The Clearing Meditation

(from: Thomas Hübl: Healing Collective Trauma)

At the end of the Fourth Wave of CTIP, which I refer to as the Group Clearing and Integration stage, massive amounts of energy, information, impressions, sensations, and emotions have been experienced. In order to ground, digest, clear, and integrate those experiences, it is important that we come back to center, able to feel clear, present, and embodied. For this, we choose a simple grounding or clearing meditation along with toning techniques, such as group humming, and may include the use of singing bowls.

Of course, simple grounding practices and clearing meditations like this can be used anytime, for any reason. They help bring us back to center, back into presence with our own hearts and into deeper attunement with our bodies.

Guided Practice

Sit comfortably with an upright spine, if you’re able, and begin with a few deep breaths. As you breathe, drop into the body. Feel and listen: How at home in the body are you feeling as you practice? Simply observe as you rest in the simplicity of sitting.

Whatever degree of at-homeness and warmth and resting you can find as you listen — however little or much — is exactly where you are. And there’s nothing better, nothing else you need to seek. There is no ideal, no “should.” A journey of a thousand miles starts beneath our feet.

Continue breathing just as you are, listening to and presencing your inner state, illuminating the current state with awareness, just as it is.

One of your most intimate friends is the breath. It has been with you since the very first moment you arrived in this world. It has been with you through every experience, from the most pleasant to the most difficult. It walks with you wherever you go, through whatever you do, as it will until your last moment. And because the breath is always here, it can guide you into a deeper experience of yourself, exactly as you are right now. There is no better version you must hunt for. There is only this version, the most truthful, the most loyal to now.

This is simply how the breath flows.

As you follow the breath, let it take you deeper, showing you the flow of your experience as it is now. The breath is the movement of your life; it echoes your life’s flow and unfolding as you swim in the river of your experiences. How you meet new people, how you meet daily tasks, how you hold intimacy and connection with yourself and others—all of these are revealed in the flow of the breath through the wider river of your soul.

Also flowing in this river is your intelligence, motivation, passions, interests, and potential. The light that carries your inspiration, creativity, and innovation is there. Your capacity toward awakening and illumination are present in the river, which streams the very light of your soul.

You can rest in this river and hold the intention to connect to its light, to your inspiration and creativity. Or you may wish to turn your inner vision upward, connecting to the light streaming above your head—gently, openly. Or you may simply sit like an open funnel, holding an intention to receive. Just invite the light of the soul to rain down upon you, as you open yourself and listen.

At the higher levels, the light has higher tones or frequencies — like the highest notes on a piano or the harmonic notes strummed on a guitar— that are far less dense than ordinary experience. When you feel upward above the head, you may sense a finer vibration, a higher octave of sound or color. This space is finer, subtler. When the world is noisy, inspiration is often only a whisper. This is why moments of silence, solitude, and stillness can be vital; they allow us to tune in to the finer, higher resonances.

When you’re ready, gently return to the body, noticing the sensation of sitting and feeling your inner space. Just rest in the stillness a moment. Simply rest and listen. Bring your awareness to the heart and listen to the spaciousness inside you.

Then, gently, take a couple of deep breaths and open your eyes.