Let's center.
Let's connect to our whole being,
Body,
Mind and soul and to our connection to the vast web of life that surrounds and moves through us.
I invite you to drop into your body.
Drop into your sensations.
Notice your emotions,
Your mental patterns.
Notice the external world and the world of your five senses.
Whatever is here right now,
Whatever you notice,
I invite you to say yes to it.
No need to change it.
No need to resist.
We center to become present,
Open,
Connected and on purpose.
Today we will center in four dimensions.
The first is our length.
I invite you to center in your length.
Feel,
Sense,
Imagine your body both straightening and settling.
Straightening from your feet connected to the ground all the way up to your knees and hips.
From the base of your spine now,
Vertebrae by vertebrae all the way up to your crown and beyond.
Stretching toward father sky above.
And settling.
Allowing gravity to settle and relax you.
Allowing your skeleton to support you.
Relaxing from your head,
Your neck,
Your spine,
Your hips,
Your legs,
All the way down to your feet.
Allowing mother earth to hold you.
When you center in your length,
You center in your dignity and in the dignity of all living beings.
I invite you now to center in the second dimension,
Your width.
Feel,
Sense,
Or imagine the left and the right side of your body unfurling,
Expanding.
Expanding from the inside to the outer envelope of your body.
Feeling ear to ear,
Shoulder to shoulder,
Hip to hip.
Notice yourself filling out from the inside.
Now extend out into the space beyond you.
Can you sense for other living things?
Perhaps a tree outside your window,
A family member or pet in another room.
When you center in your width,
You center in your belonging and your connection to this broader living world.
I invite you now to center in the third dimension,
Your depth.
I invite you to notice your back body,
The back of your head,
The back of your legs,
Your heels.
Feeling,
Sensing,
Imagining the space behind you.
What's at your back?
Your lived experiences,
Your wounds,
Your successes,
Your mentors,
Your teachers,
Wisdom that you've earned in this lifetime and many lifetimes.
Who is at your back?
Your family tree,
Your ancestors,
And over 350 million years of collective,
Evolutionary wisdom is all at your back.
Who has had your back?
Now coming in through your back and resting on the inside of your body for a moment.
Giving appreciation,
Noticing your heart,
Your lungs,
Your breath,
The blood that's moving inside of your veins,
All of the systems of your body.
Now coming all the way to the front side of your body,
Noticing the tip of your nose,
Your lips,
The front side of your legs.
Centering in your depth is centering front and back,
Past and future,
And resting in this moment right now.
Perhaps repeating to yourself,
I am here.
I am here right now.
In the last dimension,
Our fourth dimension is our purpose.
I invite you to place one hand on your heart,
Your center of emotion,
A center of abundance,
Of love,
And repeating to yourself,
I belong.
And taking your other hand,
I invite you to place it on your lower belly,
Thumb near your belly button,
Hand resting below it.
Your center of action,
Your center of intuition,
Repeating to yourself,
I am enough.
As you rest in the space of presence,
I invite you to allow the answers to the following questions fill out your entire body and nervous system.
What is most important to you in your life?
What wants to grow and emerge in your life?
Why is this important to you?
What makes it meaningful?
And what is the quality of being,
The quality that will nurture this growth,
This emergence?
Can you give it a name?
Maybe you see a symbol or an image?
Maybe you hear a sound?
Can you take a picture of this answer?
Sensing into this quality now,
Can you locate this feeling in your body?
Is there a tingle?
Is there a softening?
Do you feel movement?
And perhaps noticing what else is emerging for you now in this spacious,
Relaxed presence.
Allow all of the answers that you receive to fill out your body,
Fill out your length,
Your width,
Your depth,
Your centers.
Allow this energy,
Your intention to shape and inform your entire being.
And I invite you to release it and just let it all go now.
Releasing the answers,
Releasing the questions to the universe,
To the mystery of life.
And perhaps notice too,
Where are you now compared to where you were just a few moments ago?
And what is possible for you from this place,
From this presence?
I encourage you to thank yourself for taking time to center,
To explore with me.
And when you're ready,
You may bring movement back.
Perhaps take a deep breath.
And perhaps bring a gentle smile to your face.
Thank you.
