Bringing Memory Into Now
Traer el recuerdo al ahora
A practice of revisiting your life's memories while staying grounded in the present, meeting your whole story with openness and trust.
Bringing Memory Into Now
Let the narratives of relationship come forward.
Extend out into memory,
but keep an anchor grounded in what is happening now.
Don't go away into memory, into past.
Bring the past into the now.
Waking to your own story
Imagine you just woke up from a coma
and all of your story,
all of your memories,
all of your life
is appearing to you for the first time.
Going to childhood,
parents,
siblings,
friends,
teachers,
pains and joys.
But bring it all here now.
Embrace it in your heart.
And trust.
Explore it like the most wonderful movie you've ever seen.
Always anchored in now:
you're sitting,
you're safe.
Anchored in breath and aliveness.
Be open to those moments,
the glimmers, the glimpses
of beauty,
of love.
The incredible joys and the sorrows.
Let it be as vivid as possible.
Always maintaining the sense of being here,
bringing memories here.
Witnessing what was lived
What dreams, what desires you remember,
what was given or what was frustrated,
what resulted in heartbreak.
Become a witness,
a loving witness of your story.
Bringing the knowing
that these are intimate, personal, human journeys.
We all share that we have our unique story.
Not just here in this group,
but all across the world right now,
stories so different that we can't even imagine them.
Journeying back through time
Stay anchored in this moment.
From there, let yourself journey,
part memory, part imagination.
Your story
and the stories of your parents,
and their parents,
back in time.
And it keeps going back centuries, millennia.
Ancestors.
Every story, every journey unique,
with its joys and sorrows, its fears.
Bring it all into now.
Don't lose the anchor.
This moment, never repeated
This universe, here at the tip of a wave.
This has never happened before.
It will never happen again.
What you're experiencing right now will never be experienced again.
We are what is experiencing
the beingness and love within experience.
Anchored in the heart,
the center of experiencing.
It's the core of being human,
but we are not only human.
Why are we here?
What do we want?
What do I, as the universe,
want to live and experience
through this unique manifestation?
Fully into now
Let the stories go
and immerse yourself fully in the experience of now.
The rawness of it,
the vulnerability of being human.
Don't turn away from anything.
Let it in fully
and trust your heart.
Tune into the fullness:
feeling, sensation, sounds, sight.
Let there be no distance with anything.
Touch everything intimately
with your open attention.
No attention to thought,
fully into sensation.