Nourishing the Body with Light

The cells of our body need food and water to be healthy and regenerate, but they also need light! In their deep substructure, our cells are made of pure light. Therefore feeding ourselves with Light provides additional deep nourishment to the body as well as the heart and mind, that helps maintain balance which is health.

It is nice to drink in different qualities of light: Sun Light, Moon Light, Star Light, Etheric Light. Sun for illumination, power and vitality; moon for healing emotions and heart; stars for cosmic consciousness and expansiveness of mind; etheric for physical healing.

• To drink Sun light, stand in the Sun and feel the pours of your skin and cells of your body opening like windows - feel the light coming in through all those windows filling the entire aura and body with light. As you exhale feel this light filling all the cells of your body.

 

• To drink moon light, stand in the moon light and completely relax.  Feel your heart center, like a moon flower, opening to the light of the Moon, feel the moon light entering your aura and then your body through the heart center filling your heart and whole body. As you exhale feel this light filling all the cells of your body.

 

• To drink in star light, celestial light, stand outside under the stars, using your eyes, allow them to be receptacles of the star light; breathe in through your eyes the star light - not just the focalized light of a single star but the light between the stars - the starlight that fills the entire cosmos. As you exhale feel this light filling all the cells of your body.

 

• To drink the etheric light, feel your Aura, the light bubble that surrounds and interpenetrates your body, being filled with light. With eyes closed, feel your Aura being filled with light and growing fuller and brighter. Feel this light completely illuminating your etheric substructure which is your etheric body. Your etheric body is an exact double your physical body but made of gossamer threads of light. As you exhale feel this light filling all the cells of your body.

As a final stage, enjoy the feeling of a very great flow of light coming down from

on-high and washing through your aura and body, purifying and carrying all impurities, imbalances, and heavy energy into Mother Earth who receives it as a gift to be recycled. Leave nothing in your aura and etheric body but light.

The Importance of Praise

All Nature praises the Creator by its very existence!
Winds and breezes, storms, clouds, trees, birds, bees, rain, flowers, sun, moon and stars all exist in a state of glorification, for existence inherently is the expression of divine love which is all glorious and praiseworthy.
 
Yet no act of praise is more pleasing to the Divine Mother or Father than those that flow from our hearts, for they come from free will. It is only in humanity that the Divine takes Self-Awareness and only to humanity does God give the power of self-awareness and co-creation.

True Praise of the Divine is so special in us humans because we were born into life veiled from our divine inheritance and must reawaken to it - this reawakening is God's Self-Realization and our God-Realization.  One word of sincere praise from our awakening hearts echoes through out the universe, causes the angels to dance in ecstasy and exults nature.

When praise arises in us for the Divine, when we exult in the glory and beauty of creation, when we offer thanks for Gods Mercy and bountiful gifts, that praise is heard by the Universe, by the angels, by the Prophets, by all the illuminated souls, by the Divine Mother and by God for we are all one being.

Praise is a selfless act.

Although it seems, at first, that we are praising something other than us, in fact, Praise is an act of Pure Love, and Love always unifies - so we praise our very self in the form of the universe, the glorious face of the Divine Mother, of our creator.

When we praise God, God praises us.

So arise each morning knowing or remembering that you are a gift to God and a gift from God!  Offer a word or thought of praise, thanks or prayer and have faith that as ye sing so you become.

A Powerful Practice of Praise is to
Breathe, say or sing: 



Subhanallah, Alhumdulilah, La Illaha Illah La, Allahhu Akbar.

It Means...
Glory to all that exists within and without, seen and unseen, known and unknown, in expression and in silence;

Praise to all that exists, and is yet to exist, praise to all creation, praise to God, praise to our highest selves;

There is no Reality but God, the One Reality;

God is the Great, the one and only power that brings forth and governs all creation and yet is beyond all creation - the King of Kings most merciful and compassionate. 

Sufi Amin gives a Secret for Self-Realization

My Sufi Teacher Amin once told me he entered the state of Self-Realization while repeating the mantra Tat Tvam Asi, Tat Tvam Asi, Tat Tvam Asi, meaning "That Thou Art, Thou Art All Things".

 

He said he was sitting on a part bench one day overlooking Lake Erie, repeating this Mantra over and over - all of a sudden the great reality of this Mantra - "That Thou Art, Thou are all things" - pulled him into its reality and realization.

 

Then he said that once you have had the realization of a Mantra its yours to keep, nothing can take it away from you.

 

He was very fond of the repeating what is called the Sacred Vakya Vrittis, intended to give direct perception of God: Aham Brahmasmi (I am Brahman), Tat Tvam Asi (That Am I), and in which he also included Shivoham (I am Shiva).  

 

He said these were all great Mantras of Self-Realization and so they are!

Aham Brahmasmi - seeing God in Everything

My Sufi teacher Amin once gave me this wonderful practice for seeing God everything.

He said repeat Aham Brahmasmi
as much as you can, 
it means “I am Brahman”.

As you repeat it, be aware that everything is Brahman, God:

• Every sound you hear is Brahman: car horns, people talking, fan motors, birds, every sound is Brahman;
• Everything you see is Brahman: every color, the trees, flowers, the sun, the blue ski, the faces of people, cars, buildings, all Brahman;
• Every smell you smell is Brahman: perfume, grass, food smells, manure, garbage, salt water, it’s all Brahman;
• Eveything you touch is Brahman: the cell phone, the touch of cement, the handle of a knife or spoon, the coolness of steel, the warmth of a washcloth, the feel of water in the shower, its all Brahman;
• Everything you feel is Brahman: the joy, the sadness, the pain, the fear, the confidence, the worry, the anger, the frustration, don’t dwell on it but know it is all Brahman for everything is God.
• Every thought you think is Brahman: every idea, every judgment, every concept, your intuitions, your inspiration, it’s all Brahman, everything is Brahman, there is only God, there is nothing that exists except God and your very being is God, you are a living aspect of Brahman.

Know that All is Brahman, Aham Bramasmi, Aham Brahmasmi, Aham Brahmasmi.

Call & Response with God

This is a practice of ‘call and response’ with Allah.  One calls upon Allah’s quality and then one watches and/or listens receptively to see or hear the response.
 

It is almost unbelievable, but Allah does respond through the life that is around one at the moment.  This practice deeply attunes us to the Divine Presence in Life.

To do this practice use one or all of the following 3 essential Illahis (divine names or qualities): Subhanallah, Alhumdulilah, Allahhu-Akbar. 
 

The form of the Practice:

Exhaling say silently or aloud 3 times: Subhanallah;

Then watch and listen for the Divine Glory that is manifesting around you.

Exhaling say silently or aloud 3 times: Alhumdulilah;

Then watch and listen for the Divine Praise and Exultation that is manifesting around you;

Exhaling say silently or aloud 3 times: Allahhu-Akbar;

Then watch and listen for the Divine Greatness, Grandeur or Power that is manifesting around you;

Perceiving the response is not a matter of using the mind but rather the heart – become receptive and let Allah’s response arise within the perception of one’s heart.

Allah answers your call with “beingness” not thoughts. This is quite a deep practice that compliments that of Shagal Alakasar given by Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan.

Note:

To enhance your ability to perceive Allah’s response, you can recite the following Wazifa 33 times:

Ya Sami – Ya Basir - The All Hearing and the All Seeing.

Breathing "Allah Hu"

 There are two ways to breathe Allah Hu. One will help you ‘rise above the denseness of the earth’ by facilitating your attunement with the transcendental or cosmic dimension of your being; the other will help you manifest the Divine Presence in your being and life.

The First way:

Gently move your head down toward your physical heart while exhaling Allah deeply into the physical heart; then inhale Hu, as your head rises allow Hu to carry you on high, dissolving into the transcendental, all-pervading reality of Hu.

The Second way:

Inhale up through the top of the head into Allah, the One Reality; Exhale Hu deeply into either the physical heart or heart center.