Hello,
How are you doing today?
I'd love to take today's meditation to talk about our relationship with the idea of being a human being versus a human doing.
I'm going to say that one more time and we'll just pause on that for a second.
Being a human being versus a human doing.
I laughed the first time I heard that because obviously we're human beings.
Oh,
But I operate as a human doing.
You know,
When was the last time I actually sat and did nothing,
Just checked in on myself,
Was just being like our true essence.
And that's where I designed today's meditation,
Just around taking inventory of our life,
Checking in on ourselves more than just our bodies,
But our actions,
What we spend our energy and time doing,
And how much of our time we spend being,
Or even how much of our time we spend doing what's most important to us.
So wherever you're seated,
Starting to take deep inhales and deep exhales,
Whether you're lying down or you're sitting on a chair on the floor,
Taking today's meditation as an observation.
We're not necessarily trying to change anything that we're doing or resist any sensations or feelings that come up.
We just want to honor it.
We just want to see,
Observe,
And be with what is.
Inhaling here,
Filling up your belly,
Filling up your lungs,
Sending that oxygen to your brain,
And then releasing.
If you're still getting settled in,
Maybe your first few exhales are a little bit more aggressive.
So we're releasing any static energy,
Just getting into our bodies,
Settling in as we begin our meditation.
Beginning with a few grounding postures,
Just taking a deep inhale,
And then on your exhale,
If you haven't done so yet,
Just fluttering your eyes closed,
Feeling the weight of your arms,
Your shoulders pressing down,
Your hips connecting to your glutes on the floor,
On your chair,
On your bed.
Just noticing how your entire body feels right now,
Not trying to change anything,
Just noticing.
Maybe bringing your attention to the tips of your toes,
Bringing your attention to your feet and your ankles,
Up through your calf,
Into your knees and your thighs.
Almost imagining,
Visualizing yourself filling up with your breath.
Again,
Grounding here,
Tips of your toes,
To your feet,
To your ankles,
To your calves,
To your knees,
Up through your thighs and into your hips.
And then continuing on your next inhale,
Just scanning upwards,
Filling up with your inhale,
Up through each fingertip,
Your forearm,
And your arms and shoulders,
Into your chest,
And your belly,
Up through your throat,
Your face,
Your entire head.
And just zooming out,
Watching yourself here,
Observing yourself in your space,
In your environment,
Just breathing here.
And just gently contemplating to yourself how often you take a moment to just be.
Pause,
To check in,
Rather than allowing our minds to tell our body how it feels,
To actually ask our bodies to feel.
And just noticing if your mind wanders,
Maybe you start to think about the things that take your energy and take your time away.
And just knowing that for today's meditation,
We're not resisting that.
It's okay if it comes in.
The more we resist it,
The more activity,
The thought becomes more aggressive in our mind.
And beginning to take inventory of a regular day,
Choosing any day,
Maybe it was in the last week,
Maybe it was in the last month,
Or maybe it's just a normal routine that you have.
Again,
We're still watching ourselves breathing in this space.
We're just connecting with what a regular routine looks like for us,
And taking inventory of how we're taking care of ourselves.
Inhaling here,
Asking yourself how much sleep you've been getting.
There's a certain day or time in the week that you get the most sleep,
The most rest.
Maybe you recognize sleep as the one thing you put on the back burner,
Because everything else is just a little bit more important to get done.
We're not judging ourselves for any of this,
We're just bringing our awareness to what is.
Continuing to breathe here,
Our sense of focus is on our breath.
As we continue to think,
What are we putting into our body recently?
Again,
Maybe your mind goes to a specific day,
Maybe it goes to a past week,
Or a day this year,
Or just a memory.
Not getting too tied up in that,
Just zooming out a bit,
Recognizing,
How am I fueling my body?
What are the foods that I'm eating?
How often am I eating?
Again,
Not necessarily wanting to change anything or resist any sensations or thoughts that come in,
We're just contemplating,
We're just observing.
When we think about our daily routines,
When we get into autopilot in our minds,
Recognizing our relationship with busyness for a moment here.
Recognizing if we tend to lean on the spectrum of filling up our days with constant to-dos,
Jumping from one thing to the next,
No time to be just sitting,
Observing this.
Observing some of the busyness that we do create,
Even if it's just thinking about our own thinking,
Or to avoid something else.
And no matter where your mind has gone in this moment,
Just bringing it back to the sensation and the weight of your body right here,
Right now,
As we breathe together,
Inhaling through our nose and exhaling,
Gently asking yourself,
What is most important to me?
As we're grounded in this state,
Allowing your body to answer for you,
And then allowing yourself to ask the question,
How much energy am I putting into what is most important to me?
Again,
Not just trying to answer it very quickly,
Just seeing what comes up for you.
Contemplating,
Taking three of the deepest inhales and exhales we have all day together,
Inhaling here and exhaling,
Inhaling here and exhaling.
One more time,
Inhaling here and exhaling,
Bringing your attention to the sensations,
The weight,
Wiggling our fingers and our toes,
Just bringing our attention back to this space,
Back to the present moment.
And thanking yourself for allowing yourself to observe and to check in and to contemplate your relationship with our essence of being a human being versus our tendency to become the human doing.
Thank you so much.
