PartILL pulling både Generally,
My guided meditations fall between 15 to 20 minutes in length.
And even though this may not seem like a lot of time,
For many of us it is difficult to carve out even this many minutes for meditation during our very busy days.
So on request,
Today I'm offering a shorter meditation,
Just over five minutes,
For those particularly demanding days when we want to quiet the mind,
Yet feel limited by time.
So go ahead and find a position of comfort and alertness for today's meditation.
And if it feels right,
Draw your eyes closed and begin to find connection to your breath at any place in the body.
It is true that we can all feel limited by the human construct of time as we measure it in lifespans and decades,
Years and months,
Weeks and days and hours,
Minutes and seconds.
Our lives,
A succession of measured beginnings and endings.
For now,
Simply stay present in only this moment in time,
Watching all of your thoughts as they enter your mind without getting involved with any of them.
Simply be as you are,
Breathing in and breathing out.
As we detach from the restless activity of our minds over and over again,
Moment to moment,
From the present,
We can perceive the procession of our thoughts losing momentum and slowing down.
Allow everything to simply be as it is now,
Breathing in,
Breathing out.
The concept of time is extraordinarily complex,
And time as we know it in our everyday lives is sometimes fleeting,
Sometimes confining.
When looking from the present to the past,
Years can seem to have passed at dizzying speed,
And often the future and the promises it holds can't seem to arrive fast enough.
But as Einstein told us,
Time is relative.
Clocks actually tick slower when they are moving.
The distinction between past,
Present,
And future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Breathing in,
Breathing out.
When we sit in meditation aware of the activity of our mind from the relative viewpoint of the present moment,
Our thoughts move through our consciousness perceptibly slower,
And the space between our thoughts expands.
And in these spaces between our thoughts there is no thinking,
No beginnings or endings.
Here we experience the suspension of time,
The truth of timelessness.
And as we access this space over and over and over again,
Each time we sit in stillness,
We become closer to understanding and drawing comfort from the meaning of our eternity.
Breathing in,
Breathing out.
As always,
Thank you for listening and I hope you'll join me again to explore the Mindful Method.
