Finding Freedom

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 Being able to embody the feeling of true calmness sparks a light in my life that shines far beyond what the eyes can see. I have found a friend, deep in the silence of my thoughts. Her embrace is so assuring, engulfing me with an ever so brilliant illumination that feels like everything is right. She slows down the rush of life and eventually brings it to a halt. I visit her often, she's not too far away. Her home is in the stillness of my closed eyes. She's calmer than the breeze that sways on a cool summer's day. She befriends my raging thoughts and makes them my allies, bringing me a sense of clarity and excitement for the many great lives I'm yet to live. 

I'm seeing significant growth in my experience with meditation. I like to think of it as spending time in my favourite place. The trip begins when I close my eyes, with the first few moments just being my thoughts acknowledging where I am and what I'm doing. At this point some of my thoughts are intentional and I feed into them with more thoughts. With some progression I begin to drift into a state of relaxation and my body exhibits physical signs like an occasional muscle twitch. The pulsating of my rhythmic heart feels heightened, like I can feel every beat. Gradually, I slip into a state of partial unawareness. I become completely unaware of time and how long it has been. That area in my mind is just void. My thoughts begin to grow more independent. Independent in the sense that I do not actively fixate on any thoughts that arise, they just come and go like music fading in the background. 

Before I know it, I am gone. Completely detached from myself, my body, my mind. It doesn't feel like when I'm awake and fully aware of my senses. I'm just in a very distant place in my mind. A place that is clear. A place where nothing exists. My thoughts at this point are just flowing in a place that my presence is not a part of, like I'm deep beneath an ocean and my thoughts are just mere waves on the surface. I am at a point of freedom. Calmness. It's funny, cause in a weird way I'm conscious enough to know that my mind is active, but not enough to control anything. I'm just afloat in a blissful abyss of nothingness. Is this transcendence? 

I knew calmness existed but this feeling is different, divine. Meditation has taken me on a journey to higher states of consciousness that I cannot fully comprehend, but I'm aware of their existence. Time is proving itself to make everything better. There is so much more to discover within myself, in the limitless dimensions of consciousness. 

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