Start The Day With Wisdom & Deep Perspective

This meditation is for your mornings. When we take a few minutes in the morning to move the body and to bring gratitude and radiant love into our field, it sets us up to receive the lessons that life has in store for us each day. This one is to inspire insight, wisdom and a deep perspective on the bigger picture.

The song is "Dawn" by Chris Lane. Thanks for listening and meditating!

Transcript

A Zen monk was walking in a forest.

Walking for days and days.

Tired and eventually got to this riverside.

And on the other side of the river he saw one of his masters.

It was a big river.

And so overjoyed and excited to see his master to help show him the way.

He's been walking for days.

He looks across the river and yells,

Hey,

Hey!

Master,

Master!

I've been walking for days and days.

Please,

Please tell me how do I get to the other side?

How do I reach the other side?

The master looks at him,

Cocks his head to the side and smiles.

You're already on the other side.

You're already on the other side.

Today is the best day of your life.

That's where we're going to start from.

Wherever you are,

Wherever you are,

Wherever you are,

Wherever you are,

Wherever you are sitting,

Standing,

Sitting in bed,

Sitting on the floor,

Let your body start to guide you in movement.

Starting to feel the juices moving through your body,

Whether it's just a subtle head roll or the shoulders or the spine.

Start to allow your life force to fill up the vessel that you've chosen for this lifetime,

Whether you know it or not.

Allow your spirit to embody this somebody suit,

The suit that you've been wearing,

This awesome space suit.

Remembering that it's been a gift,

A blessing to be on this earth.

It's like our lifetime on earth is just university,

It's the universe.

And each lifetime that we experience here on earth is like a year of school.

And when we die,

It's actually just summer break.

And we come back for another year.

As your body fully comes to a gentle stop,

Your spinal cord elongates like a column of light plugging into the earth and into the heavens.

Nourishment from below and guidance from above.

Allowing awareness and wisdom to pour in.

It's all there,

It's all right in front of you.

We're going to move through our day today,

But not our to-do list,

We're going to move through a day of expansive emotions and see what that feels like.

So in our minds,

Eye and our imagination from wherever we are,

We can imagine ourselves leaving the house or not.

Passing people on the street and when they make eye contact with us,

There's this luminous energy,

This radiance of life that comes within us and connects within them.

They can't help but smile,

Whoa,

What's going on there?

Something powerful is happening in that human and it's in me too.

Every person you pass by,

Luminous.

You go through your errands for the day,

Laughing,

Smiling,

Curious like a child,

Like the first day of school.

What am I going to learn today?

What's going to happen today?

Like you're watching a movie about yourself.

And as you move through the world,

Maybe you have children,

You pick up your kids,

Or you see your family,

Or you see your friends in the evening,

And they're just happy to see you.

And then you're going to see them again.

And they're just happy to see you.

And even if they're upset,

Even if something happened,

Even if there's something there,

Really underneath it,

They're just happy to see you.

Happy to be upset at you because you're there.

Then when we see through this surface level world,

We can see the deep love that resides beneath.

We come to our closing at the end of the day and back to our bed for another day of school tomorrow.

What am I going to learn?

Every day we'll bring new lessons.

And the more open we are to these lessons,

The more excited we are for these lessons,

The quicker we get to learn them,

The easier they become,

The less challenging.

Look the tiger in the eye today.

The hero's journey is not an easy one,

But it is a powerful one.

Let's take a deep inhale and exhale together.

We can bring our hands to heart center,

Taking a gentle bow for all of our teachers in this universe,

Whether it's the long line that we have to wait in or a relationship that we're in.

You're already on the other side.

Namaste.

Reviews

Love this refreshing light hearted approach, embracing life with it's challenges as lessons. Life is I deed a school. That is my favorite saying, when asked "where did you study" my answer has always been the school of life! Thank you for this

A cheerful way to start my day and to be present. Thank you! 🙏🏻

Another great meditation 🙏 I cracked up at the start, very funny Zen master 😅

I just love your energy! Your meditations are the perfect way to start my day. Namaste

The synchronicity that I have experienced and this meditation just fitted so well your already on the other side. Thank you

Lovely! Good reminder that every thing and every one and all our interactions and experiences are teachers ... and that this Life is a wonder-filled gift. Thank you🙏🌠

Your approach is so simplistic but with such a deep, powerful meaning.I and my partner have really been enjoying your way of getting a point across but with such joy , happiness,and laughter.Not so uptight .You actually just teach and have wisdom from just being yourself and bringing joy , happiness, hopefulness,and make us smile continuously.Thank you and I hope to continue to hear more and more from you .Do you teach from life experience itself or what determined you to do this? I'm very curious because if more teachers were laid back and so simply simplistic as you but with such a driven purpose I think more people would be reached . Definitely a one of a kind and I can say I search for that when being taught.I really am someone who doesn't enjoy straight text book teachings but those that have been discovered or the teacher has actually been through the things taught.I listen to Mooji as he is straight to his pointings as you but he also has a sense of humor as being serious also.So keep on doing what you are doing.If you can reach just one person,then you have done what was divinely meant to be and you definitely touched our hearts today .Namaste...Much Love and Peace❤️✌️

Thank you for reminding me with your energy that life’s not so serious I can play laugh and have fun! 🤍

A perfect reminder to embrace each day as if we are “already on the other side.” Thank you 🙏🏼

Beautiful! Definitely a meditation to come back to often.
Namaste 🙏 🌺😊

Thankyou for this beautiful start to the day.
Love Andrea x

Beautiful, true, joyful & insight full reminder. A lovely wake up moment 🙏🏻 thank you ❤️

Starting my morning with this short and sweet meditation gives me perspective to greet the day! I’m already in the other side 😊 all gratitude Bodhi 🙏

Wonderful way to start the day. Thank you. Love and blessings 🩷x

A beautiful session for first thing in the morning! Thank you ☺️🙏🏾💕

How positive and optimistic this was. Really wonderful. Thank you so much

Such beautiful words! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you 🙏💗

What an infectious happy voice and and inviting light 🙏🏼✨🙏🏼thank you. Love the storytelling.

Such a perfect way to start the day in this school of Life. 🙏🏼

I wake my 9yr old son in the morning with meditation... this morning I chose this. I lay in his bed next to him and he loved it. 😍 we usually do affirmations of unstoppable courage and gratitude.... this was both and heart felt inspiration 💓... Mucho es gracias NAMASTE 🙏🏾 💖 my son Jeremiah call this meditation the" Zen Monkey".