Deep Self-Love – Listening To The Wisdom Beneath Feeling

Welcome,

Take a moment to arrive here,

To pause from whatever came before this.

Let this be a time of returning,

Not to a technique or a practice,

But to yourself.

Feel the surface beneath you,

Notice how it supports you without question.

You don't need to hold yourself up right now,

You can let the surface do the holding.

Let your body settle into this support and as it does,

Notice the natural rhythm of your breath.

There's nothing to change here,

The breath is already breathing you.

You don't have to deepen it,

Slow it or make it perfect,

You can simply notice it.

Air moving in,

Air moving out,

A natural rhythm of life expressing itself through you.

If your mind is busy,

That's okay.

If your body feels tense,

That's okay too.

Everything that is here is welcome.

You don't need to push anything away to be present.

Let this moment hold you exactly as you are.

You can arrive just like this.

As you rest with the breath,

You may begin to notice sensations in the body,

Perhaps a heaviness in the shoulders,

A flutter in the chest,

A warmth or tightness somewhere inside.

There's no need to name these sensations as good or bad,

They are simply the body's way of showing you the movement of thought.

From the three principles understanding,

Our emotions and sensations are never proof of who we are,

They are reflections of what we are believing in the moment.

When the mind fills with certain thoughts,

We feel them in the body.

When those thoughts pass,

The feeling shifts too.

So whatever you are feeling right now,

Let it be a message,

Not a measurement.

A movement of energy,

Not a statement about your worth.

Take another soft breath in and a gentle exhale,

Allowing the breath to wash through the body like a wave.

You might notice that the more you allow,

The less there is to manage.

The body has its own rhythm,

The breath has its own pace,

You can rest inside both.

And as you rest here,

Let the body be your anchor.

If your attention drifts into thought,

Just return to the body.

Return to the breath.

Return to the sound of these words.

This is not about stopping your thoughts.

It's about noticing that you are not your thought.

You are the awareness that sees them come and go.

Sometimes we spend so much time trying to interpret our emotions,

To fix or analyze them,

That we forget their true nature.

They are temporary reflections of thought in consciousness.

Nothing more,

Nothing less.

Just as clouds drift through the sky,

Feelings drift through awareness.

The sky is never harmed by the weather,

It simply allows it.

You are that sky.

As you rest in this understanding,

Notice what happens to the sensations in the body.

Perhaps they begin to soften.

Or move.

Or shift their shape.

Perhaps they stay exactly as they are.

It doesn't matter.

Your job is not to change them.

It's simply to allow them to be felt.

Each sensation,

Even the uncomfortable ones,

Is made of the same energy as thought.

It is temporary.

It is fluid.

It will pass on its own if left alone.

Return to the breath again.

Let it remind you of the simplicity of being alive.

This is the rhythm of your existence.

The evidence of life itself moving through you.

Now begin to listen inwardly.

Not to the words of your mind,

But to something quieter beneath them.

A beautiful stillness that sits below the noise.

A knowing that is always there.

This stillness has been with you since before your first memory.

It is the part of you that watches everything.

The thoughts.

The feelings.

The sensations.

And remains unchanged.

Even when the mind races.

Even when emotion feels strong.

This quiet awareness is untouched.

It has no judgement.

No agenda.

It is simply life being aware of itself.

When you begin to sense this awareness,

You may feel a softening inside.

A kind of relief that nothing needs to be managed.

You can rest.

You can simply be.

Take another breath in.

And out.

Let that breath carry away any tension.

Let it return you to the body.

To this moment.

To the simplicity of now.

As you breathe,

Notice the aliveness within you.

The pulse of energy that moves through every cell.

The quiet intelligence that runs the body without your effort.

This is the same intelligence that guides all of life.

The movement of mind.

The source behind all things.

From this understanding,

You can begin to see that love and wisdom are not emotions that come and go.

They are constants.

The nature of this intelligence expressing itself through you.

When thought is busy.

This love and wisdom may be obscured.

But they are never gone.

They sit beneath the noise.

Patiently waiting to be noticed.

Bring your awareness now to the heart area.

Not to force any feeling.

But to notice what is already there.

Perhaps a sense of warmth.

Perhaps just the rhythm of your heartbeat.

Whatever you notice is enough.

Allow the breath to meet the heart.

Let it feel as though each inhale moves toward this center.

And each exhale softens from it.

If any thoughts arise about your day,

About your past,

About yourself.

Simply thank them for appearing.

And let them pass through.

They do not require your analysis or your attention.

Return again to the quiet.

The breath.

The space between words.

Here,

In this simplicity,

The mind begins to clear on its own.

Like a snow globe settling after it's been shaken.

As the snow drifts downward,

Clarity returns naturally.

When the mind settles,

Wisdom begins to rise.

It is not loud or dramatic.

It often arrives as a quiet sense of knowing.

A soft nudge.

A feeling of ease about what comes next.

This wisdom is always available.

But it can't be accessed through effort.

It reveals itself when thought relaxes.

Rest here in that relaxation.

No need to do anything.

No need to understand everything.

Just being is enough.

As you sit in this awareness,

Notice how emotions continue to move.

They might rise,

Peak and fade.

Each one reminding you of the temporary nature of experience.

You are not your sadness.

You are not your anxiety.

You are not your joy or your calm.

You are the awareness that experiences them all.

Even strong emotion,

When seen for what it is,

Loses its intensity.

When you stop giving it meaning,

It finds its own way back to stillness.

Allow this to happen now.

Let feeling move and dissolve naturally.

Let wisdom take its place.

Perhaps what you begin to sense is a deeper peace.

A peace that does not depend on how you feel.

It simply is.

This peace is the foundation of all love.

It is the quiet hum beneath every experience.

It never demands attention.

But it is always here when noticed.

As you rest in it,

You may begin to sense the presence of self-love.

Not as an emotion to feel.

But as the recognition of your true nature.

Self-love is the natural warmth of awareness recognizing itself.

It needs no practice.

No repetition.

No self-talk.

It appears the moment thought stops arguing with what is.

This love is impersonal yet deeply intimate.

It loves you because it is you.

It loves everything because it sees no separation.

Rest in that love now.

Let it fill the space around you.

Through you.

As you.

You can come back here at any time.

All that's required is noticing.

A single breath.

A moment of stillness.

A remembering of who you truly are.

Let's sit in quiet together for a few breaths.

Inhale softly.

Exhale slowly.

Inhale softly.

Exhale slowly.

Inhale softly.

Inhale slowly.

Exhale slowly.

Allow yourself to melt a little further into this peace.

This love.

This awareness.

This wisdom is not something you find.

It is what you have always been.

Even when forgotten,

It waits patiently.

Even when covered by thought,

It remains untouched.

Even when you cannot feel it,

It holds you.

Take a final few moments to rest here.

Aware of your body.

Your breath.

Your aliveness.

Aware that everything happening right now is held within the same field of love.

If your mind begins to move again,

That's natural.

Just remember.

Thought flows like the tide.

It rises and falls.

But the ocean,

Your awareness,

Never disappears.

Before we close,

Take one more deep breath in through the nose.

And a slow exhale through the mouth.

Feel the relief in that release.

The simplicity of being alive.

As you gently begin to return to your day,

Know this.

You can listen for wisdom any time.

You can trust that it's there even when you can't yet hear it.

And you can remember that self-love is not a state to achieve,

But the truth that reveals itself when the noise settles.

You are not your thought.

You are not your feeling.

You are not the stories about who you should be.

You are the presence beneath them.

You are the stillness that listens.

You are the love that never left.

Rest in that knowing.

You are already home.