Be Still & Listen

Be Still & Listen: Based on a verse from A Course in Miracles, “Be Still and Listen to the Truth,” this meditation helps you quiet the mind and connect to the spirit. Use this meditation to listen to God’s voice and receive guidance or healing for life’s challenges.

Transcript

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Taking three slow,

Gentle breaths,

Deeply breathing in,

Breathing out.

And as you exhale,

Just let yourself sink down into the chair and relax.

Settle into wherever you're sitting,

Feeling the chair or the floor beneath you.

Breathing another deep,

Slow breath.

Breathing in calming energy and just breathing out any thoughts or stress from your day or past or future wonderings.

Just let it all go and completely bring your awareness to this moment,

Here and now.

Breathing in,

Breathing out.

Settling ourselves into a place of stillness and peace.

So allowing the breath to just cleanse and release any part of you that doesn't feel peace in this moment.

Breathing out the fears,

The worries,

The doubts.

And breathing in love,

Breathing in trust,

Breathing in God,

Breathing in the divine presence.

Taking a moment to just be aware of your feet connected to the earth.

Imagine the earth beneath you.

Imagine you're like a tree rooted to the earth,

Still and solid.

And the wind can be blowing,

But you are just at peace,

Like a tree grounded,

Rooted to the earth.

So feeling the energy of your feet,

The energy of the earth,

Breathe it in.

Breathe in that peaceful,

Loving kindness.

Bringing your attention now to your hands.

Feeling any sensations in your hands.

Being aware of your hands wherever they're placed.

And bring one hand to your diaphragm or the center of your body,

And one hand to your spiritual heart,

Which is more in the center of your chest.

And begin to breathe naturally now into your heart space.

Inviting the divine presence into your heart.

Awakening to that presence of love that's always there.

Clearing the mind by just watching and waiting for the next thought with your eyes.

Your eyes closed,

Just watching and waiting for the next thought,

Not to see what it will be,

But to actually have no thought.

And even just for a few moments,

To be aware of the space between your thoughts.

This is the divine presence.

This is your God Self.

This is where the truth lives.

So our Course in Miracle verse today,

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Let me be still and clear my mind.

Imagining that eraser in the mind,

Erasing thoughts as they keep coming up.

And allow God's light to shine into your mind.

To show you the truth.

To bring you peace and healing for yourself and for the world.

For your brothers,

For your sisters,

For all beings.

So take a moment to lay aside the ego's voice and listen for God's voice.

The Holy Spirit,

The truth.

This voice remembers who you truly are.

Ask for it and it will come.

It will come with miracles.

Be still and listen for the truth.

Be still and feel the presence of God's light beating inside your heart.

Breathe it in.

Let the light shine into your heart.

So you can be connected to who you truly are.

And shine that light,

That peace into the world,

Onto others.

Towards the suffering that you see,

The judgments that you have.

Everything becomes transformed.

From fear to love.

From grievance to miracle.

From worry to ease.

From anxiety to peace.

Sit with this space inside your heart.

Keep allowing it to come.

You may instruct your mind,

Your ego mind,

To focus on the stillness.

To focus on the peace of God.

I will focus now on the peace of God.

I will feel it in my heart.

Bring your focus to your hand against your heart.

Your hand against your diaphragm where you can breathe.

By focusing more on the breath you're less connected to the thinking mind and all its judgments and labels and decisions and conclusions about things.

You can completely feel the presence of peace in your heart.

By breathing in and out of your heart.

Moment by moment.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

Going back to clearing the mind as thoughts come up,

As of course they will,

Distractions will always come in.

But you don't have to attach to it.

You don't have to decide that that's good or bad.

You simply just watch with an innocent mind.

Oh,

I'm having thoughts again.

I'll just let them go.

Or watch and wait for the next thought to clear the mind.

Have that blank slate.

And I return again to my heart.

Return to feeling my breath,

Feeling my spirit.

Breathe in and breathe out.

Here and now.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

A mantra can be helpful,

Such as the word love or peace or God.

Repeating the mantra into your heart.

Simply the word is light.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

Breath by breath.

Freedom starts when everything you want becomes connected to this place,

To the peace of God,

The peace of the spirit.

That this is the world that has value for you.

This is where the healing is.

This is where the truth is about who you are,

Who others are.

This is where innocence lives and forgiveness and trust.

Sometimes when the world looks bleak or scary or turbulent,

We can choose to see a world of peace and love and care.

And from our peaceful heart we can transform the world and know that really our only purpose here is to be who we truly are.

To be love.

To offer love.

To offer forgiveness for all that we see.

To be still and listen to the truth.

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

So I invite you now to put inside your heart anything that is challenging to you right now or you're judging or someone you're in conflict with.

Put it in your heart right now.

Put that person or the situation in your heart.

And just begin to bless it with this light that's there.

And acknowledge it from a loving,

Compassionate place of just,

I know you feel this way.

I understand.

I'm with you.

I know this is hard or I know you're judging that person or I know you're scared about this or that,

Whatever it is for you.

Let me just acknowledge with kindness whatever is going on for you.

Just one thing that you want to heal right now that you want to bring a miracle into.

That you want to have ease with.

Put it in your heart and just talk to it for a moment from that voice of love,

The voice of God.

What would love say?

I know you feel this way.

I know this is hard or I know you're judging that person or I know you're scared about this or that,

Whatever it is for you.

Let me just acknowledge with kindness whatever is going on for you.

Just one thing that you want to heal right now that you want to bring a miracle into.

Just one thing that you want to have a healing right now.

When you allow the light of God to shine on your challenge or your judgment,

You can ask for a miracle,

A change in perception.

How would love or God look at this situation?

How would peace show up in your mind towards it?

Can you give this situation to the Holy Spirit?

Maybe you don't know how to transform it right now,

That's okay.

Just give it over.

Release it,

Surrender it.

Ask for a miracle.

Ask for a shift in perception from fear to love.

It's really that simple.

Just keep letting go of the ego mind,

The power,

The false power that the ego continues to try to have over us.

We just let it go.

We just love it and let it go.

Going again and again to our heart,

To the voice of God or the Holy Spirit,

Knowing it will come to us in the perfect time and that all is well.

So let ourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit,

Be guided by God in this situation or this challenge that we have,

This judgment that we might have with someone else or ourselves.

We know that it will be solved.

We know it will be healed and transformed.

Taking three deep breaths again.

Feeling your heart open,

Ready to spread this love,

This light towards one,

Two,

Three other people today,

Offering the loving kindness blessings.

Just to ourself,

May I be happy,

May I be healed,

May I be free from fear,

May I be at peace.

And to all beings,

May all beings be happy,

May all beings be healed,

May all beings be free from fear,

May all beings be at peace.

Reviews

Thank you for this session. It is helpful to have these opportunities to learn about elements from A Course in Miracles.

The best. As always. Start my day w Lisa and ACIM. Opens my heart, puts a smile on my face. Be peace. Be love. Listen.

Thank you, Lisa. Very centering and helpful to me. 💝🙏

Blessings of Gratitude to you! It amazes me how helpful your guidance can be though I’ve continued my studies of ACIM over 13 years now. Before I began, this guidance I didn’t even really realize I had something on my mind of such deep concern. This was so comforting. 🙏💖

Lisa, your meditations are a gift & deeply inspiring. Moving into love's still & quiet presence first thing in the morning and then returning there often throughout the day is my heart's truth opening practice. This inspired meditation helps me anchor in this goal... Which is inner peace, always. Namaste ☀️

Amazing! Thank you so much!

Beautiful guidance toward peace and love. Thank you Lisa! 🙏🏻 💗

Really helpful and beautifully said. Thank you 🙏🏼

Amazing ♥️ Thank you!

I needed this, thank you 🙏🏾

Beautiful! Just what I needed. Thank you!

Centering. Great at bringing focus back to the heart.

beautiful, thank you for including wisdom from a course in miracles.

Just what I needed, thanks

Soothing, blissful & inspiring. Thank you, Namaste! 🙏