We're going to help your active mind find peace.
Maybe something specific has happened and you're experiencing a lot of thoughts in response to that.
Or maybe your mind just feels very active right now and you're longing for peace.
Either way,
You deserve to feel that peace.
You deserve to feel anchored in your body.
And this meditation will support you to feel that.
There's nothing wrong with you for experiencing what you're experiencing.
You're allowed to be processing reality exactly how you're processing it.
And you deserve to feel supported as you process it and as you help find peace for your active mind.
Your mind is energized right now.
It's holding the reins of your awareness,
So to speak.
It's doing its best to help you feel safe and grounded,
But it doesn't really know how to do that.
So it keeps cycling you through thought after thought after thought.
And these thoughts often have emotions and physical sensations attached to them.
So you may be whirling around in cycles of thoughts and feelings,
Not able to drop into your body and feel grounded and peaceful.
We're not here to make this wrong.
We're here to help you navigate through this.
I invite you to close down your eyes and take a breath in and take a breath out.
Feeling your breath coming in and feeling your breath going out.
Feel the sensations as you breathe,
Feeling your chest and belly rising on your inhale and falling on your exhale,
Inhaling and exhaling.
As you do this,
It's as if you're saying,
Here is my awareness and noticing that your awareness is not tied to your thoughts.
Now feel yourself taking a step back and looking at your mind and all of its current activity.
Taking a step back and watching your mind's mental activity.
It's rushing from thought to thought.
You're not making it wrong.
You're just watching it.
Your mind runs on a program of nonstop thinking as an attempt to help you feel safe.
Your mind is perhaps used to holding the reins of your awareness and so maybe it feels like an alternative isn't available.
Today,
We're inviting you into that alternative for your awareness itself to hold the reins in peace.
Watching your mind,
Not making it wrong,
Just witnessing this program of nonstop thinking that it's running on.
Seeing what it's doing,
Seeing how convincing it can be.
Look,
Think this thought,
You must,
You must think this thought.
Seeing how it wants you to fully engage with it.
Seeing the energy it has around it,
The draw to pull you in.
And that's okay,
You're just breathing in and out and watching it.
Again,
Not making it wrong,
Not pushing away from it,
Just breathing in and out and watching it.
Maybe the thoughts are saying that you're not quite who you should be.
Maybe the thoughts are replaying scenarios from the past,
Saying you didn't do what you were supposed to do,
Or it didn't play out as it was supposed to play out.
Or maybe the thoughts are imagining scenarios for the future of how things could be.
Noticing these patterns,
Witnessing them neutrally.
It's just the mind running its cycles.
You don't need to engage with any specific thought,
Just witnessing the mental activity as a whole.
Breathing in and breathing out.
And now let's support your mind by giving it some directives.
If your mind has been used to holding the reins of your awareness and running these cycles for a long time,
Then it can be helpful to use specific words as a directive to de-energize your mind.
Today we're going to use the directive,
That's not the present moment,
To direct your awareness again and again and again to the present moment.
Feeling how in this present moment you are safe,
Your body is safe,
And all is well.
And each of these thoughts your mind is producing is not about the present moment,
And so you're de-energizing the thoughts by simply saying to each one,
That's not the present moment.
We'll work with this directive now.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Witnessing your mind as it cycles through thoughts and imaginings of the past and future.
Breathing in and out and saying,
That's not the present moment.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Witnessing your thoughts and saying,
That's not the present moment.
That's not the present moment.
And as you do this,
Feeling how this seeming power your mind had gently dissipates,
The urgency that the cycles of thought seemed to have gently loosens,
And you can feel your mind less energized.
You can feel even more of your awareness here,
Safe in this present moment.
Breathing in and breathing out.
And now let's bring your awareness in this present moment to your wonderful body.
Because we don't use this awareness practice to avoid your body,
We use this practice as a way to fully inhabit your body.
Breathing in and out.
And feeling your chest area.
Whatever sensations you might be feeling there,
Witnessing them neutrally.
Because it's safe to be feeling whatever you're feeling in your body.
It just is.
It's just another sensation being felt.
Breathing in and out.
And feeling your chest area.
Now bringing your awareness to your belly area.
Whatever sensations you might be feeling here,
Not attaching a story to them.
Not labeling them as good or bad,
Just letting them be sensations that are being felt.
It just is.
Because no matter what sensations your body is feeling,
You are safe and rooted in the truth of awareness in this present moment.
Breathing in and out.
And bringing your awareness to your jaw area.
Witnessing it neutrally.
Now bringing your awareness to your neck and shoulders.
Witnessing them neutrally.
Bringing your awareness to your hips.
Witnessing them neutrally.
Breathing in and out.
Now bringing your awareness to your feet and toes.
Feeling any sensations in your feet and toes.
And witnessing them neutrally.
Breathing in and out.
No matter what thoughts are cycling through your mind.
No matter what sensations are being felt in your body.
You are grounded and anchored in safe,
In awareness,
In this present moment.
Feel this rootedness.
Feel this truth.
Feel this peace.
And when you feel ready,
I invite you to open your eyes.
Moving into your day.
Remembering this truth.
Feeling this peace.
Thank you.
