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Yin and Formlessness
The principle is yin. Perhaps you have heard this term before, yin and yang. It comes from Taoism.
In yin, we say, “I want nothing. I am everything.” It is very much a paradox. By becoming completely empty, we identify with that eternal side of ourselves. It is a form of becoming transparent, without any form of resistance.
Usually in life, we go around saying, I have these needs. I have this life that I am attending to constantly. But if you could only become nothingness, the cessation of thought and the cessation of the center of self, you become everything. If you become nothing, you become everything in a different way. It is like the ambient existence becomes your very self when that small self goes away. Infinity becomes yours.
One time, somebody said, “You are like a window.” There is a joy to being like a window, being completely empty. There is nothing that I am or that I am fostering that is able to give any form of resistance.
Resistance dissipates spiritual energy, but when you become like water, when you become very empty, you retain your energy and cultivate your energy. To be like water or like a window, without any resistance, these are all involved in the term yin.
There is also the strength of water, the strength of formlessness. We are giving away that rigid form for that formless essence. In doing so, we become invincible. You cannot cut the ether. You cannot hurt or deform water. These are the principles of becoming nothing in yinness.
What is fear? Fear is usually a thought. It is a response to what is. If fear stops, if the thought of fear stops, we transcend it.
In yinness, we become empty. We become nothing. Some of the qualities that you might embody are gentleness, speaking less, moving with stillness, and not really asserting yourself in social situations. You say less and want less, but it is very genuine because you find joy in the freedom, invincibility, power, and energy that come from this detachment.
A yin meditation is when you become transparent. It is very different from a meditation where you are generating energy in the chakras. That is very yang. But in a yin meditation, you are becoming empty and going away, and this ambient power of the universe comes through you.
Abundance and Interpersonal Balance
Yin connects you to abundance because you feel that you are one with the whole universe. You are the whole universe. How wealthy would you be if you owned the universe? Well, you own the universe.
Think of it geometrically. A circle has a circumference and a center, but if it has no center, if we take the center away, the circle becomes infinite. It is an asymptotic expansion.
This is one of the ways to become enlightened. Yang helps you to clear your space. Sometimes yang meditation will clear the space, but once you clear it, stay clear. You are eternal perfection, perfection in the formless, in the essence.
Yin is not only a meditation practice, but it is very important in interpersonal relationships. In yin, you ask for less, you say less, and you do not have opinions. You do not have judgments. You really, genuinely do not. You have let them go. You do not want them. They are bondage. They are shackles to freedom. They dissipate the most precious thing, your spiritual energy.
This realization is really profound because, in the world of self-help books and modern psychology, there is an emphasis on the self, the me, me, me. You are emphasizing how you can fulfill your purpose, become what you want to become, and get the way you want to. This is the whole aisle of the self-help section of the library.
I think that is a little unevolved, because when you become yin, you become your truth. You become the integrity of freedom. You see and respond from nothingness, and therefore you respond from your true self.
There is that instantaneous response of integrity that happens in yinness, when there is no agenda, but only the truth of your heart responding from freedom. These things can be practiced. It is nice as a theory, but the key is to practice it.
When you are out with friends, speak less. When friends are trying to decide where to go to dinner, let them decide. When somebody does not appreciate you, let them do that. You are infinity. You are eternity. Let it all go. Let the universe go on and evolve around you in the space.
Yin is very much the feminine to the yang masculine, but you want to be balanced. One can have issues with not being yang enough, but almost always, in Western society and globally, that is not the issue. The issue is that we need more yin in the world.
Yin cures anxiety. It cures all the dissonance interpersonally because, if you are yin, nobody can latch on to your nothingness. Nobody can resist your nothingness. In that nothingness, you become powerful, you become blissful, and you become love.
Observation and Creative Flow
How can you be yin when your mind is so yang? You might say, yes, stop being fearful. Of course. That is more easily said than done. So how can you be yin now, immediately?
Simply observe your thoughts without response, without saying they have any value. It is a mirage. It is a mirage that you are creating. It has no reality.
Reality is floors, sky, and thoughts, but you are just observing the suchness of the thoughts. If you observe yourself, if you observe the feelings in your body, they slow down. That wheel of angular momentum that is turning with such ferocity will slow on its own. You cannot slow it because your will will perpetuate what you are. You are that wheel as the thinker. But if you simply observe, the wheel loses its angular momentum, and ultimately, eventually, you will get there.
There is an urgency, though. This is a little jnana practice, where through understanding we are saying, wait a second. I have been doing this self-help thing this whole time, and maybe it has been sabotaging me. Consider that. Maybe it has not really been helping you. It has been hurting you. These are all things we have to consider on an individual basis.
When you do mathematics, if you do it with a yin energy, it is a completely different thing. I am stillness. I am not thinking hard. I am thinking softly.
How often do people say, think softly, you will get further? Think softly. Let the math happen organically. Let it reveal its next step. Get out of the way and let math do its thing.
This is something I have used for some of my favorite insights. It will help you retain and improve your state of mind while you are doing math, instead of dissipating energy through thinking hard, straining yourself, and being in resistance.
This is the paradox. My true self will channel the divine, and I will be creative. Flow state is cultivated through yin practice. It is not about compromising your integrity at all.
You really have to look at the nuances here because it can be a little risky if you decide to let everybody walk all over you. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about letting go, letting things flow, moving into a state of acceptance, and navigating through life like water through a riverbed. That is a very different orientation.
What you get is that dimension of spiritual power. I think this is something that some people are unaware of. You can accumulate spiritual power inside of you. We have to plug up the holes, the things that cause us to lose it. You meditate and generate the power, but if you live your life without dissipating your power, you will get a lot of it.
It is that power you feel when you feel like you are flying. You get high on yinness, man.
Practical applications for interpersonal situations are to speak less, not talk about yourself, listen, be agreeable through your spaciousness, move like water, walk slowly, act softly, facilitate rather than direct, and hold your energy in. Think of the classic Taoist master. They are very yin.
Guided Yin Meditation
See if you can invoke yin by bringing attention to the heart and softening the energy field.
You may notice that naturally, we are not in a yin state. Our nervous system is in a state of resistance. This is a process of disarming and diffusing that resistance.
Gaze broadly. We want to invoke the light. Gazing helps us invoke the light.
Scan your body. Allow yourself, intend yourself, to release any form of resistance. Feel your spine softening, all your muscles softening, and your energetic field softening. Just do your best.
Observe the judgments. Become absorbed in the unknown, unknowingness, and the cessation of thought.
Bring your attention to your heart to make sure you are learning and emanating from the heart. Activate it and clear it. You can do that by putting your hands there.
There is luminosity. Rest in that light. Try to become transparent. Stop asserting your physicality. Explore what that means. Stop asserting your body.
Become formless. All of space and time exist within that metadimensional moment of eternity. Everything is always in the here and the now. Let yourself merge into that unchanging essence.
If you begin to see the light, the luminosity, in your yinness, let it wash you away. Become the ether.
Intend emptiness and spaciousness, especially in the head and the nervous system. Become space. Physically feel that your field, your body, is transparent. If you begin to see the light, allow its brightness to wash you away. That is a very yin decision and action, energetically.
You find that everything is perfect, always was, and always will be in the essence. The light is Shakti.
If you are not in the yin feeling, you can simply observe without an agenda, without the response of trying to change. Accept yourself. Know yourself by observing yourself as you are, just to know. That knowledge empowers you, not that you need to be empowered.
From this yin state, we are very pliable, malleable. Bring your attention to the paramount energetic center, the heart chakra. From this freedom, from this openness, feel the warmth there. Feel the vitality there. Feel that you are knowing from the heart, not simply from the eyes or the frontal lobe of the brain, but from the heart. Let that be you.
“I am heart. That is my center.”
That is the very meaning of heart. Let your kundalini and your qi attend to that vortex faculty known as Anahata, the heart center. The middle dantian would perhaps be a more appropriate name, since we are talking about yin and the Taoist paradigm.
Reflections and Integration
Practice yinness when you are driving, when you are talking, when you are with friends, and when you are meditating. Just practice yinness. Discover what that means for yourself.
Full Transcript
Yin and Formlessness
Adam Wes Everybody, we're just settling in for a moment while people join. It's a good chance for you to really get still and feel your hearts.
Namaste, everybody. Can you hear me fine? Okay, good. Welcome! I'm so happy to see all of you. I'm very excited about today's sermon.
It's something that will be integrated with the energetic practice we do and the principle of the week, and something that has brought me a lot of healing, joy, and peacefulness over the last 10 years or so. It's a principle that I really didn't have in abundance when I started, so I'm a living example of somebody being able to adopt this principle, if you like. It's very powerful.
The principle is yin. Perhaps you've heard this term before, yin and yang, or yang, as it is sometimes pronounced. It comes from Taoism.
Hold on, I'm getting a little distracted.
Sorry about that. Let me recenter my mind.
I'm in a new location, so I'm having a few technical issues, but I will continue.
In yin, we say, "I want nothing. I am everything." It's very much a paradox. By becoming completely empty, we identify with that eternal side of ourselves. It's a form of becoming transparent, without any form of resistance.
I've got a bunch of things that I've said here to really try to transmit the total depth of what yin means. It's a very subtle concept.
"I want nothing. I am everything."
Usually in life, we go around saying, "I have these needs. I have this life that I'm attending to constantly." But if you could only become nothingness, the cessation of thought and the cessation of the center of self, you become everything. It's very much a paradox. If you become nothing, you become everything in a different way. It's like the ambient existence becomes your very self when that small self goes away. Infinity becomes yours.
One time, somebody said, "You're like a window."
There's a joy to being like a window, being completely empty. There's nothing that I am or that I'm fostering that is able to give any form of resistance.
Resistance dissipates spiritual energy, but when you become like water, when you become very empty, you retain your energy and cultivate your energy. To be like water or like a window, without any resistance, these are all involved in the term yin.
There's also the strength of water, the strength of formlessness. We are giving away that rigid form for that formless essence. In doing so, we become invincible. You can't cut the ether. You can't hurt or deform water. These are the principles of becoming nothing in yinness.
I think one really important thing is the issue of fear. What is fear? Fear is usually a thought. It's a response to what is. If fear stops, if the thought of fear stops, we transcend it.
I'm moving to a different location because I think that was the issue. Give me a second. I'm sorry, this is a little disorganized today.
All right. There you go.
In yinness, we become empty. We become nothing. Some of the qualities that you might embody are gentleness, speaking less, moving with stillness, and not really asserting yourself in social situations. You say less and want less, but it's very genuine because you find joy in the freedom, invincibility, power, and energy that come from this detachment.
Does anybody have any questions? I'd love to produce a little bit of a dialogue. We'll do this for another 10 to 15 minutes, and then we can meditate.
By the way, when you meditate, you can do a yin meditation. A yin meditation is when you become transparent. It's very different from a meditation where you're generating energy in the chakras. That's very yang. But in a yin meditation, you're becoming empty and going away, and this ambient power of the universe comes through you. It's really lovely. We'll work on that when we do our meditation.
Ariella, what do you think?
Ariella I don't have any questions.
Abundance and Interpersonal Balance
David Not a question, but I just want to point out the synchronicity of this, because I was just talking with my wife yesterday about what abundance was and how it's related to the self. If you're connected to everything, well, you are superabundant, right? I mean, you're everything.
Adam Wes Right. It does connect you to abundance because you feel that you are one with the whole universe. You are the whole universe. How wealthy would you be if you owned the universe? Well, you own the universe.
It's interesting. Think of it geometrically. Here's a mathematical metaphor for everybody. A circle has a circumference and a center, but if it has no center, in yin, we take the center away, the circle becomes infinite. It's an asymptotic expansion.
This is one of the ways to become enlightened. I remember my teacher once said, because I had a peer who said, "You don't meditate yang." He said, "Well, Adam, you're doing the right thing. You're meditating yin. That's how you become enlightened."
Yang helps you to clear your space. Sometimes yang meditation will clear the space, but once you clear it, stay clear. You are eternal perfection, perfection in the formless, in the essence.
Yin is not only a meditation practice, but it's very important in interpersonal relationships. In yin, you ask for less, you say less, and you don't have opinions. You don't have judgments. You really, genuinely don't. You've let them go. You don't want them. They're bondage. They're shackles to freedom. They dissipate the most precious thing, your spiritual energy.
This realization is really profound because, in the world of self-help books and modern psychology, there's an emphasis on the self, the me, me, me. You're emphasizing, "How can I fulfill my purpose, become what I want to become, and get the way I want to?" This is the whole aisle of the self-help section of the library, right? It's the whole aisle.
I think that's a little unevolved, because when you become yin, you become your truth. You become the integrity of freedom. You see and respond from nothingness, and therefore you respond from your true self.
These are all things you can practice. This is a discussion, of course. I'm here at my family's house, and there's a lot of stuff going on in front of me right now, so I apologize. To be yin in this situation would be to just be quiet and silent, although I have to be a little yang to share. Then I will be very yin in the meditation.
There's that instantaneous response of integrity that happens in yinness, when there's no agenda, but only the truth of your heart responding from freedom. These things can be practiced. It's nice as a theory, but the key is to practice it.
This is what you can do. When you're out with friends, speak less. When friends are trying to decide where to go to dinner, let them decide. When somebody doesn't appreciate you, let them do that. You are infinity. You are eternity. Let it all go. Let the universe go on and evolve around you in the space.
I wore pink today on purpose because pink is a very yin energy. It's space. It's feminine. Yin is very much the feminine to the yang masculine, but you want to be balanced.
One can have issues with not being yang enough, but almost always, in Western society and globally, that's not the issue. The issue is that we need more yin in the world. More yin in the world.
What does it look like not to have enough yang? Your ontological axis can get off. I don't think anybody has experienced that. It's very rare. Your paradigmatic orientation can dissolve. These are different, very esoteric issues that happen with a lack of balance. But I think the balance, in most cases, is to bring some more yin into the equation that we're trying to balance here.
Yin cures anxiety. It cures all the dissonance interpersonally because, if you're yin, nobody can latch on to your nothingness. Nobody can resist your nothingness. In that nothingness, you become powerful, you become blissful, and you become love.
Any questions? Hi, Brian! Hi, Emma! Can I see Emma? Nice to see you. I'm so glad you joined.
Emma Sorry, I'm on my balcony. What resonates from what you shared is the practice of being in a state of observation. I think when you do a lot of inner work and you're able to find that center, in a way, it's because you've been able to continue practicing that state of observation: observing your emotions, observing your surroundings, and observing the emotions of other people around you.
I believe that's the path you're guiding us to right now. I know it takes time to be a good observer.
Observation and Creative Flow
Adam Wes Yes. Thank you so much for adding this part because I was forgetting it.
She's absolutely right. How can you be yin when your mind is so yang? You might say, "Yeah, stop being fearful. Of course." That's more easily said than done. So how can you be yin now, immediately?
Emma shared this beautiful insight: observation. Simply observe your thoughts without response, without saying they have any value. It's a mirage. It's a mirage that you're creating. It has no reality.
Reality is floors, sky, and thoughts, but you're just observing the suchness of the thoughts. If you observe yourself, if you observe the feelings in your body, they slow down. That wheel of angular momentum that's turning with such ferocity will slow on its own. You can't slow it because your will will perpetuate what you are. You are that wheel as the thinker. But if you simply observe, the wheel loses its angular momentum, and ultimately, eventually, you'll get there.
There's an urgency, though. This is a little jnana practice right now, where through understanding we're saying, "Wait a second. I've been doing this self-help thing this whole time, and maybe it's been sabotaging me."
Consider that. Maybe it hasn't really been helping you. It's been hurting you. These are all things we have to consider on an individual basis, of course.
Shawn, what do you think?
Shawn E I'm thinking about Gandhi.
Adam Wes Oh, yeah. No wonder.
Shawn E Gandhi was the film study for the week. It's actually perfectly aligned. I must have intuited it.
I went through a period of time when I had the Tao on an audiobook, and I just listened to the whole thing every day. In the version I was listening to, the line that is coming to my mind right now as you're describing this is, "That which has no substance can enter where there is no space."
Adam Wes Boom.
Shawn E That's what Gandhi did. He brought his yin orientation into these very yang rooms of the British Empire. He was so diffuse, he just moved right through. It was powerful. It was really powerful.
Adam Wes He moved nations with his yinness. In yin, there's truth too.
Thank you, Shawn, for sharing that. The movie of the week is Gandhi from 1982. I highly recommend that film. If you haven't watched it, you should watch it five times. It's a really beautiful story about somebody who's applying these principles.
Let's speak about mathematical study. When you do mathematics, if you do it with a yin energy, it's a completely different thing. That means, "I am stillness. I'm not thinking hard. I'm thinking softly."
How often do people say, "Think softly, you'll get further"? Think softly. Let the math happen organically. Let it reveal its next step. Get out of the way and let math do its thing.
This is something I've used for some of my favorite insights that I've had. It'll help you retain and improve your state of mind while you're doing math, instead of dissipating energy through thinking hard, straining yourself, and being in resistance.
Shawn, I mean Elias, what do you think? Is there anything you want to add? Then we'll get started.
Elias P I was just thinking about how I always want to be more creative, but creativity, famously, is something that arises from that yin state. It's not a thing you go think hard about and then generate. It comes by getting out of the way.
Adam Wes Yeah. This is the paradox. The paradox is, "My true self will channel the divine, and I'll be creative."
Flow state is cultivated through yin practice. It's not about compromising your integrity at all.
You really have to look at the nuances here because it can be a little risky if you're like, "Okay, well, I'm going to let everybody walk all over me." That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about letting go, letting things flow, moving into a state of acceptance, and navigating through life like water through a riverbed. That's a very different orientation.
What you get is that dimension of spiritual power. I think this is something that some people are unaware of. You can accumulate spiritual power inside of you. We have to plug up the holes, the things that cause us to lose it. You meditate and generate the power, but if you live your life without dissipating your power, you'll get a lot of it.
It's that power you feel when you feel like you're flying. It goes really high, right? You get high on yinness, man. That's what we're doing.
All right. Hi, Art! Brian, it's nice to see some new faces here, or new names.
Shall we start meditating? This is a good time, 6:28.
A couple of other things I'll quickly say from my document. Practical applications for interpersonal situations are to speak less, not talk about yourself, listen, be agreeable through your spaciousness, move like water, walk slowly, act softly, facilitate rather than direct, and hold your energy in.
It's the opposite of a really loud person at a bar. You're holding your energy in. Just think of the classic Taoist master. Of course, they're very yin.
I wanted to share those with you.
Guided Yin Meditation
All right, let's start with some music. We'll do some actual energy meditation here. I'd love to see more faces if people are available.
See if you can invoke yin, again, by bringing attention to the heart and softening the energy field.
You may notice that naturally, we aren't in a yin state. Our nervous system is in a state of resistance. This is a process of disarming and diffusing that resistance.
If you're up for it, I also recommend that we do an open-eyed meditation this time. Gaze at the computer, looking broadly. We want to invoke the light. Gazing helps us invoke the light.
Scan your body. Allow yourself, intend yourself, to release any form of resistance. Feel your spine softening, all your muscles softening, and your energetic field softening. Just do your best.
Observe the judgments. Become absorbed in the unknown, unknowingness, and the cessation of thought.
It's good to bring your attention to your heart to make sure you're learning and emanating from the heart. Activate it and clear it. You can do that by putting your hands there.
I want to do something. Try to do it with me.
I'm gazing, and there's luminosity. I'm resting in that light. It's a little bit of an advanced technique, but you can try it. I think you can do it.
Try to become transparent. Stop asserting your physicality. Explore what that means. Stop asserting your body.
If it's not working for you, you can also focus on me. There's a sort of empathic transmission. Feeling it activates that same energetic formation.
Become formless. All of space and time exist within that metadimensional moment of eternity. Everything is always in the here and the now. Let yourself merge into that unchanging essence.
If you begin to see the light, the luminosity, in your yinness, let it wash you away. Become the ether.
Intend emptiness and spaciousness, especially in the head and the nervous system.
Become space. Physically feel that your field, your body, is transparent. If you begin to see the light, allow its brightness to wash you away. That's a very yin decision and action, energetically.
You find that everything is perfect, always was, and always will be in the essence.
Right now, I'm in a lot of Shakti. Maybe you can see that. Maybe you're joining me in that. Maybe you're in that. The light is Shakti.
If you're not in the yin feeling, you can simply observe without an agenda, without the response of trying to change. Accept yourself. Know yourself by observing yourself as you are, just to know.
That knowledge empowers you, not that you need to be empowered.
From this yin state, we're very pliable, malleable. It's a good opportunity, now that we've been meditating for a bit, to really bring your attention to the paramount energetic center, the heart chakra.
Bring your attention to your heart chakra. From this freedom, from this openness, feel the warmth there. Feel the vitality there. Feel that you are knowing from the heart, not simply from the eyes or the frontal lobe of the brain, but from the heart. Let that be you.
"I am heart. That's my center."
That's the very meaning of heart.
Let your kundalini and your qi attend to that vortex faculty known as Anahata, the heart center. The middle dantian would perhaps be a more appropriate name, since we're talking about yin and the Taoist paradigm.
Zoom asked me if I'm speaking Malay. That's funny. Too many non-English words, I guess.
When you're ready, we can come out of this meditation together.
Woof. That was a good one for me. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did.
Nice. Good, Brian.
This is my mom, Colleen. I'd love for you to share first, Mom, if you can.
Reflections and Integration
Colleen Hi. Thank you very much. I was a little distracted today, but I still got to relax, and I liked your talk. I did see some of my colors. Thank you, Adam.
Adam Wes Wonderful. What colors did you see?
Colleen Red, orange, and pinky purple.
Adam Wes Nice. Not purpley-pink this time.
I was joking. I said, "Not purpley-pink."
Colleen I'm having a problem hearing.
Adam Wes Oh, okay. Namaste.
How about you, Ariella?
Ariella Thank you. That was amazing. In the first part, I don't know where I went or what happened. It wasn't light. I just don't know if I was asleep. Then you started speaking, and I began to feel the light. It was just incredibly relaxing. Thank you, Adam.
Adam Wes You're welcome. Namaste.
How about you, Emma? I would love to hear from Emma. I'm so happy Emma made it today. Where are you, by the way? What part of the world?
Emma I'm in Miami right now.
Adam Wes Oh, I thought you were in Europe. You're usually in Europe.
Emma Yeah, that is true. I canceled because of some changes, so this time I decided to stay home.
During the meditation, I tend to get a lot of visuals when I work on connecting to my center. It's funny because one of the reasons I started following Adam is his intuition toward mathematics and geometry. Everything he usually posts makes me very excited and resonates with my heart.
I don't know the terminology exactly, but I kept seeing the heart shape being formed. Instead of being a tip, that little tip would loop.
Adam Wes Boom.
Emma I kept seeing the arch, and instead of being a point, that point would just loop and continue. That's what I kept receiving and what they kept showing me. It was almost like the beginning of a multiple fractal, I think it's called.
Adam Wes Oh, yeah. Mandelbrot. It looks a little like that.
Emma Yeah. As it kept showing me that, I was wondering, "What if we took that shape and started spinning it?" I feel like you would see phi, or it would start creating a flower.
Anyway, I kept getting that image, and I just dove down that road. It was really nice. That's where the meditation took me. Thank you. Sorry I'm in the dark, enjoying a nice little view.
Adam Wes Oh, that's okay. Beautiful. Thank you for being here.
How about you, Andy? Is Andy still here? No, Andy must have had to go.
How about you, David?
David It was a first for me in many ways. I felt I could link with an internal light coming from behind me, just soaking in and washing, like you said. It was beautiful. I could stay there for a while.
I started feeling something at the top of my head that I had never felt before.
Adam Wes Pressure? Tingling? An opening? An expanding?
David It was powerful, and I felt like I was vanishing. I was vanishing.
Adam Wes Oh, beautiful. You really were connecting with the yin energy practice.
David Yeah. I feel like being quiet.
Adam Wes You mean right now? Good. I love that. Maybe we don't have to share too much because we're all very yin.
Would you like to share, Shawn? Shawn's already a pretty yin individual. I think he's quite yin, more than most men or women.
Shawn E I've been working on that for a long time, although I didn't know exactly what it was. I felt like I went to a different universe or something. It was really lovely.
Adam Wes Wonderful. Namaste.
Shawn E Thank you.
Adam Wes Mandy, Art, or Elias? Elias, would you like to share? I'd actually love to hear from Elias if he's up for it.
Elias P It got pretty interesting in the middle of the meditation. Part of it might be the way there's a very small wind coming through my window and slightly moving my drapes, but it suddenly felt like all of the space was, not exactly dense, but thicker and unified.
Adam Wes That sounds like you're describing the light. The light manifests as a phenomenal mist. I couldn't see the computer at times. That's how much light there was between me and it. You can kind of see it, but it's very different, and you can feel the physical gravity of this stuff.
Elias P Plasma instead of air.
Adam Wes Beautiful! Congratulations! Amazing!
Elias P Whoa. After that, when I put my hand on my heart, it felt so much more palpable. It felt really easy to touch the part of my heart that is soft and charged.
Adam Wes Oh, that sounds like one of your best meditations yet that we've had together. Awesome. Namaste, Elias. Thank you for sharing.
Anna, would you like to share? You don't have to. I think you're talking, but for some reason we can't hear you.
How about we hear from Brian first, if he wants to share?
Bryan V Hey, how's it going? Thanks for letting me speak.
I had to exert myself because I'm doing this right outside a CVS. I was pretty busy with some work, and then I just did this quickly.
The way I could describe it is like a release. The light was literally the sun shining on my face, but if I could pinpoint it to something more specific, it is release. I think I'm holding that feeling by a thread. I have to do this a little more, maybe in another session, over and over, and keep revisiting it.
It's something I need to practice outside of meditation, just letting go and accepting that tranquility a bit more.
What stood out to me was when you mentioned the light. At some point, I think you called it Shakti. The sun became more vivid. I don't know if it was because when you said "light" and "Shakti," my brain immediately correlated it with the sun hitting my face.
But in that moment, it became something I could accept more. It was less conceptual, something I could actually feel within my chest. At a certain point, I started feeling a sensation around this part of my head and around the T-zone area, which I found very interesting.
I became aware of the tension in my body. Coming out of this session, I can say I'm more aware of the fact that I need to release more tension and have less tension in my life, which I think is important. Right now, I feel very impatient that I have to work on that, but I think it's okay to say I'm going to work on it. A good mindset shift has happened for me.
Adam Wes Congratulations. Namaste. Nice to see you.
The principle of the week, like we did mindfulness last week, is yin. Practice yinness when you're driving, when you're talking, when you're with friends, and when you're meditating. Just practice yinness. Discover what that means for yourself.
I'll put the document up that outlines as much as I can share and remember, and that will be available on Circle.
We should probably wrap up. I don't want to keep people.
If anybody wants to donate to support, you're welcome to. You can do so through my website on the Meditations tab. There's a button where you can donate one dollar or more, or whatever you like. If you're here for free, that's fine too. It's not required, but I greatly appreciate it, of course.
Namaste, everybody. Thank you!
Boom.
Emma Thank you, Adam.
Adam Wes You're welcome. See you next time. Bye, guys.
Bryan V Boom.
Adam Wes Bye, Ariella.