There is a sense of freedom in remembering that we are much, much more than our “small selves”.
We are more than the thoughts we cling to, the stories we replay over and over, the identities we hold so tightly.
Beneath all that relentless striving and becoming lies a vastness waiting for us to rest in it.
When we loosen our grip on who we think we are, the edges of “I, me, mine” begin to soften. We start to connect with that spacious field of being that holds everything in our experience — joy and sorrow, courage and fear, clarity and confusion — all coexisting, all belonging.
In that space, there is no need to chase anything. Awareness itself becomes our home.
And then we remember — when we breathe, the air that moves through us also moves through every living being. We breathe the Earth, and we are breathed by the Earth. We are cradled in the same vastness that sustains and nourishes all life.
So today, allow yourself to expand. Let your awareness open wider than ever. Allow thoughts, feelings, and sensations to come and go like passing clouds in a boundless sky.
May you find ease in this spaciousness. May you remember that you’re not separate, but a part of something limitless, luminous, and whole.
In this Take A Pause episode recorded on 24 August 2025, the TAP community learned about embracing their vastness through an open awareness practice. We then listened to a reading from Jack Kornfield’s No Time Like The Present.
Meditation Begins: 07:29
Reading Begins: 26:05
Practice Duration: 19 minutes
Let Yourself Be Very, Very Bored
When I am guiding the body scan meditation during a mindfulness session, I tend to repeat the same phrases over and over:
