Daily Meditation

"A new day gives you another opportunity to pause and ask yourself what you need.
I'll guide you through deep breathing and simple questions to help you tune into your body, heart, mind, and spirit as a daily ritual to connect to yourself.
You’re invited to consider what you’re proud of, what you’re thankful for, how you want to show up, and what you’re open to receiving today. Most importantly, you’re encouraged to listen for what you need rather than pushing yourself to do more.
Choose a simple well-wish or affirmation to carry with you, whether you need courage, openness, confidence, or simply a little more ease.
Listen to this gentle practice as part of your daily rhythm, and return to your chosen phrase whenever you need to reconnect with yourself."

Transcript

Welcome to this daily meditation by Gabriella Dimori. I'd like to invite you to start this meditation by surrendering into some beautiful long cycles of deep breathing. As you breathe in, Breathe in through the nose and allow the air to move into your body. Expanding your chest, Your ribs and lastly allowing your belly to move out and become full like a balloon. When you have the feeling of a full breath, Pause for a moment at the top of the breath. And then enjoy a nice long slow exhalation. Breathing out all of the oxygen in your body until the breath feels empty. And you have that craving to take a nice deep breath in on the next inhalation. Continue to breathe deeply for a few more moments. This is the most important part of any meditative practice. Breathing in life and nourishment and peace. Breathing out yesterday and everything that no longer serves you. Breathe in the new. Breathe out the old. As you continue to breathe in allow your body to feel nourished and rejuvenated. And each time you exhale allow the breath to take with it all that is no longer enjoyable, Purposeful or needed in your life. Use the exhalation to let go of anything you need to. Breathing in deeply through the nose, Nice full breaths. Breathing out through the nose or the mouth, Long smooth exhalations. I'm going to invite you to let your breath settle into a natural rhythm now as we move into some reflective questions. That I'd like you to consider for today. Starting with how is my body and my breath. How is my body today? How am I physically? Tuning in and noticing the breath and its quality. Does it feel short? Scattered or are you able to breathe fully and smoothly today? How is my body and how is my breath? Now I'd like you to consider, How is my heart? How is my mind? And how is my spirit today? How is my heart? How is my mind? And how is my spirit. Just choosing a few descriptive words or emotions using the first ones that come to you. What am I proud of today? What is it about myself? My life. My actions and all that I have cultivated that I can take a moment to be proud of right now. What can I be proud of today? What can I be thankful for today? Cultivating gratitude for the small things and the big things, All of our blessings and privileges in life. What am I thankful for today? Now how do I want to show up today? How do I want to show up to the world, To my work, To my relationships? Myself. How do I want to present myself to my world today? You're really asking yourself, How can you show your best self today? How can you show up in every interaction as your best self? How can I be more loving today? How can I be more loving today? How can I show more love? And how can I receive more love? How can I be more loving today? How can I be creative today? Creative in my ideas, My words, My problem solving. How can I be silly and playful and free and childlike today? How can I be creative today? Starting to think about how I want to feel today. How do I want to look back on today and feel about the day and who I was and how loving and playful and creative I was? How do I want to feel today and how can I make that happen? What would I need to do to enable myself to feel how I want to today? What would I like to receive today? What am I open to receiving? What gifts or words or acts of service or kindness Am I willing and open to receive today? And lastly, What do I need today? What do I need? What do I need to get through today? What do I need to shine and be at my best? Or what do I need to just help me get through the day. What do I need today? You may like to send yourself a well wish and create an affirmation for today that you can come back to time and time again. Throughout the day when you're struggling, You're overwhelmed. Or when you have a moment to be mindful with yourself. Choose a well-wish that encompasses everything you reflected on today. And you're going to say, May I be free. And choose something for yourself. May I be open. May I be safe. May I be courageous. May I be confident. May I be brave. Choose something specific for today that will help you achieve all of the goals you've set for yourself in this meditation. We don't need to push today, We don't need to try so hard to make it happen. Rather in the spirit of mindfulness we move through the day with ease and flow and clarity. May I be. May I be. We're going to close the meditation soon so take this opportunity to enjoy a few last cycles of beautiful deep breathing. Breathing in through the nose as you fill up the chest, The ribs, The belly. Full breath, Pause at the top of the breath and nice long slow exhalation. Let go of all of that breath and everything that will not serve you or help you today. Let go of everything that happened up until this present moment. Breathing in hopefulness and faith and a sense of looking forward to today. As you continue to take a few more breaths in, Breathing in life. Exhaling deeply, Letting go of life on the exhalation.