Breathe slowly,
Breathe deeply.
Breathe slowly,
Breathe deeply.
As our minds become quieter,
Stiller,
We begin to center within ourselves and find that when our minds are still,
All is well.
All is well.
So let's continue.
Just to quiet our minds.
Be present and be still.
In life,
Life has change.
A normal part of living,
A normal part of life is change.
Nothing ultimately stays the same.
Everything sooner or later will change.
Our bodies will change.
Our relationships will change.
Our work situation changes.
Within all the change,
As we're present,
As we live in the here and now,
We can flow with these changes.
We do flow with these changes.
And as we flow with them,
Life goes well.
Life is going well.
We are like the beautiful grass field so that when the strong winds of life come and blow us all around,
Instead of fighting life,
Trying to stand up against the wind,
We flow with life.
And after the winds subside,
We come back to our true self and all is well.
All is well.
We flow with life.
We don't fight life.
And life goes very,
Very well for us.
So let's imagine for a moment that we are the blade of grass in the beautiful meadow.
Let's feel ourselves reaching up towards the sun.
Feel ourselves gently moving with the gentle breezes and just enjoying life,
Enjoying our journey in the meadow of life.
But the clouds begin to turn dark.
The winds start to blow and they begin to blow stronger and stronger.
What we do is we flow with the wind.
It's pushing us down and we just allow it to.
We don't fight it.
We don't resist it.
We flow with these changes.
And life,
Our life as a blade of grass is going well.
Yes,
The wind can be blowing very hard at times,
But we have trust in our ability to flow with these changes,
Not to resist them,
Not to give in to them,
But to flow with them,
Knowing that no matter how powerful the storm is,
This too shall pass.
This too shall pass.
So we continue to flow with the changes,
Even though they may seem overwhelming.
And with time,
They stop.
The skies become blue again and we look around and we're back to our beautiful meadow and all is well.
All is well.
And we enjoy the days,
The weeks,
And another storm comes,
A strong one again.
And this time,
We really do flow with it.
We don't fight it.
We don't resist it.
We just flow with life,
Flow with these strong winds.
And what we discover is it goes well again.
Life goes well again.
The blue skies return and all is well again.
When something magical happens inside of us,
We can feel the change.
And the change says,
Even when the storms come,
We can still enjoy ourselves because the storms will pass and we know we're going to be well.
All is always well.
So instead of surviving the storms of life,
We actually learn to love them,
To embrace them,
That they have lessons to teach us.
So this time,
A new storm is coming.
We see the sky darken.
We take a deep breath and we ride this storm out well.
And we don't even suffer because we realize that this storm is just part of life.
There's ups,
There's downs,
But they're just part of life.
And if we don't fight them,
If we don't resist them,
We just do our part to keep the skies blue.
But when they turn dark and when the winds blow hard,
We just enjoy the journey.
Even during windy,
Very windy days,
We can actually reach a point inside of us where we enjoy the wind.
We enjoy the experience of dark skies.
Something magical happens inside of us.
We realize that all of life is beautiful.
The change actually is something we enjoy about life.
Sometimes we enjoy blue skies and sometimes we get to enjoy dark skies,
But we enjoy all the wind,
All the changes of life and life flows well.
Instead of accepting life,
We learn to love life.
Love all the ups and downs,
The turbulence,
The changes.
We realize that impermanence is just life.
And when we don't fight it,
We just enjoy it.
Life flows beautifully.
Life has become a beautiful experience for us.
All of it.
We embrace it.
We love it.
And we live each moment fully present,
Fully alive.
And all is well.
All is beautiful.
Peace.
