Mountain meditation.
Give yourself permission to move into a posture where you feel comfortable and at ease in.
You could stand up or sit down.
Listen to what your body's telling you it needs.
Bring your awareness now to the sensations of your breath and the gentle rhythm it's creating within you.
Letting it be just as it is.
Each inhale and exhale.
Announcing the next.
Expanding your awareness now to the sensations in your body.
Shifting your attention to the surface beneath you and the support that it provides.
Root your body into its strength and become aware of your connection to it.
Complete,
Whole and in this moment you are grounded by its unwavering resolve.
Visualise now a majestic mountain whose peaks pierce clouds,
Continue upwards where the air is clear and the view is endless.
A mountain with slopes both jagged and gentle supported by a vast foundation rooted deep in the bedrock of the earth.
This mountain is a monument to all that is solid,
Grand,
Unmoving and beautiful.
Letting it be just as it is.
Be this mountain.
Share in its stillness.
Grounded in your posture,
Your head at skyward peak,
Supporting the rest of your form,
Granting an awe-inspiring perspective of the landscape before you and all around you.
Be this mountain.
Take on its stability as your own.
From the top of your crown,
Down your neck and into the balance of your shoulders like cliffs,
Descending into your arms and forearms and coming to rest in the valley of your hands.
Be the mountain.
Your feet,
Legs and hips its base,
Solid and rooted beneath you.
A foundation extending up your spine and abdomen.
A core of stability.
The rhythm of your breath is all that moves you.
A living mountain,
Alive and aware,
Yet unwavering in inner stillness.
A centred,
Grounded,
Unmovable presence.
A mountain which witnesses the sun travel across the sky,
Casting light and shadows and colours across its consistent exposure.
Moment by moment,
In the mountain's stillness,
The surface teems with life and activity.
Snows melt,
Streams run down its face,
Trees and flowers bloom and die and bloom again as the wildlife returns and departs with the seasons.
Be the mountain,
Which sits and sees how night follows day and back again.
Knows the sun by the warmth it brings on rising and the stars by the way they show in a darkened sky.
Through it all,
The mountain sits,
Aware of the changes that each moment brings,
Yet it remains itself,
Whose serenity is housed within and cannot be disturbed by a fleeting furrow.
In the same way as you sit in meditation,
You can learn to experience the mountain as a means to embody the same centred,
Unwavering stillness and groundedness in the face of all the changes in your life,
Over seconds and hours and years.
Like the mountain,
You will experience the changing nature of your mind and body and the world around you.
Through it all,
Be the mountain.
Call on its patient strength and stability within you.
Let it empower you to encounter each moment with mindful composure and compassionate clarity.
Gently becoming aware of your surroundings,
Opening your eyes and bringing some movement into your body where you feel you need to.
