Your Highest Form of Expression

Achieving our greatest potential would allow us to embody our highest form of expression. Many of us search for this and long for it to arrive in our lives. What would be your pinnacle state of being? Finding how to bring this into our lives can be challenging. Yet it is the act of searching that can offer clues for the answers we seek.

The caterpillar transforming into a beautiful butterfly is a remarkable example of undergoing a change that results in the transformation into a higher form of being. Once bound to the earth when in the caterpillar form, the butterfly is now free to fly through the air. But only if it undergoes the transformation.

The same is true for each one of us. Wherever we may find ourselves in this moment, we can rest assured knowing that there is a transformation waiting for us. Sometimes we feel it. Sometimes we long for it. But given enough attention and effort, we will be able to shift to a higher form of being.

You may ask, "What is the next level beyond where I am now? And how do I get there?" There are many ways to explore this question, but we will begin with exploring our internal state during meditation.

During and after meditation, people often feel more relaxed, joyful, and peaceful. These are indicators that you have shifted into a higher state of being. In those moments in mediation, you have metamorphosized like the caterpillar turning into the butterfly. Perhaps it is not as dramatic as growing wings and flying, but nonetheless your fundamental state is altered. Sometimes this lingers for a period of time, and sometimes as we shift back to our worldly pursuits, that sense of heightened being escapes us and we return to "normal." In fact we may be returning to "abnormal."

This shift during meditation gives us clues to the next level of expression that we are seeking. I encourage you to explore this for yourself. What is it about your meditative state that changes the way your system functions? Perhaps you have objective observation and less emotional reaction. Or maybe you find the stream of continual thoughts subsiding long enough to feel peaceful clarity. Whatever it might be for you would indicate your next higher level of being. Once you discover this, the objective would be to prolong the duration in which you are able to operate in this state.

It could mean that you extend the meditation time to experience more of this. Another thing that might occur, is that the heightened state you enter will continue with you for a short time after your meditation is over. You might begin to explore the possibility of these periods of time extending longer and longer after you return to your daily activities.

Imagine for a moment, that the caterpillar story went something like this.......

The caterpillar longed for a greater form of being. It no longer wanted to crawl among the grass and trees. What it really wanted, was to visit far away lands and to fly from flower to flower, experiencing the full beauty of the world that remained beyond its reach.

So the caterpillar sat in meditation to discover the ways of flight. Each day, for a few moments, it found a quiet place on a tree branch or a blade of grass to sit and enter into an altered state where it actually began to feel this method of flight. It could feel, see, and sense huge, technicolor wings growing from its back. The caterpillar felt the first concept of flight during this meditation. But each day when that meditation ended, it returned to crawling the earth while longing to actually fly up into the blue sky.

Each day went like this with crawling in the morning, feeling the sense of flying in its meditation, yet once again returning to crawl. Until one day, the caterpillar began a deep and prolonged meditation. It entered the safety of a cocoon to hold it during deep meditation. And when it emerged, it found that the state it had only experienced in meditation has now become the reality. No more was it confined to crawl the earth, but this miraculous butterfly form has replaced its caterpillar body and the higher form of being has now transformed it permanently!

This story can be your story as well. What we experience in meditation can become our new reality, that will then bring us to a higher form of expression.

There is a version of a butterfly waiting for each of us. The caterpillar always was the butterfly. It just hadn't made the transformation yet. Your highest form of expression is already there. What do you discover and what metamorphosis is awaiting you to fully embrace?