Welcome.
This is a meditation on effortless being inspired by Brandon Bays.
Go ahead and make your body comfortable whether sitting or lying down.
Let's take a nice deep breath in and slowly let it out completely.
Another long slow breath in and then let it gracefully flow out.
One more deep easy breath in and slowly breathe it all the way out.
And then let your awareness begin to open out spaciously in front.
Let it become open and vast behind.
Feel it expanding spaciously to all sides.
Notice the vastness below,
The boundless sky above and then just rest now as open spaciousness,
As a vast open embrace of stillness.
Just rest.
And in a relaxed way scan your body with your awareness and maybe there are some areas that feel a little more tense than the rest.
Please go to an area where there is a bit of tension and just for a moment make it even more tense,
More tight.
Really increase the resistance,
Holding the tension in that area of your body and release it all at once.
Breathe into that area.
Feel your breath dissolving any residual tension.
Just keep breathing long slow breaths as it continues to dissolve.
And now find another area of tension and intensify or contract that area.
Hold it and breathe it all out at once.
Feel it releasing.
Surround it with your awareness.
Breathe in spaciousness.
Just release the breath into that area as the tension continues to dissolve with the out-breath.
And do this as many times as you need to any other areas of your body.
The contracting and releasing until all of your body feels fully relaxed and open.
And now check your mind and feel your mind as though it's closing like a fist.
It's clamping down.
Your mind is contracting.
It's resisting.
Now with the out-breath relax all the tension out of your mind.
Feel it relaxing,
Softening,
Easing.
Breathe spaciousness into your mind.
Breathe warmth and ease out.
Let the tension of the mind relax completely.
Allow this tension to continue to dissolve with the breath.
And now check your being and if there is any holding on or fighting with life or resistance to what is,
Intensify it for a moment.
Hold it,
Any resistance to life,
Holding on in any way,
Hold it and then sigh it out.
Just feel your being relaxing.
Continue to release as you sigh it out.
And once again allowing all the relaxation to spread,
Becoming vast in front,
Free and open behind,
Spacious and expansive to all sides,
Infinite below and spacious and opened above.
Just rest now as an ocean of relaxing presence,
Deeply,
Vast relaxation.
And now welcome into your awareness something that you've been efforting with or fighting against lately.
Welcome yourself to fully feel the tension and contraction you feel when you are fighting with what is.
It's like the person in the ocean fighting for his or her life.
Just feel the intensity and futility of trying to struggle and resist life.
Feel how it affects your body,
Your mind,
Your being.
Just be willing to feel it become even more intense,
Something that you've been efforting with or fighting against lately.
Fight harder,
Create more resistance,
Effort with all your might.
And with this internal fight what if you discovered that everything is as it is meant to be?
What if you realize that everything that is taking place is happening for a reason and a purpose that you can't fully understand yet?
What if you were to fully,
Completely and utterly just accept what's here?
What if it is entirely the will of grace and it's out of your hands?
What if there is nothing you can do,
Should do or ought to do to fix it?
What if you finally feel what it feels like to completely and totally relax and accept that what is here is what is meant to be in this moment?
And what if in absolutely accepting you choose now to stop struggling,
To give it up,
To relax,
To just relax and let go?
As you let go you felt yourself deeply releasing,
Falling,
Opening,
Relaxing into a spacious embrace of infinite presence.
This presence surrounding you,
Suffocating you,
Pulling you ever deeper,
Opening,
Relaxing,
Trusting,
Trusting,
Trusting.
How would it feel to rest in an ocean of trust,
Just being,
Effortless being?
What if you gave up the need to figure it out,
To find the answers and to fix it and change it and make it right?
What if you just accepted totally that what is here is what is here?
Just relax in the infinite embrace of pure being,
No action needed,
No agenda,
No desire,
No grasping for understanding.
Just this.
Just this.
Just this that is here in the abundance of all that is.
And what if you had full permission just to rest and effortlessly not know anything?
How would that feel?
Just rest,
Soak,
Steep in effortless grace for the next few moments.
And with nothing to gain,
Learn,
Achieve or change,
Ask if grace were to take care of this problem,
This situation,
Circumstance,
How might it get handled easily,
Effortlessly?
And let the question go.
Let it go completely and leave the answer up to grace to reveal in its mysterious way with its divine timing when it is ready to.
And then if you are to be used as a vehicle by grace as a part of some action or solution,
The result is not up to you.
It's up to grace.
No doer,
No agenda,
No credit taking,
Just non-personal guidedness.
Leave it in the hands of grace and if you're needed to play some part it will happen effortlessly.
Allow yourself to rest in this ocean of trust,
Just being,
Just effortlessly being for as long as you have.
Namaste.
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