Let’s settle back into this moment, finding a supportive posture.
You can visualize your upper body, from your waist up, reaching toward the sky, like a tree. Now allow the lower part of your body to root down into the earth. Feel the aliveness in your body in this moment as you ground into the earth and grow upwards to the sky.
Allowing your whole body, your whole being to simply be and rest.
Now let yourself sit in the center of the wheel, in that empty space where you can observe all the eight worldly winds blowing in and out. Though the wheel turns and turns, the eye of the wheel is still, and that’s where you are. You observe the circumstances of your life, the losses, the gains, the pleasure, the pain, but you are beginning to get free from attachment and aversion to these things. Breathe deeply and let yourself rest in the still center, jumping off the endless and exhausting hamster wheel for a time. Open up and rest there.
And now see yourself as a wave on the ocean. You rise up out of the water and begin to move quickly. And there are also other waves around you. The other waves around you are moving more slowly. You feel special because you can go faster. But then a huge wave comes by, dwarfing you and passing you by, making you feel small and insignificant.
But you and the slower waves, and you and the faster, bigger waves are actually of the same nature. Let go of your wave form and go beneath the surface and sink down, down, down. Now you are ready to rest into the embrace of the ocean and you touch the truth of your nature as water. Here, there is not fast or slow, big or small, there is just water, the same substance that makes up the waves that were slower than you and the wave that was bigger than you. Wait a second, there is no more you because now you’re just water. Let yourself enjoy being immense, vast, empty of a separate self, content to contain everything around you.
— Kaira Jewel Lingo in We Were Made for These Times