Change can be beautiful, but it can also be unsettling. Even welcome change can ask a lot of us. A new season, an updated routine, a change in health, shifting work terrain, evolving relationships—they all affect us physically and psychologically. We’ve got to tend to the nervous system and the mind to stay flexible and centered.
Meditation fits in swell. It doesn’t remove change, but it can help us meet it more skillfully. It gives us a way to ground ourselves in the midst of movement and create enough space to witness what’s happening without being completely overtaken by it.
A meditation exercise like the one we’re doing today, the Mountain Meditation, can be so helpful. It is an instructive meditation. The spoken guidance gives you something reliable to follow. You stay grounded in posture, breath, and awareness, even as your imagination begins to move and shift and design. Images arise as the narrative describes weather, light, and time. And all the while, you can support presence—listening, sensing, and witnessing. The meditation affirms your steadiness while experiencing change.
Change is constant. Steadiness is possible. Indeed, both can be true at once.
Happy meditating.
Luminous Perception Meditation – Day 3
I’ve always found the Mountain Mediation emotionally nails my feet to the floor. Thank you for this post.