Open Up To Insight Intuition And Inspiration

This simple and effective process of mindful breath and thoughts will effortlessly and naturally open up your intuitive mind to receive inspiration and insight. These are the gifts of going beyond your habitual thought patterns. At times, all it takes is to open yourself up to mindfulness. (Improved audio quality - March 2021.)

Transcript

So the purpose of this mindfulness meditation is to allow cells to be in the most conducive state of mind, To allow and invite moments of inspiration, Intuition and insight. These are things which I think we can't make happen from our own efforts, But there are things that can arise in our mind that can come to us if we prepare ourselves to be open and receptive. So the mindfulness meditation commentary on the breath and the thoughts is to hopefully get us into that open, Relaxed, Receptive state and then try not to have any expectation as to what happens after that. So the first part is mindfulness of the breath. So become aware of your breath in your body in this moment. I'd like to invite you to really feel the physical sensations of the breath in the body. So as you feel the breath enter the body, You're also entering the body with your awareness and your attention. As you feel the breath leave the body, Just allowing any tension also to leave the body. Beginning to connect to the present moment through the breath, Through the body. You don't have to breathe in any particular way, So just allow your breath to breathe itself at its own depth and own speed. Just allow the breath in, Let go as you breathe out. And see if you can let go of the idea of concentrating or focusing on the breath and instead having a very light, Easy and open awareness and simply allowing the breath to come and go within your open awareness. So providing a space within which the breath can flow. And don't try and exclude anything else from your awareness, So any thoughts or sounds or other sensations or emotions, Just allow them all to be there in this moment. Allow them to be just slightly in the background and for now taking a particular interest in the breath and allowing the breath to be in the foreground or the centre of your open and easy awareness. So we'll spend a few more moments with the breath before moving on to the thoughts. Feeling the breath rising and falling in the body, Keeping the awareness nice and open and light. See if you can get a sense that the body is being breathed by the breath, So you're not having to make any effort at all for the breath, Just allowing it to happen, Allowing the body to be breathed by the breath. So we'll move on to mindfulness of the thoughts next. But if at any time you feel the need, Just return to this breath, Return to the breath in the body in this present moment. Okay so the invitation is to take exactly the same approach towards our thoughts as we have just done with the breath, So keeping that awareness nice and light and open. And this time inviting your thoughts to be gently held in the centre or the foreground of your open awareness and allowing everything else, Breath, Body, Feelings, Sounds, To just be slightly in the background but not blocking out anything of this present moment. We're choosing to take a bit more interest for this part of the meditation on our thoughts. And just as with the breath, It doesn't matter how fast or slow your thoughts are, It doesn't matter how deep or shallow, And it really doesn't matter what the content of your thoughts are, Whether it's positive or negative, Mundane or random. The idea is to see if you can just keep that awareness nice and open and welcoming, Non-judgmental, And allowing your thoughts to flow as freely through your awareness as you allowed your breath to flow freely through your body. We're often very identified with our thoughts, So it may take a while to adjust to this experience of thinking and at the same time being the observer of those thoughts, Being aware of the thoughts as you're thinking them. So give yourself time just to adjust to how that feels. Your awareness, The welcoming space within which your thoughts come and go. And as we did with the breath, See if you can get a sense that you don't have to make any effort at all to create your thoughts, That actually they just arrive in the mind naturally spontaneously. So just as we began to experience the body being breathed by the breath, See if you can experience the thoughts just arriving within your awareness without any effort needed to be made by yourself whatsoever. So in a sense we're simply waiting for the thoughts to arrive and remembering to welcome any thought at all, Making no effort to engage with the thoughts, No effort to change them or redirect them or to stop them, Giving them complete freedom, Giving them unlimited space with our open, Easy and light awareness. And remember if you ever feel a bit lost amongst your thoughts, You can return to the breath in the body for a while and just bring back that nice open awareness and allow the breath to flow really through the body. And when you feel ready, Just notice that your thoughts are also flowing freely through that same awareness. Breath and thoughts both flowing through your open, Easy awareness. So the last part of the commentary before I leave a few minutes of silence is to practice turning your attention and your interest not to your current thoughts but to what your next thought might be. Not guessing or predicting what it might be but being open and alert to just catching the arrival of that thought, Whatever it may be. So I'm disinterested in my current thoughts. They've already arrived, They're there, That's fine. They can do whatever they want. But I'm wondering, Actively wondering and being ready to receive whatever the next thought might be. So have a go at that for a few moments of being alert and open to receiving the next new thought whenever that pops into the mind. Still not trying to change your current thoughts at all. Still welcoming and allowing any type of thought. Just being interested and alert to catch what the next thought might be. So remaining present by allowing the breath to flow freely through the body and remaining open, Allowing your thoughts to flow freely through your awareness and remaining alert to catch each new thought as it arrives in your open, Easy and light awareness. So for about maybe three minutes or so, Three or four minutes, I'll leave silence without commentary and without expectation being open to any insight, Inspiration or intuition that may arrive within your open awareness. Okay. So another minute or so, Just remaining in the present, Allowing the breath to flow freely through the body. And keeping your awareness nice and easy and light and open, Allowing your thoughts to flow freely, And being alert and welcoming to catch any new thoughts, Any insight, Intuitions or inspirations that may arrive to your open, Welcoming awareness. Congratulations. Okay, So I'll begin to bring this meditation to a close, But feel free to continue to remain open. If there's a flow of feeling or thoughts that you're finding inspiring or insightful, We don't want to bring that to an abrupt end. And if anything specific has come to mind, You may want to write it down in the next few minutes before it escapes. Okay, So we'll finish that.

Reviews

I find this meditation very light, soothing and peaceful. My conscious state was open and the breathing helped me to stay in the here and now, and realising any tensions and sensations with my exhal breath.

The commentary was excellent and helped me to stay in this beautiful and free space which Stephen has created. Thank you 🙏🏻🧘‍♂️✨❤️

Super effective. Straight to the point.
Thanks a lot!

Thanks Stephen. I enjoyed that