21- Day Meditation Experience Day: 16

Day 16 - The Hidden Secret of Being

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

In today’s meditation, we explore how the practice of gratitude reveals the hidden qualities of our awareness: wonder, joy, and beauty. As grace connects us to the hidden truths of Nature, we are really discovering the essence of our expansive liberated self.

Gratitude awakens these dormant gifts of our unlimited self and makes them powerful forces of positive change in our lives. As our self expands through gratitude, our concerns, anxieties, and insecurities become small and insignificant, while our experience of joy, freedom, beauty, and compassion continues to grow.


CENTERING THOUGHT

Every day, my Being seeks new ways to expand.

SANSKRIT MANTRA

Ananta Swa Bhava
My true self has no limits or boundaries.

JOURNAL:

1. Write about something in your environment right now that you are grateful for, but have never fully recognized before. It could be something as simple as the satisfying click of the keys on your keyboard or the effortless way your chair swivels.

The apartment I live in. Where before it was small, now it is secure, it is cozy, it is HOME. :)

2. Remember a time when you were alone in nature, in which you felt unbounded and free. Elaborate on what that experience felt like.

Back in church camp when I was 14. Life just felt awesome. The hikes, the picnics, the prayer groups in sanctuaries in the middle of the woods. Nature brings you a close to home feeling.

3. Set aside two minutes right now to simply be – no words, no interactions, no activity. Feel your inner self expand, and afterwards write down what this experience was like.

It is wild how the 1st thing I realize is my breath. Like, "Whoah, I've been breathing all day and I just now noticed and gave full awareness to a whole inhale and exhale. And realized how important this awareness really is.

Xo,

Annie