Welcome to day 25 of mindfulness with the moon.
We are now in our last phase of the moon with mindfulness with the moon.
We are in the waning crescent phase and this is a time when we're turning into a seed again.
We are letting go and we are dying to go back to the earth so that we can be reborn.
In the beginning of the waning crescent phase in the northern hemisphere,
We see the moon's entire left side almost completely lit and the right side is in darkness.
The lit area slowly shrinks each day covering less and less of the moon's surface from what we can see on our place on the planet.
In the southern hemisphere the same thing happens only the lit area would have started on the right side and shrunk from left to right until there's only a thin crescent that remains.
Once the sun rises it's not easy to see parts of the moon at this phase so the best time to be with the moon is before the sunrise.
I'm feeling an enormous amount of gratitude for all of you for joining this mindfulness with the moon course and also to my teachers specifically Tara Brock and Jack Kornfield and how they created this mindfulness meditation teaching certificate program that I have been able to learn maybe more in this practicum,
This creating of the first season one of the Macaranda Method podcast than I maybe have ever learned from a formal training course.
I am humbled and enormously grateful.
Today we are exploring what it's like to be a wave,
What it's like to integrate a lot of the lessons that we've learned so far and I would love for this meditation to be longer and for you to simply apply all of the lessons that you've learned about mindfulness meditation,
About insight meditation and bring those lessons and that practice forward as we simply ride the wave of thoughts,
Feelings,
Emotions,
Sensations and we will listen to the crashing sounds of the waves for our meditation and I will remain silent so there's an opportunity for you to listen to your own wisdom and you to become your own guide.
So as you're guiding yourself through following and listening to the waves I encourage you to have headphones on and fully surrender to the sounds and the sets of the crashing waves.
You know they go through these sets where they're small and then they grow and they grow and they grow and then they crash some big crashes and then they get small again and they grow and grow and grow and then they crash.
I mean this is the way that our emotions move as well.
This is the way that sensations move through our bodies as well and so as you listen today see if you can follow your own sets allowing for the waves to rise and fall as they do.
Nothing to control,
Nothing to fix,
Simply surrender and ride the ride.
You'll hear three bells to begin and three bells to close your meditation today.
Slowly,
Slowly bringing your awareness to your body allowing for your breath to release the cadence.
Maybe bringing some movement into your body nice and slow with kindness.
Taking a moment to thank yourself for this practice.
To thank yourself for sitting with yourself,
For coming home to yourself.
Riding the waves and allowing ourselves to be in flow with the universal force and to be in presence is for this course really what it's all about.
Thank you for practicing with me and with us.
I am humbled and grateful.
Enjoy perhaps seeing this waning crescent for sunrise tomorrow and for the next couple of days till we finish out mindfulness with the moon.
See you tomorrow.
