As vast as the bright blue sky

This open awareness meditation invites you to imagine a vast blue sky and notice thoughts like clouds passing through. You practice returning to the open space again and again. A calming way to feel lighter, happier, and more at ease.

Why this helps? Visualizing spaciousness helps create distance from stressful thoughts.

Transcript

Setting The Blue Sky Scene

Arriving In Nature

Resting In Spacious Awareness

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Blue sky meditation. For this open awareness practice, you're going to visualize a big blue sky on a sunny day. Imagine you're in an open field on a hill or a mountain. The sun is shining. Maybe there's little yellow flowers scattered throughout, and a nice warm breeze. You're lying in the grass looking up at the vast open blue sky above, taking in the spacious sky infinitely blue.

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Aware of the vast space of the sky.

Clouds As Changing Thoughts

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Now picture big fluffy clouds passing in this vast space, always changing shape and moving along.

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Notice all the space around the clouds. Clouds passing through the space of the big sky.

Letting All Weather Pass

Resting In Infinite Space

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Imagine your thoughts are like clouds, just coming and going, like clouds in the sky of your awareness. All kinds of clouds pass through the sky. Stormy ones, light wispy ones, even bright big fluffy clouds. They're all just passing through this vast sky. Continue to visualize a vast blue open sky, noticing any clouds passing through, moving through the sky of your awareness, noticing the space that is always there, behind and between the clouds, stretching infinitely out in all directions, spacious, infinite, the big blue sky.