Welcome to this creating space for uncertainty meditation.
So glad that you are here and I would just invite you to go ahead and find a comfortable space for you to be over the next 10 minutes or so.
And as you find yourself in that position,
In that space,
I just invite you to go ahead and take a nice deep breath in through your nose and a nice deep breath out your mouth.
One more just like that.
Deep breath in through your nose,
Filling up into your belly,
Up into your chest.
And just go ahead and sigh it out.
Go ahead and allow your breath now to just settle into its natural pace,
Its natural rhythm.
And as you continue to arrive to this practice,
See if you can soften your physical body just a little bit.
Just go ahead and relax your shoulders away from your ears.
Notice if you're clenching your jaw,
See if you can soften there.
Just allowing your belly to release a little bit.
Just bringing some gentle awareness to where your mind is at right now.
Especially when we're maneuvering things that feel uncertain.
Our mind can make a lot of noise,
Can jump all over the place.
And so let's just start to transition into a space not of trying to get our mind to stop,
But just leaning in this direction of observing just what your mind is doing right now.
There's nothing to figure out,
Nothing to get to the bottom of right now.
All that this practice requires of you is to just notice what is happening in your mind,
Noticing what's happening in your physical body,
Noticing what's coming up for you emotionally.
It's very easy to get kind of stuck in this track of feeling like we have to have all the answers,
We have to be certain,
We have to have it all figured out before we can show up for our lives.
And I would just invite you right now to kind of push back on that a little bit.
Can you right now just allow whatever your mind is feeling uncertain about,
Whatever it's trying to figure out,
To just be kind of part of your experience in this moment.
As the mind wants to re-engage,
Just coming back to your breath,
Just bringing a little curiosity to that breath,
Just noticing the breath in,
Noticing the breath out.
And whatever your mind is trying to latch onto,
I've found using this analogy of a bus to be incredibly powerful.
Just stay with me here for a moment,
Okay?
As you're maneuvering your day,
As you're maneuvering your week,
A lot of emotions are going to surface,
A lot of thoughts are going to pop up into your mind,
A lot of things that are going to be calling for your attention,
Right?
A lot of things that you're going to want to try to figure out and a lot of certainty that you're going to want to achieve,
Right?
That's kind of what the mind likes to do.
And instead of trying to push all of those things away,
Get them to stop,
Trying to achieve certainty before you can proceed,
What if you envision that you are driving a bus,
You are in the driver's seat,
And as those emotions arise,
As those thoughts surface,
As those physical sensations make their presence known,
What if you just invite them on the bus and they get to step onto the bus,
And they don't hop in the driver's seat where you are,
But they rather take a seat in the back of the bus.
They might make a lot of noise,
They might try to call for your attention,
And you just notice all of those things as they happen,
And then you continue driving that bus in the direction that you want to go.
You feel the uncertainty,
And you still show up for those things that are important to you.
So with this idea of just kind of gently inviting uncertainty along for the ride,
Just coming back to your physical body once again and just noticing where you might be physically hanging on right now,
And can you soften there?
Can you allow your hands to relax a little bit?
Can you allow your forehead to soften?
Can you just trust that you are supported and that you are safe right here without having to have all the answers?
Just invite you to go ahead and take both of your hands right now,
Place them over your heart,
Feeling the beat of your heart and your hands,
And just honoring and recognizing that through all the doubts,
All the challenging things that arise through all that you have been through,
This heartbeat remains a constant.
Can you just feel that right here in this moment?
Just go ahead and invite you to take one more deep breath in and a nice deep breath out,
Thanking yourself for showing up to this practice,
And knowing that you don't have to have it all figured out,
You don't have to have all the answers before you lean in and show up for your life.
Be gentle every step of the way my friends.
