Today I’m speaking about how we gather our nourishment each and every day titled “Our Daily Harvest.” Some things are just done without thought such as eating. Yet when we make it a conscious act, acknowledging the food as Holy Divine Substance, then the quality of our food and the benefits to our body are ever so increased.
Back in the days when Moses led the Hebrew people out of Egypt in to the desert there was no food to feed the multitudes. Then the Lord, provided what the people called manna, to appear each morning for them to gather and eat. In Exodus 16, says that this manna would rain from heaven, and would appear on the ground. It was white like coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
There was a condition though, they were to gather daily for five days according to each person’s appetite and for those in their care, and store no extra. They found if manna was stored overnight then it bred worms and stunk. While on the sixth day they were to gather enough to serve for two days, and to bake for two days of meals. For the seventh day there would be no manna, no cooking, it was to be a day of rest and be the holy Sabbath.
They prepared these granules of food by grinding and pounding it, and then baking it into a bread or cakes to eat. They ate this manna for forty years, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. Then ate of the corn, and they learned to harvest their own corn.
From the New Age Bible vol. 1, by Corrine Helene, she writes: “Mystically, the bread from heaven is the living word, the divine wisdom on which the spirit nourishes itself as it journeys from impotence to omnipotence. Spiritual truth comes to the seeker in a measure determined by their own capacity to receive. Therefore, all did not gather an equal amount of manna, but those who had little “had no lack” and those who “gathered much had nothing over.”
The corn they were to use represents latent powers awaiting a quickening into activity. The symbolism of corn is the planting of the spiritual seed in the soil of material existence, where it is destined to germinate and finally come into fruitage.”
The manna, as spiritual food, was freely given. Moses was there to teach and guide. Now it was time for the deeper spiritual work that takes ones own effort in tilling the soil or soul.
In John 4:35-37, “Do you not say that after four months come the harvest? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look at the fields which have turned white and have long been ready for the harvest. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruits to life everlasting, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this case the saying is true, one sows, and another reaps.”
Jesus was talking of the woman he helped, and how she went to her city telling others about his good works. She prepared the way for Jesus to come and do his work. Here Jesus is teaching that the people are ready to receive his spiritual teaching. We prepare ourselves, our field of corn, through study and practices; and when the soul is ready a new teacher appears that shares greater truth.
We are reminded that during Jesus’ temptations out in the wilderness, he turned down food, and responded with, "man does not live by bread alone. I have bread you know not of.” Here again he is speaking of spiritual food. That Truth is the food that feeds the soul.
Then in the Lord’s prayer we are given, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Our Father, our Source, which is in heaven gives us our daily bread, our daily spiritual nourishment. We daily gather and intake our spiritual nourishment through study of Truth, meditation, prayer, and our work or actions.
We can only express in this world according to that which is within us. We can only harvest according to our consciousness. That which we think upon becomes our daily harvest. Think upon fearful things, lack, disease, guilt, anger, and such will be our food for tomorrow. Or, we can choose to think upon gratitude, love, forgiveness, goodwill and these become our food for tomorrow.
Some people harvest only once in a while; maybe they attend church only upon special holidays or pray when in trouble. Others may harvest weekly, going to Sunday services. Then we have those that study, pray and meditate daily. Just think how much more those who harvest daily will be able to receive.
According to Huna teachings of the Hawaiians, there is a spiritual practice in gathering manna. Manna here is the spiritual energy also known as chi. When we breathe consciously acknowledging the air we breathe as spirit, as holy, then that breath is ignited with spiritual energy. The body and soul are then nourished. When the soul is nourished, a portion of it’s light body is able to leave for a time, astrally, to respond to prayers and help people.
The following meditation technique is for gathering our manna in the Huna tradition. It is based on 40 breaths. This is full body breathing much like how an infant breathes.
The practice begins with breathing in slowly and deeply from the lower abdomen. The abdomen expands, and as our breath moves slowly upward towards the diaphragm our body is expanding. As we reach the diaphragm we pause for a moment. Then slowly exhale beginning at the diaphragm, contracting while slowly releasing all the way down to the lower abdomen. Upon completely emptying out repeat.
Four breaths are taken this way, and at the end of the fourth exhale, there is an extended pause before starting a new set of 4 breaths. We repeat each set of 4 breaths ten times which makes for a total of 40 breaths.
Upon completion of the 40 deep breaths, we immediately transition into a quiet state of mind for about 10 minutes. This practice normally takes about 20 minutes.
I invite you to participate as I now lead us through the 40 breaths Huna meditation. At the end we’ll just have 2 minutes of silence. Before we start, let us stretch a little, get comfortable and relax.
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