Yeah,
Lying down or sitting,
Whatever feels best for you this morning,
Afternoon,
Or evening.
And letting go of needing to have the perfect meditation seat.
So it is good to have the spine erect.
It helps us to stay alert and aware,
But also allow your shoulders to relax.
Allow the muscles in the face to relax around the jaw and the brow.
And as we come into our meditation today,
It's really acknowledging that meditation as a practice is just attention and intention.
So as we settle into our physical form,
As we allow our life energy to settle into the breath,
Moving in and out of the nostrils for that ocean-like sound.
We begin to bring in an appreciation for the impermanence that we experience in this life that ami ca.
The idea of impermanence for a culture that's really based around consuming and owning and being so attached to ego and role can be very frightening,
Can be very uncomfortable.
So just notice what it feels like to be in your body,
Knowing that your body is changing each and every day,
That your body will take many different shapes and then eventually one day return again to the earth.
But acknowledging that that life energy within that lights the essence,
The truth of who you are and what you are.
As always here,
No matter the changing organic nature of the human experience,
Acknowledging that the world around you is constantly influxed,
The trees outside your window,
The buildings,
Things constantly changing and moving.
And we have an opportunity to detach,
This term vayargiya,
To detach from our need for anything to be anything other than what it is,
Which causes suffering,
Nduka.
And we're able to just sit into stillness as the world changes around us and within us.
Confined sukha.
Sukha is happiness or a type of contentment to just be with what is.
So just notice your body here.
Notice the ego,
The mind that lives within.
Notice if it allows you to settle into stillness with comfort or if there is discomfort with this idea of impermanence.
Can you slow down?
Can you tune in?
And just allow the stillness here,
The silence to wash over you,
To be comforting.
Becoming more and more OK with the world moving quickly around us,
But slowing down time as we settle into our experience and observe more subtly.
Tuning into if your body feels warm or cold.
Tuning into your emotional state from the beginning of your meditation to the end.
Is there irritation or frustration?
Is there joy and a settledness?
Are the sounds around you changing?
Are there cars outside your window or wind in the trees?
Bringing in intention into the mind,
Into the body,
Into the breath here as we move out of solstice into the new year,
A new cycle.
Moving into an opportunity,
A potential for letting go of constructs that hold us back.
Embracing change inside yourself,
Outside yourself.
Embracing the impermanent nature of those that you love.
Doing our best to take things a little less personal.
Our relations with humans can sometimes also be hot and cold and wavering and just acknowledging that we are all just like these flowers in the wind moving to and fro.
Doing our best to appreciate the forest around us.
Bring one hand to the heart,
One hand to the belly and just take a deep breath in here,
Deep sigh out of the mouth.
I want you to bring into mind something that you're going to work with this week or maybe just today.
But what is it in your life?
What is it within you?
The human experience,
Your partner,
Your family,
Your relationships,
Your work?
What impermanence that exists within one of those factors or all brings up the most resistance or discomfort?
What part of that impermanence,
That change brings up the most discomfort?
And is the discomfort in your mind,
Is it in your heart or is it in your breath?
Because many times when we really,
Really dig deep,
Deep,
Deep,
Deep down,
The resistance to the reality,
To our truth,
That resistance generally stems from the mind.
The ego begins to think,
It gets attached to its constructs,
It gets attached to its roles.
And so the body follows suit,
Anxiety,
Stress,
Tension begin to build up.
So again,
This is a moment where you may just leave one hand on the heart,
One hand comes to the forehead and just feel in here and visualize sending energy from the heart to the mind to just allow,
Allow yourself to stay in heart resonance.
Body knows the truth.
It's this ancient,
Ancient tool.
The cognitive mind is still very new.
So use the heart to send the energy to the mind to say,
I got this.
Everything's okay.
I'm okay.
We're going to be okay.
Anytime that we forget and we move into our fear,
See if it's the mind that's taking over.
Bring the hands together at heart center,
Just bowing the head to the heart.
We have these wonderful vessels,
These bodies that we've been gifted that we've had to do nothing for,
Shown up and experience,
And we're doing our best to understand.
We're learning,
We're growing,
But we're also attaching to what we see and what we know to be true.
Really do your best to purify the mind as much as you can by connecting the heart to thought and letting that ancient wisdom that exists within really shine through heart resonance and allow us to make decisions based on what our truth really,
Really desires and not what we think we need.
What we think should be there,
Could be there,
Would be there.
Thumbs between eyebrows center,
Bowing down towards the earth that supports us.
We say namaste.
