Welcome to Day 10
Today we’re going to find another layer of Lightness of Spirit, using our Quiet Mind to find a deeper level of connection with our horse. I have often been convinced that “THIS time, I have it! This time I have the connection with my horse all the way to my bones” and then I discover that there is another and even more beautiful layer.
Be sure to listen to the Introduction before the Meditation. In the Introduction I mention the First Key to Happiness with Your Horse. Those lessons no longer exist in that form. It’s conscious connection lesson in your Fast Track Foundation Principles here. If you’d like to get even more out of today’s meditation, you could do the conscious connection with your horse in this lesson, bringing your new Quieter Mind and inner awareness to it. Mix and match and repeat to get the most of your program. 🙂
Fast Track – Our connection to our horse
Keys to Success
1. I believe that being kind to ourselves comes in layers. In my personal journey I have noticed that the kinder I am to myself, the more automatic it has been for me to be kinder to others.
2. You’ll notice in today’s meditation that I say “Today we’re going to find another layer of Lightness of Spirit, and we’re going to do that by clearing something that is in the way of a deeper connection to our horse. So if the thought of that feels good, then come along with me in this meditation.”
If it doesn’t feel good to think about doing that, then enact your “pause” – don’t click on the button for the next email and pop this aside for a day or two or three if you need to. Spend the time with your horse, just being with them and appreciating them.
Some of you will already be healing in just the right amount for you at the moment, so you don’t need to be adding anything else to that right now. You’ll have access to these meditations for as long as you want or need.
Again, there’s written versions of the audios below.
Introduction
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Meditation Day 10
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The mantra sung by Deva Premal and Miten in this meditation is:
Om Shree Sache – May the ultimate truth and that which is beyond all boundaries be victorious. May there be peace, peace, peace. Here are the words of the mantra for those who may like to join in:
Om shree saché maha prabhu
Ki jai
Paramatma ki jai
Om shanti shanti shantihi om
Written Version of the Introduction
There are two kinds of ways to look for and deepen our Quiet Mind, to deepen our inner awareness so that we can both feel and understand our connection to our horses.
The first way to get a Quiet Mind is what we’ve been doing so far – simply slowing down and creating the opportunities for our mind to get quieter.
The second way of increasing our Quiet Mind and inner awareness is to clean up what is creating the “noise” for want of a better word, that is stopping our mind from being Quiet.
And that’s what we did in Day 7 and Day 8, when we very gently released a blockage to allowing or deepening our Quiet Mind.
Today’s meditation is about using that Quieter Mind to get a deeper connection with our horse.
Now, we ALL have a connection to our horse – not all of us understand and work that connection deliberately, but we all have it.
And some of us are aware of how we feel that connection and use it to varying degrees of success and some are not so sure.
Like the Quiet Mind work that we’ve done already, we can simply slow down for long enough to feel what that initial connection with our horse feels like. And we do that exercise very well in the Conscious Connection exercise that used to be called the First Key to Happiness, so I won’t repeat it again here.
I for one want to feel my connection to my horse in a way that enables us to keep each other being and feeling safe – that’s the foundation for everything.
I am HAPPY to feel or know my horse’s fear to various degrees so that I know what I have to do to help them. I am almost always HAPPY to feel or know my horse’s frustration or resistance so that I can understand that there’s something here that wants changing together. I WANT to feel or know my horse’s sadness if that means understanding what I can do to increase his well being so that we can BOTH have what we are looking for together.
I want to have communication and understanding, in whatever form it takes between us, to flow easily in the moment – so that we can both find peace and happiness and harmony – mental, emotional and physical harmony – in the relationship. I have this picture in my mind of what I want.
But that’s me. What do YOU want from your connection with your horse? Just take a moment now and think about what you want.
And then we’ll come back with the meditation in a separate audio and take some steps towards deepening your understanding of the connection with your horse. And we’ll do that by getting rid of some of that “noise” that’s in the way of your smoothly flowing and understanding Quiet Mind connection with your horse.
Written Version of our Day 10 Meditation
Decide to be kind to yourself today – like many other things, a Quiet Mind and Inner Awareness and Connection with our horses comes in layers and you can come back and do this meditation as many times as you want or need, to deepen the experience.
Paying gentle attention to your outward breath and remembering that one or more of these ways of feelings inside yourself will be easier than others and flow with the awareness of what feels easiest.
Listen for your heart beat and if you can’t quite hear that then just imagine that you can.
Be aware of any tingles of energy in your hands or feet or any movement of energy flowing in your body.
Notice any physical feelings in your body, the way your body is positioned right now, maybe the feeling of your spine flexing ever so gently with your breath.
Notice any emotions, maybe that sweet feeling of anticipation of what we’ll discover today – allow that all to flow.
Notice and allow any thoughts or ideas or images to flow across your mind, just noticing them, smiling with your soft ahhh eyes and noticing the patterns of them if that works for you, knowing that no matter what those thoughts are, there is gold under there, when we allow the understanding of them to flow.
Notice how much faster it is to drop into that place of Inner Awareness today and smile and take a moment to feel into your body and appreciate that.
Today we’re going to find another layer of Lightness of Spirit, and we’re going to do that by clearing something that is in the way of a deeper connection to our horse. So if the thought of that feels good, then come along with me in this meditation.
Noticing that outward breath and the pause that may or not be at the bottom of it yet. Allowing your attention to wander over your body and feel everything that is going on in there.
Notice how much softer your smiling ahhh eyes are today in allowing your Inner Awareness to flow and take a moment to appreciate that too.
Just flowing with that awareness of what’s going on in inside your body as you decide that you would like to very gently release anything that is in the way of a deeper Quiet Mind and connection with your horse today.
Breathing with your soft smiling ahhh eyes – just allowing whatever that is to float to the surface of your mind when it’s ready.
We’ll sit with the Om Shree Sache from Deva and Miten for a few minutes – let there be peace, peace, peace – just allowing whatever is in the way of Lightness of Spirit and a deeper connection with our horse, to float to the surface of your mind when it’s ready.
…Listen to the beautiful voice and music of Deva Premal and Miten…
When you’re ready, take your awareness to the floor or ground under your feet, wriggle your toes, flex your feet, really feel the ground underneath you – have a bit of a stretch and take this relaxation and Quieter Mind out into the rest of your day.
Lesson Resources
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Introduction |
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Meditation |
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Up Next
Tomorrow we’ll expand and deepen today’s Quiet Mind experience by adding the power of our horse to the meditation.