Meditation is not a mental effort nor is meditation a seeking to achieve something since there is always at the center of our being that which is already governing us. Our function is to be sufficiently relaxed so that we become aware of that government and subject to it. Meditation is not a mental effort, a striving or a seeking, rather it is a relaxing into what is. Meditation is much like inviting God/Source to speak to us, or to make Itself known to us. It is not an attempt to reach God/Source, since God is Omnipresence. “Where God is, I am; where I am, God is, since we are one.” So there is no need to reach for God; the purpose of meditation is to be still and let the awareness of God/Source permeate us. The activity is always from God to us, not from us to God. We are not seeking to reach God. We start with the realization that where I am, God already is, and therefore we seek a state of stillness in which we may become consciously aware of that Presence. The Presence already is, the Presence always is; in sickness or in health, in lack or in abundance, in sin or in purity; the Presence of God always already is. There is no seeking after it and there is no striving after it. We begin with the realization; God is, God is where I am, I and the Father are one and then in that realization you relax and invite the Father/Mother/Source to reveal Itself.
”Speak Lord, thy servant heareth.” That is really the main function of meditation. Meditation is the ability to recognize that God already is where I am, and then to relax and let It flow. What makes it difficult is that we have been trained to pray with the plotting, planning, thinking human mind, as if you could reach God with thought. No one can ever reach God with thought or through thought. No one can ever reach God with the mind and no one can ever reach God with conscious thinking. You can only reach God/Source through receptivity.
You can prepare yourself to reach God with conscious thinking, by reminding yourself consciously that; “Where I am, God is. Even in this bed of hell, of pain, of fear, of negativity, or of lack; right where I am, God is”. In this way, I am reminding myself with my conscious thinking, but that is not really reaching God, that is only the preparation, so that having reminded myself of those truths, I can now relax and say, “All right, Father/Source/Divine Consciousness now come in. Speak Lord, Thy servant heareth. I will listen for they Voice.” It only takes a minute of that silence, of that inner peace, and your meditation is complete. It really makes no difference whether you see visions, or colors, or get messages; all that is beside the point and is not necessary. It sometimes happens, but it is not necessary. The only thing that is necessary is to prepare ourselves for the entrance of Father/Mother/God into our consciousness, be silent for that half a minute (or a minute, or two minutes), and then be about our business. We have opened the way and at any given point after that, God will make Itself known to us whenever the necessity arises. We may get our assurance at the moment of meditation, or we may not. We may be awakened out of sleep to receive it, or we may receive it when we are doing house work, or cooking, driving, or at our place or work. You never know when God will make Itself known to you, or in what way, but of this you may be assured; that living in meditation and giving sufficient periods to maintaining this contact, you will be under God’s government and that means that at any moment that there is a necessity, a need, God will speak to us through a knowing, an awareness, an insight, an answer or whatever is our need.