To begin,
Please come to your most comfortable seated position.
Taking a moment now to settle into the space around you.
And as we connect with this familiar stillness,
Welcoming your body and mind into the present moment.
Releasing that stillness for just a moment,
On your next inhale slowly float your arms up overhead to touch with purpose.
As you exhale,
Slowly draw them down to heart center,
Carrying with them some of the surrounding energy directly to the space of anahata.
Bowing chin to chest,
We set an intention for our practice.
This intention being that everything we desire,
Everything we search for is inside of us.
To accept this is to truly love who we are.
Now bring the hands to rest,
Palms facing up on the knees if they aren't already.
This completes the circuit in your body to help the flow of prana,
Life force,
During your practice.
Next I invite you to move the hands into chin mudra by connecting your thumb and index fingers lightly.
The other three fingers remain touching side by side but relaxed.
This mudra is known to increase concentration,
Energy and stamina for your meditation practice.
The index finger representing individual consciousness and the thumb representing universal consciousness.
And with this mudra we establish a connection between the two.
Raise to the breath to each subtle movement,
Feeling and sound that it creates in your body.
This is one of the easiest ways to feel and connect with the energy surrounding us.
You can imagine each inhale as bringing life into yourself and each exhale as expelling that which is no longer needed.
Or my favorite view is that we inhale that which gives us life and we exhale that which gives life to other things.
Focus on deep,
Slow and balanced inhales and exhales in through the nose,
Feeling all the way into the lower lobes of the lungs.
Through a consistent practice this kind of breath becomes automatic.
It becomes your baseline from which you approach the rest of your pranayama.
Now being the act of consciously controlling or extending the breath.
With each breath feel yourself renewed with this life giving energy.
Then begin to picture it in your mind's eye flowing in from all around you.
All day every day you can feel the energy of this world through the act of breathing.
You can see this energy too.
This next part is taken from one of my earliest meditations but I think it's always worth hearing again.
You have two eyes,
Each composed of 130 million photoreceptor cells.
In each of those cells there are 100 trillion atoms.
That's more than all the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
However each atom,
In each cell,
In each eye formed in the core of a star billions of years ago.
And yet here they are today being utilized to capture the energy released from the same process all to expand the consciousness that is you.
It's one of the most incredible things to think about.
So as we return to the breath to finish our practice in silence,
Feel the energy moving in and around you.
And know that when you open your eyes in a short while that you are seeing that energy too.
Begin to release the practice.
Allow yourself any small movements the body wants to make.
And when you're ready slowly open the eyes.
I hope this meditation has helped you to recognize that which surrounds us all day but is not always clear or easy to feel and see.
I truly thank you for listening and allowing me to share it with you.
Until next time and with love,
Namaste.
