Being Truly Present Meditation

Namaste day Beauties and welcome to our practical enlightenment meditation, where our theme today is on Being Truly Present. We hear about being present all the time. I think because there’s so much anxiety in the world. We’re starting to create more awareness as a collective on the importance of mindfulness, and at the same time, it’s normal for most all of us to struggle with really being present.

This is because there’s so much going on. We have our phones and we’re pulled in a million different directions and can check in with people in a millisecond. There’s alerts coming in, we’re multitasking and balancing a lot. On a conscious level we would like to be present, however, we need to cultivate more concrete tools to really integrate this into our life and into our lifestyle.

This is the purpose of today’s meditation to really create a body mind spirit connection into this present moment and where it’s going to involve a little bit of physicality as all of our practical enlightenment meditations do. This is a great meditation to do, especially when you feel very busy and like your brain is going crazy and it’s being pulled in so many different ways. This meditation is a great practical tool to bring you back here to this very moment.

Let’s get started.

Guided Meditation

Please go ahead and take a comfortable seat. You can sit in a chair with your feet flat on the ground or on the floor with a cushion, elevating your hips, no matter what you choose. I do recommend to try to make it consistent. As we go deeper and deeper into our practice, you would ideally meditate in the same spot over time, because energy does build over time.

Either way, go ahead and lift your spine. Palms facing down on your knees or your thighs, and feeling that beautiful grounding energy that is supported by your hands.

There’s a lot of energy, a lot of product in our hands. As the yogis teach us the moodra has a specific positions of our hands and has a great influence on our energy.

Palms facing down today, go ahead and take a few deep breaths in and out through your nose. Feel your body start to settle into your seat and start to bring your attention to your breath.

And while thoughts may rise and come, let them just rise and fall without trying to follow them or to push them away. Let them be there. If we don’t resist them, they tend to settle easier faster.

Now I’d like you to take your left hand and place it on the top of your head and take your right hand and place it right next to you on the chair. If you’re sitting in a chair or on the floor, place it next to you on the ground.

As we take some deep breaths, I want you to very gently push her hands down. Not crazy hard, but just apply a little bit of pressure.

You can feel this groundedness both in your hands, both with the one that’s pressing into the ground or into the chair. And also on the top of your head, this feeling of solidity and stability can help you feel right here right now as a Vata energy. This constant wind energy is what leads to anxiety when it becomes unbalanced. So this antidote of feeling the earthiness of physical touch can help to break that cycle of the constant whirlwind of thoughts.

Feel that nice, gentle pressure.

Go ahead and switch your hands. Bring your right hand to the top of your head and your left hand down next to you. And again, just play nice, gentle, pressing down energy. Just feel the weight now of both hands, feeling your body right here.

Feel also your sit bones in your hips on your seat, breathe into your body. You were right here right now. You were safe in this moment and there was nowhere else to be.

Another breath.

And now please bring both hands back to your knees or your thighs, palms facing down and take some deep breaths all the way down into your belly. Down, down, down into the depths of your body.

Just feel how rooted you are right now in your seat, in your body. In this moment, a couple more deep breaths, and I’m going to introduce our affirmation today.

Setting the Intention for Today

Our seed intention, you can whisper it out loud. If you feel called to that, or you can just listen to me as you continue, your breaths either way is perfect for you.

I Am present right here right now.

I Am present right here right now.

I Am present right here right now.

I Am present right here right now.

I Am present right here. Right now.

Take another few breaths on your own, just to feel the beauty of this moment, the expansive energy of this moment. You need nothing to feel the fullness of right now. The beauty, the joy, the peace is here available to you.

Just tap into really being present and allowing that to come forward. And if you’d like to continue, go head and just keep breathing here as long as you would like.

If you feel complete, you can bring your hands together into prayer in front of your heart. Anjali mudra. Take a moment for gratitude gratitude for this moment.

I am so grateful that we have this moment together sacred, and it is wonderful. Sending you so much.

Om shanti om. Peace and love. Namaste.