Ocean Nature Meditation To Manifest Flow & Ease

Within the creative cycle,

Each of the elements is associated with an emotion.

The water element,

When in balance,

Manifests as faith and unshakable trust.

Water is rethinking the known,

Reimagining the unknown.

Embodying the water element is allowing yourself to be taken along with the currents of life.

Today,

I'll guide you through a visualization meditation to embody Wu Wei by connecting with your fluid water nature.

Start by coming into a comfortable seated or lying down position,

Whichever feels more comfortable and is more supportive for you.

How might you create a cocoon of safety?

What would help you feel safe?

Ask yourself this question and adjust your body,

Your environment,

So it gives you a feeling of safety.

Once you've created your cocoon,

If it feels alright for you,

Only if it engenders a feeling of trust,

Then please allow your eyes to half or fully close.

If closing your eyes makes you feel anxious or uncomfortable,

Then keep your eyes open and soften your gaze and guide your awareness inwards to the sound of my voice.

This is an invitation to turn from out to in.

Allow yourself to become still,

So you can start to hear through the silence the voice of your inner teacher,

Your heart,

Whom you might have neglected because of all the other loud voices from other people or perhaps from your inner critic telling you what you should do,

What you shouldn't do,

Who you should be,

Where you should go.

With your next exhale,

We gently set these voices aside and allow yourself to sink deeper into the comfort and safety of your cocoon.

Guide your awareness to your breath.

Notice your breath and say silently to yourself,

I am breathing in,

I am breathing out.

I am breathing in,

I am breathing out.

I am breathing in,

I am breathing out.

As you continue to allow your breath to flow,

Let it wash over you like the ocean waves layer by layer.

These waves of prana,

This energy,

Vital life force,

This Qi that is deep inside of you.

From the physical layer of your being,

As you exhale,

Drop deeper into your energy layer and feel the pulsation of energy that is your breath.

As you notice this breath,

Simply by noticing it,

You might have observed that your breath has changed.

Feel as you follow your breath,

The warmth of your breath as it leaves your nostrils and gently passes over your upper lip.

As you inhale,

Feel your breath enter back into you.

Each peak and crest,

Each rise and fall of this wave of breath that is the pulsation of energy that is you.

As you move even deeper within yourself,

Let your breath become even more profound and effortless.

With each exhale,

Feel the wave as it leaves the shore.

It returns to the ocean.

And with each inhale,

From the center of the ocean,

The wave departs,

Returning to the shore.

Every inhale and exhale,

The wave washes over the shore and gently leaves and returns back to the ocean where it belongs.

So every single wave is like this.

It comes from the ocean.

It reaches and touches the shore.

It gently caresses the shore.

And then it returns to the source,

The ocean.

As you continue to feel this wave pulsate between this separation,

Leaving the ocean,

Being a separate wave,

Touching the shore and then coming back into union,

Returning to the ocean.

Now guide your awareness from the wave towards the ocean itself.

In your mind's eye,

See,

Feel,

Sense,

And hear this ocean that is strong and soft,

That is stable and fluid,

That is dark,

Deep,

Mysterious,

And at the same time,

Clear,

Complete,

And transparent.

See that this ocean is vast,

Immense,

And boundless.

And at the same time,

Feel that you can take in all of this.

It is finite.

It is perceivable.

As you connect with this image,

This feeling,

This sense,

And this fullness of this ocean,

Allow yourself to connect with your perceiving body,

The part of you that processes your thoughts,

Your images in your mind,

Your mental layer.

Without being right next to the ocean,

Without hearing the sound of the ocean,

You are now experiencing the full spectrum of the ocean in your consciousness,

In your mind.

And this is the power of your perceiving body,

Your mental body or mental layer.

Feel and sense this limitless potential and power and let this ocean quality permeate your consciousness.

As you continue to feel your physical body,

Your pulsating energy body,

And your vast,

Limitless ocean nature through your mental perceiving body,

With your next exhale,

Let yourself descend even deeper into yourself.

Here,

Within you,

Around you,

Inside of you,

The ocean has a secret.

It has been here since time began,

And the ocean has been a witness to many things.

As you see,

Observe,

Sense,

As you are the ocean yourself,

You notice how,

During the day,

The sun passes over the ocean,

Over you,

Casting layers of light and dark on the peaks and the crests of each wave inside of you.

And in the evening,

Your calm surface is gently illuminated by the soft glow of the moon.

Each day passes in this way,

And you,

You are the ocean.

You do not judge the day or the night.

You do not prefer one to the other.

You do not yearn or long for the heat of the sun or the coolness of the moon.

You appreciate,

You accept,

You allow and you embrace both the sun and the moon,

The day and the night,

With your simple and immovable presence that is the true nature of your being.

You are the ocean.

You observe as the fresh dew emerges on the baby leaves and they dance in the spring wind.

You feel as the warmth peaks and the summer rain cools the earth.

And you notice in autumn,

Where the lakes become great mirrors,

They reflect the russet reds,

Fiery oranges and golden yellow colors in the forests.

And in winter,

You see,

You sense the snow as it lines the cliffs and the shore and the snowflakes slowly glimmer and descend.

They quietly dissolve and they return to the ocean.

They come home to you.

Through all of this,

You are connected with the part of you that knows that it knows.

Beyond your physical body,

Beyond your energy body,

Beyond your mental perceiving body,

You are deeply connected with your intuitive body.

You know without needing to explain how or why.

Through all of these transitions,

All of these seasons,

Transformations and changes,

You are silent and still with a wise strength within you as the ocean that you are.

You know that there is no need to fight the wind or repel the rain.

In this way,

You as the ocean,

You remain free from pain,

Free from suffering,

Trusting in the rhythm of the seasons and the cycle and pulsation of nature and life itself.

You are the ocean and you patiently wait to emerge from behind the passing clouds as your face is gently caressed by the first rays of early spring sunshine.

The ocean is patient and present to each moment.

It knows that there is no reason to hurry.

In their own time,

Each droplet will evaporate and rise to the heavens.

In their own time,

Each rain cloud will gather,

Reach saturation and descend to the earth.

In their own time,

Each river will flow and merge and return home to the ocean.

You are patient and present to each moment.

You know that there is no reason to hurry.

In your own time,

Your droplet will evaporate and rise to the heavens.

In your own time,

Your rain cloud will gather,

Reach saturation and descend to the earth.

In your own time,

Your river will flow,

Merge and return home to the ocean.

And you are the ocean.

You become the ocean.

With your next exhale,

Let the droplet that is you from the rain cloud begin to descend and return home to the ocean.

Exhale and dive deep,

Deeper than you've ever before,

And return home into the depths of yourself.

And then,

As if seeing for the first time from underneath,

Within the ocean,

See and sense and hear with new eyes and ears.

Notice how it feels from this perspective,

In the ocean,

As the ocean,

In the river,

As the river,

Within the droplet,

As the droplet,

Looking out and upwards from within,

Through the water,

Towards the sky,

Towards the heavens,

Towards the sun.

Feel that deep within you beyond your physical body,

Beyond your energy body,

Beyond your mental body,

Beyond your intuitive body,

At the core and center of you.

Feel immovable peace.

This is the true nature and essence of your being.

Allow your true nature to come to the surface from deep within you.

And as you exhale,

Let it overflow.

Let it flow out through your intuitive body,

Through your mental body,

Through your energy body,

Through your physical body.

Let it saturate your consciousness.

You are the ocean with its patience,

Trust,

And acceptance.

You bear witness to your experience.

You see with new eyes.

You hear the wisdom and the voice of your inner teacher.

You let go of attachment and striving.

You set aside judgment and self-criticism.

You accept and allow the things outside of your control.

You acknowledge and embrace times of darkness,

Void,

Liminal spaces,

And silence.

You are strong and resilient.

You are fluid and adaptable.

You surrender and flow with what comes to the surface in each and every passing moment.

And you have faith in that which cannot be seen.

As you connect with the truth of who you are and the true nature and essence of your being,

In whatever way feels right for you,

Create a reminder,

A gesture to remind you of this truth so that you can come back to this truth when you forget.

Harvest this practice,

This truth,

This feeling,

This wisdom.

Keep it deep inside of you in a place where you can return home to.

You are welcome to linger here longer if you wish.

To conclude this practice,

Gently let both of your palms turn facing up.

In one hand,

We hold the past which we cannot change,

But we can rewrite the past to empower the present and the future.

In the other hand,

We hold the unknown future that we don't know but that we can choose how we want to face and embrace it.

We unite both of these,

Connecting heaven and earth through the level of your heart.

Intertwine both of these palms and form a bird that is you,

Flying across past,

Present and future,

Transcending time.

Let this bird,

Carrying the truth of you,

Rest at the level of your heart.

Allow your head to bow slightly down towards your heart,

Acknowledging this sacred space between heaven and earth where you are.

And then gently and slowly,

If your eyes are closed,

Let them bling open.