Hello and welcome to The Daily Insight.
My name is David Gandelman and thank you so much for sitting with me for this meditation called Morning Love.
So instead of waking up and reading all the negative things that are happening around the world,
Inundating yourself with that and then filling yourself up with caffeine,
Allow yourself to start the morning off by meditating,
Filling yourself up with love and having gratitude,
Compassion and happiness for all the other beings in the world.
So with your eyes closed,
As you breathe nice and slowly in and out of your body,
Let yourself become aware of that pure presence of love that not only exists inside of you,
But inside of all of creation.
It permeates everything.
Some people call it presence,
Some people call it love,
But it's really two sides of the same coin.
Notice that you can experience that love towards yourself.
Instead of waking up with the attitude that you aren't doing enough or that you're groggy or that you need to jump into the day,
Allow yourself to just love yourself for exactly who and where you are and nothing else.
Almost like if there was this pinprick of energy in the center of your chest and it just started to expand outwards through your entire body.
When love expresses itself,
There is this acceptance that comes with it.
Love accepts everything it touches the way sunlight shines light on everything it touches.
When the sun rises in the morning,
It doesn't skip over the sinners.
It doesn't skip over people who think they're unworthy.
Allow that deep,
Deep reverence for life to move through all of you.
Notice how it shifts your energy,
How it changes your mood,
How it opens you up to possibility.
And now it's so much better than just drinking in the news.
Take a nice big deep breath into your body.
Nice sigh out.
And every time you breathe out today,
Notice you're breathing out that deep love that you have to share with the world.
Recognize how good life actually is.
And allow your consciousness to start to expand.
And I'd like you to bring your awareness to something in your life that you have deep,
Deep love for.
A person,
A hobby,
A place.
See an image of that in your mind's eye.
Notice what starts to happen to you as you recognize this energy.
How does it make you feel?
Notice how you shift on the inside when you bring your attention to something that you love and care about.
We become what we pay attention to.
So instead of digesting all the negativity in the world,
All the excess of information,
Instead of digesting everyone else's problems,
Which I'm sure you're experienced at,
Notice what it's like when you just focus on what it is that you love.
As you do that,
You might find this swell of energy inside you,
This reservoir of gratitude and inspiration for life.
Sometimes we even might call it purpose.
And when we realize how special life is,
How sacred,
How full of love it is,
All of a sudden there's this desire to create,
To share,
And to live.
If you want to create a beautiful life,
You have to love life.
So notice what you love,
What you already love.
Notice how deep it goes for you.
How much you care.
See the simplicity of it.
I wouldn't be surprised if your mind wanted to complicate it or weave a story around it,
But just let yourself have that feeling of love inside yourself.
Allow it to cultivate and to open you.
And recognize you're here to create more and more of it,
To live deeply in it and to share it.
Thank you so much for sitting with me,
And I wish you the best in your journey today and on your path of cultivating and having more love.
