This is a way in which to step up your day so that you may obtain the consciousness of meditation.

Step 1:  Keep in mind upon going to sleep that you are going to rise and meditate before breakfast.  Thus, you will be wide awake and will obtain better results. This is also a good time to pray for something, for the mind is yet uncluttered.

Step 2:  Get yourself in the habit of thinking of the Creator first and then call on the Master Jesus so that your consciousness may be immediately lifted.

Step 3:  Try to use the same place whenever meditating — about the same time, and don’t allow other things to interfere if possible.

Step 4:  Body, soul and mind are to be trained simultaneously to gain the necessary spiritual poise.

Step 5:  Don’t think of hastening spiritual development.

Step 6:  Consider it a sacred duty to practice the exercise of meditation daily.

Step 7:  Be kind, generous and tolerant of others but be very exacting with yourself and your spiritual exercises.

Step 8:  Do not criticize or condemn others; keep your own doorstep clean.

Step 9:  Don’t talk about your spiritual development except to your teacher if you have a true teacher or Priest.

Step 10:  Spend as much time as possible without shirking your daily duties — man is a subject to habit.  Once you are accustomed and feel the benefits of the cosmic contained in meditation, you will not be without it.

When starting meditation, pick a Spiritual subject, unless you have a mundane problem, and after getting into a Spiritual attitude, forgetting all around you, set up your subject and then clear your mind. Do not blank it; let it stay alive, but do not think. Be quiet.

The thoughts that enter should be strictly related to your subject and should not be foreign to it. When a thought occurs ask the question, “Show me more.” Wait. When you get more, ask again. See what happens.

Do not try to repeat this immediately unless you are successful the first time, then you may meditate on other subjects.

This will not work, however, if you have not learned concentration and have not mastered it. The Orange Exercise on this website will help you with that. Concentration allows you to “see” more than with your physical eyes. It also allows your mind to be quiet. With practice and over time you’ll find yourself surprised when you realize that there’s no chatter going on in your mind!

This exercise is from the Holy Order of MANS Tree of Life Lesson-Level One – Meditation Three.