Video Notes

Theory: The Burning Meditation is the English translation of the Tibetan technique known as Tummo. During the meditation we bring our energetic body into a forge, where impedances, impurities, and psychic, mental, emotional baggage is burned off. Layer by layer, as we do the technique more and more, we dredge deeper and deeper layers of dross from our energetic makeup.

While we are integrating the meditation into our practice it is best to focus on the immediate benefits, feedback, and changes we notice inside ourselves.

Are we feeling better? Are we reflecting on the events, past and present, of our lives with a different attitude or perspective? Do we feel like we have more energy? Perhaps we are sleeping better and getting more rest. Is it changing our internal understanding, and the external expression of our relationships?

Bringing our awareness to these changes compounds our experience and produces a positive feedback loop of understanding the effect and the value of the practice which enhances our future performances of it.

Burning Meditation & Contact: Contact can “shake you to your core.” Why?

Because even if we are one of those few who have entertained the idea that direct contact with spirit is possible, the vast majority of the outside world has given us constant messaging that it is not. So, when the event occurs, our conscious mind has to deal with the integration of a completely new reality, a worldview that is vastly different than the one we have lived in for so long. The Burning Meditation increases our energetic, mental, and ultimately, physical flexibility so that when these events occur we are prepared to move through these internal transitions in a better way.

Burning Meditation & Daily Life: When we see our physical life, our daily surroundings and the events that unfold in our life as “residue” or “spin-off” from our internal being it makes our energetic / spiritual practice the true central focus of our life. When all the phenomena that we perceive around us is a mirror of our inner life it becomes an imperative that we put a majority of our focus on the substance and quality of our inner life and the energetic / spiritual practices we use to engage and enhance that inner life.

The Burning Meditation becomes a critical part of that practice because through its regular application you no longer take on a ton of psychic baggage.

Burning Meditation & Contact: We all make mistakes. And when we intentionally put ourselves, through these practices, into a position where contact with spirit is increasingly likely, it brings up, internally, all the ways that we feel we are deficient. It makes us immediately aware of the ways in which we feel like we can’t do the practice, aren’t worthy to experience contact, or are undeserving of the changes we want to precipitate into our lives as a consequence of the contact with spirit we seek. This phenomena is incredibly consistent, and the Burning Meditation is one of the best way to take care of this ahead of time, and give ourselves the best chance of feeling worthy and in a position to interact, and receive.

The Burning Meditation & Identifying Psychic Knots: It is not necessary that we identify and understand every trauma, or point of conflict / stagnation that we have internally before we do the practice, and for the practice to be effective. Often times we do the energetic practice first, or we are in the middle of the meditation when this new awareness and understanding emerges into conscious awareness. We all start with the things that we are consciously aware of that we want to burn off. But after awhile, with consistent practice the Burning Meditation will reveal and clear very old, very deep things that are buried in consciousness that… like a clog in a drain, was the source of a whole collection point of stagnation and psychic knots. Brian jokingly calls The Burning Meditation therefore… the “Draino” of energetic release.

Additionally, when we do the practice of dredging and clearing these psychic knots we gain new clarity to the experiences that caused them. And if recapitulation, or making amends is in order, it can often be done more gracefully, (or may not be necessary in some cases) with this new awareness and insight.