So finding a comfortable seated pose in which you can be both relaxed and concentrated,
Taking a few deep inhalations and with every exhalation letting go of any physical or mental fixations,
Arriving fully with your mind and your body,
And then connecting with your breath and the heart space,
Breathing through your heart,
Into your heart,
And out from your heart.
And as you're breathing in and out from your heart,
Allowing a symbol of healing,
Compassion,
Light,
Love,
And profound trust to arise for you in this room.
It could be just a source of light,
It could be a spiritual being you have a connection with,
Like Maria,
Or Jesus,
Or the Buddha,
Or Quan Yin,
Or somebody you love,
A friend,
A family member who's that amazing source of kindness and compassion and trust for you.
And as you breathe in and out from your heart,
Noticing how their warm energy,
Their light,
Their trust flows into your heart with every inhale,
And with every exhale spreading into your entire being,
Inhaling that trust and that light into your heart space,
And exhaling it into your being,
Until at some point you feel like that being takes seed in your heart.
You are this trust,
You are this healing energy,
You are this compassion.
You are this light,
And you're breathing into your heart and out from your heart.
You can put a hand on your heart if it's helpful.
Connecting deeply with these qualities of trust,
And infinite compassion,
And light,
And love.
And if you're ready,
And only if you're ready,
You can start to breathe in that which holds you back from being in the flow of life.
You can start to breathe in that barrier you've built against love.
And as you breathe it into your heart,
You can notice that it starts to be slightly transformed with every exhale as you breathe out that light and that trust.
Breathing in that which holds you back,
Which blocks you.
Breathing out the trust,
The ease,
The love,
And compassion that resides in your heart.
Keep breathing.
If ever you notice it's getting too much,
Shift to breathing in the light and the trust,
And breathing out the light,
Resourcing yourself first.
And when you're ready,
You may turn back to breathing in what holds you back.
Maybe it's another issue.
Maybe it's always the same kind of topic,
The same thing,
Same experience,
Same thought,
Same sensation,
Same habit,
Inhaling it into your heart.
And that from your heart of compassion,
Exhaling the trust,
The light,
The ease,
Spaciousness,
The freedom you need.
Keep breathing.
Keep reconnecting yourself with that healing source.
As soon as you feel you're disconnected,
Start to reconnect and breathe in and out with that source of healing until you can feel it in your heart space again.
And when you feel ready to surrender another thing or still the same that keeps you from the flow of life,
That separates you from the love and the light,
And you may inhale again the darkness and exhale the light.
Inhaling the pain,
Exhaling the compassion.
Inhaling the fear,
Exhaling the trust.
Inhaling your anger,
Exhaling your loving kindness.
And go on.
See what works for you.
See what's your work with your personal topic,
With your personal resource for the next minutes.
Keep breathing.
Keep breathing through your heart.
Keep breathing with your resource.
And now imagine you're standing on the top of a mountain and you're looking out of the landscape.
You're looking out into the sky,
Letting your thoughts be and resting for a moment in this open awareness,
That spaciousness of mind.
And if you say to yourself,
I am loving awareness,
Or if it speaks to you more,
I am made in the image of God,
Or in the words of Shrinis Ragadatta Maharaj,
You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.
If you say I am the wave and the wave is the ocean,
You are the infinite ocean of compassion.
Just see what works for you.
Maybe a phrase of your own pops up that's helpful.
Connecting with that healing resource again.
Feeling that flow of energy from that resource,
That being,
That source of light into your heart.
From your heart into your entire being.
Filling your being with light and trust,
With love,
Compassion.
Reading you that poem again.
I wish I could show you,
When you're lonely or in darkness,
The astonishing light of your own being.
Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
You owe me.
Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights the whole sky.
