A recurring theme throughout this series has been the invitation to shift our emphasis from the content of experience,
The labels,
Descriptions,
Conceptual interpretations of it,
To the sheer presence or existence of it.
One powerful way to get a sense of the liberating impact of this change in how we orient to experience is to feel each moment,
No matter how we might be characterizing it,
Fear,
Sorrow,
Joy,
Anger,
Elation,
As an expression or manifestation of a kind of basic fundamental energy,
The energy we could say of life itself.
For these next few moments,
Imagine your thoughts,
Feelings,
And sensations as different forms or expressions of life energy.
For example,
If what you call joy is present,
Just feel it as the movement of a kind of energy.
If confusion or agitation is arising,
Simply see or feel that as energy.
If peace or tranquility is present,
Then see those experiential textures as yet another form that the energy of life can take.
With your eyes open or closed,
Simply let all these energetic expressions move and dance and swirl however they wish.
Make no effort right now to alter,
Control,
Or direct the ceaseless unfolding of life's energetic flow.
And now,
See that you yourself,
The one sitting here meditating,
Are yet another one of these energetic expressions.
And simply allow this unfolding of energy that is you to move and dance and swirl however it wishes.
Simply feel the raw presence of whatever is here.
Listen to the ceaseless hum of being.
You can't help but hear it,
For it is the sound of everything,
Being itself.
Hear the sound of traffic outside?
That's it,
The hum of being.
Hear the gurgling of your stomach or the beat of your heart?
That's it too,
The hum of being.
Hear the sound of thoughts racing through the mind?
The hum of being.
For now,
Let it matter not what's appearing,
But simply appreciate and savor the fact that it is.
Let yourself be awestruck that anything is even happening at all.
That this existence,
This presence,
This energy and aliveness is appearing in all the wildly colorful,
Dynamic and unpredictable ways that it does.
