Hello,
This is Sarah Ritchie of InnerOwnWisdom.
Com,
Coming to you from Algonquin Park in Ontario,
Sitting here,
Lakeside,
And inviting you to join me for a beautiful,
Relaxing meditation on your inner nature,
Your true nature.
We're all connected in this universe,
Everything,
Every blade of grass,
Every bird that sings,
The water,
The rocks,
The great Michomas,
As the native people call the rocks here,
Our grandfathers.
They carry the wisdom of thousands and thousands of years.
Allow yourself now the opportunity to become present and to become one with me.
So I'd like to invite you to start by taking in a long,
Slow,
Deep breath in through your nose and exhaling it fully,
Just relaxing and releasing.
And take another nice long,
Slow,
Deep breath in like that.
And just letting go.
Allowing yourself to feel the soles of your feet,
Perhaps wiggling your toes,
Connecting to the energy,
The rooting and grounding.
And then drawing your awareness up through your legs.
Relax and release your calves,
The muscles holding tension around your knees,
Your thighs,
Just letting the energy drop and soften so that you feel connected to the earth beneath you.
Releasing any tension in your abdomen and in your chest and imagining as if the earth could draw a connecting point up through your spine as you release and relax all the way up through the crown of your head,
All the way up to the sky,
To the clouds,
To the stars.
And take another nice long,
Slow deep breath in.
And this time exhale out of your mouth with a sigh.
Let's do that again allowing our breath to help us connect.
Allowing yourself to settle into a natural breath connecting and becoming aware of the sounds around you.
Imagining yourself lakeside with me.
Your legs dangling over a great granite rock.
Your toes touching in the water as it laps.
Allow yourself to feel how connected you are to that water,
To that flowing energy,
To everything in nature.
And as you continue to breathe,
Imagine as if you could just allow yourself to become one with the water.
Allow your being to flow into the water,
Floating with your breath,
Allowing yourself to flow.
Rumi the 14th century Sufi poet said,
Are you a drop of water in the ocean or are you the entire ocean in one drop?
Allow yourself now to become one with that water.
And notice how as the sun begins to bake you from above,
Begins to warm you from the insides,
You begin to evaporate and drift up,
Up,
Up into the sky,
Up into the clouds.
And how now you float in your nature is one with the clouds,
One with the openness of all that is,
With all possibility and you float and you float with your breath and your breath allows you to float.
Now allowing that breath,
That wind of change to move you towards the mountain,
Towards the rock.
And as you reach the top of the mountain,
That immense grandfather,
Mishomis,
That huge rock face,
That you begin to cool and soften and fall down like drops of rain onto the top of the mountain.
How you begin to flow with your nature into little rivulets,
Touching the earth,
Small streams,
Little creeks,
Gentle tributaries flowing down,
Down,
Down the mountain connected to the earth,
Connected to the oneness,
Connected to the groundedness.
As you flow down,
All the way down into the rivers,
Into larger rivers and flowing with your nature and your breath until you flow all the way back into the lake where you started.
And now allow yourself to connect to your feet,
To the soles of your feet dangling from that rock into the water.
Allow yourself to come back into presence slowly into your body.
As you notice yourself sitting,
Resting at one,
At peace with your very nature.
Let's take this practice deeper connecting to our true nature,
Our stillness inside,
Our oneness with all that is.
Today we'll use the mantra,
Aham brahmasmi,
Aham brahmasmi.
Say it out loud with me,
Aham brahmasmi.
And now whisper it softly,
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi,
Which means I am the universe.
And as you connect to that part of you that is one with the universe.
You may have thoughts,
You may have physical sensations in your body,
Or you may hear sounds in the environment around you.
Whatever arises just allow yourself to drift gently like the water floating and flowing easily back to aham brahmasmi,
Aham brahmasmi,
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
Aham brahmasmi.
You can stop repeating the mantra.
Allow yourself to sit gently with your eyes closed.
Look in the stillness and the divine power of your innate nature of your presence.
And let's chant Aum together one time the hymn of the universe to seal in this meditation of accessing your true nature within.
Take in a nice long slow deep breath.
Aum.
And as you go out into the world today remember that stillness that rests within that inner Aum,
Your true home.
Once again this is Sarah Ritchie of inneraumwisdom.
Com.
So happy to share this meditation with you today.
Have a wonderful day and I look forward to meditating with you again.
Namaste.
