United Nations Days & Years Meditation Initiative
2015 International Year of Soils
Meditation Outline
Individuals and groups can help to make the International Year of Soils more effective through meditation and prayer. Here you will find a sample meditation outline, but you may prefer to create your own meditation outline.Click here for information on the Year and suggestions on how to participate in this Initiative.
Sit comfortably, alert and with the spine erect. Breathe quietly and regularly. Raise your consciousness to the centre between the eyebrows and without strain hold this focus.
- Identify yourself as part of the group of all who love and serve.
- Say aloud:
May the Power of the one Life pour through the group of all true servers
May the Love of the one Soul characterise the lives of all who seek to aid the Great Ones
May I/we fulfil my/our part in the one Work through self-forgetfulness, harmlessness, and right speech. Visualise the group of all true servers as a living network of light and love, firmly anchored and earthed in the soil of daily life.
Visualise a place in nature that you relate to and imagine the group of all true servers (of which you are a part) connected energetically to this place with gratitude and deep appreciation.
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Sense the rich earthiness of healthy soil. Ponder the relationship between the seed and the soil, and the profound importance of soil for human life.
Reflect on these words from Wendell Berry:
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life
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Consider the many ways in which healthy soils are essential to poverty alleviation, nutritious food, and sustainable development.
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Think about all the practical work underway to develop healthier soils and the events that will be held around the world during the International Year of Soils. Imagine how these initiatives are contributing to humanity’s transition towards right relations with the soil.
Close by using the World Prayer, the Great Invocation, or an affirmation of your choice.
From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into human minds.
Let Light descend on Earth.From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into human hearts.
May the Coming One return to Earth.From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide all little human wills
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.From the centre which we call the human race
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out.
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth
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