Welcome to this meditation on starting over.
This is a meditation for new beginnings.
So come into stillness in whatever way your body needs today.
Let your eyes close.
Let your body adapt to being still.
Acknowledge your physical presence in this space.
Exactly where you need to be.
Feel where you connect with the surface beneath you.
Feel the air on your skin.
The softness of blanket or clothes.
Notice the other sounds in the room around you.
Or maybe beyond that,
Through the window or door.
And acknowledge yourself here as part of that world.
Completely allowed and accepted.
To just lie still.
And take these few moments.
There's something in your life that feels like it needs to begin again.
Maybe a habit.
Relationship with yourself or someone else.
Maybe a project.
Or a way of showing up in the world.
Notice how it feels.
To consider starting over.
For whatever reason.
You're sensing the closing of one chapter.
In one area of life and the opening of another.
How does it feel to just sit still and think about that?
Notice how it feels in your body.
There might be tiredness there.
Or shame for some people.
Or underneath all of it there might be a little flicker of relief.
Maybe a tiny bit of excitement at a chance to try again.
Or maybe sadness.
Whatever you notice coming up.
Just let it be there.
Just observe with curiosity where it lands in your body.
Which bits of you tighten up or hold on?
And just breathe into those spaces.
Just acknowledging there's no need to fix or change the emotion.
Just allow your body to carry it a little bit more easily.
Maybe you feel multiple things,
And that's okay.
Starting over is not the same as failing.
It's simply what happens when we're honest with ourselves that the old way stopped working.
And whether this comes from within you or outside of you.
It's still the same.
It's okay to change.
Imagine,
For a moment,
Every living thing.
Every living thing around you all over the world.
It's all starting over constantly.
Trees lose their leaves and grow them again.
Rivers change course.
This is not evidence of brokenness.
It's evidence of being alive.
So ask yourself.
What is one small thing I could do differently today?
Not to fix everything.
Just to begin again in some small way.
You don't need the whole plan.
You don't need to know how everything's going to work out.
You just need that first step.
And let that step be small enough that it feels possible.
Even smaller if it helps.
And breathe with that thought for a moment.
Just hold it as an idea.
Just lightly in your mind.
And when you're ready.
Bring your attention back to your body.
Back to the room around you.
And open your eyes.
And carry this permission slip to begin again.
Exactly where you are Thank you so much for sharing your space with me today.
Have a wonderful day.
