Centering for Wisdom Centering for wisdom is a practice of letting go of distractions,
While surrendering in to challenging situations,
In order to access your inner core of infinite divine wisdom.
With regular practice of centering for wisdom,
You begin to discover that thorny problems begin to resolve effortlessly,
While you become increasingly aware of greater inner resources of creative energy,
Focus,
And presence.
As we begin this guided meditation,
I invite you to give yourself permission to let go of any external commitments,
Demands,
Or distractions.
Surrender in to this present moment,
Into your body,
Into the rhythms of your breath.
Give yourself permission simply to be here,
Right now.
As you begin to center in,
Allow your attention to gently drop from your head down into your heart center,
Into your center of wisdom.
Like a pebble thrown into a river,
Allow your awareness to drop down below the surface level of thoughts,
Floating gently down,
Coming to rest in the soft sand of the river bed,
Settling down and in to your center of wisdom.
Notice any thoughts floating by up on the surface,
Without any need to judge them or do anything with them.
Simply allow them to come and go,
Like the ripples on the surface of the flowing river of your conscious awareness.
Next,
You are invited to begin by setting an intention,
A sankalpa,
For your practice.
It might be a particular challenge or problem you are seeking to address.
If so,
You can simply name that situation right now,
Without judgment,
And drop it into the pool of your practice,
Allowing that intention to just recede into the background,
To flow down the river of consciousness.
Or your intention might be a desire to get in deeper touch with your inner core of compassionate wisdom,
That divine image that lies within.
Or you might wish to simply rest in the space of no intention.
Whatever your intention or no intention,
I invite you to offer it up now.
Next,
You are invited to allow your awareness to settle even more deeply into your body's center of wisdom.
To do this,
Continue to notice your thoughts,
Any memories,
Anxieties,
Or physical sensations that bubble up as you rest,
And then allow them to just float downstream with that gentle current of consciousness that is flowing above and all around you.
And whatever thoughts or sensations come up,
Just notice and release,
Notice and release.
In whatever position you have chosen to receive this teaching,
Feel heaviness and warmth spreading through your hands and your arms,
Your feet,
And your legs.
Let go of any holding in your mouth or your jaw.
Release any tension in your neck and your shoulders.
Continue to relax your cheeks and cheekbones,
Your mouth,
Your jaw,
Your forehead,
Your eyebrows and eyelids,
Your eyes and eye sockets.
Feel the sensation of the flow of the breath in your nostrils.
On your next inhalation,
Allow your awareness to rise up the bridge of your nose and come to rest in the space just between your eyebrows and slightly behind,
In your Ajna,
Your center of wisdom.
Imagine a soft,
Blue-purple light emanating from this space between and just behind your eyes.
Allow that blue-purple light to remain emanating and radiating from your Ajna,
Your wisdom mind,
Even as you allow your awareness to expand and move.
On your next inhalation,
Follow the breath as it descends down the spine toward the heart.
Just allow your awareness to descend slowly at its own pace until your awareness comes to rest in your heart center.
As your embodied awareness settles into your heart space,
Imagine a blue-green light emanating out from your heart center.
Allow that blue-green light to radiate from your heart as your awareness expands to feel the energy moving along your spine between your third eye wisdom center and your heart wisdom center.
A blue light energy flowing gently down as you inhale,
Flowing gently up and out as you exhale.
Just rest for a few moments in this flowing stream of wisdom light energy.
As you follow the natural flow and rhythms of this energy,
Feel it also infusing and bathing your throat with a blue-white light.
Feel the head-heart energy fill your throat,
Your center of communication and speech with truth.
When you are relaxed and centered and grounded,
All the knowledge and compassion that you need comes to you as grace,
As pure gift.
When you stop expending energy,
Fighting against life,
Trying to fix problems,
You begin to let go of the desires,
Attachments,
Limiting beliefs and fears that block infinite wisdom from showing you the way.
In this centered space,
Solutions to what appear to be intractable problems can arise effortlessly in their own time.
It is not your job to understand where they come from or to control the outcome.
Your job is to be centered and awake so that you can receive and hear the subtle messages of infinite wisdom and to take that next step forward when the time is right.
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke offers this guidance,
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves,
Like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign language.
Do not seek the answers which cannot be given to you now because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is to live everything.
Now that you have settled down into your center of inner divine wisdom,
The next invitation is to engage in an imagination exercise of bringing this centered wisdom into your daily life.
Imagine yourself bringing this centered wisdom energy into simple daily tasks that you do each day at home or at work.
Simple things like cooking or cleaning,
Doing email or paperwork,
Reading,
Walking or exercising,
Or other hobbies or routines that you do every day.
Next,
You can imagine yourself centered for wisdom while you are with others,
Friends,
Family,
Significant others,
Colleagues or coworkers.
And if you feel ready,
You can also imagine yourself in more challenging or difficult situations,
Maybe at meetings or working through unresolved problems or in difficult relationships.
All the while maintaining this present centered awareness of blue-purple light radiating from your mind's wisdom center,
Blue-green light from your heart compassion center,
And a blue-white light from your throat truth center.
Centering for wisdom is both an inner capacity and a gift from God.
However you imagine the transcendent source of all that is,
This gift is not only for you,
But also for the good of others,
For the common good of your community,
For the earth,
For all beings in the universe.
When you see life in this way as a gift,
You open a capacity for gratitude,
Not only for the wisdom that you receive,
But even for the challenges and the problems that invite you to someday live into the answers that you were born and created to share with this world.
If you like,
You can take a moment now to offer your gratitude for the wisdom and the insight that you are given,
For the challenges that bring forth and evoke that wisdom from you.
Resolve to return to this centered space often,
To center yourself in infinite wisdom,
To listen and see and be open to the sources of wisdom around you,
To cultivate gratitude,
And to receive the courage to act on wisdom and insight when it comes to you in its own time.
We will conclude with the words of Rilke again,
After which you are welcome to stay in this silent space for as long as you like,
Gently returning when you are ready to whatever comes next in your life,
In your day,
Centered in wisdom,
Truth,
And compassion.
Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart,
And try to love the questions themselves,
Like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign language.
Do not now seek the answers,
Which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is to live everything.
