Rest As Awareness | Let Everything Be As It Is

What if you could put down all the striving, trying and fixing, and simply rest in who you already are?
In this guided open-awareness meditation, Troy Love invites you to rest your attention at your centre point and gently explore emotions, sounds, sensations and thoughts as they naturally arise.
Rather than getting caught in the stories of the mind, you're invited to experience life directly, allowing everything to be exactly as it is.
As the practice deepens, explore the shift from being aware of your experience to resting as awareness itself. A space of openness, connection and effortless being.
The meditation concludes with an invitation to set an intention for your day from a place of presence and trust.
Part of It Takes No Effort to Be Who You Really Are, a series of free weekly live meditations with Troy on Insight Timer. Join us live each week or return to these recordings whenever you feel called to reconnect.

Transcript

So let's begin. The invitation if you haven't already is to find yourself a comfortable position. And that can be in a chair, It can be seated on the floor. Ideally not lying down, But if that's where you feel most comfortable. Then that's okay as well. But we want to remain active in this practice and not passive. So I want to invite you now. To bring your attention to your center point. And so your center point is if you could imagine a line from your pelvic floor to the crown of your head, An energetic line, And in the center of your body, So it's kind of to the side of your heart, In the center. Let's see a center point and this is where consciousness comes to rest within itself. So we're just going to rest here, Rest our attention here. And in the same way if I said to you, Put your attention on the end of your right big toe. We put our consciousness and our attention in the same way on our center point, The center of our body. The center of our field of awareness. So if you could imagine a sphere, A circle all the way around you 360 degrees. This is the center of that, The center point, The center of our field of awareness. So if you still have your attention on your right big toe, Bring it back to your center point. I'm just going to rest here. Meditation style is an open style sitting meditation. Practice where we. . . Allow all things to be as they are. As we rest in our center point. The invitation is to put down all the striving, All the trying, All the effort. In all the ways that you're trying to figure things out to try to be someone. Only for the next 40 minutes. We're just going to put it all down and rest. In our center point. And as we rest here. The invitation is to become aware of what is arising in our field of awareness, In our direct experience. And what we're practicing here is. . . Being without direct experience, Without. Going into conceptualization without going into story. I'm going to guide us through this. So the title of this meditation is Takes No Effort to Be Who You Really Are. And as we progress in this practice, You'll see that we are ongoing. Just resting. In our center point. Being open to our field of awareness. So as we rest here. What are the things that we might be aware of that are arising in our field? We can be aware of our emotions. What emotion is alive for you in this moment? And if that's tricky because it's not something that you're practiced at, That's okay. But just do your best to be with me. Whatever the feeling is, The emotional feeling that is present for you. And then just allow it. Without conceptualizing or going into a story around why it's there. You just surrender to it. It might help initially just to label it We use labels. Labels are pointers. They can be useful. So as you tune into this moment. What is the emotion that's alive for you in this moment? See if you can label it, Like what is the emotion without giving it meaning, Without going into the story around why it's there. And then we just feel it. And if at any point you find yourself drawn into a story, When you realize, Just bring yourself back to your center point. And rest. Once again, Just let go of all the striving, All the trying, And just be with the field. One more time let's just tune into any emotion that's alive in this moment. Label it and. . . Allow it, Feel it, Surrender to it. Emotion, Energy in motion. In this we're learning how to consciously feel. The energy that's alive. And without any resistance allowed to move. And then we rest in our center point. Open to the field. What else can we be aware of that's arising in our field? Is what we call sound. And again, It can be useful to label the sounds. The practice is to resist or. . . To not go into the story, The conceptualization of the sounds. And just be with the sound. So we might label it bird. Voice. Or whatever is in your field. Then we just. . . Be with the sound as it arises in the field. At the same time, We're resting in our center point, Allowing all things to be as they are. As we be aware of the sounds. As we be with the field and we're aware of the sounds, We might even also. . . Be aware that sounds are sound waves. So there's the activator of the sound, The sound wave, And the receiver. Us being the receiver. And in that, We are connected. And you might feel the sounds. Resting in your center point. As we be aware. Can you feel the sounds? And we rest. What else can we be aware of in our field? There are. Physical feelings. What we also call sensations. So what sensations might you be aware of? The air on your skin. Your body or whatever you're sitting on or laying on. Clothes on your body. There might be discomfort in your body. Whatever it is, Again without conceptualizing or going into a story around what it is, Whether it's good or bad. You might be able to see this is just one. Aspect of what is arising in the field. And it is just a sensation. In the same way we built emotions and. . . Maybe you felt the sounds, We feel these sensations. As part of the field. And at this point you might also be aware that all of this is happening and arising with no effort at all from us. From you. It's all just. Arising in the field. And we rest. And we open to the field. A field of awareness. As we rest in our center point. And what else might we be aware of? Thoughts? Thoughts arising in the field. And what can be useful here is. . . To label the thoughts. The same way we label the sounds. But again, The invitation is to not go into the story of the thought. We recognize the thought. So I'm gonna share with you. We do this and then I'm going to leave you for a minute or two to do it for yourself. As thoughts arise, Just call them out. Tree. Flower, Desk, And chair. Meditation. Skull, Head Halloween. Ever. Danny. Josh. Olaf. Love. Meditation. Nipples. Feet. So I'm going to leave you for a moment or two to play with this. You're not trying to censor anything, It's just as thoughts arise in the field, Just label them. And you can do that in your own space. I wonder if you might see that. As we label the thoughts. That in the same way sounds arise and sensations arise and emotions arise. They are arising with no effort. At all from. Of us. And they are just arising in the fear. And As we observe them, Label them, The invitation is to see that Maybe you're not them. And as you rest in your center point. Open to the field. I was to ask you where those thoughts were arising from. Where does it feel like they're arising? They're just arising in the field, Right? To in the same way. To the same extent we give our attention to. . . Sounds. We practice giving the same attention. To thoughts. It's only that we've been habitually conditioned. To identify with thoughts and give them meaning. That they take more precedence in our field of awareness. But it's a habit. And as we might have seen in this practice, We're not those thoughts, The thoughts are just arising. We're not the thinker of the thought. And so then we rest in the field. In our center point. Open to the field. Allowing all things to be as they are. And as we rest in the center point, As thoughts arise and just allow them to pop like bubbles. In the same way that sounds. Fade away, Thoughts fade away. As we rest in our center point, Allowing all things to be as they are. Sensations, The vibrations. Of the sound waves of sounds. The thoughts. I wonder if you can feel the field. In its wholeness. As you rest in your center point I wonder if you're able to rest as the field. And if that is not possible, Maybe there's an emotion that needs to be felt and allowed. So here we are resisting nothing. Except you're breaking the habitual. Atom or the habit of conceptualizing our experience. And just being with the whole of our experience. A direct experience. And so we rest as the field. Allowing all things to be as they are. And in this we move from being aware to being-awareness itself. And all we've done is. . . Rested. Being open. Being open to receiving. Of love. The fullness of our experience. So we practice. Practice resting. And allow it. Of receiving. Being connected to the whole of our experience. As awareness itself. Until we sit in the fullness of our being. Allowing all things to be as they are. Thoughts will arise, Sensations will arise, Vibrations will arise, Emotions will arise. And we can allow it all, We can feel it all. So we rest in that. Connected, Intricately connected to the whole of the universe. Experience. Intricately connected. To the point that if you didn't exist the whole of experience could not exist. That's how important you are. Not you, The conceptualized version of you. View this expression of awareness resting. In the fullness of your being. So we learn to let go of the conceptualized version. The conditioned version of who. We think we are. All the striving, All the trying, All the fixing. And we rest in the fullness. Well-being. Whole, Connected love. Here to be divinely expressed. As an expression of the whole. And we rest in that. With faith and trust. But in the same way a seed grows into a massive beautiful tree. As we care for our inner landscape. Landscape. We tend to it. We nurture it. Nurture our seed by giving it the space. We nurture our seed by connecting it back to the energy. The life force. And in that still presence of the light. Our expression will be realized. Or how could it not? Is that not why we are here? Let me just rest in that. Than knowing. Allowing all things to be as they are. In that we are connected to all things. We are all things. Without conceptualization, Good, Bad, I don't want, I want. And we allow all of it to be as it is. We can rest in the whole of our experience. The center point. The center of your field of awareness. Where consciousness comes to rest within itself That's a point. That is every point. Because it is everywhere. It is everything. It's the fabric that makes up everything that you are inseparable from. How could you not be it? Let me rest there. Resting in the fullness of our experience, Allowing all things to be as they are. Feeling the vibrations, The sensations the thoughts, The emotions, The fullness, The aliveness. Connected to the whole. As the whole. And it takes no effort. To be who you really are. We receive it, We listen, And allow all things. Resting. Resting as the field. At any point. Bring your attention back to your center point and just rest. It's an anchor that you might take into your day. When things feel like they're getting too much. Bring your attention to your center point, Rest and allow all things to be as they are. Put everything down. All the striving, All the trying. Trying to realize, Trying to become, Trying to fix. Trying to defend. Allow all things to be as they are. If you have an intention for your day. As we rest in this center point in communion with the whole of our experience. What is it that you might intend for your day? In this we're learning to co-create with the whole of our experience as the field. As awareness itself. As we surrender our intention We might be aware throughout the day of any trying to cling on to or any resistance. And how that feels. How in that we are cut off from the whole of our experience. From the receiving. From the listening. So in setting our intention, We allow all things to be as they are. And trust. The infinite intelligence that is the whole of the experience. If for a moment we were to cast our awareness to the infinite complexity of the ecosystem that we exist in, From the smallest ants working together to the complexity of what humans have created. And how it's all interwoven, Not separate, But one. Interacting inseparable from. This intelligence that we are. Guides our intentions. As we intended from awareness. As awareness. Resting in our center point, Open to the field. Connected to the field, We are the field. Resting. Knowing. The fullness of who we are. It takes no effort to be who we really are. We just need to allow it. Thank you for your presence, Your energy, For sitting with me today. If this is something that you would enjoy weekly, I would be honored to facilitate. Just reach out and let me know.