A short mediation to sooth your soul and rest your mind.
Give yourself permission to take a short break to unwind, relax and create a new mindful practice for yourself. Train your awareness awareness and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
Music © Paul Landry
Transcript
Dropping the Suitcase Meditation
In this mediation I’d like you to use your visualizing skills and imagine the images in your minds eye as best as you can.
So, to help you reduce anxiety,
start by taking a moment to relax your body..
soften any unnecessary tension in your belly and shoulder,
and find a posture that feels both relaxed and alert,
Now close your eyes
or look downwards
and rest your hands
in an easy effortless way.
Take a few moments
to scan your awareness
through the sensations of your body,
and wherever possible,
soften and release
obvious areas of physical tension.
Be aware of your body,
your body breathing,
notice if it is fast, shallow or deep and slow,
Not changing anything - just noticing
your chest rising and falling with each breath.
And now imagine standing in the street
outside of your house with two heavy suitcases
and know that one of those suitcases
is full of worries about the future,
and the other suitcase,
know that it is full of regrets about the past.
Take a moment standing there in the street
holding these two heavy suitcases
and reflect about each one.
Reflect about the future,
how it will come on it’s own accord whenever it comes
and that most of what we worry about will never happen.
Standing out there in the street,
reflect about the past,
the other heavy suitcase.
Consider how the past cannot be changed.
All we can do in the present is to learn from it,
put in whatever corrections make sense,
become more skillful,
become a better person,
and move on.
Standing there in the street,
feeling the weight of these suitcases,
and absorbing the wisdom of your own reflections right now,
make a conscious decision.
Do you want to drop the suitcase of worry about the future?
And if so,
simply drop it….
simply drop it….
Then,
standing there in the street
with the other suitcase so heavy about the past,
make a conscious decision.
Do you want to drop it?
And if so,
just drop it….
just drop it….
And as soon as you have dropped the two suitcases,
walk into your home,
and take your seat right where you are,
and plop down,
so relaxed,
like someone coming home from a long trip,
dropping suitcases,
and just relaxing,
rested in the present,
just breathing,
resting in the natural wellbeing
of the moment,
resting in the fundamental well-being
of awareness itself,
awareness which does not worry or regret,
resting as if this is meaningful for you
Allow yourself to simply rest
Feeling a sense of peace,
of joy,
of well being.
A natural happiness.
Always your true home.
Without carrying heavy suitcases
of worries about the future,
or full of regrets about the past.
Simply rest here
in your body
right now
with total relaxation
throughout your body and mind…
