Today I invite you to take part in this guided meditation.
This is you taking time out for your divine self.
This is you separating from the mental noise and the distraction of emotion.
This is you saying,
I am enough,
I am deserving,
And I wish to love and honor myself in as many ways as possible.
This is you asking for assistance.
This is you believing assistance and healing and the end of suffering is possible.
This is you,
Dear one,
Receiving that healing frequency.
Take a moment to relax your entire body.
Just for a moment,
Notice any tension in your shoulders,
Back,
Jaw,
Or eyebrows.
And simply use the divine I am to ask your body to let go.
Scan the lower part of your body now and notice any tension in your abdomen and hips,
Legs and feet.
And with your divine I am,
Ask your body to simply relax and let go.
Take a moment and notice with your I am awareness the way the chair beneath you,
The mat,
Or the bed feels against your body.
Repeat these words.
I am not this mental activity.
I am not this body.
I am not this mental activity.
And I am not this body.
I am not what I think.
I am not what I feel.
I am not what I think.
I am not what I feel.
The purpose of preparing oneself mentally,
Especially at the beginning and ending of each day,
Is to create a mental space that permits the power of metacognition,
Which is the sacred ability of a human's mind to observe itself from a higher state of consciousness.
When you activate the power of metacognition by reverse engineering,
By learning to be objective about your body and your emotions,
You begin to understand that your body and emotions,
Your thinking and feeling,
Are nothing but instruments.
They are not you.
Once you receive this powerful download and your subconscious mind accepts the higher you is here to learn how to play the instruments of emotion,
Mental activity,
The physical body,
Your thoughts,
What you see,
What you feel,
Once your mind develops the ability to recognize that you are not negative emotion or negative thoughts,
Obsessive thinking,
You are not anxiety,
You are not the pain,
You are not the suffering,
You develop the ability to create distance between who and what you think you are.
If you placed your eyeball upon the bark of a tree,
You would not know it was a tree.
You may assume you are even the tree,
But as you take ten steps back,
That space helps you recognize that you are not the tree.
It helps you recognize that the tree is outside of you,
Not part of you.
In the same way,
The human mind has infinite potential to expand beyond the cocoon limited thinking trauma creates.
Survival thinking creates barriers to love,
To self-love,
To compassion for self,
And without cultivating compassion for self,
There can be no true compassion for others.
A natural egoic defense is to deny painful emotions,
To suppress,
Reject,
Blame,
Or project upon others.
And although this is very natural,
And even innocent,
As no one on planet earth created the ego identity,
It is a natural consequence of being born in a physical time-space reality.
It is a natural consequence of being born to unhealed,
Flawed human beings.
It is a natural consequence of the day-to-day interactions and human experiences with others who have yet to develop the space in their mind and in their consciousness that allows them to detach from their emotions,
Feelings,
Beliefs,
Negative,
Subconscious childhood programming,
Opinions,
Or biases.
It is challenging to live in a world that seems cold.
It is challenging to grow up in a family that is unaware,
Where all members of the family operate below the veil of consciousness.
Yet you,
Dear one,
Were born an innocent child.
You were born blameless,
And it is not your fault if it is difficult,
And sometimes impossible,
To love,
To forgive,
To respect,
To honor,
And to have compassion for the innocent you.
When we create the space in our minds and we cultivate the understanding,
I am not my thoughts,
I am not this mental activity,
I am not this body,
When we cultivate this space throughout the day,
We have the potential to recognize that while emotions are valid,
While opinions may be true of others,
To develop true self-compassion requires a detachment from these experiences in which one develops the ability to willfully love that which is they are not.
Childhood trauma arrests us mentally,
Emotionally,
Physically,
Spiritually,
In the back of our minds,
Regardless of the successes we may achieve.
Much of our desires to achieve is rooted in the feeling that we are not good enough.
When we take the time to separate our consciousness from the experiences that have caused us to feel this way,
Despite their validity,
It is as if we have stepped away from the tree,
And only when we step away from the tree,
Dis-identify with the tree,
Can I truly love the tree,
Can I flow compassion toward the tree,
Can I water the tree,
Can I respect the tree.
Take a moment now and willfully and deliberately acknowledge that what happened to you is not your fault.
Take a moment now and acknowledge that any pain and suffering that has come in your lifetime is not your fault.
Take a moment and recognize that unconsciousness,
Unawareness,
Is not your fault.
The experiences,
The feelings,
And the unawareness of the human mind is not your fault.
Imagine now,
You place these three experiences of mine,
Of life,
And of yours,
At the foot of that tree.
Place the experiences at the foot of that tree.
Place all of the emotions,
Shame,
Self-doubt,
Dependencies upon others,
Fear of rejection,
Lack of selfhood,
Confusion around who you are and your self-worth,
Place it at the foot of that tree.
Now place the understanding that the human mind is more subconscious than conscious,
That the average human has very little awareness over what motivates and triggers their emotions,
Thoughts,
And actions.
Place that knowing at the foot of that tree.
Step away now.
Take a moment.
Now create a mental image of your five-year-old self,
Imagining that you have taped a picture of your five-year-old self on this beautiful tree.
This tree is magnificent.
Its leaves glisten in the sun.
It is full of wisdom and compassion for the earth and for all humans and all creatures.
It holds no judgment.
A thief or a missionary has rights to its shade and healing energies.
There is no judgment with this tree.
With the picture of your innocent five-year-old self,
Subject to experiences and circumstances they could not control,
Who experienced emotions that they could not control,
Innocent emotions,
Innocent mechanisms such as fight,
Fawn,
Or freeze,
Hypervigilance,
The fear of criticism,
Understanding that the five-year-old self was subject to natural psychological processes they could not control.
Step back now,
A little bit further,
Peering into the eyes of this divine,
Innocent creature,
Subject to physical laws of this time-space reality,
Who is subject to subconsciousness just as all humans are.
Understand that this innocent child has been programmed out of alignment with true spiritual virtues such as love,
Forgiveness,
Compassion,
And respect for all.
Feel the weight of empathy overcome any emotions of shame wash away.
Feel your heart-space open for the innocence of this child.
Feel shame wash away as the child in that photograph begins to understand nothing is their fault.
Feel the excitement build as this innocent child begins to understand they can come out of their cocoon.
They can be released of this chamber.
They have the right to love themselves,
To forgive themselves.
Watch as the facial expressions of that child begin to shift.
Watch their face soften as you send your younger self the frequency of compassion,
Empathy,
And understanding.
In this moment,
Your mind is becoming more organized,
More ordered,
Therefore less disordered.
To live an ordered life,
To heal disorders,
Is to bring the mind into order.
Love is the highest order.
Dear one,
You are alive.
That is your purpose.
You and creator cannot be separated.
The most important thing in life is life.
It is to love life.
The more you develop the ability to create the space between your thoughts,
The more you practice detaching from ego identity despite ego's validity,
Despite ego's fears,
Despite the ego's story,
The more conscious of a human being you become.
This is the only way to escape the matrix of illusion.
It is time to awaken and to understand that compassion has the potential to open a door that you can slip through,
Leaving the past behind you.
May you know the power that you possess.
May you know that the power you seek is not outside of you.
It never has been.
It is time to awaken and remember who and what you are not so that you may know who and what you truly are.
Namaste dear ones.
Until next time.
