Preparation: It is best to do this exercise in a familiar, quiet, comfortable place where other influences (noises, bright light, pets, etc.) won’t interfere with the exercise. Read softly, slowly, with emphasis that helps to guide the first stager’s attention, and with quiet strength that helps direct them into the exercise. Maintaining physical contact during the exercise, even in a massage-like manner, may also help the young first stager relax and feel.

 

Note: The first part of this exercise is usable by anyone. While everyone is welcome to make use of the final portion of the exercise, it is intended most specifically for first stage members of the Adidam Youth Fellowship and is adapted from Avatar Adi Da's Word.

 

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Sometimes it’s good to be quiet and still for a little or a long while, so you can feel things—like how good it is to be calm. Try it now.

 

Lie down really quiet and not busy for a while.

Spread out on the floor, all stretched out and extra still.

 

Lie there, all still and quiet for a little while, so you can feel the happiness of being calm. Lie still, with your body and your whole being resting and hushed, and you will start to feel how the happiness of being calm goes right through you, up and down and all around.

 

Can you feel how good it feels to be calm?

Can you feel how alive your body is when you are calm and happy?

 

Take a deep breath in.

Take a deep breath out.

 

Feel the happiness of being calm in your fingers and toes.

Feel the happiness of being calm in your face and tummy too.

Feel the happiness of being calm all over and in every part of you.

 

Doesn’t it feel good to feel it?

 

Keep on staying calm and still. Keep on feeling how good it is to feel happy and alive while you are calm and still.

 

Now, stretch your arms out to your sides and make a big V shape with your legs. You just made a star! Your head is the top of the star, and your arms are the sides of the star, and your legs are the bottoms of the star. You are a star. And what do stars do? Stars twinkle and shine!

 

Stars shine bright and steady. Even though stars seem very still, they are made of energy and they are full of light. They use all of that energy and light to twinkle, so when we look up at them, we feel a sense of wonder and peace. You can be like a star too! Try it now. Can you imagine shining and twinkling like a star?

 

Let the happiness of being calm shine all through you.

Let peace and calm shine from your heart and your whole body.

Let the happiness of calm shine from you like light shining from a star.  

Shine little star.

Shine with the happiness of peace and calm, inside and out.

Shine your light to near and far and all around.

Shine the light of happiness from your star--heart to everywhere there is.

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Avatar Adi Da says to you:

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Beloved, I am Da, and I have been shining the Light of Happiness to you since always and forever.

 

I was born to show you how the Light of Happiness can shine through a human shape like yours. I shine the Light of Happiness to you as the “Bright” Divine Star I am.

 

I am the “Bright” Light of Happiness, in person, and I love you.

I will always shine My Love--Light to you and to everyone everywhere forever.