Pavel Sh

New York, NY, United States

Connect with your spirit and soul to reveal your inner light and align with your authentic purpose.

English

In this gentle meditation, you’ll be guided to your true essence of love and light and explore the living connection between your spirit, your soul, and your everyday self—the three currents of energy that shape your being. Through breath, visualization, and gentle invocation, you’ll open to the light of your spirit and the quiet wisdom of your soul, opening yourself to their mystery and restoring balance and peace within you. (photo credit: Andrew Bunin)

Your Soul, Your Spirit & You

Thank you for being here. This time is for nurturing yourself and for further revealing the vital connection you hold with the infinite. When we choose to do this kind of work, we kindle the fire of our spirit essence and contribute to the collective uplifting of humanity. We become interconnected, vibrant threads in the tapestry of existence, bound together by empathy and mutual care. There are three aspects of being within each of us. Our spirit is the fragment of diamond essence held within our bodies that inspires our being. It draws us towards complete unity with all that is. You might think of spirit as a diamond with a thousand facets, that over some time and through adverse karma have become obscured. The soul is uncuttable, un-pierceable and continuously evolving. It seeks to know and to learn from our experiences. The soul is on a purification journey. It shepherds us by clear intention and seeks to infuse purposefulness into everything we do, exploring, discovery, learning. The soul is endlessly gleaning wisdom. It sees through our eyes, hears with our ears, smells through our nose, tastes with our tongue, touches and experiences pleasures of sensations through our skin. For our lifetime and by our bones, it remains firmly rooted upon the earth. It's the soul's sacred evolutionary duty to cleanse each facet of our diamond and allow pure light to shimmer brilliant, our spirit ready for its return to source. Our third aspect, our egoic self or personality self, is here to support our soul as it experiences life in the body on earth. The soul vibrates upon current of energy that runs through all of us. It is quiet, playful, creative, deeply alive. Your soul knows the dance of surrender to what feeds it. It knows the dance of creating and the dance of healing. It has its own intelligence that when our ego self stops trying to contain it by fear and by constraints of logical mind, it moves us in unexpected ways. There are so many mysteries your soul is inviting you to explore and to experience in its quest for adventure, in its movement toward wholeness by its formidable strength and resiliency. This next practice that I'm going to lead you in is about opening and letting that movement happen within yourself. It's an invitation to open to the mystery within you. In the following meditation, let yourself be open and curious. Allow your imagination to take the lead. Find a supportive, comfortable position. Place your hands, open palms down, resting one atop the other upon your heart space there in the center of your chest. Take a deep breath in and let it drift out slowly. Allow yourself to be present at the spaces between each breath you take. Feel your body settle, becoming still, your shoulders softening, your face relaxing, and your chest and belly open to receiving and releasing the air you breathe. You are an energy being, dwelling in a physical body, living in the light, vibrating within a sea of energy. We begin by opening your connection to your spirit, the divine spark vibrating inside you. Sometimes, though, the personality self, the ego, can become afraid of opening to new things, and it might resist this connection. So enroll your personality self into a support role of holding space for your connection to your spirit. Invite it to support you in creating stillness and quiet. Do this now. Now turn your attention further inward by taking a few full, deep breaths in and out. In your own words, ask your spirit to reveal itself to you. There's no hurry, no right way. Simply ask your spirit to make itself known to you. Agree to open to its presence. Take in its glowing light, subtle or bright. Notice the color of its light. Feel your spirit's comfort as it is spreading love throughout your body. Feel its warmth radiating outward from your heart space, up your neck, spreading across your face, rising to the crown of your head, flowing downward into your belly, expanding into your chest. The loving light of your spirit moves across your shoulders, down your arms, and out your fingertips. Notice its light flows down your legs, into your feet, and out your toes. Your whole being is now bathed in the light of your spirit's radiance. Seek to intimately know this. Seek to live always connected to it. Seek to be this forever. Now whisper gently to yourself, I am a loving being of the light. Let that truth fill you. Let it shine from within you and in its glow, rest peaceful, right at one with yourself. And as you're making this connection with your spirit, your soul has been quietly and patiently awaiting to join you. It wants to strengthen its presence within you. It wants to assert its power for guiding you on your life's course. It calls to you in subtle whispers. You know it by the feeling of longing within yourself that has been with you your entire life. Though much deeper, it's like the feeling of melancholy for a favorite time or place. Or like a wistful feeling that comes by missing family or friends you love. Feel your longing, breathe into your longing. And in this moment, call to your soul. Call it to you. Allow yourself to move closer to it. In this moment, open yourself to your soul. As you do, welcome it with curiosity, greet it with warmth. Sense its presence. It is here now within you. Now take a few more deep, full breaths to further quiet your mind. As I speak these words, allow them to become your own, to inspire intimate connection from you to your soul. My soul, please show me the way into my truth. Lead me into my authentic self so that I may intimately know my essence and directly experience you, my soul, my beloved teacher and guide. Teach me how to attend to you as you deserve. In this lifetime, I want to bring together all aspects of who I am. Mind, body, heart, spirit, and you, my soul. Teach me how to know and to align with my true purpose for this lifetime. I know that I am learning. I want to be taught again and again to hear you, to receive your messages, to understand your unique language by whatever ways you choose, by words, by sensations, or by quiet knowing. In this moment, I am ready. I vow to continue becoming more and more ready to be a learner of you, my soul. I trust that whatever comes from you will come through kindness and by clear intention for serving our mutual well-being and evolution. When doubting myself, I vow to embrace the powerful vitality of your continuous striving to grow and to change. I vow to keep on reconnecting with you, my soul. I know that as I do, I become a hero of spirit, of love, and of light. My own essence is a pure innocence. I treasure the many memories I hold deep within my heart. I choose with courage and grace to step into the unknown within myself. In this moment, I also hear my spirit softly calling, reassuring me. In this moment, I allow myself to be enveloped by the presence of my loving spirit. I open to its gentle whisper coming to me like a feather freely dancing on a breeze. And now take a deep breath. This completes your words with your spirit and with your soul for now. Pause a moment, take a few more deep breaths as you continue to open yourself to the presence of your spirit, your soul together. Feel the ease of simply being. Surrender to your own inner peace. That vibrations of ease and well-being wash over you. You feel their soothing power grounding you in your own essence of love and light. Embrace the love emanating from within you. Its vibrations fill your body and flow beyond. Welcome the truth of who you are. You are beautiful and you are love. Take a few more deep breaths as you slowly begin to move your body. As you begin to open your eyes to the space around you. Be with this awareness as you move into your day or night. Remind yourself that you can return to this connection with your spirit and your soul anytime you wish. I'm going to offer you, for your integration and further reflection, three questions to consider. What sensations, emotions, or images arose as you connected with your spirit? With your soul? The second is, how does your soul's presence feel different from your everyday personality or thinking mind? The third, how might you nurture this connection in daily life? Through moments of stillness, by creative expression, or perhaps by acts of kindness to yourself and others?