Connecting with the soul.
I believe the ability to connect with your soul is one of the most valuable things that you could ever do for yourself.
Once you connect with the soul you have one of the greatest gifts you could ever know.
Now your soul is with you lifetime after lifetime.
It's right there always ready to guide you on.
It's your connection to spirit.
It's your connecting to your source.
It's your true,
True being nature,
Your highest reality.
And once you make friends and connect with your soul and develop a relationship with your soul you'll find that indeed it's so easy to get the direction,
A lot of times inner direction,
But also outer direction you need.
Now when the mind is busy and thinking about a lot of things we know it's easy to get distracted and it's harder to find that stillness and that presence that's so precious within.
But when we focus and when we clear our minds and breathe and we focus on our soul that is indeed where your energy will go.
So if you focus in meditation on your soul you will be calling upon your soul and you will be connecting with your soul.
Now one thing I find very interesting is sometimes our soul is so present that we don't even know that that's the soul there.
It's fascinating to me that it's so close in your beingness that it's second nature.
I learned how indeed to find that inner connection to the soul and it's a path I've been following now for so long.
Now what is interesting is it doesn't matter if you've been doing meditating for 50 years or for 20 years or for five months or just a few months.
Everyone is equal in meditation and all you have to do to untap that power within is to connect with your soul and it actually is a pretty simple process.
Now I don't know if you've had this experience but a lot of people when they begin to meditate at first they're trying,
They try real hard and of course in meditation the idea is not to try but just to be.
And once you are being then you understand also it's the same with connecting with your soul.
You don't make it something that's something outside yourself or very difficult.
It's just there.
I'm sure you've heard of that wonderful spiritual teacher Rumi.
He and many other mystics had the same attraction that I did to the energy within.
You recognize other people like Rumi and other great teachers when they're talking about their connection to their soul.
Rumi said my place is the placeless place.
My trace is the traceless trace.
Tis neither body nor soul for I belong to the soul of the beloved.
I have put duality away.
I have seen that the two worlds are one.
One I seek.
One I know.
One I see.
And one I call.
So this is a very deep,
Deep statement because it's easy in meditation and when you're beginning connecting with your soul to think oh this is,
This is it and that's not it.
This is the reality and the other isn't.
But when you really awaken to that energy even beyond the soul to the one source of all you realize indeed that your waking dream and your life that you live with all of its lessons is part of that oneness,
Is part of what you're seeing,
Is part of the lessons you are learning,
Is projected out in the world.
This is the self that will be there when you leave your body and you open your connection to the inner guides and your teachers.
It's your passport to carry you on.
This is a wonderful gift that we can't underestimate and it's best really truly not to talk about the soul because as Rumi I have often written many thousands of thousands of words that have been messages from my soul.
But you know what's interesting?
I never really capture it all and I guess that is what draws me back and has drawn me back day after day,
Year after year,
Is realizing this energy is so so very great,
So very powerful,
So very undescribable that you can't put it in a box and it can be experienced but it's very very hard to define.
Let's take a few moments just to experience that beautiful energy that you are within your soul.
Take some wonderful deep delicious breaths,
Breathing in the energy of who you are,
Breathing out any tension,
Breathing in that light of who you really are and letting go of any of that false chatter that's the distractions that come.
Breathing in again and allowing your body and your mind and your soul to merge as one right there within you.
Be aware of this energy that is present.
Focus and set your intent,
Your inner compass to your soul and with each breath see the light that shines throughout the entire body from the base of the spine to the head and then from the head on up and out the crown chakra to that spaceless infinite energy of your soul.
Be still and know that you are one with your soul right now.
Breathe in that soul's energy.
Absorb this pure energy,
This spirit with every breath.
The soul's nature is light.
Be in that light right now.
Be enlightened.
Receive that light there in your soul throughout all of who you are.
Know that you are part of God.
Feel yourself energized by this pure light.
Go to that center still point of your soul within and allow yourself to bathe in this beautiful soul's perfect energy.
Feel your own frequency there.
Feel that vibration.
Let it resonate with you in harmony in that space of pure beingness.
Allow yourself to recognize your own inner soul energy.
That soul that will take you after you leave your body and onward.
That soul that will enlighten you.
For in truth there is no time.
There is just this moment where you are enlightened by your soul.
Let that energy from the universe come to you now.
Dwell in that space of universal harmony.
Put that soul into the light of all lights.
The light within the light.
The love of God's love.
Allow that creative force of the universe to flow through you as a living current so that you are now activated to be present in the living energy of your soul.
For you are one with the creative force of God's loving nature.
That breath within the breath.
That prana.
That sense in this energy that you now have is radiating through every cell of your being activated.
Breathe in that energy.
Feel that blessing of being one with that soul.
Let that energy just radiate through you and send that energy to you as love.
Loving all of who you are.
Listen now for that absolute perfect silence and let any word,
Any thought,
Anything that comes be received right now.
And now slowly come out of your meditation.
Thanking your soul for being present.
Thanking your soul for being your eternal companion,
Your authentic guide in life.
Allow this energy now to come into your conscious mind.
And after we close out this time together,
Take a couple of soulful breaths and write down any thought,
Any color,
Any word that might have come to you that might be a message.
You may not think you have anything,
But just go ahead and write that energy in a word or two or more down.
Allow your soul to speak to you.
And I thank you so much for taking the time to connect with your soul together here in this one energy that we're sharing.
And allow yourself to take this beautiful energy of your soul as one of the sacred tools in your toolbox.
