Allowing Meditation

This allowing meditation is for a sense of deeper peace and wellbeing. We begin with the body and slowly move beyond to encompass all of life. This meditation can be done anytime we have a little bit of quiet time to ourselves.

Transcript

Welcome to Marshall's Meditation.

I'm Marshall and today we're going to focus our meditation around allowing as a way of finding deeper peace within ourselves.

So if you found a comfortable seat,

We can begin.

We can begin this meditation with our eyes open or closed.

I prefer to have my eyes closed.

We can do an initial scan of the body from the top of the head,

Slowly down.

If we feel slightly uncomfortable,

We can get adjusted right now.

Bring that awareness all the way down to the feet.

Very good.

So now let's bring our awareness to our breath.

We're not trying to develop a deeper,

Smoother or more relaxed breath.

We are just observing for now.

And we'll just merely observe the breath,

Feeling it,

Feeling the motion,

The rocking of the breath.

And this is where our meditation on allowing can begin.

We don't need to do anything to our breath.

Breath seems to be breathing itself.

Let's just watch that.

We'll watch the breath breathing itself.

And as we watch,

We can also notice that the mind is still going.

Let's just let the mind go,

Just like a breath.

We can just notice how the mind keeps moving like the breath,

All on its own.

And maybe we can feel the heart beating,

Which is also the body just taking care of itself.

In fact,

All the functions of the body are taking care of themselves right now.

So we can just rest here.

We don't need to do anything while we're meditating for this time.

We can meditate in the knowledge that the circulation is happening and we're putting oxygen into that circulation and the bloodstream and the skin is growing and the cells are dying away as well.

And our hair is growing as well as our fingernails and toes.

We need not do anything right now.

It's all being taken care of.

Still perhaps digesting our food.

The eyes are kept lubricated and all the chemicals and hormones in the body moving all without our intention.

Taking care of life.

Let's sink in a little bit deeper into the feeling we don't need to be doing anything right now.

In fact,

We can allow the mind to move,

Our emotions to be as they are.

Even some of the tension that we may find in the body,

Just let it be,

Just as it is.

And we can also notice that our living biological body is not just taking care of itself for us,

The biological body of everyone that we know in this very moment.

And of course,

Everyone we don't know all over this world in this very moment.

And of course,

This feature isn't specific to human beings.

Every creature on earth,

From the largest mammals,

To the smallest insects,

To the fish and creatures of the ocean,

To the birds,

Even down to single cell.

Organisms.

All the basic life function taking care of itself through every entity,

Animal,

Human being.

And of course,

Where would we be without the plants who put oxygen back into the air as a life force,

A living force that grows without effort.

And the movement of the weather,

The winds and the clouds and the rains which feed the plants and feeds the animals.

All of life just taking care of itself without our effort to maintain it in this moment.

And in fact,

The spinning of the world as we orbit the sun,

The sun shining down on earth without our effort.

And in fact,

All the planets and stars moving without our effort.

The entire cosmos in harmonious motion taking care of itself as we rest here.

Now let's bring our awareness back to the body.

Back to the breath once again.

Let's bring our awareness up to our eyes.

And if they're not already open,

We can gently open them.

And relax for a moment in this state of peace.

A little bit of calm.

Well,

Thank you for joining me for our allowing meditation today.

Feel free to do this meditation of course anytime,

But also reflect perhaps throughout our days and weeks ahead of the fact that so much of life is taking care of itself.

And we can trust in that.

So until next time,

Thank you very much.

Bye bye.

Reviews

Thank you Marshall for the deeply relaxing meditation. Your calm soothing voice, brought calm to my body for the first time in a long time. The acknowledgment that so much of the world cares for itself and I can allow myself to Be! Was a beautiful realisation. I will definitely be listening again ✨

So nice!! Lovely to be reminded that I do not control or run my body’s processes, nor do I need to control anything else.

Wonderfully narrated, just the right pace - great reminder to just be and trust all will take care of itself . Thank you

I have been struggling with sadness lately and this was very helpful. Right at the end I understood that it is actually all taken care of, and I smiled. Inside and out. This meditation allowed me to sit with the sadness, not push it away, not judge it or myself for feeling it, whilst being reminded of the bigger picture… the perfect, functioning body, the perfect functioning Universe. Very calming and reassuring.

Thank you 🙏 I let my mind wonder to wrote a letter to my grandparents who live in heaven. I’ve missed them lately and struggled to allow myself to feel. This really helped me to just be and let these feelings out. It’s healing. Thank you.

Great guided visuals for awareness of how everything is taking care of itself.

Thanks for making a good recording. Nice voice, nice music!

So many times I try to listen to a guided meditation and cannot agree with the voice of the meditation guide. Marshall voice is masculine and grounding. Perfect for this activity. Thankyou.

That was the most beautiful meditation for me. I will do this one regularly. The fact that our bodies and nature can take of themselves without our interference, something I have always maintained. Thank you for this moment.

Very nice. I particularly appreciated the reminders that everything is, in fact, taking care of itself. Thank you.

The warmth and calmness of his voi e I could really go deep in my meditation feelings my whole body warm and tingling. I rested in this beautiful sensation of warmth and love. Allows it to wrap me while the body was taking care of itself. 💚

Originally I thought this was going to be about allowing emotions which was why I clicked on it, but it actually is more about allowing our bodies and allowing life, just getting out of the way and letting things evolve on their own

Beautiful voice, lovely text, thankyou for this soothing start to my day.

Now I want to watch David Attenborough documentary! :)

Nice, refreshing. Think you actually can use this meditation both to relax and revigour energy. Thank you

It is so relaxing to let go. Thank you. I can start my day with a sense of deep peace

Excellent meditation with a simple yet a profound message of natural processes just happening in nature, we just have to allow them. Very easy to do meditation, Highly recommend.

Beautiful meditation that captures natural elements to help relax the mind.💓

I loved this. A gentle reminder that life takes care of itself, and you can let go.

Amazing, what a great pace and conversational sound of voice. Very calm and well guided without the woo woo voice I often find in meditation. Was perfect timing for what I needed to connect to my body meaningfully.