Being Held in Meditation

Our Moving into Meditation class continues to draw inspiration from  Frank Ostaseski’s wonderful book about living with the awareness that we’re going to die.  His book distills what he’s learned into Five Invitations we can answer in living a conscious life.  In today’s class we continued working with the fourth invitation.  Frank encourages us to create the inner safety we need in order to feel our fears.  In his beautiful poem Everything is Waiting for You, poet David Whyte challenges us to open ourselves up to the world.  We explored the following guided meditation to feel the abiding support of the earth as if we were held in loving arms.

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