It has been said that change is the only constant in life. Mind is changeable, this we know. Even when it appears stuck in rigid thinking, it is always potentially just one thought away from a new perspective.
The energies of creation, maintenance and dis-creation are all occurring at the same time in different aspects of our life. Meditation can help us to access the intuitive mind, to see more clearly and discern what is being created, what needs to be maintained and what is no longer is serving us.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert einstein
The Human being is constantly growing and shedding cells. With every interaction our sense of “personhood” is (hopefully!) evolving and maturing. Everything has an expiry date, including our identity which will change through the experiences and lessons of our life and if there is one thing we know for certain it is that at some point this organic physical vehicle we inhabit will one day die.
Even within a relationship that seems very solid, there have likely been many many times where aspects of the relationship needed to be dissolved and attitudes changed in order for that relationship to stay healthy.
Depending on eternal factors, the body may need a change of what we’re putting into it or to move it to a more nurturing, supportive environment.
Meditation is seen as a passive practice, with an idealised state of attainment being, “If you’re enlightened nothing will phase you” and that you “Need to do nothing”, which in the context of the eyes closed Meditation experience may be correct (as what is arising gets dissolved/dis-created in your conscious awareness) and yet it does not mean that in the waking state you do not take action when necessary.
Let what dissolves in the Silence make space for healthy and necessary changes in your waking state. Over time your ability to discern what is correct for you will grow as will your confidence to make the changes that you need.
When you are learning to Meditate, your experience changes every time you close your eyes. You might notice that you get attached to a certain experience and start to expect your eyes closed practice to always be like that. This thought that one experience is somehow better than another is one of the biggest traps in Meditation.
Welcome whatever is arising with your loving awareness. Allow your thoughts, feelings, memories, to rise and fall, hold on to nothing. Let it all return back to where it came and give your attention to the one thing that does not change. Your conscious awareness. As you allow this dis-creation of the old to occur you make space for new growth.
Sometimes your experience will be still, sometimes, very busy. If you’re doing the practice it’s all good. Learn to accept that the eyes closed experience will change, learn to get comfortable when uncomfortable thoughts and feelings arise, learn to hold whatever is arising in Love and yet not hold onto “it”. Your practice will appear infinitely easier.
Tonight we will be inviting Heart Words to support us in discerning and making any healthy and necessary changes in our lives.
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