From my meditation yesterday –
“When you find yourself in the future or the past, your mind has taken charge, and you notice, if you pay attention, that your body tenses up, as it believes everything your mind tells it.
Simultaneously, there is a more subtle aspect of you that lies in stillness—in complete communion with each precious moment.
If you consciously slow down and just be in a state of observance, you shall find that the mind is never in the present moment, almost as if it has an aversion to being there.
The more you have lived life without making peace with it and what it has brought you, the more urgently your mind rushes you away from the present moment.
It is a self-appointed protector, but instead ends up being somewhat of a strict and relentless jailer.
Each moment of every day has the infinite potential for bliss.
Bliss that comes from simply being, in communion with the Divine, in silence and in stillness.
Slow down and observe the mind—observe its patterns of negation, of instilling doubts, sowing subtle seeds of discontent.
Then decide: do you want to continue to live that way, as if you were in a never-ending act in a maddening circus that keeps going but never reaches anywhere?
If not, then simply bring your attention within.
Ignore the alluring, seductive voice of the mind.
Continue to ignore it and be still.
No matter how desperately it tries to hook your attention.
As you practice this stillness and this observance without getting hooked, you suddenly slip into a pocket of bliss.
Perhaps for just a brief moment at first, then more and more.
Your body finally gets a respite from being chronically stressed. It can finally function as it was designed to function, without an eccentric pirate at its helm!
As you do this often, your brain and body rewire themselves to new patterns that accommodate this bliss more and more.
You start to hear the voice of the universe without needing words.
Your whole being softens into merging with that wordless voice.
As you choose this experience, over and over, you start to feel this stillness and calm even with your eyes open and as you move through your days.
There remains no room within you for doubts, pettiness, holding back on Love, because love is your very nature.
You realise with delight, that your truest identity is love.
A Love that has no boundaries or walls.
A Love that becomes increasingly unconditional and leads you to your wholeness.”
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