Your Happiness & Awakening Is Closer Than You Think

Sometimes when we feel as if there is so much work to be done we fear that we are far from our goal. When it comes to unfolding happiness or awakening nothing could be farther from the truth. I discovered how to sense its closeness and in this meditation you will learn how close it really is.

Transcript

Hi and welcome back again,

This is Ed and in this meditation we're going to cover a very interesting fact that no matter whether we're on a trajectory to just make our life better,

Strengthen ourselves so the world doesn't affect us as strongly,

To limit our anxiety,

Trauma,

Stress or whether we're on a fast track trying to get to our spiritual awakening.

In both cases there's a phenomenon that occurs,

I know it happened to me many years ago when in trying to achieve my goals I felt so far away from them,

I didn't realize how close I was,

I felt there was so much to do,

So much to accomplish,

So much to heal and it's only when I later began to awaken that I discovered that I was actually much closer to my goal than I thought.

I was closer than a hair's breath away and that all I really needed to do was not a lot of hard work but just create the right environment for my stresses to heal,

For my anxiety to leave me,

For my spiritual nature to show itself to me.

The hard lifting was actually an illusion.

Now to some of you may think I'm crazy but there is a closeness to our goal and the fact that when we think it's far away and we have to work so hard that's when we apply all the effort and the effort actually puts us back a few spaces.

So in this meditation we are going to learn and experience just how close you are and what you can do in each of those situations to open the doors and experience your heartfelt desire to be free from stress,

Anxiety and trauma or to wake up to your own true nature.

So let's begin.

What I'd like you to do is to please sit comfortably and now please close your eyes.

Put your feet on the floor,

Be comfortable,

Have your body supported so it doesn't start to ache you later on and I'd like you to just go within.

What do I mean by that?

Well take a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth and every time you take a breath in imagine you're breathing in light and love,

Inspiration and fill your lungs with that energy and every time you exhale imagine you're letting go of stress,

Of pain,

Sorrow,

Tightness,

Loss,

Beliefs.

Another breath in,

Another breath out.

Allow yourself now just to become aware of your breath.

You might begin to feel very spacious just allow that.

Put your attention on your breath,

Feel the air move through your nose,

Feel your chest expand,

Your stomach rise and contract and allow yourself to be quiet and ask yourself who's watching this quietness that I'm experiencing?

My mind is coming in and out,

It's not my mind,

It's my consciousness,

It's my awareness,

My awareness of who I am and just allow yourself to go into that awareness knowing,

Recognizing there's silence,

There's awareness and there's consciousness and allow yourself to just get quiet and expand.

Notice the space in the room,

Notice the space between you and the walls in the room wherever you are.

Become aware of that as you feel like you're getting bigger and bigger,

Your presence is just getting so big.

Just allow it to happen,

There's no doing,

You're just getting quiet and this is a result of the quietness that you're feeling.

You may get as big as your house,

You may be able to almost feel like you can look down at your house and the whole block,

You can be this big,

This is what your consciousness is and everything around you is consciousness as well.

Good,

Just allow yourself to go,

Some of you this may be the first time,

Be courageous and let go,

Good and slowly come back to the room,

Come back to your chair and just follow your breath and be quiet.

Now thoughts may come in because the mind continues to function,

Say there you are thought,

I see you,

I hear you,

So you see it sort of figuratively but I'm not going to concentrate on you,

I'm going to go back to my breath and feel my breath.

You want to stay there in the corner of my mind,

Go ahead but I'm not going to fight you or push you away and just come back to your breath and watch yourself expand some more.

Yeah,

This is the consciousness,

The awareness that you are.

You may notice,

I'm going to let you do this for a while now on your own and I'll come back in a minute or so.

Put your attention on the breath,

Let it go,

Notice some spaces between your thoughts and just be in those spaces.

Right.

You Good.

If you find yourself on the thought just come back to your breath.

Good.

Great.

So now you've made contact.

You've experienced to some level,

To some degree,

The quietness that you are.

Know that this quietness,

That this consciousness,

Is the consciousness that holds and creates all the happiness in your life,

All the creativity,

All the intelligence.

It supports it all.

Your drives,

Your loves,

It all comes from here.

This attribute-less quietness that you are sensing is the real you.

And just tell yourself quietly,

Inwardly,

This is who I am as well.

I have a personality in the world but I am also this silence,

This quietness and I acknowledge this right now in this deep place.

I acknowledge it and I will remember and create opportunity for me to experience this more and recognize it and claim it,

That it was always there and that it's a great part of who I am,

A life-changing part of who I am.

You don't have to worry about how it works and creates happiness,

You just have to know it and feel it.

Good.

Go ahead and tell yourself that again.

Good.

So now,

Let's go a little further.

You guys are doing great.

Now in this quietness,

I want you to think about something that happened to you that made you sad or upset.

It can be big or small,

It doesn't really matter.

This is for practice because this is what you're going to do on your own.

Good.

Now ask yourself,

I'm afraid of this,

This hurt me because I must believe that and find the belief.

I'm not good enough,

I'm not pretty enough,

I'm a bad person,

I can't live if this person isn't in my life,

I can never find happiness now that my lover is gone.

Discover the belief.

Good.

Now in this quiet place,

Ask yourself,

Is this really true?

It seems true but is it really,

Really true?

Maybe I want people to think I'm bad because it makes me feel better but is that really true?

Maybe I feel that I can't live with that person because that's the love of my life but is that really true?

Do I feel bad to think that maybe I could fall in love again?

I could be happy again.

Just ask yourself,

What is the belief?

Is it true?

You will find that really it's not true.

It is just an assumption that you made.

Maybe you initiated this assumption long ago when you were a child and you were hurt and you were wronged or you were abandoned and you felt that you needed to figure out a way why it happened so that you could prevent it from happening again and there's the beginning of the belief being formed and it's still with you.

Don't feel bad.

Say it's not true.

In this deep level of knowing,

I release it.

Good.

Now here's the thing.

There's another component to this belief.

It's somewhere this wound is lodged in your body.

Go to your body.

Feel your body now,

Not your breath.

Where in your body are you tense?

Do you feel pain,

Sensation?

Go to it.

This is the corresponding sensation to the mental belief that's been with you for so long and we're going to release that now.

Now feel it.

It wants to be felt and we're sort of like saying,

There you are.

I'm going to feel you now and allow you to release.

I'm going to feel you now feel you now and allow my body to release what it's been wanting to release for so long naturally but I've locked it down deep inside of me and haven't been able to feel it.

I've locked it in a vault.

Now I'm opening that vault and allowing it to come out.

What you will find is three things can happen.

One,

That feeling,

That sensation is a sensation in the body.

A physical sensation will begin to increase and get bigger.

Don't be alarmed.

It just you asked it to unload and it's like a big spring.

It's going to unwind.

Let it go.

Don't be afraid.

It will unwind and eventually release and let go.

Like a pendulum,

It will eventually go to both sides and then come to the middle.

Something else could happen.

It's releasing is the second thing that can happen.

Increase or release and go away.

The third thing that can happen is it can move to a different part of your body and here is the trick.

We follow it to wherever it wants to move and say okay now you're here in my shoulder or now you're here in my back or in my head so I'm going to feel you there in that new body position and ask you to release there.

Go ahead and do that.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Yeah.

Feel it.

Don't be afraid to feel.

We grow up unfortunately being afraid to feel.

The fear of uncertainty comes up,

The fear of what will happen,

The fear of not knowing.

Just let it unwind and notice that once it unwinds the fear is gone and now it's gone for good.

Good.

Good.

You're doing great guys.

Good.

This sensation can also linger for a while.

It's saying hey I don't want to turn off right now.

You gave me permission.

There's so much there.

So just let it continue.

Don't be afraid.

As you do this more and more you become more familiar with this process and you can stop your meditation and get up and go back into your world and you may still feel that sensation there and that's fine.

It wants to unwind.

Let it.

Perfect.

In this meditation you're learning how to go within.

You may already know how to but you're learning how to let go of the sensations which are the anchor to your beliefs.

Like a ship anchored at the bottom of the ocean or the lake.

Can't go anywhere because that anchor keeps it locked in.

These physical sensations caused by the wound when you first got them and you continue to get your wound it leaves a deposit in the body.

And there is this connection between your mental belief in suffering and worry and the physical wound.

And when you release this now you're releasing the anchor and the mind and the belief can now just float away and be a memory but not anchored to a pain in the body.

This is the difference between coping and healing.

Beautiful guys.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

So in this meditation if you decide and I hope you do to do this in your daily life once something releases go back in again with the breath.

Ask yourself what else did I endure?

Find the belief.

And as you embrace the belief you'll feel the sensation stir up in your body and then release that sensation.

There you are I release you.

And you can do this a few times in every meditation.

So I want to give you another a couple of minutes to do this.

Okay and then I'll bring you out.

So yes so so so so Okay so now I want you to gently let go of your thinking.

Return to quietness.

Allow sensations just work themselves out without your attention.

Come back to your room the room where you're sitting.

We always come out of meditation slowly because the mind doesn't realize how restful the body is.

If you were to open your eyes quickly and jump out of your chair you might notice you might notice a shock.

Come back quietly.

One way of doing that is just to move your hands wiggle your toes and slowly come back into your body.

And once you feel you're in then you can gently open your eyes.

Okay beautiful.

And this is something you can do on your own every day and it will help you immensely.

So now I want you to come back to your room where you're sitting.

We always come out of meditation slowly because the mind doesn't realize how restful the body is.

If you were to open your eyes quickly and jump out of your chair you might notice you might notice a shock.

Come back quietly.

One way of doing that is just to move your hands wiggle your toes and slowly come back into your body.

And once you feel you're in then you can gently open your eyes.

Okay beautiful.

And this is something you can do on your own on your own every day and it will help you immensely.

Reviews

Ed thank you for this beautiful practice. I find your voice and guidance so supportive and healing.

So helpful! A different way of looking at things I’ve been working on, this could be a breakthrough!

Thank you for guiding us into healing and teaching us how to heal on our own through meditation. I was again able to understand clearly the relationship of a false belief about myself, a conditioning, and how it got stored into my body, stuck really. How I have the ability to release a pain in my body, sometimes having it move from one location to the next until it disappears. Awareness and happiness an ease are at our finger tips, available to everyone. It becomes a matter of practice and slowly we get better at healing the self and the universe with whom we are totally connected. Great teaching Ed 🙏

This was not easy for me personally but wonderful. A great reminder of letting go! So necessary!

It was just what I needed, feel and acknowledge the hardships and release them,
Thank you so much

Thank you🍃