May You Feel Safe

This meditation began as a poem, weaving loving-kindness practice with the wisdom of the four elements. It starts with the breath, inviting you into the quiet rhythm of inhaling and releasing. Each element then rises to meet a traditional blessing of safety, wholeness, wellness, and peace, rooting the practice in the felt sense of the body. Earth offers grounding and safety, fire brings compassion, air opens connection, and water carries emotion toward peace.

As these layers bloom, the meditation moves from inner awareness to a wider circle of care, extending the same blessings to the world. It offers space to breathe with these elements and settle into your own unfolding.

Music by Tunetank from Pixabay.

Transcript

I breathe in and release,

Breathe in and release,

Breathe in.

I sink into the minerals of my bones,

Feel the earth supporting me,

Within and without.

May I feel safe.

A layer blooms,

Softly humming against my soul.

I am safe.

There is a fire beneath my breastbone of love and compassion,

A flicker of sorrow,

A burning anguish,

That lights me from within,

Warms me from without.

May I feel whole.

Another layer blooms,

And I am whole.

My voice longs for the wind,

My body drinking it in as it caresses my face.

I breathe in the exhalation of the world,

Lungs expanding,

Immunity seeping into my blood,

Caring,

Belonging to my cells.

May I feel well.

A layer blooms,

And settles.

I am well.

My tears are a waterfall,

My saliva a river winding through,

Waves crash within me,

Water laps the shore,

Dew sinks beneath my clothing,

Settles on my skin.

May I feel peace.

A final layer,

I am at peace.

And my blooming expands,

Seeking out the wounds of the world,

To the fearful.

May you feel safe,

To the broken.

May you feel whole,

To the injured.

May you feel well,

To the shaken.

May you feel peace.

Reviews

Beautiful affirmations to carry with me. Thank you, Kat.