Okay,
Welcome back to the Spiritual Recalibration Series.
Thank you for embarking on this series and opening yourself to a new way of being.
My name is David,
And this is Session 15,
We Are Enough.
Find a comfortable seat in a space where you can allow yourself 20 minutes or so,
Undistracted,
To focus just on you.
A quick reminder,
To get the most out of this series,
Please be sure you've listened to the Welcome Session,
Session Zero.
Here we go.
Just a couple of minutes here on that question of,
Is it true?
So as you've been doing,
Maybe this is your first or second time,
And maybe you've been doing this for a while,
Your own meditation practice and or guided meditations,
Any sorts of centering practices,
Practicing yoga,
Anything that you have chosen to do for however long you've chosen to try it.
One of the things that starts to happen is that you,
Is when you come back to the breath,
As we were just doing,
You're coming back to the breath from noticing some thoughts,
Noticing the mind wandering.
So that's awesome to notice that.
And so one of the things that you tend to notice as you practice this is thought patterns.
So you tend to,
Sometimes it's quite common to notice that you tend to think the same things,
Kind of over and over,
Like thoughts kind of get recycled.
So those are habitual thought patterns.
And sometimes that's how I've heard them referred to,
Habitual thought patterns.
And so,
And we have all kinds of those.
And there are,
So one of the,
So I'll give you an example and kind of where those thought patterns come from.
It just,
It's different person to person as far as like our,
You know,
Our personalities,
Our personality types,
Our history,
You know,
Who our parents were and,
You know,
How we brought up our child,
You know,
Kind of all that stuff.
So those sorts of,
It's different for,
I mean,
Everybody,
You know,
The nature of the mind is to have thoughts.
And that's,
So that's what we all do.
But the texture of those patterns,
You know,
Is unique to a person.
But then,
So one of,
One example that I wanted to bring up for you is a thought pattern of enough,
Or specifically not enough.
This is one that,
This is one that I'm familiar with.
So the nature of the mind is that,
Of the ego mind is that,
Is that new,
Different,
And more.
New,
Different,
And more.
Those are the three words that came up.
Kind of always,
Always want something to be new,
Wanting something to be different,
Want something to be more.
So this idea of this word enough,
Enough,
Well,
In terms,
So the first thing that comes up with that is in terms of like the word lack,
Lacking something.
So enough,
Enough time,
Enough money,
Enough love,
And that somehow there's not enough of those and other things.
So we like to recycle that pattern of things not,
Of there not being enough,
Health,
Healthy enough,
Well enough,
Good enough,
That what's,
What's right here right now isn't good enough.
There's something else,
There's that,
There's that grass is always greener,
Right?
So what's over here for me here isn't enough because over there is nicer,
Is prettier,
Is more,
Is different,
Is new.
And so what all of that,
All of that,
So what that whole pattern is about is,
And that something else is the,
Is the future,
Right?
So it's kind of,
There'll be,
There'll be enough,
I will be enough,
It will be enough,
That will be enough,
Then,
As opposed to now.
So what that,
So what that does is take us out of presence,
Right?
So that's how we spent our first few minutes here together,
Was just asking what's actually here.
The purpose of asking that question is to bring us into presence.
The now,
I started playing with that hand,
Hand on the heart,
For the now,
Here and now,
Because that's where everything is,
That's where everything is enough.
In the,
In presence,
In the here and now,
There's always enough,
We never lack time,
Money,
Love,
Health,
Wellness,
Anything,
Now.
So that circles back around to that question,
Which is really hard to remember to do,
But is possible when you enter into these,
Into this sort of,
Kind of self-awareness practice,
Because when you notice thoughts or thought patterns like that,
We can ask,
Is it true?
I don't have enough money.
Is it true?
Is that true?
Right now,
Here in this moment,
I don't have enough love,
Is that true?
So that's just,
And it's not really,
I mean,
It's a bit of a meditation in and of itself,
But it's not,
When you ask the question,
Is it true?
It's not so right now,
It's not,
You don't like answer yourself right there in that moment,
Because that's still all up in here,
It's,
It is in asking the question that you open,
That we open to possibility,
And it also,
It's in this,
As I was thinking about this,
It reminds me of the work of Byron Katie,
She,
She's the author of and the creator of the work,
And that's,
And that's the,
That's,
And that's the nature of that work,
Is questioning your,
Questioning your thoughts and your thought patterns,
Is it true?
That's extraordinary work to do,
Because we talked about this a while back,
I think maybe when we were first starting out,
The nature of,
The nature of kind of being a human is that we have all these thoughts and we tend to believe them.
We believe everything we think is true,
And so if we're thinking that there's not enough of this and not enough of that,
That's not going to feel so great.
So when we question those,
We can shift things,
And this is all coming back to once again,
Noticing,
Which is awareness,
Which is the whole game.
So let's do a short little,
Just a short little practice,
And we'll include a little bit on that idea of enough.
Yeah,
Okay,
So make sure your feet are flat on the ground if you're sitting in a chair,
If you're sitting on the floor,
Just make sure you're comfortable,
Sitting with a nice upright spine,
Not having to,
In a position such that you don't have to work too hard to stay upright.
I should say that you don't have to work at all to sit nice and upright.
And so we draw the shoulder blades gently together,
Gently,
So that we have a nice upright spine.
Tuck the chin just slightly,
And that's just so we're nice and straight in the spine,
All the way up through our neck and such.
The hands are on the thighs,
At the juncture of thighs and abdomen,
Or a little bit further forward.
Palms up or down is your choice.
And close down the eyelids gently.
Let the breath flow naturally,
And begin to notice the breath.
Once again,
Locating that spot in your nostrils,
Maybe it's just at the edges of your nostrils,
Maybe it's a little bit higher up,
Where you can notice the inhale and the exhale,
Where you can notice the air passing through your nostrils,
Where you can notice the inhale and the exhale,
Where you can notice the air passing on the inhale and on the exhale.
Good.
And now,
As you notice the inhale,
Accompany the inhale with the words,
I am,
Just in your mind,
Saying,
I am.
And when you notice yourself exhale,
Say in your mind,
Peace.
Starting with the I am peace mantra,
Giving the mind both the breath,
Giving yourself both the breath and the mantra to come back to.
To come back to whenever you notice the mind wandering.
Also giving yourself something true to say,
To think.
I am on the inhale,
Peace on the exhale.
Not controlling the breath,
Not using the mantra to control your breath,
Simply accompanying the natural breath with the mantra.
It's natural for the mind to wander.
When you notice it,
Come back to the breath and the mantra.
Over and over again.
Just another minute now like this.
Notice your thinking.
Come back to breath and mantra.
Good.
Notice your thinking.
Come back to your breath and your mantra.
Training.
Training the mind.
It's like you're in the gym.
Training the mind in presence.
Coming back to the moment where you are noticing.
Good.
Now take an intentional inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth.
You can let the breath go.
You don't have to watch it anymore.
Don't have to say your mantra anymore.
So let yourself be here for just another minute or two or three.
Draw your gaze gently,
Gently upward behind your closed eyelids toward the point between the eyebrows.
No straining,
No tension.
Just a gentle upward gaze.
Allowing yourself to see just a wave of color,
A wave of color flowing through you,
Through your body and your mind.
Give the wave a color you choose.
Yellow,
Green,
Red,
Turquoise,
White.
A flowing wave of all the colors you choose,
But see it.
It's a gentle,
Slow-moving wave of feeling of enough.
Let this enough be with you,
Present here and now.
Enough of everything,
Life.
Enough.
Let the visual go of the wave,
Of the color,
But stay with this feeling of enough for just another moment or two.
Good.
Take an intentional inhale and exhale through the nose.
And when you're ready,
Come back to the space where you are.
You can flutter open your eyelids,
Or you can stay here for as long as you like.
