Taking a comfortable seated pose in which you can be both relaxed and concentrated.
Taking a few deep inhalations through the nose and exhaling you can exhale through the nose or the mouth allowing your body to release any areas of tension.
And with every exhale relaxing the mind a little.
Maybe relaxing the eyes and the muscles around your jaw.
Allowing the body to breathe gently,
Deeply,
Softly.
Softly.
Bringing to mind a situation in which you feel like you're falling short.
You feel like you're not good enough.
Maybe there is a situation,
A person,
A habit that you regularly encounter.
And where you're not living up to your own standards or standards that you feel are expected of you.
Where you blame yourself for not being who you should be,
Who you want to be.
And feeling in your body what it feels like,
Maybe there's a concrete incidence you can remember right now.
And really sensing in your body how does it feel to fall short on this issue.
Noticing the area of your body where you feel something,
Could be a particular area of the whole body.
Noticing any sensations of tightness or tightness,
Temperature.
And observing what you are believing in this moment.
What are you believing about yourself,
About the situation?
If you're falling short on this issue,
What are you believing about yourself?
And notice what it feels like to live with this belief.
Notice the impact on your life.
Notice the impact on that particular issue.
Does it help you to not fall short?
To live up to your standards?
If you believe these things about yourself.
And moving again with your awareness deeper into your body.
Very gently touching onto the vulnerability that you can feel in your body that's underneath the whole thing.
The sale of blame and the feeling of falling short.
And asking what do you need?
What is this really about?
Why does this matter so much?
Notice what it feels like when you get in touch with your real deep need is.
What you really care about.
Maybe taking a further step and exploring what it would be like.
If in those moments where you feel so vulnerable.
Like you're really falling short,
You're really not good enough.
If you could connect with some limitless source of lovingness.
Maybe God.
Maybe loving awareness.
Maybe the infinite ocean of compassion and kindness.
Maybe some person you once knew,
A grandmother,
A parent.
Or some person you have met who embodies the limitless compassion and kindness.
Or maybe just trusting the loving nature of your own heart.
How would it feel if you were able to connect with that energy?
What impact would it have on how you feel?
On what you believe about yourself?
And how you could deal and address that particular situation and future?
And if you like you can try and let go of the thoughts.
And for a few moments just stay connected to that source of limited love,
Unlimited love.
Compassion and kindness inside yourself or out there encompassing you.
You have been told that even like a chain you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half of the truth.
You're also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its form.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for the inconstancy.
It's from Kallili Vibhran.
And then when you're ready you can open your eyes.
