White Noise Meditation ~ Vast Interstellar Space

If you need some sense of spaciousness, there's really no better meditation object than space itself.

Immerse yourself both in directly felt space, and in one amazing fact about outer space, to expand your view of reality.

The first part of this meditation is calm spacious instruction, the second part is a lovely ASMR space-soundscape, provided by the ambient white noise of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR).

The ending words to this meditation you might recognize as well... I wish you lots of relaxing spaciousness.

image: Colin Watts

Transcript

Welcome to this contemplation to enter into a sense of spaciousness and vastness. I first would like to ask you to make some contact with space as you feel it right now. And to do that is simply to inhale deeply and feel the space within your rib cage as you inhale. And then when you exhale, Make contact with the sense of space in the room that you are exhaling into. Feel that spaciousness as well. And do that a few times, So enjoy the expansive spaciousness inside your chest when you inhale. And when you exhale, Connect to the spaciousness around you. And it might be more accessible to feel the roominess in your chest. But you can actually also feel into the space around you. And one way to do that is to realize that space itself has no separation or boundary. Even though, Of course, There are a few layers of tissue and skin and muscle between your chest and the room that you're in. Space itself is not divided by that. So can you feel into this boundarylessness, This spaciousness? Can you extend your sense of space from your inner body spaciousness out into the spaciousness that fills the room, That the room is in? And see yourself as a body in space that is itself made of the very space that the room that the body is in is also made of. There's just one undivided space. So just breathe with that growing realization for a few moments. And then I want to give you one simple fact to consider to expand your perspective to just an unimaginable vastness. Of space, Of outer space. And that fact is that in about four and a half billion years it's predicted that the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy will collide. So these are hundreds upon hundreds of billions of stars in these two galaxies that will collide. And the uncanny fact about this collision in the future is that it's actually expected that no single actual collision between stars or planets will actually take place. That's how much space there is in the galaxies themselves. So just let that sink in for a moment and let it in fact blow your mind. And breathe even more deeply and more spaciously with the awareness of this unimaginable vastness of space. And with that I hope you enjoy the rest of this meditation. I'm going to step off the LM now. That's one small step for man, One giant leap for mankind.