Hello,
Welcome to the meditation,
The open hand of allowing.
This is the meditation to help you just to let go of something that you may be feeling you're a little attached to.
So just begin by recognizing you're here,
Feeling the weight of your body and just let your body rest.
Feel your breath as it moves through you,
There's no need to change your breath.
And just let the awareness of your breath remind you that you're right here now,
You're not anywhere else,
You have nothing else to do.
You don't even have to control your breath,
You don't even have to relax your body.
Allow your body to relax,
Allow your breath to be what it is.
Allow your shoulders to relax,
Allow your jaw to soften.
You've got nothing to hold up right now,
There's nothing to solve.
Just be here,
Allowing this moment to be what it is.
If a thought or a feeling arises,
Just recognize,
Ah,
A thought,
And give it a gentle smile and move back to your awareness of breath.
Breathing in calm,
Breathing out relaxed.
Now just gently bring to mind something that you're clinging to.
Could be an object or it could be some kind of addiction or just a thought or a person,
It could even be a pet.
It could even be just expectations of the future,
How things should be,
Or how someone else should be.
And just feel this deeply,
What it feels like to be holding onto it,
What it feels like to have it in your life.
Now I want you to feel what it's like to be holding it in your hand,
Really tightly in your clenched hand,
You're holding onto it with everything.
And now just feel your fingers gripping,
Feel the tension.
This is what it's like to really clench hold of something,
It's what the body's doing.
It may not be quite so noticeable as in your hand,
But this is what you're doing to hold onto something.
And now just very gently just open your hand.
And I want you to,
I want you to let it go.
Just imagine trying to push it away from you.
It's really important to you that this is let go,
This is gone.
And I want you to notice what that feels like,
That feeling of trying to let something go that won't let go.
And now I just want you to come back to your breath.
Just breathing in calm,
Breathing out relax.
And just imagine now this thing that you're holding onto.
And you just open your hand again and this time instead of pushing it away,
Instead of letting it go,
You just allow it to be what it is.
It could be like a butterfly and you just allow it to be on your hand,
You're not trying to force it to fly away,
If it wants to stay it can stay.
And how does that feel in your body this time?
Does it feel much easier?
Does it feel more relaxed?
And this is the thing with attachments and anything we're holding onto,
It's very much when we try to push them away or we try to let go of them,
They grab hold even more and the body subconsciously doesn't want to let it go.
Because there may be some unresolved tension,
There may be something else happening.
And sometimes it's so deep that we cannot even see it.
And sometimes it can be really obvious.
But if we,
Instead of trying to let it go,
Instead of trying to do it with an action,
If we just allow it to be what it is,
The body and the mind goes,
Okay,
I'll move on to the next important thing.
And it might be your tea,
It might be something completely different,
But it won't try to force it as a constant,
I need to let it go,
I need to drop this,
I need to push it away.
And then in time,
You'll think about it less.
And when it does come up,
You just go,
Ah,
You're still here,
Okay.
And then in time,
The mind and the subconscious mind will just eventually realize it's gone.
It's no longer part of your life.
So the difference is when we're trying to grab hold of something,
And when people are trying to advise us to let it go,
The act of letting go sometimes is what stops you letting it go,
Because that thing doesn't want to be let go of.
And I know that's like a paradox,
But that's how the subconscious mind works.
It isn't always your friend,
It doesn't always know the wisest thing to do.
Bring your attention back to your breath.
Breathing in calm,
Breathing out relaxed.
And bring your awareness back to what you can hear.
Maybe the temperature of the room you're in or whether you're outside.
You can feel the seat you're sat on.
You can feel the weight of your body.
And just before we come back,
Just remember the feeling of trying to let something go.
It's almost like that clenched fist,
The forcing of opening it.
And when you just accept the fact that you can just allow it to be,
And then it moves on,
That whole feeling,
It can be different.
So have a deep gratitude for this moment.
Be grateful of your body for indulging in this exercise.
The ego doesn't always like to do things differently.
But now you have a different way of letting things go.
Just by allowing.
It's much easier.
So as I come back from five,
Four,
Just gently open your eyes.
Three,
Shake out your arms a little bit,
Move.
And two,
Look around the room.
One,
Just be really aware of what's going on now.
And just thank you for trying something a little bit different today in this meditation.
And please let me know if it works,
And thank you for your support.
Really appreciate it.
Feel free to reach out.
