Alright,
So once you've found your seat,
Just sit up nice and tall,
Drawing your shoulders right over top of your sit bones.
Here is a nice little quote that really helps us,
Reminds us about the practice of meditation and what it can do for us.
Michael Singer in chapter 12 of The Untethered Soul says,
The more you sit in the seat of witness consciousness,
The more you realize that since you are completely independent of what you are watching,
There must be a way to break free of the magical hole that the psyche has on your awareness.
There must be a way out.
Let me read that again.
The more you sit in the seat of witness consciousness,
Witness consciousness,
Right,
This is us observing our thoughts,
Our feelings and our experience,
The more you realize that since you are completely independent of what you are watching,
There must be a way to break free of the magical hole that the psyche has on your awareness.
There must be a way out.
And I'm just really like,
Wow,
This is what the practice of meditation is going to help us to do.
It's going to help us to step back,
Right,
Begin to establish a beautiful reference point so we can climb behind our thoughts,
We can climb behind our feelings and bear witness to them.
And therefore we can witness them and detach ourselves from the experience of them,
Right,
And then we can start freeing ourselves from them and make changes.
So that's why I keep coming back here time and time and again,
Meditating on my own,
Trying to continually teach meditation because the only way we can make contact in order to break free of this magical,
What's the word,
This magical hole that we have,
That our thoughts have in our awareness is by becoming aware that we are not our feelings,
We are not our thoughts,
We are not even our body,
We are this infinite potential that runs through every single one of us that somehow is connected,
Right,
To this greater infinite potential that we are all a part of.
So let's sit and meditate and step away and step behind our thoughts and our feelings.
So sitting up nice and tall,
Let's start by closing your eyes softly,
Softly,
Nice and easy with the eyes closed and let's just take a few breaths here.
And taking these big breaths so you can begin to have a more visceral experience of the breath,
Right,
And how it physically lifts our body on the inhale and how it more dramatically allows our body to fall on the exhale.
And it's a great call to this moment to take a big breath and this is where we want to be.
This is where we want to find that seat,
Not lost in the past thinking or future thought,
Not lost in our pain body and therefore complaining or having feelings about those things but also not in that feeling realm either.
But just really finding freedom with the breath being this negotiator that helps us to detach and step back and sit down.
Let's just keep finding more of that breath.
See,
Change your breath,
Craft your breath in a way that feels patient and connected and positive and just let the breath be a source of peace,
Be a source of freedom and keeps you flowing and continually grounding yourself into this moment over and over and over again,
Breath after breath,
Inhaling,
Following,
Exhaling,
Exhaling,
Following the inhale and just simply get in touch.
Again,
Find that space or create distance using this breath and grounding ourselves into the here and now,
You know,
Physically being here and now with the breath but also you know,
Imagine or like figuratively or in our imagination,
You know,
Sitting ourselves outside of our thoughts and outside and outside the,
You know,
The well of our emotional life.
Imagery and imagination can be very helpful to establish that seat.
So imagine just sitting on the side of a river,
Right?
The river is your thoughts on the well of your emotions,
On the ever changing pain body,
Your physical nature and just be your pure nature of pure potential,
Sitting on the inside and just objectively observing it all.
Good,
More breath in,
Let it go out,
Keep going more,
Let that go.
Let's become aware of our emotional life.
So one thing that you're feeling right now emotionally,
Recognize what that is.
That's the first step is recognizing.
Secondly is accept that it's there,
Accept how you're feeling and it's okay how you're feeling.
It's in the process of holding space and not engaging more mental activity or more feelings about your feelings that we begin to find that freedom of attachment or detachment.
Just let go.
Let's see if you can investigate after recognizing,
After accepting that feeling,
Investigate where it is in your body.
The last piece is non identity,
So not identifying yourself with that feeling,
Not attaching any more thinking to that feeling but really enjoying and just even a glimpse of joy of the freedom of detaching,
The freedom that comes in and through the action of not identifying yourself with that feeling.
Just a breath to step further and further away.
Just leave yourself alone.
Keep letting go.
Keep trying continually to seek that freedom from your thoughts,
From this feeling,
From the thoughts about your feelings,
From the feelings about your thoughts.
Just be.
Let go and just be.
Let's bring our hands to heart center and let's take three big breaths in.
Exhale side to mouth,
Coolie sighing out.
Two more of those.
Big breath in.
Coolie sighing out again.
And one more in there.
Let it go,
Go,
Go.
Thank yourself for showing up,
Putting in the work and establishing more freedom within your consciousness.
And I thank you for showing up.
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you.
And I'll see you again tomorrow.
