I'd like to share some words about a personal practice that allows me to quickly drop into a relaxed state of pure loving awareness. I discovered it by accident as a teenager by the strong urge to sit still and simply be "transparent". I would do this every chance I had between classes, meals, work or upon waking up or sleeping. I must have done it 6x-8x a day, even if just for 5 minutes. It was such a beautiful relief for me at that time that I wished I could do it all day. So on my 22nd birthday, I sat on top of a mountain above my hometown and water fasted with 1 gallon of water for 4 days. It was so powerful that I didn't want to come down. If I didn't have work or school obligations, I would have been up there for another week. I didn't share this with anyone because no one around me spoke about these types of experiences or longings. I simply followed my intuition and was rewarded with peace. It was so sacred to me that I kept it to myself, in a way to protect it. I had fear that someone would say it was fake and that it was all in my head, and I had no way to prove to anyone about my experience. I searched for mentors, elders and guides. But I had only found books written by our ancestors from many cultures and traditions. So I knew I wasn't alone. But when I sought help from living people, the pay wall was too high for me to afford as a poor art student. And the Internet was still very young, there was no Google yet. So I kept to myself and books. It was only until recent that I found a mentor who taught me that what I was practicing is a form of meditation and have since learned to cultivate it with daily practice. He calls it the "Practice of Yes". Anything that comes to our awareness, be it in the form of thoughts, emotions or physical sensations... everything is accepted without judgement, without resistance. A simple "Yes" to everything in our field awareness, our circumstances, our relationships. There is no seeking to change anything outside of, or within, "what is" here and now.