Welcome to the Bush Meditation Series.
I'm going to take you through and guide you in as you find an inner sense of stillness and peace,
A feeling that lies deep within you,
Something that you were born with,
Something that you just know.
Throughout these meditations,
I hope that you may find this again from within you as you listen to the sounds of the beautiful Australian outback.
Live life,
Love,
Breathe.
Take a deep breath in and out.
You may choose to sit or lie somewhere comfortably,
Somewhere in the comfort of your own energy with people around you or not,
Your choice.
If you're lying down,
Take both hands and lie the palms flat against the upper section of your abdomen,
So just in between the belly button and the rib cage.
This is your solar plexus,
So connecting with this as the seat of your personal power will help drive what needs to come for you from this moment.
If you're sitting,
Placing your hands on either thigh or knee,
Hands facing up to open to the universe,
To everything around you,
And with your base chakra,
Solidly connecting and anchoring into the earth below you.
As you find your position,
You find your comfort.
Take a few deep breaths in and out and begin to centralize yourself to your surroundings.
The main feeling that you'll find over practice is that as you sit or you lie,
You find this stillness.
It's like being the music,
Not being the notes and the music,
Or it's like being the paint,
The colors in the paint rather than the artwork itself.
It's about finding these small moments that you feel so grounded and so open,
And this openness brings your connection,
A connection to your deeper self,
And therefore a connection to the wider world around you.
If at any time you feel like you need to move,
That's okay.
If at any time you need to change positions,
That's totally fine.
It's all about you,
So honor yourself,
Be friends with yourself,
And allow yourself to be who you are.
Again,
Taking a few deep breaths in and out.
Notice the weight of your body in your position.
Notice what the sensation is of your skin touching your mat or your sitting bones sinking down into the ground,
Noticing places of tension.
As you move through each breath,
Just giving these moments of tension to just pass on by.
It may only take a few breaths or it could take the whole meditation.
Just allow this tension to leave your body,
Just to let go of it.
A lot of the time when we feel pain or we feel tension,
It's because we're not letting go.
We don't know how to.
The thing is if we do not let go,
Then how can we be in the present moment?
We're always living in the past.
Take a nice deep breath in,
Hold that breath,
And release.
Just scanning through your body now,
Just noticing all aspects of you.
Do your legs feel heavy?
Do they feel light?
Just noticing,
Just observing,
Being an observer in your world.
Moving through the body,
Just noticing.
You could start anywhere.
Just start with your feet.
Just allowing the sounds to stir the peace and the passion within you.
Just moving through from your toes to your feet,
Just noticing what your body feels like,
Who you are.
Moving through to your ankles,
Your shins and calves,
Your knees,
Your thighs,
Your hips.
Just imagine your pelvis just opening and releasing.
Moving through to your abdomen,
Your lower back,
Upper back,
Chest,
Just noticing the breath in and out.
Just loosening the breath,
Relaxing the diaphragm.
Moving up through the chest to your shoulders and just relaxing these all the way down.
Nice deep breath in and relaxing out as we relax the shoulders all the way down.
Moving through the neck,
The base of the skull and moving all the way from around the back of the skull over to the eyebrows,
All encompassing the ears,
The jaw,
The mouth,
Around the head and over into the eyebrows and finally the eyes.
Once you're here and you feel the sensation of observation,
A tingling,
A heaviness,
A lightness,
Whatever it is that you feel,
Just be with that.
Take elements of that and just remember this feeling,
This feeling that you can go back to whenever you need to,
A practice of your own experience.
And just take five nice deep breaths in and out in your own time.
And now bringing it together,
A nice deep breath in and out.
And just be with the noticing the sounds,
The energy,
The environment,
The naturalness of your being to just be.
Now audiobooks.
Bringing our awareness again through our body.
But before you do that I just want you to really hone in on what it is to feel what you feel now.
Where does that feeling sit within your body?
Is it your entire being or is it one place?
And use this.
This is your key to finding peace in those moments of chaos.
To practice coming back to this one place or back to this feeling that has absorbed that has absorbed through your entire body to help you cope and to be the best version of yourself.
So now deep breath in and out and give thanks to yourself in this moment.
Just gently wiggling your fingers and your toes or awakening your jaw by moving it slightly side to side.
I'm just moving your hips slightly like a willy wag tail.
Just getting that flow back within your body.
Just take this cheeky tail wagging maybe into your day.
Where you can be playful,
Happy,
Full of joy.
Like a playful,
Full of joy.
And just gently turning over rolling over to one side if you've been laying and if you've been sitting just turning your palms facing down for a moment.
And eventually bringing your back up yourself back up to sitting and eventually bringing yourself back up to sitting.
And take a deep breath in and out.
And bringing your hands to your heart or your solar plexus or your abdomen and giving thanks in love and kindness to yourself and to the world around.
Namaste.
