Let's start this meditation today by just starting to settle in to our own bodies and relaxing into our own space.
Today's meditation is called grounded silence.
And as we sit,
We allow ourselves to melt into that natural,
Quiet space that we all have inside of us.
So you can begin by gently closing your eyes,
Dropping your shoulders,
Opening your chest,
And taking a nice deep breath into your body.
And if you're here to meditate,
Then your mind might not be just pure silence yet.
You might have a noisy mind.
You might have watery emotions.
Your energy is most likely moving in multiple directions,
And that's okay.
How often do you just allow yourself to be where you are?
To be a mess,
If you are one.
It's almost like we rarely let our minds just be naked with noise.
We quickly want to clothe it,
To cover it up with rational thoughts.
But just let whatever thoughts are moving through your mind move.
Whatever emotions are flowing through your body,
Let them flow.
And just be yourself.
Often in meditation,
We try to be perfect,
Perfectly still,
Perfectly quiet.
But that's a forced space.
Let yourself be in a real space,
A natural space.
They say the Buddha struggled under a tree for six years before he found that true space of stillness and silence.
If we go into our meditations with expectations of where we should be,
We lose ourselves in those expectations.
Just allow yourself to let go of those expectations.
A forced enlightenment of a sterilized silence.
Allow your body to really show you what it means to be still.
Just feel the presence inside of your own space.
We all experience thousands and thousands of thoughts every day.
And some of those thoughts express how our bodies feel.
Some of those thoughts are reflections from other people.
Some of them are fantasy.
And some of them have deep meaning,
But they're lost in the weeds of the rest of our mind.
Notice those thoughts just starting to fall away as the natural light of your consciousness starts to express itself and open.
Deep inside your space,
There's a witness,
Just pure awareness.
Self-awareness.
You might notice it's easy to be calm or quiet.
Or still,
If you disappear,
If you leave your body,
Go up into the clouds,
Drift off.
But what is it like to just be present inside your body,
Conscious,
Aware,
And grounded in silence?
Walk yourself back into silence.
Notice that all forms of noise are not against silence.
They actually reflect silence back to you.
Because without silence,
There could be no noise.
Without stillness,
There could be no movement.
Without space,
You would not be here.
If you have a noisy thought,
Look behind it.
Look at the silence that it was born out of.
Naturally,
In our day-to-day lives,
We allow the noise to dominate,
To take the attention of our consciousness.
In this moment,
Allow the silence to take the attention of your consciousness.
Notice that you are silence.
At your deepest core,
You are that space.
Let that awareness penetrate throughout your entire being,
Throughout your entire body.
And with that space,
There's a level of self-acceptance,
Compassion for who you are.
And when that silence decides to manifest into sound,
Into noise,
Into form,
Then it becomes something beautiful with intention.
And real,
Deep,
Powerful,
And important thoughts will start to appear in your mind's eye.
And then,
The noise starts to fade away.
And then,
You notice the true relationship between silence and sound.
And from that space of grounded silence,
You begin to have a grounded life.
And you walk between those two worlds,
The still world and the world of movement and form.
And you are stuck in neither place.
And you are a part of both.
Take a nice deep breath.
And you can slowly,
When you're ready,
Start to come out of this meditation.
And keep that space and that grounded silence with you.
