Welcome to this practice.
Welcome to this present moment.
Settle into the body and allow yourself to be watered with reminders of the nature of suffering as an important element of your divine,
Perfectly whole nature.
Finding safety in suffering.
You are in a sacred moment.
Right now,
Divinity,
This present moment,
Has taken form in you and in your suffering.
Can you really dive into this opportunity from God to feel?
You are a feeling being.
You are contracting in this moment and you will expand in the next.
This is the exhale.
Without the exhale,
No breathing being can live.
We must exhale to inhale new life.
We must contract in order to expand.
Can we allow this?
Can we allow this natural rhythm to take its shape right here and now?
Knowing that this too,
Like everything else,
Shall pass,
Can you soften into this experience with the trust that you are held in the divine order of things?
Waves rise and waves crash.
The sun rises and the sun sets.
The animals wake and then they rest.
Leaves grow and then they fall.
You are inside this rhythm.
You are this rhythm.
And that means that it is truly,
Unequivocally,
Safe to suffer.
It is safe to contract.
In fact,
It is sacred,
Necessary,
And beautiful in its own way.
Can you make a little way in,
Even just momentarily,
For yourself to see that?
If our love for the divine,
For this life,
For this now,
Is truly unconditional,
Then we must allow it,
The freedom,
To be exactly what it is.
Life is a being and she is expressing herself through each moment,
Through all of us,
One experience after another.
That's all life is.
One experience,
One experience,
One experience,
Eternally.
That is the here and now.
What humility is to be found inside of this suffering?
Sacred humility,
Where we are brought to our knees before something much greater than us.
The ultimate truth is,
I don't know.
If there are unknowns in your suffering,
You have stumbled into a garden of treasures.
Do these unknowns lead you towards deeper inquiry into the truth?
Might your doubt itself show you the way there?
Might your uncertainty be faith itself cloaked in the smoke of illusion?
This suffering is an invitation into being a student.
Are you ready for that?
Can you be ready for that?
Can you be ready to release your judgments around being a beginner,
Around not knowing,
And fall into the lap of this?
Trusting that every element of this experience exists inside of love.
That this is all a part of the divine dance.
That it is all a part of our true blissful nature.
The bliss we accept is called happiness.
The bliss we reject is called suffering.
It's all the same.
It's just pure energy and manifestation happening through us.
So even in this suffering,
Can you tap into the boundless,
Unconditional source of love that is available to you at all times,
Right there within you?
Can you allow yourself a deep breath into this knowing,
Into this love?
Can you laugh into it,
Even for just one moment?
Can you find the place within you that has gratitude for this suffering,
And for what it truly means for the cosmic rhythms that are playing through you?
Place your hands on your heart.
Breathe.
Breathe into your heart.
Breathe into a sense of acceptance.
Offer yourself gratitude and acceptance for all that this process has given you.
Was or was not.
May that which is the truest within you shine forth.
