Welcome to this session on equilibrium.
This meditation is going to focus on balance and will invite you to reconnect with that deep centered space that lives within you.
By the end you will have an experiential understanding of what it means to really feel a sense of balance.
But before we get there I want to point out that the PR behind meditation is pretty strife with old metaphors.
If you google the word meditation you'll probably find photos of people sitting peacefully with their thumbs holding their index fingers or rocks carefully stacked on top of each other on a beach.
While these analogs to meditation seem pleasant they paint an unrealistic idea of what meditation is often like which is getting distracted over and over again by the nonsense of your mind when you try to concentrate.
But the point remains which is that even through the busy mind chatter the primary focus of mindfulness practice is developing greater balance in one's life.
And the insights imparted by techniques like mindfulness meditation can have the power to transform and rearrange your mental constitution to one of greater presence vitality and awareness.
So with all that said let's see what this balance stuff is really all about firsthand.
I invite you to first get comfortable and take a nice deep breath slowly allow your eyes to close.
Start this meditation by connecting to your own physical center and you can do that by gently swaying your body from side to side left to right and just like a pendulum settle in to that exact spot where your body feels most centered.
And when your body is centered your breath can follow suit.
So when you found that spot take another slow deep breath into this new posture and notice how good that feels.
Great.
On your next inhale watch the easy flow of air expanding your belly and feel the pleasant sensation as your lungs fill up and your body feels at rest before letting the exhale go.
So it's a slow inhale and let your exhale really be a complete release breathing out until your body feels empty.
Until you hit that gentle point of stillness before you breathe back in.
Take a short rest in between the exhale and the inhale.
And let the lungs slowly sip in another deep breath.
Drawing you deeper and deeper into that quiet state of balanced alignment.
This is your center.
It lives within the breath but we could only access it when our breath is free.
When we can inhale and exhale and let the breath flow without resistance.
So as your body continues to gently rise and fall as the air flows in,
See if you could feel the melting away of any tension that you're holding on to.
Any tightness you feel in your body or your breath.
Continue breathing like this on your own for a few more moments.
If you've noticed thoughts or ideas or any kind of background noise in your mind's bubbling up to the surface,
That's totally fine.
What you could do to return back to center is replace any thoughts that come up with that sensation of breathing.
Invite in the full depth of that feeling of air coming in and flowing out.
And any time that you get distracted,
You simply return your minds back to this point.
By taking in deep inhale,
You can watch your thoughts float away and return back to this quiet place of calm awareness.
So with the breath flowing free and without resistance,
The gravity pulling your body into the center of the earth and into your own alignment,
We're gonna bring the session to a close with a few more deep breaths,
Some gentle movements coming back into the fingers,
The toes,
The neck,
And the shoulders.
Move around as you need to and hopefully you have gotten a taste of what balance feels like in this moment.
So with proper intention,
Mindfulness really does allow you to find your center and gain a sense of rightful distribution between your intuitions and your external demands.
And as you go through the day,
Remember that balance is not found,
But rather it's created.
By breathing with awareness like we did just now,
You can be the designer of your own equilibrium.
Thanks for joining me today,
I hope you enjoyed,
And may you have a most balanced day.
