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How do we get the mind to participate with the heart? The heart operates as nature does, on the same wave pattern.

Learning to meditate, then, can be quite simple. It can as simple as learning to slow the breathing so that it begins to feel the way it feels to hold a lit candle while walking across a room in a manner conscious not to extinguish the candle. The flame moves and responds in the flow of what is, and it remains alight. Meanwhile, we can pay attention to what we feel inside the body in the same moment. When we do this, we dial in to a frequency of nature. From there, we begin to get in touch with our essence.

The breath provides a gateway to open up to an entirely different way of interpreting life. And when our interpretation expands, so does our experience.

Meditation is not about escaping this world to get into some “better place.” It is about bringing what we experience in those deep moments of silence and bringing it home, here, into this body. This shifts our perspective, it shifts how the body functions, shifts its very chemistry, shifts our orientation of who we think we are and what we believe is possible. We can drop further and further into the core, and get in touch with this true version of who we are instead of staying identified with the protective version that we have created.

If there is anything that isn’t happening in your life the way that you would like it to, know that it can get there through an avenue very different from what you have anticipated. Perhaps in the past you have felt blindsided by events, and perhaps you may begin to see such circumstances as course-corrections, as being there to serve rather than hinder you.

A shift begins when we decide to just sit down quietly, focusing inward, strong in the spine, and conscious of the breath. Quietly lean in to what is, right now, right here, in this moment.

In meditation, we connect different circuits in our awareness. I would love for you always to have that connection between your mind, the breath, and the body.

We are the breath. The true You is the breath. It’s not the mind, although the mind loves to take that whole identity and run with it. If we can keep our identity apart from the mind, then we are practically home-free in benefiting from any kind of meditative practice.

The number one focus of meditation is to identify the consciousness with its true self, with its essential truth. The very first step that we can take along those lines is to identify ourselves in the body AS the breath.

Am I trying to “find my breath?” Then I am not identified as the breath, but as the mind looking for the breath.  

If we are going to be fragmented into these pieces and parts, our job is to layer and marry them, to merge them in the course of our lives. As we do that, we feel reduced stress, lower blood pressure, and increased healing. We experience greater clarity as we begin to get in touch with the divine within. 

When feeling overwhelmed, instead of repeatedly asking “How do I do all this?,” we can approach it energetically. We can insist upon being present. We can command it. Mula Bandha and squeeze the heart. Take a breathe up and down through the central channel again in this moment, and you’ll get more fully into your body, more fully into the present moment.

Inside an experience of anxiety or overwhelm, or in a state of activation – when you feel a rumbling, that trembling within, when you’re rattled – you can go inside and be present with it. This time, instead of avoiding it or pushing it away, meet the rattle and reel it in. Anchor it. And again breathe up and down through the central channel. Say “yes” to it. It is more of you, revealing.

When you breathe consciously, with loving presence, you still the ocean, you still this experience that you are having. You reveal that you are loving presence.

In meditation, we cultivate a deep sense of Oneness and stillness. When we cultivate this stillness, the mind races less; it searches for happiness less; it searches for connectivity less, because it has it. When it’s operating in a state of fulfillment, then the outer world is simply a place to play instead of place we expect to deliver our fulfillment and sense of ok-ness.

In our efforts to meditate, it may seem as if we have to pull ourself away from our loved ones, from our family, our work, our friends, and our social activities so we can sit and do this thing that is “alone.” But ultimately it is the greatest way to connect with all of that–far beyond anything that we can do when we’re operating habitually through our protective personality.

When we can drop into the essential self, into that authenticity, we are automatically connecting in truth, in honesty and integrity in all kinds of circumstances.

There is a healing that can happen under these conditions that cannot happen when we’re “trying and efforting.” In the stillness, we can touch the deep and peaceful sense of Self that everyone seeks.

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