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~I invite you to listen to the audio version shared above, where a guided meditation is provided that follows what is shared below in the text.
Take your hand and pull it into a tight fist. Make sure that your fingers are tightly curled in and nothing can slip through your grasp. How does that feel? How long can you hold your fist tightly?
Now, relax your hand. Unfurl your fingers so that you can see your palm. Look at all that it can hold if only we won’t cling to only what is.
Just as when we clench our fist tightly, when we close our mind or let our mind race with our well-intentioned goal of finding a solution to a problem we need to solve, the actual solutions, what is really needed cannot be grasped . . . yet. What is needed isn’t with us at the moment because if it were, there wouldn’t be a problem to solve. The solution lies outside of what already is and has been done. We have yet to experience it, and the only way to be introduced is to let go of demanding and searching and instead, pause. The pause creates the space for what is needed. It creates room for the new ideas to enter. And they will do so on their own timeline.
So, in the meantime, we need to open our hands and relax into our present moment. What we need to do is breathe deeply, and meditation teaches us how. We meditate not to find the answers, but to practice being still and to disengage from our thoughts. This holds our mind open to see our thoughts, but not engage with them. To let them flow past us so that new ideas can enter into our consideration. All we have to do is keep the door open. And yep, in this case, the door is our mind.
So, with hands resting gently on the top of our legs (fingers unfurled), let’s begin breathing.
~To conclude each meditation session, I encourage you to recite a mantra of your choosing and design. In the Contentment Masterclass, I share my example, which you are welcome to use, tweak, or look to as a template to design your own. Also provided to enrollees of the course is a free trial of the guided meditation app I use.
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~Learn more about TSLL’s Contentment Masterclass: Discover the benefits of Meditation, which is included in the detailed syllabus shared here, watch the trailer, and read student reviews.
~Comments will be turned off for Meditation posts as you cultivate a practice guided by what you need and your journey to cultivating inner peace and aligning with your true self.
