Take Out The Toxic Trash With A Self-Love Meditation

I’ve been teaching meditation for over 30 years now, and it is something that has been widely misunderstood. It has also been hijacked by people with nefarious, materialistic agendas.

Meditation is not about emptying the mind or having no thoughts. Rather, it is about removing and replacing negative thoughts, repetitive patterns, abusive programming from childhood, and conditioning imposed by sadistic or wounded individuals.

Meditation is about inviting God, Spirit, Source, the Divine back into the heart, soul, and mind.

When we are children, everything begins with love. Children are eternal optimists, even when they have been traumatized.

But almost every child encounters at least one parent, relative, teacher, classmate, or authority figure who is abusive. These individuals attempt to rid themselves of their own overflowing toxicity by dumping it onto others: verbally, emotionally, or physically. Their words become programming, much like a computer virus.

Meditation is designed to replace that negative programming. Instead of hearing “you are worthless” looping in your mind, meditation allows you to consciously replace that tape with “I am loved.”

Think about the hurtful words that were spoken or screamed at you as a child. Then, during meditation, repeat the opposite.

I also meditate on filling my heart with divine love and surrounding myself with light and love energy. This is a powerful form of protection, especially if you are under psychic attack or an empathic target for energy thieves.

The big issue for traumatized people is that they don’t own themselves anymore. Any loud sound, anybody insulting them, hurting them, saying bad things, can hijack them away from themselves. And so what we have learned is that what makes you resilient to trauma is to own yourself fully ~ Bessel Van Der Kolk

Sit in a comfortable position and lift your heart to Spirit and the Divine. Visualize light filling your heart chakra. See yourself breathing that light in, replacing sadness, misery, hostility, and darkness and all the emotional garbage others tried to dump on you with light, positivity, and self-love.

Meditation is not about mindlessness, emptiness, or silence as much as it is about remembering who your true self is. We accumulate enormous amounts of negativity and trauma throughout our lives, and many people are on energetic overload. I often use the analogy of a trash can. You must take the ‘trash’ out daily, or that toxic waste begins to rot inside you.

When people don’t know how to filter and process energetic trash, their negativity overflows, and they attempt to discard it onto others. It’s the old adage: the boss abuses the employee, the employee goes home and abuses their spouse, the spouse abuses the child, and the child kicks the cat.

Meditation can stop that cycle.

Meditation is getting your heart by sort of the scruff of the neck and looking at it and saying, “How should you be if you’re that forgiven? How should you live if you’re that loved? How should you behave if you’ve been bought at such an incredible price? Look, soul. Think, soul. Think it out, soul ~ Timothy Keller

In my classes, I sometimes teach a meditation using strong drumming music. You sit on the floor and pound the ground with your hands, palms down, with passion. As you do this, think about what makes you most angry. It can be from your childhood or something you are currently processing.

Afterward, it is essential to lift your heart to God and consciously replace the anger and trauma you released with light and love. Empty the trash, and then fill the space with light.

Meditation is not about thinking nothing. It is the opposite. It is a reminder that we are everything. It is a reminder that we are connected to everything. And it is a reminder of our true selves in a world that is constantly trying to erase and sever that connection.