 Hello and welcome to day 70 of the Mindfulness Challenge day 70 and today it's about paying attention to your inner nature. Hello and welcome to day 70 of the Mindfulness Challenge. Today is about paying attention to your inner nature. What does that mean? Well you see I believe and I can only ever teach and I always caveat everything by saying it's only what I believe and what I believe is is that we have this inner nature ourselves we have this best self that's sitting in our soul but that self is is layered with human conditioning human socializing human dogmas and things that we've been taught that we should do all through our lives and they're great because they give you structure but what meditation has the ability to do is to come through a lot of that and to get to the true essence and nature of the inner you the real you you the real who you are your soul that light that shines so bright inside of you and it's day 70 and we've talked about meditation in so many ways but you know for me it has got this ability to be able for you to sit and just be with yourself sit with yourself and start to learn and understand who you really are and that's really important because fundamentally we're all the same and prejudice is things that have and religion and race racism and all of these things really have been put on top of us when we started to expand when we started to go to different countries or when we started to you know the British commonwealth was so many places and we created all of this but you know if you put six skeletons all in a row they all look the same and that's because your soul is the person not the color of your skin or your belief or your race it's what's inside you and the ability for you to be able to connect into that the inner nature of who you are is such a powerful tool for us to be able to really start to shape our lives and have that clarity of purpose and meditation for me is the key to that no meditation you know people think meditation what's meditation i'll just sit there with your eyes closed well yeah but there's loads of different types of meditation and it's a bit of a fashion but it's not a fashion it's an endeavor and things like meditation and yoga you know yoga means union you know and it's about bringing that union to the world through meditation and that's why at the end of yoga sessions you know you have that period of time where you just lay down and reflect but we have to realize that when we connect into our our our true self the inner nature of who we are it can make so many different choices and decisions in our lives and i want us to understand as well is that when we start to understand and become our true selves we start to get this excuse me clarity of the world around us and then we start to become more away and we have these spiritual awakenings and we change our thought process on certain aspects of the world and if you think about it without the out of the world we couldn't exist you know i want you to try and exercise for me now just sit here comfortably and i want you to close your mouth okay i can't do it because i need to talk but close your mouth and then pinch your nose so you can't breathe so keep your mouth closed and hold your nose now you can do this for a few seconds and when you feel it becoming uncomfortable let them go but you see i can't live with everything that's not around me so i have to find ways of interfacing with that and if you think about it and the way we treat those things we have our inner nature we have our outer nature the ability to be love and give love is fundamental to that you know we see all of these things happening they're not going to go on to a party political broadcast but when we start to connect in with ourselves and realize that we are part of a much bigger thing is that you know without trees there is no world we breathe out trees breathe in trees breathe out we breathe in so if you actually worked out the half of your lungs right is actually in a forest they are the world i don't really see how we can cut them down and if we start to experience things differently through that union then things will be different if you really experience your breath then you truly experience the trees the forests the world and the union somebody who talks about trees a piece of wood i believe is not worth listening to why we need to experience life we need to conclude about things we need experience things and and and the trees play such a big big part in our lives and we can't live without them and meditation is the key to inner nature but it's to bring people to a living experience not just in existence and that's where we got to do meditation is a consequence because we've become very results orientated people somebody said once people want the mango but they don't want the tree you know if you want to plant a flower in your garden you don't meditate on the flower you think about the flower what you need to think about is the ground the sun the seeds the water the flower is the consequence of everything that you've done people want the consequence but they don't want the practice so everybody wants to be mindful but nobody wants to sit mindfully everybody wants clarity and purpose but nobody truly connects with any nature day 70 is a bit of a lecture but i hope it makes sense for you what we're going to do now is a very simple mindful meditation to allow you to connect with your inner nature i'm going to close your eyes i'm going to put a picture and i need to sit in a chair you're sat in your chair i want to breathe in i'm going to take three deep breaths in as you do you feel yourself becoming relaxed you feel yourself sitting in this chair and you feel the sensations and awareness around you and by doing so you just be and that being is allowing you now just to bring your awareness out to other parts you can feel you know you might feel sensations in your body you know bring your awareness to your right shoulder breathe through your right shoulder what does it feel do we need to loosen it bring it to your left shoulder just breathe do we need to loosen it bring it to your feet and just feel your feet on the surface of this chair just breathing in and out and i'm going to count down to five now and every time i count down you feel yourself become more and more relaxed and in doing so you feel this beautiful calmness and this awareness around you have this wonderful healing light of love one you breathe in you breathe out you feel yourself calming and becoming more relaxed two as you breathe in you breathe in this beautiful spiritual air and you breathe out any negativity three you breathing forgiveness and acceptance and you breathe out any guilt or jealousy four you just breathe in total relaxation and you breathe out as you feel yourself becoming so relaxed and five you breathe in and you feel totally relaxed now i just want you to bring to your awareness in your mind's eye that you're sat in a chair and in front of you is this curtain and behind it you know there's another chair and i want you to sit in this chair and i want you to present behind the other curtain i'm going to place your true inner nature your true inner self and we're going to ask it three very simple questions and as i ask the questions i want you to repeat them in your mind and then be quiet and see what the responses are as we breathe in and we breathe out first question as you breathe in and you breathe out what is my true life's purpose what is my true life's purpose and see if you get an answer as you breathe in you ask the second question which is how to be my best self how can i be my best self and finally how can i love myself more how can i love myself more as we sit here now just facing this curtain with your inner nature your true self behind we're just going to raise the curtain and for the first time in your life you may come face to face with the real you and just sit with that energy and befriend it and understand that realize all of the emotional feelings you feel this is the true inner nature of who you are your soul is such a beautiful light and mindfulness and meditation gives us the ability to sit with it in a way that is so powerful with our awareness bring your attention back into your body take a deep breath in wiggle your fingers and come back into the room hi very interesting meditation let me know your comments did you hear something did you feel something did you sense something did you clearly get where you're going i hope so day 70 is a bit of a breakthrough day 71 tomorrow we're in the home straight i think thanks for watching be love and give love good morning julie and i love you good morning julie and i love you take care bye bye