Touching Your Deeper Self
This meditation invites you to experience the wisdom and peace inherent to your deeper being, allowing the radiance of your deeper being to flow into your life. The approach of this practice is simple, natural, and organic.
Transcript
We can begin by just softening into this moment,
Into the heft of the body.
Noticing any inclination to escape from this moment,
This body,
This here.
Any thoughts drawing us back to the past or forward to the future.
Imagination.
Anything that's departing from this.
The breath,
The sensation of sitting,
Being drawn to the earth,
The sensation of air on the skin.
These are all what's happening right now.
So we can let breath and sensation anchor us in this moment.
We can begin by just softening into this moment,
This here.
In the yoga tradition,
There's an understanding that who we experience ourselves to be and who we are,
Are not the same.
That there's a surface being that represents itself as the self.
And then there's the self.
And there's an understanding that the self,
The actual self,
The true self,
Can't be harmed,
Has nothing to fear,
Is one with the vastness of the universe.
Ancient,
Wise,
Clear.
And that it holds a vision,
A purpose for the individual life.
That this self is here in this body,
In this time,
In this place,
On purpose.
It's also understood that the surface self,
Which is what we mostly experience ourselves as,
Our preferences,
Aversions,
Our beliefs and ideas,
Our thoughts,
There's an understanding that this aspect of our being is not free,
Not actually independent in the way that it experiences itself to be.
That it's entangled and enmeshed in a combination of karma and the material world.
The ecosystem in which it lives.
It receives all these thoughts,
Desires,
Beliefs,
Aversions,
Preferences from the past and from the ecosystem.
But that the deeper self is free fundamentally,
Completely free,
And completely whole.
And so purpose,
Life purpose,
Flows from the inside out.
It flows from this deep well of self into the outer personality.
So as we sit and breathe in this moment,
Let's turn our attention to the heart and to the depth of the depth within the heart.
The silent,
Clear expanse within the heart that speaks not in words,
But in purpose,
In love.
It speaks in peace.
Let the breath carry you into your heart,
Into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
The steadiness,
Clarity,
Peace of the deeper self radiates,
It shines outward,
And it can infuse the surface being.
It can bring these qualities into the whole fullness of who we are,
Our embodied self,
So that who we experience ourself to be on a minute-to-minute,
Breath-by-breath basis is rooted and infused by these qualities,
Infinite peace,
Stability,
Clarity,
Self-offering.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
That's where freedom comes from.
The entanglements of the surface self are loosened by its relationship with the deeper self.
So see if you can feel that.
Don't think it.
Can you feel the radiance of your infinite core penetrating and infusing into all the layers of your being?
The breath can be the bridge that connects the two and makes them one.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
When there's greater union between the deeper self and the surface self,
Then our thoughts,
Our words,
And our actions are infused with purpose.
They radiate.
They become vehicles of radiance,
Of self-offering from an infinite source.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Let the breath carry you into this expanse of peace and receive the love that it offers.
Meditation practice is a useful container for seeking and experiencing this connection.
The more we experience it,
The more it manifests itself,
The more real and consistent it becomes.
As you transition to waking outward awareness with your eyes open when you're ready,
You can stay connected to the source of infinite radiance that is your self,
Your actual self,
Connected to the experience of this radiance shining out and through you into the world,
Directing your thoughts,
Your words,
And your actions,
Showing you how to spend your time.
May all beings experience the well of infinite radiance that they are.
Thank you for joining me.
