The sensation of space is a wonderful internal resource that can be of use to us, especially in difficult situations when we feel emotionally overwhelmed.
When this happens, it is usually because we are identifying with our emotional experience, that is, we feel that all we are is that experience. Our body goes into alert looking for a solution or a way out of it, and the thought of not finding it and of staying trapped in that place that we find it so painful forever creates a great sensation of alertness in our nervous system and a lot of physical tension.
But our experience, overwhelming as it may seem, is always a small part of all we are at that moment.
The benefits of including interior space
the feeling of space helps us to distance ourselves from our emotions or sensations and to disidentify ourselves from them. When we are able to identify more with the space that it welcomes than with the experience that occurs in it, our experience becomes relative and we take a new perspective to observe it from afar and recognize it as a small part of all that we are.
From this point, our experience becomes something we can handle, since we are bigger than it.
This means that we stop being victims of that experience to feel empowered and recover our place as creators of our reality.
Identifying ourselves with the infinite space that welcomes, causes the patterns of judgment, rejection or desire for change towards our experience to dissolve, so we we become a loving mother letting our experience be as it is, embracing it unconditionally with compassion and relaxing into it.
How to meditate to give space to your inner experience in difficult situations
- Sit down in a comfortable position by letting go of your body and allowing it to settle.
- Begin to become aware of your senses. You can focus first on what you hear. You can start with what is farthest from you and little by little hear what is closest to you, maybe you can even listen to the beating of your heart. Rest in the sounds.
- Now you can observe the sense of touch making your hands gently touch each other.
- Switch your attention back to the sounds and notice that change of attention, of that subtle change in which your attention is suddenly focused on something else.
- Switch back to touch, being aware of this shift in awareness and feeling the caress of one hand on another.
- taking distance become aware of the space of consciousness in which all these sensations occur. Observe that space and observe how the sensations appear and dissolve in it.
- Become aware now of the sensations and emotions present in your body. watch them curiously and give them permission to be there. They can be very subtle or more noticeable: tingling, tension, contraction, vibration, a feeling of lightness, heaviness, heat… any sensation.
- Now you can watch yourself infinite space, and let all these internal sensations float in it. It includes everything that is present: internal sensations, emotions, sensations that you perceive through your senses.
- You are that loving and kind infinite space that welcomes your present experience. let yourself feel the effect of it on your body, feel infinite space.
- At your own pace and when you feel it, open your eyes.