Finding hope in our hearts meditation.
Let's begin.
Finding yourself a comfortable position either sitting upright in a chair or lying down on a bed or a sofa or the floor.
Finding your optimum position of comfort.
Placing a pillow behind your head and maybe under your knees to support your back.
Moving the body until it feels just right and then invite you to close your eyes.
Coming within the body now and just letting go of any of that tension that you feel in your face,
Your forehead,
Your eyebrows,
Backs of your eyes,
Cheekbones,
Jaw.
Maybe moving your head from one side to the next.
Feeling that optimum position with your spine in alignment with your spine and then just noticing your shoulders and allowing your shoulders to fall deeply back into the surface beneath you.
Noticing any tension in your arms and your hands and your fingers and just letting that tension flow out through the tips of your fingers.
Noticing your chest,
The chest quietening,
Slowly moving up and down as the body becomes relaxed.
Noticing the belly,
Releasing any tension and holding in the belly and letting the be soft now.
Noticing your hips and the tops of your legs,
Your thighs,
Your knees,
Your shins and your calves and letting that tension flow out.
Noticing your ankles and your feet and letting your feet rest softly against the surface.
Scanning one more time down from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.
Checking all tension is leaving your body now and flowing out down through the soles of your feet.
Just noticing your breath flowing in and flowing out,
Flowing in and flowing out.
The breath steady and continuous.
The breath is always there,
Our anchor and then if it's comfortable bringing one hand to your heart center in the center of your chest.
Feeling that connection with your heart,
Feeling the warmth of your hand,
Maybe noticing the physical heart beating,
Noticing the mind becoming quieter and if there are still thoughts just see them as clouds passing by in a summer sky.
Dropping all awareness now down into your heart center and feeling that connection.
And within our hearts is hope.
Hope for the next five minutes,
Hope for the next hour,
Hope maybe even for tomorrow.
We will always find hope within our hearts and hope can be infectious with the people that we love and the people that love us back.
Hope can be found in our creative output,
In our artwork,
In our yoga,
In our meditations,
In our craft,
In our writing,
In our poems.
Hope is like a beacon of light displayed in all that we do and all that we love.
And hope is all around us.
Sometimes we struggle to find it but if we pause briefly we can see it in the beautiful flower growing in the garden,
In the butterfly landing on the grass.
It's in the waiting,
The not knowing.
It's in the changing of the seasons and it's in the next breath we take and the next beat of our heart.
An abundance of hope.
Hope is all around us.
And when times become difficult and uncertainty comes within us we can find the hope within our hearts.
And allowing this hope to carry with us for the next hour,
The rest of your day and maybe even tomorrow.
Carrying this beacon of hope within our hearts and bringing your awareness now back to your breath.
Noticing the steadiness of your breath.
Noticing the deep relaxation that you are feeling within your body.
And knowing that you can come back to this at any time,
Day or night to connect with your heart and find the hope.
And I invite you to take a couple of deeper breaths in now.
Expanding the belly like a balloon up through the ribs,
Up through the chest and then exhaling down through the chest,
Down through the ribs and pulling the belly back towards the spine.
Circulating that fresh new oxygen around your body as well as the peace,
Calm,
Love and hope.
Starting to move your fingers and your toes,
Bringing awareness back into the room that you are in now.
And when you're ready,
I invite you to open up your eyes.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.
Peace,
Peace,
Peace be unto all.
