Hi,
It's Brooks and it's good to be with you.
Today let's talk about the current.
The current.
I like to call it the current and for me the current is the life force.
The animating force.
That energy that moves planets around the Sun and beats our hearts and breathes us.
And normally it's a conceptual idea.
It's like the life force.
We can understand it.
But I think there's a lot of benefit in taking a deeper look and noticing that feeling that.
Life force operating within us.
And when we do that we feel connected with life.
With life itself.
And that's one of the best feelings.
One of the best.
So let's do a meditation where we connect with our current.
So find a comfortable place to sit or to lie down.
And then once you do that close your eyes.
And feel your breath come into your body.
And then go back out.
And feel that breath come in.
And that breath goes out.
It's nice.
It's a beautiful automatic process.
Just like if you're looking at the ocean you see a wave rise up and come back down.
And when we look at it like this we can see that we're being breathed.
Like life is breathing us.
We can feel that current of breath come in through our nose,
Through our mouth.
Go into our lungs.
And then we breathe out.
And we can feel that current moving out of our body.
And the current moves in.
And it moves out.
And along with that breath our heart's beating.
You can put your hand on your chest.
You can feel the pulse.
You can feel that current in the heartbeat.
And that's the life force.
It's life itself.
Within us.
And the heart beats.
It takes that oxygenated blood that we got from the breath.
And it disseminates it through the body.
It moves the oxygenated blood through our body.
And there's a current in the movement of the blood through our veins and through our capillaries.
Stretching through our entire body.
And that's life itself.
Moving through our entire body.
And we experience that as aliveness,
As being alive.
And sense that.
See if you can sense the feeling of a life moving through you.
That vital force.
The same force that moves the planets around the sun.
That creates stars.
That's what's moving through you.
This force that you're sensing is animating you.
It's animating you.
It's life itself.
And what a wonderful feeling to know that we're filled with life.
It maintains and creates cells within our body.
It moves through the muscles in our body,
Through our skin,
Through our bones.
It moves,
That force moves through us,
Through our nerves.
Our nerves are like wires throughout our entire body.
And there's that pulse through the nerves that allows us to move our hands,
To move our neck,
To move our feet.
We're fully alive.
Usually we don't notice it because it's always there.
We don't notice things that are common.
They're constant.
But our bodies are ablaze with life.
Full of that current of life.
Because of what's going on in our life.
We're fully alive with this animating force.
This force that you're becoming reacquainted with and noticing.
That same force that moves the planets around the sun and creates stars is animating us too.
That life must love us.
The life force at the same time that it's rotating the planet is beating your heart.
It doesn't skimp on you.
It gives you its full fullness.
If you ever feel like you don't have enough in life,
Or there's any lack,
You remember this life force within you and suddenly there's the vitality of life present within you.
One hundred percent.
And you can feel very full and very alive and very lucky and very loved.
That same life force animates our thoughts and our feelings.
It's the current behind them.
Regardless of what we're thinking or what we're feeling.
That same energy that creates suns is animating our thoughts and our feelings.
It's so powerful.
So immense.
And it's not foreign to us.
It's very intimate.
As we can see as it moves through us.
Suddenly we don't feel alone anymore.
Because we're connected with life.
Ever present feeling of life within us.
And as we recognize this within ourselves.
We can also sense that it's in others too.
It can help us feel connected to others.
Knowing that same force that moves planets around the sun.
And that animates you.
Also animates others.
And we have that in common.
Suddenly things that felt separate to us that we might have felt distant from.
We recognize that shared companionship.
Shared brotherhood or sisterhood.
And we can see how we're connected with everything because everything is animated by this force.
So we're going to end the meditation now.
If you want to you can stay with this connection that you're feeling.
You can stay with your eyes closed if you'd like.
If you're really enjoying it.
Or you can open your eyes.
Now you've got this knowledge of what's going on within you.
This life force within you.
If you're feeling low or alone you can remember.
I like to think of it as spontaneously remembering.
You don't have to remember this.
It comes to you.
There's that sense.
That remembering sense.
So I wish you the best.
Thank you for spending time with me.
Take care.
Bye.
