Hi,
It's Brooks.
Thanks for joining me.
Today we're going to take an intimate and experiential look at regeneration.
You could also call it renewal,
Vigor,
Vitality.
And so I'd like you to find a comfortable place to sit or to lie down.
And then once you do,
Close your eyes.
And feel the breath come into your body and the breath go back out.
The breath naturally comes in,
Naturally goes out.
And by focusing on our breath,
We're focusing on something very essential.
Our breath gives us life.
We don't have to ask for this gift.
It's given to us all the time.
Perhaps you can feel as the breath comes into your body a sense of vitality.
As the body takes that oxygen,
The heart pumps the blood and the oxygen spread through your body.
And there's vitality in the oxygen.
There's life.
There's life.
The oxygen restores us.
It gives us energy.
And you can feel that energy spreading through your body as the breath,
As the oxygen spreads through your body from your breath.
So essentially there's life spreading through you.
The flow of life consciously moving through you.
And since you're breathed,
Since it's not something that you have to do,
You're breathed.
The same force that breathes you,
That pumps your heart,
That moves the oxygen through your body,
Is the same force that moves planets around the sun,
That creates stars.
So what you're becoming aware of,
What you're experiencing,
Is the life force in your body.
The animating force of the universe.
It is in your body.
It's giving you oxygen.
It's basically taking care of your body.
It's running your body.
You're not doing it.
Life itself is living you,
Is running you,
Is operating you.
So take a curious look at that life force within you.
So essentially you're filled with vitality.
It's the currency of life,
The motivator of life.
That's what vitality is.
If you had a toaster,
A refrigerator,
And a dishwasher in the kitchen,
And they're all different but they're all run by electricity.
The same electricity.
And in the same way,
That animating force of life that moves the planets,
That creates stars,
Is moving through you.
So there's regenerative energy in you all the time.
Very,
Very powerful energy.
And it doesn't discriminate between this thing that I'm operating over here,
Like,
Oh this planet is better than this person.
It's all the same.
It runs it all.
It provides its power to all places,
To all things.
And it's providing its power to you right now.
With your breath,
With your heartbeat.
With the oxygen moving through your body,
Through your cells,
Through your organs,
Through bones.
By being aware of this life force within you,
It can revive you.
When we become aware of the truth of something,
It wakes us up.
We feel,
Wow,
The force of the universe is moving through me.
It's a powerful healer.
It removes exhaustion.
It removes pain.
It removes things that are unhealthy.
Because it's a dynamic,
Intelligent energy.
What happens in life is sometimes we think it's all up to us.
It's all on our shoulders.
We're alone when we think that.
And we get diminished when we think that and we get tired.
But when we recognize,
I'm being regenerated by the life force constantly.
This automatic breath,
This spontaneous automatic beat of my heart.
And all the great things that result from that.
I'm being regenerated constantly by life itself.
And by looking at it this way,
You can start to feel that.
And give you confidence in being alive and you're living.
And it can give you a sense of relaxation,
Which is really important for your health and well-being.
It's not all up to me.
Life itself is living me.
It's operating me.
I can feel it in my heartbeat.
I can feel it in my breath.
I can feel it in the oxygen moving through my body.
Maybe you can feel yourself being revived by this life force.
Renewed.
The great thing about this is you can forget about all this,
Everything that we just talked about,
Everything that we looked at.
It's not essential that you remember this.
Now and then you might remember it.
It might come back to you.
Oh yeah,
The life.
Life itself is flowing through me.
That same thing that moves the planet is beating my heart.
The same thing that created the sun has grown me up to this point in my life.
Grown my body.
Maintained my body.
And you get an uplift when you remember that.
The nice thing about this kind of information is it works subtly.
Now that you've remembered,
Now that you've experienced,
It becomes a part of you.
And that same force of life,
That same intelligence,
It takes the information that you're receiving and does its work in that way too.
So even understanding this,
Remembering this,
Is not up to you.
There's a deeper power at work,
A much more profounder and vast power than we sometimes think of ourselves as.
So we're going to end our meditation now.
You can stretch.
Open your eyes.
Look around the room.
Take in a deep breath.
And congratulations for taking this really interesting and curious and amazing and powerful look at yourself.
And I wish you the best.
Take care.
