In this meditation,
We're going to bring into reflection one of the fundamental questions,
Who am I?
And then we will move into pure body awareness and pure heart awareness after moving through a heart alignment exercise.
So who am I?
What makes up my humaneness?
And what is at the core of my very essence?
So just take a moment to find a comfortable seat.
Slowly closing your eyes and bringing your awareness to your breath.
And just listen for a moment as we reflect on who am I?
Am I a mother or a father?
Am I a sister or a brother?
Am I a spouse or a significant other?
Am I an aunt or an uncle?
Am I a student or a teacher?
Am I a friend?
A co worker?
Am I defined by my job title?
Who am I really?
Am I an emotion?
Am I anxious?
Am I depressed?
Am I sad?
Am I content or joyous?
Am I an introvert or an extrovert?
Am I a dreamer or a realist?
Am I independent or dependent?
My birth certificate says who I am.
But who am I really?
So now if I strip away the human definitions of myself,
Who am I?
And what am I left with?
And what is at the core?
So let's strip away these definitions.
I am not a mother or a father.
I am not a sister or a brother.
I am not a spouse or a significant other.
I am not an aunt or an uncle.
I am not a student or a teacher.
I am not a friend or a co worker.
I am not defined by my job title.
I am not an emotion.
I am not anxious.
I am not depressed.
I am not sad.
I am not content or joyous.
I am not an introvert or an extrovert.
I am not the dreamer or the realist.
I am not independent or dependent.
Who am I?
And now bring your attention back to your breath.
Taking a couple deep breaths in and out.
And now bring your awareness to your forehead just above the brows at the interior here without thinking just being fully present here in this space.
And inwardly say I am I am.
And now bring your awareness down to your throat at the interior here without thinking just being fully present here in this space.
And inwardly say it thinks.
It thinks.
Bringing your awareness back up to your forehead.
I am down to your throat.
It thinks.
And now bringing your awareness down to your heart at the interior here without thinking just being fully present here in this space.
And inwardly say she feels.
She feels.
And now bringing your awareness back up to your forehead.
I am down to your throat.
It thinks.
Down to your heart.
She feels.
And bringing awareness down to your solar plexus just above the belly button at the interior here without thinking just being fully present here in this space.
And inwardly say he wills.
He wills.
And now bringing your awareness back up to your forehead.
I am down to your throat.
It thinks.
Down into your heart.
She feels.
And down into your solar plexus.
He wills.
Try to hold all four of these points simultaneously for just a moment.
And inwardly say heart alignment.
Heart alignment.
And now bring your awareness back to your breath.
Breathing in and out.
I'm going to ask that you bring your attention to any noise in the room.
I'm going to ring a bell.
And I'd like for you to focus on the sound.
I'm going to continue to ring the bell and I'm going to ask that you turn off your sense of hearing for just a moment.
And attempt to bring the sound of the bell internally.
Into your body and try to feel the sound as it moves through your body.
Maybe feeling any vibrations.
And now bringing your attention.
To the silence.
Shifting your attention to the outer periphery of your body.
Until you feel the subtle touch of the currents of the silence.
And now shift your attention to the interior of your body and feel the currents of silence within your body.
They will feel slightly different than the currents of silence that surrounded your body.
It's somewhat more dense,
Deeper.
And now shift your attention back to the silence at the outer periphery of your body.
And just notice the qualities of the silence here.
And shift again to the silence within your body.
Again,
Noticing the qualities of the silence within.
And at your own pace do this shifting back and forth several times between the internal and the external.
And inwardly,
With an act of soft will,
Dissolve the boundary between the inner and the outer silence.
You are now in pure body awareness.
Just take a moment to notice the qualities.
And now inwardly speak the word heart.
Feel a configuring of a field at the place of the heart,
A subtle field.
Inwardly speaking the word heart.
And now place your attention at the periphery of your heart field and stay there for just a moment.
And now shift your attention to the interior of your heart field.
Noticing the qualities of the silence within the heart space,
Bringing awareness to how it feels as it moves throughout your heart.
And now shift back and forth between the inner and the outer heart field several times.
And bringing your awareness to the border between the two.
And dissolve the boundary between the inner and the outer aspects of the heart field.
You are now in pure heart awareness.
See if you can stay within this awareness and notice the qualities.
And now bring your awareness back to your breathing.
Bringing your awareness back to your physical body.
Starting to bring your attention to any noise in the room around you and slowly opening your eyes when you're ready.
Just take a moment.
To just sit and be present with the experience that you just had during this meditation.
Namaste.
