Rose Meditation Exercise to
Intuit Relationship Insights
The focus of this meditation exercise is relationships. Similar to the other meditation exercises, it utilizes imagery as a psychic energy receptacle. However, in this one you invite another person to join you. Roses are used to symbolize you and the other person. Intuitive guidance and insight surface through obvious and often subtle changes and movement in the roses.
In this exercise pay particular attention to emotional energy and listen to your heart. Because this exercise is centered in relationship energy, intuited feelings and heart-centered awareness are key to becoming aware of insights and new understanding. If you begin to overthink, go back to the breath and open your heart.
Think of someone you have a relationship with, whether a romantic one or otherwise. If there is a question or concern or something that you would like to better understand about the relationship, write this down. You can also simply observe how the meditation unfolds.
It is possible that the person you want to invite into this exercise will not show up. There is nothing you can do about this. It is their free will choice. If this happens, ask for someone else to enter the imagery.
Before You Begin
Here is a review of the clearing preparation exercise from chapter 10 to do before you begin:
Take a deep breath and feel any emotions or feelings that you have about this issue or condition. Write down the feelings and emotions that surface.
What are your thoughts surrounding your question and this area of your life? What are the factors affecting it, the facts as you know them, and your expectations? Write all of this down.
What is your desire in relation to your question or issue? What do you want to happen?
What do you fear may happen? How are you controlling the situation and any others involved? What do you want the outcome to be and why? Write all of this down.
Get comfortable and breathe long, deep, cleansing breaths. Move the energy of the breath through the body and exhale any stress or tension. Continue to breathe in this way.
When you are ready, imagine a blank screen in front of you. Using your imagination encourages clairvoyance. Remember, you may not see a three-dimensional blank screen. Instead, you may have a sense of it, know it, or feel it. It may appear cartoonish or made-up.
On this screen imagine a rose. This rose represents you. Notice its stem and leaves, the bud or blossom, the color of the rose, and any other details.
Ask for the higher-self energy of the person you would like to be part of this meditation exercise to be present. Imagine another rose. This one represents the other person you are inquiring about. Notice everything you can about this rose: its color, stem, leaves, and bud or blossom.
Imagine the two roses side by side.
Observe how the roses interact and become aware of any changes that occur. For instance, do either of them wilt, open into a full blossom, turn the other way, come closer, or shed their petals? Does either rose change color, fade away, or transform into something other than a rose?
Continue to observe and feel the connection between the roses. If you have a question, project it as a thought message onto the screen.
After you have asked your question or projected your thoughts and feelings onto the roses, notice any changes that occur with the roses.
In addition to observing the roses, pay attention to energy information that you intuit through your thoughts, emotions, feelings in your body, a sense of knowing, or your inner voice. With this meditation it is especially helpful to pay attention to intuitive feelings and emotions.
Continue to intuitively receive energy information through the different psychic modalities. Do not try to interpret or understand what you receive. Stay in this receptive mode until the energy begins to fade.
Before you complete the meditation, send a beam of white-light love energy from your heart to the person you are inquiring about. This will help to heal any disharmony between the two of you and infuse the connection with love. Then imagine a ball of light shattering the image.
What to Do if Nothing Happened
If you did not intuit any thoughts, feelings, images, or sensations during the meditation exercise, relax and take your time. This doesn’t mean that you are not intuitive.
Try again and alter the exercise by using your imagination to create an image of a rose. This rose represents you. Notice details about the rose (the color, the bud, etc.) and become aware of any changes to it and receive any other intuitive information. Once the image of the rose begins to fade, you have completed the exercise. Repeat this step at another time. Simply imagine an image of a rose and keep repeating this until the scene begins to come alive and are you able to intuit more energy information. As you continue to practice this exercise, imagine another rose and keep moving forward with the exercise little by little.
Interpretation
Intuited feelings and emotions are common in this exercise. At times you may feel overwhelmed or confused by the amount of emotional energy that surfaces. If this happens, take your time, slow down, and feel the emotions as they surface.
Some emotions will be expressive of your ego and others will be heart-centered intuitive messages; quietly listen for them. Remember that intuitive feelings and emotions are consistent and reside underneath more intense and dramatic ego-based emotions.
Intuited positive feelings equal positive outcomes and shared positive feelings between you and another.
Intuited feelings of sadness, anxiousness, or grief can describe the emotional energy of the past, present, or future between you and another.
Intuited feelings of disappointment or confusion may also indicate an unhappy outcome to or disharmony in the relationship.
Personal emotions and desires related to the relationship may surface and interfere with receiving energy information. It this happens, take it as a sign that you are not ready to proceed with the exercise. Let yourself feel these feelings. Don’t push them down or ignore them. Give them all the space they need. When you are feeling more neutral, try again. If confusion and doubt persist, this may be an intuitive sign that this is the energy of the relationship.
Intuited sensations such as your heart opening or feeling energized can indicate a positive connection or a loving soul-mate relationship with another.
Intuited sensations of heaviness or stress or feelings of disconnection can be a message that the relationship may not be in your highest good.
Intuited thoughts that surface in the form of a word, phrase, or song lyric may provide insight and information. Thought messages can be auditory and sound like your own voice, or they can come in the form of an idea or insight.
Thoughts and energy information that you intuit through inner hearing are often straightforward and do not need any further interpretation. If thoughts surface that you do not understand, resist overthinking and do not discard them. Give them time to unfold. When you least expect it, the meaning will surface.
Image Glossary
You may receive intuited images visually, through a sense of knowing, of through feeling or sensing them. They may or may not be clear and detailed.
Rose
The rose is the psychic receptacle for love, compassion, and relationships, and through it you can receive energy information about your relationship with another.
Blossom: A fully open rose blossom is a positive sign of intimacy, an open heart, and a fulfilling relationship.
Bud: A closed rose blossom indicates a closed heart. A slow-opening bud indicates patience, a slow-moving relationship, or uncertainty about the relationship.
Changing color: If one or both roses change color, this indicates change and transformation in the relationship. Pay attention to the color that the rose changes into, as this will provide more information. If the rose continues to change color, it can also indicate chaos and uncertainty in the relationship.
Dying: If one or both roses die, this can indicate the end of the relationship or the waning of love and feelings of intimacy and affection toward another.
Shedding petals: This may indicate loss in the relationship or be a sign to let go of expectations. It might also indicate that you or the relationship needs to change and you need to let go of something or someone.
Turning away: If one or both of the roses turn in another direction, this may indicate emotional distance or a lack of intimacy or communication in the relationship. It may also indicate a lack of honesty or trust.
Wilting: If one or both roses begin to wilt, it may be an indication of a lack of interest and commitment or a sign that the relationship needs positive energy and healing to come back to life and be fulfilling.
Rose Colors
Blue: Blue indicates tranquility and emotional depth. Dark blue can symbolize depression or sad feelings. Blue might also indicate an increase in communication or the need to communicate in the relationship.
Green: Green indicates healing and growth as well as renewed feelings and the rejuvenation of a relationship. Fluorescent green can indicate jealousy.
Orange: Orange symbolizes positive feelings of enthusiasm, fun, and passion.
Pink: Pink can indicate new love, healing, and appreciation as well as angelic help and guidance.
Purple: Purple indicates a soul connection with another or that the two of you have been brought together for a purpose.
Red: Red symbolizes intense love, romance, and passionate feelings.
White: White symbolizes spirituality, pureness, and new beginnings and can also be a sign of divine connection and blessings.
Yellow: Yellow symbolizes friendship (but not romantic love) and joy and can be a sign of hope.
Tammy’s Meditation Exercise Experience
About to graduate with a master’s degree in social work, my client Tammy always thought she would meet the love of her life at college. She assumed that she would marry young and have children, but this plan was not unfolding the way she had envisioned. Although she had been on plenty of dates during her college years, she had not been in a committed relationship. When she met Justin, she was hopeful. He was easy to be with and they had common interests and backgrounds. Tammy thought he might be the one, but he seemed to have some issues with intimacy. The closer they got, the more he would later pull away and become distant. Wanting to better understand and work through this issue, Tammy tried to talk to him several times about her feelings. However, whenever she brought it up, Justin would look at her with a blank expression, saying that he did not know what she was talking about.
Tammy attended an intuitive workshop in the hope that her intuition could help her to better understand herself, others, and relationships. She was excited to do the rose meditation exercise.
Before Tammy began the exercise, she wrote down her feelings, concerns, and desires about Justin and about relationships in general. Surprised by what it revealed, she realized that she was more anxious and stressed about her ability to be in a good, long-term relationship than she had thought. More feelings about Justin surfaced, such as confusion, sadness, and hopefulness, and she wrote them all down.
When she began to relax and breathe cleansing breaths, more feelings came up, but she continued to breathe through them. Eventually she felt calm and began to visualize the blank screen, which she could feel more than see. Because I had told her that this might happen, she knew that it was okay not to see a clear image of the screen and she kept going. On the screen she imagined a rose that represented her. It was initially red, but then the color began to fade and it became more yellow. Her rose seemed healthy and was fully open.
She then imagined a rose that represented Justin’s energy on the screen. She also sent his higher self a thought message to make sure that it was okay with him to take part in this exercise The rose stayed and didn’t fade, so she took that as a yes answer. His rose was also red to begin with, but then it seemed to become more dull. It looked healthy and was bigger than hers, and that struck her as interesting. As she was thinking about this, an inner voice told her that his rose was bigger because he had more power in the relationship. She was not too surprised by this insight, as she knew in her heart that she was giving him her power.
Tammy told me that there seemed to be a barrier between the two roses on the screen. When her rose tried to face his and get closer, his rose turned and moved away. That made sense to her, as this is what kept happening in real life in their relationship. She wanted to know why his rose turned away and what the barrier was that she often felt with him. Tammy sent a prayer to her angels and asked this question and also projected it onto the screen. She waited for something to happen, but not much did. Then she heard the inner voice again, which said that Justin’s inability to be close was not her fault. As she felt and became aware of how much she wanted the relationship to work, she cried a few tears. The intuitive feeling and awareness that there was nothing she could do to change what was happening became stronger, and she knew she had to let go of him.
Feeling sad, she suddenly saw her rose again, but Justin’s rose was no longer on the screen, and she didn’t want it to be. As she was about to end the exercise, she felt a feeling of comfort and the intuitive awareness that there was a soul mate that she was meant to be with in this life. In her heart she felt and knew that when the timing was right, she would meet him. When she ended the exercise, she was still sad about Justin, but she also felt more hopeful and ready to move on.
Tammy’s story is another example of diverging from the meditation exercise format and receiving valuable energy information and guidance. Let the format of the exercises be a jumping-off point and trust where your intuition takes you. Intuition is fluid, and it is best to trust it, remain open, and follow where it leads.
Intuiting guidance and information about a personal relationship can be challenging. Our feelings and desires can interfere, and we may not want to accept or even become aware of intuitive information that opposes our desires. Unlike when we are intuiting for another person, when we bring another’s energy into an intuitive exercise in order to better understand our connection with them, the energy information we receive will likely invoke a personal reaction.
When you want to intuit information about a relationship, make sure you are ready and willing to accept whatever surfaces, and allow it to be a lesson in learning more about yourself, another, and what you may need to do to evolve and grow.