What's most important to you?
When are you at your most energized?
When do you find purpose and meaning in what you're doing?
When do you experience flow?
This is what we're exploring today.
It's important that we know how to get in touch with that part of ourselves.
The part of ourselves that knows what's most important.
And it's important that we make sure that what is important to us is part of our lives on a regular basis.
Keeps us going,
Motivates us and makes the experience of life more enjoyable.
In The Great Wagon by the poet Rumi,
He writes,
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
And today's practice is about finding that field in you,
The place of non-judgment,
No rights,
Wrongs,
Expectations or shoulds.
Simply the truth.
Find a comfortable position.
I don't mind what position that is.
Settling.
Allow yourself to let go.
If you find your mind's really busy today or there's some resistance to the practice,
That's okay,
It's perfectly normal.
The fact is you're here.
It's okay.
Notice your breath moving naturally in and naturally out.
No effort required from you at all.
The body knows how to breathe.
Give your full self and attention to the natural rhythm of the breath for a few cycles noticing the in and out,
The rise and the fall,
The aliveness.
With each in-breath imagining a little more space in your mind and body.
With each out-breath letting go.
Letting go of what you don't need right now.
When you find yourself settled,
Connected and open,
You're in that field,
The field of spaciousness and non-judgment that Rumi talks about,
Where there are no rights or wrongs.
So while we're in this space,
Why don't you ask yourself,
What is most important to me right now?
And just see what comes up.
You're not searching for any grand answers,
You don't need to report back in any way.
This is your time to allow your personal priorities to come to the surface.
How do you want to live your life right now?
What's important,
What's meaningful to you?
Stay with the question,
What is most important to me in my life?
Notice the thoughts that bubble up.
Ask yourself how you can make what's important to you a bigger part of your life.
You want to experience joy,
You want to experience flow,
To feel alive,
To feel like you're making meaning and contributing.
So how can you do that more,
Knowing what's important to you?
We're coming to the end of our practice today.
Let's go back to Rumi's poem,
The Great Wagon.
He also writes,
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you want.
Don't go back to sleep.
And thank you so,
So much for practicing with me today.
