By Eliza Wing
We feel the yearning for more, understand in our very bones that we are greater than this sack of flesh, blood and skin. We sense the subtle shift of energy in a room when we walk in – maybe without even speaking to someone, we intuit their emotions. A loved one dies in the middle of the night, my lamp crashes to the floor – at that moment. Unbidden.
Can we learn to connect with this wider energy? Can we experience the subtle (or not so subtle as in the lamp experience) movement and flow of all beings? Can we live in this energetic “body” of ours that is larger than our physical presence?
Rumi says:
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.
It is this attentive stillness that brings us to our knees and to our senses beyond sense. To get there, we must quiet the mind and heart.
Here is how philosopher and poet David Whyte expresses it:
“The object in meditation and all of our contemplative disciplines is silence. But… that silence is in order for you to perceive something other than yourself — what you’ve arranged as yourself to actually perceive this frontier between what you call your self and what you call other than your self”
Follow this guided meditation based on the Qi Gong principle of Grounding to access your Greater Self – your Energetic Body.
This is the great work of The Awakened Heart – to stop the doing, rest in the being and expand beyond the small self into the possibility of living with Heart and Presence, connecting with the world and others at this true and loving level.
Follow your meditation with this excerpt of David Whyte’s poem, Sometimes:
Sometimes
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,
you come to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
It is this Everywhere that is you, more than you, that is calling upon you to embark on this beautiful journey.
Our work at Your Awakened Heart is to attune our community members to mind/body/emotions/energy so that we are open and present to both the here and now as well as to the possibility of a greater way of being in the world – we live with Hearts open to Presence.