Namaste and very warm welcome.
My name is Sumedha,
Indian Yoga Girl.
This meditation is for the days when there is no time to sit still.
Maybe you're folding laundry right now.
Are walking.
Or washing dishes.
Or sitting in traffic.
Your day is full.
So full that there is no time left to sit still and meditate.
You And somewhere in all that doing,
A quite question comes up.
Where does my life start to feel like mine?
If you're asking that today.
You're not lazy.
You are just tired of living by someone else's to-do list.
So you don't have to stop anything.
Keep doing what you are doing.
I'll bring the practice to you.
For the next 15 minutes or so,
I will offer you affirmations of joy,
Love,
Abundance,
Success,
Freedom and purpose.
You can listen while you move.
Keep your eyes open.
If you are driving.
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel.
Let my voice stay in the background.
Whenever you are,
Feel your feet.
Feel your hands and whatever you are holding.
Let your next breath out be a little longer than usual.
And let your shoulders drop.
Just a little.
While you are keep going.
In India,
For generations,
People have sung while they worked.
Especially women.
Add the well.
Add the grinding stones in the field,
Bending to plant rice.
The work was hard.
But the salt.
Kept the hands moving and the heart lighter.
Maybe you remember someone humming in the kitchen.
A grandmother,
A mother,
An aunt.
The song was not separate from work.
It was how the work felt lighter.
Today,
These affirmations are your work song.
What?
You can hear again and again,
Slowly,
Become the words you think.
That's why a song from childhood can still come back to you word by word.
If you tell yourself,
I'm always behind.
I'm not enough.
And it starts to sound true.
If you tell yourself,
My life is mine to enjoy.
Often enough.
And something else becomes possible.
These words won't shorten your to-do list,
But they can change how it feels to carry it.
Let's set a Sankalpa.
One short line to carry today.
You can sit silently.
Say it loudly or just listen.
My life is mine to enjoy.
My life is mine to enjoy.
My life is mine to enjoy.
My life is mine to enjoy.
My life is mine.
Do enjoy.
My life is mine to enjoy.
Now let the affirmations land in the rhythm with whatever you are doing.
A step.
A fold,
A stir of a pot.
Let's begin with joy.
I am allowed to enjoy my day.
I am allowed to enjoy my day.
Even the ordinary parts.
Joy can live inside small moments.
I notice what makes me smile.
Now love.
I speak to myself the way I speak to someone I love.
I speak to myself the way I would speak to someone I love.
I give love freely and I let love in.
I let love freely and I let love win.
I am loved exactly as I am.
Exactly as I am.
Now,
Abundance.
There is enough for me.
Enough for me.
Good things are allowed to reach me.
Are allowed to reach me.
I welcome help when it's offered.
When it's over.
I notice what's already good in my life.
I notice what's already good in my life.
Now,
Success.
What I do each day matters.
I decide what success looks like for me.
I'm growing.
Even on the days I can't see it.
And now,
Freedom.
The next step is mind to choose.
The next step is mine to choose.
I don't have to carry every expectation.
I can say no and still be kind.
I can say yes to what feels alive in me.
I can say yes to what it feels alive in me.
I am allowed to be fully myself.
And last purpose.
What I love doing is a clue.
To what I'm here.
What I love doing is a clue to why I'm here.
What I love doing is a clue.
I am.
My ideas are worth sharing.
I belong with the people who see me.
I bring something meaningful only I can bring.
You now if you can.
Hum,
One soft note out loud.
If you'd rather stay quiet,
Hum it inside without the sound.
Just one note,
The way someone might hum in a kitchen.
Feel the hum.
Or just the breath in your chest.
One more,
One soft note on a longer breath out.
That's a work song too.
It does not even need words.
Now if you can.
Just listen to yourself.
Now let me give an affirmations back to you.
Like a song.
Someone hums to you,
Hums for you while you work.
You are allowed to enjoy your day.
You are allowed to enjoy your day.
Your life is yours to enjoy.
Your life is yours to enjoy.
Feel the vibrations.
Feel the breath.
Feel yourself.
You are allowed to enjoy your day.
You are loved exactly as you are.
There is enough for you.
What you do each day matters.
The next step is yours to choose.
You are allowed to be fully yourself.
You bring something.
Only you can bring.
And whatever you are doing right now.
The dishes,
The walk,
The drive,
The work waiting for you.
You don't have to wait for everything to be finished before you let yourself enjoy your life.
Tomorrow.
The list.
Will be there again.
There will always be something to do.
That's okay.
You can bring the song with you.
Like the woman at the well.
You don't have to wait for the work to end for your heart to become lighter.
Joy can find you,
Right in the middle of ordinary life.
Let the whole song come down to five simple words.
Joy.
Love.
Enough.
Mine.
And one more time,
Silently or out loud.
My life is mine to enjoy.
Let those words hum quietly.
Underneath.
Everything you do today.
You don't have to chase joy.
You can carry it.
Namaste.
