a journey

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Take a deep breath and imagine how all of your thoughts pour out through your exhalation. Picture yourself with a clear mind, no clutter, just harmony. Now let that harmony spread throughout your body, from head to toe. Then let the atoms of your body slowly part from each other and imagine how they dissolve into thin air. You are no longer you but what is left of you is only little scattered cells that have joined in with other particles of this world. One tiny part of you becomes a grain of sand on a beach by the Caribbean ocean, another part becomes a snowflake slowly falling towards the icy ground of the Antarctic and another becomes a distant star in a different galaxy that the old you didn’t even knew existed.

There are little bits of you scattered around the universe and you become aware of them all. You can feel everything from the breeze in the Sahara desert while the sun is setting to the earth cracking open where a volcano is about to erupt. You can feel everything at once, right in this moment. You can feel it all without disrupting the harmony because your mind has dispersed and can no longer interrupt by translating those feelings into language and codes of interpretation and judgment. You realize with this sensation that no matter what, everything is as it is and little by little this starts to amaze you. All those little parts that once were your body are now becoming aware of themselves and are beginning to understand the beauty in the simple fact that they exist in this whole system of particles. It’s as if all those particles now have gotten eyes of their own and yet they don’t ask any questions. All they can feel is gratitude. They feel gratitude because they cannot understand everything through reasoning but they can understand it simply through being. You recognize the sensation; it’s almost like love.

Now let all those particles join back together, build you back up and shift your attention to the wholeness of your body again. Let your body remember the journey of every single cell and every atom but acknowledge that they are in fact now part of you. What can they teach you? How are you different from them? Who are you?

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