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Welcome to this guided meditation,
Touching the source of consciousness and resting there.
Lie down on your bed or other comfortable surface where your body can feel fully supported.
Take a few minutes to get into a position that feels as aligned as possible.
Be kind with your mind if it feels busy with thoughts and strays back to them during the meditation from time to time.
Generating thoughts is part of the mind's nature.
The best way to calm it and enter deeper,
More vibrant states of consciousness is to gently direct attention away from thinking and back into the body and senses,
Along with this guidance.
Allow the eyes to close if they haven't already and take a few slightly deeper breaths.
On the out breath let the body sink and release.
Feel the whole plane of the back of your body in contact with the surface beneath you.
Let any tension in your muscles flow down into the bed,
From the bed into the floor,
The floor into the ground and down into the earth,
Where everything is slow,
Steady and stable.
Enjoy all the meeting points where your body is touching the surface.
Feel into your heels.
Notice any naturally arising sensation in the heels,
The pressure from contact or any other sensations.
If you feel little or no sensation in the heels,
Still bring the whole of your attention here,
As if it is the only place that exists in your awareness.
Now feel the contact of your calves.
Notice any sensations here.
Where in the calves is sensation most vivid?
Feel into the contact of the back of the knees,
The backs of both thighs.
Notice that anywhere attention is focused,
Feeling sensation is amplified.
Expand your awareness up into the base of your back.
Feel into this area with your attention.
Move your awareness out of the hips and deep inside the hip joints.
And now the whole of the back.
Notice sensations in the middle and upper back,
The shoulders.
Let them sink and soften.
The back of the neck and back of the head.
Ensure that you have enough support for the back of your neck and head.
If you need to move even slightly,
Do this now,
So that nothing distracts you as you go deeper and your body feels taken care of.
Rest here for a while and notice your breathing.
See in and out of your breathing.
Where you can feel it entering and leaving the body most vividly.
Perhaps at the entrance of the nose,
Or you might feel it more when it reaches the throat.
Feel the subtle rise and fall of your body.
As it falls,
Watch it release even more into the support beneath you.
Now move awareness from the sensations of the physical body to the inside of the body.
Move deeply into this inner space of just being.
Notice that the sensation of being feels completely natural and familiar.
It does not need any effort or a special state of mind.
Notice that the rhythm of your breath may have slowed down and deepened,
Or is in the process of settling and finding deeper balance.
Allow your body to take a breath whenever it needs to,
As it finds its deeper,
Slower rhythm.
As you breathe,
Merge even more into the sense of beingness.
Let the diffuse sense of beingness come into focus.
Perhaps in the centre of your head,
You can now locate the presence of I am.
As your mind is settled,
This sense of your deeper self may have come more to the forefront of your awareness.
Wherever you can most easily locate it,
This sense of self place your attention here.
Listen the connection by breathing in towards it,
And stay with it as you breathe out.
Perhaps the sensations in the eye sockets and around them seem more vivid.
As the body and senses are becoming more deeply attuned and sensitized,
You may notice the bridge of the nose.
You may be able to feel the energy inside the inner ears as you deliberately listen for sound.
The sound which is furthest away from you.
The sound which is closer to you.
And the gentle sound of your own breathing.
As you listen and breathe,
Come back again to the sense of I am.
Wherever you can most deeply connect with the inner you,
This is the very epicentre of everything that can be experienced.
As you breathe in and out from this centre,
Realise that everything,
Whether it is an event in your life,
A sound outside the room,
Or a feeling in the body,
Is subject to change,
To coming and going,
Arising and passing away,
However vivid and important it seemed at the time.
The beingness that you are feeling now,
Presence,
The deep self,
The source of consciousness itself is unchanging,
Timeless,
Without beginning or end.
Here,
Deep inside yourself,
Inside the self,
You can completely rest and renew.
Your self with a name and life,
Relationships and dreams is important,
Is something to care about,
To love and to nurture.
But here is the deep self,
Where you can find the deepest peace,
Deepest rest,
Infinite belonging.
This is where any ideas of your relative self and absolute self merge,
Like tributaries flowing into the ocean and becoming one,
Never separate,
Only in the way we thought about them.
Drink deeply from this well and know that it is depthless,
Limitless,
The one place of complete safety.
Let it is the ground of being,
All love.
Know that it will still be here after your life in this body has ended,
That it will still be you,
Always you.
After all life,
Everything that has formed has changed and gone.
Feel the joy,
The thankfulness with which your being meets this place of endless freedom and peace and concern.
Very slowly start to become aware of the physical body again,
Perhaps by minutely moving the fingers and toes,
Stretching gently in whatever ways you need to.
Perhaps continuing to lie on your back or roll onto your side.
With a soft focus,
Very gently open your eyes and become aware of the room.
Breathe and rest with the afterglow of what you have experienced for as long as feels right for you.
Now begin.
You
