You can start this meditation laying flat on your back with your legs stretched out in front of you and your arms relaxed by your side.
Or you can start this meditation seated in an upright position with your feet flat on the ground or your legs crossed.
Let's start by becoming aware of the sounds around us.
Listen to the sounds that you can hear in your physical space.
Let's turn our attention inward to our breath and the rise and fall of our chest as we inhale and exhale.
Begin to pay attention to how your breath is entering your body.
And as you exhale,
Notice how your chest and stomach fall as the air leaves your body.
Throughout today's meditation,
I would like to invite you to focus on your breath.
And if your mind starts to wander or thoughts enter your mind,
Just gently bring your attention back to your inhale and your exhale,
And that will be your anchor for today's meditation.
Before the beginning,
All was darkness and all was void.
The face of the cosmos was deep and unmanifest,
Indeed not a face at all,
But endless nothing.
No light,
No sound,
No movement,
No life,
No time.
All was null and the universe was not yet created,
Nor even conceived.
For there was no form in which to conceive or be conceived.
In its emptiness,
The darkness fell upon itself and became aware that it was nothing.
Alone and dark,
Unborn,
Unmanifest,
Silent.
Can you imagine this silence,
The silence of nothing?
Can you quiet yourself enough to hear it?
Can you listen to the silence within you?
Breathe deeply but slowly so the breath is silent in your lungs.
Feel your throat expand with the air coming in.
Listen for the nothing.
Listen for the quiet.
Listen deep within yourself for the place of stillness.
Slowly breathe into this void,
A deep and peaceful breath.
In its infinite quiet,
Darkness fell upon itself.
And in its emptiness,
Knew itself to be alone.
And alone it desired another.
In this desire,
A ripple moved across the void to fold and fold again upon itself until it was no longer empty and the void was full with birth.
In the beginning,
The great unmanifest became vibration and its own recognition of being.
And that vibration was a sound from which all other sounds were born.
It came from Brahma in his first emanation.
It came from Sarasvati in her eternal answers.
In their union,
The sound arose and spread through all the void and filled it.
And the sound became one.
And the sound became many.
And the sound became the wheel that turned and turned the worlds unto the dance of life,
Forever singing,
Always moving.
If you listen,
You can hear it now.
It is in your breath.
It is in your heart.
It is in the wind,
The waters,
The trees,
And the sky.
It is in your own mind,
In the rhythm of each and every thought.
From one sound does it all emerge and to one sound shall it return.
And the sound is Aum,
Aum,
Aum.
Chant it now inside you quietly.
Let it build within your breath.
Let the sacred sound escape you,
Moving on the wings of air.
Rhythm building,
Deep vibration,
Rising up from deep within.
Chant the sound of all creation,
Sound that makes the chakras spin.
Louder now the voice arises,
Joins with other sounds and chants.
Deeper now the rhythms weaving all into a sacred dance.
Rhythms pounding,
Voices growing,
Echoing the dance of life.
Sounds to words and words to music riding on the wheels of life,
Guiding us along our journey,
Moving spirit deep within.
Chant the voice that is within you.
This is where we must begin.
Up from silence,
Breath and body,
Calling now into the void.
Hear its answer in the darkness.
Fear and pain have been destroyed.
Brahma is the first vibration.
Sarasvati is the flow.
Sound unites us in our vision,
Harmonizing all we know.
Soon the silence comes again with echoes of primordial sound,
Purifying all vibration,
Echo of the truth profound.
I invite you to gently start moving your fingers and your toes.
Introduce micro-stretches into your body.
And if you are in a lying down position,
Gently make your way up to a seated and upright position,
With your hands gently resting on your knees.
To close today's meditation,
We are going to chant one om together.
So everybody inhale.
Gently bring your hands together and rub your hands together like you're warming them up from the cold.
And rub them together until they've created enough heat.
And gently place your hands over your eyes.
And behind your warm hands,
Just gently open your eyes.
And start to come back to this time and place.
Bring your hands down to rest on your legs.
Thank you for sharing this meditation with me.
Have a wonderful day.
