“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” — Chögyam Trungpa
I get weekly newsletters from Susan Piver with her meditation practice guidance. I do not (yet) have a regular practice and I occasionally go and open one e-mail of hers and do the mediation.
This was one of those days.
I opened the last e-mail from her and it was an out of the ordinary meditation this time. Listening to an instrument in the music piece and listening to that and the feelings I experience. It was a beautiful jazz piece and our focus was supposed to be on the saxophone.
What a beautiful music it was. I felt my heart getting softened. I felt butterflies in my stomach, my chest space extended, I felt my body getting more grounded on the floor.
This was the main purpose of the exercise. Feeling the feelings, dropping the story. The practice supports us to go through life and be with all the feelings we have even when something tough happens, feeling it first, noting in our body all the sensations, not focusing on the story we are telling ourselves (if our mind goes there, we note it saying “thinking” and bring our attention back to our body), we stay with the flow and see it slowly fading. It is about being with it. Being in the moment. Being now.
What a great practice to live the life fully.
It made me feel so good that I wanted to have more of Susan Piver and her teachings. I found her TED Talk and in this TED Talk she mentioned the quote I opened with.
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” — Chögyam Trungpa
To live is to be in this falling… Change is there. I don’t want to say it is inevitable because it does not make sense to avoid it. Then you don’t live. Life equals change. You might close your eyes, kick your feet and try stop, then that is what you will experience. Or you might open your eyes, enjoy the scenery, direct your attention to the things that are meaningful to you, feel the appreciation and love for the journey and everything you have experienced.
There is no ground, there is no hitting the ground, there is no failure, let yourself live.
- See the meditation that I mention here: https://susanpiver.com/video/6-17-19/
- See Susan Piver’s TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apdc5zwRYRc