Please enjoy this meditation on being here now.

The meditation has 3 main parts. First we settle and enjoy some subtle breath work. Then to a body scan focused on relaxing, opening and cultivating awareness. And finally to open the mind to sit in total awareness of being, and explore drifting between awareness of body and total awareness of mind.

This is a recent favorite of mine, inspired by meditations I love from Tara Brach, davidji, and Ram Dass that also help cultivate internal awareness.

I designed this meditation for our recent community call focused on shifting impatience towards acceptance and joyful effort.

A key quote from that talk was:

Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin

This was a powerful idea for me. When we are tense, or grasping with what is being experienced right in front of us, we are wrestling with reality.

It invites us to consider, can we wholeheartedly accept being here, now?

A takeaway exercise for outside meditation is:

* This week can you notice when you are feeling impatient?

* And ask yourself if you can fully accept where you are in that moment to try and shift some of those tender moments into more open ones.

Sometimes it will work, sometimes it won’t. All we can do is do our best and keep practicing…

I hope you enjoy this meditation. Let me know what you think in the comments.

Good luck!

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