Awareness Challenge Day 13

Week Two – Awareness of our Seat of the Soul/Self and the voice in our head

I do not know where The “I” is, nor do I seek It…I am so plunged And submerged in the source Of infinite love, As if I were quite under water in the sea and could not touch, see, feel anything on any side except water. ~ Catherine of Genoa

•    Meditate for fifteen minutes: A suggested exercise – Focus on an Experience of Love (from Meditation for the Love of It by Sally Kempton)

Close your eyes.  Focus on your breathing, following the breath for a few moments to let your mind calm down.  Then think of someone for whom you feel love or whom you loved in the past.  Imagine that you are with this person. Visualize him or her before you or beside you.  To anchor yourself in the memory, you might become aware of the setting or notice what this person is wearing.  Let yourself feel love for this person.  Open yourself to the feeling.  Once you are fully present with that feeling of love, let go of the thought of the person.  Focus entirely on the feeling of love.  Allow yourself to rest in it.  Feel the energy of love within your body and within your heart.

•    Directing the Voice: Thought Shift and Lean Back

•    Journal about what you have been aware of in meditation and during the day.

Where in your body do you experience the sense of calm, your Soul/Self?

What has the voice been saying? Do you see patterns?

Were you able to Thought Shift?

Did leaning back work for you?

Additional Questions: Did doing the suggested meditation visualization bring home the awareness that you were able to experience the love within you simply by where you put your attention?  What else might you imagine that would initiate the feeling of love?