COMING HOME TO SELF

A Guided Meditation

Settle yourself comfortably. Allow the body to rest just as it is.

There is nothing you need to change, nothing to fix, nothing to improve in this moment.

Begin by noticing your breath. Not controlling it— simply feeling it.

Breathing in.

Breathing out.

Let each breath gently signal to the body that it is safe to arrive.

Now imagine that you have been on a long journey. Not a journey through places, but through thoughts, questions, experiences, and seeking.

You have explored ideas. You have listened and learned, remembered and forgotten, and remembered again.

And now, you are coming to the end of the path. Ahead of you is something very simple. Very quiet. Very familiar. There is no gate to pass through. No threshold to cross.

You simply stop—and realize you are already here. Notice what it feels like to arrive without effort. Nothing is required of you.

No explanation.

No understanding.

No performance.

Just presence.

Feel the ground beneath you— steady, supportive.

This ground does not ask you to hold on to anything. It does not ask you to let anything go. It holds you exactly as you are.

If you have been carrying insights, realizations, or deep understandings,notice how they naturally settle when you stop moving toward something else.

Like leaves floating gently to the surface of still water. Nothing is lost. Nothing disappears. Everything finds its place.

Bring your attention now to the center of your chest. Not as an object—but as a space. Notice that this space does not need to attach itself to anything outside you.

It does not need confirmation. It does not need to be shared or explained. It is complete in itself.

You may quietly allow these words to arise within you, only if they feel true:

I do not need to attach what I know to anything else.

What is real is already here.

I am allowed to rest in myself.

Notice how the body responds— perhaps with softening, perhaps with spaciousness, perhaps simply with stillness.

If there is a part of you that wants to reach outward—to name, to share, to anchor, to prove—gently acknowledge it.

You might say inwardly:

Thank you. You are welcome here. You do not have to carry this alone.

Let that part rest with you, rather than lead you.

Now sense this quietly:

The love you are touching is not something you are trying to reach.

It does not come from elsewhere. It is what you are standing in.

Breathing in. Breathing out. No effort. No grasping. Just home.

Remain here for a few breaths.

And when you are ready, let your awareness gently widen— feeling the body, the room, the simple fact of being alive.

Carry this knowing with you:

You do not need to attach truth to anything outside yourself for it to be real.

What is real

is already living you.

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