Hello there beautiful being.
I'm so glad you're here and that you're taking the time to support your being in this way.
It's really beautiful.
I knew I had to sit down and record this guided meditation for you today because it was the meditation that actually I needed as well.
I've talked to so many people lately,
Friends and neighbors and colleagues and listeners of the Creative Genius podcast,
Who all share the same sentiments around time right now.
Time is doing a really curious thing right now.
It's beyond just the age-old,
You know,
Oh it goes by so fast.
There is actually something happening with time.
A lot of us feel like we're moving through molasses,
Like we have more to do than ever before and that time is somehow going faster.
Where you used to be able to get eight things done in a day,
Maybe now you're lucky if you get one or two things done.
And I know for me what that often indicates is that I am not spending enough time in meditation.
And so I felt very called to sit down and offer you and me a very grounding meditation that has an intention to open us to being receptive to what is.
All the things in our lives that are trying to make their way to us.
All the flow that is actually already happening right around us.
And likely because of a disconnection that we're experiencing with our true essence,
We don't experience that flow.
And then we experience that as struggle.
So I'm inviting you to set a couple of intentions with me and everybody else who's doing this meditation together today.
One of them is an intention to be open and receptive to what has been trying to make its way to you.
Whether that's an insight or some form of abundance or an offering or an epiphany or a realization,
An inspired idea,
Something has been trying to make its way to you.
Because of this lack of connection with presence,
It's having a hard time reaching you.
So the intention to be open to that which is trying to reach you.
An intention to be gentle with yourself and be really okay with whatever comes up for you in this meditation that we're about to do together.
If you get lost you'll just come back to your breath.
And finally I invite you to set an intention to be open to seeing something you haven't seen before.
This can be a powerful intention if you can really embody it and really be willing to be curious about what you might see.
As you settle in to this moment you've gifted yourself,
Sway gently back in your seat.
Move your body in whatever way it needs to to just sort of settle in to stillness.
I like to move my head side to side in a little wavy motion.
Give my spine a little wiggle.
Roll your shoulders back and down.
We'll take a few deep grounding breaths to shake off whatever it was that was with us when we arrived.
Just to really be in this moment together.
Take a deep breath in and let it out.
And you can let it out with a little sound if that helps.
No one's listening.
And if they are it's okay.
It's actually okay to make weird sounds sometimes.
The nervous system really benefits from making especially sounds that involve your lips and your lungs and any kind of vibration.
So feel free to take another deep breath in and let it out however feels good.
Whatever sound you like to really arrive.
Another final deep breath.
This one a little bit more quiet as you settle into yourself.
The seat that you're in.
Notice how supported you already are.
So the chair is rising up to meet you.
The floor is rising up to meet you.
There are so many things effortlessly in place all around you moment to moment that are supporting you.
And if you're paying close attention you can detect a love in that support.
So just take a moment to notice all the ways you're already supported in this moment.
And we're gonna drop into a deep quiet part of ourselves.
I like to imagine taking a step backwards into myself.
So much of the world that we live in involves forward motion,
Momentum,
And growth.
Reaching,
Striving,
And those things are all great.
But in order to have balance we need to have the opposite of those things which can be stillness and taking a step back.
I almost imagine taking a step back into my heart space.
Into the part of my body that's quiet and still already.
We're not trying to do anything here.
We're not trying to find anything or see anything or discover anything.
This practice really is about being.
Allowing yourself the deliciousness of simply being.
Noticing where you are in space.
Noticing where you are in the room that you're sitting in with your eyes closed.
Where do you begin and end?
Can you actually tell?
Is it really the confines of your body?
Or does your sense of yourself extend beyond your body?
And if so,
How far?
There's no right answer and it changes.
Sometimes I experience myself as quite spacious.
I've felt the edges of myself near the moon.
I know that sounds crazy but I have felt myself very expanded.
And I've also felt myself very small.
Safely tucked inside the confines of my physical body.
So just noticing for you right now.
Where do you begin and end?
You might notice that that energy field that I'm pointing at for you has a kind of pulsing.
Almost like a breathing that goes maybe with your breathing.
Expansion and contraction can be small.
Like a breath.
Like a heartbeat.
See if you can tune in to that.
And then from this place of really sensing where you are in space,
In your body,
In your body,
In the cosmos,
In the universe,
In the room,
Wherever you're feeling yourself.
I'm just gonna spend a couple of minutes just noticing the sensations that come with this awareness of where you begin and where you end.
Just enjoying it.
Enjoying the luxury of being able to be in silence in this moment and explore your edges in this way.
Just feeling yourself.
That's it.
Just feeling yourself.
And as much as you're able to,
Can you allow yourself to feel,
To sense yourself with your being.
As opposed to with part of your being.
So not your mind or a different part of you.
But with your whole being.
Almost with the thing that's inside every one of your cells.
Can you allow yourself to sense yourself from yourself.
From the essence of yourself.
The room you're sitting in may be very quiet or there may be sounds of a forest or even traffic around you.
It could be voices,
Other humans busy doing their thing right now.
It could be a clock ticking or a dog softly snoring.
Whatever's around you right now,
Can you notice that even though that's making a sound,
There's something holding that sound.
That sound is emerging from a silence.
And for the next little while,
I want you to listen to that silence with your awareness.
With the awareness that you've now connected with of your being.
Of where you begin and where you end.
That awareness.
There's nothing you have to do.
You don't have to stop your thinking.
If a thought comes up,
You can notice it just the way you noticed any of those little dogs.
You can notice that a thought came up and is held by that silence.
And now you're focusing on the silence again.
This is an opportunity for you for the next little while to just listen with your whole being,
Not with your mind,
Not with your ears,
To the silence itself.
Noticing that everything that happens is coming from an enormous,
Very loving,
Infinite silence.
And you get to just hang out here and notice that for the next little while.
Your whole being,
All the energy systems in your body love the opportunity to just be suspended in the silence,
In the space,
In this awareness.
Relax into this awareness.
It's like a vacation for your whole being.
If you get lost,
You just come back to realizing,
Oh yeah,
That thought happened in this beautiful silence that I'm listening to right now with my whole being.
You can stay in this place of awareness,
Of being aware of yourself,
Where you would begin and where you end,
And how you relate to that silence for as long as you're able.
You can give yourself 20 minutes of this a day.
It's beautiful.
You can only do three minutes at a time.
That's wonderful too.
Sometimes you'll listen to this recording and it will not make sense,
And the next time you listen to it might be one of the most profound meditations you've ever had.
Just be willing to allow whatever it is that's happening for you today to be the thing that's happening for you today,
And keep coming back.
