Welcome to this guided meditation and teaching.
I'm Michael Wormuth.
I invite you now to make yourself comfortable.
We will start with some music to help us turn our focus inward.
Thank you for listening.
An important aspect of becoming conscious is becoming cognizant and discerning of what we are dwelling on with our attention,
Discerning whether it is egoic issues and problems,
Obsession with the past or future,
Or are we dwelling in the realm of possibility and potential?
Are we dwelling in the present?
We can discern the difference.
All ideas of limitation and difficulty and struggle and suffering,
All ideas that things should be different,
All originate in the egoic mind.
To dwell in the present,
In the realm of experience and possibility,
Potential,
Is to remember there is a truth right now that is absolutely inviolable and that truth describes a perfect divine order,
An infinite,
Timeless consciousness,
The presence and the power in this moment.
We have heard a lot about decisions and choices and that is because decision and choices are the basis of our transformation,
Making the decision to change our focus,
To become present,
To let go and surrender is a powerful choice for changing our life.
To the time,
We are dwelling in resistance and opposition,
We are saying no to what is.
Changing our mind means saying yes to what is.
So ask yourself,
What are you aware of with your conscious awareness right now?
What are you dwelling on?
Is it thoughts or is it just the experience,
This moment?
Are you guiding your mind or is it guiding you?
That is a curious question because the question naturally arises,
Who is you and who is the mind?
There is a chooser,
That which has chosen control and the ego and to oppose and resist is the natural flow of the spontaneous and authentic self can change that choice,
That is our free will.
Our will speaks of something that chooses,
Usually in opposition to the flow,
We use our will to make difficult choices.
When we are in the dissociated state of having our faith and trust in the egoic mind,
We are living in a dualistic world of control and limitation,
It is easier to go along with it than to stop it.
We must use our will to make a different choice.
Our will is not the ego,
The ego may use our will,
But it is not the same thing,
We can use our will to choose to dwell in a different place,
To change our state,
To leave the dissociation and the control and the limitation,
To reject it,
To affirm and acknowledge the greater truth that we can trust and have faith in,
Then we can direct our mind,
Our conscious awareness,
Our attention to the present,
To just being here,
Just being,
Letting go,
Relaxing,
Surrendering.
There is a purpose in how the religions have taught prayer,
In the reciting of scriptures,
In the singing of hymns,
It is to bring our mind back to the truth,
To fill our attention with the truth.
This is what we bring to meditation and our practice,
To affirm and acknowledge the truth,
To direct our attention fully to where that truth is found,
Which is in the present moment,
In the experience,
Being,
Right now,
No matter what may be happening within you,
Around you,
There is nothing wrong,
There is no reason,
You can't change your mind,
If you dwell on what is wrong,
What needs to be different,
You give it power,
You become a victim,
If you dwell on the truth,
Things change,
When we dwell on what is wrong,
We are always trying to find an answer,
A solution,
We believe in duality,
We don't trust there is a greater power,
Greater intelligence,
We are alone,
Separate,
We have to find the answer to everything by ourselves,
There is only one answer,
Or should we say,
There is only one solution,
There may be different answers to different situations,
But the way of finding those answers comes from the one solution,
Which is to surrender and trust that power and intelligence within you,
We always have the ability to surrender and know the truth,
This never denied us,
It's never withheld,
People in the most extraordinary circumstances had experiences of knowing the truth,
There are no conditions to it,
We don't have to meet any requirements,
We don't have to earn it or deserve it,
We don't have to be worthy,
We simply need to use our power of decision and choice,
We are never victims of our own minds,
Although we have taken on conditioning and become our own tormentors,
We still are not victims,
In every moment is the potential and possibility of knowing the truth,
We can't make that happen,
But we can devote ourselves to allowing it,
Making way for it,
The truth will come when it comes,
We can't control it,
But we can prepare ourselves,
We can affirm it and acknowledge it,
We can choose to put our faith and trust in the truth rather than duality,
Just affirming that something is possible allows for it to happen,
We say something is not possible,
We have no chance of it happening,
Be assured the possibility,
Knowing the peace and harmony and connection of the truth is very real within you,
That potential is there,
Because the truth is already the basis of your being,
The essence of who you are,
In every moment it is real within you,
This is the moment now,
To become conscious,
To discern and choose,
We will dwell on where we will dwell,
So let us affirm and acknowledge the power and the presence of the infinite consciousness,
We are here right now,
We are alive within us,
The spirit within us giving us life,
Never separate,
Let us remember that it is fully within our potential to experience peace,
Lightness,
Love,
Connection,
Harmony,
Beauty,
Richness of our authentic self,
Our true self,
Our natural native self,
We are one,
The one consciousness,
The perfect divine consciousness,
Nothing can change that,
We will never be separate,
We cannot be outside of it,
It is always our choice,
Our decision,
We can become more conscious,
More awake,
That is the truth of this moment,
The reality.
