Thanks so much for listening and spending time with me for this meditation.
I'd like to begin by sharing with you about a dream that I had.
In the dream,
I was being chased by a figure.
Its face was all contorted and its eyes were black.
It was chasing me down a long hallway in an unfamiliar home.
I was running frantically,
Trying to find a place to hide.
Of course,
I woke up scared,
And I also sensed that there was a deeper meaning to this dream.
In dreams,
What we wake up feeling is typically what we need to wake up to.
I processed this dream using a psycho-spiritual practice called voice dialogue.
You can use voice dialogue to give a voice to the various parts of yourself,
And you can also use it to help process energies that show up in dreams.
I gave a voice to the person,
This figure that was chasing me in the dream.
It said that it was fear,
The energy of fear.
So I asked it,
Why was it chasing me?
And it said,
Because you're running away from me.
So I asked,
What's your message for me?
It said,
Stop running.
If you stopped running,
You would see that I'm not bad.
You would see that I'm not trying to hurt you.
So what an amazing realization I had by processing this dream.
And I ask that question to each of you listening.
Is there something that you're running away from?
And what might you be able to wake up to if you stayed?
If you stayed present?
Maybe it's fear,
Or maybe it's another uncomfortable emotion or sensation.
So let's bring this into a meditation.
I invite you to find a place to sit or lie down.
Make yourself comfortable.
Close down your eyes so that you turn your attention inward.
Let the breath deepen.
Ask yourself,
What am I running away from?
That discomfort that's showing up in the form of an emotion,
Feeling or sensation.
Another way of asking this is,
What have I been resisting?
It's natural to turn away from what doesn't feel good.
But as I learned through processing this dream,
When we continue to turn away or run away,
It follows us.
And so we need a new way of being with what perhaps doesn't feel good.
Because the avoidance doesn't work.
To find something to work with.
And to start by being present with what's there.
By breathing into it.
Let it be okay that it's there.
Whether it's a fear,
Anxiety.
Maybe it's sadness,
Hopelessness.
Or it could be a physical pain,
Chronic pain somewhere in the body.
Just open yourself to the possibility of something shifting by just staying.
Release any need to fix or change this emotion or this feeling.
Let it be okay that it's there.
And begin to just extend a loving presence to whatever is there.
You may even place your hand on your heart to help connect you to this love and compassion and understanding that lives at the heart center.
And extend this nurturing presence.
And recognize that you don't have to like the feeling or the emotion or the sensation.
But you can still be present with it.
As a way to honor it and accept it.
And bring some light warmth to it.
Just breathing here.
So much can shift when you're just willing to be present with what is.
And just notice what's shifting in the body,
In the mind,
In the heart.
And you may even ask whatever you're working with if it has a message for you.
Something that you never realized.
There may be a bit of wisdom that can come through now that you're present.
Sometimes you're choosing to stay instead of turn away.
Maybe you can see its innocence,
That it isn't trying to hurt you.
Just body language.
When discomfort arises in whatever form it's showing up in,
Can we recognize that it's there because it needs our attention?
It's there because it's calling for something,
For healing,
For presence,
For allowance.
In the book The Way of Mastery,
Jeshua says,
What if the very things you are resisting are the stepping stones to your healing,
Your homecoming,
And your awakening?
Get your body open,
Feel your heart expanding,
Your breath broadening.
We hope this is a tool that you can come back to over and over again.
We direct your awareness from resisting and avoiding to becoming present and allowing and feeling.
Many blessings to each of you.
Thanks for listening.
Namaste.
