Hi,
This is Rony and this meditation is designed to help you tap into your own beautiful intuition.
You might have come to this meditation because there is something in particular that you are trying to make a decision about and you want to tap in to your own intuition about what to do.
Or you might have just come to this because you're interested in honing your connection to your intuition.
Both are completely fine.
So in this meditation I'm going to teach you about the concept of something that I call our mindful gauge.
And you'll get to practice it a bit here and now.
But the idea is then that is that you then take that concept and use it in the rest of your life or evermore.
So let's begin.
Let's start by making sure that you're in a comfortable position.
Really doesn't matter what position you're in for this meditation.
You can sit on a chair,
Sit cross-legged,
Lie down.
Just make sure that your body feels at ease.
And do whatever you need to do to make yourself even 5% more comfortable before we start.
Next I want you to just take a couple of deep breaths to relax your body.
So in through the nose and out through the mouth.
A couple more like that.
In through the nose and out through the mouth.
One more,
Even a little bit deeper if you can.
In through the nose and out through the mouth.
Now as we just help the body settle a bit,
I'd like to invite you to close your eyes if that feels okay.
Just so we can turn our attention inward.
And I want you to just notice any sounds that you can hear.
Anything around you that makes itself known,
Just note it.
No need to focus on it,
Just noticing what you can hear.
And next I just want you to notice what you can feel.
So this isn't an internal feeling,
It's more of a physical sense.
So for example,
I can feel my hair sitting on my neck.
So just notice what you can feel physically as you sit or lie here,
Right here,
Right now.
And now as we start to turn our attention inward and our body begins to relax,
I'm going to tell you about the concept of your mindful gauge.
We're all born with a mindful gauge.
Some of us call it intuition,
Some of us call it gut sense.
But it's that internal felt sense that we're all aware of.
If you've ever spent any time with a very young person,
You'll notice that there is no filter or barrier between their mindful gauge and what they express.
They are immediately aware whether they want the red cup or the blue cup or whether they want to sit on this chair or that chair.
They're just,
They know what their felt sense is and they voice it with no filter.
But somewhere along the way,
Unfortunately we often lose touch with our mindful gauge.
We're told what we should and shouldn't do,
We feel obligated to do certain things,
We feel pressure to be or not be a certain way.
And all of these mean that we become disconnected from our own mindful gauge.
We do all still have it though.
It might be that you notice it when you go and choose an ice cream flavor and you just know that you want the cookies and cream and not the lemon sorbet.
You can't cognitively explain why that's so,
You just know it.
Or it might be that there's a particular place that you like to sit on the couch at home.
You can't explain it with facts but you just know that that's the place that you feel most at ease,
Most comfortable.
That's your mindful gauge,
It's a felt sense,
It doesn't happen in your head.
And so what we're going to do in this meditation is we're going to see if we can get a little bit familiar with what our own mindful gauge feels like.
So I'm going to ask you some questions and I want you to just feel into your mindful gauge,
Your intuition,
Your gut sense about what feels like a yes and what feels like a no.
So that you can start to get a sense of what your own yes and no feels like.
So let's start with something really simple.
Do you like to drink coffee in the morning?
What's your felt sense,
What does your mindful gauge say?
The authentic truest part of you,
Is it a yes or a no?
If it's a yes what does that feel like?
And if it's a no what does that feel like?
Do you like to go running?
What does your mindful gauge say about that?
Just notice and notice what a yes and what a no feels like.
Are you a morning person?
What's your felt sense about the truth of that answer?
Do you like to go dancing?
Or do you like to just dance?
What's the felt sense in response to that question?
Now I'm going to give you a couple of bigger ones.
Are you content in your home at the moment?
Does it feel like the right place for you?
What's your felt sense?
Are you engaging in enough self-care currently?
What's your felt sense?
What I'm going to do now is invite you to pause on those questions that I've asked you,
And now that you've got a sense hopefully of what a yes and what a no might feel like,
Feel free to play around with this.
Feel free to take it out into the rest of your life.
And it doesn't have to be the big decisions,
It can be do I feel like a warm or a cold drink at the moment?
Do I feel like lying on my right side or my left side?
Do I want something to eat or do I want to go for a walk?
It can be those simple everyday decisions that we make all the time.
But I invite you to play around with this concept and to just pause when you can in those decisions and to see if instead of using your brain and your mind to try to come up with the right answer or what you should do,
What you feel obligated to do,
What you think the right thing to do is.
I encourage you to tap into your mindful gauge and see if you can feel what your body wants.
And just a note to say we can't always honour what our body wants in the moment,
That's okay.
This is about starting to make a connection with your mindful gauge and starting to learn how to listen to it again.
And the more we do that and the more we connect with the truth of our felt sense and what our body is telling us,
The more we can work on getting it what it needs,
Even if it's not immediately.
I hope that this has been helpful for you and I hope that you have fun playing around with this concept of connecting to your own mindful gauge when you get the chance.
Thank you so much for spending this time with me.
Go well.