Congratulations on following along on this 21 Day Meditation Experience. Today is a bonus day!
Day 22 – Living at the Center of the World
CENTERING THOUGHT
Personal reality is mine to create and cherish.
SANSKRIT MANTRA
Aham Brahmasmi (I am the wholeness of universal existence)
MESSAGE OF THE DAY
To claim to live at the center of the world is clearly a delusional statement from the standpoint of the separate self, but from the perspective of your essential being, pure awareness, it is only stating a truth latent in every awakening soul.
Today’s meditation is about this core truth of our consciousness – that our awareness moving as our thoughts, desires, feelings, and senses generates an experiential reality or world around us. We are the authors of this world.
Journal Reflection Questions:
1. Even a single person has the power to be a conscious agent of change in the world by living from their true self. Sit quietly and write down any of these values of the true self that deeply resonate with you: love, compassion, intelligence, creativity, truth, beauty, evolution, strength, wisdom, peace. Now, journal about how you can adopt the role of being a conscious agent by putting three of these values into action this week. For example, if you value compassion, you could do something thoughtful for a friend who is going through a difficult time. Or if you value beauty, you could plant flowers in your front garden for everyone walking by to enjoy.
2. On the other side, reflect on the traits that make you feel separate, such as fear, anxiety, insecurity, doubt, inner conflict, resentment, feeling unsafe, or negative feedback among family, friends, and co-workers. Write down one of these factors, and then write the full statement, “I let go of ____. It is time for it to go. This isn’t part of the world I want to live in.” Sit quietly and repeat this statement softly to yourself three times. When you are finished, pay attention to how you feel inside your own body. Did anything shift for you? Journal about how releasing negativity makes you feel.
3. On the other side, reflect on the traits that make you feel separate, such as fear, anxiety, insecurity, doubt, inner conflict, resentment, feeling unsafe, or negative feedback among family, friends, and co-workers. Write down one of these factors, and then write the full statement, “I let go of ____. It is time for it to go. This isn’t part of the world I want to live in.” Sit quietly and repeat this statement softly to yourself three times. When you are finished, pay attention to how you feel inside your own body. Did anything shift for you? Journal about how releasing negativity makes you feel.
4. Reflect further on your experience today.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. With our thoughts we make the world.” – Gautama Buddha