Welcome to meditating with Kate.
Today's meditation is about you embracing your humanity.
So I'd like you to close your eyes gently.
Take a nice deep breath in through the nose.
As deep as it can go naturally and let it out through the mouth.
Again,
Nice deep breath in through the nose.
See if you can draw it in further down into the belly and release.
And just notice the wave of relaxation that comes over the body when you give it permission to breathe deeper and deeper as you go.
A few more breaths like this.
Inhale,
Filling up the belly.
And exhaling through the nose.
One more big breath in and release.
Allow the breath now to just settle into the heart center.
Imagining the breath filling in the lungs and the heart.
Expanding,
Loosening,
Stretching out the love that you produce.
Thinking about the heart and its devotion to your life.
Without even having to tell it what to do,
Your heart is in rhythm with your life.
If you need more oxygen,
It pumps harder.
If you need rest,
It slows down.
This partnership with your heart is the first love that you experience with yourself.
That simpatico partnership inside of you.
The human experience for your soul.
Just think about how hard your body has worked to get you here now.
The steps that it's held you up to take.
The breaths that it held and released.
What it has seen,
Absorbed,
Heard,
And tasted all for you.
This is an agreement to life.
This is your life.
And just feel the liveliness pulsating through your body now.
Today,
We're going to be focused on connecting with our senses,
Our physical senses.
And the first sense that we're going to focus on is the sense of sound.
Now,
As you lay here,
Allow for you to recognize five sounds that you hear.
And notice how the mind wants to label the sound and dismiss what it is that you're noticing,
Categorizing it away into everyday experiences.
But just for now,
Just for today,
I'd like you to go back and without labeling the sound,
Notice it.
The sound.
The subtlety.
The pitch.
The origin.
Where does it lead the mind?
And as the mind gets pulled into a story or of association,
Just bring it back to the next sound of everyday life.
One at a time,
Pull out the file,
Decategorize it,
And just notice the layers of the sound.
Notice the power of your hearing.
How far can it reach?
Further and further away,
Your ears become more attuned to the life that surrounds you and your humanity.
Shifting now to the sense of touch.
Bringing your awareness,
Focusing on the sense of touch.
What is it that you feel against your skin to all of the senses of touch?
What is it that you feel against your skin to all of these nerves?
Looking to connect with the outside world,
Notice what do you feel on your skin?
The clothing that you're wearing.
The air that you're enveloped in.
That you're enveloped in.
The temperature on your skin.
The surface texture of your chair or your seat.
The bed or the floor,
Soft or hard,
Rigid,
Smooth.
Just notice what it feels like to be in your body,
Touching that which surrounds your humanity.
Maybe you can feel your hair on the back of your neck,
Brushing your face.
Maybe you can feel your glasses on the brim of your nose or behind your ears.
Or the necklace hanging just above the heart.
What is it that you feel in your body?
What is it that you're touching?
We're moving now,
Focusing the sense of taste.
Even when we're not eating,
Our tongue and our palate is alive.
Maybe there's a sweetness to the air.
Maybe you have essential oils,
A candle or incense burning.
And as you breathe it in,
Maybe you can just taste the sense of the air that surrounds you.
Maybe you can taste your mouthwash or toothpaste,
The coffee,
Tea,
The meal you just had.
Just notice the sense of taste.
Notice if your tongue is relaxed or on guard.
And see if you can give it permission to settle into the bottom of the mouth,
Releasing and relaxing,
Just letting go of that muscle.
And maybe with this focus of relaxation of the tongue,
Your jaw becomes unhinged.
Hanging and relaxing itself.
And even the muscles behind the ears melt and relax.
Shifting now to the scent,
To the nose.
Shifting now to the scent,
To the nose.
Smelling the air,
Smelling yourself.
The familiar comforting smell of this location.
Where your humanness lies.
Activated by each breath that you take,
Enhancing all of your other senses,
Really observing and noticing the fragrance of you.
The fragrance of you.
Maybe you can smell the soap or shampoo,
The oil or fragrance you wear,
Just notice.
Breathing in,
Pulling that air through the nose,
Recognizing the power of that sense,
The humanity,
Acknowledging its surroundings.
And even though your eyes are closed,
Let's shift our focus to the sense of sight.
Keeping our eyes closed,
Just notice the darkness.
Notice any bursts of light that come through,
Perhaps as the shadows move in the space that you're sitting in.
Maybe there are images that come.
Just notice the eyes,
That they never stop working,
Even when they are covered.
You can always see.
And shifting our focus now to the sixth sense,
Focusing our eyes,
With the eyes closed,
Straight to our third eye,
Bringing your attention to the third eye.
Bringing our eyes gaze internally up between the eyebrows.
Beyond the black,
There is light.
Our intuition,
Our ability to raise the veil,
To see beyond the closed-mindedness,
The projections,
We see with clarity what feels true in integrity.
In integrity,
Our inner knowing is activated,
Acknowledging our sixth sense right between the eyebrows.
I leave you in this fully active humanity that the spirit has chosen to live through with a question.
When have you felt most alive?
When all of your senses are activated,
When you're in full alignment with what you know and how you feel and what you do.
In integrity,
In alignment,
Fully activated here and being,
What was that like?
How old were you?
What were you doing?
Who were you with?
How did you know?
Stay in this memory.
Remember what it feels like to be fully alive in your humanity.
And so the next time you say yes,
Your body knows.
