Many meditations involve a focus on the breath. The purpose of this practice is to balance awareness with the physical embodiment of movement, even if that movement is very minimal. Join us for Kim’s teachings on meditative breathing aimed at opening ourselves up to spiritual awakening.
If there’s a lot of noise in your outer layers – in your mind, in your emotions – meditative breathing allows you to just let it be. So maybe you won’t feel the stillness at that moment but as you let it be, allow things to be as they are, stillness reveals itself; there’s a space that opens up.
You are that space, and that space is vast. Yet a lot arises.
So let’s begin. If you’d like you can sit up so you don’t go to sleep. You could even sit at the edge of your chair if you like.
Close your eyes, simply breathe, and notice your breathing.
Notice quality of your breathing. Just allow your breathing to be as it is. You’re not changing; just noticing and letting it be. Where’s the inhale going in your body? Now see what happens on the exhale.
If thoughts arise return attention to your body. Scan your body head to toe, noticing sensations in your body, places you’re tight, holding tension. Just feel the sensations, because that’s all it really is: sensation. Call it tightness, pain, anxiety – the name doesn’t really matter. To just transmute anything, you’ve got to let go of judging and analyzing and simply allow it to be.
With your awareness we are unconditionally loving this moment.
As you bring attention to your body and your breath, your breath deepens and your body relaxes. Feel the breath as you breathe deeper into your body. There is no time like the present. Notice there’s almost a running towards the future or the past, just notice that shift from running towards something to just being here. Free. Present.
In this space that we call a room, notice the sounds, keeping your attention on stillness. Notice whatever arises within you.
Where is that formless dimension that is found within? Tap into it. Connect to it. Stay in that space.
If you have some story or emotion going on inside you just notice where it is in your body. Bring attention to it, asking where in the body it lies. All the thoughts seem to happen in the head, but for every thought we hold, believe to be true, is held somewhere in your body. So next time you have a stream of thinking, go in your body: where do you feel it? Where is your attention going in the body? Stay with that sensation. Be with it completely, allowing it to be and move out of you, dissolve, transform.
This is the practice of returning home to yourself, realizing that every single form is not who you are. Who you really are is pure consciousness; the vastness that holds this universe.
Is there any time? No, only the present moment. In every moment, it’s your choice. Be still and know that I am.
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