Hello and welcome.
This is a short meditation on finding and living out your purpose.
So find a comfortable seated position.
I think it's best to sit during meditation,
But whatever is most comfortable for you and that can allow you to remain somewhat alert is preferable.
And just to begin,
Maybe give yourself a little space and time for the meditation or the settling to happen.
You don't have to force it.
You don't have to try to get somewhere.
You'll get there.
We can settle simply when we turn off all the distractions,
All the stimuli,
All the.
.
.
When we quiet the mind especially,
Our body,
Our heart just knows how to relax.
So maybe take some deep breaths.
Good.
So with the meditation like this,
This is a short one,
But you want to do this regularly as a practice,
Not just in one sitting because it's a type of meditation that will deepen over time and one that is most powerful when you're able to have a clear and open mind and heart and relaxed body.
So in a short time like this,
We can get somewhere,
But just know that this is a practice that you want to practice over time.
So as you're just sitting or lying or however you are,
Quieting the mind as much as you can,
Relaxing into your body as much as you can,
Feeling your awareness come down from the upper region of the head,
Feeling it soften.
And slowly you feel it drop into perhaps your thoracic region,
Into your chest,
Into your abdomen.
And you can even feel it drop into kind of the lower parts of your body,
Into the chair,
Into the ground,
Into your feet and legs.
And as you feel that just noticing that this is a possibility,
This state,
This quality,
This aspect of your being that isn't just running around in your head all the time.
This is a possibility anytime.
And it's something conducive that allows for meditation to actually change you.
So it is in this state,
In this place that we can drop in a question.
And the question is,
The question is,
Who am I?
Or you can say,
What am I?
Who or what am I?
Whichever one feels more,
You know,
Like it can have a resonance or it feels right.
Who am I or what am I?
And not inquiring from the mind,
But you can start with the question in your mind,
In your head.
And just feeling it drop into your body,
Into your heart.
Like you're dropping a pebble into a pond and the pebble kind of shifts around undulates as it drops slowly to slowly down to the bottom.
And the important thing here is to let the question come from a place of curiosity and openness.
Who are you?
What are you?
What am I?
And this question itself is sufficient to change you.
You can trust that it is doing something already when you ask the question in this way.
When you're in a state of being and kind of calmness and openness.
And when you drop the question down from your head into your body,
Into your heart.
Our energy knows how to respond to this and will become informed.
And if you'd like,
You can also add in who am I or what am I?
And what am I here to do in this lifetime?
Who am I here to be?
What am I here to do?
And again,
From a place of not knowing,
Not needing to really find the answer.
But to let the answer come through your experience,
Through your life.
Seeding this question into your consciousness already changes something in you.
And changing something in you will change your outer circumstances and your life.
It can start to shift and orient around you,
Around this question.
Let it suffuse your being.
Ask this question with your whole identity,
With your whole being.
Reverberate with this question on a daily basis.
I mean,
If you do it on a daily basis,
I assure you it will transform your life.
So just another minute,
Maybe just 30 seconds.
Taking another deep breath and just letting it all go.
No need to hold on to anything.
No need to make any insight or,
You know,
Realization.
You know,
You can just trust that the change happened and the change happened in you.
All right.
