Episode 157 A Soul Child Meditation

In this episode of the Real Enneagram podcast, Dr. Joseph Howell leads a meditation going into the deepest self and focusing on the soul child.

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Outro  00:00

Hey there listener. Thank you so much for your continued support for the Institute for Conscious Being. Dr. Howell and the team are going to be taking a break here for the next couple of months, so you won't be seeing new episodes for a little while. In the meantime, you can always check out the older episodes in your feed. Without further ado, here's Dr. Howell.

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You're listening to the Real Enneagram podcast, a Spiritual Quest, brought to you by the Institute for Conscious Being.

Joe  00:30

Welcome to a meditation. In order to get the most out of this time going into your deepest self, go ahead and get comfortable in your chair or on the sofa or in a comfortable seating arrangement. And as you let go of all of the cares of the day, center inside yourself. Relax your face, your nose, your ears, your forehead. Let go of your eyes. Your eyelids. Let your tongue be loose in your mouth, and your jaw unclenched and just hanging. Melt your shoulders so that they relax in a way that they hold no tension. From your shoulders, go down both of your arms, letting go of any tension, down to each finger and thumb.

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Relax your neck and all the way down your back. Relax your ribcage. Your chest muscles. Let go of all that may be tense inside your ribcage. All of the organs, let them go. Relax your stomach, your intestines. Relax the pelvis. The groin area, your hips. Let go of the upper part of your legs. Let go of your knees, your calves. And let the warm relaxation go all the way down to your ankles, your feet, the soles of your feet, your toes. With your body totally relax, allow your mind to just float, and with your feet touching the earth, you feel the groundedness of that Earth and allow your thoughts now to go from your head as you focus now in your heart.

03:59

And there's a light in your heart. As you focus on this heart of yours, you realize that it is the center and core of your being. It is the core of your soul. As you focus on that heart, allow your body to further relax and then going on in. Through your heart, allow yourself to transcend all the day's care. For all you have done that you feel shame or guilt over, go ahead and ask for forgiveness whether you did it intentionally or even unconsciously. Allow all to be wiped out from the day that would hold inside of you as impressions and complications.

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Go to your inside of your being and allow yourself to drop into images in your heart of the way you were when you were a very little child. Pure and simple, uncut, uncomplicated and moving through the world, whether you were in someone's arms, or under your own locomotion, crawling or walking. Remember the purity of that way of being. No thoughts of aggression. No thoughts of lying. No thoughts of murder. No thoughts of envy. No thoughts of manipulation. Just pure being without a personality as such, that is slowly developing, but hasn't taken hope. Just the pure and simple part of you without the impressions that weighed you down, the incidences and experiences that have caused so much shame and wounding. Just the pure being inside you that is the way you started life.

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And as you focus on that, you realize that this is the essence of who you are. If you peel everything away that this is what remains as irreducible. This is how you came and how you are essentially. And then, claiming that and embracing that you re-embody that purity, that simplicity. It is who you are. And in your reflection and meditation, come to understand the absolute beauty of these wonderful attributes and qualities that are yours, that came with you. Curiosity, joy, empathy, deep love, being one with all. Being one with nature. Feeling support without asking for it. Trusting that needs would be met.

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Allowing yourself to be loved and held. And in your own way, giving back love, affection. These are the things that make you in your wholeness. These are the things that we forget, because many of them are useless when we are dealing with the onslaught of a demanding, and sometimes, cruel world. And so, we allow this essential aspect of ours—our essential being of ours, I should say—to go into hiding, but today, we bring her or him into our heart for affirmation.

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And so, as you look at that little being, you say to him or her, I know that you are me. I have not forgotten you. I feel the purity and the simplicity of your true nature. I uphold you in your innocence. I support you as you seek to learn and grow and satisfy your curiosity. I hold you. I embody you now and protect you. You are my true nature. You are my soul. You are my essence, and without you and with being unconscious of you, I am only the trappings that surround you. I am only the superficial layers of my existence. I am only my personality. I am only my egoic thoughts, striving, desires and fears. I see you. I know you. I am you, and I will operate from you in every circumstance.

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I will go straight to my heart where you are, and my ego will support you instead of fight you. My ego will transform to promote you and serve you. And I will be whole, and wholeness is that of God. Oh God, you are the goal of all human life. We are yet but slaves to wishes that are putting bar to our progression. You, oh God, are the only power that can take us to that stage, and then the silence and stillness. We are not preoccupied with keeping no thought. We are not fighting our thoughts. We are merely opening ourselves to the transcendent power, the transcendent message, the transcendent spiritual food that wants to fill us as we are totally receptive now.

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And as we sit here in this stillness, we understand more of what consciousness is. How consciousness is light. That when it has shone upon anything, it heats it, makes it more brilliant, defines it and it causes it to open and flower.

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And then the flowering of consciousness. Everything that we see, we understand its evolution, its intention, its properties and its misinterpretations, its imitations. In stillness, we are conscious of our connection to that power that is our source and creator that still holds us and feeds us.

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Just remain in this state for the next 10 minutes. And when you return with soft eyes, journal how you feel. What your impressions are, your mood, any realization inside.