily environment, calm down your visualization, and conclude the meditation.
This meditation on the Tree of Life goals to steadiness and harmonize numerous features of the self by connecting with completely different common energies represented by the tree’s construction.
Meditating on the Tree of Life (full article)
The Tree of Life is a serious strand of the western custom of meditation. It’s primarily a diagram consisting of:
- Three pillars: A central pillar of equilibrium/steadiness, a right-hand pillar (as you take a look at it) that’s ‘masculine’ or yang in nature, and a left-hand pillar that’s ‘female’ or yin in nature
- Three triangles stacked vertically: A backside one representing the physique, thoughts and feelings, or ‘character’. A center one representing justice, compassion & magnificence, or the ‘soul’. The third, prime triangle represents the power of primal yin, yang and formless (causal) consciousness, or ‘spirit’
Organized on the pillars and triangles are 10/11 ‘Sephiroth’ or spheres, every representing a specific common power. You’ll be able to see this depicted within the image that accompanies this text, which is one which I drew a few years in the past.
The wonderful thing about the Tree of Life is that it depicts all main features of the Universe, and of ourselves as people. If we all know the Tree, we all know the place to place all of our meditation practices and different actions, and methods to develop ourselves holistically in a balanced method in consequence. Under is a quick meditation on the Tree, touring up the central column, that could be a good foundation from which different Tree-practices may be developed.
Primary meditation on the Tree of Life
Stage 1: Visualizing the Tree
Think about you’re going through a ravishing tree, someplace in nature, should you like choose one which you recognize and love. Visualizing it in entrance of you, really feel its power. See a pillar of sunshine extending from the roots up the trunk and into the sky. On the backside of the pillar, simply beneath the Earth, is a sphere of earth-energy. A two/three metres up the column is a lunar sphere manufactured from silvery gentle. Halfway up the trunk us a sphere of golden solar power. Towards the highest of the cover is a sphere of white, star-energy. Both facet of the central pillar you may see two different pillars of sunshine, every with three stunning orbs of power alongside its size.
Stage 2: Merging with the Tree
Now visualize your self going over and sitting on the base of the tree, along with your again resting on the tree trunk. After some time really feel your self transferring backwards into the tree, so that you’re sitting within the centre of the central column of sunshine, with the energies of the earth rising beneath, grounding you, and the energies of the moon, solar and stars flowing into you from above. Really feel your personal physique glowing with gentle and power as this occurs.
Stage 3: Ascending & descending the central pillar
The Lunar/Persona sphere
Really feel your physique ascending the central pillar to the lunar sphere, really feel your energy-body being strengthened by the silvery energies of the moon. Really feel two streams of sunshine flowing into the sphere.
- To your proper, really feel a movement of orange gentle flowing into the sphere, strengthening, and balancing your thoughts
- To your left really feel a movement of inexperienced gentle flowing into the sphere, strengthening, and balancing your feelings
Really feel your thoughts, physique and feelings coming into steadiness and concord as these energies movement collectively inside you.
The Photo voltaic/Soul stage sphere
Really feel your physique rising once more up the central pillar to the photo voltaic sphere. really feel your energy-body being balanced by the gorgeous golden energies of the Solar. Really feel two streams of sunshine flowing into the sphere.
- To your proper, really feel a movement of crimson/crimson gentle flowing into the sphere, strengthening, and balancing your willpower and sense of justice
- To your left really feel a movement of blue/indigo gentle flowing into the sphere, strengthening, and balancing your sense of mercy and compassion
Really feel your willpower, compassion, and sense of magnificence/concord coming into steadiness as these energies movement collectively inside you
The Stellar/Religious sphere
Really feel your physique rising once more up the central pillar to a sphere of sunshine just a little manner beneath the stellar sphere. really feel your energy-body being balanced by the gorgeous white energies of the stellar sphere descending into you instantly from above. Then really feel two streams of sunshine flowing into the sphere.
- To your proper, really feel a movement of darkish gentle flowing into the sphere, strengthening, and balancing your female power and presence
- To your left really feel a movement of silvery-grey gentle flowing into the sphere, strengthening, and balancing your masculine power and creativity
Really feel your female, masculine, and non secular/stellar power coming into steadiness and concord as these energies movement collectively inside you. At this stage chances are you’ll prefer to enter a interval of silent consciousness for some time.
Stage 4: Merging with the Tree/ physique mandala observe
With out being in a rush, really feel your self descending the center pillar of the Tree, till you’re sitting as soon as extra inside the base at floor stage. Now think about that your physique grows and expands, so that you simply develop into the Tree of Life, along with your backbone and vertical core because the central column, and the left and proper halves of your physique containing the energies of the left and proper columns respectively.
If you end up prepared, develop into conscious of your instant bodily environment, calm down your visualization, and convey the meditation to an in depth.
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