Welcome love,
Wherever you are in this moment,
On the ground or in motion,
Alone or accompanied,
Steady or unraveling,
You are held here.
You are home in this breath.
I'm Emily with Making Space Coach,
And today we are tending to our collective grief,
Navigating the ongoing uncertainty in our world together.
Make a little space to take a comfortable seat or lie down.
Let's begin by placing one hand,
Or maybe both,
Over your heart center.
Feel the gentle rhythm of your own aliveness.
The pulse of existence.
The quiet proof that you are still here.
Inhaling deeply into that center.
And exhaling slowly,
Allowing your eyelids to soften and close or take a soft gaze.
Softening your jaw,
Your shoulders,
Your belly.
There is a grief in the air we breathe right now.
A weariness that is not only yours.
A heartbreak echoing in every direction.
It hums in our nervous systems,
Our timelines,
Our silence.
And yet,
And yet,
There is still this.
The heart.
Your heart.
Beating despite all of that.
You don't have to carry the whole world.
But you can let the world move through you.
Inhale,
And feel the breath of all beings.
Exhale,
And offer your breath back to the world.
Inhale,
Feel the breath of all beings.
And exhale,
Offering your breath back to the world.
Imagining a soft green light glowing in the center of your chest.
The color of spring buds pushing through that frost.
The color of jade,
Moss,
Eucalyptus,
And renewal.
With each inhale,
This light expanding.
And with each exhale,
It clears space.
Space for truth.
Space for grief.
Space for love that has nowhere to go.
That green light expanding to every part of your body.
Exhaling,
Clearing space.
That green light moving beyond your body.
Into the collective.
And on your exhale,
Clearing that space.
And as you're doing this expansion,
You might feel a tightness.
A weight.
A clench.
A grasping.
That's okay.
Let it speak.
Let your heart say the things that it hasn't had words for.
I'm tired.
I'm scared.
I'm breaking.
I'm trying.
And letting your steady,
Consistent breath say back.
I hear you.
I love you.
You belong.
And let's go into a practice of listening and responding.
Listening for what your heart is trying to tell you.
For what that tightness,
That weight,
That grasping is trying to tell you.
The words you haven't had.
Listen for those things now.
And allow your steady breath to say back.
You are held.
I love you.
You belong.
I'm listening.
Your heart reaching out.
And your breath speaking back.
We're not fixing.
We're not solving.
We are witnessing.
As an invisible thread extends from you to every other heart alive right now.
Opening space to listen.
Opening space to witness.
To the parent praying for safety.
The protester shouting for change.
The elder remembering peace.
The child dreaming of a future.
No fix.
Just witness.
All of us pulsing.
Different drums,
Different beats.
One symphony.
Breathe into the knowing that we are one people.
One species.
One aching body of humanity.
Remembering how to feel again.
If tears come,
Let them.
They are sacred waters.
They clear the passage.
They are proof your heart is still open.
Inhale love for yourself.
Exhale love for the world.
Exhale love for the collective.
Inhaling love for yourself.
And exhaling love for the collective.
Let your green light dim to a soft ember.
Warm and steady.
Deeply rooted.
Always there when you return.
Feel the warmth of its glow.
Bringing your awareness back.
Into your body.
To your breath.
To this moment.
When you're ready,
Gently flutter your eyes open.
Taking a moment to notice how your heart feels now.
Not necessarily fixed.
But feeling felt.
Feeling seen.
Feeling heard.
Affirmations to leave you with today.
Feel free to repeat after me.
I trust the wisdom of my heart.
I honor the pain I carry and the pain I witness.
I open to compassion for myself and for others.
I am a bridge between worlds.
I am love in motion.
Hold on to whatever serves you from those affirmations.
And use it to come back to that warm,
Steady green light in your chest.
To always make a little space to be seen,
To be felt,
And to be listened to.
