Welcome,
I'm Bethany and I'm honored to be here with you on this journey.
We'll begin by finding a place of stillness.
Allow your body to become heavy and supported wherever you are.
Let your eyes close or look softly in one place in the room.
Take a slow breath in and release.
Breathe in again and let go.
One last time,
Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth,
Letting everything soften and drop.
We are moving now into a deeper kind of listening.
Not the listening of the ears,
But the listening of the whole being.
This is the kind of listening that happens in the dark,
In the quiet,
Before the thinking mind starts its work.
For just a few moments with me here,
Just breathe and be.
Slowing down,
Arriving,
Giving yourself permission to be here.
Nothing else to do,
Nowhere else to be.
I invite you to imagine or sense yourself in a forest at night.
The trees are tall and dark around you,
Their shapes barely visible against the sky deep with stars.
This is not a frightening darkness,
It's the darkness of depth.
This is a safe forest for you.
Above you,
Through a break in the canopy,
A full moon pours its silver light down.
It illuminates the ground,
The bark of the trees,
And the soft mist that hovers near the earth.
Use your imagination to be here in this sacred space in nature,
In this soft light,
Not the sharp light of day,
But the gentle,
Revealing light of the moon.
Things become visible that could not be seen in ordinary brightness.
This is the realm of the hidden,
The subtle,
The real.
Allow yourself to stand in that light for a moment here.
Now draw your awareness to the center of your forehead,
Slightly above and between your eyes.
This is the third eye center.
In the ancient wisdom traditions,
This is the seat of insight,
Intuition,
And the inner voice,
And the inner vision.
The vision that sees not just what is in front of you,
But what is true.
What is beneath the surface of things.
What is whole.
Begin to notice what you feel and sense here.
A pressure perhaps,
Or a tingling,
A warmth,
Or maybe a sense of opening,
Or perhaps nothing at all.
Simply notice and allow.
Now allow yourself to gently ask inwardly,
Is there a part of me that overrides my intuition?
Is there a part that may immediately explain away the inner knowing,
That says,
No,
That's not logical,
Or you're being irrational,
Don't trust that feeling.
A part that insists on proof before it will allow you to trust yourself.
If you sense this part,
Or any part here,
Acknowledge it with kindness.
Open your heart to it,
And perhaps drop into calm curiosity.
Let this part know that you realize it learned what its job was,
What it had to do,
For very important reasons.
Ask the part or parts,
What were you afraid would happen if I trusted my inner knowing?
And just listen for the answer.
Listen for what comes.
It may be a felt sense,
Images,
A memory,
It could be words.
Listening to the part and what it has to say about what it was afraid of,
If you trusted yourself.
From that deep place of knowing.
These parts often arose in environments where feelings were dismissed,
Or where being too sensitive or too intuitive was treated as a problem.
Or perhaps where trusting inner knowing led to pain,
And that part decided,
It's better to be rational,
Better to be certain,
Better not to know.
Feel into whether you can find compassion for how much this part has tried to protect you.
And check inside if there's a wiser part of you,
One that has always known things before you could explain how,
That you've perhaps learned to silence.
This is your inner seeing,
Connected to your gut knowing,
Your soul's perception.
It doesn't always speak in words.
It speaks in images,
Body sensations,
And the quiet certainty that sometimes arrives without reason.
Now I invite you to imagine a deep indigo light,
Like the darkest blue of the night sky just before full dark.
Imagine this indigo light gathering gently at the center of your forehead.
We're not forcing,
We're not grasping,
We're just allowing this healing indigo light to shine from that third eye space.
Allow it to hold any parts that have shown up here.
And notice that the moon continues to pour its soft light through the trees above you,
And in that light,
You begin to see.
Not necessarily a vision,
But a sense,
A direction,
A knowing.
You have always had access to this,
Because we all do.
You were simply taught at some point to doubt it,
Ignore it,
Or dismiss it.
From the most clear,
Still,
Open part of you,
Yourself with a big S,
That whole,
Compassionate,
Caring part,
Let this truth move toward the parts that have shown up that have doubted your perception.
You know more than you think you know.
Your intuition is not a delusion,
It is information for you.
You are allowed to trust what you sense.
You are allowed to know things without being able to prove them.
Your inner vision is a gift,
Not a liability.
Take in these words.
Let them settle into the space between your brows.
I trust what I see.
I trust what I feel.
I trust what I know.
I trust what I see.
I trust what I feel.
I trust what I know.
As you notice the stars above you in this night forest,
Each one a point of light across unimaginable distance,
All are a part of one great field,
And you with your small,
Brilliant,
Precious inner light are part of it too.
You are not separate from the intelligence of this universe.
You are a beautiful expression of it.
As we return,
Bring these words with you,
And run them through from the inside throughout your day.
I trust my inner knowing.
My intuition is wise and reliable.
I see clearly within and beyond.
I am connected to something greater than what my eyes can see.
I can perceive the truth of things.
I trust my inner knowing.
As you release that connection to the beautiful forest,
Begin to slowly become aware of your body again.
Notice your breath.
Notice the room you are in.
Notice the gentle weight of yourself.
When you are ready,
Open your eyes softly,
Gently looking about you,
And notice if the world looks any different,
Even slightly,
Through the eyes that are willing to see more.
Thank you for being with me here on this journey.
Bye for now.
