So I invite you to close your eyes gently.
Just have your eyelids resting,
Make sure.
If you need you can squinch them up and then let them go.
Just start to feel your mind,
Your body and your heart calming down.
I'm so very,
Very glad.
That you are here with me today.
We continue our journey through the natural energies.
Of the Dao.
We have moved through fire and earth.
And lake and thunder.
Heaven and water and today.
We come.
To mountain energy.
Mountain is the energy of stillness.
Of wisdom.
Everlasting energy.
That has always been there.
And you know friend,
There are times when life asks us to move,
But.
.
.
There are times when the wiser responds.
Is actually to stop.
To become quiet in that room.
To see what movement has been hiding.
And mountain energy reminds us this stillness is not the absence of life.
It's actually a different kind of presence,
A steady place.
From which we can see more clearly.
And today,
We're not going anywhere,
We're not solving anything.
Simply.
Coming still.
Becoming still enough to notice what remains.
When we.
.
.
Stop moving.
So friend,
Make yourself comfortable,
Completely comfortable.
If you're seated,
Place both feet comfortably on the floor and allow your hands to rest easily on your thighs.
If you're lying down,
Relax your legs,
Let them settle.
Allow your hands to drop by your side.
There is nowhere that we need to be for the next few minutes.
Nothing you need to hold,
Nothing you need to achieve.
You are here.
Your eyelids are gently resting closed.
Self.
Be Self.
The vessels around your eyes soften.
Be gentle.
Allow your forehead to become quiet and relaxed.
Allow this softening to go over your scalp and down the back of your head.
Feel your shoulders relaxing.
Quiet.
Gentle relaxing.
Let your jaw soften and your tongue settle.
Gentle,
Gentle.
I invite you to take a slow,
Comfortable breath in.
And then just let it go.
And one more time.
A lovely deeper breath in.
And easy release.
And one more time,
Just a comfortable breath in.
And then let go,
Let go,
Let go.
Allow yourself to become aware of the support beneath you.
The floor beneath your feet.
The surface.
Beneath your body.
You are supported.
You are here.
For these next few minutes,
You can simply.
.
.
Allow that to be.
Now,
Friend,
Imagine a mountain.
It doesn't have to be one.
.
.
That you know.
Or something that you visited before,
Just any mountain.
Steady.
Ancient.
And unhurried.
Perhaps you can see its broad base resting on the earth and its slopes rising gently.
Its peak reaching into the open sky.
Imagine yourself sitting within that mountain.
Not beside it.
Not looking at it,
But becoming part of it.
Part of it's.
Feel the support beneath you,
Your body settled.
Your breath moving naturally.
Nothing to change.
Nothing to improve.
Jazz.
Imagine clouds moving across the mountain.
They gather.
Payback.
Perhaps.
Sunlight appears.
The main shadow.
Then sunlight again.
The mountain does not chase the weather.
It does not try to hold the clouds.
In place.
Or hold them at bay.
Simply.
Remains instilled.
And perhaps a thought appears in your mind.
Let it come.
And let it pass.
And another thought.
Let it pass.
A sound around you.
Let it be there.
And now I'll let it pass.
Sensation in the body.
Now it is set.
And then be still.
The mountain.
Remain.
Sometimes we imagine stillness as blankness,
As nothing happening.
We know that even in stillness,
Life continues.
The Breath Moon.
The heart beat.
Thoughts come and go.
Sounds appear and disappear.
Stillness.
Is not emptiness,
But it is.
Space.
To notice.
Space to listen.
Space to see what becomes clearer when we stop.
Adding more and more.
Space.
So for these few minutes,
Just notice.
What is Thee?
No sir.
No effort.
Jazz.
Away.
Now friend,
Imagine yourself near the top of the mountain.
Looking out over the landscape below.
What do you see?
Well.
.
.
The tree is water.
Houses,
Fields.
Perhaps towns in the distance.
What is your landscape?
From this height,
Things appear different,
Don't they?
Not least real.
Jazz.
More connect.
A road that felt confusing from ground level becomes part of a larger pattern.
A valley that seemed closer has another part.
Beyond.
Mountain.
It offers perspective through stillness.
Not by moving farther and farther away,
But by becoming steady enough.
To see.
Finding stillness.
And perhaps there is something in your life that could benefit from this kind of seeing,
From this kind of stillness.
Not urgent thoughts,
Not analysis.
Quiet to view.
So let me offer you a question,
Friend.
What becomes clearer?
When you stop.
What becomes clearer?
When you stop.
Perhaps something has been trying to get your attention.
Something you couldn't see until you stopped.
Perhaps you already know what matters.
Perhaps you simply needed enough quiet.
To hear it.
You don't need to create an answer,
No.
Let one emerge if it wants to.
If it's ready.
And if nothing comes,
That's also part of mountain stillness.
Does not owe us.
And answer.
Mountains.
Stillness.
And mountain is also the energy of wisdom.
And wisdom is not always knowing more.
Sometimes wisdom is knowing when not to react.
Sometimes wisdom is knowing when to stop.
To be still.
When not to answer immediately.
We're not to decide right away.
When to let things settle.
When to stop?
Win.
To be still.
And so quietly ask,
Friend,
What in my life?
Might need less reaction.
More reflection.
More stillness.
What in my life?
Might need less reaction.
More reflection.
More stillness.
And now let's carry mountain gently into the day and the week ahead.
For today our intention is.
.
.
Today.
I make room.
For stillness.
Today,
I make rules.
For still.
And breathe with that intention.
Breathing in,
I love you.
Become quiet.
And breathing out.
Am I listening?
And one more time,
Breathing in,
I.
Calm.
Quiet.
And breathing out,
Ah.
Lesson.
And one final time,
A breath.
On your own.
Allow the image of your mountain.
To soften.
Notice your body again,
The support beneath you,
Your hands.
Your feet.
Weight of your body.
Resting comfortably.
Notice your breathing.
Go quiet and still for him.
You relax.
The softness around your eye.
And friend,
Mountain reminds us that stillness.
Is not doing nothing.
Stillness.
Can be where wisdom catches up with us.
Stillness can beware.
Wisdom catches up.
With us.
So sometime if life becomes noisy.
Perhaps ask yourself,
What becomes of me?
The era.
When I stop.
And give yourself enough quiet to notice.
Thank you.
Thank you,
Friend,
For sharing this time with me.
Your very presence here in this meditation is changing the energy.
On our planet.
And when you're ready,
You can open your eyes and.
.
.
I like to rub my hands together after meditation.
Activate the energy on the palms of my hands.
