To maintain an elevated state of consciousness...put 100% of your dedication to being. Being simply what you are...when all of the separative thoughts and actions have ceased to be.
Our problem is that we think that the earth plane activity is reality. We think that our individuality is real. We continually support ego dominance, and the "I have" and the "I want" is our God supreme. The physical plane is a dream, and we desperately need to wake up.
Because of some heavy attachments and our belief in that which is unreal it can be hard at first to just be still, with so many thoughts constantly blocking our vision.The physical realm is composed of thought. When thought dissolves, the physical world will transform into the surprise of your life. With the snap of your fingers the transformation can happen, but the web of thought is so strong that you can miss it for lifetime after lifetime. But once discovered it is never forgotten.
At first if you try to sit still all you will see are thoughts, it takes complete diligence to see no-thing. Some people can sit in meditation and still be isolated from higher awareness, because they are still thinking about it. If you can sit in meditation and transform your lower everyday self into the higher self that is the source of all...then it's a good meditation. If it locks you into a place within the mind, then it's not a good meditation.
Meditation implies that there is a meditator meditating on something. You can never be free if you are in this state. You are locked into time and space.....The real state of awareness lies beyond all that you can conceive, beyond thought, beyond your feelings and emotions, beyond all your desires. Beyond how you think it is. Beyond the meditator meditating on something.
Our focus and awareness is always in the world, always holding onto something. Holding onto our possessions, our beliefs...our world of thoughts. Even when we try to be holy we hold onto mantras, rosaries, beads....religious beliefs, scripture and holy books. Look to your past history..has any great master ever held onto some...thing? Absolutely not. They taught us from the experience of their actual being.....which was/is free of all limitations, restrictions and separations.
Let go of everything...put your awareness on the power that animates you and relax...or, focus your attention on nothing and be still...when you don't act as an individual self then the eternal self will move you as an eternal being. Be aware of everything that's happening in your immediate universe , not all the "things"...but your self.....Experience your Light and Sound within...see your true Self. And let no teacher, no Guru, no religion build something that is between you and who you are.
If you can't just let go of everything and become one with the universe, then you can try a different approach. Since we need to hold on...to something...try holding on to God. God doesn't mind if you hold on to higher consciousness until you can learn to let it go, and be as you are. It's a step in the right direction if we hold on to something that we find inside, instead of holding on to something that we find in the world. [outside] Because we will learn eventually that we are to not hold on to anything. If we are holding on to thought...thinking...then we are creating our environment of and in the web of thought. If we let go of the thoughts, higher consciousness emerges immediately and the environment transforms into a moving eternal universe fully alive and aware. You cannot find higher consciousness through thought. You cannot find real awareness or your self through thought. You cannot find God [the highest truth] through thought.
Begin by being aware of your breath...not the air that passes from the outside to the inside, the inside to the outside...but the power within the breath....it will keep you centered. It will help you from holding onto things and stuff. You can stay aware of your breath wherever you go and whatever you do. It will slow down your thoughts. When you are aware of your breath, you are not putting energy into thought thus making the attachment to thought less and less each time you are aware of the breath. When you are aware of your breath, you are not putting energy into the objects and things of the world, thus making the attachments less and less each time that there is awareness of the breath.
This is your breath of life...the body relaxes...the breathing slows down...you relax into yourself. At this level there is a new awareness of self. A gentleing if you will, and a....balancing...a healing.
Can you sit and be completely quiet? If you can be completely Quiet...the silence is completely symphonic. The hearing sense always listens to stuff on the outside...outside of you. Listen to the sounds of silence inside of yourself. Experience the symphony of your soul within the flow of celestial harmonies.
We cannot experience any of this by talking about it. So much in the world is just talk about it and accepting what is seen...thus being on a wheel of endless rebirth. Just about everyone has a special ice cream flavor that totally does it for you...yes? Just the experience of tasting and eating this flavor sends you into ecstasy,...now, can you ever get the experience to be experienced by the other person, just by talking about it? Not even close right? We all know this...but we need to remind ourselves....
Once in India, at an ashram on the Ganges river that honored light and sound, someone from another ashram was passing through and reminded everyone "not to stop at the Light, but to keep on going beyond the light"....You can travel to the light quite safely, and even beyond the light into the void, to be returned as you desire. It's all Gods will. We need but surrender. If our heart be pure...Heart is above mind...all consciousness flows through the heart before raising its nature into higher consciousness.
When anandji Baba met the immortal Babaji in India [Babaji Gorakshanath], anandji baba fell to the ground bowing at Babajis feet as He approached. Instantly the universe as it is known, transformed into an all pervasive, consuming,, enlightening, unconditionally loving Light. There was only Light. Only an all knowing consciousness that was completely fulfilling, and nothing but Light. There were no Babas. There was no India. There were no separations of the mind....only Light....
As consciousness of the physical world returned for anandji baba, Babaji had already walked past and at some distance down the road, had gotten into a jeep and was being driven away..... This is one way to the light.....as between Guru and chela above.
The Light is within you. Again...Let no teacher, guru, or religion stand between you and the Light. Many will weave a framework around the absolute truth to have control over you, and a leverage over you.
Another way to the light is through you raising your energy level up to the level of light consciousness. Get rid of all the stuff that blocks the light. Wants, desires, ego, attachments, thoughts...you know, all of the stuff we don't need...the excess baggage we carry with ourselves in everything we do....the stuff we don't need but we hold on to the most. And what remains? That which has always been....pure consciousness, eternal bliss... the Presence.
We want to be aware of the Presence... Aware of our higher nature at every breath. If you were to actually think "that you were actually understanding it"...at that very moment of those thoughts you would be shutting down higher consciousness. We hold onto thought as our helper in every situation. Our universe is thought. We depend on thought to solve every problem. We use thought to solve the mysteries of the world, and as a result the great mysteries are never understood. We need to see beyond thought,...we need to understand how to "Be" without thought. How to "Be" without ego. We need that initiation...that actual experience of the higher realm beyond thought and ego, so that we can see and understand.
Another way to your higher energy is through focusing your awareness within your celestial vision center. [The Ajna Chakra]...your Third Eye.......If you close your eyes and look within through your third eye, you will have heavenly sight.... Literally you will be able to see God as your true self. Literally you will be in the state of awareness.