Welcome to another stress-fit meditation.
With discernment,
Focus,
And action,
It isn't difficult to achieve a few things in your life.
But simply getting what you want does not mean you have achieved something.
When you set your goals through the small-mindedness of the Me Plan,
There are no eyes for vision beyond yourself.
By focusing on your vision and quality of life rather than your desires and personal gains,
Your experience of life will be more vibrant,
Inclusive,
Rich,
And joyful.
Your life will include many other things that represent a wealth of love that goes far beyond any personal desire or small-minded goals.
In this meditation,
We're going to create a space for our higher purpose to shine through.
I'd like to begin with a quote by visionary artists Allison and Alex Gray.
Whether we are single,
Couple,
Or group,
A higher relationship of love and transformation is our ultimate quest.
An individual or couple can widen their circle to include friends and then open their heart to sacred community,
Affirming the creative power of love.
The building of temples is the work of a people committed to leaving a trace of their values and vision.
Community can love a project into existence as an offering to the divine.
The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.
This quote reminds me that we all have a higher purpose.
Our life is a gift not to be wasted or put on the shelf.
It is all we really have and when we no longer can wait for the answer of why,
We go through the necessary challenges for our higher relationship with love to blossom.
Just as we build temples for us to house the love we share with communities,
Our physical body is also our temple and we can treat it in such a way that allows for our vision of love to transcend all suffering and connect with others.
Let's now examine the difference between vision and desire.
Ensure you are comfortable for this practice.
Allow my voice to guide you throughout this creative process.
Maintain an upright position,
Hands on your knees or palms facing up if you wish to lay down for this practice.
Nowhere to be,
Nowhere to go,
Just let go and allow yourself to embrace this practice.
Bring your awareness to the present moment and keep it here listening to my voice.
Feel your body become relaxed with each breath.
There are things you want in terms of profession,
Relationships,
Lifestyle,
Etc.
Some of these things speak to you as stepping stones in improving yourself,
Like milestones in order to gauge who you've been,
Who you are now,
And who you want to be.
These accomplishments are personally relevant,
But these are not an achievement or a vision.
These are small-minded desires that could be done in many ways.
What they're lacking is true vision.
A new car,
A big house,
A beautiful husband or wife,
A six-pack,
A new best record,
A better paycheck,
A higher social status,
Recognition,
Popularity.
The list goes on and on.
These sort of achievements have become big in people's minds because they have set their goals in a way that pleases them on a very superficial level.
During my high school,
Nearly everyone said that if you're popular,
You have an easy path through those four years.
A popular jock thinks he has done a great thing because he has an identity and found approval from his peers.
But someone who can feel comfortable and confident in their own skin during high school does not think much of popularity because winning over others' opinions is the simplest thing that you can do.
Don't worry about what you should have or should do.
Just turn this life you're living into a beautiful experience and suddenly you can do anything.
I want you now to envision a reality that you want to experience.
What does this reality look like?
What does this reality feel like?
How do you feel when you are imagining experiencing this vision?
Now ask yourself whether this vision is supporting a higher relationship of love in your life.
Is this vision widening your circle to include more than yourself?
Is this vision opening the heart of a community and affirming the creative power of love within us all?
And does this vision have an expansive,
Warm,
Or inclusive quality about it?
Take some time to examine how your body feels while staying connected with this vision.
Now I'm going to ask you to energize your vision with every cell of your body.
Try doing this as if this vision was your living reality.
What emotions could you feel if this vision was happening right now?
Now just focus on the feeling.
Take away the vision and just intensify the feeling.
Now just focus on the feeling.
Take away the vision and just intensify the feeling.
Providing your body with a taste of a visionary experience before it's taken place is the first step towards realizing your vision.
You must feel and experience and know the joy of what it is you're dedicating your life to if you want it to become a reality.
To bring the beautiful sensation within you out into the world for others to support and feel as well,
You must stay connected and grounded by the sensation that your vision gives you.
No doubt there will be many distractions along the path of reaching your higher vision.
Now is your time to cultivate a relationship with your vision and with yourself on a deeper level,
Ultimately strengthening your connection with this vision,
With your higher purpose and higher self,
And also with love and transformation.
Breathe in,
Welcoming all the love and transformation for you to reach your vision,
And breathe out,
Sending the energy to the universe like a seed being planted.
Stay connected with the breath and continue focusing on your vision.
With out enhancing aspects of living that positively affect the way we experience life,
We set some trivial goals for ourselves.
Whether we achieve them or not means very little to the soul.
These goals tend to revolve around short-sighted personal gains.
A waitress who wanted to learn how to carry ten plates out to the tables instead of just four,
Like her fellow employees,
Because she wanted more tips,
Finally learns how to do it and she thinks she has done a great thing because she has gotten extra tips.
But if she built herself into a more passionate waitress,
Without effort,
She would already be earning more tips.
She would be focused on bringing her beautiful experience within to the customers and her employees,
And this would naturally bring her to a higher achievement than receiving more money.
This is where human focus should be,
Not on what should I become or what should I have.
Having and becoming don't need to be your goal.
It should be,
How can I enhance this life and the others around me?
And when I say life,
I'm not talking about your career,
Your spouse,
Your television or your car.
I am talking about this life,
That which dwells in the experience of being you.
How to make this from what it currently is to a much upgraded or high-powered lifestyle that is built to include others.
How to improve the richness of life for not just yourself.
With a bigger heart,
Mind and ability to experience love in this body is where joy and happiness can blossom in your life.
Now I want you to give thanks for your vision.
If you haven't found your vision yet,
That's perfectly okay.
If your higher purpose has not revealed itself to you yet,
There's nothing to worry about or to do or to be.
You simply need to focus on turning the experience of living into a joyful thing again.
Is it not a gift to be alive?
You need to believe with every cell in your body that your ability to envision your beautiful temple is true and that you are thankful for it.
Don't worry,
It's coming.
Be patient.
Love yourself.
Stay grounded in the knowledge that you have a higher purpose in this life.
Convince your body through the power of gratitude as if this vision were already well and truly on its way towards being your reality,
Your legacy and part of your life's work.
Feeling very grateful,
You can utter a genuine thank you if you'd like.
Giving thanks for your creative visionary ability can bring you closer to the actual event.
Next,
Express joy from the core of your body.
This can either be for just being introduced to this idea of having a vision,
Or that we as human beings are capable of having visionary experiences,
Or it can be for reminding you of your vision.
Or it can be for reconnecting you on the path to your higher self.
Or it can be for bringing you to acknowledging that you're on the path of discovering your vision already and you are maintaining motivation to see it through.
Feel this joy being expressed from the core of your body.
Take a moment to notice exactly where it's coming from.
Is it your heart where you feel your home is?
Is it from your solar plexus?
Is it from your abdomen?
Where is this joy coming from?
Breathing in and breathing out.
Breathe in and breathe out.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
As a meditator,
Your vision of higher self can direct you towards the light and away from suffering.
Breathe in,
Welcoming all the love and transformation for your path towards enlightenment and breathe out,
Sending the energy to the universe like a seed being planted.
Breathe in,
Welcoming all the love and transformation for your path towards enlightenment and breathe out,
Sending the energy to the universe like a seed being planted.
Don't worry about what you should have or should do.
Just try making this life into a powerful,
Well-tuned engine and you will be able to go anywhere.
This should be your vision.
Not,
I want this kind of house.
I want to earn so many thousands of dollars.
I want to marry this pretty human in the neighborhood.
No,
Just grow this life into a measurable unit of what it is to be joyfully alive and you will experience potential beyond what you can imagine.
This is how your wildest dreams happen.
They literally obtain you when you're ready for them,
Not the other way around.
And above all,
The quality of your life will not be determined by the arrangements in your life.
The quality of your life will be determined by the rhythm of life that plays within you and how you move with that rhythm.
So do not call petty desires a vision because if this human experience is enhanced,
Whether you sit in the city or in the mountain alone by yourself,
It is wonderful.
And that is what you should envision.
Namaste.
