Imagine you’re sitting still outside; there is a very slight warm breeze, and you’re looking out from the top of one mountain across a vast expanse to the tops of many others. In your mind, picture around your head, about 20 to 35 feet away, half a dozen or so holes in space. Emanating outward through these holes is a sense of warmth or heat, almost as if they were infrared bulbs around you, each one radiating light warm and heat. You could feel the essence of each one individually, and at the same time, you could fill that entire field of warmth surrounding you and penetrating through your skin, warming the inner nature of your heart, your true self.
Now, for this mental experiment, let’s replace those warming infrared bulbs with the face or the essence of people who have shared a loving experience with you. These people, now imagining them as your benefactors, include some you know personally like family and friends, and others who are heroes or spiritual figures. You’ve been contacted by them through their directing attention, love, caring, and compassion, not just to you but to all the people they come into contact with. This, so to speak, is their purpose, their energy, their way of being, just as your parents, teachers, and mentors gave you love, understanding, and compassion freely.
Take in that energetic field surrounding you, absorbing all that compassion, love, and caring, freely and unconditionally given to you. As you breathe in, you’re inhaling that essence of care and compassion. Continuing with this mind exercise. Now imagine you can project that same warm, energetic light feeling and love as it comes into and through you. You become part of that stream, part of the entire energetic field, that spiritual energy, the spiritual field from all the benefactors you’re aware of personally and intellectually.
Expand this energetic field of your benefactors to include the benefactors of your benefactors. As you’re breathing in and out, taking in that field and allowing it to pass through you, you now become part of that field. Transfer that outward to all others as a form of compassion to help alleviate any lack of energy or care or love that others have in some of the routine suffering that goes along with most people’s lives.
Then, as all the people that you can encounter or encompass in your awareness, as their level of disease or suffering is lessened, they feel a natural uplifting of joyful experience, a joyful expression of lightness, a happiness of joy. Joy and happiness reflect right back to you, and you expand into the wonder of joy, of happiness, of life. Return to view the image of that expanse of mountaintop to mountaintop that you were sitting in the middle of—the openness, the unity, the spaciousness, as if you were floating, sitting on a rock on the earth floating in space, liberated and free.
Spiritual Gravity 