Chapter 16 The Sacred Silence from my book Changes

Another view from my site area in Winter at Joseph Citta Scout Reservation in NJ, where my Philosophy 1 was held.

Chapter 16

The Sacred Silence

In Phil 1, we spent time every day going through the “long form” meditation to consistently set the trigger that takes us into the Sacred Silence.  Setting this trigger was a prerequisite for journeying to our medicine place.

We set the trigger by going through a detailed sequence of relaxation techniques.

Here I share an abbreviated version of this long form meditation, which is explained in much greater detail in Tom Brown Jr’s book Awakening Spirits, beginning on page 142.

There is the deep breathing portion where the meditator takes a deep and powerful breath, holds it, and exhales forcefully.  This is called the command breath.  During the command breath sequence, there is the flexing and relaxing of different areas of the body.  With each inhale we flex, and with each exhale we relax and release more stress, and a deeper relaxation is achieved.

There is the white light sequence where we imagine a column of beautiful white light nearby and gradually bring it toward us to touch out feet, and let our bodies fill up bit by bit with that beautiful healing white light until it surrounds us like a cocoon.

Next is the body position sequence where the meditator focuses on how their body is laying.

Then there is a gravity sequence, where we imagine that the heaviness of our body feels like we are pressing into the skin of the earth and are held by the earth like a baby on it’s mothers skin.

Next is the pain sequence where we identify a pain in our body, or an emotional pain, notice the shape of it, where it is in our body, what color it is, and how it feels.  Then we change its shape into a ball and gradually compress it until it is the size of a golf ball or marble. Then with insistence we pass it out of our body and into the earth.  This pain sequence can get rid of pain temporarily or permanently.

Then there is the floating or flying sequence where we are so light that we float up into the air, through the ceiling (if indoors), and  fly around, looking down at the building we were in (if indoors) and the landscape, and take off on a fun flight, and then come back into our bodies lying on the floor.

Finally, we set the trigger to the Sacred Silence with a deep but gentle breath, hold it, then release it as a sigh.  This is done two or three times and sets the trigger to the Sacred Silence.

When we first did this meditation, after setting the trigger, we were told to come back to the flesh.  We began moving our hands and feet, and opening our eyes.  Sometimes a person might feel dizzy or a little disoriented at first, and that is not unusual.

This long form meditation to take us to the Sacred Silence creates a peaceful feeling that can sometimes last for hours.  And once the trigger is set each day, a simple deep but gentle breath that is released as a sigh, surrenders a person to the Sacred Silence, or the spirit mind.

Once we had learned to set this trigger, Tom led us in meditation to our medicine place.