How to Invite Energy into Your Meditation
I can already hear some of your thoughts.
"What is she talking about?"
"Can you really invite energy into meditation?"
Before we begin, let me tell you something important.
There is more than one way to meditate.
Most people are familiar with the style of meditation where you calm your thoughts, become still, and allow peace to find you. This is what I call receptive meditation.
You open your mind, your awareness, and your spiritual senses. You become a receiver. You listen. You observe. You connect with your inner self.
This form of meditation is beautiful and powerful. But it is not the only form of meditation.
Over the years, I have come to recognise another type of meditation.
I call it active meditation. Or sometimes overflowing meditation.
In this form of meditation, you still enter a deeply relaxed state, but you remain actively involved in the process. You are not simply waiting to receive. You are working with your thoughts, questions, experiences, and intentions.
Many people experience this naturally and assume they are doing meditation incorrectly. In fact, I had exactly this conversation with my sister recently. She told me:
"Something is wrong with me. I can't sit with an empty mind and receive beautiful visions during meditation."
So I asked her what actually happened during meditation.
She replied:
"My mind starts connecting dots. I find solutions to problems. I see causes behind situations. I discover things I need to investigate further."
I started laughing. Not because she was wrong. Because she was describing a successful meditation. Her meditation brings her clarity. Afterwards she feels lighter, more focused, energised, and clear about her next steps. That is exactly what meditation is supposed to do.
Not every meditation needs to be filled with visions, symbols, or spiritual messages.
Sometimes meditation helps us organise the chaos within our own minds.
Inviting Energy into Meditation
When practising active meditation, you can consciously invite specific energies into your meditation. This begins with intention.
Perhaps you need clarity.
Perhaps you need guidance.
Perhaps you need to understand a difficult situation.
Perhaps you need to make a decision.
Before beginning your meditation, write your question on a piece of paper and place it in front of you. Then settle into your meditation. Allow your thoughts to move around the question naturally.
Do not force answers.
Do not demand solutions.
Simply observe.
Over time, thoughts begin to organise themselves.
Patterns emerge.
Sometimes the same idea appears repeatedly.
Sometimes an unexpected connection presents itself.
Sometimes the answer to your question is actually another question.
And sometimes what appears completely unrelated turns out to be the key to everything.
Meditation often reveals that the issue we are trying to solve is connected to something much deeper.
A wound from the past.
A forgotten belief.
A different problem that must be addressed first.
Taking Meditation a Step Further
As your meditation practice develops, you may find yourself exploring spiritual intentions as well as practical ones.
Perhaps you wish to work with a particular chakra.
Perhaps you would like guidance through tarot.
Perhaps you feel drawn to angel energy, spirit guides, or power animals.
These meditations sit somewhere between active and receptive meditation.
You begin with an intention.
You focus on a topic.
You invite a particular energy into your meditation.
Then something interesting happens. At some point, the meditation begins to lead itself. You stop directing every step. You become a receiver as well as a participant.
The meditation unfolds naturally.
Meditation for Spiritual Growth
There is one final form of meditation. This is the meditation we do for the soul itself.
The purpose is not problem-solving.
It is not decision-making.
It is not even healing.
The purpose is connection.
Connection to spirit.
Connection to the divine.
Connection to places, energies, and aspects of ourselves that exist beyond everyday life.
These experiences often change us.
They expand our awareness.
They deepen our understanding of who we are and why we are here.
Yet even these meditations begin the same way every other meditation begins.
With a willingness to sit quietly and listen.
You Are Not Doing It Wrong
If there is one thing I would like you to take from this article, it is this: Not all meditation experiences look the same.
Some people receive images.
Some receive feelings.
Some receive messages.
Some receive peace.
Some receive solutions.
Some receive clarity.
The question is not whether your meditation looks like somebody else's.
The question is:
What does your meditation give you?
If it helps you understand yourself more deeply, heal, grow, or move forward in life, then it is doing exactly what it is meant to do.
Trust your experience.
Trust your intuition.
And allow your meditation practice to become your own.
What do you usually receive from meditation: peace, clarity, guidance, inspiration, or something else entirely?
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