Today on Widening Circles,
Drinking up your aliveness.
You are alive.
Just stop and marvel at that.
You are alive.
Can you feel the magnitude of that statement?
I find I often move through my days unaware of my own aliveness until I take an intentional
moment to drink up this truth.
I find I often seek the feeling of being alive somewhere else,
But never submerge myself
in the spring of life already bubbling inside of me,
Right here,
Right now.
So let's awaken ourselves to our full aliveness and allow it to revive any wilted parts inside.
Let us honor this most precious state of our being and allow it to carry us into our lives
with deeper gratitude and awe.
Enjoy.
Settle into a comfortable position and begin by painting your meditation with the most
fundamental stroke of your aliveness,
Which is your breath.
Invite in the deepest breaths you have taken in your day and allow them to carve deep wells
of relief inside your body.
Feel your body awakening to your aliveness with every breath.
Any lingering worries or unfinished to-dos,
Just set them down for now.
Give yourself full permission to take in this meditation with your full presence.
Jump into this time of self-care with both feet and don't look back.
You can support yourself in this release by letting out some slow,
Audible sighs.
Slowly allow the hums to dislodge and carry away any residual stress from your body.
Feel your mind settling down like silt in a jar and feel the space arising for you to
greet your aliveness.
Allow all the tiny little muscles on your face to just ooze down like something molten.
Allow your shoulders and backside to just drop.
Release your wrists from their daily strain.
Rest each finger.
Allow your legs to flow down like water.
Nothing to fix or achieve right now.
Nowhere to go.
Now I invite you to start tuning into your aliveness by placing your hands on your thighs
and feeling the warmth coming through.
This warmth is only present in things that are alive,
Coming from all the tiny cellular
processes generating energy to sustain your life.
Take a moment to relish in this warmth,
This fleeting state,
This wonderful quality that
you get to share with your loved ones through hugs and cuddles.
Now gently shift your attention to the subtle vibrations inside your fingers.
Can you feel your aliveness sparking there like electricity?
It's as if your aliveness was plucking the strings of your being.
Take a moment to hear its song.
I invite you now to melt your mind into the wet saliva on your tongue.
You know,
Dead people have pretty dry mouths.
We spend billions of dollars trying to find these flowing waters in the galaxy and here
It is on your very lips,
In your very cells,
On your eyes,
The waters flowing through your
blood and gut.
Take a moment and receive this holy water of our universe.
Gently bring your attention to your beating heart,
The centerpiece of your aliveness.
Allow its beats to remind you that you're still here,
That you still have the capacity
to experience all there is to experience in this world,
That you still can swoop up your
loved ones in your arms,
That you still can take that risk and call someone,
That you
can still mark that empty page and start over,
That you can still let go and forgive.
Take a moment and really feel these beats of aliveness that your heart is still giving
you.
We don't know when our hearts will stop beating,
But it will one day,
So give it some quality
time now.
Feel the gentle rise and fall of your soft animal body with every breath.
Take a moment to relish in the softness as it too is a sign that you are indeed still
here,
A part of this amazing unfolding.
What John Green wrote,
We are all snowflakes dissolving on the tongue of the universe.
Let's enjoy our aliveness as much as we can.
So go outside,
Look up,
And stick out your tongue.
Catch as many as you can.
This is your moment.
Go enjoy it.
Thank you for catching some snowflakes of aliveness with me today and wishing you beautiful
moments ahead.
I'll see you next time.
