The Bigger Picture

1) Viewing our life as an audience would watch a play. As an observer. Thoughts – Attitudes – Beliefs – Perceptions. How we build them, how they build our experience which we call Reality. Whether they serve us still? How to let them go if they don’t serve us. (45mins)

2) Approaching the vulnerability we feel as we come back to our bodies – to our subconscious – through SAT. Allowing in light from above and stability from below and learning to cope without the rigid stiffness we have become accustomed. Approaching the Fear we feel in this process ultimately as a pathway to rediscover Freedom. (33mins)

3) The Act of Life (27mins). Learning to observe your life as an onlooker and letting go of taking life so seriously.

4) Resting with the rise and fall of ‘happenings’ in your life situation. Observing the differences between the sense of self (small s) which partakes in your life situation in Conventional Reality (usually some form of drama involving the energy between two people which we label as a ‘relationship’), and the True Self (capital S) which lies beneath all the noise, in a vast stillness, void and No-thing-ness. This is the essence of Life (not your life situation which is not solid and is merely passing through you). We buy into this and make things stick around! From this blank canvas and Silence in this Space, it is much easier and healthier on all levels to build and find the direction you are meant to be heading in this Life. First, you must acknowledge and begin releasing bit by bit, the sense of identity you have built up for yourself to feel safe in and which you use to operate in Conventional Reality. This identity includes but is not restricted to the following aspects: thoughts/attitudes/beliefs/values = overall life perception from upbringing, from your culture or society in general, traumas, difficult/’failed’ relationships, social class, job/status, sexuality, worthiness, intelligence, preferences, skills. How much of this forms your identity and keeps you stuck in Conventional Reality unable to find true Peace, Joy, Love and Freedom in Mind, Body and Spirit? What would happen if we could begin to let some of it go in order to settle into the True Self under all the layers of conditioning? To lighten the load of emotional baggage we have been carrying around all our lives? Just small things first…just to begin to touch a sense of Peace in the stillness of your Life underneath the ever changing life situation/set of events on the outside which does not really correspond to who you are as a person. Once you have shed some layers, then you have a blank canvas on which to paint? The world is your oyster. What will you paint?! What would you like to now become? There are no limitations. This meditation is one you can begin to practise on your own unguided after a few times. Enjoy discovering the Peace, Love, Joy and Freedom which has always been there underneath all of this secondary suffering. xxx