This is about acting as a mediator and a transceiver between higher powers and humanity. We use our personal skills to be of service to people and world situations in need, yet we also act as a gateway for spiritual influences into our reality - acting as eyes, ears and hands. We thus work both receptively and actively, adding our bit and allowing 'upstairs' to add their bit too. If in any way we are projecting inappropriate wishes into what we're doing, this keeps us open to correction.
Motivation is a key matter. Our bottom-line motivation is 'may this be for the highest and greatest good' or 'may this bring benefit to all living beings'. One could add: 'I commit my skills, energies and efforts to assisting in the best way I currently understand'. It's worth linking ourselves into this equation too: 'May this work bring insight and benefit, furthering progress on my chosen path'. These are but illustrative suggestions.
Whether meditating in a group, in a synchronised link-up or on your own, there are some common elements to Monkey-style meditation. They help harmonise us in our wide-band multiplicity. Starting actions are as follows:
* Give time to settling in and deepening your state. Some let their attention rest on their breathing, others say a mantra, some focus on the feeling of their feet or their back-side on the ground, others run through the chakras or bathe themselves in light.
* Link in with the folks you're meditating with. Whether sitting in a circle or linking up with distant friends, this 'horizontal' mutual adjustment and affirmation helps the group function as one being.
* Link in 'vertically' with the 'Monkey angels' (or however you see it/them). Some experience becoming like a cylinder or chalice, others open a lotus atop their head, some focus on a star or simply acknowledge themselves to be watched. Say 'hello' and make yourself consciously available. Stay with it for a while.
Then the real business begins! What happens next depends on you, spontaneously – and spontanaity, following an inner thread, is important. Some key general principles characterise this, within which to move.
We focus on specific nations, ethnic groups or themes in order to anchor cosmic/healing energy into the human or natural domain, and to use actual world situations as a way of adjusting energy to manifest form. This plugs higher intelligence, love and wisdom into specifics, making them more applicable and well-targeted. We focus mainly (though not only) on humans since humans and our choices stand at the centre of the world's problems as well its solutions - and since we humans are responsible for correcting and balancing what we've done.
Meditation themes are chosen for their symbolism for and impact on the whole world. Working with (for example) one civil war affects all civil wars – it is civil war we're addressing. We focus on acute world situations because these are life-threatening cancers hampering progress worldwide – they block humanity's innate capacity to see sense and to heal and correct itself. Crises are arenas where free-will has a sharp cutting edge too – positive choices made there powerfully affect the world by encouragement, innovation and example.
Linking in to specific people, issues or situations, we then try to 'read' the situation clearly – significant insights can arise here. Ask the people, beings or situations you meet whether they seek or welcome your attention – if they don't, go somewhere else or change your approach.
Then it's a matter of acting facilitatively, bringing your insights, experience or strengths into the situation – as a counsellor or mediator. Stay in the moment and intelligently follow whatever threads arise. Monitor yourself and your inner actions while you're doing this.
We aren't telling people what to do or wishing on them politically-correct things they might not actually want, benefit from or find useful – we're helping them gain their own insight into what they need and what they can do about their situation. Use the situation as it exists and the energies and realities that are present. Work sensitively to bring clarity, healing, sanity or breakthrough to the situation. Encourage the innate genius and courage all people possess, and help people identify their choicefulness and options, assess problems or risks before them and find ways of overcoming powerlessness or fear.
This is about catalysing forwardness, progress of any valuable kind. Often a situation cannot be resolved immediately, yet a sense of progress empowers people and creates new contexts for future movement. Keep it on terms which ordinary people involved can relate to and present ideas or options in ways they can concretely use.
You're there as a guest. Try to get your own judgements and wishes (however well-meaning) out of the way. With some people, telling them to stop fighting helps nothing and could even make things worse! It's a question of appropriate, responsive, facilitative and dialogued interaction – the kind of assistance you yourself might appreciate when you're in a tight spot or in need of help.
If your method is to bathe people in light or healing, translate it into forms recognisable to them: a freedom-fighter might respond well to kindness, a massage or a psychic cup of tea! When working on a soul-level, remember to help souls understand how they might get through to their own personalities! Be quite humanistic and realistic, yet imaginative and innovative!
Try to stay inwardly objective too, without getting caught up in pathos, pain or locked-up energy. Your role is to open chinks in the wall, to plant seeds of light or empowerment, or at minimum to help people live with their situation. Helping people see their options clearly is probably one of the best, least-interventionist things we can do. People respond well to inner friendship, listening, support and understanding – building such links assists any higher transmission-process passing through you.
Towards the end of the meditation period, bring the process to a diligent close. Tie up threads and complete things – don't just fade-out on it. Review the situation briefly before leaving. In some cases you might get the feeling to return one day on a follow-up.
When complete, re-tune to your vertical connection, complete anything necessary and close it down. Then tune into the group and complete your part in that. Then offer thanks and slowly surface. Add prayers for yourself, for others or for the world, if you wish. If sitting in a group, please stay quiet until everyone is 'awake'. If meditating alone, give ten minutes to staying calm.
There's plenty of scope for spontanaity and variation. Your input adds to the total kaleidoscopic wavelength-spectrum of the group and the ongoing Monkey-work. It develops over time, going through organic changes. The more we do it, the more it works and the more we act as one being – the energy-effect is multiplied exponentially. This has profound personal effects too – inner aid work is an exchange, a sharing. May your involvement bring benefit in all directions!
