In these days,
Change is flexing its muscle.
What seemed solid may seem more fragile now.
Others,
Who seem foreign,
May now share a commonality.
Welcome to your practice space for what I would consider to be our most amazing superpower.
We can push and pull at the world,
Attempting to learn,
Change,
Or gripe it into submission.
Or we can play another card.
The play of mystics,
Saints,
And sages.
Even now,
With the buzz of news feeds audible,
The immeasurable power of returning to truth still liberates within a breath.
Let's share in this opportunity.
To taste in this freedom isn't difficult.
In fact,
We often taste it in our laziest of moments.
At the center of this practice lies the realization that we alone choose our states of being.
Consciously or unconsciously.
Do we like or dislike?
Do we feel nourished or ignored?
Our story is ours in the creating.
We know this to be true because we watch others in their storied creation and we think,
Oh how silly.
Once this truth is realized,
The practice begins.
What may seem oddly challenging at first may soon become the only sane way of coming home.
So let's practice.
Remove any anticipated interruptions.
Switch off,
Turn off,
Disconnect.
Notice if you can decrease any invitations to fidget or find a way of being a bit more comfortable in your seat or laying down whatever suits you best.
Feel the kiss of your eyelids meeting.
Let your shoulders rest down onto the torso.
Welcome back to all that ever is.
Notice this next breath in.
Notice the next breath out.
Drink in the elegance of it all.
Allow the corners of your eyes to soften.
Your forehead to smooth out.
And your jaw to become slack.
Take this time to savor one of life's greatest pleasures.
The boundary blurring,
Ego evaporating experience of giving yourself to one whole breath.
Begin by remembering a time of awakening,
A state of flow,
Grace,
Or unconditional love.
Bring your moment to mind.
Allow its essence to fill you once again.
Feel the quality of awakened awareness ripple through your 37 trillion cells.
Take note of your superpower.
Even the smallest conscious change in state is proof of your potential to shift.
In these moments of presence we're witnessing the genesis of loving awareness.
Creation in the midst of creating.
It all begins just here with the next breath in and the next breath out.
Each time returning home to loving awareness.
Let's rest our attention on a mantra.
Let our words craft a way of being.
With your inhale whisper to yourself,
I am.
With your exhale whisper loving awareness.
Inhale I am.
Exhale loving awareness.
Let your breath lengthen and your words slow.
I am.
In the moments between what remains.
And when our cultured voice returns with it comes the familiar the meandering,
The mind.
Welcome back and then just come back.
I am.
Loving awareness.
As you practice your way home let the words become faint,
Energetic,
Omnipresent.
I am.
Loving awareness.
The gateway is always just here where the next inhale grants you freedom.
And the edges of feeling are boundless.
You are.
Loving awareness.
I am.
Loving awareness.
I am.
Loving awareness.
I am.
Loving awareness.
I am.
Loving awareness.
I am.
Loving awareness.
What you are has the power to resolve any argument,
To embrace any anxiety,
And to surf the waves of the most tumultuous day.
Breathe into your spacious vibration,
Your heart frequency.
Allow awareness to expand beyond time.
Pure loving awareness.
I am.
Loving awareness.
As we begin to journey back,
Notice how the highest wisdom within you needs no calculations.
No validation,
No education,
No donation.
It's just behind the murk.
A lotus flower rising to reflect the divine light of loving awareness.
Now gift yourself a deeper full body breath in.
Savor the luminous space tingling beyond your edges.
This is our evolution.
This path is the solution.
The pollution outside reflects our pollution inside.
And today is another opportunity to rise.
Bring your hands together.
Give them a rub.
Brush down your shoulders,
Your torso,
Your legs.
Let the breath continue to deepen.
Take your time.
Come back in.
And with you,
Bring the light.
