Choose Awareness Over Escape (transcript)
Breathe in and raise your vibration.
Breathe out and release your resistance.

Breathe in and raise your vibration.
Breathe out and release your resistance.

Welcome back to the present moment where all of your power lies.

Breathe in and lighten up. It’s not serious.
Breathe out and relax your body.

You’re in the right place at the right time. You’re doing everything right.

Breathe in and make peace with what is.
Breathe out and welcome what is.

Yes, I have cramps. Yes, there’s someone playing basketball and I am recording a video while you can hear them bouncing the ball. Yes, I miss my mom really bad today.

Breathe in and keep welcoming what is.
Breathe out and relax your shoulders.

Accept what is as if you had chosen it. Yes, I wanted this person to play basketball while I recorded. Yes, I wanted to miss my mom.

Breathe in and accept what is as if you had chosen it.
Breathe out and welcome what is as if you had chosen it.

My mom died in February and I’m just now feeling it I suppose.

Breathe in and accept what is as if you had chosen it.
Breathe out and keep welcoming what is.

Yes, I’m so distracted by the basketball. Yes, I wish I could talk to my mom again.

Breathe in and keep welcoming what is.
Breathe out and just say yes to what is.

Yes, the basketball is really irritating me. Yes, I’m disappointed that I don’t have some distraction away from these feelings. Yes, I just want to escape. Yes, I just want to be light and have fun and not feel so grieving. Yes, I feel like there are things I want that are being held away from me. Yes, I’m disappointed.

Breathe in and welcome the disappointment.
Breathe out and accept where you are as if you had chosen it.

Breathe in and keep slowing down into this moment.
Breathe out and just exist in this moment.

Are you having the experience of simply being?

Breathe in and notice the thoughts rush in.
Breathe out and keep asking yourself, am I having the experience of simply being?

Breathe in and welcome the thoughts.
Breathe out and welcome the basketballs.

Breathe in and welcome the cramps.
Breathe out and welcome the grief.

Breathe in and slow down more and more and more.
Breathe out and smile.

It’s not serious. It always passes.

Breathe in and decide not to care if you’re focused or not.
Breathe out and just ask, am I aware?

My mind says I don’t want to know if I’m aware. I want to be distracted. I want drugs. I want to be numb.

Breathe in and ask, am I aware?
Breathe out and crack that shell of thoughts.

Let the clouds part. See the awareness. Remember that the miracles come when you’re aware that you are aware.

Breathe in and ask, am I aware?
Breathe out and remember this is your superpower.

Am I aware?

Breathe in and keep looking, am I aware?
Breathe out and go deeper.

Don’t let your mind tell you that it would rather do drugs than be aware. It’s not true. That’s what happened to your mom. It’s not true.

Breathe in and ask, am I aware?
Breathe out and choose the awareness over escape.

Choose the awareness over escape. Choose the awareness over escape. You can do this. You can sit with the pain. You can sit with the painful feelings. You don’t have to escape.

Breathe in and ask, am I aware?
Breathe out and really look.

Move past the thoughts. Move past the pain. Am I aware? Am I aware? Somewhere in there, there’s supposed to be peace and love and happiness.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes, I am aware.

Crack through the clouds. Slow down enough to get into this moment. Beyond the thoughts there is peace. In the awareness there is love. Beyond the agitation there is relaxation and ease. Beyond the lack there is happiness.

Breathe in and ask, am I aware?
Breathe out and notice, yes, I am aware.

Let the awareness be enough, even if it’s uncomfortable, even if you want to escape what is.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes, I am aware.

The thoughts keep pulling me, but I am aware.

Breathe in and practice the presence of god.
Breathe out and know that when you ask, am I aware, that’s the presence of god.

Your attention goes right to the awareness and that’s god. That’s where the safety is, where the peace is, where the love is and the happiness.

Breathing in, am I aware?
Breathing out, yes, I am aware.

I am aware of all the pain and all the thoughts, but I am aware of awareness and I am choosing awareness over escape.