Seeing In The Dark: Staying Present With Difficult Emotions

When we run from the darkness, we don't allow ourselves time for our vision to adjust. When we stay present in the darkness, whatever the darkness might be, gradually our psychic vision adjusts, and new light is allowed to enter. We begin to see through the dark into a new kind of light.

Transcript

When you turn out the lights and darkness falls,

If you'll just wait,

The eyes adjust and begin to take in more light,

And you begin to see again,

But in a new way.

You begin to see in the dark,

But you must be willing to wait for the eyes to adjust naturally on their own time,

Out of your control.

You cannot make the eyes adjust by force of will,

And yet they are a part of you.

You cannot force it,

But if you'll wait and let it happen,

It does naturally.

When darkness falls,

Whatever darkness means or looks like or feels like to you,

When darkness falls,

Don't rush to turn on the lights.

As the poet Hafez wrote,

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly,

Let it cut more deep,

Let it season and ferment you as few human or even divine ingredients can.

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly.

When you feel the darkness,

Don't rush to turn on the lights.

Wait for an internal vision,

An internal light to adjust to the darkness on its own time.

This internal light knows the way,

If you'll let it show you.

Reviews

Your voice is mesmerising, the message was clear 🙏

I'll save this and listen when I'm frustrated. Thank you for the advice. 💙

Amazing advise...it is so difficult to stay in the darkneas but you must trust that the darkness will bring wisdom with it

This is a very important practice for ultimate growth. Yes.

Loved this short meditation track. Really puts things in a whole new light. (Pun intended). 😆 In all seriousness, I enjoyed the fresh perspective.

Short but sweet! And I needed this message this morning.

Succinctly beautiful metaphor for shadow work. Thank you! I don’t love the music choice in this one but the spoken word overpowers so the music isn’t relevant.

Deepest gratitude to you..for the calm within the storm..the light within the dark. Letting eyes adjust to the dark ..accepting.
Not rushing to turn on the light ..knowing ,this will pass ..and the light that comes will be so beautiful 🙏💓

This imagining, giving inner experience the body, this embodiment of sadness, grief, which is here for me and overtaking me, the growing darkness that is actually here as you have just said to be a demonstration of my natures capacity to adapt. I stay with the darkness and witness through experience the wisdom of the eyes of my heart my adapt to darkness.
It is better to stay with the immense loneliness which now belongs to me It is safe to allow grief and sadness to overtake me because it is and will be a part of me that my heart adapts or adopts to because God Speaks through and through your words, and makes this experience welcome 🙏

Beautiful.

I found the same message I was to afraid of posting about on the Tao Te Ching today. Right here when I looked you up to see if you had other meditations.
Don’t surrender the loneliness to soon🤍🤍🤍
Thank you ..Namaste

Thank you 🙏

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Thank you, Charles, for your guidance and support throughout 2024. I know that I can always turn to you - and frequently do so - when I am needing/wanting 'something' and don't know what that is. Or what I need to do or NOT to do to feel better in myself. I always sense that you have walked the way before you describe it to us. That is, your counsel is subjective understanding, gained from the 'slings and arrows if outrageous fortune' encountered on your own journey. I never feel preached at, but included. And maybe in 2025 I will finally finish your Tao course ☺️
Sending warmest love 🙏🏻💞

Huh. I just picked up The Darkness Manifesto (Johan Eklof). I'll revisit this meditation a few times and let it sink in.

Beautiful

Beautiful poem! Thank you!

I loved this. Thank you.

Beautiful message🦋

Beautiful. Thank you.🙏