A warm welcome to this beautiful place,
This beautiful time,
Early morning in the woods here.
And I'd like to just thank you for also the opportunity of doing this and just sharing together as well the space.
So I think it's this kind of meditation is also was contemplation meditation time is a lot about just coming back to our so almost like our center which for us is our heart and leaving the mind and leaving all the other stuff as it were just putting it aside and coming back to that beauty and simplicity of the heart in the present moment and it's easier when you're in a beautiful space in the nature with the little river and the trees and the beautiful early morning sun there's somehow it's easier you know if we're in a big drama or if we're in a busy city or difficult circumstances it's much harder so that's also the value of doing these kinds of of meditations or contemplation sessions in nature or in a quiet more sacred space.
So it's a lot about that quietness which is obviously the other way to all the noise in our thoughts and our heads and even our emotions and all those things just coming to that more neutral or more peaceful more balanced sort of center within ourselves that we find in our when we sort of ground ourselves in our heart.
So the sound meditation the chanting and the singing bowls and the birds and the traffic noise in the background occasionally occasionally is it's a sacred sound it's sacred sound so it's almost one could say the the intention or the the the sort of vibrational essence of the sound is in this direction of centering us in our hearts and connecting us with these kinds of of consciousness kind of consciousness and this kind of energy.
So it's not to say that all the rest is not there but we have this as a kind of like a like a root or grounding a home base to always come back to and it's like anything the more we do it we do it regularly it sort of takes root as it were and it becomes like a valuable resource for us.
So what a lot of folks don't realize is that we practice consciousness so you know if we're always in a specific type of of mind frame then we're actually practicing that mind frame.
So just to be quiet so sit quietly center and allow so there's an openness and allowing of the beautiful energy of the earth and the trees and the nature and the birds and the river and the sunshine and our own beautiful soul our heart and our spirit and they they sort of like two really good friends or lovers or something they recognize each other and they they come together as we participate in this and actively move our consciousness into this kind of this dimension if you like.
So that allowing is very important allowing in this case the beauty of the surroundings and the sound to sort of wash into us and it really does it transports us into a different frame of mind frame of being frame of feeling and heart and it's it tends to be more uplifted and more and more in the yoga we say Ananda which is more blissful and it is it's definitely got that that vibration that sense of peace and ineffable sort of joy that's a privilege to participate in and and and co-create that.
So we can sit quietly for a short while and just be with the sounds of the birds and the sounds around us just observing watching almost like you just stepped outside for a few moments and you're just watching everything just observing without engaging anything just observing the flow of our own consciousness and the flow of the world around us and if thoughts and feelings arise it's the same thing we just watch them and they will quickly subside again.
All right so just to finish let's put our hands together over the heart so that left and right side of the body joining at the heart the center and just to finish the meditation or the session today just with a thought um about something I'm working with and the moment a lot is where we put our attention and or sort of how we can almost control the idea of control is not suppression but regulating the nirodha in the yoga is regulating or channeling so how do we channel and regulate our attention and what we place our attention on tends to grow bigger and as we control and regulate channel our attention to something else then that other thing that it was on tends to get a bit smaller or recede and it's quite a valuable skill to cultivate spiritual skill.
Rich blessings thank you so much
