What happens when pain, physical symptoms, or changes in the body begin demanding your attention?
When the body is struggling, it can be difficult not to become consumed by it.
How long will this last?
What if it gets worse?
How am I supposed to keep living my life while this is happening?
In this deeply personal guided meditation for physical pain, fear, and difficult symptoms, Jody Agard shares from the midst of her own experience with ongoing pain and changes in her vision.
This isn't a meditation about pretending the body isn't hurting, denying symptoms, ignoring the body's need for care, or telling yourself that pain is “just an illusion.”
Instead, Jody offers a gentle invitation to look more deeply:
Is what is happening in the body... what I am?
Through spacious silence and gentle non-dual self-inquiry, you'll explore what happens when an experience becomes an identity, when pain becomes my pain, when fear becomes my fear, and when something appearing in the body begins to feel as though it is happening to a separate me.
The body may need care. And sensations may be intense. Fear may arise.
And nothing about this meditation asks you to push any of it away.
Instead, you're invited to notice the quiet Presence that knows the entire experience.
Does this Presence have an age?
A diagnosis?
A history?
Is Presence itself afraid, or is fear appearing within it?
Is Presence itself in pain, or is pain being known by that which is completely untouched?
This is not about escaping the human experience. It's an invitation to stop asking the human experience to define what you are.
Beneath every label, diagnosis, sensation, fear, and story remains the effortless Being that has never come or gone.
The open Presence.
The Infinite I AM.
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