Ocean Thoughts: August 10 - 16
- danmcneil14
- 5 hours ago
- 2 min read
If you've been following this blog, you'll recognize this spot. This strip of beach is my favorite place to meditate. I sit grounded on the rocks. I envision my thoughts drifting as clouds across the sky. My breath syncs with the ebb and flow of the tide. Grace warms me like the morning sun. My heart is full. I am fully alive in the present moment.
For most of my life, I thought I was my thoughts. I so identified with the voice in my head, I just assumed that was my true self. Mindfulness has taught me otherwise. I am my thoughts and I am the one who watches my thoughts. I am the voice in my head and the one who listens to the inner dialogue. Recognizing these subtle levels of awareness creates spaciousness within my inner landscape. I don't have to react to every thought. I always have freedom to pause and reflect before I act. This is the gift of mindfulness.
As a conscious being, I have this amazing capacity for awareness. I am my thoughts. I am the narrator, speaking my thoughts inside. I am the silent observer, listening to the narrator, speaking my thoughts inside. I am a mystery unto myself. I am so much more than I perceive in the moment. I am more than all the moments that make up my life. I am always more and I am always enough.
Practice
Here is a meditation I recorded a few years ago. It is just under 15 minutes long.
Or maybe today, you find a quiet spot and pay attention whole heartedly to the present moment. Notice the experience as it encounters the body.
What do you see?
What do you hear?
What do you feel?
What thoughts arise?
What memories surface?
Where does this experience live in the body?
What resonates in the heart?
Don't analyze. Don't figure it out.
Simply be in the moment.
Savor being alive here and now.
Be aware of being aware.
Practice again and again throughout the day.
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