Blessings and welcome to the way of meditation.
My name is Daniel Roqueo and as always I'm very grateful and honored and I feel very privileged that I get to do this and that you're choosing to join me,
That you're choosing to actually refrain from perhaps engaging in some other activity.
That you're choosing to join me for a moment of coming back to the nowness of this moment,
For a moment of becoming still and allowing for the peace and the joy and the harmony and the wholeness and the freedom that is inherent within each and every single moment but that perhaps eludes us when we are preoccupied with the doings of the world and the hustle and bustle and the intensity of the world and of our day-to-day lives,
Many of us at least.
So the theme for this particular meditation is surrender to the breath and this of course has something to do with the fact that we are using the breath as an anchor to the nowness of this moment,
As a way to ground us in the now,
In the holy now.
And as we use the breath we are wise and this is the practice to release and let go of any tendency to want to control the breath or to seek to control the breath because many of us without knowing it,
Without being aware of it,
We sort of seek to make the breathing happen.
We want to exercise a level of control over when each breath is going to be taken and how long it's going to,
The duration of each breath.
But in meditation we learn to surrender to the breath,
We learn to let the body do the breathing because the body with its divine intelligence,
With its infinite intelligence,
It knows exactly when to take a breath and it knows exactly how much air it needs so it knows exactly the perfect duration for each and every single breath.
And so our job and what we've been called to do in meditation is to simply observe the breathing as it happens,
Surrender to it and that's the theme for this particular meditation.
And so in this moment I invite you to make yourself comfortable,
Perhaps placing your feet on the ground,
Perhaps putting a smile on your face,
Letting your body know that all is well,
That it may relax.
I invite you to close your eyes and gently tap between your eyebrows to activate that divine eye,
That first eye,
Making us open and receptive and available for to catch insights and revelations.
And as we tap and as we keep that smile on our faces,
I invite us to set an intention for this meditation and the intention is always to wake up to who we are and to allow for greater and greater expressions of that,
Who and what to emerge.
And in this case that allowing for greater and greater expressions is about us learning and expanding our level of surrender so we can release the tapping.
Invite us to place our hands in our lap,
Palms facing upward,
Thumb and middle finger touching as a sign of receptivity.
Invite us to become aware that the body is fully able and capable of breathing.
So what we've been called to do is simply observe the natural rhythm of the breathing,
To surrender to the breathing,
To release and let go of any sense of wanting to control it or making it happen or forcing it into happening.
Simply observe it as it happens.
And also we want to be aware that each breath has four stages to it.
The in-breath,
The space,
The out-breath and the space.
And as we keep our attention and as we sustain our attention on each of these four steps and stages,
It allows us to sustain our attention on the breath with so much greater ease and grace.
And as we take on the feeling tone that all is well,
I invite us to give the peace that follows permission to move us so deep,
So deep,
So deep into the stillness and into the silence.
Should our minds drift away from the breath,
We gently,
Lovingly turn them back.
We surrender and we begin again.
Come back to the breath,
Surrender to the breath and begin again.
And gone.
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