I am more than my body - (Original Music and Sonisah Mediation from the "Inner Harmony" Album)

Описание: I am more than my body - (Original Music and Sonisah Mediation from the "Inner Harmony" Album)

MEDITATION DESCRIPTION - Track 1 -  I am more than my body
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This meditation invites us to gently explore the often complex and challenging terrain of physical change—whether it arises from illness, cancer, pregnancy, or the natural shifts of aging. Just as the seasons move through their transformations—effortless, unapologetic, and full of hidden beauty—we too can learn to meet the changes in our bodies with openness (compassion?) and curiosity. When we allow what is, rather than resist, we create space for unexpected growth to emerge.


LYRICS - I am more than my body
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Meditation Written by Jesika Harmon
Music Composed by Elizabeth Borowsky

As you settle in to a comfortable position for this guided meditation,

I invite you to let your body relax.

Gently close your eyes if you'd like.

Take a few deep breaths.

With each exhale,

just give your body permission to relax,

to be here in this moment.

I'd like to invite you to visualize as we start, your physical body as a child.

How tall were you?

What was your hairstyle?

What did you love to do?

Just see if you can bring that mental image to mind.

Now I invite you to fast forward 10, maybe 15 years,

noticing what changed in your physical body.

How tall did you become?

How did your likes and dislikes change?

What had changed physically?

Then finally invite you to fast forward a little bit more,

to just a few years before now.

Noticing what had changed physically.

What things you love to do.

Letting go of judgment, but just practicing awareness bringing to mind a mental image of yourself a few years ago.

Our physical body changes visibly over the course of our lifetime in so many ways.

This is part of life and we accept it as fact when we're young because we know it to be true and good.

But why does it get harder to accept as we age or suffer pain or illness?

The Buddhist term for this aspect of reality is the “transience of all phenomena.”

This concept describes the repeated cycles of formation,

continuance, decline, and disintegration through which all systems on earth must pass.

Think of how it works in nature.

A tree,

an animal,

a large rock formation.

Over the course of time even the strongest and biggest rocks are affected by water and wind.

Change is actually the essential nature of reality.

While a mixture of time, weather and circumstance affect the changes on the earth,

similarly, a mixture of time (or aging), weather (or suffering and pain), and circumstances affect changes in our bodies.

But you are more than just a body.

You are more than what you do,

more than the roles you play.

And what if we allowed ourselves to be okay with the fact that change is part of life?

Our bodies will change at some point because of aging or sickness or an accident or from lifestyle choices we make just like the rock will change from wind and rain.

But we can choose to allow change,

choose to be at peace with change.

No matter the length of my hair or the shape of my body,

I am still me.

Dana Faulds wrote,

"There is no controlling life.

Try corralling a lightning bolt containing a tornado.

Dam a stream and it will create a new channel.

Resist and the tide will sweep you off your feet.

Allow and grace will carry you to higher ground.

In the choice to let go of your known way of being,

the whole world is revealed to your new eyes."

So even if you don't want the changes to come,

I invite you to try this affirmation.

I am more than my body.

I can choose to allow change.

Think of something you love in nature.

The sunshine, the blossoms on the spring trees,

the fresh air.

Use your imagination to visualize it. Just soak it in for a moment.

Then invite you to become aware that whatever it is you are imagining is what it is because of change.

The sun goes down each night.

The blossoms turn to leaves, which then fall off for winter.

The fresh air is sometimes warm and sometimes cold.

We can use nature to help remind us that there is purpose to change.

And when we allow the changes to come,

we might be pleasantly surprised at what comes.

I am more than my body.

And I can choose to allow change.