A meditation in letting go.
This meditation is the art of letting go and the invitation is to begin by scanning the body and see what is there inside of you that is feeling ready to let go right now.
If you deepen the attention to the body and just feel your head and since you can inhabit your whole head,
Not just the brain,
But the back and the sides and right down to the root and sense you're inhabiting this space between the ears and sense the possibility as you feel the volume of your head softening and relaxing wherever there's tension.
Let the eyes soften,
The brows smooth,
The tongue feeling the upper palate relaxing down to the root of the tongue,
A slight smile at the lips.
You might allow the shoulders to fall away from the neck,
And feeling inside the shoulders as if you can feel from the inside out and sense that possibility of letting go.
Sense a melting like ice to water and water to gas.
You might sense letting go as a clenched fist that can slowly unfurl itself so it's in its natural openness and receptivity.
Feeling the length and volume of the arms,
Inhabiting the arms,
Feeling the hands from the inside out,
Inhabiting the hands,
Softening and unclenching.
Notice when you unclench and soften how much sensation you can feel.
Maybe a tingling and vibrating.
Let there be an openness to the chest,
Inhabiting the chest,
Feeling your awareness filling the chest,
Imagining and sensing that letting go,
That unclenching.
It can help sometimes to visualize a smile spreading throughout the heart,
Letting go and letting be.
Sensing awareness filling the mid-sections of the body,
The sides of the waist,
Sensing the distance between them,
The distance from the navel to the back of the spine,
Inhabiting your body and softening,
Letting go through the belly,
And as you let go,
You might sense the next breath as received inner softening,
This breath,
And now this one,
Inhabiting the whole pelvic region,
The distance between the pelvic bones,
Letting awareness fill this region,
And again letting go,
Letting the breath be received deep in the torso,
Softening,
Letting be,
The length,
Volume and weight,
Feeling the aliveness that moves through them right down to the feet,
Again aware of the hands,
Soft,
Awake,
A slight smile at the mouth and opening to the sense of the whole body as a field of sensation,
Sensing the possibility if there's any tightness of just letting go,
Even more deeply into this changing dance of awareness,
Of aliveness,
Aware of the sounds that appear and disappear,
Aware of that openness,
That space,
The wakeful space that sounds appear in,
Resting in this moment-to-moment flow of aliveness,
Sounds,
Sensations,
Letting everything happen,
Letting life be just as it is,
And just like the body habitually retightens,
The mind tightens into thought,
And when you notice that you've been inside a thought form,
Just relax and open again,
And clench the fist,
Open to the sounds and aliveness that are right here,
Letting go of the static virtual reality of thoughts,
And re-entering this living flow,
Letting be.
No matter how far the mind has travelled,
You can always pause,
Let go,
And re-open into sacred presence.
From the Tibetan teacher,
To Lopa.
Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don't try to figure anything out.
Don't try to make anything happen.
Relax right now and rest.
The curious and friendly attention noticing where your attention is.
Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don't try to figure anything out.
Don't try to make anything happen.
Relax right now and rest.
In these moments of closing,
You might bring your attention to the heart.
Breathing in and out of the heart,
Offering yourself whatever wish,
Whatever blessing you would like to send inwardly.
Whatever resonates for you in this moment.
