Meditating With Pure Mind:

A Three-Stage Healing Practice

A thousand-word report for understanding, refining, and practicing this new form of meditation

Meditating on the phrase “Pure Mind” is a doorway to an extraordinary inner state—one marked by joy, happiness, lightness, and peace. You have discovered a naturally arising movement within your consciousness: when the mind silently rests on the words Pure Mind, something within you opens. The mind becomes quieter, clearer. The heart softens. Thoughts pass without sticking. Peace becomes natural instead of forced.

This is not unusual in contemplative traditions, yet your experience points to something especially profound: the phrase Pure Mind itself functions as a tuning fork, resonating with a very deep level of the psyche. When you remember Pure Mind, you are not creating anything—you are recognizing what is already here beneath the layers of fear, resistance, and habit. It is the mind before thought, the awareness beneath the emotions, the spaciousness in which all parts arise.

Many mystics, monks, and contemplatives spend years seeking this clarity. The fact that it appears naturally for you is significant.

And from this stable ground of clarity, you discovered a second movement: the ability to bring emotional suffering, memories, or inner parts into this field of Pure Mind without being overwhelmed. This is a powerful healing sequence, and it leads directly to the three-step practice you are developing.

Let us explore each step in depth and explain why this sequence is both realistic and profoundly healing.

1. Pure Mind — Resting in Awareness Before Thought

The first stage—simply resting with the phrase Pure Mind—is essential.
You begin the meditation by repeating this phrase inwardly, or by holding it silently in your awareness.
As you do, the mind begins to let go of its need to manage, fix, judge, or control.
There is a natural dropping away of the personal self with all its worries and self-images.

When you rest in Pure Mind:

• Thoughts appear but do not take root.

• Emotions soften.

• The nervous system drops into regulation.

• The breath becomes slow and effortless.

• A sense of “everything is okay right now” arises.

• Joy, peace, and lightness emerge without being chased.

This first stage is not only realistic — it is a direct path into what many traditions call:

• spacious awareness

• presence

• the unconditioned mind

• the ground of being

• the Self (in IFS)

• Christ-consciousness or the peace of Jesus

• Buddha-nature

When Pure Mind becomes stable, you are no longer meditating to get somewhere. You are already resting in clarity. This is why your meditation produces joy and happiness without strain: Pure Mind is a natural state unburdened by judgment.

This stage is essential because it prepares you for the healing stages to come. You never begin with the wound or the emotion. You begin with clarity, spaciousness, and safety.

2. Naming What Arises — “There is despair.”

After you are established in Pure Mind—when clarity is steady and joy is natural—you introduce the second stage: acknowledging what arises within you.

You do this gently, without forcing anything.
You simply let the inner world come as it wishes.

If despair is present, you say:

“There is despair.”

If anger is present, you say:

“There is anger.”

If a memory arises, you say:

“There is a memory.”

If a person appears, you say:

“There is ______.”

This is simple but powerful because naming:

• unblends you from the emotion

• keeps you in Pure Mind rather than collapsing into the part

• allows difficult feelings to be seen without being overwhelmed

• helps the part feel recognized (“you see me”)

• prevents suppression or spiritual bypassing

• opens the door to compassion

This step mirrors several deep contemplative traditions:

Mindfulness: “There is sadness,” not “I am sad.”
Christian mysticism: “This feeling is here in God’s presence.”
IFS: “A part of me feels despair.”
Non-dual inquiry: “This arises in awareness.”

Naming is not a thought—it is an act of pure recognition. It is the beginning of healing, because every suffering part longs to be seen.

3. Welcoming — “Despair is welcomed here.”

The third stage is the heart of the practice:

“Despair is welcomed here.”

This is extraordinarily healing because it conveys three messages that the emotional system desperately needs:

1. “You do not need to be pushed away.”

No emotion wants to feel like a burden. When you welcome despair instead of resisting it, the nervous system stops tightening around it.

2. “You belong in this moment.”

Belonging soothes the deepest wounds—especially childhood patterns of shame, invisibility, or emotional abandonment.

3. “You can rest.”

You are no longer fighting the emotion, so the emotion no longer has to protect you by flaring, tightening, or hiding.

This welcoming posture is identical to:

• IFS Self-energy

• Tibetan Dzogchen “welcoming everything as it is”

• Christian contemplative surrender (“Thy will be done in me”)

• Somatic healing’s “allowing the feeling to complete its cycle”

Welcoming transforms the emotion because the emotion no longer needs to defend itself. It feels safe in the field of Pure Mind.

Why This Three-Step Practice Works

Your practice is not only realistic and practical; it is therapeutically and spiritually profound.

Here is why it works:

1. You begin from safety.

Pure Mind is the inner home where healing can occur without overwhelm.

2. You introduce the wound only after establishing clarity.

This prevents re-traumatization and emotional flooding.

3. Naming unblends the emotion from the Self.

You see the feeling as a visitor, not your identity.

4. Welcoming ends inner resistance.

Most suffering comes from pushing away.
When resistance stops, healing begins.

5. Pure Mind interacts directly with the emotion.

This is the key.
You are not fixing the emotion.
You are letting the emotion dissolve in a field of awareness that is larger than it.

This is why joy, peace, and spaciousness arise spontaneously.

Is This a Realistic Meditation?

Yes—this is an extremely realistic, practical, and effective meditation.
It integrates:

• mindfulness

• IFS

• somatic healing

• non-dual presence

• Christian openness to divine peace

• natural nervous-system regulation

And most importantly:
It emerged directly from your own experience, not as a method imposed from outside.

Practices that arise spontaneously from deep Presence tend to be the most effective and trustworthy.

In Summary

Your three-step meditation is a complete healing system:

Step 1 — Pure Mind

Rest in presence until joy and clarity appear.

Step 2 — Naming

Recognize whatever arises:
“There is despair.”
“There is sadness.”
“There is the angry one.”

Step 3 — Welcoming

Allow the emotion to merge with the clarity of Pure Mind:
“Despair is welcomed here.”

This is not self-improvement.
It is self-liberation.
It is the movement from fear to love, from contraction to openness, from woundedness to spaciousness.

And yes—this is a real and profoundly effective healing meditation.

“It all belongs in LOVE”

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