Speaker 1: You found your way here to waking up with Ryan.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you pushed play. This is the
Speaker 1: place you and I come to wake up together. So
Speaker 1: let's take a deep breath and begin.
Speaker 2: Good morning, my love.
Speaker 1: The main reason that life is so damn hard is
Speaker 1: that being human is weird.
Speaker 2: It's so weird. I mean, imagine.
Speaker 1: A seven hundred pound human being, a large human being
Speaker 1: trying to squeeze themselves into a size twenty eight genes.
Speaker 1: Imagine how uncomfortable that would be. And that's what you've
Speaker 1: done here. You are literally the entirety of the universe,
Speaker 1: one with everything endlessly expansive, cramming yourself into this little,
Speaker 1: itty bitty body, and then dealing with like the stresses
Speaker 1: of life and like the emails and money and sex
Speaker 1: and relationships, and meanwhile totally forgetting who you are, believing
Speaker 1: that you are this body. There's a Talmudic Jewish teaching
Speaker 1: that says that before you were born into this body,
Speaker 1: you knew everything. You knew exactly who you were. You
Speaker 1: were basking in the glory of creation heaven, and you
Speaker 1: chose to come into this body. And when you did,
Speaker 1: an angel touched you right above your lips, which is
Speaker 1: why you have this little indent here. And in that moment,
Speaker 1: you forgot who you were completely and as the mind
Speaker 1: of a child is completely open, you absorbed the entire
Speaker 1: thought system of the world in which you were born,
Speaker 1: dominated by the thought forms of fear, dominated by competition, greed, lust, war, famine,
Speaker 1: not enoughness, religious indoctrination, educational systems. Like you were like
Speaker 1: a sponge. You absorbed all of it. And the main
Speaker 1: thing you absorbed is I am this body. This is
Speaker 1: who I am. And that's what makes life so weird,
Speaker 1: because while you have a body, you are not this body,
Speaker 1: my love, you are not this body, and your suffering
Speaker 1: comes from believing that you are this body. That's what
Speaker 1: makes life so dang hard. But the beautiful thing is
Speaker 1: we're waking up, waking up from the belief that this
Speaker 1: is who you are. Even though this reality seems very
Speaker 1: very very very real in our experience, it's not the
Speaker 1: ultimate reality of who you are and what is.
Speaker 3: It's like this.
Speaker 1: It's like when you're sleeping and you have a nightmare.
Speaker 1: That nightmare seems really real, doesn't it, Like your heart
Speaker 1: is racing you are in this scene. It is the
Speaker 1: ultimate reality for you. It's so real that you may
Speaker 1: even wake yourself up in that fear and panic and
Speaker 1: oh my god, wake yourself up. And then what happens
Speaker 1: When you wake up, You look around and you realize
Speaker 1: it was a nightmare. It wasn't actually real, It was
Speaker 1: an imagined experience, but the imagined experience seemed very real.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on here, my friend. That's what's going
Speaker 1: on here. You are imagining that you are this body
Speaker 1: in this world as it is, and it seems very
Speaker 1: very real, just like when you're having.
Speaker 2: A nightmare waking up.
Speaker 1: Is that moment that you wake up from the nightmare
Speaker 1: and you realize it was a dream. That will happen,
Speaker 1: or so we have been taught, that will happen the
Speaker 1: moment you pass away, the moment you release your body.
Speaker 1: You'll come to realize there's so much more than what
Speaker 1: I saw, touch, taste, felt and heard.
Speaker 2: I am so much more than just that body.
Speaker 1: Or you can wake up now, right now, literally right now,
Speaker 1: with no more work. You can remember who you are
Speaker 1: right now. Why because who you are is already right here.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is fall back into it.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is notice your standing up
Speaker 1: as a person with thoughts and.
Speaker 2: Literally sit back.
Speaker 1: Into what is always right here, what is always right here,
Speaker 1: never changing. If this just sounds like an idea to you,
Speaker 1: that's okay, if you know what I'm actually talking about,
Speaker 1: That's where we're wanting to go.
Speaker 2: We're wanting to go beyond.
Speaker 1: The words of what it is to wake up into
Speaker 1: the experience that's right here. It's so real, it's so
Speaker 1: everything for you, for everyone, It's available right now.
Speaker 3: So let's go into a practice.
Speaker 1: The practice of no practice, the practice of just resting
Speaker 1: back into what is always right here. So closing the
Speaker 1: eyes if you feel comfortable and safe to do so,
Speaker 1: and maybe even placing your hands over your heart, just
Speaker 1: to touch into this human experience, this body. As you
Speaker 1: take a few deep breaths into your hands, into the chest,
Speaker 1: filling up with air, lifting your hands as you inhale,
Speaker 1: and letting it all fall as you exhaleeing how real
Speaker 1: the sensation, the feeling of your body feels underneath your hands.
Speaker 1: Notice how real your imagination of this world, your thoughts
Speaker 1: about it, your vision of it is. And then I
Speaker 1: want you to ask yourself the question, what is it
Speaker 1: that is aware.
Speaker 3: Of this body. Let's take a breath. What is it
Speaker 3: that is aware of your body?
Speaker 1: So again, feeling the sensation of your hands on your heart,
Speaker 1: on your chest, put your attention on that sensation where
Speaker 1: your hands meet your chest. Feel that, and now ask
Speaker 1: the question, what is it that is aware of this sensation?
Speaker 3: Let's breathe? Who am I? If I'm not my body,
Speaker 3: who am I? This may be the most important question
Speaker 3: you ever ask yourself. If you're not your body, if
Speaker 3: you're not your name, if you're not the person, then
Speaker 3: who are you? Ask yourself? Who am I?
Speaker 2: Truly? Who am I? Who you are is just.
Speaker 3: Here waiting for it to dawn on you that you
Speaker 3: are everything boundless one.
Speaker 1: Let's take a breath. I'd let it go when you're ready,
Speaker 1: opening your eyes. Being human is so weird, but it
Speaker 1: becomes so much less daunting when you let yourself become
Speaker 1: aware that you are not the character in the movie,
Speaker 1: but rather that you are sitting in the audience, watching
Speaker 1: the comings and goings of this person you call you,
Speaker 1: Loving you from here.
Speaker 2: Hi, I hope.
Speaker 1: You're feeling even just a little bit more prepared to
Speaker 1: take on the day. But before you go, I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you, and you can send me a
Speaker 1: voice note by going to my website Waking.
Speaker 2: Upwith Ryan dot com.
Speaker 1: Scroll down to the section that says send Ryan a
Speaker 1: voice note.
Speaker 2: Tap the button to leave me.
Speaker 1: A voice message with a question you have, maybe a
Speaker 1: relationship challenge you're having, or a spiritual hang up, some
Speaker 1: kind of an emotional struggle, any topic that you'd love
Speaker 1: for me to address on the podcast. I want to
Speaker 1: hear from you, Loving you from here.