LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED
Meditation Program to Help Raise Your Vibration

The following program of daily exercises and meditations, compiled by Peter Shepherd, has been proven to have wondrous benefits. We recommend you introduce these methods into your life.

Start with one or two of the exercises and gradually increase to do the whole program. Carry the state of being you achieve, and the insights you gain, into your everyday life - that is crucial for the changes to become permanent. Ideally, have one or more partners in this work, so you can share your wins and be mutually supportive.

Unconditional love is your true inner nature and essential being. This is the deepest and truest form of love and is the key to lasting joy and fulfillment in life. Let your love shine!

While you are doing these exercises and meditations, if feelings come up that are hard for you to experience comfortably, just be with the feelings for a while. Don't resist the feeling. And when you are ready, when you can fully experience and accept the feeling, simply let it go.

Audio of the above Program

Your Inner Truth

This page presents a phenomenal range of tools to help you find the truth of your situation. You may feel stressed, or confused, there may be a lot going on and choices to make that seem a bit overwhelming. Or you may simply need time with yourself, to decide what it is you really want... and just who are you, really?

Here are the tools you need:

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~ PRACTICES FOR HAPPINESS ~

Follow these ways of being and you can completely transform your life...

1. BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD

• Speak with integrity and say only what you mean.
• Speak always in the direction of truth and love.

2. DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY

• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.
• Practice forgiveness.

3. DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS

• Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.
• Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings.

4. ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

• Under any circumstance, simply do your very best and you will avoid self-judgment and regret.
• Enjoy the path travelled and the destination will take care of itself.

5. BE GRATEFUL: BE HAPPY

• Recognize all that you are, all that you do, all that you have.
• Likewise appreciate others for all that they contribute to your experience of Life.

How to Meditate

The above program includes guided meditations, but also there is free-form meditation where there are no set contents of the meditation, and there are many varieties of this. The method of meditation that I personally prefer is simple and starts by focusing on your breathing (as we do at the start of the above program). Make sure you exhale each breath completely. Notice any thoughts that arise. Don’t engage the thoughts, and don’t try to push them away; let the thoughts just float on by.

The meditation continues by remaining mindful (conscious and objectively aware) of all the thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions that occur, accepting them, releasing them, letting them pass by like a river flowing. Gradually and with practice, the river becomes a stream, and then a trickle, and then just occasional droplets.

Practice accepting yourself as you are, and the world exactly as it is. Fill yourself with love - the love that is your essential nature, your true self. Meditation is about finding a place in your being that is both mindful and also secure, so you can relax and be spontaneous as your true self, experiencing everything that happens in your life with serenity, and love filling your heart.

One is aware of being aware, a mindful consciousness separate from and objective to the mind, emotions, body and environment - and at the same time one with and inclusive of the mind, emotions, body and environment. You are being your loving, essential self. This is an enlightened state and you can be this way.

I like to do this with my eyes shut for about 40 minutes and with a beautiful music track playing softly in the background, and to do this three times per week. Along with a short meditation technique chosen from the program above, to do every day. The benefits are cumulative and include being much more able to remain mindful and free of the ego's conditioning and reactions throughout daily life, in all kinds of situations. Persist and, most important, enjoy. You'll be so glad you did.

End the meditation with an "I am" affirmation that resonates with you, such as "I am grateful for my life" (more examples above). Repeat gently until the affirmation fills your consciousness.

A particularly powerful and transformative meditation is taught by Sunetra Basu Devanand. Her book describing this technique is White Light Meditation: Manifest Your Dreams and Aspirations. The meditation is powerful, short and simple and forms an integral part of many spiritual programs. White Light Meditation is unique in that it helps manifest our dreams and aspirations by empowering the thoughts, stimulating analytical thinking, magnifying and expressing dormant capabilities, and attracting the necessary resources from known and unknown directions. Just ten to fifteen minutes of White Light Meditation every day is enough to keep the process of transformation and manifestation consistent. 'White Light' is omnipresent and is accessible to everyone. Learn more here... White Light Healing.

Universe Meditation
When you feel ready, do the following 'Universe Meditation' to expand your body awareness Universe-wide.

Finally, we hope you'll enjoy the meditative videos we have produced at Inspiration for Your Soul. This is a place where you can unwind, relax and be inspired.

The Awakened Lifestyle

In addition to doing some or all of the above Love is All You Need program to open your heart and raise your vibration, and a personal period of whatever kind of meditation that you find most helpful, you will also want to extend your new-found mindfulness into your daily life. Your awakening becomes a lifestyle.

For example, the food you eat is an important factor in your wellbeing; it is best to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, organically grown locally and in season, and with a good proportion eaten raw, retaining the health-giving enzymes that are usually destroyed in cooking.

Exercising every day, in a way that you most enjoy, is important too, as is being in nature as often as you can and absorbing the serenity, tranquility and clear energies of the countryside. Music that raises your spirit is something wonderful to include everyday. And the most uplifting of all: to be of service to another or others in the way only you can be, motivated by love given unconditionally and not, of course, reward.

You may wish to extend your learning and accelerate your development by reading further on this website or doing one or more of the courses and programs we recommend. Or extend your knowledge and skills in other ways that support the achievement of your goals. Explore the top menus on every page of this site for a wealth of resources - or go direct to our Tools for Transformation page.

Last but not least every day, you can pray. Communicate to Spirit your gratitude for what you are experiencing, what you are learning, what you want to be manifested in the name of love, and request inner knowing of whatever you want to know. Present your communication in the form of feelings, images and intention (rather than words or reasons) and an answer will come in the same way. Learn to speak the language of Spirit and (He / She / God / Creator / Source / Universe / Higher Self / Guardian Angel - or however you perceive this presence) will always be with you as a loving guide and support.