Welcome,
Welcome,
Welcome.
I'm gonna hang out here for a few minutes and do a meditation that is specifically for people who are struggling with taking something personally.
I know how much that can suck but the beauty is is that what you're taking personally isn't really personal.
So we're gonna hang out for just a few minutes maybe five seven minutes or so and invite ourselves into presence and look beyond the story that thinks this means something about you.
Let's go.
Welcome to this space.
We're just going to be here for a few moments.
Can you relax with me?
Can you give yourself permission to let go of everything else for just right now and totally fall in to the present moment?
Just you and I here right now hanging out.
We're gonna just take three deep breaths and allow ourselves to become more and more present and we can just let go of all the thoughts.
Don't need to hold on to them,
Don't need to push them away.
We're just going to be here.
Whatever pain or tension you might be with,
Whatever it is that you might be taking personally,
I invite you to just recognize a profound truth.
That truth being that your tension and emotional disturbance isn't really responding to what someone said or what someone did or how things went or how they didn't go but it's responding to what you think it means about you.
Whether it's about what you think your future is,
Whether it's about you being enough or being loved.
See that there are these assumptions taking place,
These stories being told that are attaching a meaning that isn't really there.
We're just believing that it's true and that's okay.
It just hurts.
The good news is we can hang out in this moment and look beyond all those stories and see that in this moment right now that's not really true.
So my invitation is to breathe into reality without that story.
Just seeing that it doesn't really mean that about you.
Sure you might be scared,
Sure maybe it's not what you wanted but again the fear and the pain is assuming that it somehow means you're not enough.
And so we're going to hang out in this moment,
We're going to take three more deep breaths and you're just going to release that story,
Release that tension and feel in to the deeper truth of what's actually happening.
And maybe what's actually happening is that you don't know what's happening and that's okay.
So let's be present,
Let's breathe and let's release some tension.
Just breathe.
Let's do three more breaths,
Yeah?
Let's breathe.
Do you see the profound difference between the life that's here right now and the story about what we think is happening,
What we think things mean and none of what we are thinking is actually happening?
Yeah we get lost in the mind's content,
That happens sometimes but the good news is we can take a moment,
We can be still and we can discern the difference between our imagination and reality.
Thanks for meditating with me today.
