If I could offer you one thing on your path of healing and spiritual awakening, it would be this: a direct experience of who you truly are. In this week’s episode, I’m sharing a special 10-minute guided meditation to help you more deeply connect with the truth of your being — beyond any labels, roles or stories you've had about yourself. This isn’t about thinking your way to clarity, it’s a deeper embodiment of coming home. Through somatic awareness and self-inquiry, you’ll be guided to experience the wholeness you've always been. We’ll discover what becomes more evident when the mind and identity soften, noticing the space between thoughts, and how to use sensation as a portal into Presence. This practice invites you to meet yourself fresh —in this moment — without needing to fix or figure anything out. Whether you’re using this in your morning or evening routine, this meditation is here to remind you of a more profound freedom that's always been true underneath it all. === Have you watched our previous episode titled The Hidden Power of Water: How to Use it to Heal in Unexpected Ways Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/01PL02eE8zw ==== Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved. === Want 3 Life-Changing Tools you can use on yourself (or your clients) from inside our Accredited Coaching Certification? Click here to get them for Free: https://www.alyssanobriga.com/tools 🎉 === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495
Chapter 1: What is the focus of this meditation episode?
Welcome back to the Healing and Human Potential podcast. This is a special episode where I'm going to guide you on an embodied inquiry into the truth of who you really are. And so rather than giving you more concepts, this is an invitation to discover for yourself what remains when you question all your identities. It's a meditation inspired by Dorothy Hunt, and let's dive into it now.
Chapter 2: How do I prepare for this meditation?
So go ahead and find a comfortable position, gently letting your eyelids fall shot, taking a nice slow, deep breath in through your nose, holding on the inhale, just sipping a little bit more breath in and releasing any tension or worries.
taking another slow, deep breath in through the nose, holding on the inhale and releasing, letting go and just become more present to the sensations that are still holding on in your body right now. Maybe there's some tension in your brow, your belly, And just releasing it, letting yourself really be held by the chair that supports you, the bed, wherever you are.
Chapter 3: What should I be aware of during the meditation?
And bringing your attention more fully present to this moment, just leaning into what's actually here now, outside your mind, in your body. Just feeling the aliveness that's pulsating through your hands and your feet, letting it expand in your awareness and just letting go, resting more fully in this moment.
And I'll be asking you a series of questions that you're just invited to answer for yourself based on the experience that you're having right now without going to memory to find the answer. And so based on your present experience right now, how many toes do you have?
Chapter 4: How does self-inquiry enhance meditation?
without relying on an image of the past to tell you just tuning into your direct experience in this moment, find out if you don't go to memory to tell you what's your address. Explore what's here and now to discover the answer fresh in this moment. Without going to the mind to tell you where were you born? Without referencing a past image to show you an answer, what shape are you?
Chapter 5: How can I explore identity through direct experience?
Do you have a shape without memory? We can find any shape from memory, but is it available to you right now based on your present experience? Beyond the pattern of the mind projecting a past or anticipating a future just here now, what job do you have? Without memory, what color is your skin? What color are your eyes?
All these ways that we've defined ourselves without the benefit of a past, are they here now? If you don't go to a memory to tell you what's your name? Do you have a name? Based on your direct experience right now, how old are you? When all these things aren't here because of not going to memory to tell you, what's your actual experience? Who are you? What are you?
the answer won't come in thought so instead of looking for an answer in the mind just discover what's here behind the thoughts or in between the thoughts All images, ideas, and judgments of who you are are only passing stories that come and go. But what do they come and go within? They're not actually here when you're not thinking them into existence.
So who are you when you're not referring to a thought to tell you what's piercing through your eyes right now, even with them closed, notice what's noticing. Without labels telling you who you are with a name, an occupation, an address, a shape, or even gender. Without any of these ways we've identified ourselves, what's still here? Deeper than all of those.
When all those fall away, what still remains? What's still present underneath all of them? none of us have the experience of completely disappearing something's still here this felt sense of i am not i am joe or i am sarah just i am Now drop the eye and drop the am. Be here as what you truly are. This awake, vast, spacious awareness.
There's nothing you need to do to be more of what you already are. Just notice this peace and freedom underneath all the thoughts and identities. Perhaps you've felt even briefly what it's like to simply be this open space of awareness.
And in a few moments, I'm going to invite you to very gently and slowly begin to open your eyes, to take in the images of the world around you from this same vast presence. So often when we open our eyes, we start labeling things from our past conditioning. But whether the mind is active or not, there's a deeper spacious awareness that's always available beneath the surface of thought.
So go ahead and gently open your eyes from this place. Letting in the sounds and the sights of the environment around you. And just begin to feel into your own experience how it's possible to be here even when thought and memory return.
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