Reset Or Rest With The Natural World

Access to nature isn’t always possible. Sometimes we just need to remember the truth of our place on and in the earth to reap the benefits if it. This meditation provides some reminders for you. I hope you enjoy and benefit from expanding more deeply into the natural world and letting it expand into you. You also might like to listen as you rest or fall asleep.

Transcript

Sometimes,

We simply need to remember the truth of our place in the natural world to reap the benefits of it.

In this meditation,

I'll be reminding you of some aspects of the natural world to support you in resetting the energy tone of your day and to remind you of your place in it all.

For this meditation,

I suggest you allow my words to be received by your body.

Stay tuned to your body and its sensations and responses to my words.

Sense how it hears the words and perhaps even imagine it's the first time you are experiencing being in a body.

See if you can drop the idea of the shape of your body and just feel into what you feel.

No narrative needed,

Just feeling moment by moment and following your sensations as they change.

And when thoughts intrude and distract,

Just gently and without judgement,

Escort your attention back to your bodily sensations.

So make yourself comfortable.

Choosing a position or posture that's good for you today.

Doing what you know works for you.

Take your time.

Slowing down.

Allowing everything of the day to fall away for this time.

Softening up.

If you haven't already and it feels okay for you,

Gently close your eyes.

The air you're breathing,

Part of the atmosphere surrounding the earth,

Is filled with life sustaining oxygen in the perfect amount for you and other life on earth.

Oxygen is your foundation.

More than half the atoms in your body are oxygen atoms.

Feel your next incoming breath at the nostrils,

The chest or the belly and receive the oxygen you need.

On the out-breath,

You can release what's no longer needed by your body into the ocean of air around you.

Without forcing,

Give your body permission to breathe deeper or slower if it wants.

Feel the softness of your next breath,

The gentleness of the air moving in and gently out.

Let the rhythm of your breath be easy,

No strain.

Let your body decide the rhythm and the pace of your breathing.

As you feel into the sensations of breathing,

Let your mind energy fall away.

As you drop back deeper into your essential nature,

Noticing the air softly rolling in like a wave in the ocean and air effortlessly rolling back out.

The atoms in the gases you're breathing have been all around the world.

They've been breathed by the animals,

Created by the plants.

Your breath connects you to every living thing on the planet.

Invite the feeling of connection with life as you breathe.

There's been life on this planet for millions of years.

Breathe in the resilience of the earth and breathe out,

Letting go and in this moment,

Letting yourself be new.

Then gently release your awareness of your breath and feel into the dark softness behind your closed eyelids and into the dark softness within your body.

Like the earth,

You were created in darkness.

All of life begins in the dark.

Going into the darkness within reconnects you to your source.

Allow your consciousness to expand and fill your entire body and release your sense of knowing.

In the dark silence,

Always brimming with potential.

Embrace not knowing and no direction,

At ease in the hidden.

Feel the softness of the touch between your closed eyelids.

Let that softness ripple and spread from your eyes,

Across the muscles of your face and into your body.

As you loosen up,

Let the components of your body fall apart a little,

Joints and muscles looser.

As faithful natural forces hold you together and sense the feelings of softness and expansion.

Gently shift your awareness now into the points of contact your body's making with the surface it's on.

This contact connecting you to the earth beneath you,

Our beautiful improbable earth.

Tune in to this feeling of ground,

Developing trust.

The field of gravity is perfectly set to stabilize you on the ground,

Neither too strong nor too weak.

You are steady and perfectly held,

Deeply supported by the earth.

Powerful forces holding you in place.

Notice the feelings of stability in your body.

Let this physical stability spread and stabilize your awareness.

The points of contact are not only points of support and stability.

They are points of continuity between you and the earth.

You conduct the energy of the earth.

Feel the flow of energy at these points.

Let the energy of the earth nourish you layer by layer.

Your connection to the earth is for your entire life.

You are always part of its whole.

Your story is in part its story.

The atmosphere around you is seamless with space and all of outer space.

Sense the presence of the sky above you,

Knowing that whatever the weather today,

Beyond the clouds and sky,

There is outer space and all is vastness.

And however you are,

And whatever is going on in your life,

There is space for you.

Notice how the space around you doesn't intrude or ask anything of you.

Feel into the openness,

The room for you to be here,

Exactly how you are.

Your next breath is seamless with the entire universe.

Let your awareness of the mystery of this and of your existence be a relief.

This vast universe extends within you.

The infinite expresses itself within you.

Your spacious awareness within,

Sky-like in its nature,

Filling your body.

And you can invite your awareness to extend a little beyond the surface of your body,

As if the boundary of your body was dissolving a little.

The sky absorbing you a little.

The earth receiving you.

Expansive in all directions.

You cannot be too expansive.

You cannot fall beyond it all.

Experience your spaciousness.

The fabric of your being,

Your organs,

Bones,

Skin,

Muscles,

Every cell is made from the food you eat,

Derived from plants and animals of the earth.

The minerals in your bones,

Being those very same minerals in the rocks beneath you.

So from within the earth,

And all the lives on it,

Comes the fabric of your being.

Take your place within the animal kingdom.

One endless thread of life.

You one species in the realm of animals.

Wonderfully entangled in it all.

Feel into that belonging and connection.

Similarly,

The water in your body is the same water as that on all the earth.

You're not separate from the earth you live on.

The water molecules in your cells,

In your kidneys at this moment,

Have traveled the world in rivers and seas.

Your next glass of water was once a cloud.

The vast oceans,

Those wide seas,

Also within you.

And from clouds to rivers,

Rivers to seas,

Water flows.

It flows in you.

Sense the continuous movement of the seas,

The tides,

The rivers.

Know that life in you also flows,

Just as nature flows.

Your body,

Your life,

As in all of nature,

Like a flowing river.

A river perhaps looking outwardly the same,

But in truth,

Never the same,

From one moment to the next.

Perpetual flow.

The cycles and seasons present in you,

Just as in nature.

All of life came from the stars.

You have your ancestry in the stars and are sustained by our star,

The sun.

Our earth and sun spin and spiral together,

Moving through space.

The sun sustains you in your life.

Recall the warmth and light of the sun.

Feel that energy in your core.

Radiant heat and light energy.

Just the right amount that you need today.

Feeling that energy of life within you.

Energy moves in waves,

Vibrations,

Pulses.

Feel them within you.

Lean into the evidence of life within you at this moment.

Trillions of cells,

Vibrational energy,

Nourishing and restoring all the layers of your being.

You tuned to the frequency of life.

Lean into the sensation of energy.

As a wave on the ocean exists,

But is also never separate from the whole body of the ocean.

So you are never separate from the whole of life.

Take your place here today on this beautiful planet.

Release the grip of the story of a separate you.

Remember nature,

Her beauty,

Her diversity and her struggle and connect with the whole thing.

The earth and your body stable.

You and the rocks,

The plants and the animals interconnected.

You and the atmosphere and the cosmos expanding.

You and the seas and the rivers flowing.

Let your being expand into this mystery where it's impossible for you to be separate.

Reviews

Thank you for this meditation, Lorna. I found the sense of perspective grounding, and appreciated the encouragement to let go of mind energy/narrative.

I found this to be a great meditation for connection, openness, letting go and acceptance. Felt a sense of gratitude, gentle strength, wonder and belonging afterwards. Thank you 🙏