Welcome to Day 4 of Insight Timer's Reset and Refresh Challenge.
Your call to break free from the ordinary,
Let go of what's been holding you back,
And step into your life with a fresh perspective.
Let's jump into today's session.
Who dreamed me here?
Who gave me this?
What grace has blessed me with this moment and the next?
Who took the small heart in me and squeezed it so hard it beats?
Who took these veins and pushed blood through them?
Who asked me to wake in this dream in the quiet of a starless night?
In the quiet of the starless night.
Who took my birth and sent out a wish printed on my fingers?
Who kissed into my brow a name?
Who can I thank for all of this?
It's important we not waste this appointment with life.
This brief fling through stardust and bone.
So awkward and too pure for all this abrasion.
We are still the bodies pushed into this life.
We are here.
Against all odds.
Bound by the same fate.
Walking for only a moment.
Loud and able to give love to this world.
There is a gift weighted down in you trying to work its way to the surface.
Finding this gift is your thanks.
Is your note of appreciation.
Your offering to the feast of life.
If you could close your eyes and awaken a sense of wonder and curiosity in yourself.
I would like to affirm for you that there is something hidden within you.
You do not need to know its name or shape.
You need only a willingness to begin the conversation with the unknown wonder of your inner life and world.
Begin here.
Free of concern or pressure.
Be like the fertile and warm earth.
In your hand is a flashlight scanning the heart for what it will reveal to you.
There is no rush,
Rather rest is the currency of your heart.
Gratitude is the currency of your heart.
A rested body,
Mind and being is the ground the heart softens and opens into.
In through your nostrils,
Into the body,
Into the heart.
Nostrils,
Body,
Heart.
Breath,
Body,
Heart.
Make ready for the beauty weighted down in you to come up from your heart.
Make ready for the song to come up from your throat.
Make ready your hands for catching the love you forgot.
Make ready your head,
Your meandering mind for the one true sound to come.
Look into yourself as if you were a horizon.
Pink and bruised and falling toward the endless edge of yourself.
Prepare the earth.
Grow so warm in your own company,
In your own love.
Breath by breath,
Heartbeat by heartbeat.
I walked for a few decades now and thought I was seeking wisdom.
As it turns out,
In my very heart was everything I left home to find.
So time wears away who I thought myself to be.
And I'm beginning to see this sweet thing alive and untouched.
Silken and bright.
With wonder still intact.
Still smiling,
Afraid,
Small and brave.
Somewhere in you,
You remember.
Your love for life.
Your joy.
Your unending curiosity.
Somewhere in you,
It is still alive.
Who dreamed me here?
Who asked me to wake in this dream?
In the quiet of this starless night?
Taking a deep inhale and exhale.
And opening your eyes in this room,
In this body,
In this beautiful life.
Thank you for another beautiful practice.
I hope you were able to feel some questions,
Some wonder,
Some long lost love sitting in the center of you.
Tomorrow we're going to be practicing engaging with the process of our life in a different way.
Seeing that we always have agency and we are in constant conversation with our ever unfolding,
Evolving lives.
See you tomorrow.
