The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

So let's spend a little bit of time with a meditation about entering the wilderness.

And as you come into stillness, just the sense that this wilderness is our nature, our friend,

the source of wisdom, the place of healing, love.

That doesn't mean that it's not difficult, that all the weather systems in the universe

exist, that it is our portal to wholeness.

And the pathway includes embracing the unlived life.

So as you take these moments, you might find somewhere in your life where you're already

very aware, distinctively, of how you go into trance.

Some situation that you might not be able to pause in the midst of the situation, but

you can reflect on it right now from this vantage point.

Situation where you get very speeded up, or very caught in judgment, perhaps where you

get caught obsessing and trying to figure out solving a problem.

Where you get squeezed with that sense of something's wrong or something's going to go wrong.

And you leave yourself.

When you have a situation in mind, this is a kind of applied meditation.

The reign of embodiment, just to recognize, okay, this is trance.

This is the doing, defend itself, leaving, cutting off.

That's the recognizing.

The allowing is to not make yourself wrong for it.

Everybody, everybody, everybody leaves the moment, leaves our bodies.

We all do it at times.

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