This meditation is focused on allowing thinking for the neurodivergent brain.
If you choose to close your eyes,
You can do that in this practice.
You can also just leave them open if that works better for you.
Come inside your body.
You are welcome to put your hand on your heart if that helps you come inside the body more.
You might feel the weight of your body sitting on a cushion or on the ground,
On the chair.
You might wiggle your weight back and forth a bit,
Letting the energy in your head melt down through the rest of your body,
Anchoring down into the ground,
And then just shaking a little,
Letting the settling happen of its own accord,
Letting the breath become natural.
In the silence,
Beginning to note the thinking mind.
Take note of the quality of your mind right now.
Is it busy and restless,
Or is it calm and content?
Give your mind permission to let your thoughts run.
Let your mind do what it does.
Let it show you the patterns it tends to work in.
Take note if you have a certain kind of thought happening today,
Such as planning,
Really feeling fixated on sorting out some of the organizational tasks you might have on your plate.
It could be a ball of energy of exciting thoughts that you have about something going through your head today,
Or something that's happened.
It could be worry,
Thoughts with the flavor of worrying,
Ruminating about the way you said something,
Or what might happen in a certain scenario.
Whatever the flavor of your thoughts are,
Simply take note of them.
Is it possible to allow the mind to expand,
Allow the mind to leap and jump and circle and dance and swirl?
Notice how this allowing impacts your heart.
Notice how it impacts your meditation.
What quality does the allowing bring into this practice?
We can try to understand the roots of the behavior of the mind.
So whatever the flavor is that's happening for you,
You can also look at it with this allowing mind and ask where this is coming from.
Why are these thoughts here?
They're probably here for a good reason,
Even if they seem silly or jumbled.
Why is my mind doing this right now?
Notice where that takes you in the body,
In your emotional feeling tone.
Thank your thoughts for being here.
You don't have to agree with them or necessarily want them to take over,
But acknowledging them in gratitude for what they're doing.
Of course they're here,
Of course they're doing this.
I appreciate where they're coming from.
Spend a final moment in the warmth of this gratitude.
Again,
You might put your hand to your heart,
Helping yourself feel grounded in the sense of allowing and appreciation.
We'll close our practice here.
