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Discovery Contemplation

by Danielle Van de Velde

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4.6
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guided
Activity
Meditation
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Everyone
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This beautiful contemplative meditation offers expanded perspectives on the true nature of self and life. It is created to open the mind and heart to feelings of awe when contemplating the self, place in life, purpose, and design.

ContemplationMeditationSelfUniquenessPresent MomentInterconnectednessPurposeBreathingLifeAweSelf DiscoveryCosmic PerspectivePresent Moment AwarenessLife PurposeMindful BreathingCosmos

Transcript

Discovery Meditation Give yourself these next few minutes.

Settle your body into stillness and allow your breath to soften,

Lengthen and deepen.

Take three nourishing,

Deliberate breaths and feel the motion of the breath as it enters and exits your body.

Arrive here,

Now,

In this moment.

Remember,

You are unique.

The odds of you being born are one in four hundred trillion.

These are roughly the same odds of flipping a coin thirty thousand times and the coin landing on its edge each time.

Contemplate this for a moment,

You're here for a reason.

In some unfathomable way your unique presence together in the collective wave of humanity at this time has purpose.

How could it not?

Remember,

You are ancient.

The nuclei of every atom in your body was forged billions of years ago in the fusion reactors at the core of now long dead stars.

You are quite literally made of stardust.

These atoms along with all the others in the world have been circling around for aeons,

Shifting,

Organizing,

Disbanding,

Reorganizing through the processes of creation.

Now feel your heart beating in your chest.

The atoms that currently make up your heart cells are universal.

They have cycled through mountains,

Oceans,

The winds,

Volcanoes,

Perhaps the heart muscle of a lion,

The seed of an apple,

The wingtip of an eagle,

The tail of a comet.

Remember,

You are essential.

The probability of your genetic material combining to generate you in this life is one in four hundred quadrillion.

You are highly significant as the forces of life opened an infinitesimal window for you to be here.

You have been brought to bear in the continuum of life against incredible odds.

You belong here in this life as you,

In this turn of the ancient spiral.

Arrive here to yourself.

Arrive here now.

You are ancient.

You are unique.

You are essential.

Every breath,

Thought,

Feeling,

Every choice you make emanates from you and weaves into the living field of life.

You are creator of worlds,

Of experiences,

Of yourself.

The invitation to you now is to remember who you really are.

To discover yourself.

To be free.

And to shine.

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Danielle Van de VeldeSingapore

4.6 (50)

Recent Reviews

Mary

February 4, 2023

Well, when you put it like that.šŸ™ā¤ļø What a unique and beautiful reminder of the significance of each of us. Thank you. šŸ’›

Michelle

October 5, 2022

Beautiful in every way āœØšŸ¤āœØ

Sanjeevni

February 13, 2022

Thank you! This is beautiful, brought me to tears. I never write a comment (usually just give stars). Thank you for this beautiful message of realisation, I feel really blessed. Thank you so much! You have a wonderful calmness about you and your voice is so relaxing šŸ’–

Sabine

December 26, 2020

Wonderful short meditation reminding how unique we all are. Thank you. šŸ™šŸ’«

Cristiano

November 9, 2020

A wonderful way to remind us of how special each living being is, whilst you realign your presence during a busy day. Have a blessed day, dear reader. ą¤Øą¤®ą¤øą„ą¤¤ą„‡ šŸ™šŸ½

Moish

November 8, 2020

Beautiful I was not expecting to be able to get so much out of a short guided meditation. I think it is the results of my increased meditation practice that I was able to connect that much easier.

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