Perhaps you know this: you have a strong desire or you are urgently seeking an answer, but your thinking goes in circles. The mind keeps thinking the same thoughts and simply does not come up with creative solutions anymore. Many people have also, consciously or unconsciously, placed a kind of ceiling over their lives that limits them in many ways.
For exactly these situations I would like to introduce you to a small, precious meditation that I have loved for years: the Hour Glass meditation by Phyllis Krystal. She describes it in detail in her first book “Cutting the Ties that Bind”.
What this meditation does
When you work with the Hour Glass, you will notice that you receive inspiration, new ideas and creative solutions that break the pattern of repetitive thoughts. These sudden insights, in which intuition and intellect blend, are usually a sign that your Higher Self is guiding you through a new vision.
The meditation deliberately presents your problem or question to your Higher Self, or as Phyllis Krystal calls it, the High C, the Higher Consciousness. You can use it a single time, or for important matters over a longer period.
When I was once looking for a new job, I used it for a month, two to five minutes in the morning and again in the evening. It made me feel relaxed, confident and energised for the task ahead. And the new job came.
How the Hour Glass meditation works
Summarised in my own words, the practice goes like this: First you visualise your golden circle on the ground around you, about an arm’s length away. In your imagination you pull this circle up around you into a golden cone whose tip sits just above your head. Above it you place a second, inverted cone that opens wide to the sky. The two tips meet like the neck of an hour glass, and exactly at this point sits your Higher Consciousness.
Now you ask your Higher Self to bring whatever you need, from anywhere in the universe, into the upper cone, so that it can filter down into your life at the right time and rate. If you have a specific request, ask for the solution, but try not to define too precisely what you want to receive. Let your Higher Self decide for you. To close, you thank it for whatever it will send you, surrender to its will, and resolve to accept what comes, even if it looks different from what you expected.
You will find the complete instructions, including how to practise with a partner, in Phyllis Krystal’s book, which I warmly recommend.
Why it is so powerful
This “small” meditation, once learned, is so easy and at the same time so powerful because it works with all three levels of your mind: you actively ask for what you need, that is your conscious mind. You surrender trustfully, that is your superconscious mind. And you work with your imagination, which reaches your subconscious directly.
It feels so good to sit there with “your problem” and suddenly feel the sky opening up to infinite new possibilities. Try it yourself and enjoy the experience!
If your issue right now is not stuck thinking but fear, the Star Meditation is the better fit, also by Phyllis Krystal and recorded by me as audio. And you can read more about the connection upward in my article on your Higher Self.
When the ceiling over your life is thicker
Sometimes the limitation sits deeper than thinking, for example as an early-learned belief that more is simply not meant for you. Such imprints rarely release through meditation alone, and this is exactly where my work begins. If you like, let us look together at what holds your ceiling in place.
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