Welcome to this guided meditation to go back in time and connect with our most ancient ancestors.
It's intended to slow us down for a moment in our busy lives and remember where and who we come from.
Our present existence is just a moment,
A link,
Part of a much bigger whole.
We are here thanks to all who came before us,
Just as we are the source of who will come after.
We are the transition between past to future.
We serve time and its continuation.
We must honor what and who we are made of,
Our ancestors.
In this meditation,
We will visualize them and connect with them.
To begin,
Please get yourself in a comfortable position,
Close your eyes and focus on the present breath,
Ephemeral,
It comes and goes.
It exists for an instant,
Every breath comes after another,
Just as it precedes one.
Again,
Breathe in slowly and breathe out.
And again,
Breathe in slowly and breathe out.
Feel your gravity,
The weight that pulls you to earth.
Feel the part of your body that touches the surface that is supporting you,
That is allowing you to rest.
Feel the light pressure that is happening between the top eyelids on the bottom,
Where they connect to close your eyes and feel your eyebrows relaxing.
Now let's go back in time to the beginning of all.
To pure darkness,
Suddenly an explosion of light,
Stardust,
Creation,
From the tiniest of atoms to the most giant sun,
The planets,
Planet earth and within it water,
Air,
Earth and fire,
The first creatures with life,
These are our oldest ancestors.
They populated the oceans,
Then they populated the land,
They kept changing,
Growing,
Transforming into larger and more complex animals and after innumerable changes they became Homo sapiens,
The first humans.
These ancestors explored their surroundings,
Learned to use everything at hand,
They were one with nature and had a thirsty curiosity and immense creativity.
They walked the earth and populated every climate of it.
You are the result of these ancient humans,
Of thousands of generations of parents,
Of thousands of mixtures,
Of thousands of couples who created life,
One after the other.
You are the beginning and end of a chain and you can draw a direct and unbroken line to every single one of your ancestors.
And the further back you go,
The more those same ancestors are shared by other contemporaries of yours and the more you realize how we truly are all connected,
Like one big family.
All the knowledge,
All the wisdom of all of the experiences of your ancestors put together make who you are.
Not only your physicality is made by your DNA but your personhood is a result of those who came before you.
You are never truly alone,
All of your ancestors live in you as information running through your bloodstream.
Imagine your body floating in a big empty black space.
You are a whole entity,
You have your own story but you are supported by all those who came before you.
Imagine somebody comes into that big black space,
One of your ancestors.
Who is it?
Only you know.
You look at their face and into their eyes.
They are here to remind you to be proud of who you are and where you come from.
But they also remind you that you have a choice.
You choose what to keep and what to leave behind.
There is a lot of knowledge in the past,
Just like there is more to learn in the present in order to keep growing in the future.
Thank you for meditating with me.
May your day be full of presence.
