Wonderfully expansive meditation! Awareness of liminal space and its transitory nature has long been a priority of mine as an abstract painter. But noticing the space between experiences within my own being takes me to very new places. It brings a sense of expansiveness and buoyancy. Tasha's guidance that we are more likely to merge with this space when we are fully at ease connects to the fleeting and truly rare moments of transcendence I've experienced over many years of sitting. Thank you!
when Tasha said "the space of experience seems alive...this isn't just an empty room- it's the space of your awareness awake..."
I pictured particles of me floating around the room - my awareness gaining volume like a gas taking on the shape of the room. That felt trippy and fun :)
It reminds me a bit of the Open Focus brain technique that was shared with me as a tool for panic and anxiety during moments of claustrophobia. Focusing on empty space does something to your brain differently than focusing on objects. Now I have a new perspective to try- and I look forward to playing with that. Thank you Tasha and Jeff! <3 <3 <3
"my awareness gaining volume like a gas taking on the shape of the room" - I LOVE how you put this!! So vivid and fun and alive and... super accurate! Will definitely be using this metaphor 😍
I’m also remembering a practice with Jeff on the Calm app- taking on the surroundings as an object of focus- and that felt similar and fun- I was on our raised deck and the birds and trees and bit of valley behind our yard felt like one big area of awareness- I found that there were limits to how far I could picture the expansion, but I imagine with practice that could change..
💖💖 I’m glad you enjoyed it! I realize that it’s not the most beautiful metaphor, as most people don’t appreciate it when someone fills a room with their gas 😂😂😂 -but being my son’s home educator I always have science fundamentals on the top of my brain.
I just wanted to say a quick thank you to Tasha. Today's practice was very challenging for me at first. I wanted so badly to be "in the space" you wanted to take us. I wanted to be there too badly, I think. I was clutching on to this idea of having to get to this different space or container or place. I was setting myself up to fail. The minute you said (and I'm paraphrasing you here) essentially that gripping too hard was NOT the way....it all started to ease. And I felt myself being dipped here and there into this larger container of awareness. I'm not sure why the word container keeps coming to mind, but that's what it feels like to me. And then, once I felt myself merging here and there with awareness, and no longer observing it, I started to cry. I wasn't sad. I just started feeling something involuntary. And this was encouraging. Because it taught me that I can get to this space. And I will again.
Another key idea that opened me was this concept of listening for the space between sounds....feeling the gaps between sensations.....oh my goodness. Just so valuable.
Thank you. This was extraordinary. Thank you so so much Tasha. I already want to do it again. Unless I can find a yak.
Thank you so much for sharing this Richard!! Your whole experience is so familiar to me. I've been doing this for a zillion years and I STILL find myself entering the practice in that clutching, muscling way sometimes. And that's totally ok.
That relaxing/easing into space is such a subtle but profound reorientation - we become aware of the larger container and realize that all our clenching, muscling, and efforting is just phenomena happening inside that space (instead of something that is "ME").
And then, you start to realize - oh wait, I AM this larger container.. and then, OH SHIT, this container actually doesn't have any container walls at all!! Huge feels get released here -- tears, burps, spontaneous movement. It's really quite wonky and liberating.
I like exploring consciousness itself—and this meditation made that so much more accessible and less esoteric than I sometimes find it to be. Just noticing the “where” instead of trying to notice “no-self” was, I donno, so much …better. Thank you.
That was amazing. It's so weird that examining the place where experience exists took me both within my body (envisioning the space between the molecules coursing through my body) and also as the space where consciousness resides as the field of pure potentiality that surrounds everything. Allowing my awareness of both spaces, one after the other, was wonderful, expansive and comforting.
Yes! So weird, right? The more you attend to space/place, the deeper you get drawn inward and outward at the same time, until the line between them starts to feel a little ...hilarious/freeing/wonky/wonderful!
Thank you, Tasha, for this expansive and deep practice! Bookmarking this one for sure to keep exploring the space around experience.
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Well, that was amazing! Many thanks.
Wonderfully expansive meditation! Awareness of liminal space and its transitory nature has long been a priority of mine as an abstract painter. But noticing the space between experiences within my own being takes me to very new places. It brings a sense of expansiveness and buoyancy. Tasha's guidance that we are more likely to merge with this space when we are fully at ease connects to the fleeting and truly rare moments of transcendence I've experienced over many years of sitting. Thank you!
when Tasha said "the space of experience seems alive...this isn't just an empty room- it's the space of your awareness awake..."
I pictured particles of me floating around the room - my awareness gaining volume like a gas taking on the shape of the room. That felt trippy and fun :)
It reminds me a bit of the Open Focus brain technique that was shared with me as a tool for panic and anxiety during moments of claustrophobia. Focusing on empty space does something to your brain differently than focusing on objects. Now I have a new perspective to try- and I look forward to playing with that. Thank you Tasha and Jeff! <3 <3 <3
"my awareness gaining volume like a gas taking on the shape of the room" - I LOVE how you put this!! So vivid and fun and alive and... super accurate! Will definitely be using this metaphor 😍
I’m also remembering a practice with Jeff on the Calm app- taking on the surroundings as an object of focus- and that felt similar and fun- I was on our raised deck and the birds and trees and bit of valley behind our yard felt like one big area of awareness- I found that there were limits to how far I could picture the expansion, but I imagine with practice that could change..
💖💖 I’m glad you enjoyed it! I realize that it’s not the most beautiful metaphor, as most people don’t appreciate it when someone fills a room with their gas 😂😂😂 -but being my son’s home educator I always have science fundamentals on the top of my brain.
That was an excellent meditation, thank you!
I just wanted to say a quick thank you to Tasha. Today's practice was very challenging for me at first. I wanted so badly to be "in the space" you wanted to take us. I wanted to be there too badly, I think. I was clutching on to this idea of having to get to this different space or container or place. I was setting myself up to fail. The minute you said (and I'm paraphrasing you here) essentially that gripping too hard was NOT the way....it all started to ease. And I felt myself being dipped here and there into this larger container of awareness. I'm not sure why the word container keeps coming to mind, but that's what it feels like to me. And then, once I felt myself merging here and there with awareness, and no longer observing it, I started to cry. I wasn't sad. I just started feeling something involuntary. And this was encouraging. Because it taught me that I can get to this space. And I will again.
Another key idea that opened me was this concept of listening for the space between sounds....feeling the gaps between sensations.....oh my goodness. Just so valuable.
Thank you. This was extraordinary. Thank you so so much Tasha. I already want to do it again. Unless I can find a yak.
Thank you so much for sharing this Richard!! Your whole experience is so familiar to me. I've been doing this for a zillion years and I STILL find myself entering the practice in that clutching, muscling way sometimes. And that's totally ok.
That relaxing/easing into space is such a subtle but profound reorientation - we become aware of the larger container and realize that all our clenching, muscling, and efforting is just phenomena happening inside that space (instead of something that is "ME").
And then, you start to realize - oh wait, I AM this larger container.. and then, OH SHIT, this container actually doesn't have any container walls at all!! Huge feels get released here -- tears, burps, spontaneous movement. It's really quite wonky and liberating.
I'm happy you liked it 😌
I like exploring consciousness itself—and this meditation made that so much more accessible and less esoteric than I sometimes find it to be. Just noticing the “where” instead of trying to notice “no-self” was, I donno, so much …better. Thank you.
That was amazing. It's so weird that examining the place where experience exists took me both within my body (envisioning the space between the molecules coursing through my body) and also as the space where consciousness resides as the field of pure potentiality that surrounds everything. Allowing my awareness of both spaces, one after the other, was wonderful, expansive and comforting.
Yes! So weird, right? The more you attend to space/place, the deeper you get drawn inward and outward at the same time, until the line between them starts to feel a little ...hilarious/freeing/wonky/wonderful!
I loved this so much! A mushroom free Zen!
Thank you, Tasha!! Love the guidance to sink into awareness.
Thank you! Really enjoyed the subtle shift of observing
Loved this meditation and will attempt to stay tuned in to this, in the way you pointed, starting now! Thank you 🙏
Tasha thank you!! That was very cool.
Wow powerful meditation. Thank you.
Loved this!!!
Thank you. First time really going with eyes open. Definitely one to come back to, and to share 🙏🏼👁️