Welcome to Meditation Oasis. This is Mary Maddox. We invite you to visit us at meditationoasis.com.

Today's episode is a more advanced guided meditation. It has to do with allowing the mind to go within.

It's more subtle than many of our meditations and can allow for a deeper experience.

This meditation is best done sitting up. Sit up fairly straight but in a way that's comfortable so that you can relax.

Now close your eyes.

As soon as you close your eyes just naturally the awareness begins to settle down.

You may be hearing sounds or maybe thoughts present. All kinds of things are being experienced.

And yet there's also an inward movement of the awareness. It happens just naturally.

Do you notice that?

Just allow the awareness to sink. Allow it to move in that inward direction.

For the awareness to move inward we need to not resist anything that's going on. We need to not manipulate what's happening.

Simply be without trying to change anything.

We don't need to stop thoughts. We don't need to block out noise.

We don't need to do anything.

And that stopping of doing the mind becomes disengaged and starts to travel within, starts to settle down.

We can't make it go within but we can allow it. Allow it to take its own inward direction.

Thoughts may still be going on and yet there's still some settling down.

Simply allowing that to happen.

When the mind becomes absorbed and thought doesn't matter that will be noticed and let go of.

Just naturally we let go when the awareness stives.

Just favoring that inward direction of attention.

The mind can be very busy and still be at rest.

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