Settle into whatever it is that's holding you,
Cushion or a chair or bed.
With your spine straight,
Your heart open and your body relaxed.
Invite a sense of relaxation to wash through you from the top of your head down through your face and neck,
Your shoulders,
Releasing any tension,
Feeling the warm relaxation down through your arms,
Your hands,
Down through your torso,
Your pelvis,
Your legs,
Letting your bones melt,
Letting relaxation and tranquility fill you.
And taking two or three full,
Complete breaths to release anything you may be holding,
Long,
Slow,
Relaxed exhalations.
And now call to mind your question,
Clearly defined.
Pick one question,
Not a constellation,
Something your analytical mind has not been able to solve.
This may be a question you have been carrying for a few moments or a day or for years.
Einstein said that answers often came to him when he was not directly working on the problem,
When he was daydreaming or listening to music.
So opening space now for the answer to come in whatever way it wishes,
Whenever it wishes.
In this meditation,
You will inwardly ask the question three times.
Voice the question in your mind now.
Now gently unhook your mind from the question and now offer the question to the part of your psyche that is below consciousness.
If your analytical mind knew the answer,
You wouldn't be asking the question.
So drop the question into the quiet stillness of your inner well.
Let it go.
Let your mind be bewildered for a moment.
Allow your mind to not know.
Just be with the deeper,
Quieter space within you that can never be grasped but also that can never be lost.
Just continuing to breathe.
Old conditioned responses may arise in your mind,
Self-criticisms,
Reactions.
Just let them be.
No need to compete with yourself.
Gently call the question to mind a second time,
Voicing it inwardly.
And once again,
Unhook from the question,
Drop the question into the well,
Into the deep waters of your inner wisdom and let it go.
If your analytical mind runs away with you,
Just gently bring it back to this spot,
Your breath,
The ripples of water in the well,
Staying with your moment-to-moment experience without judgment.
Seeing how each moment of experience,
Whether thoughts,
Physical sensations,
An itch,
Appear out of nowhere and disappear again.
Each moment like a flash of lightning.
Letting go of judgments,
Distractions,
And dropping into this silent place.
Imposing the question one more time,
Inwardly voicing it to yourself with curiosity and tenderness.
Once again,
Let it go.
Drop the question into the well,
Into the deep recesses of your own wisdom.
Invite images or words to arise.
If what arises is silence,
Welcome that to.
You know more than you realize.
You know more than you have let yourself know.
Be with the living energy of your question and rest with it.
Let the question live in this quiet part of you.
Opening yourself not to a state of conclusions,
But a state of discovery and wonder and openness.
Whether insight arises for you now or in the hours or days to come,
Just be open.
Be ready for the answer to surprise you in ways you did not expect.
And thank yourself for opening to this sacred inquiry.
Let the insight find you.
Yes,
She did.
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