Beholding The Meadow
How beautiful is the mountain meadow! You’re sitting on a bench and there spread before you is a beautiful valley. It is a sea of flowers, ferns, birds, bees, trees, snow-capped mountains reaching down to the pure blue lake, the canopy of the sky overhead with multi-colored clouds. Your senses are filled with the beauty and pageantry of nature as it unfolds gracefully before you.
Taking it all in, one could say, is very relaxing and soothing. It requires almost no effort to take in all this grandeur of nature that is delighting your five senses!
“Beholding the meadow” is a metaphor we use in Integrative Chakra Therapy® for how practitioners can passively observe the chakras and the biofield. The emphasis is to avoid trying too hard to “see” and assess the subtle energies and spiritual nature of “the whole human being” (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual).
That is, we are all intuitive and are completely, seamlessly “connected” to each other (and all nature) 24/7, because the chakras are beyond time and space, as is the biofield.
Some practitioners try too hard in assessing the person (like the forest for the trees). Beholding the meadow is a method of passively taking in all of the beingness of the client (but it does not have to be people; it could be animals, plants, nature, nature spirits, etc.) without exerting much effort.
How much effort would it take, if it were you in the meadow, to spot a blue jay flying across your field of vision? None. That is the sublime beauty of our interconnected nature to all things.
When I am with a client, it is no problem to “see” the disposition of the chakras, strengths and weaknesses, illnesses, past lives and so on. The more I use the feminine principle of using the power of the will to allow myself to observe the condition of the person, the more I observe.
This is occurring all the time with everyone – as I said we are seamlessly connected to each other and our inborn intuitive abilities are always “on” 24/7 because they are not limited to time or space. Imagine in your life circumstances that it is sometimes “the forest for the trees.” That you are trying too hard. Imagine sitting on the bench and just simply beholding the meadow. Imagine allowing yourself to observe more fully the entire view, and whatever needs to cross your field of vision and discernment will do so, like the blue jay.
Remember, this is spiritual work, it directly addresses the way in which a person emanates their consciousness into this dimension. Can you reset your view, relax and give yourself permission to “see” twice as much with half the effort? Could you “see” each other on an entirely different level of your being? Only you can give yourself this permission. Using the beholding the meadow technique is an incredibly effective way to activate and illuminate your intuitive abilities. This is self-empowerment and awakening your true potential!
Since you are spirit with a physical form, you are automatically connected to all things. This is the era in which these attributes are becoming common knowledge – the teachings of spiritual awakened people now being proved by scientific research.
Give yourself permission to behold the meadow in this life – to observe the big picture and take it all in in its grandeur with little or no effort and feel the incredible difference it will make in your life!
Blessings,
Dr. Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.
