If you're open for it,
This is an opportunity for us to get profoundly honest with ourselves.
And so if you're not ready for that,
This is not the meditation for you.
First,
Let's allow ourselves to be present.
Just recognize this moment is happening.
You are here right now.
Breathe into this moment.
Breathe with an intentionality of coming home in a very gentle,
Playful,
But honest way.
Let's discern the difference between the life we think is happening and the life that is here right now.
Yes,
There's 10,
000 things to think about,
And yet none of those things are here.
What is here?
What is real?
What is true?
As we come back to reality and we find ourselves to be incredibly present,
Can you recognize the profound emptiness of this moment?
The emptiness where all is allowed to be what it is.
The sound of a car passing by,
Allowed to be what it is.
Maybe a dog barking,
Allowed to be what it is.
All that is allowed.
I invite you to just release any resistance that wants to think that anything that's showing isn't allowed.
Release it.
In the release of this resistance,
It simply invites you to drop deeper and deeper into presence.
Now,
As we're here in this moment,
Present and alive,
Can you be honest about something for me?
Within you is a light that wants to shine.
Within you is a play that wants to be explored.
Within you somewhere is a genuine enthusiasm that wants to go on a great human adventure.
Within you,
There are things you are genuinely interested in.
Within you is an aliveness that simply wants to be alive.
Alive.
Just acknowledge this reality.
Can you also acknowledge that you don't allow it?
Can you acknowledge that there is something sincere within you,
Wants to breathe,
That wants to play,
And you say no?
And I want to ask you,
Your reasons for no,
How much of it revolves around fearing what other people will think about you?
How much of it revolves around losing the things you cling to that aren't even yours to begin with?
How many excuses do you have that only help you hide from the truth of what you are?
Hide from your own brilliance?
Hide from the miracle of being alive?
How many excuses have you collected that attempt to keep you safe from the world's opinion about you,
Rejecting the sincerity of your own heart in hopes of getting the world's approval?
How's that going by the way?
Maybe you're here to be alive,
Not to be approved of in the mind of other people.
Maybe you're here to play a game that deeply resonates with your own aliveness,
Rather than playing the fearful game that everyone else wants you to play because they're too afraid to play their own game.
What are you doing with this life that you've been given?
Maybe it's time to truly be alive.
Let's find out.
Thanks for meditating with me today.
