![]() Chairs, cushions, floors, grass: all are welcome so long as you feel good wherever you are. Sit in a quiet, safe space in a comfortable position. )Ok, get to the meditation already, Amy! I'm goin', I'm goin'! Here's how to do the Lightness Meditation: Just wanted to throw that out there to you perfectionists reading. If you end up vibing higher one day than you did the day before after doing this meditation, it doesn't mean anything about how "well" you're doing it. Lightness is a multi-faceted spectrum, not two points that exist alone on either side of it. Before you jump into it, though, let's set some expectations.Lightness does not always mean that you are 100% free of darkness. The purpose of this meditation is to reconnect you with the Lightness that always exists within you, and to gently release any darkness that's weighing you down. The glorious thing about this Lightness Meditation is that you can do it no matter whether you feel Light or Heavy or anywhere in between at the start. Because it's been helping me so much, I couldn't help but share it with you, too. The more easily I was able to release any resistance that wasn't serving me or reactions from other people that I had no control over (something I struggle with sometimes). I started to notice that the more I focused in on this Lightness in an open, un-forced way, the more able I was to tap into it at a moment's notice. Since I returned from Europe, I shifted things around a little bit to focus in on the experience of Lightness, express gratitude for it, and allow more of it in. It's usually a word or short phrase that calls in the way I want to feel throughout the day. I often bring an intention into my morning meditation to set the mood at the beginning of the day. One that I wanted to honor consciously as much as possible. After months of feeling like this, the Lightness was a welcome surprise. Then, all of a sudden, you're isolating, digging yourself deeper into a hole that's hard to climb back out of. The darkness creeps in a little bit a time: a thought here, a canceled dinner there. I was feeling it for so long that it started to feel like a new normal.While the grief and emotional exhaustion I was experiencing wasn't depression, it reminded me of the insidiousness of the disease. After frequent emergency trips to Northern California and bad news after bad news, I just felt tired. A couple months after my Grandma got her wings, my Grandpa followed her. The stuck-ness got all shook up and out.The first half of the year was. ![]() The resistance around the little things shifted into acceptance. I feel LIGHT.I don't mean in pounds or kilos - I mean the haze burned off. ![]() This amazing thing happened over the last few weeks.
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