Me/Not Me Meditation

transcript:

I’d like to invite you to find your breath.

Allowing your awareness to flow on this breath, noticing where it flows in your body. No directing, simply observing.

Noticing where your body comes into contact with another object and the points of contact between your body and what holds it. Noticing if you can rest into this object or surface and the gravity that holds you in place.

Imagining now your core, the channel that runs from your crown to your root. Taking time to notice its qualities.

When your sense of your core has stabilized in your awareness, noticing what it’s like to say your name and feeling for its resonance. Again, noticing the quality of this experience. This is your “ME.”

Taking a moment now to invite anything in your field that isn’t you to become known to you. If you’re visual, I like to imagine them lighting up like little fairy lights. If you’re kinesthetic, you may feel their presences in your field of awareness. If you’re auditory, you may hear them, and so on. Whatever channel information flows to you on, allowing that to be good.

As what is “NOT ME” comes into your awareness, notice how it feels to have it in your field. It’s not necessary to identify them or where they came from, it’s enough to simply be aware of them. This is a good time to move between ME (in your core) and NOT ME (that may have gathered in your field of awareness) to stabilize your awareness of the difference.

After you’ve got a good sense of the difference, this is the time to invite anything that is NOT ME to return to its source. You might imagine issuing an invitation with the intention that everything in the universe ultimately wishes to be where it belongs and notice these bits and bobs going home. You may imagine there is a piece of elastic that connects each with its source and literally allow yourself to feel each one between your thumb and forefinger as you gently pull it and release, watching it float away.

Gently scan your body and your field, noticing if you can feel your ME to a different degree than before you began. Also noticing if there are any other energies that don’t belong to you still in your field and repeating the last segment with them.

Completing with a thank you, perhaps to yourself for giving yourself this time and experience, perhaps to the source of all things, or the multitudes as source ripples out, allowing us each to have our own experience.

If you try this, I’d love to hear your experience of it. Blessings

This meditation was prepared and recorded by Inger Brown, with parts adapted from material by Steven Kessler in his book The Five Personality Patterns.