Focal Meditation: Basic State Management
Magic can be understood as a comprehensive skill set. The Focal Meditation technique described here is a root-level skill upon which many other techniques tacitly rely. Too often, however, when reading instructions for various workings that do depend on this skill, the skill is presumed and never explained. Practice these exercises over a course of six weeks and you’ll be well-prepared to quickly master too many more advanced techniques to count!
Western Meditation
Western-Rooted Meditation
The Current Effort
The form of meditation described below is a root-level skill with many applications. Basic spell casting, charging sigils, and black mirror scrying are among them. In a phrase, the technique is to focus on a single thing, to the exclusion of all else. Similar instruction was common in lodge and coven training through the 20th Century. Lodge and coven membership continues to wane into the 21st Century though. The instruction is therefore offered in service of the Western Tradition writ large.
If you’re an early-stage practitioner of a Western-based magic tradition, practice this skill daily. You’ll cut months off of your learning curve for more advanced techniques.
Focal Mediation as Magic Training
- Ground and Center: clear your mind of extraneous concerns;
- Fill your being, heart and soul, with the goal of the working;
- Release that goal out into the world/universe;
- A moment of gratitude;
- Ground and centering again, this time to clear your mind of the magic work just completed.
- If you follow the methods on this site, you’ll have a little something to eat at this point. Nothing brings you back into normal mode faster or better.
The Focal Mediation Technique
Level 1
- Get into a comfortable position and take a few deep, cleansing breaths and relax your body.
- Become mindful of your body and your state of relaxation. Scan for somewhere in your body that is notably tense.
- Focus your attention on that body part. Try to make it even more uncomfortable by focusing on it. Strain your attention to make it feel intolerable there.
- When you feel you’ve reached the limit, take in a deep breath and release the tension as you exhale. Do this once and only once.
- Take a moment to shift and move your body, gradually working to a gentle stretch, which you’ll need.
- Repeat steps 1 through 5 with a different body part.
- Repeat steps 1 through 5 at least 4 times, more as desired.
- When finished conclude with a deep, cleansing breath and a moment of gratitude.
- Have a little something to eat.
Level 2
- Choose one of the following feelings to focus on: compassion, love, happiness.
- Take a few minutes to think of a specific time when you felt the target feeling,
- Get into a comfortable position and take a few deep, cleansing breaths and relax your body.
- Bring your chosen focus to mind, and think about how you typically feel when you feel it.
- Bring your target memory to mind and pay attention to how recalling the event makes you feel.
- Consider whether your current feelings match the feelings you original had when the memory was formed. Make every effort to make those feelings match.
- When you feel your current feelings are as close to the original feelings, linger in that state.
- When finished, take a moment so shift your body. Gradually work to a gentle stretch, which you’ll need.
- Take a deep, cleansing breath and a moment of gratitude.
- Have a little something to eat.
Level 3
- Think of something you want but don’t have.
- Get into a comfortable position and take a few deep, cleansing breaths. Relax your body.
- Bring the desire to mind. Focus your attention on it to the exclusion of all else. Continue for as long as you wish.
- When finished, take a moment so shift your body. Gradually work to a gentle stretch, which you’ll need.
- Take a deep, cleansing breath and a moment of gratitude.
- Have a little something to eat.
A Focul Meditation Routine
Practice these basic techniques for at least six weeks. Thereafter, maintain a practice of 2-3 times per week. Randomly select from Levels 1, 2, and 3 for any given day’s practice. Experiment with things to focus on. Your body, feelings, and desires are hardly everything there is. Find other things to focus on. Be creative, and be persistent. This skill and any magic that depends on it can always get better. Whatever skill level you’ve attained, always strive to improve.
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