Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Morning Meditation - Visualization for Objectivity

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

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If you'd like to enjoy Wake Me Up completely ad-free and get access to exclusive bonus content, check out the link in the show notes for the Wake Me Up Premium Feed. Hey there, good morning and welcome to Wake Me Up. I'm your host, Tyler, as always, and I'm so thrilled to have you here with me. Today, we're back for a meditation on this week's theme, being more objective. And in this meditation, we'll use visualization to observe our thoughts, in a different light. Instead of creating opinions about them and ideas,

we'll simply watch them. Notice their duality. By the end of today's meditation, you'll feel a sense of curiosity to look at things beyond your own perspective. So let's dive right in and get started. Go ahead and find a comfortable seat anywhere in your home will do.

Just don't sit in your bed. And the reason I say don't sit in bed is not because you can't lay down. If you want to lay down or stand up straight, that's perfectly fine. You just don't want to do it in bed because bed should really be saved only for sleeping. It will actually help you sleep better if all you do in your bed is sleep. So that's why I say that you can lay down, you can sit, you can stand, just don't do it in bed. And once you've found that comfortable position wherever you want to be,

just take a deep breath in, fill all the way up, and as you exhale, slowly close your eyes. Allow yourself a moment to just settle in. Allow your face to soften. Drop your jaw, relax your tongue from the roof of your mouth, and release your shoulders down. Follow the natural rise and fall of your own breath for the first 30 seconds or so while you continue to settle in.

Now that you're settled in, notice each thought that comes through your mind and in your own way visualize that thought however you'd like it could be a bubble a cloud a car driving by a floating colorful shape anything you'd like whatever it is what does it look like to you simply observe it and its emotions. How did it come into your mind? How does it leave your mind? Observe it with curiosity for just a few moments. And each time one thought disappears and a new one reappears, you can reassess and decide if a new shape, a new visual, is fitting for this new thought. All right. Now if you've become stuck on one thought. Just take a step back. Notice its shape, its texture, its movement. It came to you

because it might have something to offer. So be open to receiving that. Be present with this thought without trying to do anything to it. Just let it be. Remember that you are separate from this thought. Try to observe it in the same way that you would. for anything else that happens outside of your own body and mind. So as you continue to observe your thoughts, take a step out of your body. Visualize yourself floating out and above wherever you are right now. And look down on yourself, right here, right now, exactly as you are.

See yourself from above, sitting with your thoughts. It's perfectly calm, perfectly clear, yet engaged and curious about those thoughts too. And as you sit here, visualizing, watching yourself, you notice that just like your breath, some thoughts are deeper and some are shallower. Each thought offers its own experience. They are simply an occurrence of your existence. All right. Whatever thoughts you're lingering with,

it's time to say bye to them for now. Look at each one. Acknowledge it. Thank it for what it's offered you. The opportunity for a more open mind. Begin to bring yourself back to your breath as those thoughts float away. All right. It's about time to wrap up our.

meditation now. So begin to bring yourself back. Notice the floor or the chair, whatever's supporting you. Notice the air on your skin. Hear any sounds going on around you. Maybe you want to give yourself a little wiggle with your hands and your toes or a little nod of your head. Anything to bring a little movement back to the body. Take one final inhale all the way in. And on your exhale, slowly open your eyes and just take a second to collect yourself. All right, so I hope you enjoyed that meditation and that this practice of using different visual tools help you to explore your thoughts in a new way.

Curiosity is really the best approach to explore ideas. By practicing curiosity, we can develop a positive association to viewing things on all sides. And through that, you'll find yourself always seeking to slow down, learn more, and explore. And truthfully, it's that curiosity, that desire for exploration. That's the key to objectivity. Through that, we can take a step back from our own thoughts, our own lives, and see things for what they really are. And we'll dive into that idea a little bit more tomorrow and our motivational bit. So I hope to see you back here.

And until then, go out and have an absolutely fantastic day.